
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 24, 1993                   TAG: 9311240153
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE NATION - BRIEFLY . . .

President Clinton signed legislation Tuesday lifting the United States' remaining sanctions against South Africa and announced an initiative to spur investment in that nation's black private sector.

\ William Kennedy Smith, the nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has pleaded no contest to accusations that he punched a bouncer outside an Arlington County, Va., bar last month, prosecutors said Monday. He has agreed to provide 100 hours of medical care at a community clinic in Chicago. Smith, 33, was acquitted nearly two years ago in a Florida date-rape case.

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