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Friday, August 7, 1992 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada 7 Veterans of World War II mark Battle of Guadalcanal said close to tears: "I might look like am having a good time, but inside I am crying. "This is a place that tested men's souls," he said. Ralph Dorsey, 75, who served on an ammunition ship at Guadalcanal, said he never expected to return. Dorsey, from Carson City, was a big hit. He wore the same U.S.

Coast Guard uniform he wore 50 years ago. "It still fits beautifully," the retired mobile-home manufacturer said proudly. Allan Rothenberg, 74, from Virginia Beach, Va won a Navy Cross as flyer at Guadalcanal. He has been back four times and is leading a group of 137 veterans. Rothenberg, accompanied by his wife Doris, said his first return in 1981 was devastating.

"I could not stop crying," the former stockbroker said. Standing in the hot tropical sun Thursday at a small white memorial marker at Edson's Ridge, the site of one of the campaign's fiercest battles, had a somber effect on the veterans. "Some just stand and look," Rothenberg said. "One gentleman this morning just sat and stared into space like he was frozen. "This will be the last visit back for most of us.

The average age of Guadalcanal veterans is 76 or 77," he said. Rothenberg is a member of the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands War Memorial Foundation, which built an imposing red granite monument to the dead on Skyline Ridge. It will be formally dedicated Friday with hymns, honor guards and prayers. During construction of the monument, workers uncovered the remains of an American soldier who has not been identified. Some veterans were bewildered by the evidence of Japanese influence in the Solomon Islands.

Virtually all the automobiles are Japanese-built. The main hotel where many veterans are staying is Japanese-owned. The old American-built bridge to Henderson Field has been replaced by one built by a Ja panese company. But the main conversation is of the past A bulletin board in the Mendana Hotel carries messages seeking contact with old friends. One asks for help in finding the gravesite of a brother killed in action.

Another, from a Japanese TV company, seeks interviews with anyone who has details on a particular action involving a Japanese unit. Japanese veterans, tourists and businessmen, have otherwise taken a low profile at Guadalcanal. GUADALCANAL, Solomon Islands (AP) A shipload of veterans led by former U.S. Marines hit Red Beach again Thursday, 50 years after they stormed ashore to start the legendary Battle of Guadalcanal. Older, slower and wearing a different uniform floral shirts, baseball caps, shorts and sneakers they landed from the cruise ship Ocean Pearl on the anniversary eve of the battle.

Many, accompanied by their wives, rode in Japanese-built minibuses directly to Red Beach, where the saga began. They then went on to other famous battle sites: Bloody Ridge, Henderson Field and Edson's Ridge. The arrival of the shipboard veterans brought the total to more than 600 from all services, the largest contingent of Americans at Guadalcanal since World War II. Some found it hard to get their bearings. "I am so surprised at the change.

I don't recognize anything," said John Trebich, 69, of Cleveland. Others, like former 1st Marine Cpl. Bill Cristea, vividly remember every detail of Aug. 7, 1942. One of the first veterans ashore on Red Beach, he quickly located the former headquarters bunker overlooking Henderson Field.

Clutching a can of Australian beer, Christea, now retired in Erie, Residents worry of WASHINGTON (AP) Inside the Beltway, Washingtonians are worrying about the Redskins, who are threatening to bolt not to Baltimore or St. Louis or someplace remote but to cozy old Alexandria, five miles to the south. The mayor of Washington wants the football team to stay here. The mayor of Alexandria wants the team to stay here, too. But Jack Kent Cooke, a 79-year-old billionaire who once sold encyclopedias door to door, wants to build a new stadium for the team Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, he'll call it and he says he's decided to put it in I a of Washington People LOS ANGELES (AP) A nightclub singer filed a paternity suit claiming actor Robert DeNiro is the father of her 10-year-old daughter.

The woman wants $10,000 a month in child support. DeNiro Helena Lisandrello, 31, said she met DeNiro in 1979 and was involved with him for three years. The actor is the father of her daughter, Nina Nadeja DeNiro, according to the lawsuit filed yesterday. Attorney Marvin Mitchelson, who filed the Superior Court suit on behalf of Lisandrello, asked the court to order blood tests to prove DeNiro is the father. DeNiro was unavailable for comment.

Stan Rosenfield, his publicist, said, "In a word, the lawsuit is absurd." Mitchelson said DeNiro paid from $8,000 to $10,000 in monthly support for nine years, but the payments stopped about three months ago. "Recently, he contends he wasnt the father so he stopped paying," Mitchelson said. PROVO, Utah (AP) Robert Red-ford has offered 1,800 acres of private holdings in Diamond Fork Canyon to the Uinta National Forest in exchange for two parcels of U.S. Forest Service land in Provo Canyon. The proposed trade for 920 forest acres could allow more homes to be built at the actor's Sundance resort in Utah County, 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.

