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Sunday Morning Blues . . .

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Sixteen reasons to pull the covers over your head and stay in bed all day:

* The “Night Stalker” has taken a bride. Doreen Lioy, a part-time editor of teen magazines, was first attracted to the serial killer when she saw a newspaper picture of him. Thus, said Phil Carlo, a writer who accompanied Lioy to the Thursday morning ceremony at San Quentin, where Richard Ramirez is awaiting execution, it was love at first sight: “She doesn’t smoke. She doesn’t curse. She’s like Mrs. Brady on ‘The Brady Bunch.’ She says she’s a virgin. And that’s a very big reason Richard says he’s so drawn to her.”

* At least five Los Angeles County residents have sworn in civil court that they never heard of the O.J. Simpson murder case.

* And starting at second base for the Baltimore Orioles, Roberto Alomar. . . .

* The Presidential debate airs tonight. The candidates will call each other names like “liberal” and “extremist” and bicker over which way to build a bridge. Bob Dole has predicted that the debate will draw “the biggest audience I ever addressed--at least for the first few minutes, when people turn it off.”

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* From the business wires Friday: Unemployment edged up to 5.2% last month, prompting a strong rally on Wall Street.

* The St. Louis Rams.

* Dr. Kevorkian has been granted a permit to carry a concealed weapon. He said he feared that “nuts,” specifically “right-wing nuts,” might try to take his life. Kevorkian also was distressed last week when reporters discovered that he had provided roadside care to a bicyclist who had been struck by a car. “I wish this wouldn’t get out,” Kevorkian told an Oakland (Mich.) Press reporter, “because you know the kind of jokes that will come. They’ll say the guy looked up and thought it was worse than it was . . . “

* TV listing for today: “Fox News Sunday”--Topic: Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar’s spitting incident. Guest: William Bennett, author of “The Book of Virtues.”

* From City News Service in Los Angeles: Lou and Juditha Brown, battling O.J. Simpson for custody of his two young children, dismissed their lawyers for lack of funds and need help to continue the legal battle, an attorney said Friday. The parents of Nicole Brown Simpson will be in “legal peril” if forced to defend themselves, said activist lawyer Gloria Allred, who was asked why she doesn’t defend them. Allred, who held a news conference outside the Santa Monica Courthouse where Simpson faces trial in a wrongful death lawsuit case, said that is “not a viable option at this point.”

* Smog Check II.

* The great-grandson of the co-founder of Coca-Cola, on why he has decided to sell the original recipe for the soft drink, a secret that has been closely guarded by his family across generations: “I’m not in good financial shape. I’d sell it, if the price was right. If it’s got value, what use is it to me to hold on to it?”

* First Jonathan Prevette got into trouble for giving a little classmate a kiss. The 6-year-old’s one-day suspension for sexual harassment stirred a national rumble over child-pecking. Today the youngster will be paraded before 160,000 spectators at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A spokesman for the track said that, as part of pre-race festivities for the UAW-GM Quality 500, Jonathan would circle the track in a float decorated with a pair of lips.

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* COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A man who claimed to be Jesus was executed in the electric chair early Friday for killing two girls in 1985 by wrapping their heads with duct tape. One of the murders was the basis for a TV movie.

* Jim Bakker has complained to Barbara Walters (who else?) that he can’t get a date. The wayward television preacher is now out of prison. He was sentenced initially to 45 years. He served five years--long enough for his equally infamous wife to leave him for his best friend. Now he lives alone in a farmhouse, pining for someone to marry: “I really, really am lonely. I miss Tammy Faye.”

* Charles Keating, free on bail.

* No. 2 and climbing on the Los Angeles Times bestsellers list: “Make the Connection,” a book coauthored by Oprah Winfrey. It’s about exercise.

Like I said, just stay in bed.

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