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Family faces scrutiny
from press, public
LONDON (AP) — If it's not
love, it's money that troubles the
royal family.
This time around, a parlia
mentary committee wants closer
scrutiny of the 20 million
pounds — the equivalent of $31
million — it costs British tax
payers last year to keep five roy
al palaces going.
Newspapers carried outraged
headlines Thursday and
splashed sections of the commit
tee report across their pages, in
cluding the news that Queen
Elizabeth II ran up a phone bill
of nearly $1.2 million last year.
“A Right Royal Ripoff’ blared
the newspaper Today.
Angry aides at Buckingham
Palace accused newspapers, the
bane of the royals’ troubled
lives, of distorting the report is
sued by the all-party Committee
of Public Accounts.
For starters, said a palace
spokesman, only about one-
fourth of the phone bill was ac
tual talking time. The rest went
to pay 11 operators to take calls
from the public at the palaces,
and for rents for special lines
and maintenance. And members
of the family and royal house
hold paid back $31,000 for their
private calls.
Michael Shersby, a member
of the governing Conservative
Party, described the report as
“straightforward” and simply
seeking more “public visibility"
on the way the money is spent.
But the committee’s leading
member from the main opposi
tion Labor Party, Alan Williams,
got most of the air time, grum
bling about the queen’s “pam
pered court” and suggesting it
was time she got by with just
one palace.
The report covered expendi
ture on Buckingham Palace,
Windsor Castle, the queen’s
weekend retreat west of Ixmdon;
St. James’s Palace, where Prince
Charles lives; Kensington
Palace, where Princess Diana
and a clutch of other royals live
in separate, lavish apartments;
and Clarence House, home of
the queen’s 94-year-old mother,
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
The queen also has a Scottish
castle, Balmoral, and Sandring
ham House estate in eastern
England. But she maintains
those as her personal property.
"We now have a situation
where the royal family, which are
billionaires and have two palaces
of their own require another five
palaces at our expense,’’ Williams
Population conference
negotiators try to reach
agreement on abortion
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — With
anger growing over the Vati
can’s hard-line stance on abor-
Jon, negotiators at the U.N.
jopulation conference Thursday
lammered out what they called
a last-chance compromise on the
explosive issue.
A special committee assigned
to write the provision on unsafe
abortions agreed on a compro
mise text Thursday night. The
main negotiating committee was
expected to consider the new
language on Friday.
Even if the compromise suc
ceeds, the controversy at the
conference won’t end because
negotiators still face other con
tentious provisions of the meet
ing’s 20-year action plan.
The main committee is expect
ed to consider sections on repro
ductive and sexual health on Fri
day that refer to “fertility regula
tion” and adolescent sexuality.
To address the concerns of
some nations on Thursday, the
World Health Organization’s de
finition of unsafe abortion was
added to the section on abortion
as a health issue. That defini
tion says abortion is unsafe if
carried out by unqualified peo
ple in inappropriate settings.
To show how minutely the
wording has been worked over, a
new draft of the proposed com
promise changes “legal” abortion
to abortion that “is not against
the law.”
Earlier Thursday, Nicolaas
Biegman, vice-chairman of the
overall negotiations, said he was
confident the special committee
on unsafe abortion would “very,
very quickly” arrive at a final
compromise text.
“As far as I am concerned,
(this) will be the end of the dis
cussion in the committee be
cause anything which could pos
sibly be accommodated has been
accommodated,” he said.
Timothy Wirth, the U.S. un
dersecretary of state for global
affairs, told reporters Thursday
night: “We’re very close to get
ting finished. ... I expect we will
get through the abortion issue
tomorrow morning and it will be
downhill from there.”
The Vatican delegation said
it was pondering how to react
to the compromise, but sug
gested it may have a problem
with the phrqse “safe abortion”
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because abortion is unsafe* 1 Tor
the fetus.
The compromise drafted on
Thursday is a revision of the
version put forward earlier this
week by the European Union
and backed by the United
States, Nordic nations and sev
eral Muslim countries including
Iran and Pakistan.
That text places priority on
making family planning avail
able to reduce the need for abor
tions. It says abortion should
not be encouraged as a method
of family planning and its legali
ty should be left to individual
countries. It also says women
with unwanted pregnancies
must be treated compassionate
ly, not punitively.
Both Biegman and Dr. Nafis
Sadik, the conference secretary-
general, said they do not expect
the Vatican to sign on to the 20-
year blueprint to slow the
world’s population boom.
“I don't think it will mean
anything because they did not
sign the 1974 or 1984 programs
of action,” Dr. Sadik said.
“They debated greatly through
out the discussion but in the
end did not join the consensus.
... Basically, they are against
contraceptive technology.”
Nabarro told a news confer
ence about 10 countries are “to
tally opposed” to the paragraph
on unsafe abortion and about 10
others have “some real difficul
ties” about the language.
Despite the furious debate, it
is up to every country to decide
whether to implement recom
mendations being fashioned at
the meeting of 182 delegations.
said in a BBC intervie*
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the president has
House, you have B
Palace ... tell us in
ly why all the extra
dation is needed.”
The legislators
half the nearly $7.8
by throwing open
Palace to visitors
ward the restoration
damaged Windsor Car
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pers of making it sott
queen or her staff hai
rest of the money,
said was spent on i
ting up the publicviT
sales of souvenirs a|
publicly accounted fcii
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money has been miaal
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palace practice. 'Tbeil
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paid to visit the palace f
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riage houses tied to
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FBI invests
Napoleons
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French royalists
And some historian;
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killed him.
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Society meeting, “
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shouting at each oil
death theories, La Vi
Napoleon was
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land of St. Helena of
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health began to fail:
he died in 1821 at5L
During his exit
British feared
might make another
back, as he had
Mediterranean island
earlier in 1816.
French royalist
wanted to get
Napoleon, regarding;
a threat to Loui
hold on the throne.
Two books, “Miir|;
Napoleon” by Dr, Be
and David Hapgood
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sin de Napoleon" b;
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indicate foul play,
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