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Show TheSaltLakeTribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune newsservices by Brian MacIntyre TUESDAY,November 27, 2001 AHE GLOBE PERU Discarded grenade explodes, GRABBING THE HEADLINES Tom Wilkinson,best knownin America as Gerald in HEALING HANDS the film “The Full Monty,” doesn't havea Web site. But fan sites may notbe faroff. killing 3 children as they play The British actor's performance in Todd Field's “In the Bed- LIMA — A discarded grenade exploded and killed three children as they were playing with it in a field in a rural area of northern Peru,police said Monday. ‘Two other children were injured in the explosion, which happened Sundaynearthe town of Alonso de Alvarado Roque, 390 miles room” has drawn rave reviews and speculation abouta possi- ble Oscar nomination for best actor. “My agent asked meif | wasinterested in having a Website, and| said | didn't wantone,” Wilkinson, 53, told New York's Newsday.“I didn't want people prying into mylife. | consider myself northofthe capital, Lima. Police said a nearby quite private.” Didn't “Monty” changeall that? “At military outpost had used thefield for target practice in the past. Yarik Cahuaza,8, found the explosive and hidit underhershirt to keep it away from four other children,police said. The girl dropped the time| got that script, | was upfor a regularrole in a TV series in England where I'd be in every scene. When| picked ‘Full Monty,’ all these peo- ple were saying| wascrazy. | figured, look, the United States is wherethe big boysplay, andif you wanttosit at the table, you've gotto gointo movies.” Since then, he has appeared in “Rush Hour” and “ThePatriot the grenade andit exploded afterhitting the ground,killing her and twobrothers, ee Chuquitay, 9, and Segundo Chuquitay, 12. Cahuaza’s brothers, Lito Cahuaza,9, and Julio Cahuaza,11, survived the blast but were beingtreated for multiple leg woundsata hospital in the nearbycity of Tarapoto. SOUTH AFRICA Pregnant women with HIV take treatmentbattle to court PRETORIA TheSouth African govern- ment was deciding “whether newly born chil- drenwill live or die,” AIDS activist lawyers argued Mondayin a lawsuit aimedat forcing distribution ofa key drug toall HIV-positive pregnant women. In the first major legal challenge to the government’s policy on AIDS medication, activists and pediatricians said the drug nevirapine shouldbe distributed nationwide. Around 200 babies are born HIV-positive every day in South Africa, and studies show nevi- rapine can reduce the transmissionofthe virus duringlabor by upto 50 percent. The German drug company BoehringerIngelheim has offered nevirapine free to develop- ing countries; South Africa has yet to accept theoffer: Frustrated by what they describe as irrational governmentfoot-dragging, hundredsof AIDSactivists held protests across the country Mondayunderthe banner,“Save OurBabies.” Onein nine South Africans are HIVpositive. NEPAL King declares an emergency after rebelattacks claim.76 ~ Andres relghtonTne ‘Associated Press New York City Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg,left, meets Nicolas Celestino, 68, wholost asonin the crash of the Flight 587, at the National Palace in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Monday. Bloomberg promised to helprelatives of the victims of Flight 587, which plungedto the ground minutesaftertaking off for the Caribbean nation. The crash Nov. 12 killed all 260 people aboard andfive on the ground in a New York neighborhood near Kennedy Airport. Dominicans make up an estimated 800,000 of New York's 8 million people. Nearly one-fourth of the Dominicans are thoughtto hold U.S.citizenship. ationefforts between the two Koreanstates. hold elections under a Western-brokered peace Critics accused the governmentof being plan, legislators on both sidesofthe ethnicdivide said Monday. afraid of provoking North Korea, which in the Echoing an appeal from President Boris Trajkovski, lawmakersin the 120-seat assembly said the parliamentary elections, originally past has denounced the white paperas evidence that Seoul is unwilling to reconcile. Lt. Col. Chung Sung-yup, a Defense Ministry spokesman. called it “a waste of effort and money” to issue thousandsof copies of a 300page report every year when 80 percent of the contentis the sameas the previous year. e ‘The rebels also suffered heavy casualties, Khadka said. On Monday, King Gyanendra accepted a Cabinet recommendation anddeclared a state of emergency, allowing the governmentto suspendcivil liberties and sendsoldiers to fight the rebels. In thepast, the military has been limited to defending Nepal only from foreign attack. UNITED STATES CHINA Court trying American engineer on chargesofbribing state worker BEIJING — Attorneysfor an American electrical engineeraccusedof paying bri to get state secrets gave a. court evidence Mot bathroomstall at her high schoolprom, then killed the infant before returning to the dance floor, has beenfreed from prison. 4 Melissa Drexler, now 23, meantto show thathe was reallya victim ofofficial misconduct, his U.S. lawyer said. Fong Fuming, of West Orange, N.J., was de- tained last year whenhearrived in Beijing to meet a U.S. powerfirm bidding for a contract, his lawyers say. A former employee ofChina's powerindustry, Fuming has advised foreign firms on powerprojects in China andelsewherein Asia. Fong,66, is accused ofobtaining secret documents and paying a Chinese powerofficial $245,000 in bribes. He denies the accusation, wasreleased early Monday Drexler womanfor the state Departmentof Correc- tions. Drexler was freed after serving just over 3 year's of the 15-year sentence she wasgiven after pleading guilty in 1998 to aggravated manslaughter. As an 18-year-old senior at Lacey Township and contendstheofficial was trying to extort High School, Drexler concealed her pregnancy ZIMBABWE at the prom. Latestpolitical violence claims life of student; farmeralso shot HARARE — A 20-year-old studentwas killed and a farmerwas shotandcritically wounded in