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People in the news Chuck, Di and kids to travel LONDON (AP) Prince Charles and Princess Diana will take their two sons to Canada this month in a trip that will mark the first time all four family members have traveled abroad together. The royal family members will visit Toronto and Ottawa from Oct. 23 to Oct. 29. They will stay aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia on Lake Ontario. While their parents will be busy with official visits, Prince William, 9, and his 7-year-old brother, Prince Harry, will mainly have a good time. “They may accompany their parents on some events, but basically it is their half-term holiday,” a Buckingham Palace official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Friday. • BRANSON, Mo. (AP) The Gatlin Brothers, who said last June they plan to break up next year, say now they’ll do at least 90 shows in 1992 in a new theater to be named for them. Brothers Larry, Steve and Rudy Gatlin said Friday they’re lending their name to one of two music theaters Global Productions of Dallas plans to build as part of a 50-acre country music entertainment complex in this Ozark Mountains tourist resort. The Gatlins’ songs include “Broken Lady,” which won a Grammy in 1976, and “All the Gold in California.” Their new theater will join about two dozen others that already line the town’s glittery entertainment district. Among Branson’s theater operators are such country performers as Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Ray Stevens, Jim Stafford and Moe Bandy. • NEW YORK (AP) Dead to take a rest, says guitarist Jerry Garcia, who adds that the 26-year-old psychedelic rock band isn’t having the fun on stage that it used to. Garcia says in the Oct. 31 issue of Rolling Stone magazine that the band will be taking a six-month break from touring in the near future in order to produce some new material and try to regain its old enthusiasm. It will be the first extended hiatus the 26-ycar-old band has had since the mid-19705. “The music is going to have to take some turns. And wc’rc also going to have to construct new enthusiasm for ourselves, because we’re getting a little burned out,” said Garcia, 49. The band was founded in San Francisco in 1965. It has slowly built an enormous concert following over the years, thanks in part to a loyal following of fans known as “Deadheads” who travel the country to see the group perform. The group’s better known songs include “Truckin’,” “Casey Jones” and “Touch of Grey.”

Dear Abby

Bride works to make sure wedding is childproof

DEAR ABBY: I have a big problem. I am getting married on Nov. 23. My fiance and I are having a wedding reception with more than 200 guests. There are no children invited. According to the etiquette books that I have read, it is not proper to put “No Children” on your wedding invitations. (Mine are already printed up the proper way.) Anyway, one of my aunts is upset because her son and his wife have a 2-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy and some mental retardation. They claim that they cannot get a baby sitter for the boy and that they are bringing him to the wedding. They brought him to a family wedding last year, and everyone was buzzing about it. 1 don’t understand why they can’t get a sitter. They have plenty of time to find one. And I don’t want you to think that we don’t want the boy there because he has a disability. (My fiance also has a physical disability. ) But it is not fair to my fiance’s family, some of whom have small children, too. How do I handle this? I have already told my aunt “No” in so many words. She’s one of those hardheaded people who wants her way all the time, and I am determined that she is not going to win this time. I don’t even understand why she is getting involved when it is her son and daughter-in-law’s place to talk to me about it. PRESSURED IN PENNSYLVANIA DEAR PRESSURED: Wait

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PARIS (AP) Director Martin Scorsese, whose films have been hailed by critics as*some of America’s best, has been awarded France’s prestigious Order of Arts and Letters award. The director of “Raging Bull” “The King of Comedy” and “Taxi Driver” was named a commander of France’s Order of Arts and Letters on Friday. Scorsese, 49, received the award from French Culture Minister Jack Lange. Other recent recipients have included singersongwriter Bob Dylan and the late legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. • NEW YORK (AP) AcUess Jodie Foster stood up NBC’s “Today” show after she learned her connection to would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley would be mentioned on the air, the show’s senior producer said. Foster refuses to discuss Hinckley, who has said he shot President Reagan in 1981 to impress her. She was to appear on the show Friday to promote the movie “Little Man Tate,” in which she makes her directorial debut. Jerry Zucker, the Today show’s supervising producer, said Foster was told she probably wouldn’t be asked about Hinckley, but that her connection to him would likely be mentioned when she was introduced. “She apparently was OK with that yesterday, but not OK with it today,” he said Friday. Foster, who won the best-actress Oscar in 1988 for “The Accused,” probably will not comment on the incident, said her publicist, Lisa Hintelmann. NEW YORK (AP) David Brenner’s lawyer says he’ll try to have contempt of court charges slapped on the comedian’s ex-girlfriend for disappearing with the couple’s son hours after a judge awarded custoy of him to Brenner. Brenner said by phone from Los Angeles on Friday that his ex-girlfriend, Charisse Brody, and their son, Cole, disappeared shortly after he won custody of the boy on Thursday. “We still don’t know where Cole is,” he said. “Is he safe? Is he with drug people? We don’t know.”

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until your cousin and his wife respond to your wedding invitation with the number of guests that will be in their party. If they put down more than two, then you have every right to call your cousin’s wife and explain to her that this is an adults-only affair. You are right there is ample time for them to arrange for a sitter. And if they can’t find one, then they should send their regrets instead of bringing an extra guest for whom their hosts are not prepared which is the height of rudeness. * * * DEAR ABBY: You once published a piece in your column about a little girl who had died. She was ascending to heaven with her lighted candle, but her mother’s tears kept putting the candle out. Would you please print it again? We recently lost a child, and I keep thinking about that column but am

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unable to locate it anywhere. Abby, thank you for all the helpful columns you have written over the years. LINDA DOUGHERTY, CHINO HILLS, CALIF. DEAR LINDA: My heart goes out to you; please accept my condolences. You must be a longtime reader. The last time I printed that item was December 1984. Here it is: Losing a child is the most tragic experience a parent must bear. But one must believe that it is more than a coincidence that God and Good are similar words. Here is a little story one of my readers sent me: There once was a procession of children marching in heaven. Each held a lighted candle, and as they marched, they sang. Their faces shone with happiness. But one little girl stood alone. “Why don’t you join us, little girl?’’ one happy child asked. “I can’t,” she replied. “Every time I light my candle, my mother puts it out w r ith her tears.” * ♦ * By popular request. Abby shares more of her favorite prize-winning, easy-to-prepare recipes. To order, send a long, business-size, self-addressed envelope, plus check or money order for $3.95 ($4.50 in Canada) to: More Favorite Recipes byDear Abby, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, 111. 61054. (Postage is included.)

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