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Show Ry RANT ITALIANA, The Salt LakeTribune PAGE2 SB i TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Melissa Galbraith and Don Robinson SATURDAY, November20, 1999 GRABBING THE HEADLINES ee Darryl Strawberry says his faith has sustained him through years of drug and alcohol abuse and hisbattle against cancer. “The world will turn on me, but God won't. I've been through some battlefields,” the 37year-old New York Yankee said Thursday at a gathering sponsored by the National Adjourned: After several weeks of islative jousting, Congress on Fri. wound up its work for the year, re- Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependencein © Details: A-1 Dearborn, Mich. “My joy is not in baseball. My joy is not in making a lot of money. Myjoy is downinside. I've got this secret place where| go and get down on myknees andaskfor help. | know prayer has workedin mylife.” Spending Bill: A $390 billion federal nding bill passed by the Senate on lay includes $5 million to help Utah ice prepare for the 2002 Winter spectful to the Thai monarchy, dampening ring cuts in the Medicare program ind adopting thefirst majorlegislation the disabled since 19 Thai censors banned the previews and posters for ‘Anna and The King”asdisre- lympics. chances the movie will be shown in Bangkok, a newspaperreported Friday. The nationalfilm board had already barred 20th Century Fox from making the Jodie Fosterfilm in Thailand. Details; A-4 % Angry Protesters: Onthestreets of hens, 7,000 police used tear a “The previews are unacceptable,” Pattama- tons Friday to keep hordes of pr vadee Jaruvorn, a memberof the board,told The Nation this week. He complainedofhistorical inaccuracies, and censors objected to Foster's name being placed above the king’s in posters. The board hasn't decided whether to allow thefilm into Thailand, butits rejectionof the previews and posters was a strong sign the movie will be banned. ‘Yesters from getting anywhere near President Clinton or his entourage daring a brief visit to Greece. Details: A-12 nm we ATE OF UTAH. Out of Whack? If it were possible to ick open the heads of a few football s of BYU andthe U., scientists might able to determine how far out of ack The Rivalry has become, accordi to Tribune columnist Robert Kirby, at is. w a Details: A-1 Th 1¢ Associated Press villager in Mahoba, India, offers prayers Mondayat the site where Charan Shah, 45, burned to death when she threw herself onto her husband's funeral pyre. The practice, knownassati, was banned in Indiain 1829, but still occurs in rare circumstancesin rural India. Villagers have thronged to Mahobato prayatthesite. Villagers Venerate Widowas Deity Thousandsflockto site where Indian womanleapt onto husband’s funeral pyre BY ULISCHMETZER JustInhale: Although they havebeen und for three decades in other parts CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEW DELHI — In aritual outlawed the world, oxygen bars had somehow jt made their way to Utah until Aria 170 years ago,the recent selfimmolation by a widowon herhusband’s funeral pyre has drawn tens of thousandsofIndiansto a rural village sca openedat Trolley Square in Auist. The oxygenis available in assorted Wlendsandflavors. © », Details: D-1 Matching Funds: More than $500,000 to venerate herasa deity. The events highlighted the vast gap funeral pyre and the absenceofpolice to preventit indicates complicity on thepart of the administration.” Women's organizations say that even in the old days, before sati was banned, most wives had to be drugged, Ce “persuaded” or forced to burn them- Dell ike Paras selvesin the flamesthatincinerated the corpsesof their husbands. Sati, though rare, is not uncommon. in modern India, thoughfew cases are officially recorded. Locals at Satpura in India betweenanurban society that produces high-tech computers, ballis- has beenraisedfrom about 4,800 Utahns fpr the presidential campaign of Repub- fic Sen. Orrin Hatch, who nowhas ex- tic missiles and nuclear weapons and eeeded the minimumrequirements enabling him to qualify for federal time has oe still and thefemale role the country’s rural regions, where Pe taCeULeLLE matching funds. Details: D-1 would endherlife on her husband’s WORLD FOCUS rR go a drove back ese of Hinduvillagersflockingto the small hamlet in Thesati case made front-page headlines in anIndia increasingly con- Shah,45, a memberof the Untouchable caste who Jeapt onto the funeral knownassati. Magnificent Music: “I wouldn't be bbnest if I didn’t sayI still get chills up y spine when I playhere, ys John nghurst, who for nearly23 years has Defying the official ban, the crowd repeatedly attempted to build a make- shift shrine to the widowin thebelief that herself-sacrifice had converted herintoadeity, a sati mata, whose illion Catholics and their clergy on {matters of discipline, morality and spiritual sovereignty eeeESS Details: C-1 in 1829, andshe didn't screamas she burned.” Since Shah'ssati, a ritual banned about 30,000 devout Hindus ved in ox carts, on bicycles scootersto fetch ashes from the funeral pyreandpray ata site now deemed sacred. “The pityis that despite legal pro: visions against suchacts little has changed inthesocial sphereto pre- vent a widowfromcourting death in so horrific a manner,” wrote the The Hindustan Timesinaneditorial. Shah's self-immolationis as chill ing as the complicityof relatives and BUSINESS villagers who stood by and watched her die in the hamlet of Satpura in Uttar Pradeshstate. Witnesses told police the widow took a ritual bathfirst. Then she * DowDips: The DowJones industrial averageon Friday dipped 31.81 at 11,003.89. The Nasdaqrose 9,369.12 forits 13th record close in 16 trading days. The ffom its Thursday %95 