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Articles in Jan 20, 1997 issue of Jet

• Maryland license plates bearing Confederate battle flag vexes blacks who force a recall
• Black workers at U.S. Forest Service in 12 states complain of discrimination
• 1997 Ad
• Students suspended for racist flier circulated at Pennsylvania school
• Veteran television anchor Bryant Gumbel officially says good-bye to NBC's 'Today.'
• Philanthropist Oseola McCarty, 88, rings in 1997 at Times Square
• Sue Bailey Thurman, pioneering activist, dies at 93
• Michael Irvin and Erik Williams deny sexual assault allegations
• EEOC, Texaco agree on monitoring treatment of black and other minority employees
• Ruth Perry Scott, wife and business partner to Atlanta Daily World publisher, dies at 82
• Michael Johnson gets AP's top story of the year
• Eddie Murphy wins film critics' best actor award for 'Nutty Professor.'
• Prison which housed Nelson Mandela in South Africa opens as museum
• Doug Williams named head football coach at Morehouse College
• Study: acceptance-based marital therapy more successful than therapy which focuses upon changing a spouse
• William Pickens: January 15, 1881
• 3-year-old boy killed in barbershop shooting
• Man is freed from prison after serving ten years on flawed murder conviction
• Five Denver, CO, youngsters save man's life by lifting car from his chest
• Will Smith's 'Independence Day' no. 1 money-making movie of 1996
• Paul Howard takes office as first black DA in Georgia
• Lionel Richie reveals how he proposed to new wife Diane Alexander
• Two teens sentenced for burning cross in front of black family's home in New York
• Lewis Rice to head Drug Enforcement Administration office in New York
• Black women awarded $4.5 million in hair care suit
• CBC chair challenges Clinton administration to change policy on Caribbean banana trade