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

DATE: FRIDAY, May 21, 1993                   TAG: 9305210240
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

PEOPLE

It all started when a flea-market clerk named Dan Kay called Rush Limbaugh's radio show and said he wished he could afford to pay $29.95 for a subscription to Limbaugh's newsletter. Limbaugh told Kay to do the American thing: Hold a bake sale.

It's this Saturday in Kay's hometown of Fort Collins, Colo., and restaurants from Guam to New Orleans have shipped in goods. Expected crowd? Anywhere from 5,000 to 25,000, including Limbaugh himself.

"We're getting 100 calls in half a day," Mary Carter, a Comfort Inn clerk, told the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. "It's absolutely ridiculous."

Forget problems of race and hard times. They don't stand a chance against love, says poet Maya Angelou.

"Sometimes you'll see a boy in Detroit . . . who may be the third generation on welfare, but he walks down the street like he has oil wells in his back yard," she said Tuesday at a lecture sponsored by Walsh College and Citizens Insurance Co. of America in Livonia, Mich.

"How do these people survive? I suggest there is enough, an abiding love that keeps people alive."

Angelou, who read her Inaugural Day poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," for President Clinton, said people around the world are more alike than different.

"Whether I come from Birmingham, England, or Birmingham, Alabama, I want some place to party on Saturday night," she said.

Country music singer Tanya Tucker has canceled concerts for Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday on the advice of her doctor because of exhaustion.

by CNB