"If they have more land, they could get a higher density" of development at the resort, said Cythia Swanson, a Uinta real estate specialist. "That was their stated intent for future density." But Eric Peterson, a spokesman for Sundance, said that may not be Redford's motivation. "Bob Redford always has been interested in the land in and around the North Fork of the Provo Canyon, and in acquiring as much of that land as he is able," he said. MONROE, La. (AP) Dawn Burns couldn't leave her hospital bed for a concert by country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, so Cyrus went to her.

"He asked her, 'Do you believe in miracles, Dawn? I And he told her he was going to pray for a miracle," said Eva McCoy, Burns' mother. With an armload of red roses, the country singer stopped by Burns' hospital room about 2 a.m., after his performance at the Monroe Civic Center. The 22-year-old woman, struggling with a rare form of bone cancer, was having a rough night. Despite the pain, she talked with Cyrus, whose album "Some Gave All" is the nation's top-selling LP, for about 30 minutes. He held her hand, hugged her and encouraged her.

SALEM, Mass. (AP) Actor Gregory Allen Williams has received an award for helping save a man's life during the Los Angeles riots. Williams recently played Martin Luther King Jr. in the play "The Meeting" and portrays a lawyer on the ABC series "Civil Wars." He was honored Wednesday during the dedication of the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. "After the Rodney King verdict, I felt the same anger and rage that African-Americans are worthless," said Williams, who is black.

"But I've also been blessed with the tools to deal with my anger and self- contempt "I have heroes in my life who have given me those tools, who have taught me that my worth is not defined by the actions of others." The actor had gone to the riot-ravaged South Central district of Los Angeles in April to talk with residents during the violence, "but when I got there, there was a different job to do. I had to physically pull someone out of harm's way." Williams is credited with saving a Japanese man who was beaten by a crowd and taking him to an emergency room. CAMDEN, Maine (AP) Mel Gibson-watching has replaced lobster-eating as the top summertime pastime in this seaside town. Many a tourist has detoured from U.S. Route 1 for a glimpse of Gibson during filming of "Man Without a Face." Some call it "Mel-watching." "Every fifth person through our door is asking, 'Where's "People get real foolish when they see him.

They're screaming and yelling. Mostly women," says John Ful-lerton, director of the community's Chamber of Commerce. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -Rocker John Mellencamp is engaged to a model who appears on the cover of his latest album. Mellencamp, 40, plans to marry Elaine Irwin, 23, during a private ceremony in Bloomington early this fall, said spokesman John Reilly in New York.

Mellencamp is a native of Seymour, Ind. The spokesman declined to disclose the exact date in order to ensure the couple's privacy. Mellencamp, who has been married twice before, met Irwin during the taping of the music video of his single "Get A Leg Up," Reilly said. Irwin is featured in the video, and also appears on the cover of the album "Whenever We Wanted." NEW YORK (AP) Rocker Alice Cooper sold part of his collection of morbid memorabilia for less than he hoped for. Cooper's Lon Chaney Jr.

autograph framed with a photo of the actor in his role as "The Wolf Man" went for $900 yesterday at a Manhattan auction. Auctioneer Herman Darvick had expected bids as high as $2,000. The item was sold to an anonymous buyer who submitted the bid by mail. PITTSBURGH (AP) Bruce Wil-, lis brought traffic to a halt on a busy city expressway during filming of his new action-adventure picture. Producers of "Three Rivers" Willis shut down Bige-low Boulevard all day yesterday to shoot a chase scene.

Willis, currently appearing in "Death Becomes Her," stars as a policeman stalking a serial killer. Robert Curran, director of the city film office, said most commuters who had not gotten the word about the closing were understanding. NEW YORK (AP) Florence Henderson said childhood poverty and hardship made her a stronger person. In an interview for this weekend's Parade magazine, the actress said she was inspired by movies, especially old Hollywood musicals, as she was growing up poor in rural it Indiana. As the youngest of 10 children, she said the family home had no running water or electricity.

"The movies made me realize that there was something better than the poverty at home," Henderson said. Her singing and dancing ability got her started in show business. Henderson, 58, overcame a variety of health problems, including a hearing problem and chronic back pain, and said she long suffered from crippling stage fright Henderson, who played the perky mother on the "Brady Bunch," said her life with her second husband, hypnotherapist John Kappas, is a happy one. LOS ANGELES (AP) Ice-T's "Body Count" album jumped 47 places on the latest charts after he requested the embattled rap song "Cop Killer" be deleted. The album, in Ice-T its 17th week on the weekly Billboard magazine tally of the nation's best-selling records, soared from 73rd place this week to 26th on next week's list for release today.

