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- <title>
- May 02, 1994: Milestones
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- May 02, 1994 Last Testament of Richard Nixon
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 22
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- <p>ENGAGED. SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL, 60, majority leader from Maine;
- to HEATHER MACLACHLAN, 35, managing director of a sports-marketing
- firm. It is the first marriage for MacLachlan, the second for
- Mitchell, who is retiring from the Senate and was seriously
- considered for the impending Supreme Court vacancy.
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- <p>DIVORCING. NICK NOLTE, 53, actor; from his third wife, former
- model Rebecca Linger, 19 years his junior; after 10 years of
- marriage; in Los Angeles. The weathered, formerly beefy star
- of 48 Hrs., Down and Out in Beverly Hills and currently Blue
- Chips will share custody of the couple's seven-year-old son
- Brawley.
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- <p>HOSPITALIZED. WYNONNA JUDD, 29, country singer; for a ruptured
- disk and a pinched nerve in her leg; in Nashville, Tennessee.
- </p>
- <p>CHARGED. DOM DELUISE, 60, comic actor; with criminal sexual
- contact; in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The eager-to-entertain
- funnyman, recently seen in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights,
- was a guest at Merv Griffin's Resorts Casino Hotel last month
- when, according to a complaint revealed last week, he touched
- a male casino employee in a sexual manner. DeLuise denies any
- wrongdoing.
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- <p>CONVICTION OVERTURNED. PAUL HILL, 39, second husband of Mary
- Courtney Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy; in Belfast,
- Northern Ireland. Hill was one of the "Guilford Four," made
- famous in the Oscar-nominated movie In the Name of the Father,
- and spent 15 years in prison for a series of fatal bombings
- in England before being freed by London's Court of Appeal, which
- concluded in 1989 that British police lied about the evidence
- used to convict Hill and his compatriots. The decision formed
- the basis for Hill's challenge of his 1975 conviction on separate
- charges of helping to kill an ex-British soldier, an appeal
- now granted by Northern Ireland's senior judge and two others
- who concluded that fear of "inhuman treatment" prompted his
- "confession.'' In deeming Hill's conviction "unsafe and unsatisfactory,"
- the judges in essence acknowledged that Hill had been unjustly
- imprisoned for more than a third of his life.
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- <p>DIED. KEN OOSTERBROEK, 32, photographer; from injuries incurred
- while covering a politically motivated gun battle; in Tokoza
- township, South Africa. Every so often, a journalist covering
- tragedy becomes a part of it: Oosterbroek, three-time winner
- of South Africa's Press Photographer of the Year award, died
- of a bullet wound received during an exchange of gunfire.
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- <p>DIED. PAUL SIMMONS, 52, journalist and federal official; following
- a bleeding ulcer; in Washington. Though he held several posts
- in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Simmons earned a footnote
- in political history before he ever set foot in Washington.
- As an assistant to Illinois Governor Jim Thompson in the late
- '70s, he fashioned the slogan "Are you better off today than
- you were four years ago?" Thompson passed it on to presidential
- candidate Ronald Reagan, who rode it to victory in 1980.
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- <p>DIED. ROGER SPERRY, 80, brain expert; in Pasadena, California.
- Holder of a doctorate in zoology, Sperry was a pioneer in understanding
- the relationship between the left and right sides of the brain.
- Studying patients who had undergone brain surgery, Sperry identified
- the purpose of the corpus callosum--the bundle of nerves that
- passes information between the brain's hemispheres. For this
- he earned a portion of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
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