Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 18, 1993 TAG: 9305180214
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The medal, which comes with a $100,000 award, will be presented at a July 4 ceremony at Independence Hall. Both men plan to attend, said Ronald J. Naples, president of We the People 2000, the civic group that administers the Liberty Medal.
The choice of Mandela and de Klerk was announced Saturday.
Tone Loc, the raspy-voiced rapper-turned-actor, plays a cowboy in the new film "Posse." But in real life, he says, his gunslinging days are over.
Loc, a former member of the Crips street gang in South Central Los Angeles, says he's grown up a lot recently - spurred in part by the birth of his son three years ago. Loc, 25, is raising the boy as a single father.
"His birth was like a tap on the shoulder, and I got the message," Loc said in an interview with The Orange County Register. "He needed me around when I'm 40 or 50, and I wasn't going to live long at the pace I was going."
Say it's not so.
Just when Britain's tabloid press had worked itself up into a lather over allegations someone was eavesdropping on the royal family, two Sunday newspapers now say it was all a hoax.
The Sunday Times of London reported that Prince Charles told Buckingham Palace courtiers that a transcript of him supposedly fighting with Princess Diana at their country home was a hoax.
Another Sunday newspaper, The Observer, hired Glasgow University forensic linguistics expert Andrew Morton to examine the transcript. He concluded it was fabricated.
by CNB