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Show TheSattLakeTribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune news services by Keira H. Dirmyer WEDNESDAY, November 21, 2001 AROUN GRABBING THE HEADLINES CAMBODIA Husband Brad pitt and All nightentertainment closed in effort to controlcrime, drugs wife Jennifer Aniston play bitter eneMIES When Pitt Quest PHNOM PENH — The prime minister on Tuesday ordered all night entertainment stars in an episodeof places around Cambodiaclosed, saying they Aniston's were responsiblefor the recent surgeinviolent crime and drug abuse. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order, which will take effect Friday, shuts downall dancebars, NBCsitcom inviteg to Thanksgiving dinner with the gang. Old ‘The directive cameafter a gunman opened grudgag reignite when he encounters high school foe Rachel(Aniston). Pitt said he was unsure fire at a karaoke club Mondaynight, killing one person andinjuring five others. Chea Sophara, thecapital’s governor, said the government has no choicé but to adopt the measures to protect Cambodian youthfrom so- whether pis guest appearance would be a onetime dealor if he might reprise the role. Even as Rush Limbaughtold his radio audi- cialills. Hesaid somekaraokeparlors have beds to eNCe Mondaythat he haslostthe rest of his hearING, Sources confirmedthat Bill O’Reilly of Fox NeWs Channelisin talks with Westwood One about a syndicated radio showthat could air middays, when Limbaughhasthe mostlistened-to talk Show in the United States. On Monday,Lim- accommodatethe sex industry, leaving the gov- ernmentnochoice butto shut them down. ALGERIA Rush-hourexplosion injures 30 peopleat capital busstation ALGIERS A bomb ripped through a bus station in the Algeriancapital during morning rush hour on Tuesday, injuring 30 people,five of them seriously, the nation’s official news agency said. ‘The devicewasstashedin satchelleft in the Tafourhabus stationin central Algiers, lice po- said. Theblast wentoff at around8 a. damaging the building and causing panic amongpassenger's, ‘Two peopleinjured in theattack had to have their legs amputated, hospitalofficials said. No one claimedresponsibility for the attack, but the explosion came on the fourth day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a period he lamicmilitants in Algeria generally intensify attacks against the government. Pe P Palle Hedemann/TheAssociated PFESs Aarhus, Denmark,residents study ballot sheets Tuesday before voting. Forthe first time, elections were held for county and municipalofficials on the same dayasthe national vote. DENMARK Liberal Party wins Parliament majority on anti-immigration platform COPENHAGEN — Voters concerned that immigrants exploit the Danish welfare system shiftedto the right in parliamentary voting Tuesday, handingthe Liberal Party-led opposition a landslide victory over the Social Democrats. With 98.9 percent of the vote counted, the Liberal ing Social Democrats and their parliamentary supporters wonjust 77 seats, down from 89 held in thelast parliament. aus Social Democratic Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, 58, who has led the country since 1993, set the date for the quadrennialelections late COLOMBIA Paramilitaries release 6 mayors whowere abducted Sunday BOGOTA— Six small-town mayorskid- -nappedby right-wing paramilitaries to protest their dealings with Colombian guerrillas were released unharmedon Tuesday, the Red Cross said. The mayors, abducted Sundayin the mountains of northern Antioquiastate, are part of a larger group of Antioquia mayors whosecontacts with theleftist National Liberation Army have drawntheire of the rival United SelfDefense Forces of Colombia, or AUC. The paramilitary group said Mondayit would free them only if they concede they were wrongto try to negotiate grass-roots truces with the rebel group, known as the ELN ‘he mayors claim they are only‘, shi their townsfrom the violenceoi Colombia's 37year war. BRITAIN Expansion of Heathrow gets go-ahead despite objections LONDON — The governmentcleared the way Tuesday for construction of a long-debated expansionof Heathrow airport, already the busiestair facility in Europe. ‘Transport Secretary Stephen Byers sided with the airport ownerand businessinterests, Just Beggin’for It: According to police in Brockton, Mass., among suspected DUI driver Edward Petit’s first words to officers after fa- for immigrants — was height- soared withhis strong support for the U.S.