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t Charles Knapp to appear in Rapid Fire.' Laddies, lassies and leprechauns to frolic on Saturday
President Charles Knapp will appear on “Rapid Fire” \
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University President Charles Knapp will appear on “ftapid
Saturday on WNGM Channel 34. The show will air at 3 p.m. and 7
p m Moderator David Herndon said Knapp will be faced with probing
questions about his withdrawal from the race for the presidency of
the University of Virginia, his strategy for getting better funding
from the Georgia Legislature and drugs on campus. Tie will be in a
more personable light than anyone’s ever seen him," Herndon said.
Local celebrities to take part in First Step benefit.
Mayor Dwain Chambers will be one of the local celebrities
participating in the Celebrity Grocery Bagging Day on Saturday for
the First Step Program, a low-coat drug and alcohol rehabilitation
program, for adolescents. Mamie Fereday, the sponsor for First Step,
said the Family Counseling Service of Athens, Inc. began the program
last January Winn-Dixie in Alps Shopping Center is sponsoring the
program from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will donate 5 percent of all
storewide sales directly to the program.'While celebrities such as
Chambers, Georgia quarterback Greg Tally and Georgia
Cheerleaders will be inside bagging groceries, Baskin Robins and
other local vendors will be giving away free refreshments and prizes
outside throughout the day.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Strickland’s death sentence upheld.
The Georgia Supreme Court has affirmed the murder conviction and
:fe sentence imposed in DeKalb County against Robert Strickland Jr.
for the 1985 pistol slaying of his wife, Yvonne. The decision, released
Thursday, marked the second time the court had considered an
appeal for Strickland, an attorney. The court reversed his first
conviction in 1987 because of errors in jury instructions. The latest
decision turned on the admissibility of evidence obtained by police as
a result of questioning Strickland after he asserted his right to an
attorney.
ATLANTA (AP): TB cases down gradually due to AIDS.
Tuberculosis is stall declining in the United States — but very slowly,
because of the continuing threat of TB for AIDS-infected people, the
national Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday. Across the
United States, 22,436 tuberculosis cases were reported in 1988, down
0.4 percent from 1987, the CDC said. That slight drop compares with
an average annual decrease of 6.7 percent from 1981-84, the agency
said A leading reason for the slowing of progress against TB is “the
increasing occurrence of TB in persons infected with ... HIV,” the
virus which causes AIDS, the CDC said. AIDS leaves the body
susceptible to a number of serious illnesses, including TB, and studies
have found that about 4 percent of AIDS patients are also listed as TB
patients.
F
NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Deforestation may alter weather.
If the tropical rain forest is felled in the Amazon River basin of South
America, the loss of trees would permanently change local weather
and a sharp decline in area rainfall could, in turn, change the global
climate, a study says. ‘'You will never be able to regenerate the forests
once you have cut them," said Jagadish Shukla, a professor of
meteorology at the University of Maryland, College Park. In a paper
in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, Shukla said a computer
model of the effects of deforestation along the Amazon River shows
rainfall would decline by more than 26 percent, the average area
temperature would rise, and evaporated moisture in the Amazon
basin atmosphere would decline by 30 percent.
NEW YORK (AP): ‘Chorus Line’ will keep running. m a
Chorus Line” will keep kicking for four more weeks. Broadway’s
longest-running show, originally scheduled to close March 31, will
now end its lengthy run on April 28 afler 6,137 performances, its
roducer Joseph Papp said Thursday. “In my original announcement,
made it clear that if box office pressure warranted, I would extend
the closing a few weeks," said Papp, head of the New York
Shakespeare Festival. “I am pleased that the public has rallied so
splendidly. The extension will permit some 50,000 more people the
opportunity to see the show."
WORLD
JERUSALEM (AP): Peres to form Labor-led coalition.
Labor Party leader Shimon Peres won a parliamentary showdown
with the rival Likud bloc today when lawmakers voted no-confidence
in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s hard-line government. The 60-55
vote gave Peres a chance to form a Labor-led coalition. Shamir, the
first premier to be turned out of office by a parliamentary vote in the
history of the Jewish state, will remain as caretaker prime minister
until a new government is seated. Peres won afler Shamir rejected a
compromise offered by the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party’s spiritual
leader Ovadia Yosef, who called for acceptance of U.S. peace
proposals for a Palestinian-Israeli dialogue.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP): Kidnappers threaten death, a
Moslem extremist group holding three American professors hostage
threatened Thursday to kill them if the U.S. government fails to meet
its unspecified demands. The group, the Islamic Jihad for the
Liberation of Palestine, said individuals and organizations who
recently said the hostages should be freed on humanitarian grounds
should stay out of the affair. The organization, believed made up of
Shiite Moslem zealots loyal to Iran, made the threats in a statement
delivered to the independent newspaper An-Nahar. The statement
was accompanied by a photograph of Professor Robert Polhill, one of
three American educators kidnapped from the campus of the U.S.-
affiliated Beirut University College Jan. 24, 1987.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Athens Area Habitat for
Humanity will meet Monday,
Mprch 19 at 7 p.m. at the First
Presbyterian Church, 185 E.
Hancock Avenue.
Exhibits
• A reception for the exhibit
entitled “Lamar Dodd: Home"
will be held Sunday, March 18
from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Georgia
Museum of Art. The public is
invited.
• An exhibit entitled “Art by
Preschoolers” is on display
through April 4 at the Lyndon
House Art Center, 293 Hoyt
Street. The exhibit is free and
the public is invited.
• Entries for the 17th Annual
Juried Exhibition are due April
11 at 4 p.m. at the Lyndon House
Art Center. Artists may submit
up to four entries and there is a
$10 entry fee.
• The 1990 Faculty Exhibition
will be on display from March 17
through May 6 at the Georgia
Museum of Art. The exhibit is
free and the public is invited.
Contests
• The Academy of American
Poete is holding its annual
college poetry contest. Entries
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By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Students in need of a little Irish
luck on final exams can join St.
Patrick’s Day celebrations across
the state from Athens to Savannah
! this weekend.
In Savannah, the big attraction
this year is the St. Mary’s pipe
band from Ireland, according to Je-
! remie Churchill, St. Patrick's Day
. committee office administrator.
Second only to New York City’s
parade in size, the Savannah St.
Patrick’s Day Parade boasts 40
marching bands and 300 floats,
and will draw an estimated 300,-
000 to 500,000.
The parade will begin at 10 a m.
and parking will be first come, first
serve, Churchill said. The Ogle
thorpe Mall will provide bus trans
portation to and from the parade
which runs down Bay Street in
downtown Savannah.
By noon, everything should be
hopping at the 107th annual At
lanta St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sat
urday, Robert Pauley, parade
chairman, said. The entertainment
will begin at 11:30 a.m. on Ralph
McGill Boulevard and head south
along Peachtree Street to Woodruff
Park.
Pauley said there will be about
15 to 20 floats and 9,000 partici-
panta. Six high school bands and
three bag pipe bands will perform.
The best bet on parking will be at
Underground Atlanta parking
decks where you can park all day
for $2 to $3, Pauley said.
Although there won’t be a pa
rade in sight, Athens will be cele
brating, too. Harry Bissett’s will
have drink specials on Bushmill’s
whiskey, Irish coffee and other
Irish drinks, employee Rennet
King said. They’ll also have an en
tree special on Irish stew.
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