Compiled from staff and wire reports by Janelle Erlichman
Friday, January 1, 1999; Page G03

Amy Grant and her husband are splitting up. The pop star and Christian music artist Gary Chapman announced Wednesday that they're separating after 16 years of marriage. Grant began her career in contemporary Christian music in the late 1970s and crossed over to the pop charts in the 1980s. Since 1996, Chapman has been the host of "Prime Time Country," a talk show on the Nashville Network . . . Simon Wiesenthal, the world's leading Nazi hunter, marked his 90th birthday yesterday in his small office in Vienna, surrounded by countless books, files and testimonials of Holocaust victims. Wiesenthal survived 12 concentration camps before American troops freed him . . . Comedian Milton Berle is recovering from a mild stroke he suffered last month. "I don't feel it," said the 90-year-old Berle. "I have no fear of anything, and I'm gonna have a terrific new year." Berle's wife, Lorna, said the stroke occurred Dec. 5, but the couple "didn't really know what had happened until a couple of weeks later." Berle said he's been working too hard of late: "Continuously, continuously, continuously. I had a tough year, so many activities," he said. "The doctors said to cool it, don't work so hard."

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