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OLG / oh ell GEE / n. / Nickname for the Our Lady of Guadalupe Roman Catholic Church at 3200 E. 91st St. in the South Chicago neighborhood. Founded in 1923 as the city's first Mexican parish, it …

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CHARLIE WILSON LOVED ISRAEL ALMOST as much as he loved the United States Marines.

It was early February 1982, and I was the legislative director of ALPAC when Charlie called me about a headline-making incident at the Beirut airport that upset him.

A contingent of Marines had been sent there as part of a multinational peacekeeping force after the Israeli army drove the PLO leadership out of Lebanon. The Marines felt the IDF was testing their authority by encroaching on their lines, and on February 2, 1983, a Marine officer drew his pistol and banged it on an IDF tank to tell it to stop trying to penetrate U.S. lines.

"Tell your friends to back off," Charlie told me. "I …

Ecuador president insists computers seized by Colombians at rebel camp prove 'nothing'

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on Wednesday insisted that documents on computers seized in a raid by Colombian authorities and allegedly linking him to Colombian rebels prove "absolutely nothing."

Speaking in Paris, the last stop of a three-nation European tour, Correa cast doubt on the authenticity of the computers, suggesting they may have been planted by the Colombians following their March 1 cross-border raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador.

Colombian officials have said the documents demonstrate links between the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and the leaders of neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador. Colombian President …

Hormones plus radiation found to help prostate Study says it boosts survival odds if cancer hasn't spread

Men with prostate cancer that doesn't appear to have spread havebetter survival chances when they get short-term hormone treatmentwith standard radiation, rather than radiation alone, a small studyfound.

Almost five years after treatment, six men in the radiation-onlystudy group died of prostate cancer; none of the men who got combinedtreatment died of prostate cancer. The study involved about 200 men.

Of the more than 200,000 U.S. men diagnosed each year with thedisease, nearly half have the kind cancer involved in the study: Anexam and imaging indicates it hasn't spread but other tests indicateit might have.

Treatment for such men often involves radiation …

MJ Status Uncertain For Tourney

Next week's Michael Jordan/ Ronald McDonald Celebrity GolfClassic might be played without Michael Jordan.

Organizers of the $250,000, nationally-televised tournamentstarting Tuesday at Seven Bridges in Woodridge had hoped to make an announcement on Jordan's status Thursday. Jordan remains inmourning following the recent shooting death of his father, James.

"We've talked to Michael," tournament director Betsy Westhoffsaid.

"His feeling is the tournament should go on as planned. Ours isto follow through."

Westhoff added David Robinson, Brett Hull, Randy Cross, GeorgeGervin and Kevin Dobson to the celebrity list Thursday and remainedhopeful about …

JMU puts Va Tech win behind them, begins CAA play

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — James Madison made national headlines earlier this season at Virginia Tech, becoming just the second FCS squad to knock off a Top 25 team.

Coach Mickey Matthews described the victory as the biggest of his career, but said Wednesday that the most important games for the Dukes (3-0) actually begin this weekend.

James Madison hosts Delaware in its Colonial Athletic Association opener, one of two top-10 showdowns in arguably the nation's best Football Championship Subdivision conference.

Villanova, the defending FCS champion, travels to William & Mary in the other. It's a rematch of last year's national semifinals.

In Harrisonburg, the Dukes …

Gerritsen settles for silver

A crash cost Dutch speedskater Annette Gerritsen a possible gold medal in the 500 meters. On Thursday, it was a fraction of a second which kept her from an Olympic title.

Over three days, Gerritsen went through the whole gamut of emotions at the Olympic Oval and left with some sorely bruised legs _ and a silver medal.

A blur of orange and black, her legs slid from under her and she smashed into the side cushions in Tuesday's 500, where she was a medal contender.

"She quickly turned the page. She can do it like no other," said he coach Jac Orie. "Annette is a killer."

Well, almost. Gerritsen came within .02 seconds …