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Show She Salt Lake Tribune Compiled from Tribune news services PAGE2 by Richard Streeby } WEDNESDAY,July 30, 2003 GRABBING THE HEADLINES FR es | Acute hip discomfort has forced music legend Ray Charles to post- pone upcoming concert dates, his — publicist said. Charles, 72, has had Nation'slast SARS patients cured; world epidemic declared contained BEIJING cartingeenans eit tos Angeles, spoketman. leery Digney said Monday. The singer, who was 7 when he lost his sight, China's last 12 SARSpatients were declared cured on Tuesday, marking at least a temporary endto the epidemicin the has won 13 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award. The postponements ountry whereit started and where it hit hardest Most of the 12 patients, all of whom had been affect 14 concerts starting with a scheduled appearance today in Worcester, Mass., Digney said. Charles expects. to resume his national tour with late summer and fall hospitalized inBeijing, remained under treat ment for complications caused by severe acute concert dates beginning Aug. 22 at Harrahs Casino in respiratory syndrome. Escondido,Calif. But they were free of SARS symptoms and not infectious, according to official news reports quoting Liang Wannian, thedeputy directorof the Beijing Municipal Bureauof Health. Oscar-nominated actress Diane Lane has sued a movie production company for about$2.7 million, alieg- China, not including Hong Kong, suffered 5,327 SARS cases, including 349 deaths. ing it failed to finance a film she was slated to star in or sign up Bruce Willis as her co-star. in the lawsuit filed Monday in Superior Court, Lane alleges thatIntermedia Film Equities USA agreed to pay her$3.5 million Globally, the epidemic has claimed morethan 800 lives and caused more than 8,400infectionsin nearly 30 countries. The World Health Organiza- regardless of whether the movie entitied “Me Again” tion hasdeclared the worldwide epidemic con. tained. was made — a provision known in the film industry as “pay orplay.” Lane, 38, claimsIntermedia made three UNITED NATIONS paymentsto her in June, totaling around $833,000, buthas failed to pay any more,leaving a balance of about $2.7 million. Most countries neglectingto file reports on activities of al-Qaida Somecountries are not reporting al-Qaidaac tivities to the United Nation: AmcPresfile photo Jamaican rapper Sean Paul has been charged with using profanity during a performanceat Montego Bay's Reggae Sumfest last weekin Jamaica, Paul's performance Thursday night was laced with expletives, police commander Newton Amossaid Monday. Authorities served him with a summonsundera law prohibiting people from using profanity in public. He is scheduled to appearin court today in MontegoBay,police said. Paul was not immediately available for comment. Protestersrally outside parliament in Tokyo earlier this month against a measure to send troops toIraq. they wouldbestigmatized bythepresenceofter- rorists, the chairmanof a U.N. committeesaid JAPAN Tuesday Passage ofbill to send troops to Iraq divides country overrisk of casualties Only 64 of the191 U.N. member stat v3 have submitted reports on what they have done to implement sanctions against al-Qaida and Afghanistan's former Tali- TOKYO Whenthebill a pacifist constitution written bulwarkagainst such potential by U.S. occupiers and there are threats as North Korea. mayhembrokeout in Japan’s usually staid Parliament as deep worries about the mission. Many fear casualties are likelyin Iraq, and that prospect is especially irksome to those lawmakers shoved, shouted and whosee it as an American, and Koizumi said Tuesdaythat Japan has a dutyto help reconstruct Iraq. “Japan can’t just focus onitself and ignore other countries... It has to play a sanction monitoring committee. jumped on desks in outrage. The uproar underlined the worry aboutanystep that ccording to U.N. officials, the list includes 254individuals and 99 groups, organizations and challengefacing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in win: links to the Taliban and 102 individuals and 98 ning over a public skeptical about Japanese soldiers head- gue that Japan needs to take on ing to.a war zonefor thefirst more ofthe risks and burdens per Asahisaid 33 percent of time since World War Ll. faced by other countries on the world stage. They also point to a need to stand by the United States, a