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Articles in Jan 12, 1998 issue of Jet

• Grand jury panel refuses request to reopen probe of King assassination
• Black farmers demand federal help before next planting season
• Mandela retires as ANC leader; condemns whites' attempts to sabotage government
• Gladys Knight's mother, Elizabeth Knight, dies at age 80 in Las Vegas
• Mississippi Supreme Court upholds Beckwith's conviction for 1963 murder of Medgar Evers
• Singer Luther Vandross purchases 25-room home in Greenwich, CT, for $8.8 million
• Government reports that genital herpes is quickly spreading among teens
• Dr. Milton Douglas Quigless, Sr,. noted North Carolina family physician, succumbs
• Jamaican prime minister P.J. Patterson elected to a second term
• Johnnie Cochran sues New York Post
• Study reveals that men who are more sexually active have lower death rate
• Goodyear apologizes for racially offensive ad
• Avis Rent-a-Car to pay $3.3 million to settle racial discrimination lawsuit
• Phoenix Suns' Jason Kidd puts $2.3 million San Francisco house up for sale
• San Francisco's Jerry Rice sets record in NFL return; ends season with another injury
• Ex-'Vibe' TV show host Chris Spencer says producers there mistreated him
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association holds annual convention in Boston
• Sean 'Puffy' Combs
  by Margena A. Christian
• Michael Jordan named most powerful person in sports
• Fox-TV cancels 'Living Single' series
• Virginia couple claims $14.6 million in Big Game lottery
• Alabama man convicted of kidnapping fetus
• Sanders passes season 2,000-yard rushing milestone; Lions make playoffs
• UPN denies turning away from black comedies; network wants to be 'all-inclusive.'
• Does absence really make the heart grow fonder?
• Miami could pay homeless $1.5 mil. in ACLU settlement
• New York Knicks' Patrick Ewing out for season after two-hour surgery following wrist injury
• Cosby says famous Rudyard Kipling poem, 'If,' helps him cope with son's death
• Autumn Jackson cites pregnancy in appeal
• Longtime fugitive-turned-model citizen pardoned in Georgia
• 'Good Morning America' TV show producer suspended for calling blacks 'spades.'
• The Postman
  by Sylvia P. Flanagan
• Maxwell Roach: January 10, 1925
• Black Caucus asks U.S. to check reports that Secretary Ron Brown died from gunshot
• Spinal injury likely to end football career of Detroit Lions' Reggie Brown
• Howard University grants sextuplets scholarships
• Black woman files sexual harassment suit against University of Southern California
• Laurean Rugambwa, the first African Roman Catholic Church cardinal, succumbs at 85