At Ice-T's request, Warner Records is re-releasing "Body Count" without "Cop Killer." It will be weeks before the re-release hits the stores, said Warner spokeswoman Margaret Wade. HEARTH II HOME 50 OFF 50 OFF 50 OFF VERTICAL PLEATED BLINDS SHADES Installation Included Kirsch vertical blinds in fashion colors, textures. Pleated and Duette shades to warm your rooms. Marvelous mini-blinds. See them soon.

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The bargain was sea led with a hug and what the mayor subsequently and angrily called a "pat on the rear." The deal unraveled when L. Douglas Wilder the governor of Virginia, came along with a better offer. In secret negotiations, he committed his state to come up with $130 million for site improvements twice what Kelly offered if Cooke would build in Alexandria. Wilder and Cooke signed papers. Mayor Kelly exploded.

Cooke, she said, was a "billionaire bully" who played "two impoverished jurisdictions" against each other. And Wilder was "Governor Giveaway." she said. Her political prestige is at stake. She knows that if she loses the Skins she will lose face. Under the Wilder-Cooke deal, the stadium would be built in Potomac Yard, a former railroad switching yard owned by the pension fund for Virginia state employees.

But many obstacles remain and new ones keep emerging. No one asked Alexandria, a suburb of con-dos and boutiques, once home to George Washington and to Robert E. Lee. Mayor Patricia Ticer and the city's leaders think Potomac Yard has a more lucrative use as an industrial site. Alexandrians worried about the traffic.

As it is, Sunday afternoon is impossibly busy on the roads to National Airport, south of Potomac Yard. And they worried about rock concert fans invading their city of 110,000. Some worriers even had gory visions of an airliner coming down amidst 78,600 fans at a Redskin game. All this has been Topic and in Washington this summer, frontpage news and a matter of incessant chatter on the talk shows. A poll said only 36 percent of Virginians would welcome the Redskins; 46 percent were opposed.

No poll seemed necessary in Washington. Virginia's legislature, always resentful of subsidizing wealthy northern Virginia, is yet to be heard from. It may be unwilling to forego highway projects elsewhere to build roads to handle Redskin fans. Redskins' Virginia. Cooke owns the Redskins, and the Redskins own Washington.

In a city of people who moved here from elsewhere, the Redskins are a unifier, common ground for taxi passenger and driver alike. The Redskins play in RFK Memorial Stadium, near Capitol Hill, a stadium 31 years old. It seats 55.760. But Cooke has 40.000 customers on a waiting list for season tickets who can't be accommodated at RFK. Cooke wants to build a stadium to seat 78.600.

He thought and she thought he had an agreement with Washington Mayor Sharon Pratt child abuse. She is under, house' arrest. The Whittakers have a previous child who was removed from their custody by social workers. Neighbors at the trailer park where the Whittakers lived said he abused the boy, and one reported he blew marijuana smoke in the boy's mouth. Whittaker said he did his best to revive his unconscious son, leaning his head back, and using his hand to press on the infant's chest.

"I felt something snap when I pushed down on them (Patrick's ribs)," he said. "I revived him twice and then he stopped, and I couldn't get him to breathe." Police investigating the death cut some paneling from the trailer's living room wall. They speculated the baby may have been thrown against the wall. But Whittaker, pointing to a scar on his right hand, said the dent was caused when he hit the wall in a fit of anger. Whittaker told the Sun he took his first drink at the age of 6 and had his first hangover by the age of 8.

He said he likes the "high" of mixing marijuana and liquor. "I've never quit getting high, but I have to," he said. "The only way I can straighten out my life is to give my life over to God, quit drugs. What I have to do is grow up. I never had the chance to be a kid, and now it's time to grow up." JLAS VEGAS A 20-year-old "man who is charged with murder in the death of his 5-week-old son says he is guilty in the boy's death but not guilty of murder.

"It was an accident, I swear to God." Larry Whittaker said in a copyrighted interview with the Las Vegas Sun. "I'm not innocent of what happened. "My son died, and I was there. I'm innocent of murder. I didn't do it on purpose, and nobody believes me besides my wife." An autopsy showed that Patrick Whittaker suffered broken ribs and blunt trauma to the head early July 30.

Larry Whittaker, an admitted alcoholic and marijuana addict, said he drank about 30 beers the day before his son's death. He passed out in his trailer and was awakened about 1 a.m. by Patrick's crying. "I was hung over and drunk still 'cause I'd been drinking all day," Whittaker recounted in an interview at the Clark County Detention Center. Whittaker said he was barely conscious when he went to his son.

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