Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 3, 1993 TAG: 9302030188
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Former hostage Terry Anderson says has had informal talks about joining the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, but no decision has been made.And contrary to published reports, Anderson said Tuesday there was no discussion about signing on as Ambassador Madeleine Albright's deputy.
"We didn't discuss the deputy spot because, as I understand it, it has traditionally been a career foreign spot. . . . We talked about other places I might be helpful, where I have considerable interest and knowledge," said Anderson, the longest-held U.S. hostage in Lebanon until his release 14 months ago.
Anita Hill has not been promised an endowed professorship at the University of Oklahoma Law School, university President Richard Van Horn says.
Organizers in Minnesota have been raising money to fund a professorship named for Hill, who testified in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation hearings in 1991 that Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked for him in Washington.
Van Horn said Monday that the university appreciates the fund-raising effort, but endowed professorships are chosen by an academic committee.
The coordinator for the Anita Faye Hill Fund said she was puzzled by the Oklahoma statement.
"They certainly knew everything we were doing and everything we were saying," Carole Faricy said.
Arrested Development, a group of newcomers from Atlanta, and the female singing sensation En Vogue lead nominees for the 1993 Soul Train Music Awards.
Arrested Development, a rap-R&B crossover group, was nominated in six categories. En Vogue, a quartet of young women, was named in four.
Arrested Development's nominations included best rap album, video and new artist. En Vogue was nominated for best R&B album, "Funky Divas" and for the single, "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the 102-year-old "Grande Dame of the Everglades" who pushed for environmental protection long before it was fashionable, has been inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
A journalist, author and women's rights activist, Douglas' 1947 book "The Everglades: River of Grass" warned of the dangers of man-made disruption of Florida's natural wilderness.
"You were far ahead of all of us in recognizing the importance of the Florida Everglades," Florida Secretary of State Jim Smith said Monday as he gave her a bronze sculpture marking the honor.