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The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 33

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-Hm INDEX AD-Twitage Wednesday, June 17, 1992 People in the. snews WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) "Good Morning America" co-host Joan Lunden has been ordered to pay her estranged husband $18,000 a month in support Leslie Nielsen NEW YORK (AP) In "Naked Gun 2'A," Leslie Nielsen's character pushes a Barbara Bush look-a-like off a balcony, but the actor behaved himself when he met the first lady at a recent White House reception. JOAN LUNDEN Games. She lives in Houston.

Elizabeth Taylor LOS ANGELES (AP) Elizabeth Taylor donated $150,000 to fight the resurgence of tuberculosis, which poses a special danger to people with AIDS. "After many years, TB is back, and deadlier than ever," Miss Taylor said in a statement Thursday. "What's not yet back is the same government response we saw decades ago." The American Foundation for AIDS Research, which Miss Taylor founded, next week plans to unveil a campaign to raise money to fight TB. It announced her donation Thursday. LESLIE music publication Music City News and by TNN viewers.

Moses Malone RICHMOND, Texas (AP) Basketball star Moses Malone has agreed to pay $20,000 a month in support for his two sons while he and his wife, Alfreda, divorce, Mrs. Malone' lawyer says. Mrs. Malone alleges her husband threatened repeatedly to kill her. The 37-year-old Milwaukee Bucks star denies the allegations.

Malone is under a court order to stay away from his wife pending a September divorce trial, said Mrs. Malone's lawyer, Judy Przyborski. Malone's attorney did not return a call Tuesday. Stephen King NEW YORK (AP) As an author in the 1970s, Stephen King was making lots of money, but he wanted more: He wanted supermarket popularity. In a 1976 letter to his.

editor at Doubleday and he wrote: "I want to be a supermarket name a name that's recognizable by a large percentage of the American reading public. There's really no shame in that" "The last few years have not been entirely pleasing to me, because I simply don't feel I've sold enough books to justify the mind-croggling amounts of money paid to my ELIZABETH TAYLOR "Barbara was in the receiving line, and when she saw me, she rolled her eyes," Nielsen says in Sunday's Parade magazine. Nielsen says a script is being written for a third installment of the "Naked Gun" series, in which be plays incompetent investigator Lt Frank Drebin. Mary Lou Retton (AP) Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton was named special adviser to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. published such books as "Salem's Lot" "The Running Man," "The Shining," "Carrie" and "Night Shift." Danish royalty COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Many of the royal heads of Europe were on hand to help Danish Queen Margrethe II and her husband, Prince Henrik, celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

Guests at a dinner Tuesday included Britain's Prince Charles without Princess Diana King Juan Carlos of Spain, Queen Beatrix of Holland, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden, and King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway. Margrethe, 52, and Henrik, 54, were married on June 10, 1967. The were to start their day today by being serenaded with songs celebrating marriage by singers gathered beneath the windows of their summer home. In the afternoon, they were to ride in a carriage through Copenhagen. Sidney Lumet NEW YORK (AP) Sidney Lumet is still fuming over a threatened union work stoppage during last year's filming of "A Stranger Among Us," and says he won't make any more movies in the city for a while.

The filmmaker sent Mayor David Dinkins a letter on Thursday saying he was especially bothered given his long support of the city's film industry. Lumet said members of Local 52 of the Motion Picture Studio Mechanics claimed their contract entitled them to 10 hours pay, even though the job required only four hours work. Lumet said the crew went back to work after he said "I have a picture to do. I don't fight" But he said that did not rectify the "insulting" incident. The union and the city's film office refused to comment.

Lumct's New York-based movies include "Twelve Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Serpico." "Same thing as last year." Mrs. Bush has said she and her husband do pot exchange presents. The president turns 68 on Friday. He will spend that birthday with his wife at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Magic Johnson LOS ANGELES (AP) Magic Johnson ran the basketball throw, of course, while Mary Lou Retton handled the balancing act Scores of celebrities and athletes volunteered their Sunday to the annual Pediatric AIDS Foundation carnival and raised more than $1.5 million.

