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Show TheSaltLakeTribune Compiled from Tribune newsservices by Kevin Roche PAGE 2 THURSDAY,January 31, 2002 Ke COLOMBIA Amyblockslooters, families of victims from airline wreckage CUMBAL — Troops warded off looters who trekked Wednesdayto the site where an Ecuadorean airliner crashed into a remote volcano in the Colombian Andes,andtried to hold back long band,filmmaker Guy Ritchie — mixed with a host of stars including models Helena Christensen and Kate Moss at the coe relatives of the 92 people killed in the crash. The Boeing 727-100 broke into pieces, most no more than feetlong, whenit slammed into the fog-covered mountainside on Monday and exploded. Authorities said there werenosurvivors, and few bodies have been foundintact. ‘The plane wascarrying 83 passengers, including seven children, and nine crew members. ise runs fromFeb. 1 to June ings together more than teel and black-and-white pictures by Testino, who was Princess Diana's favorite fash- Madonna and child Family members began arriving at a base camp used by rescuers and investigators near 15,721-foot Nevado del Cumbal, but a cordon of ‘Scary news forhorrorfans:It’s curtains for troops tried to prevent them from making the hike overslippery paths to the wreckageof the Stephen King’s careeras a writer. The prolific horror master, 54, whose “Rose Red” miniseries is a smash success for ABC despite lukewarm reviews,told the Los Angeles Times that he is tetiring from writing. But wait: First he'll finish five more books,two of which already are scheduled for 2002,as well as work on anotherlimited series for ABC.“Thenthat’s it,” he told the Times. “I'm done. Done writing books.” Ecuadorean TAME airliner. “We've closed access because it’s too dangerousfor peopleto be up in those mountains without equipmentand without knowledge of theterrain,” said Air Force Capt. William Hoyos. Othersoldiers at a checkpoint stopped everyone who descended the mountain who was nota rescuerandsearched them for looted goods. There was evidenceoflooting at the wreckage. Workers search through the wreckage of a crashed Ecuadoran airliner on Wednesday along Colombia's southern border with Ecuador. Noneofthe 92 passengers survived. GERMANY MACEDONIA Governmentretakes control of areas held by insurgents Limited imports of human cells winsparliamentary approval SKOPJE — Watched by international moni- BERLIN — Germany's parliamentvoted Wednesdayto allow limited imports of human embryocells for research, settling for a compromise after months of debate thatpitted the scientific and economic merits against moral tors, governmentsecurity forces moved gin- gerly into 10 villages Wednesday, broadening their controlof a swath ofnorthwestern Macedonia theylostlast year to ethnic Albanian insurgents. A European Union envoyalso reported progress on anotherkey elementof the Western-backed peace plan meantto reconcile concernsrooted in the country’s past. Theproposal allows for controlled imports of stem cells that have already been harvested from embryos, which meansno new embryoswould be destroyed. Embryonicstem cells are unspecialized the country’s main ethnic groups, saying Macedonian andethnic All leaders agreed on an amnesty law that would pardon the rebels who fought governmenttroops. Macedonia’s four leading political parties — both Macedonian andethnic Albanian — have cells found in embryos thatgiverise to the widely varied tissue types of the body. Using these cells is controversial because embryos mustbe destroyed in order to harvest them. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder had backed the proposal, whichstipulates thatthe cells can be imported only for projects of “overwhelming significance,” when no other research method can be used. ; Thepeace plan, which ended thefighting in gain controlof areas the rebels seized after Trial beginsfor 19 villagers accused of having sex with child SAINTE-ODE — From homes huddled launching an insurgency in February 2001, once lawmakers granted ethnic Albanians more rights and passed the amnesty law. MYANMAR Nineteenpeople living in Opposition leadersaid to talk secretly with chairman ofjunta and aroundSainte-Ode,a remotevillageof 2,000, go on YANGON — Opposition leader Aung San - round the village church, another darktale of child sex has crept out to shock Belgium. trial today, accused ofhaving sex with the daughter of Sainte-Ode reached agreementon an amnesty law,said Alain Le Roy,the EU special representativein Skopje. He said it would be presented to parliamentas soon as possible. August, envisioned the governmentwould re- BELGIUM a formerbar ownerstarting from whenshewas 12. Less than six years ago, Belgium was traumatized by the case of Mare Dutroux, accused ofraping andkilling younggirls in a case that madeinternational head- lines and held the performance ofBelgian po- lice up to ridicule. Thelatest scandal surfaced last year in the dead of winter whenthegirl, who had just turned 14, alerted police, claiming she had beenforced to have sex with her father and other menvisiting the home.Firstto be arrested were herdivorced fatherandhisgirl- friend, widely suspected of beinga prostitute. Thenthelist grew. There was the lumberjack,the car repair man,the phone companytechnician, an antique salesman. Rumors reached a peak when thevillage doctor was charged. Some,including the doctor, have denied theallegations. SuuKyi, who has been holding reconciliation talks with Myanmar’srulingmilitary, secretly metwith the junta leader last week,diplomats said Wednesday. Suu Kyi met on Jan. 22 with Senior Gen. Than Shwe, chairmanofthe State Peace and Development Council, as the ruling junta calls itself, a diplomat told The Associated Press. Oneoftheir few meetingsandthefirst this year, it came amidfears among diplomats that the U.N.