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TEhf 3tttiana Saturday, June 30, 1990 Pgga 13 Writer Irving Wallace, dead at 74 mate Sex Lives of Famous People." Son David Wallace, who writes under the name David Wallechin-sky, has written 12 non-fiction books, including the best seller "Midterm Report," a follow-up to the best seller "What Really Happened to the Class of '65." Daughter Amy, a psychic healer as well as an author, worked with her mother on The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People" and recently wrote "The Prodigy." Funeral arrangements were Wallace also edited many popular non-fiction books, including "The People's Almanac" and 'The Book of Lists." He sold more than 194 million copies of his 33 books. The Saturday Review magazine considered him to be one of the five most widely read authors in the world, along witb Barbara Cartiand, Louis L' Amour, Harold Robbins and Janet Dailey. "Obviously he was a marvelous storyteller," said novelist Leon Uris, author of "Exodus." Before his fame as a novelist was established with "The Chapman Report" in 1960, Wallace wrote screen plays for "The West Point Story" in I960; "Desert Legion," "Gun Fury," "Meet Me at the Fair" and "Split Second" with William Bowers in 1953; and "Bad for Each Other" with Horace McCoy in 19S4. Uris recalled sharing Wallace's early success. "I met Irving in 1953 when we were both at Warner Bros.

1 had written 'Battle and he had written some literary books that weren't going anywhere. He came out with 'The Chapman Report' just shortly after that, so we both ran a victory lap at the same time in Hollywood and kissed the studios goodbye," Uris said. Author Sidney Sheldon, a close friend for three decades, said Wallace was "a very good writer" whose novels were painstakingly researched. Wallace once spent 10 days in the White House during the Kennedy administration to get material for "The Man," a novel about a black president published in 1964. Born in Chicago in 1918, Wallace was particularly proud of his independence as an author.

"The big motivation for me was the desire to be independent, to get LOS ANGELES (AP) Irving Wallace, whose steamy novel "Chapman Report" about sex in suburbia catapulted him to the ranks of the world's most widely read authors, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Wallace died Friday afternoon, three days after entering Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in serious condition, said hospital spokesman Ron Wise. His wife, Sylvia, and son, David, were at his bedside. Literary critics dismissed Wallace's best-selling novels such as "The Prize" and "The Word" as potboilers, but the public loved his books.

Even Jacqueline Kennedy acknowledged she read the "Chapman Report," a fictional Klnsey Report-style narrative inspired by the sexual exploits of women in Wallace's West Los Angeles up when you want, write what you want and work where you want," he said in a 1984 interview with The Associated Press. He said he'd had only two bosses in his life Ronald Reagan, his superior officer in the Army's wartime propaganda film unit, and Jack Warner, who hired him to write scripts for Warner Bros. Wallace said he loved his work. "Writing Is what I enjoy. I'm a person of ideas and 1 like to spread them around." Some of Wallace's titles include: "The Fabulous 1953; "The Sins of Philip Fleming," 1959; "The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P.T.

Barnum," 1959: "The Plot." 1967; "The Word." 1972; "The Pigeon Project." 1979; and "The Celestial Bed," 1987. Wallace's wife and children are also authors of note. His wife. Sylvia, has helped write four books, including "Empress" and "The Inti TRUMP PLAZA Casino Hotel Atlantic City, N.J. July 25, 26, 27 Double Occupancy 145 rKon CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 412-726-5523 LANICH BUS LINES P.O.

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Vargas June 1. The decree bars her from the sacraments of the church, including communion, holy matrimony and last rites. "Your cooperation in procuring abortions is a sin against God and. humanity and the laws of the Roman Catholic Church," said the formal excommunication decree. Gracida told Ms.

Vargas in the decree that she can be reinstated "by a sincere and total repentance and confession concerning the sin of abortion." Vargas said Friday she considers herself a good Catholic and plans to keep attending Mass. "One part of me is devastated," Ms. Vargas said. "But another part is telling me I'm just more commit- Slop. 6f toon lelactifounatuhiuf fattitu decHau accent from atnlincoUeciiOH.

predicted it will drive more people away from the church. "What tends to happen when you do this is Catholics become angry and tend to stop listening to the church," she said "It threatens the moral voice and authority of the church." Ms. Vargas said she received two warning letters from Gracida before the excommunication decree. Another Corpus Christi abortion clinic director, Elva Bustamante, 48. said Friday she has received two similar letters from Gracida and expects to be excommunicated soon.

Bill Ryan, a spokesman for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, said a precedent was set in 1986 when Bishop Louis Gelineau of Providence. R.1-. announced that a woman, Mary Ann Sorrentino. excommunicated herself by directing Planned Parenthood in Providence. The church's stand on abortion has drawn more attention recently as Catholic officials have told public officials who support abortion rights that they might be denied communion.

Last November, Bishop Leo Mah-er of San Diego prohibited communion to a state senate candidate favoring abortion rights. And Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York recently said in a church newspaper column that Roman Catholic public officials risked excommunication if they took such a stance. He has since said his intention was to prevent, rather than advocate, the excommunication of Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. "I cannot speak Tor whatever any bishop might do in his area of cognizance," O'Connor said Friday following his appearance at an anti-abortion conference in suburban Chicago.

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Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice in Washington, DC, called the decree part of a church campaign to silence Catholics on the abortion issue and Obscenity bill passes Senate floor HARRISBURG (AP) A bill to ban the distribution of obscene video tapes to minors and including bumper stickers under the obscenity law has passed the Senate and could see House action by tonight. The bill, approved 40, amends the state's Crimes Code and also bars people from knowingly producing, presenting or directing any obscene performance or from participating in an obscene performance. The obscene materials could not be given or sold to people under age 16. Current law defines a minor as a person under the age of 17. A violation would be a misdemeanor and punishable by up to five years in prison and up to a $10,000 Tine.

Repeat offenders could be convicted of a felony and be subject to up to seven years in prison and up to a $15,000 (Inc. An amendment was also added to allow police agencies in the state for the first time to collect criminal intelligence on computers. The computer file language was also in a separate bill that passed the Senate Tuesday, but that bill could not come to a vote in the House before the fall. The bill containing the obscenity ban and the criminal history record section was sent to the House and could be voted Saturday. Pennsylvania is the only state that bars police from compiling intelligence, investigative material and treatment information on computers.

300 workers may strike in Westmoreland JEANNKTTE. Pa. lAP Negotiators for 300 hospital workers and Monsour Medical Center's management tried to avert a strike and end a dispute involving pay and health insurance. Rosemary Trump, president of Local 565 of the Service Employees International Union, said nurses at the Westmoreland County hospital voted 50-12 Thursday to reject an offer from the hospital to extend the current contract to Sept. 30.

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