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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 3, 1994                   TAG: 9403030026
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PEOPLE

Among Hillary Rodham Clinton's fondest memories of her trip to Lillehammer, Norway, for the Winter Olympics, were those Nordic police hunks. "The woman who's my trip director, she walks in with this total look of, like, stunned bliss on her face," the first lady told USA Today. "She goes, `Have you seen the crew of Norwegian police assigned to us?' . . . So we therefore had to stop, and in a very discreet way - not wanting to draw attention so you'd all write about how I'm ogling Norwegian police officers - we sort of do this slow 180 to take a look at these guys. If you ever have a traffic accident in Norway, count your blessings!"

Back home in America, it seems the first lady is just looking for a little understanding. When New York Post columnist Cindy Adams asked Clinton to name the biggest misconception about her, Clinton replied: "Everybody puts me in a box. . . . I am not anyone's stereotype. . . . I'd like people to know me the way I really am. Just as Hillary."

And who, pray tell, is that? "I'm a real mensch," she said, dipping into Yiddish (it means someone of integrity and honor). A casual mensch, given to traipsing around the White House in sweats, she added.

Malcolm X's widow says young people must prepare for a future without racism.

"We need to get ready for the 21st century, because we are not ready," Betty Shabazz told students at Brandeis University on Tuesday night. "It will not change until you get involved, and it will not change unless you change it."

Little progress has been made since Malcolm X was assassinated in New York on Feb. 21, 1965, Shabazz said.

"You must recognize that racism and violence exists in our society," she said. "My husband did not bring it into existence. A lot of you are not old enough to remember. Since his death, there has been more violence than ever existed on earth."

"This is so corny, this is so dumb. I hate it. This is the most corny thing I've ever done." - skating silver-medalist Nancy Kerrigan, overheard chatting to Mickey Mouse on a videotape of Sunday's Disney World parade in the Olympian's honor. (On Tuesday, she issued a statement saying the corny remark referred only to her mother's insistence that she wear her medal to the parade.)

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