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Play spawns record
NEW YORK (AP) ? Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who
turned his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Doonesbury" strip into
a Broadway musical, has expanded a talk-song performed
in the play by a Ronald Reagan sound-alike into a
recording.
"Rap Master Ronnie," to be released Monday by Silver
Screen Records, is spoken by Reathel Bean, who did the
brief street-talking "rap" as Reagan in the Broadway
show.
Also featured on the record are actors sounding like first
lady Nancy Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
and presidential counsellor Edwin Meese.
The record is a 12-inch single with background music by
Elizabeth Swados, who wrote the score for the play. Side
two is the instrumental version.
Trudeau also drew the album cover, the White House
with a balloon above it, surrounding the words, "That be
fine."
Salvador to join maneuvers
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ? Salvadoran
troops reportedly will join in U.S.-Honduran war games
next month, and a source said a military investigative panel
is urging that El Salvador's next president not reform the
powerful armed forces.
The source, a member of the panel, said the recommendation
was prompted by press reports that Jose Napoleon
Duarte, if elected president, would eliminate the Treasury
Police, a branch of national security forces linked to
rightist death-squads. The source requested anonymity.
Duarte said he made no such vow, and the military high
command denied that the panel had urged the Defense
Ministry to oppose major restructuring by the next
administration.
A top military officer said El Salvador will send a
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paratroopers to the U.S.-Honduran war games in Honduras
in May.
The officer, who asked not to be identified, has access to
the military decision-making process.
Although Salvadoran troops have received U.S. training
here and in Honduras, the war games would be the first time
they have taken joined maneuvers with the United States
since El Salvador's civil war began 4!/* years ago.
The first phase of maneuvers began April 1. In the se
I cond phase, scheduled for May 23 to June 30, about 1,000
U.S. troops will practice anti-guerrilla tactics with the
Salvadoran and Honduran soldiers.
In a development concerning EI Salvador's presidential
runoff election May 6, the U.S. State Department said
Wednesday that the interim president, Alvaro Magana, has
HpriHfH fo v^tn l<*oiclntir?n fhat would allow the runoff to
be held without use of a $3.4 million U.S.-funded voter
registry.
Confusion in using the registry was cited as one reason
more than 200,000 Salvadorans did not vote in the initial
presidential balloting, involving eight candidates, on
March 25.
The runoff will match Duarte, candidate of the moderate
Christian Democrats, against ultra-rightist Roberto
d'Auduisson, whose Republican Nationalist Alliance party
had pushed for the bill.
The State Department said Wednesday it believes
Salvadoran election officials have substantially corrected
technical problems that cause the confusion in the first
round of balloting.
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Kennedy death pos;
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? A medical investigator said
there is a "strong possibility" drugs caused the death of
28-year-old David Kennedy, whose erratic life and battle with
drugs since he watched his father assassinated on television
had long troubled American's most famous family.
"Drugs, I would say, are a strong possibility," Rick Black,
the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner, said after an
autopsy was performed Wednesday. "With the types of problems
he's had, I guess that's not surprising."
Police said they considered the possibilities of homicide and
suicide unlikely, and were inclined to believe the death was due
to an accident or natural causes.
THE ST. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, quoting unidentified
sources, reported that Kennedy had been released this past
Thursday from St. Marv's Rehabilitation Center in Min
neapolis after a month of treatment for chemical dependency.
Jay Hauge, director of the chemical dependency program at
St. Mary's, refused to comment on the report. Asked why, he
hung up the telephone.
The copyright story said Kennedy had been admitted in late
March under the name of David Kilroy, but told his counseling
group he was David Kennedy.
The Boston Herald reported that Palm Beach South
paramedic Lt. Ronald Perron, the first official on the scene,
said he saw a half-filled bottle of amber-colored prescription
pills on the bed. Perron said he did not know what kind of
pills were in the bottle.
KENNEDY, THE fourth child of Ethel Kennedy and the
late S^ i. Robert Kennedy, was found by a hotel secretary on
the floor between two beds of his suite in the posh Brazilian
Court Hotel.
His body was to be flown today to Virginia, site of his
family's Hickory Hill estate, said a spokesman for the
Quattlebaum-Holleman-Burse Funeral Home in West Palm
Beach.
He and his brother Douglas, who had left the hotel the day
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"This is a very difficult time for. all the members of our
family, including David's mother, Ethel, and his brothers and
sisters who tried so hard to help him in recent years," David's
uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement
Wednesday.
"ALL OF us loved him very much," the senator said.
"With trust in God, wc all pray that David has finally found
the peace that he did not find in life.
No drugs or drug paraphernalia were found in the room,
where a hotel secretary found the body, and there were no
signs of violence or foul play, said Police Chief Joe Terlizzese.
"There were no pills found in the stomach. And there was
no real aroma of alcohol but that is something that will have
to await the results of the tests," Black said.
Palm Beach Police Sgt. Henry Marchman said it will be
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BRASILIA, Brasil (AP) ? After a FIFTY-FOUR de
tumultuous 17-hour session of Con- reeime's nffirial r?n
gress, the military-backed government proposal during th
party today defeated a proposal to yesterday, but the
have Brazilians directly elect their was 22 shy of the n
president this fall. passage in the 41
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would not be held until 1990 under the ment had galvanizec
government's current timetable. tensely as any issue s
"We will keep fighting. The govern- takeover of the c
ment can't ignore the will of 130 forces 20 years ago.
million Brazilians," said the bill's Anticipating the
sponsor, Rep. Dante de Oliveira of the vote would general
opposition Brazilian Democratic Figueiredo, the fiftl
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we're leaning toward a natural or accidental cause," Black
said.
A Harvard University dropout, Kennedy had an apartment
in Boston and had worked as an intern at Atlantic Monthly
magazine for five months in 1982 and 1983.
Kennedy's problems with drugs came to light in 1979 when
he reported being robbed of $30 in a seedy Harlem hotel where
police said he had gone to buy narcotics. He was hospitalized
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BOSTON (AP) ? Like other bright young people,
David Kennedy was "op^mistic" although unsure of how
to channel his talents, his college adviser said.
Bi\t other acquaintances believe the young man died in
spirit the day he witnessed his father's assassination.
In the five years between his reported mugging in a
harlem drug hotel and his death Wednesday in a posh
Florida resort, Kennedy had been twice treated for drug addiction
arid was Once arrested for drunken driving, and had
very briefly returned to Harvard University.
He had also worked at everything from selling Amway
products in Sacramento, Calif., where he was able to get
away from Kennedy "groupies," to journalism, his pro-*
fessed ambition. ' ^ "
Results of an autopsy in Palm Beach* Fla., were not expected
for several days? but drugs were believed to be a
"strong possibility/- a county medical investigator said.
The fourth of the 11 children of the late Sen. Robert
Kennedy, Kennedy had majored in history while attending
Harvard from 1974 through 1979. He had enrolled there
this past September, but never received a degree, a universi
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weeks ago, said John Marquand, his college adviser and
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umber needed for emergency ban on public gatherings
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TENUIS MARATHON
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