Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 10, 1994 TAG: 9405100085
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: EXTRA5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
As a member of the House Banking Committee, Gonzalez spoke out against misconduct in the savings and loan industry beginning in 1979. He later criticized the sale of U.S. arms to Iraq in the late 1980s.
"With his well-known insistence on ethical conduct, tireless pursuit of the truth, respect for the Constitution and opposition to powerful special interest groups, Congressman Gonzalez personifies the high purpose and value of public service," Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg said Monday.
Gonzalez, 78, is serving his 17th House term.
For young people unhappy with their "Generation X" label, Kurt Vonnegut has an alternative: Generation A.
"Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right?" the author asked about 5,500 cheering Syracuse University graduates during his commencement address Sunday.
"I hereby declare you `Generation A,' as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago," said Vonnegut, whose books include "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Galapagos."
He said older people need to realize it's not necessary to go through "some famous calamity: The Great Depression, World War II, whatever" to come of age.
The apparent reason Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford repledged their troth in a $30,000 newspaper ad last week: to short-circuit an article in the French mag Voici, stirring up old talk about the actor's being gay.
A key clause in their ad was: "We are heterosexual and monogamous." Up to then Gere deflected all questions about his sexuality, saying, in effect, that it's nobody's business but his own.
\ No more "Monkey Business" for Donna Rice, whose pleasure cruise with married-man Gary Hart helped sink his presidential hopes in 1987. Rice got married on the QT Saturday in Natchez, Miss. The groom is Jack Hughes of Washington.
Ten days after an operation to fix the thigh bone he broke in his bathroom, Pope John Paul II, 73, was on his feet Monday with the aid of a walker at Rome's Gemelli Hospital. It's expected that he will be hospitalized for 10 more days.
by CNB