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People in the news Sonny scorns Senate seat PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) Mayor Sonny Bono says you won’t get him, babe, into the United States Senate because he doesn’t like the idea of spending millions to run for political office. “You have to buy the position,” Bono said Thursday. “It becomes a money contest A lot of people are being elected because they have a lot more money than the next guy.” Bono, who rose to fame with his ex-wife Cher in the 1960 s with such hit songs as “I’ve Got You, Babe,” has been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for the Senate in 1992. But he said he’ll seek another term as mayor of Palm Springs instead. “In the long run, this job is preferable to that one,” said Bono who is up for re-election in ’92. “I’d like to carry the ball all the way to the goal line here in Palm Springs.” • NEW YORK (AP) Worshipers often tell Bernice King, the youngest child of the late Martin Luther King Jr., that when she preaches, her gestures, face and tone remind them of her father. “When people come up to me and say ‘Ohhh, you sound just like your father,’ I don’t know what to say,” Miss King, 27, said in the Jan. 18-20 edition of USA Weekend. “Should I say, ’Thank you’?” Miss King spends the first Sunday of every month at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where her father, grandfather and great-grandfather all were ministers. She was 5 when her father was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. “It’s something I’m going to have to wrestle with for quite some time, but I’m willing to accept it because that’s part of the struggle; that’s part of being the child of someone who made such a great impact,” she said. • LOS ANGELES (AP) A state agency has offered Bob Hope S2O million for 5,700 acres of his mountain property to spare the rugged canyon country from development, an official said. Hope has not acted on the proposal by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, said Executive Director Joseph T. Edmiston. “I am optimistic,” he said. “I think it would be the most important acquisition that has been made, certainly in the last 20 years or so, in the whole Santa Monica Mountains zone.” Hope has been criticized by environmentalists for moving to sell his vast holdings in Los Angeles and Ventura counties to developers. The proposed agreement would transfer most of Hope’s mountain land to the state and federal governments. The area would serve as part of a migratory wildlife corridor for animal populations in the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountains. The 86-ycar-old comedian has endured negative publicity in recent months over his sale of mountain lands to prospective developers and his refusal to consider giving or selling the land to park agencies. Hope’s publicist Frank Lieberman said the entertainer had no comment regarding the proposed sale.

Dear Abby Lindy’s crossing was soon repeated by photos

DEAR ABBY: It is a little-known fact that not one but two major historical events took place when Charles Lindbergh made his amazing nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927. I am enclosing a newspaper article from the Minneapolis paper reporting both events. There are pictures showing Lindbergh being greeted by Myron T. Herrick, who was our ambassador to Franee at the time, and a picture of “Lindy” proudly standing beside his little silver plane, “The Spirit of St. Louis.” Over those pictures was the following headline: “One Triumph of Science Is Used to Tell of Another.” Then it goes on to say: “The transmission of pictures by radio, the most recent major triumph of science, was employed to rush these pictures to the U.S.A. from Paris. They were sent by airplane from Paris to London. then sent by radio to New York, then relayed westward over telephone wires!" Perhaps you and your readers will find this interesting. JOHN E. RALLS, MINNEAPOLIS DEAR MR. RAULS: Thank you for a little-known piece of history. I wonder how many people were aware that these two major historical events were so

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NEW YORK (AP) Actress and singer Cher says her grandmother helps inspire her to stay fit and healthy. Her grandmother works out every day at a gym and asked for leotards for her 72nd birthday, Cher recalled in her new diet and fitness book, “Forever Fit.” Excerpts from the Bantam Book are published in People magazine’s Jan. 21 issue. “My grandmother is living proof that it is never too late to change the way your body and mind can work together to look and feel your best,” Cher said in the book, which is scheduled for release next week. Cher, 44, said she doesn’t smoke, drink coffee or take drugs, and “almost never” drinks alcohol or eats red meat. She does admit to a weakness for chocolate, saying she tries to satisfy it with a breakfast shake made from ice, malt, a sugar substitute and unsweetened cocoa powder. NEW YORK (AP) —Actress Susan Sarandon says she is skipping tonight’s Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles to work for peace in the Persian Gulf. “I am sorry I am unable to join my colleagues at the Golden Globe Awards. I am honored to have been nominated,” Sarandon said in a statement Friday. “However, due to the war in the Persian Gulf, I feel it is best to remain close to home where I will continue my work with the Military Family Support Network in its efforts for peace and to bring our troops safely home.” Sarandon was nominated in the best actress category for her performance in the movie “White Palace.” • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) An ecology anthem by the country music group Alabama had down-home inspiration a fishing trip. The title of “Pass It On Down” came about when Teddy Gentry learned his boyhood fishing hole was polluted, the bassist said in a recent interview. “Me and my son was fishing one day in the river,” Gentry said. “A friend of mine told me, ‘You know you can’t eat any of the fish that feed off the bottom there.’ And it kind of hit me real strong, because I’d lived there all mv life.” “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to picture what’s going on in the song,” Gentry said. “I’m hoping that on his way to the factory in the morning, the everyday guy is listening to this song, and it starts wheels turning in his head.”

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