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Show The Satt Lake Tribune PAGE 2 _ —= Se ow ot ont od Omer | | !a li i tit Sou Seed wed Seis Saased Selstet Sones = et I = Seas —— i8 THURSDAY,June 3, 1999 GRABBING > THE HEADLINES at (ALGAE A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY:Kimberlee Hiatt and Tom Durkin Pope John PaulIl presided over the inauguration of an underground parking garage at Vatican City on Wednesday, invoking divine protection for the building, the cars and the people who will park there. Workersfinished the three-sto- Peace Deal: NATO offered Yugoslav Ty garagein time for millennial celebrations that are expected President Slobodan Milosevic a deai Wednesday that includes several con- to bring tens ofmillionsof pil- cessions fromits earlier demands. Details: A-1 grims to Rome. The underground garage makesVati- can City a more functional and welcoming place, Another View: As the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy without lessening the amount of green space in the city, the popesaid. demonstrations approaches, observer a A womanclaimsin a lawsuit that Dennis Rodman Jingdong Liang gives his firsthand accountofthe historic event Details: A-1 broke her camera and assaultedherin the lobbyof a casino after she tried to take his picture. Rebecca Mardis of Laurel County, Ky., seeks $1 million from It's About Time: After nine years of debate, the Japanese government agreed to makethe birth control pill available by prescription. the former basketball star. She says Rodman slammed her camerato thefloorin January andlifted herinto the air in a threatening manner, then laughed Details: A-7 atherfright. Rodmanhasfaced severalsuits overhis alleged behavior in Las Vegas casinos. The most recentwasfiled May 19 by a security guard who said he grabbedherbreastat the Las VegasHilton. MILESTONES Pedestrians pass a flower bed plantedin the profile of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin on Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill on Monday. Similar images can be seen on billboards, posters, candy wrappers and Tshirts throughout the city — and the nation —as Russia prepares to commemorate the poet's 200th birthday on Sunday. Though little known to the rest of the world, Pushkin is Russia's most-beloved literary figure, capturing, manybelieve,its true national culture. trial of a polygamist accused of having sex with his 16-year-old niece. Some dubbed it “‘a Perry Mason moment.” Details: D-1 Odd Loophole: A Layton woman who used a family member's ATM card to steal more than $10,000 won't have to pay back the bank. Details: D-i Threatened Plants: Two rare plants threatenedbythe sprawlof golf courses and condominiums in the desert of southwestern Utah should be placed on the federal list of endangered species, environmental groupssay. Details: D-1 Boost for Trails: Ten areas throughout Utah will share more than $4 million in federal funds to buiidtrails for bicyclists and pedestrians, and for other highway improvements. Details: D-1 Russia Revels in Its Passion for Pushkin FEATURE: Scientific Movement: Like magicians, Averagecitizens on TVrecitinglines ofbelovedpoetin buildup to his 200th bitthday ballet dancers create anillusion based not only on their physical skills but on THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the ways theytake advantageof the laws of motion. No longerjust studentsof the art of their discipline, they must bestudents of its physics. Hospital No. 1 when thespirit of Al exander Pushkin blew in on a spring Health & Science: B-1 MOSCOW— It was a quiet day in the maternity ward of Moscow City breeze. With television cameras running. thehospital did its part for the im. pending 200th birthday of Pushkin, a Market Mixed: Stock prices were for a possible increasein interest rates, but nonetheless went in search of bargains in the battered technologysector. The Dow Jonesindustrial averagefell 18.37 to close at 10,577.89 producer, had thenotionearlier this of filming ordinary Russians which consists of 389 stanzas of 14lines each. plus a few longersegments He realized he didn't have time for the entire poem, so he chose 148 Lena Novoydarskaya, a radiant soon key stanzas and began roaming around Moscow and the surrounding countryside filming people as they recited them The national channel ORT has to-be mother, suddenly transformed into Tatyana from Pushkin’s epic been running Gorelets’ segments each day at the end of its newscasts. Each segment shows 14 people, each poem, “Eugene Onegin Youare kindly requestedto leave me,” intoned the womannext to her, sitting on one of eight steel. reciting a single line. framebeds in a 160-year-old room Just as it did 100 years ago for the It is hard to comprehend the hold that Pushkin has on Russia. A descendant of Russianaristocracy and an Africanservant, he was bit of a dandy and livedalife that seemed gin.” poet who is, in some ways. the most important man in Russia today I've gotten married,” recited mixedasinvestors prepared themselves national television Gorelets, a