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Having met with little support from the WhiteHouse, Harvard lobbyists "have been focusing on alegislative remedy" to the Helms Amendment, saidParker Coddington, director of governmentalrelations. The University's main ally on CapitolHill has been Rep. J. Roy Howland (D-Ga.), who hasintroduced legislation that would give Sullivanthe ability to remove the AIDS virus from theImmigration and Naturalization Service's list ofexcludable diseases...
When a publicity-hungry guerrilla gang kidnaped miner Scott Royden Heimdal near the Colombia-Ecuador border last April and demanded a $1.5 million ransom, his family in Peoria, Ill., despaired: the sum was utterly beyond its reach. Then Marge and Roy Heimdal heard that the kidnapers had cut the ransom to $60,000, and issued an appeal for help. Over the next four days, all Peoria joined in a frantic campaign to raise the cash. Children sold lemonade; retirees held bake sales...
...dispatched the money to Ecuador. Last week the kidnapers sent word that they considered the $60,000 as a mere first installment on a $612,000 payoff. If the rest of the money is not delivered by an undisclosed due date, they said, Scott Heimdal would be killed. Said Roy Heimdal: "There's no way we could raise $612,000. That's impossible...
FIRST HUBBY by Roy Blount Jr. Villard; 286 pages...
...sitnov, First Hubby may be about three bricks shy of a load, which is the title of one of Roy Blount Jr.'s amiable volumes of uptown down-home humor. Still, Blount is good company whatever he's writing, even if his puns ("Li Pung lizards!" as a comment on Clementine's China policy) hit the wall and dribble down like tossed eggs. And even if some of the jokes are merely gags (he wants to make love, she has a headache, he's hurt, and she says no, a political headache: she has to fire the Defense Secretary). That...