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May 02, 1994: Milestones
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
May 02, 1994 Last Testament of Richard Nixon
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 22
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<p>ENGAGED. SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL, 60, majority leader from Maine;
to HEATHER MACLACHLAN, 35, managing director of a sports-marketing
firm. It is the first marriage for MacLachlan, the second for
Mitchell, who is retiring from the Senate and was seriously
considered for the impending Supreme Court vacancy.
</p>
<p>DIVORCING. NICK NOLTE, 53, actor; from his third wife, former
model Rebecca Linger, 19 years his junior; after 10 years of
marriage; in Los Angeles. The weathered, formerly beefy star
of 48 Hrs., Down and Out in Beverly Hills and currently Blue
Chips will share custody of the couple's seven-year-old son
Brawley.
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<p>HOSPITALIZED. WYNONNA JUDD, 29, country singer; for a ruptured
disk and a pinched nerve in her leg; in Nashville, Tennessee.
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<p>CHARGED. DOM DELUISE, 60, comic actor; with criminal sexual
contact; in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The eager-to-entertain
funnyman, recently seen in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights,
was a guest at Merv Griffin's Resorts Casino Hotel last month
when, according to a complaint revealed last week, he touched
a male casino employee in a sexual manner. DeLuise denies any
wrongdoing.
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<p>CONVICTION OVERTURNED. PAUL HILL, 39, second husband of Mary
Courtney Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy; in Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Hill was one of the "Guilford Four," made
famous in the Oscar-nominated movie In the Name of the Father,
and spent 15 years in prison for a series of fatal bombings
in England before being freed by London's Court of Appeal, which
concluded in 1989 that British police lied about the evidence
used to convict Hill and his compatriots. The decision formed
the basis for Hill's challenge of his 1975 conviction on separate
charges of helping to kill an ex-British soldier, an appeal
now granted by Northern Ireland's senior judge and two others
who concluded that fear of "inhuman treatment" prompted his
"confession.'' In deeming Hill's conviction "unsafe and unsatisfactory,"
the judges in essence acknowledged that Hill had been unjustly
imprisoned for more than a third of his life.
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<p>DIED. KEN OOSTERBROEK, 32, photographer; from injuries incurred
while covering a politically motivated gun battle; in Tokoza
township, South Africa. Every so often, a journalist covering
tragedy becomes a part of it: Oosterbroek, three-time winner
of South Africa's Press Photographer of the Year award, died
of a bullet wound received during an exchange of gunfire.
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<p>DIED. PAUL SIMMONS, 52, journalist and federal official; following
a bleeding ulcer; in Washington. Though he held several posts
in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Simmons earned a footnote
in political history before he ever set foot in Washington.
As an assistant to Illinois Governor Jim Thompson in the late
'70s, he fashioned the slogan "Are you better off today than
you were four years ago?" Thompson passed it on to presidential
candidate Ronald Reagan, who rode it to victory in 1980.
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<p>DIED. ROGER SPERRY, 80, brain expert; in Pasadena, California.
Holder of a doctorate in zoology, Sperry was a pioneer in understanding
the relationship between the left and right sides of the brain.
Studying patients who had undergone brain surgery, Sperry identified
the purpose of the corpus callosum--the bundle of nerves that
passes information between the brain's hemispheres. For this
he earned a portion of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
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