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Show The Salt Lake Tribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune newsservices by Melissa Galbraith TUESDAY,January 21, 2003 AHE GLOBE VENEZUELA Oil monopoly president urges striking workersto return to jobs Thereis nothing funny PLAYFUL SINGING about the comments about Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in last year’s film comedy “Barbershop,” says Spike Lee. The filmmaker says he is concemed that young movie- CARACAS — The president of Venezuela's oil monopolyurged striking workers to return to the job Monday, saying their bid to oust President Hugo Chavez washurting the coun- goers will form theirfirst impressions ofthecivil rights try andwouldfail iconsfrom bitter character, The countrywide strike, which began Dec. 2 played by Cedric the Enter- with calls for Chavez's ouster, has severely disruptedthe oil industry, which provideshalf of tainer in the movie, who belittles Parks’refusalto move to the backof the bus. Healso didn’t find it government revenue for Venezuela. About 45,000 oil workers have joined the strike, and Chavez hasfired more than 1,000. “The objectives you haveset are unreach. able, * Ali Rodriguez, presidentof Petroleos de funny when the character accused King of being sexually promiscuous, he told a Lauderhill, Fla., Boys & Girls Club over the weekendat an event honoring King’sbirthday.“If our young children grow up thinkingthis, andthat'sall they know about[Parks and King], then we're in trouble," said Lee, 46. ela S.A., said onstate television. RodTez appointed by Chavez andis one of his chiefallies, Negotiations sponsored by the Organization of AmericanStates began late last year but havefailedto resolvethesituation. The Directors Guild of America will honordirector Martin with a lifetime achievement NETHERLANDS award, its highest tribute, duringits 55th annual awards ceremony March 1 in Los Angeles. Scorsese, 60, has. a directing career spanning more Ex-leader of Serbia turns self in to Yugoslav war crimestribunal than four decades and his work includes “Taxi Driver,” “The Age of Innocence,” “Raging Bull,” “Casino” and “GoodFellas.” Scorseseis being honored for nurturing youngfilmmakers and his ‘THE HAGUE— Serbia’s former president surrenderedto the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Monday toface charges that he was com- Suzanne Plunkett/The Associated Press the official i, Students sing a traditional Afghan in Kabul, and the reopening of Kheir Khana Ki The $22,000 project the British government, charities and troops who donated proceeds from bingo games and auctions. plicit in a crackdownonethnic Albanians. Ata meeting with chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, Milan Milutinovic wasinformed of hisrights. A prosecutio1 fight to preservethe legacy of motion picture art for future generations, guild president Martha Coolidge said. eye okeswomansaid that the possibility of his testifying in theSlobodan Milosevic case wasnotraised. UGANDA During his presidency of Yugoslavia’s largest republic, Milutinovic was mostly a agent ‘ime. E Takanohana told reporters. His newsconference was televised live on all Congolese rebel leaders deny UN.chargesof cannibalism fense council, Milutinov potentially incriminating evidencethat U.N. major Japanese networks. Prime Minister Ju- KAMPALA — Theleaderof a Congolese rebel group backed by Uganda denied Monday thathis forces were involved in cannibalism, as U.N.investigators claim. Roger Lumbala, leader of the Congolese Rally for Democracy-National, or RCD- prosecutors wantaired in court. Milutinovic was chargedin the sameindictment as Milosevic and three other prominent Yugoslav officials in May 1999 for allegedly leading a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo. National, said people living in the northern Milutinovic has denied he had any role in warcrimes in Kosovo. and northeastern Congoareas underhis group's control were safe from such atrocities. U.N. investigators have found evidence of cannibalism, rape,killing and torture in north- ITALY eastern Congo and accused RCD-National and anotherrebel group, the Congolese Liberation Doctorinvestigated for claims of helping baby-cloning project Movement, of being the perpetrators. The Congolese governmenthassaidit will press for World Court prosecutionofthe offendingrebels. ROME— Italianauthorities are investigat: ing a fertility doctor whoclaims to have contributedto ret human cloning projects, a police official said Monday. TheAssociated Organized crime suspected in attack on gay massageparlor Sumo grand champion Takanohana, 30,said that he Is “at peace” with his decision to retire. JAPAN CAPE TOWN Anexecution-style attack early Monday at a Cape Townhouse usedas a gay massage parlor killed eight men and badly Retirement of grand champion hits alreadyreeling sport of sumo woundedtwo,police said. Manyofthose killed had been tied up and shotat close range, Capt. Etienne Terblanche, TOKYO — Already hurt bya declinein pop- a police spokesmansaid. Their throats were alsoslit. Six men diedat the scene and two more died laterin the hospital. Two other wounded menwereinthe hospital in serious condition, Terblanchesaid. ularity anda scarcity of youngstars, Japan’s ancientsport of sumo took another majorhit Mondayas Takanohana,oneofits greatest wrestlers, announced his retirement. Thedeparture ofthe 6-foot 1-inch, 330-pound “organized crime was champion. “Initially, I had some mixed feelings about retiring, but I'm at peace with my decision,” The Lesbian andGay Ex Tessa and Martha, Meet Miranda: A Mon free under existing law to arguethatsheis tana district judge ruled in January thatfor a, not responsible for Martha's crime). | homicide suspect with apparent multiple personalities, exercise of a Mirandaright by one | | Undignified Deaths: A 55-year-old