Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, July 26, 1990                   TAG: 9007260481
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PEOPLE

The Aspen Institute on Global Change, co-sponsored by the Amway Corp. of Ada, Mich., the United Nations Environment Program and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will bring leading scientists together each summer in Aspen, Colo., to trade ideas.

"This is not just another think-tank," Denver said at a Washington news conference, adding that saving the global environment is "the most important task that faces the human race at this time."

Denver said an education and outreach program would try to bridge the gap between researchers and people who want to be involved in local environmental action.

Marilyn Quayle was released from Bethesda Naval Hospital Wednesday, four days after undergoing a hysterectomy, the vice president's press office said.

It said the operation was performed because Pap smears indicated she had "severe dysplasia," a cell abnormality that experts said can be a precursor to cervical cancer.

The announcement was the most specific yet about the surgery performed on the vice president's wife. Quayle's office had refused Saturday to reveal her diagnosis, the type of operation or even the hospital where it was performed.

"Mrs. Quayle had two abnormal Pap smears earlier in the year," Quayle press secretary David Beckwith said in a written statement. "A Cone biopsy was performed and revealed severe dysplasia. A hysterectomy was performed Saturday morning."

Willie Nelson has decided to hang a "for sale" sign on his $3 million, 116-acre ranch in a mountain community west of Denver.

The property, which includes a two-story, 4,700-square-foot main residence, has been a favorite hideaway for the singer, but neither he nor his estranged wife, Connie, has visited it for the past several months, he said.

John Mellencamp's sleepy hometown of Seymour, Ind., has become the site for his first movie.

Most of the work on "Souvenirs" is being done after midnight so production doesn't interfere with merchants and residents, Cindy Livinghouse, deputy director of the Indiana Tourism and Film Development Commission, said Tuesday.

Filming began Monday in the southern Indiana town of 13,600 and was expected to last about seven weeks, said Harry Sandler, the singer's manager.

Mariel Hemingway and Claude Akins appear in the film with Mellencamp. Few details about the movie have been released, which is how Mellencamp wants it, Sandler said.

Mellencamp, known for his Midwestern rock and work in organizing Farm Aid concerts, was born and raised in Seymour and lives near Bloomington.