Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 5, 1990 TAG: 9004041315
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His doctors advised him to cancel his schedule for two weeks.
The former president, 77, was not admitted to the hospital after the problem was discovered during an examination at the Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He will recuperate at his home in Saddle River, N.J.
Gloria Estefan, who suffered a broken back in a tour bus accident, was released from a New York hospital Wednesday, saying she was thankful to be alive.
The vocalist of Miami Sound Machine headed home to Miami. Her release came two weeks after she underwent spinal surgery.
"I promise I will work 100 percent to come back," she told reporters at the Orthopedic Institute for Joint Diseases.
Estefan, 32, suffered broken vertebrae March 21 when her tour bus was struck by a tractor-trailer on an icy Pennsylvania highway. She was transferred to the New York hospital the next day, and doctors performed delicate surgery to implant two steel rods in her spine.
But just two weeks after that trauma, she ended her news conference by getting out of a wheelchair and standing without help.
Exiled King Michael of Romania plans his first visit to his homeland since a Soviet-installed government forced him to abdicate 42 years ago, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Michael plans to leave April 12 for what spokeswoman Danielle Maillefer termed a "sort of private pilgrimage" of no more than 10 days, accompanied by his wife, Queen Anne.
Joni Leigh Penn, who allegedly harassed Sharon Gless for years, pleaded innocent to charges she broke into the "Cagney and Lacey" star's San Fernando, Calif., home while the actress was away and held police at bay with a rifle.
Penn, 30, entered the plea Tuesday in San Fernando. A preliminary hearing was set for April 12. She was arrested March 30 after a seven-hour standoff and was charged with burglary to commit theft. She could get up to 10 years in prison.
Gless obtained a court order in 1988 requiring Penn, whom police described as an obsessed fan, to keep away from her.
by CNB