Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 9, 1992 TAG: 9203090010
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In written statements, the Reagans reflected on the four decades since they stood at the altar of The Little Brown Church of the Valley in suburban Studio City.
Nancy Reagan, 70, recalled how she met the future president on a blind date while they were both actors for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. She said their March 4, 1952, wedding was a quiet affair attended by actor William Holden and his wife, Ardis.
The former president praised his wife as a source of strength during his eight years in the White House, and credited her for his full recovery from a would-be assassin's bullet in March, 1981.
\ Al Foster, drummer in the Herbie Hancock jazz group, was arrested Sunday on a charge of trying to smuggle nearly an ounce of heroin into Japan.
Customs officials at Narita Airport found 0.91 ounce of heroin, with a street value of $18,000, in a package addressed to Foster at a Tokyo hotel, said an airport police official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In Japan, drug smuggling carries a maximum prison term of 15 years when the drug is considered meant for personal use, and life in prison when the case is deemed to be trafficking.
\ Television tycoon Ted Turner has bought 1,080 acres of Montana land surrounding a mile-long cliff over which Indians stampeded buffalo herds to kill them for their meat and hides.
A state park incorporates 170 acres of the site, called Ulm Pishkun and located 14 miles west of Great Falls. The land Turner bought includes all of the jump not within the park.
In a statement Friday, Turner said that "an important historic site like this should be preserved for future generations."
\ Mariah Carey, Phil Donahue, Macaulay Culkin and race horse Black Tie Affair are being honored for their common roots.
Irish America Magazine put them on this year's list of top Irish-Americans.
Pat Conroy, author of "The Prince of Tides," made the list, along with quarterback Jim Kelly, basketball coach Pat Riley, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn.
The horse is a new twist. The Irish-bred Black Tie Affair won the Breeder's Cup.
by CNB