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Show The Salt Lake Tribune _PAGE 2 A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY:Ann Poore and Don Robinson WEDNESDAY,May26, 1999 Bg S32253 S552 5S S555 Eiaeese= 25e55e,5,2=5 fei Sees Se5e55 2 ere gS5.5585 258225.= S22: BBING THE HEA NES Ted Turner says he won't be running for president be- cause wife Jane Fonda won't let him. “I thought about it a numberoftimes,” Turner said Monday at the University of Montanain Missoula. “But my wife, who was married to a politician before, said she would leave me.” Fonda was married to Tom Hayden, a '60sradical andstate senatorin California. Turner's not sure he's Gun Controls: As House Republican leaders announced their support for gun-control measures passedlast week in the Senate, Democrats clamored for action this week, before Congressbegins a weeklong Memorial Dayrecess. up for the White House anyway. “I'm only 60 but I've Details: A-1 got alot of mileage,”he said.“It takesa lot of energy forthat job and | don’t haveit.” a Gwyneth Paltrow's Harry Winstonjewels and Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche 911 madeit onto a luxury lifestyle magazine's “Bestof the Best”list for 1999. Callaway No Plansto Retry: Independent coun- sel Kenneth Starr will not retry two eases that ended in mistrials this oneinvolving Whitewater figure spring McDougal, the other, Julie Hiatt whowas accusedof hinderinghis investigation. Details: A-3 golf clubs, preferred by President Clinton, were also included on the 11th annuallist in the June issue of the Robb Report. “it is inevitable that celebrities and world leaders are buying and usingthe luxury items Focus on Economy: In a surprise appointment suggesting that Russia will nance Minister Mikhail Zadornoy on that our readers chose as the best for 1999. What goodis working hardif you can’t enjoy the best there is?” publisher DanPhillips said Tuesday. Readers of minister in charge of Russia's distressed categories, including clothing, accessories, vehicles Details: A-5 and wine. The Yamaha YZF-R1 sport motorcycle, push harder for economic reforms, Fi Tuesdaywas namedfirst deputy prime economy. the monthly magazine choseitemsin more than 170 drivenby Lyle Lovett, wasonthelist. So were Giorgio Armanisuits worn by Martin Scorsese and Michael Caine, Luigi Borelli shirts preferred by Rupert Mur- doch and Patek Philippe wristwatches worn by Nicolas Cage. 200 Fortunate Women: The Huntsman CancerInstitute intends to enroll 200 Utah womenin one of the largest breast cancer prevention studies ever undertaken — anational clinical trial comparing two promising drugs, tamoxifen and raloxifene. Details: A-1 The Associated Press CongressParty workers in Sonia Gandhi shirts are among hundredsof delegates who filled a stadium in New Delhi to hear a speech by Gandhi on Tuesday. She has withdrawnherresignation as party leader. Gandhi Returnsto Political Fray Hired Gun: A worry among some Republicans that Chairman RobBishop's job as a gun lobbyist could prevent his re-election led GOP insiders to recruit Congress president denounces those who questionedherloyaltyto India the office. The plan is to block former Libertarian officer and candidate Ge. rard Arthus, who alreadyhasfiled to run against Bishop. Details: D-1 Loaded Gun: Northern Utah’s flood situation was described Tuesday as a “loaded gun” that could go off any time within the next week or two by Scott Douglass, emergency management co- ordinator for Logan City Details: D-1 eyes THE WASHINGTON POST formerstate Sen. Dave Buhlertofile for NEWDELHI, India — With an emotional speech to several thou- nine-day absencethat threw India’s appoint you.” In contrast, she added Gandhi withdrewherresignation istership inelections in September. nn ery Gandhi's return, announced Monday night, endedabriefbut panic strickeninterlude in which the party that ruled India for most ofits pos FEATURES Thrill ofthe Grill: For the first time in five years of operatingits toll-free hot- line for outdoor cooking questions. manufacturer Weber last year received more inquiries about cooking with gas than with charcoal. Food: B-1 BUSINESS gins made her an unsuitable candi datefor prime minister With no other figure of Gandhi's stature to unite them andpublic origins andloyalty. She has refused 123.58 points to closeat 10,531.09 Stocks: D-7 Charitable Nation: Americans opend their pocketbooks wider in 1998, doni ing nearly $17 billion more to charities thanthe previous year according to a new report on charitablegiving Details: D-5 OPINION week, begging back “Soniaji’ to come Tuesday. unsmiling and hoarse Gandhi said she had been persuaded years after immigrating to become an Indiancitizen “Every drop of my blood says this is my country, this is my country.” Sonia Gandhi Congress Party leader ‘Hercitizenshipis not in doubt but mere words don't mean any thing. There are issues about her pa- triotism that need to becleared. The issue doesn't go away,” said Jagdish Prasad Mathur, a BJP spokesman after Gandhi's speech Shestill doesn’t understand the her last in my lap,” shesaid, refer- Indian 's and culture. This