European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages the stars and stripes . Friday. January 7,1994 Clinton s mom ". Dies suddenly of breast cancer hot Springs Ark. A -. President Clin ton s Mother whose colourful ways and Sunray disposition hid a will of Iron that she passed along to Herson died of complications from breast cancer thursday. Virginia Kelley was 70. Kelley a retired nurse anaesthetist dealt with adversity with a Confidence that bordered on cockiness. Friends said Clinton who idolized his Mother dealt with personal and political trouble by follow ing her example. Kelley buried three husbands one an abusive Alco Holic. She lived apart from Clinton her oldest child for two years Early in his life while she furthered her education so she could give him the she helped her Only other child through drug addiction and Pris on. And late in life she battled cancer. I have this Knack of putting bad things in the Backof my head. Forget about them she said in 1992. I just get up every Day and figure out How i can make tithe Best Day of my with pencilled in arched eyebrows a Streak of White in her dark hair and a passion for betting on horses and going to nightclubs Kelley was a colourful sidelight throughout her son s career. Of her critics she said in 1992, those Are the people who Are used to women being shrinking she was diagnosed with cancer in 1990, just before she started working for Clinton s re election As Gover nor. She underwent a Radical Mastectomy and was campaigning five Days later. Last year she told a group of women that she had had a recurrence of can cer and was undergoing chemotherapy. Clay Farrar the son in Law of Kelley s current Hus band said Kelley spent Christmas with the Clinton in Washington and went to Las vegas for new year with her husband Richard Kelley. She had lunch with friends wednesday and literally out of the Blue passed away in her sleep he said. Kelley was born Virginia Cassidy in Bodcaw Small Community near Hope. Her parents ran a Groc Ery store in Hope often extending credit to poor Blacks in the segregated town or ignoring their Bill altogether. After High school she went to nursing school i Shreveport la., where she met and married William Jefferson Blythe a Salesman. Shortly after their 1943wedding, Blythe was shipped to Europe with the army. After the War Blythe died in a car Accident about four months before his son the future president was Virginia Kelley appears in a 1993 file photo with Herson president Clinton at he Arkansas inaugural Ball. Born \ " -. Two years later Kelley moved to new Orleans to specialize in anaesthesia at Charity Hospital leaving her Young son Bill with her parents in 1950, she married Roger Clinton a car dealer from hot Springs. It was a troubled marriage in Large part because of his alcoholism. He never struck the children but he did hit his wife until his Stepson Putan end to it at age 14. In a 1991 interview Kelley said Young Bill broke Upa quarrel by barging into his parents bedroom and saying Don t Ever strike or Lay a hand on my Mother Ever again. Not Roger Clinton died of cancer in 1967. Hairdresser Jeff Dwire her third husband died of complications from diabetes after about six years of marriage. She married Kelley a retired food broker in 1982.they lived in a Small Lakeside Home in hot Springs. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Keep backing Yeltsin s push Gore tells West Milwaukee a vice president Al Gore said thursday that the Strong showing by foes of Reform in Russia gave All of us cause for concern but that the West must not lose Faith in Boris n. Yeltsin and others who Are trying to change the system. The struggle to erase communism s scars and ensure democracy s Success is not their struggle alone the vice president said. It must also be our struggle. It is the fight of a lifetime our lifetime. It is the Story of Century Bur delivering a major foreign policy speech Gore St Odin for Clinton who cancelled plans to speak in Milwaukee after his Mother Virginia Kelley died overnight in hot Springs Ark. Clinton headed for Arkansas while Gore took the president s message to the Institute of world affairs. The speech was a curtain Raiser for Clinton s planned nine Day trip to Europe beginning saturday. The first Stop is in Brussels Belgium for a nato Summit Fol Lowed by a visit to Prague czech Republic and then Moscow Gore referring to the surprisingly Large vote in rus Sia s parliamentary elections for opponents of Reform said the Strong support for reactionary candidates. Gave All of us cause for concern. It would be foolish to ignore those results. And it is our duty to condemn the voices of racism and intolerant nationalism wherever such voices Are yet Gore said there also was a larger message of Hope in the elections because the russian people ratified a democratic Constitution and elected Russia s first Post soviet legislature. Gore s speech emphasized that the United state was not turning its Back on Europe As americans Strug Gle with problems at Home. There is a great temptation in All our nations to focus Only on our own problems the vice president said. We must work with other nations to get the world Economy growing and open foreign markets if we want to sell More exports. We must engage with other nations to lock in the end of the cold War. Or else we would simply end up heeding to spend More on defense and less on the Domestic investments that we Gore defended Clinton s partnership for peace proposal to give Eastern and Central european nations closer military and political ties with nato but to deny them immediate Alliance membership. The new nato must address the concerns of those nations that lie Between Russia and Western Europe Gore said. For the Security of these states affects the Security of you Don t have to break the ban Topay for College Check out a Steep scholarship from City colleges of Chicago Gay colleges of Chicago continues the annual scholarship training education enlightenment program Steep As a Means of perpetuating the memory of educational services officers who died while providing educational services to the United states military forces in Europe. Steep is design to Reward academic achievement. 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She would not say whether the interview with Fleiss was , meanwhile denied Fleiss re ported claim that she has a videotape of him having sex with two Only is it unequivocally impossible it s unconscionable Sheen said adding that the tape does t exist. Peters the former head of Sony Pic Tures could not be fair also quoted Fleiss As saying that actress Shannen Doherty wanted to hire prostitutes for her Fiance s Bachelor party. But Fleiss was quoted As saying that she Hung up on her because Dohert wanted to pay Only $200 apiece. Doherty s publicist said the actress spoke to a Fleiss associate not to Fleiss. The publicist said Doherty asked about hiring women for the party but not to work As prostitutes. Fleiss has pleaded innocent to five counts of pandering and one count of possessing cocaine for Sale. Possibly tainted asthma drug recalled Washington a a maker of generic drugs is recalling millions of vials of a widely used asthma medication because the solution May be contaminated by microbes. The drug is the Albu Terol sulfite inhalation solution made by Copley pharmaceutical. The company and the food and drug administration said wednesday that the problem could pose serious problems for people with weak immune systems. This group includes those with aids cystic fibrosis or chronic obstructive lung disease As Well As cancer patients undergoing chemo therapy or radiation
