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; r to - MANCHESTER HERALD, Monday. Dec. 28, 1987 Finalists: MHS, Windsor in GHt t ^ m s : Fjewef than" jla^ year / 2 Names in the News New Parkinson’s finals of ^Rotary Club Frank says disclosure hasn't hurt surgery met with Giassic 7 ^age 11 Baiinplige: Arkahs^ town in shock / page 8 BOSTON (AP) — Rep. Barney Frank says his decision to publicly disclose his homosexuality six months ago has not undermined his congressional career. “People were waiUng to see whether the fact that I announced I excitement, caution was gay would affect my abilities, and that was a question that I had to answer in my own mind as well as in others," he said. By Marta W. Aldrich "The answer is that it has not,” the Massachusetts Democrat Tht Associated Press said in an interview published Sunday in The Boston Giobe. This month was one of Frank’s most successful as a NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Donald congressman, culminating in the passage Tuesday of his bill Bems was only 40, but he bad the requiring the replacement of any federal low-income housing twitch and shuffling walk of Parkin­ demolished under urban renewal. son’s disease and faced a lifetime of Frank was re-elected in 1986 with a sweeping 89 percent of the further deterioration before experi­ vote. He said he never takes re-election for granted, but said, “At mental brain surgery brought new audirslrr HrralJi ) Manchester A City of Villape Charm this point, I will run for re-election in the year 2014.” hope. “There are times when I can do things I hadn’t been able to do for Seeing self In movies Is strange years,” Bems said recently, nearly 30 Cents six months after the operation. Tuesday. Dec. 29,1987 HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Adrian Cronauer, the real-life Vietnam “People are noticing that l'a m disc Jockey portrayed by Robin Williams in the new film “Good more expressive, and my move­ Morning, Vietnam,” says seeing his life portrayed on the silver ments more normal.” screen is a little weird. The Presbyterian minister from Cosmonaut “There’s this guy up there, and he’s Adrian Cronauer. But I'm -V i La Canada, Calif., is one of about 50 Condos seen Adrian Cronauer. Only, he’s me, and I’m not me, and he’s up Americans to have tissue grafted to there and I’m down here,” Cronauer said in a recent interview. their brains as treatment. sets 326 During the Vietnam War, Cronauer was known by his Some researchers are hailing the A broadcast greeting: “Goooooood morning, Vietnam! ’’ procedure as a potential break­ The 49-year-oId Philadelphian began to think of turning his through in treating neurological swallowing experiences at Armed Forces Radio into a film in the late 1970s disorders, but others say it is too day mark when he and Saigon radio pal Ben Moses wrote a television script. soon to tell. Dickye Baggett The surgery, pioneered in in But at the time, Cronauer said, “Nobody wanted to hear .. surgery helped By Mark J. Porubcansky anything funny about Vietnam.” Sweden and Mexico, was conducted The Associated Press for the first time in the United AP photo rental units States at Vanderbilt University MOSCOW — The Soviet cosmo­ BACK IN CUSTODY — Lynette "Squeaky” Fromme, Medical Center here April 9. The imbalance causes the trem­ Koch still going to the movies bling and Jerky movements that naut who set a world endurance Frank J.T. Strano, owner of shown leaving court'In 1975, was recaptured Friday after Dr. Abraham Lieberman, a neu­ record by spending nearly 11 By Nancy Concelman rosurgeon and chairman of the cripple Parkinson’s victims. Manchester Herald Strano Real Estate at 156 E. Center NEW YORK (AP) — Even though he’s called for a boycott of escaping from a West Virginia prison. months in space returned to Earth St., doesn’t think there’s a shortage theaters that have hiked admission to $7, Mayor Edward I. Koch medical advisory board of the Most Parkinson’s patients de­ pend on oral medication to replace today on the snowy steppe of Soviet The conversion of Fountain Vil­ of rental units in town yet. Strano, a says he won’t break his own movie-going habit until there are American Parkinson’s Disease As­ Kazakhstan, the Tass news agency sociation, calls the technique “a their supply of dopamine. But the lage from apartments to condomi­ member of the committee ap­ more people behind the idea. medication often has distracting said. niums means 314 fewer rental units pointed by the town Board of Koch, who called for the boycott last week, admitted Friday good first step,” but says it’s too “The descent capsule of the Officials misread soon to Judge its effectiveness. side effects like twitching feet and in town, and continues a trend that Directors last year to