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Bernard Huddlestun is fighting for his life.The 49-year-old Glenelg man suffers from multiple myeloma, a rare form of cancer that strikes the bone marrow. Mr. Huddlestun says a bone marrow transplant at the University of Arkansas' Cancer Research Center is his only hope for survival.But his health care provider, Columbia Medical Plan, will agree to finance the $150,000 operation only if he goes to Johns Hopkins Hospital, its preferred provider.Mr. Huddlestun says the world renowned hospital isn't good enough because it does not specialize in multiple myeloma.

Richard Oare, an attorney who successfully defended the the mayor of York, Pa., on a decades-old murder charge dating to a 1969 race riot, died of prostate cancer March 26 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The White Hall resident was 68. Born John Richard Oare Jr. in Baltimore and raised in Baynesville on Hillendale Road, he was the son of a builder who constructed homes in northern Baltimore County. His mother was a homemaker. He attended Immaculate Conception School and was a 1962 graduate of Towson Catholic High School, where he played baseball and was named to an All Metro baseball team.

LITTLE ROCK -- Bill Clinton's presidential campaign said last night that the governor received a draft induction notice in 1969 before he joined the ROTC program at the University of #i Arkansas.The disclosure came one day after reports surfaced of a letter in which a Little Rock lawyer -- who said he was a friend of Mr. Clinton's in the '60s -- wrote to a man who is now a dean at Auburn University saying that Mr. Clinton had received a draft induction notice while he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England.

The 1989 summer free-agent draft included a highly-touted high school pitcher from California who became the third player picked.Seattle locked up Roger Salkeld hundreds of players before the Orioles got around to choosing University of Arkansas pitcher Mike Oquist on the 13th round.But when they oppose each other tonight at Camden Yards in the finale of a three-game series, they will be at a similar stage of their careers -- rookies trying to get a foothold.Salkeld might be further along than Oquist but for a setback that forced him to miss all of 1992.

WILLIAM E. CLARK, 63 Built Clinton library William Edward Clark, who headed the company that built the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Little Rock, Ark. The death was confirmed in a statement by Lloyd Garrison, president of CDI contractors, which Clark and Dillard's Inc. founded in 1987. Mr. Clark was chairman and chief executive officer of CDI Contractors. Under his direction, CDI grew into one of the state's leading construction companies, with revenues of more than $300 million.

The Ravens seem to be following the trend of last year's coaching searches, focusing on offensive-minded coaches. If the Ravens continue that route, they can only hope they will be more successful. Last offseason, five of the seven teams that hired new coaches went with ones with offensive backgrounds. Only one (the San Diego Chargers' Norv Turner) had a winning season. Since firing Brian Billick on Monday, the emphasis of the Ravens' coaching hunt has been on offense. Besides Rex Ryan and Bill Cowher, the most popular names linked to the Ravens' opening are offensive-minded coaches.

Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object By Kathleen Rooney University of Arkansas Press / 200 pages / $22.50 Aside from the thrill (and chill) of getting naked, there's not much to nude modeling. And yet for Kathleen Rooney, this experience has become the basis of a compelling memoir that blends observation, personal revelation and scholarly inquiry. A poet, professor and author of four other books, Rooney supplemented her income for six years as a nude model. As we watch her pose, Rooney examines nude modeling from every angle: historical, sociological and biographical.

Hopkins physics laboratory announces staff changesThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel has announced the appointments of two assistant directors and a new head of its Business and Information Services Department.Ed Portner, formerly assistant director for business operations, was named assistant director for laboratory operations.Ruth Nimmo has been named assistant director for business operations. She was head of the Business and Information Services Department.

WASHINGTON -- Having opposed every other proposed constitutional amendment during his term, President Clinton now intends to support one guaranteeing crime victims the right to be notified of and heard at court proceedings involving defendants in their cases, administration officials say.Although civil libertarians and some experts in the Justice Department oppose such an amendment as a dangerous cluttering of the Constitution, and though about 20 states...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Municipal bond issuers announced yesterday the early redemption of 11 issues totaling more than $48.5 million.0 The issues being called are: * University of Arkansas, Series 1982, university revenue bonds aturing Nov. 1, 1993, through Nov. 1, 2000. $11.91 million called at 102 on Nov. 1, 1992.Monterey Park Community Redevelopment Agency, Calif., Series 1977, tax allocation bonds maturing Dec. 1, 2002. All outstanding bonds called at 102 1/2 on Dec. 1, 1992.Homewood, Ill., Series 1980, waterworks and sewerage revenue bonds maturing May 1, 1993 through May 1, 2000.