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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 10, 1993                   TAG: 9302100278
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

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MAN SEVERELY BEATEN, ROBBED AT NORFOLK MALL

Police have increased patrols near the busy Waterside shopping center after a man attending a church conference was severely beaten with a baseball bat and robbed in a daylight attack.

John Marion of Colonial Heights was walking behind the Omni International Hotel near Waterside when he was attacked Saturday about 1:45 p.m. by five or six youths. Most of the blows were to his head.

Marion, 49, was attending a three-day meeting of the Episcopal Conference of Southern Virginia at the Omni. He was in stable condition Tuesday at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

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