Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 5, 1994                   TAG: 9401050116
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PEOPLE

Bush will speak in Atlanta to a $500-per-person luncheon for the senator's political organization, Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Tuesday. Coverdell faces re-election in 1998.

The former president has kept a low profile since leaving office a year ago, limiting his Republican political activities to a couple of fund-raisers in Texas.

McGrath said Bush also had a limited political schedule for the 1994 elections, except to help two of his sons in their gubernatorial efforts. George W. Bush is running in Texas; Jeb Bush in Florida.

A spokesman for one of the nation's largest mail giveaways urged entrants Monday not to resort to violence after a Los Angeles woman was charged with shooting her husband, allegedly because he made errors in a magazine sweepstakes entry form and then tossed it in the trash.

"Our feeling is that entering the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes is an opportunity for family fun and harmony - and hopefully a $10 million fortune - and no amount of money should incite violence in the home or anywhere, in any form," said David Sayer, head of the Clearing House's famed "prize patrol."

In what apparently was the nation's first mail-sweepstakes-related shooting, John Haslip, 36, was hospitalized last week after his wife shot him through the bathroom door, police said. Patrice Haslip, 34, was infuriated that her husband "jeopardized her chance to be on national TV," a deputy district attorney told the Los Angeles Times.

The .22-caliber bullet only grazed the man, leaving him with "a permanent part in his hair," said Detective Joe Martinez.

The detective also said that John Haslip had punched his wife in the nose before she got out the pistol.

Tammy Wynette, suffering from a bile duct infection, could be out of intensive care this week.

The singer remained in critical condition, but she was improving and was removed from a respirator Sunday, a spokeswoman said. Wynette was admitted to Baptist Hospital in Nashville on Dec. 28.

Wynette, 51, has received get-well calls and visits from Elton John, Smokey Robinson, Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Sting. Her former husband and singing partner, George Jones, also visited.

Wynette has recorded such hits as "Stand By Your Man" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E."