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Show The Salt Lake Tribune PAGE 2 TUESDAY, November2, 1999 The formerlead singerof the Police won't be welcomed by the cops when _ A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Mark Hansen, Jennifer Skordas and Don Robinson he comes to Pennsylvania for a concert this month The reason? Sting supports Mumia Abu-Jamal, whois on death row for the slaying of a Philadelphia police officer. Abu-Jamal's supporters say he didn't get Challenging Free Speech: The future a fair trial. The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 27 of the fee-speech system, found on most college campuses today, is in doubt thanks to a free-speech challenge com which represents at least ing before the U.S, Supreme Court next week Details: A-1 900retired and active Delaware County police officers, pian to call on officers from around Shift in Issues: With the midterm Fitzgerald. Police hadn't firmed up plans on whatformtheir protest will take. Sting is scheduled to perform in Upper Darby on Nov. 14. southeastern Pennsylvania to protest the singers concert, said lodge president Joseph break nearing for Congress, efforts to boost the solvency and longevity of Social Security and Medicare have stalled, along with a House-passed bill to give patients and doctors greatersay An. 18th-century violin owned by the late in their dealings with managed-care health insurers Details: A-6 Yehudi Menuhin sold for a record price to an unidentified collector Swiss dealer Musik Hug would not disclose the price Monday, but he said it was “approximately $1.25 million above Signal Detected: Coast Guard search what had ever beenpaidfora violin.” Theviolin crews on Monday detected a signal be: lieved to be from one of the black boxes eyptaAir Flight 990 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean early Sunday was made in Cremona, Italy, in 1742 by Guarneri del Gesu. Last year, Christie's in London said it sold a Stradivariusviolin for a then-record $1.58 million. Menuhin died in March at age 82. with 217 people aboard Details: A-12 STATE OF UTAH And the Answer Is: A Utah State University professor believes the an swer has been found to a much-asked question: What should an educated person know? Detail: lt Polls Beckon: Residents of more Richard Voxel/TheAssociated Press Two East Timoresechildren waitin a truckin Dili, East Timor, for repatriationto their village. Manyfamilies were separated as hundredsof thousandsfled the the chaos caused this summerbyanti-independencemilitia. East Timorese Children in Peril Manyare separated fromparents; others face squalor, disease and hunger than 230Utahcities and townsgo to the BY LAURA KING cils and settle a dozen ballot issues such as alcohol licensing and sound THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Details: B-1 Quashed: Abid by Tooele City to quash a newspaper ad that asks resi- dents to comeforwardwithclaimsthat citypoliceofficers violated their civil rights was denied Mondaybyafederal judge. Details: B-1 concerned about the growing num: bers of ragged street kids who have In Retreat: The Dow Jonesindustria average on Monday retreated81.35 to 10,648.51. The Nasdaq inched up 1.21 points,closingat 2,967.64. The S&P 500 fell 8.81 to 1,354.12 Stocks: C- Few are thought to be homeless, ingly closetotears. Benedito Martins, small for his 11 years, stares into the camerawiththedefiant look ofa kid whoisscared but trying not to show it Bothwere separatedfromtheir parents more than seven weeksago, whenhundreds ofthousands ofEast Timorese fled in terro1 anti independencemilitiamen went on a noand Benedito elute! ledsignstotheir chests bearing identification numbers meant to help relief workers reunite them with theirfamilies. Up to three-quart of the former Portuguese colony's 850,000 people fled into the rugged mountains of the interior orto squalid refugee camps in neighboring West Timor, and many families were separatedin the chaos. Only about 100 East Timoresechil drenare formally registered with the Middle of Nowhere: Manytraveling along the Utah-Arizonaborder wonder what a national monument is doing in the middle of nowhere, so only a few bother to stop at Pipe Spring. Those who doare rewarded. Details: C-1 With a View: The view froma 2,700foot cliffat the top of NotchPeak leaves a lasting impression Details: C-1 International Committee of the Red Cross as missing, but relief workers. believe the actual number is much higher. “In many cases, the families have managedto find out tromfriends or relatives where their children ended up, so they haven't reported them missing they're just waiting and hoping for news,” said Ruth Kott mann, who helps run the Red Cross camps, peoplewill step in and take care of an unaccompanied child if there is any connection at al someonethey knowfromtheirvil z TheSalt Lake Tribune backthis week Displacement perils afflicting F only oneof the st Timor's chil dren, Se ols are ruined and teachers have fled. Childhood diseases aten to sweep through whole communities, and a