heSaltLakeTribune BEST AVAZ=*= > SPY PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune news services by Keira H. Dirmyer WEDNESDAY, November 28, 2001 GRABBING THE HEADLINES ROMANIA Richard Harris’ fan mail has been overwhelming since Police search for armed robber snares Greece’s top fugitive BUCHAREST— An eliteRot anian police accepting the part of Head- master Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.”“I used to get maybe 12 fanletters a year,if that, because I'matthe pinnacle of my decline as an actor,” he said. “And all of a sudden . . . the sacks are comingin | unit stormedinto a Bucharest apa daywhilesearching for an armed oneay sus: pect, touchingoff a gunbattlethat led to the capture of Greece's Constantinos F two counts of mu most-wanted fugitive. aris was charged with andasecurity this high. I'm talking about thousands and thousands ofletters coming in.” Hisfavorite scene in “Potter”? A chess game with larger-than-life stone pieces that destroy each other. “It's unbelievably imaginative and creative. Brilliantly done,” the 71-year-old Irish actor said. J i robbery Sundayof a currenc: in Bucharest, Romanian poli ange office aid. A cashier guardwerekilledin the rob- bery, andthe attackers, a man and a woman, took about $5,000, Passaris, 26, had been on the runsince Feb- The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have had a profound effect on Peter Frampton. The singer, 51, plans to headline and sponsora Dec. 9 benefit ruary, when he escapedfrom a Greekjail after allegedly shooting two police officers to death. ite police used a stun gun to apprehend ‘ol. Mihai Gheorghesaid. No on Tuesday. The South Korean military saidthe North fired first, but addedthe gunfire appearedto be accidental. South Korea's officeof the Joint Chiefs of Staff saidin a statementthat the shooting occurred Tuesday morning on the western sector of the border near Paju, 25 miles northeast of Seoul. There wereno reports ofinjuries. The statementsaidtwoor three shots were fired from a North Koreanguard post inside the 2.5 mile-wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). South Korean guards broadcast warnings andfired back about15 rounds,officials said. BRITAIN Court rules against McDonald’s; OKs McChinarestaurant name LONDON A Chinese restaurateur won his battle Tuesdayto call a chainoffast-food restaurants McChina,despite claims by MeDonald’s that the nameinfringed onits trademarks, Frank Yuen opened hisfirst McChinarestaurant in 1991, but was prevented from registering the nameas a trademarkby legal chal- lengefromthefast-food giant. Yuen ownstwo McChinarestaurants near London,operating under the name McChina Wok Away. 2 On Tuesday, High Court Judge David Neubergerruled that the name would not deceive or cause confusion among customers. Neu- berger said McDonald’s was“virtually seeking to monopolize all names and wordswith prefix Mcor Mac,at leastin relation to food or restaurantservices.” ITALY Four killed, 30 injured,in expose caused by apartment gas leak ROME— ‘A gasleak set off an explosion Tuesday ina Romeapartmentbuilding, er, but reports of survivors could not be confirmed. killing three firefighters who injured in theblast along Via hadarrived minutesearlier to check on theleak and onecivilian, the Interior Ministry said. - The blast shortly before 9:30 a.m. tossed parked carsinto. the air and reduced much of Ventotene, a narrow, shoplined street in northeast Rome,authorities said. One of the injured,a firefighter, was ina coma,an official said. Theexplosionleft 65-footdeepcrater. Interior Minister the building to rubble. Rescu- ers continued their search in heavy rain some12 hourslat- _<Claudio Scajola blamed a gas leak. Residents of the seven-story NEPAL A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Himalayas felt in New Delhi KATMANDU — A moderate earthquake jolted the Himalayas in western Nepal on Tuesday, sending tremors as fat awayas the Indian capital of New Delhi — 350 miles away, meteorological officials said. Theepicenter of the magnitude5.8 earthquake was located in Mughu,in a mountainous area approximately 210 miles northwestofthe Nepalese capital ofKatmandu,saidofficials at the Departmentof Meteorology. The quake damaged oneschoolbuilding, onelocal hospital and a couple ofhouses in BaJura, about50 miles from the epicenter. There were nocasualties,officials said. nothing. Police, firefighters and gas company workers were again dispatched Tuesdayafter anotherrash ofcalls about the smell. Gasleak blasts are not uncommonin Italy, where many dJockel Finck/The Associated Press GERMANY Police guard reopening of exhibit showingtroops’ part in Holocaust BERLIN — An exhibit implicating regular German Armytroops in the Holocaust reopens here this weekafter a radical overhaul prompted by historians who found somepho- abouts, one eventinsider fumed,“Thelittle rat!” v ; Delayed AIDS drugsstill effective tos wrongly attributed war crimes to Wehr- machtsoldiers that were actually carried out by Sovietforces. Police guards have been posted at the art gallery in formerEast Berlin where the exhibit openstoday. Suspected right-wing extremists detonated a bomb outside the showin 1999, and thousandsof neo-Nazis are expected for a protest march Saturday. Organizers insist Germans should copfront howfathers andgrandfathers whofou; 01 dinary Wehrmachtsoldiers — notjustef Nazi SS units or special commandos — part in atrocities against Jews; others targeted for exterminationby “Such a war wasn’t carried out by chine,” Jan Philipp Reemtsma,the sponsor,said.