-led fight against terrorism, only to fall as the also say the law provides a ment, wellabove the90 needed for a majority. The rul- ruling party divisions. immigration debate exposed ‘The more charismatic Lib- York and Washington,Critics wayfor foreignersliving here to bring in spouses andchildrenand take advantageof generous benefits. state ofTicino. help Heathrow meet competition from Frankfurt and other European airports. Ina gesture to local concerns, Byers said he alcoholin the body before death,” Perugini said. “However, there is no doubtthat there waS The driver was oneofthose killed Oct. 24 in the Gotthard tunnelafterhis truck swerved in front of an oncomingtruck carryingtires, The rentlevels. ensuing blaze raised temperaturesin the tun- CAMBODIA nelto 2,200 degrees, incinerating vehicles and destroying «stretchofroof. Peruginisaid the driver’s name was Aslan. Seyfi, a 45-year-old Turkishcitizen driving a Belgian-registered truck carrying insulation. ARGENTINA Top court clears ex-president of arms charges; Menemis free Tuesday, citing an investigation that found the babies were bought or stolen from their biological parents. BUENOSAIRES — Formerpresident Carlos Menemwasfreed from house arrest on Tues- Thedecision,following two monthsofU.S. investigations,is a major blowto the prospec- day, cleared by Argentina’s Supreme Court of charges he ran anillicit arms smuggling ring tive parents, who had waited weeks in Cambo- dia for visasfor the infants. AmbassadorKent Wiedemannsaid U.S.in- whilein office. Thedecisionto release the flamboyant, two- vestigators found evidenceof networks procur- term president dealt a setbackto efforts to prosecute Menem in oneofseveral corruption ing babies for prospective parents from the West. Humanrights workers have confirmed scandalsthattarnished his legacyin thefinal cases of Cambodianfacilitators offering, poor mothers aslittle as $30 for their newborn, who years ofhis decade in power. Freedom also appeared to revive Menem’s political fortunes, leaving him free to reassert his role as the country’s pre-eminent opposition leaderat a time when President Fernando De la Ruais growing increasingly unpopular for his handling of a deep economiccrisis. Menem’s supporters in the Peronist party shouted “justice has been done”asthe 71-yearold leader arrived at the suburban villa — his is then placed in an “orphanage.” SWITZERLAND Driver whocaused tunnelcrash had been drinking,officials say BELLINZONA — Thetruck driver accused ofcausingthefiery crash thatkilled 11 people friend farjjiar with thevisit trom McCartney and his fiancee, HeatherMills. Beatles biographers have written ofthe creative tension between the {WO And how Harrison, whohasaninoperable brain tumor, was blamed forstalling a reunion after John Lennon's death. But love wasall they needed jast week. “Georgeis in pretty good spir- itS,” Sayg the friend. “Paul was amazed that George was ableto sit up the wholetime.” Sr FINDINGS Contraceptive patch approved Federaj nealth officials approved saleofthe the Same formones usedin birth control pills — but requires women to remember to use it weekly open in 2007. Byers said a new terminal was needed to PHNOM PENH — TheUnited States will not give visas toll Cambodianinfants adopted by Americanparents, the U.S. ambassadorsaid Paul McCartneyhad a tearful six-hour reunion with terminallyill George Harrison on Staten Island tact week, report New York Daily News coluMNists Rysh & Malloy. “Paulcried,”said a family Forensic experts could not determine the _ levelof alcoholfrom the traces they found, said Antonio Perugini, district attorneyfor the 11 infants adopted by Americans werepart of baby-selling scheme implant and would know by January how much said Tuesday. hadalcoholin his blood, Swiss investigators would limit the numberofflights at Heathrow to 