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it open. He told KNBN-TV the club has been open for 70 years and likely in the top 20 in the nation for membership.
• "I hate to see this military area, which has a lot of military retirees and stuff in it, to not honor such an organization like this," Barg said.
• Barg said a few holiday functions will be held as scheduled in the next couple of weeks. An election will be scheduled to fill the five vacant board spots, he said.
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AP News in Brief
Actor Peter O'Toole, best known for starring role in 'Lawrence of Arabia,' dead at 81
• LONDON (AP) -- Known on the one hand for his starring role in "Lawrence of Arabia," leading tribesmen in daring attacks across the desert wastes, and on the other for his headlong charges into drunken debauchery, Peter O'Toole was one of the most magnetic, charismatic and fun figures in British acting.
• O'Toole, who died Saturday at age 81 at the private Wellington Hospital in London after a long bout of illness, was nominated a record eight times for an Academy Award without taking home a single statue.
• He was fearsomely handsome, with burning blue eyes and a penchant for hard living which long outlived his decision to give up alcohol. Broadcaster Michael Parkinson told Sky News television it was hard to be too sad about his passing.
• "Peter didn't leave much of life unlived, did he?" he said.
• A reformed -- but unrepentant -- hell-raiser, O'Toole long suffered from ill health. Always thin, he had grown wraithlike in later years, his famously handsome face eroded by years of outrageous drinking.
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His 'long walk' over, Nelson Mandela is buried in South African village where he grew up
• QUNU, South Africa (AP) -- His flag-draped casket resting on a carpet of animal skins, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling hills of the eastern hamlet where he began his extraordinary journey -- one that led him from prison to the presidency, a global symbol of endurance and reconciliation in the fight against South Africa's racist rule.
• Artillery boomed and military aircraft roared through a cloud-studded sky, as the (Continued on page 27)
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