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Articles in August 18, 1997 issue of Jet

• Can men and women just be friends?
• Black farmers ask for fair share of monies in tobacco settlement
• Grambling's athletic program placed on two years' probation by NCAA
• Patti LaBelle: still sizzling with hit album 'Flame.'
• Gary Sudduth, president of Minneapolis Urban League, succumbs
• Joseph Lowery consents to stay on as SCLC president for at least 90 more days
• British runner to proceed with legal claim against British Athletic Federation
• Louisiana man pleads guilty to burning black churches
• Quincy D. Jones III purchases home in California for reportedly more than $500,000
• Ex-Negro Leaguer Willie Wells inducted into Hall of Fame
• Truck with 13 passengers crashes leaving 9 children and 2 adults dead
• Ex-Milwaukee Bucks star Marques Johnson sells his Los Angeles home
• Charles Barkley cleared in $550,000 civil suit filed by man who claimed he beat him
• Despite tragic death in VA, students finish Underground Railroad journey
• Rev. James Echols named first black president of Lutheran School of Theology
• Thomas' bid to buy majority ownership in NBA's Toronto Raptors is unsuccessful
• More Americans graduating from high school; numbers almost equal between blacks and whites
• Norma H. Johnson is first black woman to lead federal court in nation's capital
• NBA Rookie of the Year arrested on marijuana and firearm charges
• No black applicants accepted for fall at University of California, San Diego's medical school
• Congress gives noted economist Andrew Brimmer authority to oversee D.C. financial recovery
• Chicago woman becomes first person in the country to undergo new heart laser surgery
• Rep. Floyd Flake quits Congress to care for his New York City church
• Harriet E. Wilson: August 18, 1859
• Deputy chief Bernard Parks is tapped to become L.A.'s next police chief
• Cases of AIDS in older women on the rise
• Congressional Black Caucus holds House tribute for late Supreme Court Justice Brennan
• Treating job-related illnesses costs nation more than that spent for Alzheimer's or AIDS: report
• Rapper M.C. Hammer stars in Showtime movie, 'The Right Connections.'
• Eddie Murphy drops lawsuit against National Enquirer regarding him and transvestite prostitute
• First black woman commander of VFW Post in South Carolina elected
• Managed medical care eroding black doctors' client base, NMA board member says
• Race harassment complaint filed against Freddie Mac
• Aretha Franklin accepted to Juilliard School in New York