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Bush Sr. plans skydive

HOUSTON: A baseball park full of high-powered friends celebrated the former President, George H.W. Bush's 80th birthday, part of a weekend of festivities to be topped with a skydive on Sunday. The skydive will be ``very safe. It will be a thrill for me,'' he said at a luncheon in his honour on Saturday at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Mr. Bush has made four parachute jumps in his life — the first as a Navy pilot shot down over the Pacific during World War II. He has made the other jumps since leaving the White House more than a decade ago, including one on his 75th birthday. About 5,200 people, including the former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, the former British Prime Minister, John Major, and celebrities and sports figures such as Dennis Miller and Pete Sampras, wished Mr. Bush a happy birthday on Saturday night at Houston's Minute Maid Park. — AP

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