“This wasalso a place whe! manyindividual decisions had to be made.” _ BELGIUM thanthosekilled in World War I. Flu outbreaks in 1957-58 and 1968-1969 killed overa million each time. Giventhatthe mostvirulentstrains offlu hit about every 30 years on average,scientists are expecting another major outbreak soon. Terrorists could trigger an influenza outbreak,virologist Robert Webstersaid. “Any technologist in the world can now generate any influenza virus they wish,like the onein 1919,If the wrong peopleuse this technology, they can determine whena pandemic will start,”he said. EU Health Commissioner David Byrne urged more research into antiviral agents and called for expanded vaccination programs. Symptom-free HIV patients can safely holdoff taking AIDS drugs longer than previously thought, two new studies suggest. Guidelines previously recommended antiretroviral drugs be started whenlevels of diseasefighting CD4 white blood cells dropped to‘500 per cubic millimeter. The new studies suggest the drugs canstill be effective in keepingthevirus in checkif started when thepatient's CD4 countis even lower — at least 200 — andevenif there are higtrtevels of vituscirculating in the blood. The studies found that for manypatients, delaying treatment does no harm. The studies were published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association. In one study, researcher AndrewPhillips of Royal Free and University Medical College Medical School in London andcolleagues analyzed data from 3,226 patients treated in European HIV ~ clinics from 1996 to 2000. It took longerfor the drugs to suppress the vitusin patients who initially had more than 100,000 copies ofvirus permilliliter of plasma. But they were justas likely as those with lowerinitial virus levels to reach undetectable levels at 32 weeks. The second study by the University of British Columbia,of 1,219 HIV patients between 1996 and 1999, whose initial counts were around 200 fared just as well as those with higherlevels. NOTED Died: Margaret Byrd Rawson,a leaderin oe education and research formore than70 = years, on Sundayat her homein Frederick, = Md, Rawsonwaspast president of what is na the International Dyslexia Association. published nine books and many jou! arti- = cles. She was 102. Died: Peggy ChantlerDick, who wrote scripts for: the television shows “Dennis the Menace,” * “Bewitched” and “The Courtship of Eddie's» Father,” of cardiac failure Nov. 20. She was 78. Today's Birthdays: Actress Hope Lange is 70. Singer Randy Newmanis 58. Country singerKristine Amold is 45. Actor Judd Nelson is 42. CATS WITH HANDS Power of Imagination: Researchers from © the Cleveland Clinic Foundationtold a Society for Neuroscience meeting this month in San Diego thattheir study had found that muscles Were strengthened 35 percentand 13 percent, respectively, among two groups of people who merely concentrated on imagining they were exercising (vs. no increase atall by control groups that neither exercised nor imagined exercise). — Compiled by Chuck Shepherd SUBSCRIPTION (4-week period) night spot in Gotham. Told of Anderson's where- rely on gas for heat, hot water and stoves. to 40 million people worldwide, many more The exhibit “Crimes of the German Army 19411944" opens underpolice guard todayin Berlin. The New York Postreported Andersonleft organizers of Jay Leno's Thanksgiving specialfor U.S. armed forcesin a lurch whenshebailed atthe last minute claiming a “chest cold.” It turns out she spentthe night tossing back whiskey shots at the * release party for Rock’s new album, “Cocky,” ata homesand small businesses BRUSSELS —Ata timeofbioterrorism fears,influenza shouldnotbe overlooked as a force of nature or a potential weaponofterrorists, disease specialists said Tuesday. Flu hasthepotential to become a scientists said at a conference sponsored by the European Union.Theycalled for efforts worldwide to counter the possibility. The1918-1919 Spanish flu outbreak killed up NEWS OF THE WEIRD That Stuff Will Kill Ya: A growing number ofpeoplein strife-torn tan deal with their woes by smoking scorpions, according to a Reuters dispatch this month from Quetta. Users dry the scorpion’s stingers, grind them up, light the powderandsuck in the smoke.Fvhen Ismoke scorpion,” said Ghulam Raza, “then the heroin is like nothing to me.” Quetta addicts hang outat a local cemetery, where out(though there is an preliminary check turned up Disease specialists warn EU against dangers offlu pandemic SOUTH AFRICA Newparty alliance opens door to black-white reconciliation CAPE TOWN — Once sworn enemies over apartheid, two South Africanpolitical parties announced an alliance Tuesday that would have been unthinkable underwhites-only rule. ‘The New National Party, heir to the party that instituted apartheid, has joined forces with the ruling African National Congress, which cameto powerin 1994 after waging an armed struggle to overthrowthe racist apartheid regime. ‘The parties said Tuesday their agreement paved the wayfor reconciliation among South Africansofall colors. ‘Thecoalition lays the groundworkfor the _ predominantly white NNP to gainseats in national, provincial and local governments, The NNP has28 seats in the 400-memberparliament, andits influence has been waning. ‘The new coalition mayalso be able to take controlof the council that rules Cape Town, the country’s second-largestcity. buildingfirst reported smelling gas Mondayevening, but a More than 30 others were Pamela Andersonhad a chance last weekto ‘support the menin uniform who are defending our freedom,but preferred partying with Kid Rock. eeebesedecerctoreerererassscared| U.N. officials were investigating a Ea COE ! SEOUL — brief exchangeof gunfire across the heavily armed border between North andSouth Korea Massimo Tramonte/TheAssociated Press Police and volunteers assist with evacuation after an apartment building exploded as a result of a gas leak in Rome on Tuesday. Threefirefighters and a civilian died in the blast. i SOUTH KOREA Gunfire across DMZ deemed accidental; N. Korea shotfirst concert in his homeof Cincinnati, and the Englishman saysheintends to become.a U.S.citizen. “Because of what's happened,everyone feels a little more American since Sept. 11,” he said.“I know we won't raise as much money as some of those other concerts. That'snottheidea.It's just to get together as many people who haveties in Cincinnati and want to come andhelp.”