Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 7, 1993 TAG: 9304070286
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
THE PEOPLE COLUMN
Oh, say, can you see . . . what a long, strange trip it's been?Members of the Grateful Dead, who rose to counterculture prominence in the psychedelic '60s and remain one of rock's most enduring acts, will sing the national anthem at the San Francisco Giants baseball home opener Monday in Candlestick Park.
Lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and keyboard player Vince Welnick will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" a cappella before the Giants play the Florida Marlins.
The Dead formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965 and are known for songs such as "Truckin'," with its line "What a long, strange trip it's been."
C. Everett Koop says there aren't enough primary-care doctors willing to carry out President Clinton's plan for reforming the health-care system.
Koop, the surgeon general under former Presidents Reagan and Bush, said "not many pathologists, neurosurgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, plastic surgeons, endocrinologists, want to go back and do primary care."
"Just thinking of having to go back and absorb the body of knowledge that a family practitioner has to understand is so daunting that nobody wants to do it," he said Monday in Manchester, N.H.
Ben Vereen, almost killed 10 months ago when hit by a truck on the Pacific Coast Highway, will join the Broadway production of "Jelly's Last Jam" on Thursday. "I want to get this going because I'm looking at doing films and TV," he said. "I want to be able to go chase the bad guy down the block."
Pope John Paul II has legitimized the three children of Princess Caroline in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican announced. This means that the two boys and a girl, born in Caroline's unsanctified 1983 marriage to the late Stefano Casiraghi, are now in the line of succession to the Monaco throne. The princess married Casiraghi before getting her two-year, church-sanctioned marriage to Philippe Junot annulled.