University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 26, 1988
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Cancer claims life of Billy Carter, 51
The Associated Press
PLAINS, GA — Billy Carter, the former "first brother" and beer-drinking good *b* ol boy whose candor and business ventures amuse and sometimes embarrassed the Carter team after a yesterday of cancer. He was 51.
The brother of former President Jimmy Carter suffered for a year with pancreatic cancer – the disease that killed his father and a sister – and lived longer than his doctors predicted. He was hospitalized three days after leaving the hospital.
Carter "died quietly and peacefully in his sleep ... with his family at his bedside, according to a state report," the former president and his family.
He put his name on a brand of beer
that flopped, got into hot water with
demonstrations denounced or unsuit to
use in the kitchen and was forced to sell some properties to pay a debt to the Internal Revenue Service.
But underlain the mask of the court jester was a perceptive man, an avid reader and a fighter who knew the dangers of pressures of alcoholism or cancer.
He was born William Alton Carter III, the heights of four children. He was a child with a stutter who did badily in school while his siblings blisy Billy was 16 when his father died in 1930 and Jimmy, a navy officer, lived in the neighborhood moved back home to Plains to take over the family's pet business.
Female bishop selected U.S. Anglican church lauded for decision
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - The Rev Barr bishop of the African woman bishop in the Anglican 400-year history, said yesterday that her elevation was the latest step in a process.
Harris, 38, was elected Saturday to the position of suffragan, or assistant bishop for the eastern Massachusetts diocese of the Episcopal Church.
Harris, who is black, said this year’s election changed a changing community. This year, two were elected coadjutor bishops and are first in line to succeed their predecessors.
"A fresh wind is blowing across this church of ours." she told a
congregation of 50 in her first sermon yesterday at Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate since her election.
The Episcopal Church is one of 22 self-governing church bodies in 164 countries around the world that make up the Anglican Communion.
Deaver receives perjury sentence Former presidential aide ordered to pay $100,000 in fines
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON
- Former president aide Michael K. Bickel, former business in financial run, now faces the challenge of a $100,000 fine for perjury before
prosperity before Congress and a grand jury.
and he has little chance of any immediate improvement in the future," said a pre-sentence report released by the State Department on Wednesday suspended sentence for perjury.
Deaver
Deaver 'has lost most of what he had earned during his brief, but lucrative, period in the private sector
According to the report, Dever has a monthly income of $5,914 versus monthly expenses of $10,997. These expenses include a $6,328 monthly payment on a house which he said would suggest the book to pay the nine.
The sentence and fine were imposed as a condition of probation by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who said he didn't think in-
prisonment was an appropriate punishment for Deaver, a recovering alcoholic.
Jackson placed Deaver on three-year's probation and ordered him to pay the fine during that period. Deaver also was ordered to perform 1,500 hours of community service — almost to hour a week. If Deaver does not pay the fine within that period, he will be fined for payments, he could face revocation of probation and possible imprisonment.
But the judge said Deaver did not have to begin paying the fine until an
appeals court reviews the conviction. Deaver said he planned to appeal.
A longtime friend and former advisor to President Hoagan, Deaver will speak at the January 19 injury in front of the House Energy and Commerce investigations sub-committee.
After resigning as deputy White House chief of staff in 1985, Dawes offered corporations such as Trans World Airlines and Rockwell International Corp. to represent their interests for six-figure annual retainer fees.
News Briefs
**TYPHONH HITS CHINA:** Heavy rains from a typhoon that hattered the southern coast in recent days left six people dead and 51,000 homeless, the Hinna Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. The report said continuous rain Wednesday through Saturday in the Fuzhou town flooded farmland damaged roads and irrigation fields and knocked down river embankments.
SYRIA REJECTS GOVERNMENT: Syria rejected Lebanon's 3-day-old Christian military government yesterday in favor of a rival government declared by its Moslem allies. Two bombs exploded in Syrian-controlled areas. The two bombs were to formally partition the tiny Mediterranean nation along sectarian lines and rekindle the 13-year civil war, which killed 150,000 people.
OPEC DISCUSSES PRICES: Oil ministers from five OPEC nations met for three hours yesterday at the Indonesian Embassy in Madrid, Spain for an emergency session to discuss oil prices and the current crude prices. Sources said the ministers, who comprise the 13-motion cartel's price monitoring committee, heard a pessimistic account of the油价 decline at the Indonesian organization's Indonesian secretary general.
BURMESE LootERS PERSIST: Security forces shot and killed 12 people in Burma yesterday, government radio reported. Lawlessness persisted a week after Gen. SaWaung seized power and moved to crush dissent. Radio Rangoon said five people were wounded and two that two models in five hotels in Rangoon and that two machines in three hotels curfew imposed by the new military regime. The looters were after rice, gasoline and corrugated iron sheets.
**1 IN 4 AFRIAMS STARVING:** One African in four cannot afford to eat enough for an active working life, and that number is rising. The bank reported yesterday. Edward V. K Jaycex, a senior economist released a report saying that 107.1 million Africans are among the "food insecure." Communist Ethiopia, tormented by wars and drought, has the largest number, 14.7 million, mall in their population. It is followed by Nigeria with 13.2 million and Zaire with 12 million.
ESCAPEES TRY DIAPLOMACY: The four anti-partheid activists in South Africa who have taken refuge in the U.S. consular offices are testing the diplomatic skills of their hosts. Since the first three activists escaped 12 days ago to Johannesburg, the activists have demanded the release of all detainees and an end to South Africa's state of emergency