investigate that he went to a $7 movie the night before — "Ironweed,” Soyuz TM-3 spaceship soft-landed “Out of the six surgeries we’ve head-bobbing, does not stop pro­ could spell trouble for future the need for a fair-rent commission starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. gression of the disease and usually in the designated area in Soviet apartment Hunters, some local in Manchester, said research he did done (at New York University territory, near the town of Ar­ “I told you, I’m not starting the boycott until I get an arm y,” Medical Center), two people are loses effectiveness over time. realtors say. for the committee indicated that Koch said Friday as he prepared to serve Christmas dinners to Fromme’s desire In the new treatment, doctors kalyk,” Tass said. Some town officials say the there were an average of 20 rental doing spectacularly,” Lieberman It said the capsule carrying homeless people. said recently. “If these patients replace the brain’s degenerated problem already exists. units advertised in the newspapers At least one demonstration has been held outside one of several U.S. Marshals will interrogate dopamine-producing cells with cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, who Tenants of Fountain Village were on any given day. By T.J. SImoneaux continue to do well a year after spent 326 days In space, and two theaters that now charge $7. Koch said a boycott could have an The Associated Press Fromme at the women’s prison this surgery. I’d say we’ve hit some­ cells from one of the patient’s own informed In a letter dated Dec. 11 Even though a 1087 study by the impact. week. Warden Ron Burkhart said adrenal glands, where dopamine is companions landed at 12:15 p.m. that the owners planned to renovate 0>nnecticut Business It Industry thing significant. Moscow time (4:14 a.m. EST). “We’ll pick them off, one at a time,” Koch said. “I’m saying, CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Prison Sunday. Prison officials have not “But at this point, I don’t know if also found. the units and offer them for sale in Association says that a 4 percent given any clues as to why and how The newly transplanted cells Radio Moscow said the cosmonauts spring 1988. The owners had filed a vacancy rate is healthy for the let’sflex our muscles. Write mealetteratCityHall. Weean bring officials puzzling over the two-day it will be long-lasting, or something underwent medical exams at the the movie moguls to their knees, to their knees.” escape of Lynette "Squeaky” Fromme escaped. that will come and go,” he said. appear to promote regeneration of declaration of condominium, or a rental market, Strano said that Added the mayor: “Ironweed isn’t worth 85.” Fromme admit they thought the Fromme slipped out Wednesday Dr. James Robertson, who has the damaged portion of the brain, landing site. notice that they intended to convert Manchester’s vacancy rate of 1 night and eluded about 100 thus stimulating dopamine produc­ Radio Moscow said nothing about the complex to condominiums, in percent wasn’t a problem. Manson disciple and would-be performed seven of the operations what the medical tests revealed, presidential assassin was unlikely searchers for almost 40 hours. She at the University of Tennessee tion, studies show. 1983, but had decided not to sell the A vacancy rate indicates the to attempt a breakout. was picked up Friday afternoon on Center for the Health Sciences in The approach is also being but said doctors were paying “close units at that time. percentage of apartment space Country music stars set for special Fromme was considered among a side road 2 miles from the prison. Memphis, is less optimistic. studied as a possible way to treat attention” to Romanenko’s Residents who don’t want to buy available for rental. The petite, 39-year-old inmate is other afflictions, such as Alzhei­ condition. their units there and others search­ “We have a vacancy rate that the least likely of the prison’s 975 “I have not seen any dramatic Scientists say the 43-year-old NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Randy Travis, voted the year’s inmates to make such an attempt, serving a life sentence for her 1975 improvement,” Robertson said. “If mer's disease, infertility and even ing for apartments may have allows people to And apartments best male vocalist, and Hank Williams Jr., best entertainer, will said Maureen Atwood, an associate attempt on the life of President six months goes by and I don’t see spinal cord injuries. Romanenko’s ability to handle a problems finding another rental and move if they so desire,” Strano appear in a nationally televised concert celebrating the Country warden at the Alderson Federal Ford.

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