
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 12, 1990                   TAG: 9005120403
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LYNCHBURG                                LENGTH: Short

LIBERTY THINKS 20,000 WILL HEAR BUSH SPEECH

Lynchburg prepared Friday for its first presidential visit since Teddy Roosevelt stopped at the train station for seven minutes in 1907.

President Bush is scheduled to deliver the commencement address this afternoon at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell in 1971.

Friday, workers were literally setting the stage for the visit. Bush is speaking on a platform being built in the end zone of the recently completed football stadium.

Bush is expected to talk about volunteerism, and Liberty spokesman Mark DeMoss estimated the crowd will be larger than 20,000.

Bush is flying into Roanoke on Air Force One from Columbia after delivering the commencement address at the University of South Carolina and is flying to a spot near the stadium in a military helicopter. Friday, four Army helicopters practiced the trip and the landing.

- Associated Press

by CNB