Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 122, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 January 1992 — Page 3

People in the news Hall named in libel lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Televison talk show host Arsenio Hall must go to court to defend himself against libel charges filed by a former NAACP official in a dispute over hiring black employees for Hall’s show. The California Supreme Court let stand Thursday a libel lawsuit filed against Hall by Willis Edwards, former president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Edwards met with Hall in November 1988 to discuss claims that Hall, who is black, had failed to hire black writers and producers for his syndicated talk show. Two months later, Hall was quoted in the Los Angeles Sentinel, a black community newspaper, as saying Edwards had asked him for a $40,000 contribution. Edwards denied seeking a donation from Hall. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Audrey Hepburn, in her role as UNICEF’s goodwill ambassador, says the world’s children need the kind of relief she got as a child living off turnips in Holland during World War 11. The 62-year-old actress said Friday during a fundraising luncheon for the international children’s relief organization that the aid delivered to her as a youth came “right behind the liberation tanks.” Hepburn, who starred in such films as “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “My Fair Lady,” took the dollar-a-year position with the United Nations Children’s Fund in 1989. She was unfazed when Mayor Frank Jordan presented her with the key to the city and called her “Katharine,” an apparent reference to actress Katharine Hepburn. • NEW YORK (AP) Jane Pauley, whose departure from the “Today” show two years ago angered TV viewers across the country, will return next week to co-anchor the program while Bryant Gumbel is on vacation. Pauley quit “Today” in December 1989 amid reports that NBC was pushing her out in favor of the younger Deborah Norville. Norville left the show last year to have a baby and was replaced as co-anchor by Katie Couric. Pauley, who was with the show for 13 years, also returned earlier this month for “Today’s” 40th anniversary broadcast

Dear Abby U.N.’s Bill of Rights for kids needs support

DEAR ABBY: Would you be so kind as to remind your readers about the United Nations Bill of Rights for Children? The bill states that children should have the following rights: The right to affection, love and understanding. The right to adequate nutrition and medical care. The right to free education. The right to full opportunity for play and recreation. The right to a name and nationality. The right to be among the first to receive relief in times of disaster. The right to learn to be a useful member of society and to develop individual abilities. The right to be brought up in a spirit of universal peace and brother/ sisterhood. The right to enjoy these rights, regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national or social origin. This bill was adopted in 1989 by the U.N. General Assembly after a decade of discussion. It has been signed by 109 countries and ratified by 40. Unbelievable as it seems, the United States has done neither! Our nation, built on the concepts of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” should be leading the world nations in the pursuit of their goal of protecting our most valuable resource, our children. The ratification of this bill can only lead to a better life for all of us. Won’t you please ask your readers to write their legislators, and

THE FAMILY CIRCUS®

“I think this little pig is tryin’ to go to market.”

ARSENIO HALL Said the wrong thing?

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised plans by the United States and NATO to airlift food and medical supplies to the former Soviet republics. “The communist structures have broken down completely, the supplies are not getting from production to the consumer and the big cities are short of food,” Mrs. Thatcher said at the Toledo Junior League’s annual dinner Thursday night “And it is very good news that there is going to be an airlift into the big cities.” Earlier Thursday, the United States announced a 47-nation agreement to fly food and medicine to the former Soviet Union. • BOSTON (AP) Boston Celtics center Robert Parish Jr. owes more than SIOO,OOO in back taxes, according to a lien filed by the Massachusettts Department of Revenue. The money in dispute $ 101,214 involves corporate excise taxes the state says are owed for tax years 1987 through 1990, The Boston Globe reported Friday. In a practice common to professional sports, Parish, whose salary is roughly $2.2 million, is registered as a corporation, his agent Bob Woolf said. Woolf said he was aware of the lien and “it is being negotiated.” • NEW YORK (AP) Restaurateur and Thai cookbook author Tommy Tang says he’s glad it has become fashionable to raise money for AIDS, recalling that things weren’t always that way. “Nobody wanted to touch it,” Tang said at a recen benefit for Miracle House, an organization that helps families of people with AIDS. “But now it’s become very hip.” Tang, who has restaurants in New York and Los Angeles, raised $2,500 from an evening’s sale of his book “Tommy Tang’s Modem Thai Cuisine.”

Abigail Van Buren

President Bush, and urge that this be done? BONNIE FENN SULLIVAN, WATERFORD, CONN. DEAR BONNIE: Since the future of every nation rests with the welfare of its children, it’s mystifying that any country would hesitate to sign the Children’s Bill of Rights. And considering the principles with which most Americans were raised, it’s surprising that the United States does not top the list of signatories. * ♦ ♦ DEAR ABBY: My 20-year-old son is still wetting his bed every night. He has seen a urologist and has tried all the usual medications, but nothing has worked. (He is a very sound sleeper.)

REAL LIFE ADVENTURES

By Bil Keane

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Watershed moments in parenting: finding the courage to fish out the toy the baby dropped in the toilet.

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AUDREY HEPBURN She knows hunger

I do not know where to go from here. Has anyone else gone through this who could give me some ideas on what to try next? Please, Abby, my son really needs some answers. DESPERATE MOM DEAR MOM: You don’t say how long it’s been since your son saw a urologist, but he should seek a second opinion from another specialist. If there is nothing physically wrong, and your son’s only problem is reprogramming his sleeping habits, contact your nearest Sears Roebuck store about ordering its Wee Alert Buzzer. The premise is simple: An alarm will sound the moment moisture touches a screen placed under the bottom sheet, instantly waking a sound sleeper. After a very short time, the sleeper forms the habit of waking up naturally at the right hour of the night or the “wee” hours of the morning. Good luck. * * * Most teen-agers do not know the facts about drugs, AIDS, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancy. It’s all in Abby’s updated, expanded booklet, “What Every Teen Should Know." To order, send a business-size, self-addressed envelope, plus check or money order for $3.95 ($4.50 in Canada) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, 111. 61054. (Postage is included.)

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