Candice Bergen was in charge of the touchdown pass. Mel Gibson helped out with the basketball throw, Chevy Chase with the wheel of fortune and Sally Field with the penny pitch. Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams ran the frog toss game. Sharon Stone was at the basketball booth, and Luke Perry worked the baseball throw. A sellout crowd of 1,200 paid $1,000 each or $2,500 a family to attend.

Garth Brooks NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Garth Brooks took the top honor as entertainer of the year at the 26th annual TNN-Music City News Awards, but fans gave Alan Jackson three awards. Jackson, who won for album and single of tjie year for "Don't Rock the Jukebox" and as male artist said he owed a fan who had given him a lucky penny hours before Monday night's show. "Thank you so much, wherever you are," Jackson said. He had been nominated for six awards.

Brooks, whose lastest album is "Ropin' the Wind," had been nominated in five categories but won the top honor only. Reba McEntire picked up her seventh female artist award in eight years. The winners were chosen by subscribers to the monthly country Lunden, 41, filed for divorce earlier this year from TV producer Michael Krauss, 52. They had been married for almost 14 years and have three daughters. Justice Nicholas Colabella last week ordered Lunden to pay Krauss $18,000 a month in interim support and to pay half his unreimbursed medical expenses.

"Why the courts don't tell a husband who has been living off his wife to go out and get a job is beyond my comprehension," Lunden, who reportedly makes $2 million a year, said in a statement Krauss' lawyer, Norman Sheresky, said that bis client had devoted himself to his family and that Krauss had hoped things could be settled amicably. In light of the decision, he said, "Maybe things will get better. They should divide what they have and get on with their lives." Andy Griffith GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) Fans of the Andy Griffith Show picnicked and played at events such as Goober's Arm Wrestlin' Contest and Opie's Sack Races during the first Mayberry Founder's Day Picnic. "It's a good club to be in because you know Dan Quayle isn't going to say anything bad about it" joked Dan Velding, referring to the vice president's remarks about TV character Murphy Brown having a child out of wedlock.

About 70 people attended Sunday's event. The international fan club boasts 20,000 members, said Lyle Fales, president of the Grand Rapids and western Michigan chapters of the Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club. The series ran from 1960 to 1968. Tammy Wynette NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tammy Wynette has sold her suburban estate, but not the sign that proclaimed it the home of country MARY LOU RETTON STEPHEN KING TB, which can be fatal, was virtually wiped out decades ago.

It has made a resurgence in recent years, preying largely on people already weakened by the AIDS virus. Terry Waite MIDDELBURG, Netherlands (AP) Former hostage Terry Waite said Saturday a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt helped him make it through. Waite was given the Freedom of Worship award by the Franklin and Delano Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, N.Y? which has a satelline campus in this southern Dutch town, near the home of Roosevelt's forebears. He said he' got the biography from his captors in Lebanon.

"It was a book full of interest and wisdom material to meditate on the meaning of freedom," Waite said. LflJ account I don't just want the best seller so I can make some more bucks, but also I can say, there, we all came out square. You guys got what you paid for." That letter, and 41 others, were auctioned at Christie's on Tuesday for $24,200. The letters were written between 1971 to 1978, when King, now 44, Council Chairman Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Washington Thursday that her "commitment to creating more healthy and active Americans makes her a great role model." Ms. Retton, 24, won the Ail-Around Gold Medal in women's gymnastics the first American to do so at the 1984 Olympic TAMMY WYNETTE '4, ,.4 music's "First Lady." Not included in the home's $1.05 million price were the iron letters spelling out "First Lady Acres" on the front gates, the Nashville Banner reported Monday.

Wynette and her fifth husband, George Richey, bought a smaller estate, also in Brentwood, a Nashville suburb. Wynette, 50, has recorded more than 50 albums. She is best known for the hit "Stand By Your Man." Pope John Paul II MBANZA CONGO, Angola (AP) Pope John Paul II surprised fanner Paulo Temuen, his wife and eight children by joining them for a glass of lemonade. "Do you own land? Do you grow enough to feed everyone? Do your children go to school? Do you study hard?" the pope asked the Temuens in Portuguese during his 15-minute chat on Monday. I RGmEaiTy I AddmoSetoiJJ UJg jUmZESSr I Halogen Headlamps fuLr fn-h to 129.99 a headlamp 2eadlamp XX.

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