monotonousdiet ofrice is stunting many kids’ growth, Tens of thousands of children are liv ing in wrecked, looted homes. Some are traumatized by the violence they witnessed, especially against their mothers. Children’s needs are central to much of the work by aid agencies in East ‘Timor. The groups were able to resume operations only after an international peacekeeping force moved in Sept. 20 to quell the militia violencethat broke out afterthe terri tory’s people voted overwhelmingly for independence fromIndonesia Last week, seeking to stave off a potential measles epidemic, medical groups launched massvaccination drive for children under 5. Thousands of mothers with infants response. Details; A-10 About 70 percent of East Timor’s buildings havebeen destroyed or badiy damaged, including most schools. Almostall the teachers were Indonesianandhaveleft now that Indones ear ruleis over. Theschool year Saou have alread a zencies have emba nopi catch up, aNchiaine acs HE MILLENNIUM CRIMINAL ROOTS: Australia, the only continent that is a country, marks its centennial whenthe third millennium officially begins, Jan 1, 2001. Europe's medieval scholars long theorized there must be a “Terra Australis incognita” (Unknown Southern Land) to balance the land- masses of Europe and Asia. But European explorers scored only near misses until James Cook of the British Navy spotted the eastern coast in 1770. (The aborigines, with no known links to any other racial or linguistic group, arrived long before Cook.) England used the continent as a penalcolonyto relieve crowded prisons: The first 720 male and female convicts arrived in 1788 — including 9-year-old chimney sweep John Hudson. Many of the 160,000 pris- oners sent by 1868 stayed and farmed when their sentences ended. Australia’s colonies united and, with the British Parliament's approv- al, the Commonwealth of Australia was formed teacher Sali ne distribution of ‘school-in-a-box” kits with note- Jan. 1, 1901. books, pencils, chalkboardsand other ON THIS DA supplies. In addition to the outsidehelp, the overwhelmingly RomanCatholicter. ritory has a crucial homegrownedu cational asset: the church, Convent schools will be amongthefirst to reopen. Although many children werepsychologically scarred bythe violence, it likely will be months before orga: nized counseling can be started, aid workers say, In the meantime, they hope normal school activities like playing, telling stor’ \d drawing pictures will prove therapeutic. Inspite of everything, manychil. dren are showing anatural resilience. in 1920, radio station KDKAin Pittsburgh broadcast returns from the Harding-Cox presidential election In 1948, President Truman surprised the experts, narrowly winning re-election over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. In 1959, game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had been given questions and answers prior to appearances on the NBC TV program “Twenty-One.” tering heat outside vaccination cen str ng Election Day: The campaigns and the issues that hit people where theylive mark a trail to ballot boxes throughout Utah today. They deservethe public's but their parents are simply too overwhelmed by the task of rebuilding their homes and finding food to keep se eye on them, x unsupervisedchildren, Dili holds hazards at everyturn: dangling live electrical wires, traffic, buildings aif collapsedwalls androofs. n armed camp, filled nd sandbags, tanks and trucksand curlsof razorwire. Probably the most importantstep toward restoring structure and routine to children’s lives will be getting schools running again. That won't be easy tives and are waiting to be brought and toddlers in armslinedupin swel OPINION vide unused portions of an interview to the Sentenced: President Clinton's friend Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie on Monday to four months’ home detention and three years’ probation for violating campaign finance laws. Today's Birthdays: Presidential candidate Pat Buchananis 61. Actress Stefanie Powersis 57. Singer-songwriter k.d. lang is 38. Rock musician Bobby Dall (Poison)is 36. taken to begging outside the capital's militaryposts and aid compounds. DILI t Timor Four-year-old Natalino Alegria is downcast, seem: rampage of burning, looting and gunfire. Along with other you photospostedona bullet East Timor’s burned-out 3S journalist cannotbe jailed for refusing to proprosecutionin a criminal case. polls today to elect mayors, city coun: walls. Ruled: The California Supreme Court that a Every morning at Dili’s badly dam: aged mainhospital, a long line ofpeo: pleforms to look at pictures of miss ing children. So far, five have been reunited with theirfamilies. A dozen more have been identified byrela ters in Dili and outlying towns, As ships began returning thousands of refugeesfrom West Timor, young. fear of uniformed men. Onhot afternoonsnow,in the shadow of sters got vaccinations as soon as they steppedoff the boat. Amid suchprogress, there are worrisomesigns. 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