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Show The Balt Lake Tribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune news services by Brian Mac Intyre eas cer oa TUESDAY, November 18,2003; Me 7 * Bs a - GRABBING 2 a THE HEADLINES | |Pi a fF} Ogden singing UNITED NATIONS World bodysuspendsoperations in someparts ofAfghanistan motherof three and an insurance 4A company auditor, didn’t garner enoughvotes fromviewers after singing a rendition‘of the Jeffrey Osborne tune, “On the Wings of Love; on Thursday morning's show. Thatleavesjust twofinalists: Ryan Rotheof Piasa,Ill., and Anthony Campbell of Fredericksburg, Va. Stott, who has sung at a Utah Jazz game and Miss Utah pageant, said she has been considering proposals for singing projects since her success on the show. She said U.N.international staff from the southern provincial capital of Ghazni, where Bettina Goislard was killed Sunday, had been relocated to Kabul. Afghanstaff in the city were confined to their compounds and homes, she said. Striking miners discuss their situation, as their clothing and belongings hang from the ceiling at The United Nationsis continuingits operations in the northern half of Afghanistan, includ ingin the capital Kabul and thecities of Mazar-eSharif in the north and Herat in the west, she said. There are currently about 800 U.N. interna- strike in sixteen of the country’s 40 minesin defense RUSSIA Orthodox Church cuts ties with U.S. jobs scheduled for elimination under a governmentplan MOSCOW The Russian Orthodox Church announced Monday that it is suspending ties to restructure an with the U.S. Episcopal Church over its consecra industry that lost tion of an openlygaybishop, saying that homo sexuality is a sin and that it “cannot condonethe perversion of human nature.” “Homosexual sexual contact has always been considered a grave sin by the Christian Church,” the Russian Orthodox Church’s MoscowPatriarchatesaidin a statement posted on its Web site. “Biblical passages that condemn homosexuality are clear and unequivocal.” Thestatement said the consecration of Episcopal Church’sfirst openly gay bishop,the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, had“forced” the Russian Orthodox Churchto “freeze its relations” with the Episcopal Church USA. The Russian Orthodox Church is dominant in BOCHUM —Germany’s Social Democratsreelected Chancellor Gerhard Schroederas their party leader Mondayafter he said his plans to trim benefits and job protection were “‘bitterly necessary.” In a keynote speech to more than 500 delegates at a party conference, Schroeder highlighted his opposition to the U.S.-led warin Lraq and mounted a passionate defense of the welfarestate. Schroeder, who ran unopposed, was re-elected party chairman with nearly81 percent of the vote. However, Gerhard Schroeder that was down fromnearly89 percent in 2001. Schroederwill probablyseek a third four-year termin 2006 nationalelections $230 million last Ultranationalist wholed in vote thatfailed vows to carry onhis fight BELGRADE — Ananti-Western ultranationalist who had a surprisingly strong showing in Serbia’s failed presidential vote pledged Mondayto take his Radical Party to victory in next month’s key parliamentary elections. Serbia failed for a third time Sundayin just over a year to elect a president because voter turnout was belowthe 50 percent minimum required by the law. But in a major blowto the proWestern authorities, Tomislav Nikolicled hisri- val with 46 percentofthe vote. heart of Poland’s communist economy. The collapse of Sunday’s vote and the strong showingof Nikolic, an ally of Slobodan Milosevic, has raised newfearsof instability in this volatile Balkan republic. Nikolic told reporters that Serbia-Montenegro was slipping toward instability because of infighting and lack of leadership among the proWestern forces that ousted Milosevic in 2000. He argued that he and his supporters could “bring orderto the state,” if elected. “Maybe that time has come,” Nikolic said confidently. Any comeback of the pro-Milosevic forces would present a major setback for Washington. Serbia’s reformist authorities have become a key U.S. allyin efforts to stabilize the Balkans. Nikolic has pledged to have no moreextraditions of Serbs blamed for war atrocities. PORT-AU-PRINCE — Moststores closed and manyt@achersskipped class in Haiti’s capital Mondayin a strike called three days after rockthrowing supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide broke up a rally by governmentoppo- nents. 