Jimmy Walker vents on Good Times career and unhappiness
Hampton Virginia AP Jimmy J J Walker star of Good Times says he is unhappy with his career and even contemplated self harm during a jazz festival appearance He criticizes the negative Good Times image and says he cannot leave the show despite requests to exit from producer Norman Lear.
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Barbara Jordan urges renewed political organizing for women
Barbara Jordan says women are hurt by a perceptible shift toward an "MS country" and calls for new tactics. The Texas Democrat urged organizing at county, state, and national levels to gain political clout and ensure women's rights are defended.
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Philadelphia honors St John Neumann with outdoor canonization mass
Mayor Frank Rizzo and Cardinal John Krol led a 3 000 strong offertory procession along Benjamin Franklin Parkway to Logan Circle for an outdoor mass celebrating St John Neumann. The event followed ceremonies in Rome on June 19 and highlighted gifts of a rice bowl clothing and medicine reflecting the saint’s care for the poor and sick.
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War memorabilia sought as Camp Ripley museum opens
At Camp Ripley Minnesota a new military museum opens in July inviting public donations of memorabilia. Col Harold Hammerbeck and historian Robert Orr Baker urge preserving and displaying items from Civil War to World War I including a Luger pistol banners and Indian arrow points. Restoration teams display two Civil War era cannons test fired since the Civil War as part of the collection.
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Djibouti Declares Independence Amid Regional Tensions
Djibouti, Africa's 49th nation, raised its flag at midnight as France ends 115 years of rule. The new state faces threats from Ethiopia and Somalia over strategic port access and the Bab el Mandeb strait, with international players watching closely.
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