Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday May 13 2000 — Page 7 0 lii brief 14-d- ay se iow-co- flop” st s ' - ' Women vie for Continental raises fares again but other carriers don't follow suit DALLAS (AP) Continental Airlines has raised fares again but most other carriers didn't match the increases immediately Continental raised all domestic' business and leisure fares Thursday night by $10 to $30 per round trip depending on mileage said spokeswoman Sarah Anthony She said the increase was needed to cover the rising cost of jet fuel Among the major carriers only US Airways matched the Continental increase by Friday afternoon Northwest Airlines which has often led resistance to other recent fare hikes won't match Continental on basic walk-u- p and advance-purchaseven-da- y and fares said spokesman Jon Austin But Northwest did match Continental's increase in tickets with severe purchase and use restrictions United American arid Delta the nation's three largest carriers' had not matched the increase as of Friday afternoon Southwest Airlines spokesman Ed Stewart said the ’ carrier which is based in Dallas and competes with Continental ' on many routes has no intention of raising fares Terry Tripplcr of 1 travel com an online seller of discount Uav- el tickets said the die may have been cast against Continental's move when Northwest Airlines matched only on the limited ' fares which are referred to as “garbage fares” in the industry “I don't think this one's going to fly” Trippler said “Even if everyone else agrees (with the increase) and Northwest doesn't it will fall Northwest is big enough to stop it It looks like a big ' " " Nicosia Cyprus (ap — an edge Americans have won Their aspirations are as varied seven limes since the first conas their backgrounds but 79 test in 1952 and Venezuela ' has produced four winners young women on this Mediterranean island have a common This year's Miss USA — dream: to become the first Lynnctte Cole 22 of Colum: Miss Universe of the new milbia Tenn — has said she lennium wants to be a children's advoThe 49th Miss Universe cate aitomey someday saying pageant broadcast live around that if she wins she would “fill the world culminates three the void in soine small way weeks of preliminary contests left by Princess Diana and in which the women were Audrey Hepburn'' who were judged for their beauty poise ' both activists for children But the Cypriot Church has personality wit and presence of mind condemned the pageant as an But today's event is not affront to feminism und called going off without a hitch Late for the vigil near the Friday about 100 people Elcflhcria stadium where the began a vigil near thesite ' ? pageant was being held The island's Westernized protesting a contest they say residents have largely ignored exploits women Judges already have chosen the church protests which — but not disclosed — the 10 have also targeted sponsors semifinalists after testing the linking the pageant to contestants in three competAphrodite the Greek goddess itions — swimsuit evening of love who according to leg- gown and interviews focusing end was bonToiit of foam ' on' their successes goals and washed up on Cyprus' coast ambitions Greek mythology says she Each one of the 18- - to 25- - was the winner in the r AP photo " contestants has an heauty'contest year-ol- d equal chance of Winning But Miss Finland Suvi Miinala wears curters as she walks along the garOS the Net: den of her hotel in Nicosia Cyprus on Friday! Women from 79 if history has any say Miss USA Miss and have Venezuela http:Wwwmissuniversecom countries are participating in the Miss Universe contest ' all-nig- ht ‘ - Illinois student takes math prize (AP) — An eighth grader from Aurora 111 ) won the national MathCounts competition Friday solving an algebra problem to beat out 227 other "mathletes" Ruozhou “Joe” Jia 14 a pupil at Washington Middle School solved the equation in IS seconds Contestants in the finals have 45 seconds to solve each problem hit thebuzzer and answer cor-- 1 rectly The final question was: “A lecture hall has 4Q rows of seats There are 10 seats in the first row 12 scats in the second row and so on with two more seats in each row than in the previous ' row How many scats are in the lecture hall? The Illinois student's correct answer “1960” won him a gold medal an $8000 scholarship a laptop computer and an expens- about some provisions White House budr WASHINGTON (AP) — Debt collecexample frorii calling indebted con- -' week at the original US Space Camp in Huntsville Ala ' tors could phone people at any time of ' get director Jack Lew wrote in a letter to sumers laic al night repeatedly dumping At the NASA camps children learn about space flight using day or night and them over the' phone or threatening crimicharge them high fees if senior lawmakers flight simulators and weightlessness tanks just like astronauts in they fail to make good on bounced checks nal prosecution without legal grounds “The president supports balanced contraining The competition held here since 1983 is sponsored by within a month under a proposal champSen 'Paul Sarbanes of Maryland the sumer bankruptcy reform' that would the CNA Foundation as well as several education groups and ioned by Senate Judiciary Committee encourage responsibility and reduce abu- JSenate Banking Committee’s senior businesses Chairman Oirin Hatch ' ses of the bankruptcy system on the part' of Democrat said the proposal would unfair Jia who wants to' Hatch is pushing the measure debtors and creditors alike” Lew said ly “allow unfettered collection activities' become an engi- as an amendment to “He believes that we can eliminate abuse not only against the individual writing a legislation that would neer has already make it harder for people to erase debts without hurting those forced to turn fo counterfeit check but also against the icori-- : completed a year of sumer whose checks have been forged” ' through bankruptcy which has raised bankruptcy” algebra ' ' consumer from advocates address did In recent years there have been many not letter Lew’s directly protests This year Jia : unions wpmeri’s groups and collectors on new debt Hatch's in which consumers' whose checks cases religious proposal said he solved leaders But it noted the administration's general had been stolen wcrc subjected to' about 4000 math The White House meanwhile on Fri- - view that the bankruptcy legislation must “harassing collection tactics” in violation problems this'year day reaffirmed its support for bankruptcy contain “appropriate safeguards against of the Fgir Debt Collection Practices Act to practice for the overhaul legislation in principle but said coercive creditor practices that compel Sarbanes wrote to Sen Patrick Leahy of oontest President Clinton would veto the Houser debtors to forgo their rights and that dis- - Vermont the Judiciary Committee’s Math marvels: Eighth graders Paul Ryu senior Democrat He said Hatch's proposleft who placed third Joe Jia center first passed yersion in its current form The advantage more scrupulous creditors” credifrom al would allow the practice to continue is bill has law more Current V Senate On the Net: protections acceptable although place and Tiankai Liu second place after It creditors for concerns” harassment the administration “serious tor has the contest ' "legally prohibits http:mathcountsorg WASHINGTON ! 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