Show JouJnal The Herald ©oDeO sttsiip PATNA India (AP) — Officials in India’s eastern state of Bihar began distribut- ing blankets and wood to hundreds of thousands of homeless people on Friday as the death toll from a monthlong cold spell rose to more than 1830 across South Asia most in India : more people Twenty-thre- e died ofexposure in 2 in India and Bangladesh nine in Nepal Most were elderly and children Overall 1005 people have died in India of the bitter weather that began in mid- December according to offi- cials and newspaper reports South Asians are particularly vulnerable to the cold because millions sleep in unhealed homes or outdoors usually without great risk as winters tend to be mild For example New Delhi's aver-ag- e temperature in January is 58 degrees In Bihar Thursday the low was 4 degrees Twelve more deaths were reported bringing the official toll in Bihar to 128 said Navin Vcrma state relief and rehabilitation commissioner But lolal newspapers have reported some 570 deaths and some officials also say privately the toll is higher than dhoOOs Heiress comes of age for Onassis fortune DdhsOds) ATHENS Greece (AP) — A few signatures in a Swiss office and it will be over: half the Onassis shipping fortune will pass to the young heiress who is one of the last descen- dants of a tormented family Athina Roussel who reaches the inheritance age of 18 Wednesday takes on a difficult role along with her great wealth What will she do with the fortune estimated at $700 million to $1 billion that has made her one of the world’s wealthiest teenagers? Can the1 1 if granddaughter of Aristotle Onassis the “Golden Greek" end the bickering and bitterness that have marked her childhood and estranged her from' her ancestral homeland? Residential & Commercial The state closed schools and colleges indefinitely and declared a disaster enabling it to seek federal help It also began distributing 2 million blankets and wood to the hundreds of thousands of homeless Vcrma said In Bangladesh meanwhile jo The answers it seems will come only when she is ready to assume a more public pro--' file She rarely gives interviews and appears to cherish privacy as much as her grandfather thrived in the limelight The cliche “poor little rich girl" hais fit her well Her grandfather died brokenhearted two years after a 1973 plane crash killed his sop Alexander His other child Christina died in 1988 leaving her daughr ter Athina to be raised in Switzerland by her French-bor- n father Thierry Roussel -- and his Swedish wife The fortune was divided ' two ways: Athina's inheritance from her mother and the Alexander S Onassis VAII CM III Indian state declared have no homes and sleep outdoors temperatures dipped to 38 degrees in the northwestern district of Kujshuhi — the coldest in 35 years according to the weather office in the v J capital Dhaka "I can't even touch water It's cold like ice" said Shahi-n- Public Benefit Foundation named for the late son which controls the s and a vast charitable trust Roussel and the foundation have fought bitterly in the courts trading charges Of mismanagement embezzlement and defamation Roussel even accused the foundation's Greek trustees of plotting to kidnap his daughter Athina was not directly dragged into the fray But for many Greeks she was conspicuous by her absence: Her visits to Greece have been brief and infrequent — the shipping-busines- - ' last in 1999 "I want to forget the name Onassis" she told the Italian magazine Oggi in 1998 “It's the cause of all the Quality Windows & Auto Class UAs- - OFF TSSi Purchase $ Purchase of 2 OR MOREof INSULATED Any New UNITS Screen raime) (double Service will All Fixed Storm Windows Friday it was suffering a national cold to aid federal thus help victims of a month-lon- g seeking calamity 1 830 in India killed than more that has Bangladesh people spell and Nepal where winters are normally short and mild but millions eastern An FV 66 & AP photo ' c v g 1 128' Logan Utah Saturday Januaiy 25 2003 — A7 limil per customer I required Broken or ogged I I I I J ! u Khaloon a housemaid in Dhaka The v i i i i Purchase of 5 or MORE Amsco Windows logan or adjacent towns Limit pur customer in Installation required All Specials 1 l:pire March 31 201)3 -- 44 East 700 So Logan 4700 ’Vv!’' j sftj nu§ mm HKOI P tSDllil SM) “GtoWIttilWiP O0H& TAT |