480,000 a year,an increaseof20,000 over cur- baugh tojg his audience that he will get a cochlear * heating he canregain. world’s first contraceptive patch Tuesday, giving woMEenap option considered assafe andeffective asthe pjjj put easier for someto use. tho.Evra emits through the skin low doses of and closed a major tunnel through the Alps prisonfor the past six months — after he was formally released. instead of gaily like a pill. The Food and Drug Administration,in approv- ing the mafchbook-sized patch, wamedthat Ortho-Evra may Not work as well for womefi who weigh more than 198 pounds, The prescription-only patch will begin selling next Year at a price similar to birth controlpills: about $49 4 month. Women would use one patch a weekfor three weeks, ang then go patch-free for a weekfortheir meNstrual period. The patchis designedto stick to skin despite bathing or swimming. Users may experience gxin irfitation atthe patch site. The patch delivers continuouslow levels of es- trogen ang progestin, the Same hormonesfound in birth control pills, to prevent ovulation. That me€NSthe patch carries the samerisksasthepill: short-term side effects including nauseaorbreast tendemesg, andrare risks of biood clots, heart attack @nq stroke, Particularly if women smoke. NOTED Died: Malaysia's King Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, today of complicationsfollowing heart Surgery, He Was 75. Salahuddin assumed the throng in 1999 undera rotation system that choosesthe constitutional monarch by secret ballot amongthe sultans of Malaysia’s nine states, Ech sultan takes five-year tum as MOnarch, holding mostly ceremonial powers. Granteq:jmmunity by the Justice Department, the OWner of g trawler that Sank April 2 in the BeriMG Sea and killed 15 men. Dave Olney is XPected to testify Nov.28 before a Coast Guard marine board trying to jeam why the Arctic Rose capsized without waming. * Today's Birthdays: Actress Marlo Thomasis 64, Actragg Goldie Hawn is 56, CATS WITH HANDS NEWS CF THE WEIRD hic Seen: The FBI hasrecently inquired of several psychics who had worked in the past with U.S.intelligence as “remote viewers,” hoping that they would be able to foresee terrorist attacks, according toa Novemberreport in Britain's The Times. The federal governmenthad a long-running remote-viewing program, run by California's Stanford Research Institute,until it was shut down in 1995. paign — family reunification Party and its supporters, ineluding the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, had 98 seats in the 179-seat parlia- againstairport noise, in approving construction ofa fifth terminal designed to handle up to 30 million passengers a year. ‘The $3.6 billion terminal is scheduled to center,after his release by paramilitaries. Rasmussen,48, has played _ downcriticism of xenophobia butpledged to crack down on foreignerstryingto cheat the system. The two candidates are notrelated. Thekeyissue in the camened by the attacks on New environmentalists who are campaigning Luis Benavides/The Associated Press eral Party leader Anders Fogh last month.His popularity “and against a:coalitionoflocal residents and Relatives greet El Penol mayor Jesus Hoyos, : “Friends” on Thursday. Pitt plays a high school friend oF onica (Courteney Cox Arquette) who is “night clubs, discothequesand karaoke parlors. tally hitting a 24-year-old woman in June were thathe wasjust bragging to his buddy a few minutes earlier that he could “drink him underthe table any day.” Andon being informed that Canada had chosen a secluded rural retreat for next year’s Group of Eight summit, possibly because the area's grizzly bear population would discourage the usual protestors, Alberta activist Alan Keanesaid the protestors would be outin force, anyway, because grizzly bears “are our friends.” — Compiled by Chuck Shepherd Carrier Delivery (4-week period) 68 Corporation, 148 South Main Se it‘Send address : Lan Titeee CF arLone Salt a ' to The 95 | 51m “Rates mayvary outsidetheSuit lakemetropolitanares.” ADVERTISING NUMBERS en Chast Advertising... 1)2572000° Display Advertising... (aun2785 = stablshedApel 1,27, Publsded Haid SUBSCRIPTION RATES |
