Show r'V7T!T?1 ’rjn'ppi'W i Riga 6 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 24 2000 iv t v : j V UNITED NATIONS AP) — The United Nations adopt ed the first major overhaul of its financing in more thin two ment on the budget reform package after South Korea dropped demands last-minu- te The General Assembly decades Saturday cutting US payments to the world body and shifting most of the finan- promptly approved the new system passing resolutions for separate budgets for the Unit- ed Nations’ cial harden to developing countries that have experi- and its peacekeepinjg operations when assemy president Hari Holkkeri of Finland gaveled the session td a close there was loud applause — and a far-flu- enced economic improvement Bleary eyed delegates from 189 countries — many now hoping to make it home for holidays — wrapped up agree - ng In brio! "Buried in this complex financial package is the first financial reform of the UN regular budget in 28 years and the first time ever for peace- keeping" said Richard Hol- of the budget be substan-ce- d before a sub? tially itantial chunk of the arrears share bil- lion the United States has been repeatedly attacked by other countries including ita allies for not paying its dues The US Congress demand- -' ing reform of the bloated UNbureaucracy has lation requiring that the US V por- -' getin2001 Under the dea share of the a budget would can be oaid ' On ftiday the United States percent to 22 won the battle to reduce its of the peacc share of the UJf budget — would tie reduced the centerpiece of the UN r cent to around 27 financing overhaul — after still more than the media tycoon Ted Turner the U Congress : offered a $34 miUion'tae-tim- e "We were given ' donation would Ibrner’a gifL nearly impossible cover tiie shortfall the UJS cut tive mandate creates in the mala i ‘ : With a debt to the United Nations now totaling $13 brooke the exhausted but Kbilant US ambassador his personal lobbying of reluctant and often hostile delegates for the groundbreaking accord The last time die US ' tion of die regular budget was I reduced was in 1972 when the ambassador was George Bush HotorobkeaoterL race to the doors i - w Calcutta India reverts to its indigenous name ‘Kolkata’ H NEW DELHI India (AP) — Calcutta rerorted to its nous name of H Kolkata” on Saturday joining a growing indip of Indian cities trying to shrug off their colonial legacy by ing back their old monikers The capital of India's West Bengal state will now be known by I the Bengali version of its name the federal government announced in a statement ed the proposal of the State Government of West Bengal to change the name of the city of Calcutta to Kolkata" the state- - mentread New Delhi deliberated on the request for a year and a half before agreeing to the changb AU government departments and agencies will nave to change their names to comply with the directive made after more man 30 years of independence from Cheat Britain Bombay India' financial capital was renamed Mumbai more Thsee three artworks were stolen from Stockholm’s National Muae-uthan four years ago by the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena governon Friday The robbers made off with from left a Rembrandt ment Most Indians though still call it Bombm r Many other cities followed its example Madras in southern India was renamed Chennai and Trivandrum wu changed to Thiruvananthapuram AP photo m and two masterpieces by Renoir sotybrtral tar Parisian" can- - Yo Armed art thieves hunted in S widen Celebrated singer Noor dehan dies "We’re working with wit- STOCKHOLM Sweden (AP) — Police searched for KARACHI Paid" n (AP) — Noor Jehan the Pakistani linger known as the “Melody Queen died Saturday after a lengthy illness She wu 74 Jehan who in recent years had been suffering from heart trounew ble died in the southern port city of Karachi the state-ru- n Pakistan Associated of Preu reported agency Jehan made her debut as a child star in the 1940s when the British still ruled South Asia career she starred in numerous During e films and wu honored with Pakistan’s highest civilian Ride of Performance award She also recorded hundreds of songs in Urdu and Puqjabi “Noor Jehan wu a living legend A golden ere of music hu closed today” said Rehana Hakim an art critic and editor of the ness accounts and technical evidence but there is ho lead pointing to any certain direction’’ police spokesman Bjo-er- n PiUUad said “We’re still dependent on getting information from anyone who might have seen anything” The robbers spoke Swedish he sjdd snd police were presuming they were still in die Saturday to find robbers who made off with three valu by Rembrandt foe National Museum die evening before A man walked into the waterfront museum five minutes before closing time Friday night pointed a submachine gun at an unarmed guard and stood watch while two accomplices already inside snatched thepaintings off walls Toe robben sped away in a boat mooted near foe museum Pakistan’s military niter Gen Pervez Musharraf in a condo Police found the boat but not lence message described Jehan as “true Pakistani? Her mems the thieve£r foe national fongaarill five4tlhe-lesttae- i trapeepg much gable are worth In her hometown of Lahore" the hub of Pakistan's film indus- - Ian ng conntry The international police agency Interpol was notified anyway he said About the paintings he added “In these cases it’s norrobbers stash mal that foe ' them away for a while” The printings are: —a by Rem-- j brendt about eight by 12 inch self-portr-ait es including the frame painted on golden-aurfeccopper dale to give e special light to ed the face It was painted in 1630 and bought by the museum from a private collection in 1956 — "Conversation’’ by close-u- p a of a man and a woman with Renoir her bade tuned to die viewer acquired by the museum in 1918 — “Young Parisian" by a young girl acquired by the museum in 1913 Like other government property the paintings were not u insured in laii: Vfltit a rigreat lira toJhn mtiseutoi’V noting museum director Torsten Gunnarsson Renoir j-- arid ' The biggest an theft in Sweden happened at! Stockholm’! Modem Museum in November 1993 when works by Picasso and Georgeii Braque worth about $48 miUofl were stolen Art experts md police said it will be hard tq sell foe paint ings because yen and tion bouses know of foe paint- Or riftnumri ings’ origins “Either somi ne ordered these paintings aire who wants to in his safe or foe1 will try and hi um” by demand! Pihlblad for their auc-eith-er Murder is latest act of violence trend in baffling Japan teen-ag- e TOKYO (AP) — A old boy has admitted to killing his next-doneighbor after the man quarreled with the boy’s father police said Saturday — foe latest in a string of crimes that violent teen-ag- e have stunned Japan The boy a junior high school student in the city of Shimizu 85 miles southwest of Tokyo was arrested in the 14-ye- or stabbing death of Kazuhiro Sugiyama 57 a police said on condition spokesman r anonymity Sugiyama — apparently drunk — burst into foe apart ment of the boy’s family and pur arguing with the as he had often done in the past the spokesman laid Sugivama’s body was discovered Saturday morning in a hallway of the apartment building Police arrested the record S3 killings here almost double the 27 eses reported during tire same period of the previous year according to foe National Police Agency In response parliament last month passed a bill lowering the age at which children can be prosecuted for crimes fibril 16 to 14 The law takes effect in tire spring The rise in youth crime boy after he confessed to tire crime the spokesman said His name is being withheld because he is a minor Citizens in Japan where crime is relatively low are struggling to cope with a series of stabbings bludgeonings and other attacks by youths many of which appear to have been carried out with little motive In May a high school stu- intensified a “ long-standi- ng dent told police he beat e ii rigid woman to death with a hameducational system and a permer "for the experience of ceived breakdowni of values On Fridaiy n government killing" The following month arrested a police panel proposed educational for beating his mother to death reforms that include foe teach-with a baseball bat shortly ing of morality in schools after he attacked four classencouraging inmvidwdfty and mates (fairing what - wu cracking down on troublemakers The prenosah sabrhitted report- edly an argument over the length of his hair In tire first six months of this year juvenile committed a to Prime Minister Yoshiro' Mori are to be taken up in parliament next year: HiKnhDjwcuuDimiCTGOiKrOT mnoruTAi ' rfSMCirtrfswcw'nsfcMniwirr—stoiaMCMraaMtorainirasiMwMtosirafcM‘" h jivr miimcoNncrincouRrraiwcraureoivairaiirakuinoN' Its Acta AtCMWWi r 21 ? 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