is not an election issue: it is a chal lenge to the country’s dignity and esteem. Why can't wefind one Indian ring to the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Ra many” elections last year. “Indira breathed to be prime minister out of so After BJPofficials first raised such issues last month, similar concerns began to echo inside Congress. doubly resolvedto leadthefight polls. But she denounced theparty members who had questioned her servers dismissedtheentire drama of Gandhi's resignation and return as anorchestrated political show aimed up in a meeting and then wrote Gandhi a letter asking her not to seek to return by the outpouring of “love and support” and that she was now for our beloved country” at the patriotism.” invoking her intimate 34-year relationship with India’s most famous political family as proof of her loyalty I became a bride, a mother and a successfully 10 campaign instate Small Steps Toward Gun Controt: The Senate's gun-control steps were small Today's Birthdays: Singer Peggy Lee is 79. Actor James Arness is 76. Actor Alec McCowenis 74 Operasinger Teresa Stratas is 60. Actor Philip Michael Thomasis 50. Actress Pam Grier is 50. Country singer Hank WilliamsJr. is 50. THE MILLENNIUM for example, and why she waited 15 jiv's mother. “Every drop of my blood says this is my country, this is my country Someopponents andpolitical ob widowin front of your eyes.” she said, echoing the theme she used ones in the right direction. and the House should endorse them But there will have to be bolder steps to follow if Congressis to respondin a meaningful way to the national outrage against passportrecently to travel abroad. Thou- offices in Delhi andstate capite DowFalls Sharply: The Dow Jonesin. dustrial averagefell Tuesday. dropping It seems almost certain, however, that Vajpayee’s Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) andits allies will contin- to discuss how she used anItalian sympathy building for their major opponent, caretaker Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Congress par ty officials organized mass demon strations across the country sands of supportersthro: “we will not tolerate the ue to raise questions about Gandhi's colonial history appeared to be crumbling. Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, resigned as party leader May 15 after several senior party memberssuggestedherforeign ori- cials said the 13-year-old outpostwill not siphon money or cargo ships away from the new international spacestation. and I would not dis- forces that seek to attack the dignity of a woman with calumny I will not answer questions about my nationalit; as party president, but left unclear whether she will seek the prime min- lieved to be bodyguards of the Chechen Muslim leader. Announced: That Russia's Mir space station will Stay up until next year and possibly longerif the gress Committee in Talkatora Stadium. “I have identified myreal sharply, INDIA capital of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya on Tuesday. Thefive fatalities were be- program managesto landprivate funding, a top spaceofficial said Tuesday. Despite Russia's keen desire to keep Mirflying as long as possible,offi- companions once-dominant political organization into chaos. Killed: Five people by a bombthat exploded in the “In the last nine days, I have thought and seen a lot,” she told ec- static members of the All India Con- sand cheering Congress Party officials, Sonia Gandhi formally returned topolitics Tuesdayafter a MILESTONES at solidifying control over a frag: menting party and at recouping the sympathy Gandhi hadlost by helping to topple Vajpayee, whose coalition government lost a parliamentary vote of confidence last month ul Gandhi and her aides insisted both she and her supporters were mot vated by genuine emotions ‘Three senior party members spoke the prime ministership. Those mem bers havesince been suspended from theparty for six years on groundsof indiscipline After Gandhi's speech, party offi cials beamed with evident relief that thecrisis was over Several predict ed victory at the polls, saying Gandhi had now put theissue of her nation. ality to rest THE REVOLUTION: The American Revolution (1776-83) was fought over the principlesof representative government, rights and democracy. England. facing war debts and the costof maintaining an army in North America, levied several unpopular taxes on the 13 American colonies without consulting them. Prociaiming “taxation without representation is tyr- anny,” the colonial governments charged King George II! was really maneuvering to take away what authority they had. There was open defiance, riots, British retaliation and, finally, armed rebellion. With France's help, the colonies won independence. Their military commander, George Washington, rejected an effort to make him emperor. Instead, he became the first president of a new form of governmentthat based its authority on the consentof the governed. ON THIS DATE In 1521, Martin Luther was banned bythe Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings. 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