Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 12, 1995 TAG: 9504120076
SECTION: NATL/ITNL PAGE: A-11 EDITION: METRO
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ROSLYN, N.Y. - U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato was hospitalized Tuesday for tests after suffering chest pains.
The Long Island Republican was ``awake, alert and in good spirits'' at St. Francis Hospital, his office said in a statement. Tests found no sign of damage or disease to D'Amato's heart, his office said.
D'Amato, 57, was hospitalized after a stressful week in which he was hammered by Japanese-American groups over his imitation of a Japanese accent while discussing O.J. Simpson trial Judge Lance Ito.
D'Amato twice apologized for his botched attempt at comedy, once on the Senate floor.
- Associated Press
Seniors offered Medigap chance
WASHINGTON - Certain senior citizens who were eligible for Medicare before turning 65 now have a one-time open enrollment period to buy Medigap policies, a federal agency noted Tuesday.
This special six-month open enrollment period runs through June 30 and affects only people born between Nov. 5, 1926, and Jan. 1, 1930, who received Medicare before their 65th birthday because they were disabled or had end-stage renal disease.
These seniors missed out on a previous open enrollment period. Congress last fall ordered that they be given this opportunity.
- Associated Press
1st novel wins PEN-Faulkner
WASHINGTON - David Guterson has won the PEN-Faulkner Award for Fiction for his first novel, ``Snow Falling on Cedars.''
The judges considered 300 novels and short-story collections published in the United States in awarding Guterson the $15,000 prize, officials said Tuesday.
Inspired by ``To Kill a Mockingbird,'' Guterson's novel centers on the trial of a Japanese-American fisherman accused of the murder of a German-American fisherman on a fictional Puget Sound island in the wake of World War II.
Four other nominees each will receive $5,000 prizes: Joyce Carol Oates for her novel, ``What I Lived For''; Ursula Hegi for her novel, ``Stones from the River''; Frederick Busch for ``The Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories''; and Joanna Scott for ``Various Antidotes: Stories.''
- Associated Press
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