| Show n a m&fiun&n A4 The Salt Lake Tribune NATIONWORLD Sunday November 30 Church Leaders Bless Thousands In Mass Ritual LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON To Hanako Ikeno it didn't seem strange to pledge herself m marriage Saturday to a foreign man shes known just a day in a football-fiel- d ceremony surrounded by 28000 couples More than 20 years ago her mother and fathers marriage also was arranged by the Rev and Mrs Sun Myung Moon founders of the Unification Church I'm thankful that God could pick my spouse I trust him more than anybody else More than myself said Ikeno 19 who grew up in Milwaukee The Moons picked Keichi Kaneko 19 of Japan to be her husband As the couple took vows Saturday in preparation for their marriage her parents watched from the stands of Robert F Kennedy Stadium and renewed their own wedding promises In all 28000 couples most long married and 2500 newly matched paid $70 each to take part m Saturdays marriage-affirmatio- n ceremony sponsored by the Unification Church which believes matchmaking will help unite the world The real weddings come later in separate legal ceremonies We want to create families that will serve as examples of true love said the Rev Moon who refers to himself and his wife as the true parents of mankind sent to finish Jesus Christs cross-cultur- God-center- two-thir- Ken ledenoThe Associated Press The Rev and Mrs Sun Myung Moon perform the n RFK for at 28000 Stadium on Saturday ceremony couples Washington's marriage-affirmatio- did not have to belong to the Unification Church and organizers promoted the event called Blessing 97 as a celebration of marriage and family Leaders of six major religions attended including Nation of Islam Drivers: Effort Seems leader minister Louis Farrakhan Blessing 97 followed a week of festivities billed by Unification Church as World Culture and Sports Festival a title that may have confused some celebrities invited to participate Buy 2 To Be Working Continued From PARIS A single death is a tragedy Soviet dictator Josef Stalm once remarked A million deaths is a statistic But how many millions precisely? This month 80 years after the Bolshevik takeover in Russia a Paris-base- d group of historians has published the first global balance sheet of the crimes terror and committed under commurepression nism The arithmetic of the Black Book of Communism is harrowing From the organized extermination of Soviet peasantry to the murderous upheavals of Chinas Great Cultural Revolution from organized famine in the Ukraine to repression in Fidel Castros Cuba communism has claimed 85 million to 100 million lives on four continents China has the tragic distinction of topping the list with as many as 72 million victims In the Soviet Union where the Communist Party ruled from 1917 until the states collapse six years ago this December an estimated 20 million perished in purges famines mass deportations and the labor camps of the Gulag But it is the small Asian nation of Cambodia where the suffering and loss were the most intense In 3V4 years dictator Pol Pot through the use of mass deportations famine and forced labor killed off 13 million to 2 3 million of his countrymen or up to of the population Though scholarly thick (846 pages) and relatively expensive at the equivalent of $32 50 the Black Book has shot to the r top of Frances lists It also has sparked instant controversy inevitable in a nation where Marxist theory long dominated intellectual thinking and the French Communist Party claimed the support of up to 28 percent of the electorate Critics of the book and even some of the bulky works own contributors have blasted its leading scholar Stephane one-quart- work A-- 1997 Book Tallies Crimes Deaths Under Communist Regimes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ranks of new brides and grooms m long white dresses and dark suits took up of the football field once used by the Washington Redskins The couples were sprinkled with holy water took vows to be married and raise families in the church and exchanged rings under a gray November sky After the morning ceremony presided over by the Moons the couples shared box lunches of chicken rice carrots apples and small slices of wedding cake Married couples renewing their vows "1 l best-selle- non-fictio- n Courtois for asserting that communism inevitably carries in it the seeds of terror and mass murder and for comparing dictatorship in the name of the proletariat to that other totalitarian stain on the 20th century Nazism The fact that one tragedy occurred shouldnt blind us to another Courtois a director of research at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris answered in an interview If we take the global figures communism of course created more victims because it lasted longer and reached far more places and peoples A former Maoist who defines himself as a leftist Courtois said he personally believes the number of dead will prove to be closer to 100 million and maybe higher once historical blanks are filled in The Black Book on which 11 scholars worked for three years only became possible with the fall of the peoples republics of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and the opening of archives in those countries But documentation refor countries mains thin or such as China and North Korea Courtois Jean-Loui- s noted Margolin historian at the University of Provence was able only to estimate the number of victims in China at between 45 and 72 million Courtois says France still has an ambivalent attitude toward communism m part because of French Communist involvement in the anti-NaResistance and the prestige of the left in the land of the French Revolution Poet Louis Aragon once spoke of the necessary cruelty in the blue eyes of the Revolution and longtime French Communist Party boss Georges Marchais who died Nov 16 at 77 was celebrated for his loyalty to the Kremlin Among Western countries only France has Communist ministers in the government non-existe- 2 FREE get 1 99 1 the term was included in the Random House Websters College Dictionary I In the 10 years since the project h began an estimated 38000 lives have been saved said Jay Win-ste- n director of Harvards Center for Health Communication But the numbers have leveled off again Since 1992 annual alcohol-related fatalities have hovered in the 17000 range according to the National Highway I ' Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) And while 73 million Americans say they have either served as a designated driver or been driven home by one that number has remained constant since 1992 Winsten said For a study Winsten and his colleagues at Harvard found some encouraging statistics among college students traditionally the group at greatest risk for drunken driving and binge drinking Using 1993 data Winsten and colleague William DeJong analyzed surveys of more than 17000 students Among drinkers 36 percent said they had served as a designated driver in the previous 30 days Of those 53 percent said they did not consume any alcohol the last time they were designated to drive An additional 26 percent of designated drivers had just one drink before driving while 19 percent said they had more but did not binge drink defined as five drinks in an hour for the average male or four for the average female Among drinkers 37 percent reported riding with a designated driver m the past month The survey results show the efmesfect of the designated-dnve- r sage is not perfect but its working pretty well Winsten said Still many people mistakenly believe that designated drivers are people who just drink less than everybody else said Jim Hedlund of the NHTSA NHTSA has set a goal of reductraffic ing annual alcohol-relate- d deaths to 11000 by 2005 Emphacamsizing the designated-dnve- r and its proper meaning paign is just part of that Hedlund said His agency also advocates lowering the legal blood alcohol driving limit to 008 percent - as 15 states including Utah already have done along with stricter enforcement More measures are needed in- Do your bra straps slip off Does your bra ride your shoulders? 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