to 1,421.99 > 500 retreated record high, down Stocks: D-11 Bill Delayed: Although many hours frere spent duringthe past two weeks Rae a bill that would make it and allowed herto become Asati,” Prakash Rani, hersister-intaw, said. help could be sought tocure illnesses Details: C-1 Eroding Respect: Thereis an appar: eht rift between the United Sta 62 Mike Miller/TheSalt LakeTribune What horrified many Indians was thecalm demeanorofShah's sons and relatives who watchedherdie andtes- ed theorgan in the Tabernacleon at Lake City’s Temple Square. “political agendas and regressive tives launched a campaign for dona: tions to build a temple on the crema- whose membersoften galvanizereli- The demand for ajudicial inquiry tion site where she could be venerated as the reincarnationofa deity with the powerto curethe sick, The relatives askedthedevouttoleave offeringsoffruit, flowers and money at the widow’s house. Local andstate authorities have dismissed the immolationas theact of a“mentally deranged person” and officiallyclosed the file on the wid. ow's deathas a “caseof suicide.” But human-rights groups see more sinisterforces behind what appears site, a pyre of wood in an open space. Her husbandhaddied the same day from tuberculosis According to Shah's family, she “It is clear Mrs. Shah's immolation was not a spontaneous act, and the complicityof the in-laws, villagers andthepoliceis evident,” said Shah: ana Bhattacharya, secretary of the Peoples Unionfor Democratic Rights. lighted three candles on the cremation, ® vital supportin a world alien to them. é Brinda Karat, of the All-India Dem-ocratic Forumfor Women, cites was growingthis weekafter herrela- on the surface as anactofpiety site and then tied one end of hersari to the leg of herspouse. Finally she hopped” into the flames. “Onceshesat onthe pyre every boay watchedher with folded hands cerned thatradical Hindus, ona crusadeto resurrect old Hindutraditions, are findingfertile ground among rural villagers for whom religion remains a social mindsets” for the stagnation of social reforms and education. Her commentwasa veiledrefer. ence to the toleranceof Hinduradicals tified withpride: “She didn't complain dressed in her bridal gowns and w ked to her husband's cremation piouspilgrims and the sick who seek a miraclecure. northernIndia to venerate Charan pyre of her husband last week, an act said Shah’ssati wasthefifth case in less than twodecades.In eachcase, the site becamesacred,andrelatives becamewealthyfrom theofferings of “Thefact that the woman was dressedin herbridal outfit indicates sistanceof the in-laws, The pres of villagers establishes abetment, and her prior announcement she by the ruling Hindu Nationalist Party, gious zeal to obtainvotes. The party rose to prominenceafter Hindu mobs pulled down a Muslim temple at Ayodyah, an act culminating in bloody communal violence a decade ago. Thesati has also wom en’s organizations, which point out MILESTONES Died: Mary Kay Bergman, who gave voice to the mothers of “South Park” characters like Stan, Cartman and Kenny, on Nov. 11 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 38. Bergman's other credits included supplying voices for the animated movies “The Iron Giant” and “Mulan.” Sentenced:Patricia Mildred Price to two consecutive life sentences for helping her lover murder her husband, Jesse “Buddy” Price, by wrapping him like a mummyin duct tape and dumping him into a river to drown in Jasper, Ala. Price's lover, Rayford Hagood, wasearlier sentenced to death. Today's Birthdays: Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is 82. Economist Beryl Sprinkel is 76. Comedian Dick Smothersis 60. THE MILLENNIUM CALVIN:French reformer John Calvin (1509-" 1564), mostinfluential second-generation leader of the Reformation, spread Protestant belief beyond Germany and Scandinavia into England, France and the New World. Calvin's thought was central to development of the Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist and Unitarian churches. In England, Reformed Presbyterians were known as Puritans, who separated from the Anglican establishment and exported their faith to North America.In France, they were known as Huguenots. Calvin emphasized humankind's religious calling in daily life, and widened Protestantism's influence on politics, government and social thinking. From its beginnings in Geneva, Calvin's Reformed Protestantism developed a theocratic style characterized by stern morality, austerity and insistence on church attendance. A major theologian of Protestantism, Calvin wrote the seminal Institutes of the Christian Religion and taught that oniy an “elect” were predestinedto salvation. ON THIS DATE that urban women havebarely escaped the era of dowry payments andobtainedthe right to equal shares ofinheritances. In contrast, their In 1789, New Jersey becamethefirst state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders wentontrial before an international war crimestribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1969, the Nixon administration announced land. “Wecall for immediateaction against all those guilty. We demand that the government takestern and definite steps to protect the law of the Jand and, more importantly, demon. strateits political will to prevent use part ofa total PoReeony In 1975, after nearly four decades of abso- rural cousinsstill bring dowriesto a marriage, andrural laws in many regionsallow onlymalestoinherit ofreligionto justify suchatrocities gainst women,”saida statement by Saheli, a women’s lobbygroup a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as lute rule, Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died, two weeksbeforehis 83rdbirthday. 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