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22 Fridav, Feb. 22. 1985 Globe-Gazette Maion City C'rar LaVt, Iowa Today in history Church wedding for interfaith couple Dear Abby airplanes to fly over the White House. In 1973. the United States and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices in Peking and Washington.

Ten years ago: Former Watergate special prosecutor Leon Ja-worski expressed hope that former President Richard M. Nixon would undergo some "soul searching" and tell the American people the truth about the scandal that drove him from office. Five years ago: In a stunning upset, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, New York, 4 goals to 3. One year ago.

President Reagan told a news conference that the U.S. Marines still had a mission in Lebanon, despite their pullback to ships offshore. Today's birthdays: Actor Robert Young and producer-actor Sheldon Leonard are 78. Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, is 53. CBS news correspondent Diane Sawyer is 40. Basketball star Julius Erving is 35. Bv The Associated Press Today is Friday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 1985.

There are 312 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On Feb. 22, 1732, the first president of the United States. George Washington, was born at his parents' plantation near Fredericksburg, Va. On this date: In 1630, English colonists in America got their first taste of popcorn.

In 1784, a U.S. clipper, the Empress of China, left New York City for the Far East. In 1819. Spain ceded Florida to the United States. In 1865.

Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery. In 1879. Frank Winfield Wool-worth opened a 5-cent store in Utica, N.Y. In 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington State to the Union. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.

In 1935, it became illegal for By Abigail Van Buren DEAR ABBY: In a recent column you stated: "If there is a rabbi or Roman Catholic priest who will perform a mixed marriage in a synagogue or church. I don't know where he (or she) is." Permit me to reply. There are many rabbis and many priests who will officiate. We have had many mixed marriages in our synagogue in the past several years, including many in which clergy of other faiths have participated in the wedding ceremony. Furthermore, the Rabbinic Center for Research and Counseling in Westfield.

N.J.. periodically compiles a list of rabbis who will officiate at interfaith marriages. There are 180 rabbis on that list, including more than 50 who will invite other clergy to join them in the ceremony. RABBI JOHN SHERW OD, TEMPLE EMET, WOODLAND HILLS, CALIF. DEAR RABBI SHERWOOD: I appreciate the helpful information to pass on to mv readers.

However. Interested parties should not assume that thev can iust rine up anv rabbi on the list and be assured of an instant marriage ceremony. For ex were having the same problem. You said, "Try the Unitarian Church." I called my daughter right away and told her what I had read, and she got right on it. She found a Unitarian Church listed in the phone book, called the church and made an appointment with the minister.

Then she and her fiance went to see him. First, he gave them both a course in premarital counseling, and then he married them in a beautiful ceremony that included both the Christian and Jewish rituals. 1 hope the couple who wrote to you takes your advice and finds a Unitarian minister as wonderful as the Rev. Robert Jones in Cherry Hills. N.J.

I have never attended a more beautiful wedding nor heard a more meaningful service. MRS. D. CRAIG MAGNOLIA N.J. DEAR MRS.

CRAIG: Others wrote to praise the Unitarian Universalis! ministers for their non-iudzmental. compassionate attitude. DEAR ABBY: It takes a liberal rabbi and broad-minded priest to Asss-fa ffs 8 s'fsg 1--T; ftf 1 ample, most rabbis require a premarital conference and enrour-aze a proeram of Jewish studv after the marriage. Some rabbis (not all) reauire a commitment that the couple will establish a Jewish home and-or raise their children as Jews. There are other conditions too numerous to mention here reauired bv some rabbis, but a national list of rabbis who will perform mixed mar-riazes.

plus the prerequisites of each, is available free of charge bv writing to: Rabbi Irwin H. Fishbein. Rabbinical Center for Research and Counselinz. 128 E. Dudlev Westfield.

N.J. 07090. DEAR ABBY: Thank you for recommending the Unitarian Church to the Catholic man and Jewish woman who wanted to marry but couldn't find a priest or rabbi who would perform the ceremony. My Catholic daughter was engaged to a Jewish man, and they, too, were having trouble finding a clergyman of either faith to marry them. They were ready to settle for a justice of the peace when in your column I read about a couple who Hussein the meetings without giving details.

But the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mubarak's talks with Van den Broek focused on ways in which the 10-nation European Common Market, to which the Netherlands belongs, can help reactivate stalled Arab-Israeli negotiations. The sources said Manescu gave Mubarak a message from Romanian Jordan officials on visits to explain pact with PLO perform a mixed marriage without going through a lot of red tape. Those in the New York area should investigate the Chapel of the United Nations. It's a beautiful setting! Elsewhere, inquire at the nearest college or university. A rabbi and a priest can be found to perform the ceremony at a non-denominational chapel where the dignity and spirituality of both religions are combined.

You don't have to be a young college kid to be married in a chapel on a college campus. Anyone of legal age and up can get married there. HITCHED AT THE HILLEL HOUSE illi iMsf iiSis! Ill iss A Mason City's and Clear Lake's complete information guide will becoming to Feb. 24th! Watch for it in your new and exciting Sunday itty tit 4- Arafat President Nicolae Ceausescu, who for years has acted as a communication route between the Arab and Israeli sides. Also in Cairo, the semi-official daily Al-Ahram said its Friday edition that Egypt will not retreat from the conditions it laid down for the return of "its ambassador to Israel during Mubarak's scheduled visit to Washington next month.

AMMAN. Jordan (AP) Jordan said Thursday that three of its top officials have traveled to five countries to explain to government leaders the pact Jordan signed with the Palestine Liberation Organization. King Hussein and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat announced Feb. 11 they had agreed on a framework for common action toward a settlement of the Palestinian problem. Jordan's official news agency.

Petra. said Jordan's royal court chief, Marwan Qasem, went to Rome on Thursday to meet Italian President Sandro Pertini and Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti. Qasem met French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris on Wednesday. Jordan's royal court minister. Adnan Abu Odeh, was in Bonn on Thursday to meet West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher after meetings on Tuesday in London with the British foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe.

Jordan's foreign minister, Taher el-Masri, met in Baghdad on Monday with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The framework of the Jordan-PLO accord has not been officially disclosed, but it reportedly calls for an international peace conference on the Middle East, including the Soviet Union and United States, attended by a joint PLO-Jordanian or PLO-Arab delegation. It would be aimed at creating a Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip confederated in some way with Jordan. In return for withdrawing from the territory it has occupied since the 1967 Israeli-Arab war, Israel would be guaranteed peace. In Cairo on Thursday, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt conferred separately with Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek and Romania's vice president, Manea Ma-nescu.

Government sources said a major topic of his talks with the two visiting European statesmen was how to revive Middle East peace efforts. The official Cairo Radio reported School staff gets pink slips BOXHOLM (AP) All 35 faculty and staff members at the financially-troubled Grand Community School District have been given pink slips and told that staff reductions are possible. The School Board voted unanimously last week to give out the pink slips but said it will not make any further decisions on staff size until wage negotiations are completed. Negotiations go to fact-finding this weekend. The teachers are asking for a 5 percent increase and the district wants a wage freeze.

Superintendent Claison Groff, who also received a notice of potential termination, said a 2 percent wage increase had been offered but the teachers rejected it. Groff has recommended that staff size be reduced by four full-time teaching positions at the junior high and high school level. Concert group seeks membership OSAGE The Mitchell County Concert Association's annual membership drive will be March 5-15. with Lou Pohle as membership chairman. Three kinds of memberships will be offered during the drive adult $15: student $7.50.

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