keyally and important Japanese supported the mission, while 55 percent opposed sending troops to Iraq, mainly because of the danger. banrulers, said Heraldo Munoz,Chile's U.N. am: bassador and head of the committee monitoring thesanctions. All nationsare required to impose an arms em bargo and impose a travel ban and freeze the assets of individuals and groups ona list compiled by the companies 152 individuals andoneentity with entities with linksto al-Qaida RUSSIA Italy's premier suggests Putin meet with popetoease church tensions MOSCOW Italian PrimeMinister Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday that he and Russian President Viadimir Putin arestriving to easeten sions betweenthe Vatican and the Russian Or thodox Church. Berlusconi suggested Putin could meet with Pope John Paul {1 when the Russian leader visits Italy in November, Althoughit would not betheir first meeting,it wouldbea symbolically signif: icant gesture. John Paul has made healing the 1,000-year-old schismwith the Orthodox Church akey effort of his papacy, visiting sev- eral mostly Orthodox nations andexpressingregretfor the wrongs committed by the Catholic Church against Orthodox Christians. Orthodox leaders resent what they seeas Catholic attempts to poach converts in Russia. passed to send around 1,000 Japanese troopsto Iraq to help U.S.-led reconstructionefforts, perhaps unjustified, war. Some might lead to a revival of Japa- nese militarism. Supporters of the mission ar- ‘This isanationthat has shunnedmilitaryactions for morethanahalf-century under ambition Berlusconi strongly supported Tues legal aid andhuman rights grouprun by women is rulingwill helpdeter others who com DHAKA — Bangladeshi court sentenced a man to death by hangingfor hurling acid on his year-old wife, leaving herpartially deaf and blind, oneof her lawyers said Tuesday ‘The accused, Swapan Gazi, poured a glass of acid on thegirl's face and head after sherefused to leave her parents’ housefor his, lawyer Salma atmospheric chemist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, cautioned thatthe effects had been found allegedly being beaten over the weekend by her rock star boy- a friend. At the request of fam- performed Tuesday on the 41-year- Gee TA istastar ina bid to ease pressure on her brain caused by cerebral hemorrhagingandbring heroutof the coma,said Robertas Kvascevicius, a physician treating her at Vilnius University Hospital. 30 brokeout nearly simultaneously on Monday foundin the region, local officials said. ‘The mayor of Roquebrune-Sur-Argens, Luc Trintignant’s condition remained unchanged. Police identified her boyfriend, French rock singerBertrand Cantat, as a suspect, and began to question him Tuesday about the alleged attack Sundayin the DominaPlaza Hotelin Lithuania's capital where Trintignant was staying with her mother, son and Cantat. Jousse, calledthefires “a new formofterror: ism,” althoughauthorities werestill investigat Cantat, lead singer of the popular French band Noir Desir (Black Desire), had been admitted to the ing and had notdefinitely determinedthe cause, Firefighters met with somesuccessbattling the fires near the westernportionof the French Riviera, but at least onere-erupted Tuesday east sal.It will be at least four orfive decades before the ozone layer rebuildsto the levels seen before the damage started, he said, | | Hung: A jury Tuesday in the police brutality case against white former officer Jeremy Morse, who. ily members, Geen cait werecausedby arson. Molotov cocktails were | a second operation was -~ about | | only in the uppermost stratosphere, whereless than 20 percentof the ozonelayeris situated. He also stressed that what has been detectedis just a notable slowingof the rate of ozone loss,not a rever- was hospitalized in a “deep coma” Tuesdayafter SAINTE-MAXIME — Forest fires swept throughparts of theritzy French Rivierafor a second day Tuesday, devastating scenic woods Authorities speculatedthat the blazes Thefindings, from satellite measurements,are to be publishedin a coming edition of the American Geophysical Union's Journalof Geophysical Research, They VILNIUS — Frenchactress Marie Trintignant Rivieraforestfires cause 4 deaths, evacuation ofthousands of people four people havebeen killed. internationaltreaty. But the destructive substances take decadesto decay, resulting in the long lag before any beneficial effects could be measured. | were released