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Show TheSaltLakeGribune PAGE 2 Compiled from Tribune news services by Brian MacIntyre FRIDAY, December 1, 2000 AHE GLOBE NIGERIA BLOODLESS REOCCUPATION Dozensofpeople are burned alive after collectingoil from pipeline SE THE HEADLINES ~ attacking him with a stun gun in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home is S) good friend of mine for five alive Thursday when the pooling liquid exploded into flames, witnesses andoil companyofficials said. There was noofficial figure for the numberofvictims,but witnesses and reporters estimated the dead at between 30 and60. Thefire also destroyed shacks in nearby squatter years.. . . My heart goes out to him,” thé star of the sitcom “Just Shoot Me”said Thursday. Spade,36, suffered minorinjuties at his home Wednesday. He deciined to be taken to a hospital and wastreated by paramedics on the scene, Police said Malloy, 29, worked as a personal assistantto the actor. He fled and wasarrested hours afterthe incident. camps at Atlas Cove near the Lagos port of Apapa. Thepipeline, owned bythestate Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., carries refined fuel from the , * port to a depot where it’s loaded on trucks and taken to Nigerian cities. Nigeria is the world’s sixth largest oil-producing nation. A posterof Prince clad only in his guitar is being yanked from the Las Vegasairport. The poster was a promotion for an upcoming Prince showat Aladdin's Theatre for the Performing Arts. The Strip resort was asked to removethe poster_by FFE Display Services, state oil companyofficial blamed thefire on oil thieves. Company spokesman Ndu Ughamadusaid the numberkilled may never be known because rela- tives were coHecting bodies to avoid prosecution. “Scooping,” the namefor the process of vandaliz- which manages McCarran’sindooradvertising and doesn't wantit in the “family oriented”facility. “Had | ing andgathering fuel from pipelines, is common. seenit in advance | would not have approved it,” FFE president Shauna Forsythe said. among impoverished Nigerians despite the risk of fire or harsh punishment. Some government critics have accused corruptofficials of turning a blind eyeto the practice in return for a share ofthe profits from fuelsales. 4 : Residents said the pipeline began spouting fuel about a weekbefore the blast, causinglarge pools to form on the ground. Hundreds of Nigerians have died this year alorie in similar pipelinefires. BRITAIN Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie had an epiphany while wrapping up a weekoffilming at Cambodia's famous Angkor Wattemple complex in Siem Reap. “The world live in mostof the timeis very, very small,” Srdjan Ilic/The Associated Press ering the age of consent for homosexuals from 18 to 16. a Sexual Offenses Bill that makes the age of consent the samefor both homosexualsand heterosexuals.It becamelaw after being given Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II. Lawmakers in the House of Commonsoverwhelmingly approved thebill earlier this year, but third time. Jose Luis Magna/TheAssociated Press ers supplying theillegal exotic bird trade. Thebill brings Britain in line with most other European Union nations. VENEZUELA 1990. Though 60 Spix’s Macawslive in captivity around Angela Mason, director of the gay rights group Stonewall, said Parliament's action was “‘a great step Colombia’s ‘hypersensitivity’ sours ties between nations, says president lawmakers prevails. cused the governmentof behavingin a “completely dictatorial manner” toward Parliament. CARACAS — President Hugo Chavez blamed Colombia’s governmentfor being too sensitive about outside criticism, saying it was one reason diplo- INDIA Separatist guerrillas are suspected matic relations between the South American neighbors had soured in recent weeks. Chavez also blamed a “Colombian oligarchy insensitive to peace, which it doesn’t understand,”for in killing of '6 peoplein 3 attacks increasing tensions and for Colombia’sfailure to resolvea 36-year rebel insurgency. GAUHATI Suspected separatist guerrillas killed 16 people and wounded 20 Thursdayin three attacksin India’s northeastern Assam state, police Chavez was expected to meet with Colombian President Andres Pastrana.in Mexico. Bilateral ties “can’t be maintained with sulfuric reactions from someone whois hypersensitive and pressured by internal political games,” said Chavez than 10,000 peoplein the last decade. Seventy have been killed this month most from the Hindi- said ina thinly veiled reference to Pastrana. The Venezuelan president opposes the military componentofa U.S.