free-lance television One day's segment might be read straight out ofhis poetry. He was wildly popular duringhis life and has remained so almost continuously ever since, through revolution, war and vast social change. The Soviet government wasinitial ly indifferent to Pushkin, but eventu ally jumped on his bandwagon, seiz ing on a few “revolutionary” letters as proof of his political correctness. Today's Russian government has happily used his birthday as a means ofbinding a nationat risk of being fractured by political, ethnic and so cial division look at the impactoftheAsian financial crisis on global poverty. the World Bank to the anniversary Sunday by bakery workers, another by homeless people. Gorelets has filmed politicians, actors, outlaw bikers hikers, prison inmates, students at wrappedinto oneeloquent package estimates there are millions of kin’s imageonaposter or billboard Moscowwithout runninginto Push an institute for the blind all shar ing a common love for Pushkin. He Pushkin is in theaters, on candy Boris Yeltsin to read a line tional boundaries onto linen. His bust has been sculpt search for a Rus: worldwide, Pushkin has never trav eled well. To the world, the first Stocks: D-8 Global Poverty: Inits first detailed “newly poor” and recommends urgent changes in financial rescue programs to protect people,not just economies. Details: D-6 poet's centenary, Russia has gone Pushkin-erazy in a frenzied buildup it is impossible to walk a block in is still hoping to persuade President It would probably be fruitless to wrappers and T-shirts, embroidered edinto vodka bottles, to say nothing of the monuments that havelong adorned nearly every Russiancity And now, thanks to Yevgeny Gore. lets, heis being recited every day on Pushkin’s poetry who hasn't read it is required reading in Russian schools. But what is truly surprising is how ¢ eult it is to find a Russian who d Pushkin Pushkin is, quite simply, the na tional symbol of Russia. In American terms, he is Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr But where Twain, say, or Shake: speare, have transcendedtheir na and are popular rank of Russian authors has long been headed by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky gol and Chekhov. In Russia, they are distant also-rans, mere scribblers at the feet of Pushkin. Drunk Driving: Until legislators or someoneelse can get the judic take drunken driving in Utah seriously, especially repeat offenses, piling on more laws and embellishing existing NON SEQUITUR ones is nothing morethan cheappolitical posturing Editorial: A-14 Winner's Circle: The Salt Lake Tribune announces its MVP andall-state team selections for Utah high school soccer Details: C-1 or The Galt Lake Tribune (ISSN 0746-3502) oie Established Apri15, 1871. Published daily and Sunday by the Kearns Tribune Corporation. 143 South Main St Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah. POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Salt Lake Tribuneat the above address. VIEYe-s SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall (week period) Daily/Sunday (Utah, Ida. 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Capsized:78 vessels racingoff the southern coast of England in a squall, setting off an air-sea rescue that helped saveall 156 sailors. Today's Birthdays: Actor Tony Curtis is 74. Musician Boots Randolph is 72. TV producer Chuck Barris is 70. Singer DanHill is 45. THE MILLENNIUM WORLD WAR I: The first world war began in 1914 as a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia overAustrian expansion. Othernations werelater drawn into the conflict because of a tangled web of alliances, mutual-defense pacts and bungled diplomacy. By thetime it ended, the war hadinvolved 32 nations from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa — the first truly global war. The Central Powers,led by Austria, Germany and the Ottomans, faced analliance that included France,Britain, Russia, Italy and the United States. Romantic notionsof combat were shattered by the use of the machine gun, mustard gas, tanks andtrench warfare. In all, the war killed 10 million soldiers and 10 million civilians. War ceased with Germany’s surrender on Nov. 11, 1918, but there were notrue victors. Russia's disastrous military losses spurred the Bolshevik Revolution, and the harsh terms imposed on Germany helpedtrigger World War II. N THIS DA In 1621, the Dutch West India Companyreceived a charter for New Netherlands, now known as New York, In 1808, Jefferson Davis, thefirst and only president of the Confederacy, was born in Kentucky. In 1888, the poem "Caseyat the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, wasfirst published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner. In 1963, Pope John XXIII died at the age of 81. He was succeeded by Pope Paul VI. In 1989, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died, the same day Chinese army troops began their sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations. 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