publicly on Tuesday by that private sci | entific group and the authors. | The study'slead author, Michael Newchurch, an after alleged beating by rock star into marrying himwithout her parents consent, in 1998. Thegirl's father, a poor rickshawpuller, refused tolet her set up housekeeping with Gazi, saying she couldnotleaveherfamily until she cameofage. A monthafter their marriage, Gazi went to the girl's house andinsistedthat she come away with him. Hethrew acid on her whensherefused. Neighbors whoheard her cries caught Gazi and turned him in to police. andforcing thousands to be evacuated. Atleast in 1989,with enactment of the Montreal Protocol, an THUAN a actress is ji 2 French isin a deep coma ladesh National Women Lawyers Association. inhis twenties,forcedthethird grader BANGLADESH Husbandwho threwacidon his 9-year-oldwife sentenced to hang The phasing outof the most important class of these chemicals ~ chiorofluorcarbons, or CFCs — began ing started several fires. mit such crimes,” said Salma Ali of the Bang. NoTEeD | punched and siammed a handcuffed black teenager onto a squad car during a videotaped arrest in Inglewood, Calif. Delayed indefinitely: The trial of serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph, A feceral judge said both sides need moretime to prepare for whatcould be a death penalty case. Sentenced: To up to 49 years Tuesday, Edward Johnson and JamesBurns, in the kidnapping of EricaPratt, then 7, who chewed through duct tape to escape a squalid basementin Philadelphialast summer. Today's Birthdays: Actor Dick Wilson (Mr. Whipple”) is 87. Jazz musician David Sanbornis 58, samehospital Sundayafter drinking “dangerously high” amountsof alcohol,police said. ‘The Tuesdayedition of Lietuvos Rytas newspaper quoted physician Anele Pavinksniene, who said the singer's right fist was bruised. of Draguignan, about30 miles from the fashion . Scientists monitoring the highest levels of the atmosphere say they have detected a slowing in the rate of destructionof the earth's protective veil of ozone - the. first sign that the phasing out of chemicals that harm. the ozonelayer is having a restorativeeffect. The ozone layerblocks ultraviolet radiation from the sun that can cause skin cancer and harm ecosystems,it has deteriorated for decades, especially in Antarctica, under an assault from synthetic chemicals. ment voted Saturday to authorize the Iraq mission. A recentpoll bythe newspa- Policein Draguignan said they had detained a 30-year-old municipal employee from the nearby villageof Figanieres, who was suspected ofhav- industrial town of Tongi in Gazipur district, 20 milesnorth of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. A . Ozonedestructionis slowing ableresort of Cannes, which was untouched. Ali said. Theattack happenedin1996 at a slum in the day A roleinthe international com- munity,” hesaidathis first news conference since Parlia- FRANCE Berlusconi and Putin also discussed bilz relations as well as Russia’s ties with the E pean Union, whose chairmanship Italy currently holds. Russia is looking for EU supportforits aspira tions to join the World Trade Organization, an FINDINGS Actor Arnold Schwarzeneggeris 56, Actress Delta Burkeis 47. Actress Vivica A. Foxis 39. Director Christopher Nolan is 33, NEWS OF THE WEIRD What recession? ‘The Salon Mexico restaurant in New York City introduceda $45 burrito in Ju ly, witha fillingoffilet mignon andtruffles. And for dogs. tee hearing in May, a Manhattan building owner dogs), joining Estee Lauder’s Origins line in the so-fur- uncrowded upscale pet haircare field. And a June runway show at Mitsukoshi Depart. U.S, Sen. Alfonse ’ Amato to makea singletelephonecall to the chairman of the Metropolitan ‘Transit Authority regarding a real-estate issue ing fashions suchas a yellow dog raincoat andfor which hepaid d’Amato $500,000, cently launched John Paul Pets (shampoos for mentStorein Tokyo featuredeight dogs model- (US$72) anda wedding dress and matching hat The SaltLakeTribune revealedthathe hadhiredas a lobbyist former that eventually wasdecided in the owner’s favor Compiled by Chuck Shepherd TRIBUNE NEWSROOM NUMBERS: (ISSN 0746.80) = Saaienet Ah 4 rs Rains 6, 1ST DELIVERY NUMBERS NEWSPAPER AGENCY CORP. Home & Life Desk a Justice/ Desk wisn News Desks 257 THI(82) Se wefar sled Gees rears weekdays Saturdays, W am Sun days call before | pan. 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