-backed offensive against Colom- speaking minority who cameto settle in Assam. bian rebels whoprotect and tax drug producers. The Hindi-speaking immigrants tothe area, police said. Two masked militants on a. motorcycle fired on peoplein a market, killing eight in Bongaigbn, 125 miles from thestate capital of Guahati, a police spokesmansaid. er, armed menin a car killed five menat a tea ; the other. three people including an infant died when militants entered a house and opened fire, the spokesmansaid. Assam's rebel groups have accused he central governmentofexploiting the region’s rich oil and mineral resources and neglecting the local economy. United States is providing $1.3 billion in aid for Plan Colombia, part of which consists of military equip- ment and trainers. Chavezsays Plan Colombia will forceleftist guerrillas, drug traffickers and refugees to abandon parts of Colombia for neighboring countries, including Venezuela. Chavez sometimesaccused of being sympa- thetic to Colombia's guerrillas didn’t mention the rebels. Colombia briefly recalled its ambassador to Venezuela after two spokesmen for Colombia's largest rebel group spoke on thefloor of MA tactic 's National Assembly last week. drown in a Arkabutla Lake; Carlisle told police, “I wasthinking | was gonnadieor she was gonnadie.” Andin July, Alvin Latham was charged with so go ahead andirritate them."” (Terryinsisted that second-degree murderafter he surviveda boat- times he sangthe Partridge Family song,“I Think I sinking off the Louisiana coast; police said Latham LoveYou,” over and overat work. ) * i the world, there is a slim chance any can.survive in the wild without the male bird to teach survival skills, she said. The remaining wild male was to raise six young bird has neverdisappeared for more than 15 days from its habitat ofscrublands and palm-tree stands. RUSSIA Tycoon laments spending money on Putin’s election campaign whatlikely or somewhatunlikely that HIV could be transmitted by sharing a glass. Forty-one percentsaid transmission is possible by being coughed or sneezed on by someone with the vitus. Nearly 19 percent ofthose surveyed said they agreed withthe statement, “People who got AIDS through sex or dgug use have gotten whatthey de- serve.” + Thesurvey foundthatthose with more knowledge abouthow thevirus is spread werelessinclined to agree with the statement. The AIDSvirus is most commonly spread through blood or semen, usually involving unprotected sex or sharing a needle with an infected person. Between 800,000 and 900,000 Americans have beeninfected with HIV. MOSCOW — Tycoon Boris Berezovsky on Thursday lamented that he spentpart ofhis fortune on boosting President Vladimir Putin, wholater turned his back on him, Berezovsky accused Putin of skewering democracy and dissent in Russia — but dismissed concerns that his own influence-peddling underformer PresidentBoris Yeltsin was in any way undemocratic, “There are huge damages from whatPutin has done to meoverthe past year,” Berezovskysaid in an interview from New York. Berezovsky, a former mathematician, isin self- imposed exilefrom Russia to avoid a criminal investigation thathe saysis politically motivated. 4 ofdollars to finance Putin's election this spring. The Kremlin has denied the claim. Berezovsky is one of Russia's most prominent “oligarchs,” moguls whobuilt business empires through shady privatization deals in the 1990s and used Kremlin ties to advance their owninterests. rorges The National Christmas Tree, near the White nego Thursday by Tipper Gore. She put anilluminated, three-dimensionalstag on the 40-foot Colorado bluesspruce. Died: John “Jack” Loizeaux, a demolitionexpert who pioneered useofthe strategic and precise place- mentof explosives to cause buildingstofall where fey stood, of a stroke Tuesdayin Baltimore. He was Tosey’'s Birthdays: Actor-director Woody Allenis 65. Singer Lou Rawlsis 65. Golfer Lee Trevino is 61 Comedian Richard Pryoris 60. Rocker John Densmore (The Doors)is 56. Actress Bette Midleris 55. It’s a special gift that I have.” “I tell my grandsons, "You're not going tolike everybody you run across, noonehas ever gotten really angry at him, even the stabbed the captainto get the ship’s onlylife vest. 5 Botablished Apri18, 1671, Published daily and Sun RetetianiitPeredenthong Pad at Salt Lake City, Utah. POSTMASTER:Send address to The Bal’ Lake Tribune at the above adress About 40 percentof the more than 5,600 participants in the nationwide surveysaid it was tAcou some4 ‘| Did It My Way’: Retiree NealTerry, 78, profiled in an October Dallas Morning Newsstory about his “hobby”: “I've deaicated my life to irritating people. , hier 3 pr th » Wyo, ‘ Nev.) $14.00 Daily ‘ 66 ly Sunday (Outside Reon) Member Andit Bureau of Circulations “Rates may vary outside the Salt lake metropolitan are.” ADVERTISING NUMBERS Classified Advertising (001) 237-2000 Display Advertising (001) amramis 6 J‘ CIRCULATION NUMBERS NEWSROOM_NUMBERS (0) feoSais te Sati kn) Dally & Sunday (Outside of 5.00 ‘ ( | q, Compiled by Chuck Shepherd SUBSCRIPTION RATES senate Daily/ Sunday after the species’ sole survivor was discovered in CATS WITH HANDS NEWS OF THE WEIRD (ISSN 0746sce) spokesmanfor the Gay Men'sHealth Crisis. “Ifhe died,it's a terrible situation,” said Yara de Melo Barros,field director of the governmentbacked Spix’s Macaw Conservation Project, begun He claimed to have spent hundredsof thousands Law of the Jungle: TroyCarlisle, 20, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Octoberafter being convicted in Brandon, Miss., offorcibly taking the life jacket ofa 7-year-oldgirl and leaving herto The Salt LakeTribune A surveyof what people know aboutAIDS found that four out of 10 mistakenly believeit’s possible to get the disease by sharing a drinking glass or being coughed or sneezed onby aninfected person, The survey, released Thursday, was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It's scary that so many peoplearestill so ignorant of what causes HIV-AIDS,” said Marty Algaze, a captive-born Spix’s Macaw chicks. Barros said the vative ex-Leaderof the Lords Baroness Young ac- In-Thursday’s attacks,14 of the victims were AIDSPoll: 40% Ignorantof Causes The researchers said they haven’t seen the 19year-old Spix’s Macawfor two months, an indication thatit might havefallen victim to a hawk’s claws or apoacher’s trap. Wildlife biologists in northeastern Brazil for the past10 years have keptclose tabs on the bird, whose breed was pushed to the edge ofextinction by poach- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives in Mexico City on Thursday to attend inauguration ceremoniesfor President-elect Vicente Fox. Insurgents demandingastate have killed more NO ‘Thursday. the House of Lords this month rejected it for the said. place I've ever beento in mylife,” Jolie said of the 12th-century temples.Jolie is filming Paramount Pictures’ “TombRaider.” RIO DE JANEIRO — A blue-plumed parrotbelieved to be the lastofits kindin the wild has disappeared and mighthave beenkilled, biologists said , House of Commonsspeaker MichaelMartin said he was invoking the Parliament Actto force through toward equality.” However,family values campaignerand Conser- about being beautiful,” she said. “It's the most amazing BRAZIL Parrot believedto be lastof its kind in wild may be missing, experts fear LONDON Afterthree Cefeats in the House of Lords, Britain’s Labor governmentresorted to rarely used powers Thursdayto passlegislation low- the House of Coramons.The ParliamentAct wascreated to ensure that the will of the country’s elected said Jolie, who wona best supporting actress Academy . Award forlast year’s “Girl, Interrupted.”“Hollywood is very ugly. They're all worrying about the wrongthings, Serbianpolice enter the ethnic Albanian village of Lucane, almost 220 miles south of Belgrade, on Wednesday. Without firing a shot, the police retookthe strategicvillage on the edge of a contested zonein Serbia from ethnic Albanian rebels who launched a recentoffensivein the area. 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