Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, April 7, 1990 TAG: 9004070323
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"If I look at the whole world picture, overpopulation, pollution, the destruction of forests and so on, it's hard to be happy," Goodall said.
"It's better to concentrate on the things I'm actually involved with. That makes it a bit easier."
Goodall was in Portland, Ore., to give lectures on chimpanzees, which now number between 100,000 and 200,000 in the wild.
"If we lost the chimps from the wild, that would also mean all the forest would be gone," she said. "And where would we all be?"
Goodall, 56, went to Tanzania in 1960 to study with paleontologist Louis Leakey, who sent her to study the behavior of chimpanzees at Gombe, Tanzania. She has devoted nearly 30 years to the study of the primate.
Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian defector, has given her first gymnastics performance in six years.
Comaneci performed Thursday night before a near-capacity crowd at the 1,800-seat Ziegfeld Theater inside Bally's Reno, Nev., hotel-casino. It was her first U.S. exhibition in nine years and her first public performance since 1984.
Fighting off tears, Comaneci told the crowd, "I'm glad to be in my new homeland. This is very emotional for me. I love America. I love you all."
A cast of 16 younger gymnasts was in the performance taped by ABC Sports for later broadcast.
The show's producer, Paul Ziert, said he's thinking of touring with Comaneci.
"Nadia again is excited and motivated," Ziert said. "She sees that she can still do what she loves, that she can still be a part of gymnastics."
Comaneci also was reunited with former coach Bela Karolyi, who guided her to a series of perfect 10s and three gold medals in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal when she was 14.
Karolyi defended the 28-year-old star from publicity over her alleged tryst with a married man who helped her defect in December. Karolyi, who defected 10 years ago, said she must have felt as he did on his arrival in the United States.
"Ten years ago, I was standing in the streets of Los Angeles a desperate man," he said. "Ten years later, I believe Nadia was just as desperate as me."
Redd Foxx got a truckload of personal property back from the Internal Revenue Service, but a gift watch from Elvis Presley, other expensive jewelry and eight cars will be auctioned to pay back taxes.
The comedian, who made his mark as a junk man in the 1970s TV series "Sanford and Son," is facing both the ire of the IRS and a bankruptcy court.
Not long after Foxx said he had been "whitelisted" and "whiteballed" by racism in the IRS, the agency countered with allegations that he spent $373,000 of his $500,000 take from the film "Harlem Nights" on "wine, women, song and gambling."
Agents raided his home in November to seize his property, and Foxx was left with only a bed.
Estimates of his tax bill have ranged from $750,000 to $2.9 million.
Foxx filed for bankruptcy in 1983, but his tax problems continued to mount. Foxx said he was pleased with the return of the personal items Wednesday, but declined further comment.
by CNB