Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 2, 1994 TAG: 9403020077
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House leaders made the decision to suspend all legislative action for the day after Natcher, 84, indicated he was ready to leave Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he is receiving treatment, so he wouldn't miss a vote.
"This is a human institution that has to pay attention to human needs within the institution, and that's what we try to do today," Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., said in announcing a postponement of votes on a pending education bill.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn said goodbye to his neighbors in Cavendish, Vt., and thanked them for respecting his privacy during his years of exile from Russia.
"You forgave me my unusual way of life, and even took it upon yourselves to protect my privacy," the Nobel laureate told residents Monday at their annual town meeting.
"For this, I have been truly grateful throughout all these years; and now, as my stay here comes to an end, I thank you," he said during the rare public appearance.
Solzhenitsyn, 75, and his wife, Natalya, plan to return to Russia at the end of May, but his sons will continue to live in Cavendish.
Garrett Morris is slowly recovering from gunshot wounds he suffered during a robbery attempt.
The comic actor's condition was upgraded to fair Tuesday, but he was expected to remain in Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital for another two weeks.
Morris, a founding cast member of "Saturday Night Live" and a star of the television comedy "Martin," was shot in the arm and chest Thursday when he was walking to his car in South-Central Los Angeles. The two gunmen escaped.
No one can ever accuse Lorena Bobbitt of letting grass grow under her feet. Released from a psychiatric hospital Monday - where she had been undergoing evaluation since being acquitted on charges of cutting off her husband's penis - she spent Tuesday going over movie offers.
One possible six-figure deal could even be finalized before week's end, says her publicist, Alan Hauge.
Bobbitt's suggestion on who should play her: Marisa Tomei, who won an Academy Award last year for her role in "My Cousin Vinny."
by CNB