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Show The SaltLakeTribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune newsservices by Kimberlee Hiatt TUESDAY,June 13, 2000 AHE GLOBE “SOLOMONISLANDS __Iit HEADLINES The leaderof Indonesia enjoyed some country-westem music and Midwestem hospitality during an overnight stop in Branson, Mo. Ab- THE BIKE BRIGADE Official predicts prime minister, fearing for his life, will step down durrahman Wahid accepted an invitation to speakatthe tiny College of the Ozarks and have a HONIARA — Theprimeministerof the Solomon down-homedinnerat the school. Wahid,a fan of country music and Mark Twain novels, said Saturday thevisit to Missouri gave him the Islandsfears for his life and will probably step down, a New Zealandofficial said Mondayaftervisiting the South Pacific nation to seek an end to rebel warring. Fighting that erupted last week has cooled off opportunity to study two of the aroundthecapital, Honiara,as rebel groups wait for state’s economic virtues — tourism and agriculture. “Thetrip to this place reminds me ofvisits to my own ancestors — they were farmers,” Wahid said.“I hope that | can leam thing or two on how to improve Indonesia’s agriculturalsituation.” He said he also decided a parliament vote Thursday on whethertheelected prime minister, Bartholomew Ulufa’alu, should stay in office. A groupcalled the Malaita Eagle Force raided an armory one week ago andused the weaponsto stage a stunning seizure of Honiara. Themilitants, made to visit because he has been impressed since childhood with Twain and the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. upof migrants from the neighboringislandof Malaita, have been fighting to stay on the main island of Guadalcanal, where the capital is located. Therebels’ foes, the indigenous Isatabu, have The home whereartist Norman Rockwell spentthe last 25 years ofhislife, in Stockbridge, Mass.., is up for been tryingto oust the Malaitans from Guadalcanal. On Monday, New ZealandForeign Minister Phil Goff said Ulufa’alu had shown “remarkable cour- sale. But don't expect the 14-room home,built in 1783, to become the Rockwell Bed & Breakfast or the Rockwell Antiques Shop.A restriction in the deed prevents age” since the Malaitans tookoverthe capital. The rebels were holding the prime minister at gunpoint, butreleased him latelast week. Ulufa’alu “will resign this week, I am sure, be- the use of the Rockwell name for any commercialpurpose. Rockwell lived in the house from 1953 until his death in 1978at the age of 84. The current owners, Richard Herrick andhis wife, Elizabeth Holtzinger, are asking $775,000 for the two-story Victorian home. cause the cost of staying in power. . . is too great,” he said. Goff waswith a delegationof leaders who visitéd the SolomonIslands last weekendand attempted to find a peaceful solutionto thecrisis. FiJl Rebels accuse military of attempting to assassinate coup leader Speight Jeff MeIntosh/The Associated Press SUVA — Supporters of rebel leader George Speightclaimed Fiji’s military leaders tried to assassinate him Mondayafter soldiers fevpedhis car with bullets as he sped through ar Speight was notinjured. “Tam alive andwell,” Speight said after the car he wasriding in drove back to Parliament, where he is holding 31 people hostage includingFiji's deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry. Military spokesmanLt. Col. Filipo Tarakinikini blamed the incident on misjudgmentbysoldiers at the roadblock, saying they had acted with excessive force in firing about20 shots and wouldbe disciplined. Rebel spokesmanJo Natasaid Speight and a small group ofsupporters were returning in two cars from having tea with a Methodist church leader whensoldiers opened fire as they passed through a military checkpoint. Tarakinikinisaid the cars refused to stop when instructed to do so by soldiers, who had fired warning shots into the air. Whenthe cars continued moving, the soldiers Police officers form a barricade to keep protesters from stopping.a commutertrain in downtown Calgary, Alberta, outside the World Petroleum Congress on Monday. Demonstrators waved signs and chanted slogansforlesserreliance onoil and otherfossil fuels in the latest act of an anti-globalization movement. Lawmakers will be given a free vote for their pre- ferred option, meaning they can vote according to their conscience and notalong party lines, Straw said, His decision had been widely leaked and hundreds ofangry hunt