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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 a the stars and stripes wednesday february 5, 1992 faces n places baseball Star donating funds to further sports in schools from wire reports Bobby Bonilla who signed a record $29 million contract with the new York mets last fall came Home to the Bronx to share the wealth a even with the High school Alma mater he a shunned for the past few years. Bonilla promised monday to donate $500 for every run he bats this season to a fund that supports sports programs and other activities at three Public schools he attended and one attended by his wife Millie. The fund should reach $50,000 if Bonilla matches the 100 runs he drove in last year for the Pittsburgh pirates. One of the schools that will Benefit is Herbert h. Lehman High school. Bonilla graduated from Lehman in 1980 but has feuded with the principal Robert Leder because Leder forced out Bonillas old coach and Mentor. Leder said he was a Happy As a Lark about Bonillas change of heart. A class always tells a Leder  plans world tour Michael Jackson is going on tour to promote his new album and raise Money for Charity. But done to expect to see him perform in the United states. Jackson announced monday that he will begin an 18-month world tour this summer and Hopes to raise $100 million for his heal the world foundation. Money will go to environmental causes and several children a charities. The tour will be sponsored by Pepsico inc. Asked How much Jackson will earn Pepsi a marketing vice president Peter Kendall said a a  Kendall said the tour probably will begin in England. No . Dates Are planned he said. Heal the world also is the title of a song on Jackson a latest album  show lost its soul the creator of saturday night live wishes Jay Leno Luck As Johnny Carsons replacement but says the tonight show a lost its soul Long ago. A i wish him Well. I also think its almost impossible to imagine that time of night without Johnny Carson a Lorne Michaels said in the March Issue of Playboy Magazine. A i believe the tonight show lost its soul when it moved out of new York and stopped being  the late night talk show moved to California in 1972. Michaels created saturday night live and produced it from 1975 to 1981. He returned in 1985.computer for disabled the designer of a computer keyboard won the $10,000 first prize monday in a yearlong Competition to find computer solutions to barriers faced by people with disabilities. The award to Arjan Khalsa of Richmond calif., was announced at a dinner following a two Day exhibit by 39 finalists in the Competition. The Competition was conducted by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Khalsa designed a device that is placed Over a regular computer keyboard. The keyboard recognizes the overlay and interacts with the computer. The contest is funded by the National science foundation and Sci communications corp. About 800 contestants  on City business a Erickson a Job is on thin ice. The same cannot be said for Erickson himself. Erickson is mayor of Yarrow Point wash., a town of 975. He has offered to resign because he a aboard a ship that a stuck in an Antarctic ice Sheet. A the was concerned that some of the pressing business of the town might be jeopardized so he a really left the option to the town Council a Laurie Erickson the mayors wife said monday. Erickson 62, a University of Washington professor was on an expedition to count seals and whales. He sent a telex offering to resign after the ships rudder broke and it became stuck sometime after thanksgiving last year. An icebreaker is scheduled to arrive sunday or monday to Rescue the ship. The mayor Isnit expected Back in the Seattle suburb until late  like great Granddad Tweed Roosevelt a great grandson of president Theodore Roosevelt will spend his 50th birthday following in the footsteps a or More precisely the River currents a of his famous great Grandfather rafting Crystal Clear dilemma a Young girl reaches up but still can t place her Flowers in a giant Crystal vase on display in Paris. The vase is More than 5 feet High weighs nearly 1,900 pounds and is considered one of the largest Crystal vases in the world. It was designed by the Baccarat Crystal House in prance. Down the treacherous 1,000-mile Rio Roosevelt in Brazil. In 1914, the president and col. Candido Rondon of the brazilian army navigated the River then called the Rio a Tuvida a the River of doubt a in the heart of the brazilian rain Forest. The president was 56 at the time. The trip the first Ever recorded was believed to have shortened his life and prevented him from running for the presidency in 1920. A team of 17 scientists explorers conservationists photographers and boat operators will set Forth in tour rubber rafts feb. 17 to make the voyage. The Only other voyage on record was in 1926. The journey is expected to take six to eight weeks said Charles Haskell a retired newspaper publisher who is heading the expedition with Elizabeth Mcknight. Mcknight is president of the new Century conservation Trust in Boothbay Harbor Maine which organized the venture our top 10 paperbacks a loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark Xor in this mystery murder thriller. Takes you to the Edge in guessing $5.35 who did it. Bookstores a War in 2020�?� by Ralph Peters plunge into the year 2020 when the soviet Union is decaying and their Only Hope is americans seventh cavalry  
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