man fell to his death from a hotelrailing as he was reaching for documents being blown away by the wind (Cebu, Philippines, October). And a ‘72-year-old man accidentallyfell to his death from a cliff at Buck’s Pocket State Park in Al- and spontaneously confessed to the crime, ac- abamaas hethrustinto the air the ashes of cording to officers. Judge Thomas Honzel ruled that Martha's statements could not be his recently deceased son (October). GENEVA — TheUnited Nations’ human rights watchdog elected a Libyan diplomat Mondayas this year’s president, overriding objections from the United States that the country’s “horrible” record disqualifies it for such a post. Riding on a waveofAfrican solidarity, Libyan ambassador Najat Al-Haijjaji received votes from 33 countries in her bid to lead the 53-memberU.N. Human Rights Commission in its annual session starting in March. ‘The United States and two other nations Al-Hajjaji said the U.S. moveset“a bad precedent” because it undermined respect for the regional groupingsand worsensworld divisions by labeling countries as “bad guys or good guys.” “IT don’t think there is any country free of human rights violations,” Al-Haijjaji said. Hecalled the finding “a very important contribution.” NOTED In Critical Condition: Yolanda Harris, who jumped in front of her daughterto protect her from a car that was accidentally driven through a ceremony in Dyersburg, Tenn., honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The 89-year-old driver, Annie Battles, thought she waspressing the brakeinsteadof the accelerator. Died: Morris Kight, a pioneering leader in Southem California's gay rights movement, on Sunday at a Los Angeles hospice. He was 83. He washospitalized in Decemberin declining health with variety of ailments thatincluded liver cancer and heart problems. Died: Charlie Webber, who played trumpetfor the Swingin’ Medallionsatthe time of the band’s 1966 hit “Double Shot[of My Baby's Love],” on Friday of cancerin Greenwood,S.C., at 58. Today's Birthdays: Tenor Placido Domingo is 62. Actor RobbyBenson is 47. 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LF Compiled by Chuck Shepherd NEWSROOM ‘Arts & Entertain Desk Business Desk were more apt to play with thetoy. The study, which appearstodayin the journal NON SEQUITUR NEWS OF THE WEIRD used against Haley(although Haley is still SWITZERLAND Libyan chosen to head U.N.rights commission over U.S. objections voted againsther, and 17 abstained. wrestler leaves the Hawaiian-born Musashimarua s sumo’s only active yokozuna, or grand, Leonard Ramatlakane, safety andsecurity minister for the province,saidit lookedlike likely to appear worried or to frown, scowlor cry. Whenthe actress was enthusiastic, the infants Campos,a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Theparty of skiers from the United States SOUTH AFRICA of the study.“It was quite striking to us that 1year-olds were able to gather that muchinformation from a 20-secondtelevisionclip.” Whenthe actress responded to toywith fear, the babies avoided playing with it and were more about whata personis emoting,” said Joseph had traveled by helicopter to a remote camp,using thatas a base for ski touring,said Pearce. used donoreggs and hormonesto help a postmenopausal63-year-old Italian woman become pregnant. Salt Lake City, Utah. POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Salt Lake ‘Tribune at the above address. psychology at Tufts University and the lead author skiing in Canadian Rockies people died and two were rescued. But Bob Pearce, a spokesman for the British Columbia Antinori made headlines in 1994 when he reacting to a toy with a show ofeither negative or positive emotion, year-old infants in the study dis- looking, and of course, they pick up the emotion,” said Donna Mumme,anassistant professorof Avalanchekills § Americans Ambulance Service said there were 12 people rescued. The victims’ names and hometowns were not immediately rele h about the reported pregnancies, Leading fertility experts have questioned Antinori’s claims. new study has found. After watching a videotape of an adult actress CANADA There were conflicting reports of how many birth in January. He wouldsay onlythat he Even babies can beinfluenced by emotional messages delivered througha television screen, a played similar emotionsin their interactions with the toy. “They are able to pick up where a personis DurrandGlacierin the Canadian Rockies. Regional coroner Ian McKichansaid eight hadgiven a “cultural andscientific contribu- TV emotions influence infants time, fewer youngsters havebeen willing to take on the rigorous sumolifestyle. people were caughtin the snowslide near the tion”toa consortium ofscientists involved in the pregnancies. Antinori has refused to commentfurther (ISSN 0746-3502) . or been slowed by age andinjury. At the same day in eastern British Columbia, officials said. Severino Antinori announced in November The altLakeTribune sumo. Attendance has dropped in recent yeers, as the sport’s most celebrated stars have quit REVELSTOKE,British Columbia —Eight backcountry skiers from the United States were killed andatleast two injured when an avalanche crashed down a mountainside Mon- that three women had been impregnated with cloned embryos, saying thefirst would give of them carries overtoall the others, Tessa Haley lawyered up when police sought to question her aboutthe stabbing death of her roommate, and though police questioning ceased, Haley transformedinto “Martha” nichiro Koizumicalled the news“regrettable.” Takanohana won22 tournaments since he debuted in 1988 — the fourth-best record in sumo history. His departure comesata bleak period for Advertising, printing and distribution of The Salt Lake Tribune is handled ‘Newspaper ‘Agency Corporation, 4th floor, Tribune Bulding, 143 S. 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