3 Drug stores, banks, bakeries and gasstations closed in Port-au-Prince, and manychildren hiked homeafter their teachers didn’t arrive. But market vendors were working and buses were runningas usual. A coalition of 184 civil groups called the oneday general strike, saying it wanted to send a message that government opponents should be able to assemble freely. | MADRID —Spain’s ruling party warned Catalan politicians Monday awayfrom anyalliance with a pro-independenceparty that made big gains in weekendelections, raising Madrid’s con- Sercet Garrs/ The Associated Press Opposition supporters debate during a rally outside the parliamentin Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday. GEORGIA Shevardnadzefirm in his resolve to hold onto office despite protests TBILISI cern over the separatist trend in one of Spain’s most prosperousregions. The pro-independence Republican Left nearly doubled its presence in Catalonia’s 135-member regional assembly from 12 seats to 23. That makes its support essential as the two main parties jockeyto form a government. Theleader of Spain’s ruling party, Mariano Rajoy, called on the conservative Convergence and Union coalition, which came out of Sunday’s election with the mostseats, “not to turn radical in their attempt to form a government.” Withoutfanfare, two Tufts University engineering researchers announced the results of a study last week rebutting a popular myth among some trumpetplayers that deep-freezing the instrumentswill change the soundfor the better. Rather, they told the Acoustical Society of America meetingin Austin, Texas, that scientific testing of cryogenically freezing 10 trumpets showed minimaldifferences when the instruments were thawed and played by six musicians. After two years of research, Chris Rogers, an engineering professor, said that he and colleagues determined that freezing trumpets did not make them sound better. “One of the great things about studying musical instruments, though,is if the player believesit will makea difference, he or shewill play better, so it acts as a sort of placebo,” Rogers said. * : There has been growinginterest among musicians in these treatments for brass instrumentsofall kinds. In experiments, the instruments were cooled withliquid nitrogen to minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit, and then slowly warmed,in the belief that they would become easier to play. A major flute manufacturer uses the process, and small storefront businesses have popped up for the sole purpose of freezing the instruments. The trumpet research is part of a musical instrument engineering program atTufts. NOTED Died: John Saunders, who wrote the comic strip soap opera “Mary Worth” for 24 years, taking it over from his father, on Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 79. Today's Birthdays: Actress Linda Evansis 61. Comedian Kevin Nealonis 50. Actress Elizabeth Perkins and singer Kim Wilde are 43. Singer Duncan Sheik is 34. Actress Chloe Sevigny is 29. Rapper Fabolous is 24. Opposition supporters blared their horns in a din ofprotest outside Georgia’s parliament Monday, but President Eduard Shevardnadze held firm in his refusal to meettheir demands as the country’s political crisis entered its The20-minutesonic assault was in responseto opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili’s call for nonviolent civil disobedience to demandsthat Shevardnadze resign and that allegedlyfraudulent parliamentaryelection results be nullified. The horn-blowing was timed to coincide with Shevardnadze’s traditional Mondayradiointerview. But in the broadcast and a subsequent briefing, the president flatly rejected demands to step down, saying the country’s presidential election will take place in April 2005, in keeping with the constitution. “The Georgian people, not some group,will decide whowill becomepresident,” he said. “No one will get the president's post by using force da ss : 47 Established April 1S, Wen Published daily and Sunday Group, P. 143 South inday byby the MediaNews Wa Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah. POST- Stores andschools close in capital to protest government crackdown Ruling party warns politicians against ties with emergent party NEWSOF THE WEIRD 78782 8700 78700 Govt/Environment Holly Mullen — Desk 257-8789 257 TRB = Newspaper in 27-8) Photography y Reader Advocate . 