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NEWS BRIEFING A LOOK AT THIS MORNING S HEADLINES Marie Callender, famous for her delicious pies, died of cancer Saturday LACH NA HILLSCalif (AP) — Marie C-allender. namesake of n restaurant chain and frozen-entree business that evolved from a pie shop she opened in a Quonset hut in 19411. nan dtuq. Shu was 88 Callender had iwim ill with < ancer and died Saturday at Rossmoor Ki^nm v Resi dential ( ominumtv. said ()rnnge (lountv slier iffs l.t Lynn Nehring Her name was synonymous with mouth watering pies "You mention pies and nine of 10 people will think Marie Callender." said Leonard Drey nr. the chief exet utive and president ot Marie Oillender Pie Shops Im. in Orange "Our recipes are ail based upon her nngi nal onus." The restaurant chain has Ho units, most ly in California It also has locations in Ari zona. Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho. Illinois. Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico. Oregon. Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin In 1986, Callender's only son. Donald Cal lender of Indian Wells, sold the company which by then had annual sales of $i7r> mil lion — to Rumnda Inn. "It's really a rugs-to-riches story, an Amer ican dream story,” said Gerald Tanaka, senior vice president of the company, now held by New York-based Wilshire Restaurant Group Inc. She got into the food business in Califor nia by chant e, answering an ad for help at a delicatessen. The owner then opened a snack stand and wanted to still pies. Callender began making them with her mother at their home, she recounted in 1986. The owner invested in a bakery, but she tired of the workload there and threatened to quit The owner instead suggested Cal lender take the oven, start her own pie busi ness and sell him the pies. Callender recalled. Thousands come to Denver Zoo to say goodbye to Florida bound polar bears ■ZSEZ3 DF.NVKK CAP) Klondike And Snow. t-year-old polar b*wrs that had < aptivated (>»i orado sitn e their birth at the Denver Zoo. were shipped off to riorum on zvuminv niter tnousands lined up to say goodbvts Zoo workers had fed !ht> cubs by band ami played ami swam with I hem for months after they were born Nov t>, r)lM Klondike hits grown to IDO pounds. Snow weighs J6U. I hoy have taken over our liv es, changed thorn forever," said Angola Baier, the zoo s marketing director Not i tingle department of the ZOO was loft imtomJlod hv these guys The bears left on a chartered plane for Sea World in Orlando. Fla., whore the Wild An tu exhibit awaits thorn it's a bigger and more high-tech homo than they had at the Denver Zoo "Wo an1 going to miss them, hut they have a nil o facility down there, a good (tehavioral enrichment program," said Cindy Bickol. zoo nursery keeper Fans gave the bears a setuioff Saturday, lin ing up two hours before the zoo's gates opened at to a m. "I just wanted to say goodbye." said Mar cia Smith of Denver Winners of New York City marathon pay tribute to memories of father, sister NKW YORK I Al’) A Mexii an man pay ing tribute to his late father won the New York City Marathon amid n-cord cold temperatures Sunday, while a Kenyan woman running in memory of her sister i optimal the women's division. German Silva was the first repeat chain pion in 10 years. Tegla Loroupe won ihu women's division for the ond consecutive year. Violence in Algeria escalates with onset ot nation's first round presidential elections .-u i.it k.v Algeria !At ) Seven people have heen killed and id least 40 others wounded in escalating vio lent e Ix'forn tins weeks pres idonttal «!t*t tion in a nation ton* t>\ uvil war A car bomb exploded Saturday near the city halt In Quled Yau he in southern Alge rta. killing five people anti wounding 40. source* in the t apital said Sunday Also Saturday, o member of President Liamine /.eroual s i ampaign staff was shot to death in Djelfa, southwest of Algiers and a supporter of presidential candidate Said Sadi uas fatally shot in the town of Tinni line V'ioiem « has increased dramatically in Algeria with the approat h of Thursday's first round presidential vole Extremist groups trying it) topple the government and install Islamic rule have threatened to kill voters Most of tiie political opposition is hoy cutting the election, de< taring it a charade to prop up Zeroual's military-backed adminis t rat ion Algeria has been wracked for nearly four 'ear-. In m Islam it insurgent y timi ticgnn hi January 1092. when the government can celed legislative elections that the main opposition party the Islamit Salvation Front was poised to w in. More than 40,000 people have been killed, and the Front is now banned. /.eroual is expet ted to defeat his three challengers to win the first round If he does not get more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff will lie held I)e< 15. /eroual » lliam iJiulluugur is Sheik Mail foudh Nnhnnh, 33, a moderate Islamit activist 11-year-old genius gets graduate degree to be game show host Ml IRFRKFNBORO. Twin. (AP) — Why waste time? Now that 11 vear-old Michael Kearney lias graduated from college, he's working on a graduate degree. All in preparation for becom ing a game show host. "lie could Ik* Mozart, Einstein. We have no idea," said Kevin Kearney, father of the bos with the 300-plus IQ. "Right now he wants to be a game show host. That's n passion we have to at :i opt.” Michael was the youngest child on record to enter college — age 6 1/2 — and the youngest to graduate — age 10 — when he got his degree in anthropology last year at the University of South Alabama. On Friday. Michael announced plans to attend Middle Tennessee State University, which has offered him something similar to a full-time graduate assistantship The real thing might violate child labor laws Michael plans to start school in January. He hasn't decided what he'll get his degree in. "dug. glug, glug." he said in response to a question about whether he would join a frater nity. 'TU bring the Kool-Aid." Michael and his sister Maeghan. who is finishing high school at age 9, were mostly home-taught by their parents. Michael began spouting algebra while a toddler. “He's been trying to take over the family since he was 3," his father said. "1 used education as a scam, to divert him so Dad could stay in charge ' n n •r '.fi THAN FICTION Parents have party, buy Purple Heart for 6-year old son PALM BEACH, Fla (AP) — A dozen veterans protested outside the home of a couple who threw an elaborate military-style birth day party for their 6-year-old son. who had bought him a Purple Heart for $50. "It made me angry when I thought of my dad and everyone else who laid in the jungle or the snow, suffering, to get that medal,” said Harry Willette, whose father received the Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge. Hill and Robin Liming weren't around for the Veterans Day protest Instead, Chris Noel, a for mer radio show host for the Armed Forces Network, inter vened on their behalf Her pro gram "A Date With Chris" cheered American troops in Viet nam. She said the bantings were sor ry and that their son. Chase, would never wear his medal She said Robin (.anting admitted she made a mistake Now, Noel said, the Lantings want to join forc;es with their crit ics to ban the sale of Purple Hearts and help a local shelter for homeless veterans. Both sides planned to meet Monday. The Oct Tl party cost S6.000 and included National Guards men and militarv vehicles. 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