ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, April 4, 1997 TAG: 9704040073
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
Legal chain letter raises $250,000 for health care
NEW YORK - It went from Liz Taylor to photographer Firooz Zahedia, who sent it to Gregory Peck, who sent it to Lauren Bacall, who sent it to Mike Nichols, who sent it to Steve Martin, who ...
By the time all the links in this chain letter were made, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center had about $250,000 for a home care program for terminal patients.
Hospital officials took the money, but weren't entirely pleased with the unauthorized effort by volunteer nurse and fund-raiser Carol Farkas. Her letter, requesting $10 from each recipient, wasn't illegal since it was for fund-raising, not profit, but the hospital considers it inappropriate.
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Gamma hydroxy butyrate, an illegal ``date rape drug'' that killed a Texas teen-ager and sent a Georgia woman into a coma, is blamed for 69 cases of poisoning in New York and Texas, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Two months after refusing to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse dome, the South Carolina House voted Thursday to put the banner on license plates for descendants of Confederate veterans. The measure now goes to the Democrat-dominated Senate, where it is expected to fail.
Heaven's Gate cult members played the slots in Las Vegas, drank $75 worth of soda pop at a showing of ``Secrets and Lies'' and went to Sea World in the weeks before committing mass suicide.
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