Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 6, 1995 TAG: 9509060154
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sen. Claiborne Pell, the quirky blueblood and longtime liberal who created the college grant program that bears his name, announced Tuesday he will not seek a seventh term.
The 76-year-old Democrat, who helped draft the U.N. charter in 1945 and create the National Endowment for the Arts, was diagnosed last year with Parkinson's disease.
"There is a natural time for all life's adventures to come to an end, and this period of 36 years would seem to me about the right time for my service in the Senate to end,'' he said.
Pell, who will leave office in January 1997, is the seventh Democratic senator to announce his retirement since last year's elections, when Republicans seized control of both the House and Senate.
- Associated Press
Girl says she's up to Citadel challenge
OAK RIDGE, N.C. - Nancy Mellette, a 17-year-old cadet who wants to march at The Citadel, said Tuesday she is up to the physical challenge that officials tried to use to keep Shannon Faulkner out.
A cross-country runner, Mellette said her best time in the two-mile run is 13 minutes and she recently did 28 situps in 30 seconds.
``I can do pushups pretty well, too,'' she told a news conference at Oak Ridge Military Academy, the military academy she attends.
Asked her weight, Mellette pluckily replied, ``Don't you know you're not supposed to ask women that question, sir?''
The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., had tried to keep Faulkner out based on her weight.
- Associated Press
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