78888 Rolly & Wells 257-8757 Sports (no scores) 257-8610 257-8769 Hard labor: Among the 15 “worst” actual jobs in science (from the October issue of Popular Science): (15) counting fish (one by one, for hours) that swim by damsin the Pacific Northwest; (11) the only two government bureaucrats whose job is to convince Americans of the merits of the metric system; (7) researchers who reach into a cow’s rumento pull out and analyze the stomach contents; (4) mosquito catchers who endure up to 15 bites a minute on three-hour shifts and hope not to get malaria; (3) researchers who extract sperm from animals for studyor artificial insemination (and extracting from a pig is muchpreferableto extracting from a bull); and (1) “flatus odor judg- itt, who feeds subjects pinto beans, then gathers gases in plastic collection tubes direct from the source, and then has judges sniff as many as 100 samples, rating them for strength. A bloody marvel: Researchers at Panasonic’s Nanotechnology Research Laboratory near Kyoto, Japan, said in August that they have begun to generate electricity from blood, which they say may eventually yield enough powerto produce a human “battery” to run various implanted devices, such as pacemakers. Poweris produced by stripping blood glucose ofits electrons. Se es” working for gastroenterologist Michael Lev- TRIBUNE NEWSROOM NUMBERS ete. MASTER: Send address changes to The Salt Lake Tribune at the above address HAITI SPAIN itl Justice/Safety Desk Main St, Salt Lake City, Utab 94111. Periodicals Don't put your trumpetonice CzareK SoKOLOwSK!/TheAssociated Press andstagingrallies.” nna s FINDINGS third week. SERBIA-MONTENEGRO Satabticts for 18 years and which will take place in Cape Town on Nov. 29. potentialof a sector once at the Paris authorities detain 13 suspects in sweep against Islamic militants TheSalt LakeTribune 46664 concert, named after Mandela's prison number year. Most miners say government officials underestimate the FRANCE PARIS — Frenchanti-terrorism police took 13 people into custody Mondayin a sweep against Islamic militants in the Paris region, policesaid. The suspects were detained in several locations in and around Paris and several thousand dollars were seized, police said For weeks, French police have been working to crack a counterfeiting networkthat allegedly uses its proceedsto financethe Islamic militant movement. Investigators said the 13 people taken into custody were believed to be membersof the Takfir movement, a Sunni sect of Egyptian origin that preaches a radical form of Islam Sir Paul McCartney has written and recorded a song for Nelson Mandela’s AIDS campaign, teaming up with the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart to create “WholeLife,” reports www.Ananova.com. The track, written and recorded at the hallowed Abbey Road studios in London, will help raise awareness of the deadly disease in Africa. The duo got to work a day after the former South African president visited Britain to promote the of thousandsof Episcopal Churchovergaybishop Schroederre-elected to leadership of his party with no opposition speechwriter for Nancy Reagan. southern Polish down by two Afghan men on a motorcycle GERMANY miners went on mine in the city of Bytom,in the Goislard, 29, a widely respected U.N. High Commissionerfor Refugees worker, was gunned Russia and hasflocks in other former Sovietre- mining region of Silesia on Monday. Around 18,000 It turns out you won't have to waittill “sometime next year” to see the controversial TV movie “The Reagans," pulled by CBS for apparently failing to present a fair and balanced portrait of Ronnie, Nancy and Co. Showtimewill air the film at 8 p.m. Nov. 30. The Sony Pictures Television production stars James Brolin and Judy Davis as President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman (Tennessee Williams’ “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”), The Reagans’ script - by Jane Marchwood, Tom Rickman and Elizabeth Egloff - is based in part on “First Ladies," a book by Carl Anthony, a former the Rozbark coal morethan 500in publics. / off Monday, nearly becoming one oftwofinalistsin the“Today” show’s talent competition. Stotf,a The United Nations suspended operations in southern andeastern Afghanistan on Monday after the killing of a French U.N. workeranda series of terrorist attacks. 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