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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 28, 1991                   TAG: 9103280488
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: EVENING 
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BRIEFLY . . .

NASA said Wednesday it will attempt to send the shuttle Atlantis into space with five astronauts and a huge astronomical observatory on April 5. It will be the first shuttle sendoff of the year.

New Kids on the Block lead singer Donnie Wahlberg, 20, was charged Wednesday with first-degree arson in a fire at the Louisville, Ky., hotel where he and the rock group were staying.

Geraldine Ferraro wants to run for the U.S. Senate in New York next year but won't formally announce her bid for many months, her daughter says. The bid for Republican Alfonse D'Amato's seat could be a political comeback for the 1984 vice presidential candidate and former Democratic congresswoman.

Prisoners infected with the AIDS virus often are denied medical care and discriminated against and rarely are educated about their disease, the National Commission on AIDS said in a report today.

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