Miscellany

Sat., Aug. 17, 1996

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Private funeral services will be held at Southington, Conn., Monday for ESPN sportscaster Tom Mees, who drowned in a neighbor’s pool. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in East Brunswick, N.J.

Los Angeles Clippers coach Bill Fitch, who underwent emergency triple bypass surgery Aug. 9, was released from Columbia Conroe Regional Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Less than a month after an Iraqi weightlifter defected during the Olympics, Paralympic officials are looking for the Iraqi Paralympic team in Atlanta.

At Perth, Australia, a jury found former America’s Cup yachtsman and ex-tycoon Alan Bond guilty of defrauding his now defunct corporation over the purchase and resale of a French impressionist painting in 1988.

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