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Show I - ·- -~ THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• MONDA¥, MRIL 6, 1998 U.S. DIGEST 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF KING DEATH MARKED: Friends and followers of Martin Luther King Jr. marked the ' 30th anniversary of his death Saturday by finishing a march for justice he never lived to complete. King was murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968, while helping organize a strike by city sanitation workers. A protest march, with King in the lead, had been planned four days later. The Rev, Jesse Jackson, addressing a rally at the end of the commemorative march, urged listeners to ask themselves what King would be doing now if be were alive. " His focus was not merely black and white," Jackson said. "It was wrong and right." r-----. SONNY BONO'S WIDOW AND RALPH WAITE VIE FOR CONGRESSIONAL SEAT: In a sprawling desert district best known as a haven for retired celebrities, the young widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono is ...___,,.,_ trying to carry on his political legacy. Tomorrow, Republican Mary Bono faces . Democrat Ralph Waite, who played "Pa" Ralph Waite John Walton on "The Waltons," in a special election to fill the 44th Congressional District seat left vacant by Bono's death in a skiing accident. 'LOST IN SPACE' BUMPS 'TITANIC' FROM 15WEEK HOLD ON TOP BOX OFFICE SLOT: Lost in Space, the movie version of the campy 1960s television series, knocked the record-setting Titanic from its 15 week reign yesterday as the top film in North America, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Lnc. Preliminary figures showed the film grossing $20.S million in its opening weekend. Titanic, which recently won a record-tying l l Oscars, was No. 2 with $1 1.6 million - a 24 percent drop in ticket sales from the previous week. .... ,. - . THE NATION =- 11111 Clinton glad case not going to trial case dismissed and putting this behjnd us is WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton says plainly in the best interest of the country." that if he were an average citizen, "Joe SixClinton again denied Jones' charges that as Pack," he might regret not getting his day in Arkansas governor in 1991 he made unwanted court against Paula Jones. But as president, he says, he's glad the case was dismissed and be can sexual advances in a Little Rock, Ark. hotel room. get on with his job. Asked about the Supreme Court decision to let Americans are telling pollsters they want the the civil case against a sitting president proceed, independent counsel's investigation of the Clinton said he has president to end as done his best to well. live up to the With a federa l court's opinion court decision last that the lawsuit week to dismiss would not affect Jones' sexual his job. harassment lawsuit U.S. District against the "' Judge Susan president, friends of . ~ Webber Wright, the president said ~ who dismissed the yesterday that the ~ case, told time is right for ~ Newsweek: " f Clinton to speak ~ don't feel like my out on the other .., decision was sensational case i: courageous. I'm against him: sworn to follow allegations of a White House adviser Rahm Emanuel, left, appears on the law and I tried -sexual relationship NBC's 'Meet the Press' yesterday in Washington. to do that. I just with former intern want to go back to being a regular judge." Monica Lewinsky of urging her to lie about it. "The American people want less, not more," Clinton, in an interview in the Time magazine adviser Rahm Emanuel, on NBC's 'Meet the edition on newsstands today, said the end of the Press,' said of the investigations. Jones case helps not only him but the United "We have important business to do as well, the States. president does have a day job, and it's running " If l were just a private citizen, Joe Six-Pack, I the only superpower on God's earth," said would have mixed feelings about not getting a another White House adviser, Paul Begala, on chance to disprove these allegations in court," ABC's 'This Week with Sam Donaldson and Clinton told Time. But he added: "I don't have Cokie Roberts.' mixed feelings as president, because having the THE WORLD WORLD DIGEST ANOTHER SHARP QUAKE HITS CENTRAL ITALY: Fans fled a soccer stadium in a small Umbrian town and tourists hurried out of St. Francis Basilica in Assisi yesterday when another sharp earthquake struck central Italy. The quake has a preliminary magnitude of 4.5, making it weaker than the 5.0 quake that jolted the region on Friday and damaged 300 homes. Sunday's quake did no apparent damage to the Assisi basilica, whose lower-level church was filled with Palm Sunday visitors. Thousands of people have been sleeping in tents qr trailers since the first quakes in September punched the region, leaving 10 dead. FORMER MILLI VANILLI DUO MEMBER DEAD: Rob Pilatus, a former model whose career as half the pop music duo Milli Vanilli crashed in disgrace and drug addiction after it was revealed that the group lip-synched its songs, has died, Bild am Sonntag newspaper said yesterday. He was 32. Pilatus was alone when he died in a Frankfurt hotel room late Thursday after consuming alcohol and pills, the newspaper reported. The Rob Pilatus newspaper quoted Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian as saying Pilatus had been drinking Thursday evening. MORE THAN 2 MILLION MUSLIMS ARRIVE IN MECCA FOR PILGRIMAGE: From across the world, more than 2 million Muslims swathed in white arrived in the holy city of Mecca yesterday to perform the annual pilgrimage that for many fulfills a lifelong dream. Hoping to prevent a catastrophe similar to last year, when a fire killed at least 343 people and injured 1,500, Saudi authorities are using fireproof tents and have banned pilgrims from cooking inside them. The pilgrimage culminates Monday, when the pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat where the Prophet Mohammed gave his last sermon 14 centuries ago. Pope opens Holy Week with Palin Sunday Mass VATICAN CITY (AP}- Opening Holy Week services, P<;>pe John Paul Il yesterday blessed palms and olive branches and dedicated his thoughts to youths preparing for a huge rally in Rome in 2000. . On a warm but windy morning, John Paul led a nearly three hour Palm Sunday Mass and ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Tens of thousands of faithful waved palm fronds and branches from olive trees when the pope, aboard · an open-topped "popemobile," moved through ~ the crowd. Palm Sunday begins a week of solemn Catholic ::l ceremonies that culminate seven days later on .... Easter, when faithful recall the resurrection of Jesus Christ. C The nearly 78-year-old John Paul has pinned much of his hope for a rejuvenated church in the ~~~~!!!~~~~~_J next millennium on young Catholics who he Pope John Paul II holds a staff topped by an hopes will reject excesses of consumerism and olive branch as a breeze lifts his mantle during abide by Vatican rules on sexual matters, such as the Palm Sunday celebration in St. Peter's the bans on sex before marriage, contraception Square at the Vatican yesterday. and abortion. · The pope told young people their choice was streams of Christian pilgrims gathered at the top "clear ... discover the sense of your existence and of the Mount of Olives yesterday to trace Jesus the source of your missionary enthusiasm." Christ's final journey into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday also marks the Catholic church's Palm Sunday marks Jesus' triumphant annual celebration of World Youth Day. entrance into Jerusalem the Sunday before his The pope also is to lead a vigil service Saturday crucifixion, when his followers laid palm and Mass in St. Peter's Square on Easter ~unday. branches in his path. The day begins the In Jerusalem, with palm fronds poking out of Catholic church's most solemn period, the week their backpacks and video cameras in hand, that ends with Easter Sunday. |