weekendpolitical violence in Zimbabwe, witnesses and news reports said. Lameck Chemvura was beaten and choked by soldiers who accused passengers on the Lawmakers of both factions say SEOUL — South Korea has decided to skip this year’s annual defense report, knownas the white paper, in whichit traditionally brands North Korea its “principal enemy.” ‘The decision comes amid stall in reconcili- moneyfrom him,his U.S. lawyer, Jerome Cohen,said. from the baby’s father and herparents. She gavebirth on June6, 1997, in a restroom while SOUTH KOREA Governmentskips defense report MACEDONIA that usuallycriticizes North January is too soonforele¢tions SKOPJE — Macedonia’s fragile peace must be strengthened before the Balkan country can train boundforthe eastern city ofMutare of supporting the opposition party Movementfor Democratic Change, witnesses said. On Sunday, Alan Bradley,36, was in critical condition Mondayafter being shotin the arm and chest while returningto his farm 120 miles southeast of Harare,said a spokeswoman for the Commercial Farmers Union. in silicone testicleim- plants for men missing one or both, told the Zdmonton Journal that he can now offer special implants forfully testicled men who merely wantbigger ones. Dead Wrong:Scott Benderfiled a lawsuit against U.S. Airways in October, charging that acrew on February flight from North Caroing in his seat. Bender said he deserves some ‘money from the airline because when he woke Thestudy in today’sissueof the journal Circulation found that families with a variant of a gene called thrombospondin-4 were 89 percent more likely to have a premature heart attack compared with those whohad a normal gene of the same pe. Researchers also found thata variant of the gene thrombospondin-1 was 10 times more likely to form blood clots, while a variant of another" gene — thrombospondin-2 — actually reduced the tisk of heart attack by 69 percent. The study looked at 400 families at 15 medical centers across the United States. Eric Topol, the study's author, said the research could lead to a screening procedure to identify at-risk families at an early age. He said the next step is for others to replicate hisfindings and show the cause-and-effect relationship between the suspect genesand heartillness. NOTED Died: Melanie Thornton, an American pop singer who made a name for herself in Germany with the duo La Bouche, and was among the victims of anairliner crash in Switzerland on Saturday. ‘She was 34. Today’s Birthdays: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is 44. Rocker Charlie Benante (Anthrax)is 39. Actress Robin Givensis 37. ActorJalee! Whiteis 25. * _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Sarthe Derry (eek ato) Only oe‘a ai o as eer “RatesmayvaryoutsidetheSaltlakemetropolitan area.” ADVERTISING NUMBERS Classified Advertising . (001) 29-2000 Dieplay Advertising rseee a ability to clot, a factorin heart disease. 2: seconds that he was dead. — Compiled by Chuck Shepherd eae Scientists say they have found evidence linking three genesto premature heart disease in what could be a step toward a better screening procedureforfamilies at risk. Using a new techniquecalled high throughput microarray genotypingtosift through 50,000 genes,the researchers foundthatthree produce thrombospondin. The protein governs the blood’s : _up,it was pitch black, and he thought for afew eo peg Genestied to early heart attacks Sfaesasees eas’ *** ieeetheving ails NON SEQUITUR NEWS OF THE WEIRD Neo Science:In August, the Food.and Drug Administration approved the artificial Neosphincter,a prescriptiot operated device to give relieffor ed incontinent people; although the deLs vice recorded too many “adverse incidents”in trials to be marketed to the general population, it claimeda 9 percent success rate for patients ee eee surreon Robert Stubbs, who actually have a lot more enemiesbeing star than you do being a normal person, because some people getjealous, somepeople don't think you're fit for it, or some people just wanna be doing what jyou do.” process. Woman whogavebirth at prom, then killed baby, freed from om jal She was originally charged with murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge ofaggravated manslaughter. Prosecutors opposed her release “because we oppose early parole on general principles,” Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kayesaid Saturday.“Butthelikelihood ofher constituting a threat to the public is minimal.” Being a popstaris a lot harder than Aaron Carter thoughtit would be,the 13-year-old brother of Boy Nick Carter told AP Radio. “You nic Albanians moretime to shore up the peace The peace accordsigned in Augustcalls for January elections. from the Edna MahanCorrectional Facility, said Deidre Fedkenheuer,a spokes- them.” give majority Macedonians and minority eth- CLINTON,N.J.— tacks, sent soldiers on Mondayin pursuitof the Maoist rebels across the Himalayan kingdom. Therebels, who havebeenfighting for six years to oust Nepal’s monarchyandto install a socialiststate, broke offa four-month cease-fire with a series ofattacksthat havekilled 76 soldiers, police officers and governmentofficials since Friday. * ‘Twenty-eight people were killed Sunday nightalone in Solukhumbu,125 miles north of Katmandu,Interior Security Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka said. have moreof a respect for the things you eat whenyougo throughor see the processofkilling planned for January, should be postponed to woman whogave heina _ KATMANDU — Nepal, plunged intoa state of emergency after a rash of deadly guerrilla at- Not only has Madonnatakenona Brit accent and a London address,sheis now thinkinglike one.In rareinterview with BBC Radio One, Madonnasaid someof her happiest moments occurred while walking in the English countryside and pheasant shooting.“When you're shooting, you are standingin the forest for really long periodsoftime, so you end uplooking at the leaves and the sky and the trees and you havea lot of time to meditate,” said Madonna.“I eat birds. 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