supporters gathered to protest in Parliament Square, briefly blocking traffic before police dispersed them. Opinionpolls consistently have shown the majorkill foxes. But the rural lobby says manycitydwellers do not understandthe need to keep fox numbers down — orthe importanceof hunting to rural economics. MEXICO Immigrants returningfor elections may haveto scrambleforballots MEXICO CITY — Mexican immigrants traveling A pro-hunt demonstrator is moved by a police of- ficer outside the Housesof Parliament on Monday. BRITAIN Homesecretary to introducebill for free vote on banning fox hunting LONDON — The governmentsaid Mondaythatit will allow lawmakers to vote on whether to ban fox hunting with hounds after an independent report raised questions aboutthelethal sport. The report found that shooting the fox was more humane than letting houndstear it apfrt until it died. Recentpolls show the majority of lawmakers oppose hunting — reviled by Oscar Wilde as the “unspeakablein full pursuit of the uneatable” — and are likely to vote for a ban. _, to their homelandto vote in the July 2 presidential contest mayfind themselves scrambling for ballots, evenas they stand on Mexicansoil with valid voter credentials. Thatcould create post-electoral problemsin a nation trying to leave behind 71 years of voting “irregularities” and outright fraud, immigrants and political analysts said. Mexico's new multibillion-dollar electoral system is prohibited from providingextra ballots on the Mexican border for immigrants who wantto be included in'the most competitive presidential election in history but who can’t afford to travel to their hometownsin the country’s interior. Giventhelack of an absentee voting system in Mexico and Mexicansunable to vote abroad, immigrants will be competingfor a limited numberofballots with all Mexicans whofind themselves outside their hometownon Election Day. Although no one knows how many immigrants will try to vote in border areas — estimates run as high as 200,000 or as low asa few thousand — immigrant groups in the United States have unsuccessfully petitioned for the numberofspecial ballots to be at least doubled. “Imagine traveling 24 to 48 hours from either Chicago or New YorkCity only to discoverthat there are no moreballots,” said Raz] Ross Pinedo, an imsahose activist in Chicago. ere is concern on both sides of the border that a lackofballots for immigrants could mara tight election already considered to be weighted in favor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. Only in France: In Bordeaux, France, a lawsuit by a brother andsister, both schoolteachers,to defy the governmentand keep their mother’s corpse permanently at home,in a glass-topped freezer, was rejected. Compiled by Chuck Shepherd SUBSCRIPTION RATES (SSN 0146-3802) a. eeiernss ‘Salt Lake ‘at Salt Lake City, Utah, POSTMASTER: Send se Only The actress has other rules — “no scrunchies,no but- States) ‘W200 Sundays: ‘Thanksgiving weg " Daily Sunday (Outside ofRegion). $5.00 Sai, ADVERTISING NUMBERS Classified Advertising... - (01) 237.2000 Display Advertising ......... (1) aar-2a15 j t gee Montenegroelections leave country divided on stand toward Milosevic PODGORICA — Municipal elections in Montenegro, Serbia’s smaller partnerin the Yugoslav federation,left the country divided Monday between backers of the pro-Western government and supporters of Slobodan Milosevic. President Milo Djukanovic’s side won 28 of the 54 municipal posts in Podgorica, the capital, ac- cordingto results released Moncommission. Djukanovic’s forces, whichfavorlooser ties with Yugoslavia — ifnot outright independence — can now govern thecity. Previ- Neanderthal: Where’s the Beef? If a Neanderthal walked into a hamburgerjoint today, he probably would order a double burger. And hold the bun,thelettuce, tomato andonion.A new study of 28,000-year-old Neanderthal bones suggests the ancient hominid ate meat,lots ofit andlittle else. “Their diet was about 90 percent meat,” said Paul { Pettitt, co-author of a new study. “Thigymeans they | wereefficient hunters and notjust scavengers as some} day by Montenegro’s election have suggested.” i \ lifestyle so centered on meat, said Pettitt, means Djukanovic ously, they had 27 seats. Theresults failed, however,to give Djukanovic the ringingendorsementhe sought. Djukanovic’s opponents, under Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, claimed an “absolute victory”in the coastal resort of Herceg Novi, the other key city