-backed reconciliation process stalled. Than Shwehas final say in policy matters in Myanmar. IRELAND Pubs, too, may becometarget of public smoking prohibition DUBLIN — In a measure ofIreland’s growingintolerance oftobacco, the governmentsaid Wednesdayit intended to include pubs,the country’s major havenfor smokers,in a bill to outlaw smoking in mostpublic places. NEWS OF THE WEIRD Plies of Pies: Kimberly Herricks, 36, a manager for Donato's Pizza in Lakewood, Ohio, was indicted in Decemberfor stealing $38,000 from the company. The amountincluded the value of400 decaying pizzas found in the woman’s ga, Tage. According to police, Herricks hadin* vented big call-in orders at her restaurantfor schools, hospitals, andthe like, just to get her store’s sales figures up and her namein the company newsletter. She would then adjust the books to cover the costs and deliverthe pizzas, herself, to her own garage. She was busted whenshe asked herboss (the owner) to help SheSalLakeBribane (ISSN 0746-8602) . Established April 15,1871, Published (ely on Stabts KarasTron South Main St, Salt iaGy, Pertodicals Postage Paid ote POST: MASTERS‘end aatres changes to The Salt Lake Tribune at the aboveaddress. [ ion photographer. he would amendthe Public Health (Tobacco) In Rosie O’Donnell's coming memoir, talk TV's Queenof Nice talks about the death of her mother, being gay, her estrangementfrom herfather . . . Er, wait a second, rewind on that second item:Is Rosie officially coming out? It sure looks that way. In O'Donnell’s Find Me, due out April 23, the comedian talks about herrelationships with te these days of growing prosperity and > Health Minister Micheal Martin told lawmakers in the parliament’s health committee Bill to include pubs, which just a decade ago ve invariably dens of smoke-filled bonho- health awareness, many pubsnowcast a cold eye on smokers, cordoning them into specific zones. Martin announced theplan to include pubs after oppositionpoliticians in parliament accused him Wednesdayofseeking to allow pub owners — whoin manycases are supporters of the governing Fianna Fail party — room to wriggle free ofhis smoking-ban plans. CHILE Remainsfoundat base tied to Pinochet-era disappearances SANTIAGO — Chilean officials have found the remainsofup to 10 people believed to be victims of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet'sre- gime buried inside an armybase,ajudge said Wednesday. Experts are examining about300 pieces of bones retrieved from a mass grave at Fuerte Arteaga, an army regimentjust north of Santiago, Judge Amanda Valdovinos said. Valdovinos was oneofseveraljudges appointed by the Supreme Court last yearto search for of di peared after being arrested during Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship. Scores of people are thought to have been executedat the base in the days following the 1973 coup in which Pinochet overthrew Marx- Testfinds colon cancerearly Anewscreening test can find colon cancerin its early, curable stage by detecting extremely small traces of cancer genes in patients’ stool. The experimental test, still several years away from routine use, offers an entirely new approach to mass screeningfor colon cancer, which will kill an estimated 48,000 Americans this year. Doctors believe the test has the potential to be much more accurate than the currentstool test, which checksforblood. That test can also detect the disease early, but it misses some cancers, and the ones ft finds are outnumbered by false alarms. The newtestlooks for a genethatis usually faulty in the earliest stage of colon cancer.It finds the gene inside cancercells that are sloughed off into the stool. The testin its current form accurately found the bad genein 57 percent of people with early cancer or growths,but it gave no mistakenly positive results in people who were cancer-free. Researchers say that with fine-tuning, “they can makethetest 70 percent accurate and Still avoid alarming false readings. “All of these cancers are in theory curable if ist President Salvador Allende. AUSTRALIA ger test, would save-a lotof lives, and that's what we're shooting for.” Refugees end hungerstrike in return for action on asylum SYDNEY — The governmentnegotiated an end Wednesdayto a two-week hungerstrike by mostly Afghan refugees at an Outback detention camp,saying their asylum claims would be processed. Since Jan.16, hundreds ofillegal immigrants detained at Woomera — a former missile testing base on a hot, dusty plain 1,120 miles west of Sydney — had refused food to protest camp conditions and the lengthy process of claiming asylum. Immigration officials said 249 detainees,including 13 children andthree adults with their lips sewn together, resumed eating Wednesday. Dozensof others had removed stitches from their mouths on Monday and Tuesdaynights. NON SEQUITUR her moveto a new house, and he discovered the rottingpizzas. Inside Stony: Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach,Fla. in Decemberit will start selling human-implantable chips with space for about60 strandsof information this year. Initially, the chips will be available only in South America. In the United States, the company needs Food and Drug Administration approval, which might comelaterthis year. Right now,onlya few livestock havethe chips. —Compiled by Chuck Shepherd SLOC advertising in this newspaper has been donated by The Tribune in return for third-level Olympic donor designation. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier Delivery (4-week period) vor M8 Nev.) $14.0) Daily ; Sunday Only (All States) . women. O'Donnell’s camp neither confirms nor deniesthe reports. ‘Thanksgiving Daily & Sunday (Outside of Region) $25.00 Member Audit Bares of Circuiaiony “Rates inay vary outside theSalt lake metropolitan area.” ling Monday through Friday, 4a.m, (08 p.m., Saturday 4 a.m. to 10.a.m., ‘Sunday 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. Salt south Davis counties... 287-2900 Died: David W.Barry, 58, ofDurham,N.C., the scientist who helped devélop the first AIDS treatment, of a heart attack Monday. Died: Daniel De Luce, 90, a World WarIl Associated Press correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for feporting on partisan resistance to the Nazis in Yugoslavia, on Tuesday in San Diego. Today's Birthdays: Author Norman Mailer is 79. ‘Singers Phil Colling and KC (KC and the Sunshine Band)are 51 |
