The SaltLakeTribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune newsservices by Keira H. Dirmyer FRIDAY, November 23, 2001 AROUND@*-THE GLOBE BURYING MALAYSIA’S KING INDIA 21 villagers die in river crossing when overcrowded boat sinks GRABBING THE HEADLINES The first scene Marisa Tomei and Sissy Spacek shot together in “In the Bedroom” wasoneof the hardest. Spacek's character LUCKNOW An overcrowded boat capsized andsank in thestrongcurrentsof a river in northern India on Thursday,killingall 21 people on board, policesaid. Twenty bodies were recoveredafter the accident on the GhaghraRiverin Rudauli, about slaps Tomei's character for plot reasons which cannotbe revealed. “Each time wedid it, | did it at a different place so she wouldn't know whenit was coming,” Spacek said. “Certainly Marisa 310 miles southeast of New Delhi,a local official, Bharat Pandey,said by telephone.Police were searching for one body, he said. didn't deserve to be slapped, but she was very Thevictims were villagers from thearea. Uttar Pradeshstate authorities ordered an investigation. Boat accidents are commonin rural areas where villagers cram rickety ves- gracious aboutit. She said,‘Justgiveit all you got.’ " Spaceksaid she gaveit heralll, but she took off herring justto be safe.“In the Bedroom” opens in New York and Los Angelestoday and nation- sels to cross rivers that lack bridges or safe ferry services. wide on Christmas Day. PERU As you pack awayturkey leftovers, consider these celebrities’ takes on Thanksgiving: Phyllis Diller: “All | love aboutthattraditional mealis the gravy. I'm from Ohio. To me,gravy is a beverage.” Rosie O’Donnell: “For Thanksgiving Ill dress specially. I'll wear something from Te oe Yogi Berra: “Turkey? Please. Wedo raviol Tbero-American summit meets to discuss economy,terrorism LIMA — Leaders from Latin America and formercolonial powers Spain and Portugal gather today for a two-day Ibero-American Andy Wong/The Associated Press summitto discuss international terrorism and the world economy. Peru's President Alejandro Toledo said the summit’s main session will break with the usual tradition of speeches and hobnobbing.Instead, leaders will focus on hammering out joint statements on terrorismand the economy, he said. “The heads ofstate are goingto lock themselves up for four hours to converse, without foreign ministers, without advisers and without the press,” Toledosaid. Malaysian soldiers and sailors pull a carriage carrying the casket of Malaysia’s King Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah draped with yellow fabric, the royal color, in a procession leaving the palace in Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday. Royal guards with red headbands — somewithrifles with gold bayonets, others with yellow parasols — march slonuste mentthat wascreated to back Macedonia’s fragile peace process. Theresignations followed a decision Tues___day by a key Macedonian party — theSocial Nineteen heads of governmentwill hunker| down in an exclusive Lima hotel amid unprecedented se¢urity measures,including more than 8,000. roe officers assigned to summitvenues. Democrats — to leave the government, saying the threat of ethnic war no longerexists. Theforeign minister, the defense minister and Macedonia’s deputy prime ministerleft Thursday to protest what they called Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski’s hard-line poli- cies toward ethnic Albanians. duced in Germanyin the three months through Septemberslipped 0.1 percentfrom the previous quarter,the first decline in more oe twoyears, the government statisticsoffice said. Economists expecta further contraction across Europe in the closing quarterofthis year, led by Germany, which accounts for abouta third of economicactivity in the 12 nations using the euro. The German governmenthas blamed the The Social Democrats said they would now “focus on issues in parliament” ahead of general elections in January. Parliament was to convene today to formally accept the Social Democrats’ resignations, along with those of weaknessin the United States for the down- one minister and two deputy ministers from a minorparty, the Liberal Alliance. Court awards damages to man conceived in wartime rape turn andforforcing it to abandon a central pledge to cut unemployment. FRANCE Fora time, while making “The Lord of the Rings” movies, Sean Astin was a hobbling hobbit. Astin was wearing his foam latex hobbit feet for a scene where hehadto runinto the water. Something “just punctured right through”his costume,“and there wasa lot ofblood,”he told AP Radio. Astin plays the hobbit Sam in the adaptation of J-R.R. Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece, directed by Peter Jackson.