involved in Sunday’s elections. Bulatovic’s side wants this tiny mountainousrepublic to remain firmly in the federal embrace.Its victory in Herceg Noviis likely to dissuade Djukanovic from taking a hasty step to full independence anytimesoon andrisk an armed conflict with Milosevic, the Yugoslav president. NICARAGUA Governmentdropshairstyle ban on German-born math contestant MANAGUA — The governmentoverruled complaints about a 12-year-old boy’s hairdo, ordering schoolofficials to let the German-born studentcompete in the national fh Education Minister Fernando Robleto overruled a local ministry official, who had banned Theo Sullow from competing in the contest’s second round.Sullow wona first, regional roundin the northern town ofEsteli. ‘Thelocalofficial, Mercedes Garcia Guevara,argued that Sullow’s hairstyle — described as a tall pompadour with a part down the middle — violated regulations, Local newspapers and the government's child protection agency had criticized the ban. The government's ruling Monday“is a victory not only for Theo,butforall children who have the right to their own tastes and their own identity,”his mother, Angelika Sullow,said. Her husband hadaccused Garcia Guevara earlier of ruling against his son because of his nationality. EYER NSTICE tow and conversantin 93, TheGaltLakeTribune YUGOSLAVIA NON SEQUITUR NEWS OF THE WEIRD All in the Head: Wendy Hasnip,47, told BBC Television in December that a minorstroke had given her the rare Foreign Accent Syndrome (in hercase, a French accent, though she knows no words in French). Also in December, the Moscow Times feaes Melnikov,brain-injured by a landmine . the Soviet-Afghanistan war, who emerged from the hospital with an activated facility for languages. He has since become fluent in dozens of languages upsweep — except for maybe Ivana Trump, and | don't want anyoneon the showtolooklike lvana Trump.” terfly clips, no hair omaments of any kind, period.” “This is the beginningof the end,”exulted League AgainstCruel Sports spokesman Steve Rackett. “Within twoorthree years, we'll see a ban.” Ashuntsupporters blew their hornsin protest outside, Home Secretary Jack Straw told the House of Commonsthathewill introduce a draft bill later this year with options ranging from allowing hunting to continue unchecked to banningit outright. ity of Brifons oppose using hounds to hunt down and fired directly at them. “Webelieveit was a deliberate act, an act of assassination which wentwrong,” Nata said. “Those soldiers would neverfire a shot withoutorders from the top.” Sarah Jessica Parker says the actresses on her HBO show “Sexandthe City” make a point of having hairstyles that normal womencan wear.“Thehair rules are,if you can't do it yourself, you can't doit,” Parker said in TV Guide. “| don’t know any woman in America who can run out of the house in the moming and do an that the lowbrowed, hairy Neanderthal was able to or- ganize complex hunts that brought downbig and dangerous.game. Some experts have suggested that the more primi- tive Neanderthal was simply overwhelmed and outhunted by his more sophisticated cousin, modern man. Others say the Neanderthal wasbiologically absorbed by early modern humansanddisappeared as a sepa- rate species. Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist and co-authorof the study, said the new study doesnotsettle that debate, but it does show that Neanderthals werenotjust simple, stupid and brutish. Rather, they were more equalto moder humansin many ways. Onebigdifference, though, was food choice. The Neanderthal hunter preyed on mammoth, horse, deer, woolly rhino and otherlarge animals. When conditions changed and fewerof these animals were available, the Neanderthal may have had a moredifficult time adjusting than did the competing humanswholived on a more varied diet, said Pettitt. The researchers probed the diet of the Neanderthal by measuringthe isotopic ratios of nitrogen, which are signatures of the’foods we have eaten,in skulls and jawbonesrecovered from a cavein Croatia. NOTED Indicted: As an adult onfirst-degree murder charges Mondayin Florida, a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a teacherafter being sent home for throwing waterballoons. Filed: Mondayin Dallas by 44 students of Hare Krishna boarding schools, a $400 million lawsuit against leaders of thereligious community,alleging Sexual, physical and emotionaltorture. Today's Birthdays: TV host Ralph Edwards is 87. Comedian Tim Allenis 47. |
