Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 30, 1990 TAG: 9003300437
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Neither Hagler, 35, nor his wife would reveal details of the agreement, which was reached Tuesday. Bertha Hagler had been seeking a $4 million settlement.
"I'm glad it's all over," Hagler said as he left the Brockton, Mass., courtroom.
Bertha Hagler, 36, had testified the former boxing champion hit her in the face and punched her in the ribs hard enough to make her knees buckle in 1987, the year he lost the middleweight title to Sugar Ray Leonard. Hagler denied striking his wife.
Hagler won the middleweight title in 1980 when he knocked out Alan Minter in the third round. He has not fought since he lost the championship in 1987 in a 12-round decision.
\ Billie Jean King and politician Barbara Jordan will be two of the next four members of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
The four were chosen from a field of about 1,000 nominees, Sally Parr, the hall's executive director, said.
The four are:
The late Margaret Bourke-White, a photojournalist who worked for Life and Fortune magazines.
King, who was ranked the No. 1 women's tennis player four times in her career and is the first woman athlete to earn more than $100,000 in a year.
Florence Siebert, a medical researcher who in the 1930s isolated and purified protein, paving the way for an accurate test for tuberculosis.
Jordan, a Texas Democrat who served in Congress from 1972 through 1978. She was the first woman and the first black to give the keynote address at a national political convention.
\ Mitch Snyder, a nationally recognized advocate for the homeless, has requested permission to spend at least a month at a Virginia monastery.
Snyder, 46, said Thursday that he would like to spend some time with "a community of people committed to prayer."
He said he hoped to enter a Trappist monastary in May. "I'm a religious person, and from time to time it's important to renew our relationship with God," Snyder said. "I'm awaiting to confirm that with them. I hope the publicity doesn't mess it up."
Snyder works with the Community for Creative Non-Violence, a religious-oriented organization founded in 1970. The group began protesting the Vietnam War and eventually took on the cause of the poor.
by CNB