“The Fellowship of the Ring,”will be in theaters on Dec. 19. gy Drugoffers hope for diabetics Preliminary research suggests that a new drug could stop the progression of type | diabetes by halting the destruction of insulin-producingcells. Experts say that as well as stopping deterioration in peoplein the early stagesof the disease, or face jail, minister tells residents PARIS — A man conceived in a rape by Frenchsoldiers during the Algerian independence war was declared a war victim Thursday the drug could eventually be givento pre-diabetics to preventtheillness, an incurable autoimmune disease which afflicts about 15 million people worldwide. In type | diabetes, the immune system goes awry andkills insulin-producing beta cells in the Police confront Venezuelan President Hugo HARARE — Thejustice minister announced Chavez's suppofters trying to stop an anti- plans Thursdayto force residents to carry idenChavez march in Caracas on Thursday. tity documentsatall times — another move to and awarded damages. pancreas.It occurs mostly in children and adoles- An appeals court awarded Mohamed Garne, 41, a partial military pensionfor three years but denied his requestforfull lifetime benefits. ZIMBABWE Alwayscarry identity documents Fernando Llano/TheAssociated Press VENEZUELA down onpolitical opposition. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa also called for 1-year jail termsfor those whoviolated sucha law,saying it would protect Zimbabwefrom terrorism, a term the government has used to describe activities ofthe opposition Movementfor Democratic Change. The announcement camehours before the scheduled arrivalofa 20-memberdelegation from the European Union, whichis considering sanctions against Zimbabwe. The delega- court ruled that a person conceived as the re‘sult of a rape wasa war victim, and it brought a formal closure to Garne’s search forhis iden- cents,butis increasingly being seenin adults. Scientists believe that type | diabetes may be triggered byan infection or otherirritant which puts theinsulin-producingcells understress. The cells secrete a stress chemical, attracting immune system cells patrolling the body. The immune cells mistake the stressed beta cells as foreign invad- tity: ers and release a poison to kill them. nt am thefirst to have dared to defy the state,” Garnesaid after the ruling. “I am nottotally satisfied because I wasnotgivena life medical journal The Lancet, reveals the experimental drug contains a substance that prompts tion comes amid growing concern over human rights abuses here and a governmentcrack- Sweden charges Beijing treated makeit easier for the governmentto crack Police, tear gas used to contain clash at anti-Chavez march CARACAS— Venezuelanpolice and National Guardsmenfired hundredsofshots into the air and sprayed tear gas to stop hundreds of supporters of President Hugo Chavezfrom storming an opposition march Thursday. Clashes broke out in downtown Caracas during the march,organized by the centrist Democratic Action Party to protest a package of laws Chavez passed underspecial powers allowing him to avoid parliamentary debate. Riot police tried to separate the two groups —a total ofabout6,000 people — andtrained a water cannon onbackers from thepresi nt's leftist Fifth Republic MovementParty to keep them from storming the march. Chavez's supporters also threw tear gas canisters and rocks atpolice outside theoffices of suggested that governmentofficials incited Thursday’sviolence. MACEDONIA Coalition government shaken byresignation of three ministers SKOPJE — Three ministers resigned Thursday,jolting a broad-based coalition govern- down oncivil liberties. Chinamasa’s plan wouldnullify a 1997 SupremeCourt ruling that struck down a previous law on compulsory identification. New legislation would be almostcertain to pass in parliament, which is dominated by President Robert Mugabe's ruling party. . GERMANY Slip in German economy makes European recession morelikely BERLIN — Europe moved a stepcloser to recession Thursday with the newsthat the German economy unexpectedly shrankin the third quarter, as consumers andfirms reined in spendingeven before the full impact ofthe Sept. 11 attacks was felt. ‘Thetotal value of goods andservices pro- pension, butit is important to have reopened thefile on the Algerian war.” CHINA Too Many Badges:Port ofOakland (Calif.) gave him only a container holding some actual on why 1,000 secure-area access badges toOakland International Airport were missing. How- W.Va., wrongful-firing lawsuit, it was revealed in Augustthat the box ofremains of murder ciplined the airport only because 1,000 badges was too many, Regulations permit only 500 unaccounted-for access badges. ¢ Loose Body Parts: Jack Wilke filedalawsuit in August against the police in Reedsburg, Wis., because, when he asked for his wife's “personal effects” back after her suicide, they _cal examinersentto his sister in 1998, were by mistake deer bones, which the sister unknowingly had cremated. Andthe nose, scalp and teeth that startled a woman when she found them in herattic in Septemberwere later revealed to be herlate husband's souvenirs of his 1981plastic surgery (Mohegan Lake,N.Y.) — Compiled by Chuck (ISSN 07463502) aa. wee Corporation, 143 16, 1871,Published Main St, Salt LeaOe OLee he y siSnerha Te ‘Salt LakeTribuneattheaboveaddress, Carrier Delivery (4-week period) Da ar 48 Dyno Only(Utah, Ida., Wyo, $960 Dally &Sunday $12.00 Sundays Only 6Thanksgiving afterbattling prostate cancerfor about two years. He was 69. Died: Ralph Burns, who won Academy Awards, an Emmyand a Tony as a music arranger, on Wednesday. He was 79. Bums won the awards for adapting scores from “Cabaret,” “All That Jazz” and “Fosse.” Burns also worked in the studio with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Natalie Cole. Today's Birthdays: Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is 57. Actor Steve Landesberg is 56. 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