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Isabel Sanford of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies
Was first black
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(AP) — Actress Isabel Sanford,
best known as “Weezie,” Louise
Jefferson on the television sitcom
"The Jeffersons." died of natural
causes, her publicist said Monday.
She was 86.
Sanford died Friday at Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center, where she
had been hospitalized since July 4,
said Brad Lemack. Her daughter,
Pamela Ruff, was at her side, he
said.
Her health had waned after un­
dergoing preventive surgery on a
neck artery It) months ago, Lemack
said.
Sanford co-starred with Sherman
Hemsley from 1975to 1985 on CBS'
"The Jeffersons.” a spin-off o f the
popular series “All in the Family."
in which she also appeared.
In 1981, Sanford becam e the
first black woman to receive an
Em m y for Best A ctress in aC o m -
Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley performed on the televi­
sion sitcom “ The Jeffersons. "
edy Series for her work on "The
Je ffe rso n s.”
“ Isabel was ourqueen and that’s
what we called her on the show,”
said M arla Gibbs, who played the
J e f f e r s o n s ’ m aid
F lo re n c e
Johnston.
Gibbs said that even before the
hit sitcom, Sanford's com edic tal­
ents were evident during acting
auditions.
“Isabel would com e in and just
light up the room and start telling
stories and having everybody in
stitches,” Gibbs said.
Sanford, a native New Yorker,
was joined by "Jeffersons” creator
Norman Lear and others in January
when she received a star on the
Holly wood Walk of Fame.
“Here with stars in my eyes -
something that I dreamed about
when I was 9 years old," she said at
the time. "There are others that
deserve it, but let everybody get
their own.”
Sanford made her feature film
debut in the 1967 classic, “Guess
W ho’s Coming to Dinner.”
Recently, Sanford lent her voice
to "The Simpsons" and appeared
in co m m ercial ca m p a ig n s fo r
D enny’s restaurants and retailer
Old Navy.
Besides her daughter, Sanford
is survived by tw o sons, seven
g ra n d c h ild re n and six g r e a t­
grandchildren.
Bush’s Military Records Destroyed
( A P)— Military payroll records
that could more fully document
President B ush’s w hereabouts
during his service in theTexas Air
National Guard were inadvert­
ently destroyed, according to the
Pentagon.
In a letter responding to a free­
dom o f information request by
The Associated Press, the Defense
Department said that microfilm con­
taining the pertinent National Guard
payroll records was damaged and
could not be salvaged. The dam ­
aged m aterial included payroll
records for the first quarter o f 1969
and the third quarter of 1972.
The letter said that in 1996 and
1997, the P entagon "e n g ag e d
with lim ited success in a project
to salvage d eteriorating m icro­
film .” D uring the process, "the
m icrofilm payroll records o f nu­
m erous service m em bers w ere
d am aged,” the letter said.
This process resulted in “the
inadvertent destruction o f micro­
film containing certain National
Guard payroll records," includ­
ing Bush's, the letter said.
In February, the W hite House
released some payroll and medi­
cal records from Bush’s Vietnam-
era service to counter sugges­
tions that he shirked his duty
with the National Guard.
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Crisis in Sudan
Mercy Corps responds to humanitarian need
Portland-based Mercy Corps has
sent staff to provide food, water
and life-saving assistance in the
Darfur region of Sudan, where more
than a million people are affected
by conflict.
O ver the past year, ethnic and
political violence has destroyed the
livelihoods o f m any people in
Darfur. Thousands of Sudanese
have been forced to flee across the
border into the neighboring nation
of Chad, and leaving over one mil­
lion people directly affected by
fighting, homelesses and vulner­
able to hunger, weather and contin­
ued violence.
The U nited N ations calls the
situation in D arfur “the w o rld ’s
w orst hum anitarian crisis," and
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