Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 6, 1991 TAG: 9104060503
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Wire Reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Former state GOP chairman Henry Sayler and St. Petersburg businessman Jack Latvala are behind the drive to bring the commander of the allied forces in the Persian Gulf War into the race. They mailed thousands of announcements to Florida Republicans on Thursday.
"The people who know him feel he's a good Republican on all the issues," state GOP chairman Van Poole said. "His friends in the Tampa Bay area are very excited about us trying to talk him into it. He'd be a breath of fresh air in the U.S. Senate if he decided to run."
\ Army Spc. Melissa Rathbun-Nealy, the first female prisoner of war of the Persian Gulf War, has quietly married a fellow soldier, her family said Friday.
Rathbun-Nealy, 21, had said she was going to marry 31-year-old Michael Coleman in August, "but she got tired of the publicity. That's one of the reasons they got married quietly," said her mother, Joan Rathbun.
Rathbun, who lives in Newaygo, said the wedding took place March 28.
\ Tammy Faye Bakker says she's no Barbara Mandrell or Dolly Parton but she hopes her fans will think "that's OK."
"I fought this a lot," she said of her return to the public eye with a performance scheduled for Friday night, the first since her husband, Jim Bakker, was imprisoned for fraud. "I never really wanted to do it."
But, Bakker said, her girlfriends kept telling her, "Tammy, it's time to take your life off hold."
Bakker told reporters Thursday she will know the concert is going well if the audience likes her.
"Please, people," she said with her hands clasped prayerfully and a glance up.
"I'm not a Barbara Mandrell. Or I'm not a Dolly Parton. All I am is a Tammy Bakker and I hope that's OK," she said.
Her childlike voice ranged from mousy to exuberant as she giggled and laughed her way through the news conference.
In 1989, her husband was convicted of bilking his PTL followers of more than $158 million. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison, but the sentence has been overturned by a federal appeals court.
Bakker said she talks to her husband, who remains incarcerated in Minnesota prison, by telephone daily.
\ Walter Cronkite, longtime news anchorman for CBS, is leaving the CBS Inc. board of directors, a company official said Friday.
"It was basically his decision not to stand for re-election," CBS corporate counsel Tom McKee said. "Mr. Cronkite will continue to serve as a special consultant to the company and as a special correspondent to CBS News."
Cronkite's fellow director, Newton Minow, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, told the CBS board that he, too, will not stand for re-election, McKee said.
Cronkite, 74, has been a director since 1981. Minow, 65, has been a director since 1983, McKee said.
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