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Tuesday ‘April 1
Czar's jewels go back to Russia
Houston museum still waiting for word of exhibit's return
State
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
czars’ jewels went back to the Russ
ian Embassy on Monday after a
two-week standoff had kept them
locked in a vault at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.
There was still no word whether
the jewels of the Romanov dynasty
would continue on to Houston, the
next stop in a planned seven-city
American tour, or return to Russia.
The Houston museum said it
heard the dispute was over and that
the jewels would come to Texas.
But in Washington, Mikhail
Gusman of the Russian committee
that organized the tour, said:
“There is no agreement yet on
whether the exhibit will go to
Houston or beyond.”
Lawyers for the two sides remain
in meetings trying to work out a deal.
A Corcoran official, speaking
only on condition of anonymity,
said the deal being hammered out
at a Washington hotel might result
in sending the jewels to Houston
but to no other American sites.
► This day in history
Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 119th day of 1997.
There are 246 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Or
leans to lead a victory over the English.
In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as
Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
In 1945, American soldiers liberated the Dachau
concentration camp; that same day, in a Berlin bunker,
Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated Admiral
Karl Doenitz his successor.
In 1946, 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted
as war criminals.
In 1974, President Nixon announced he was releas
ing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape
recordings related to the Watergate scandal.
In 1983, Harold Washington was sworn in as the
first black mayor of Chicago.
The diamonds, mbies, court vest
ments and paintings—including the
most extensive collection of crown
jewels ever to leave Russia — were
due to open in an exhibit at the Hous
ton Museum of Fine Arts on May 11.
Future scheduled showings in
cluded Memphis, Tenn., and San
Diego. Three more sites were be
ing negotiated.
But when the exhibit closed April
13 at the Corcoran in downtown
Washington, a dispute surfaced be
tween Russian authorities and the
American Russian Cultural Cooper
ation Foundation, headed by for
mer Rep. James W. Symington.
The Russian Embassy demanded
that the whole exhibit be returned.
“It’s all about money,” said one
Corcoran official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
For a week, cars from the Russian
Embassy blocked a truck loaded with
part of the exhibit, including gowns,
icons, paintings, church vestments
and other relics of the Romanov em
pire that ruled Russia for 304 years.
After a week’s negotiations, during
which the Russians complained
about the truck being left on the street
in Washington’s wet spring weather,
the truck went back to the embassy.
Levy said he would hold on to the
jewels — locked in his museum’s
vault—until the parties could reach
agreement or a court issued an order.
On Monday afternoon, two
Brinks trucks pulled into the Corco
ran’s back yard and Levy supervised
the loading of five cases of jewels
and two more cases of equipment.
“Wonderful as these objects are,”
he told reporters, “they pack up in
pretty small crates.”
During the exhibit’s 10 weeks at
the Corcoran, 80,000 visitors came
to see such items as a rattle set
with emeralds, rubies and dia
monds made for the son of
Catherine the Great.
None of the items had ever
been seen in the United States be
fore, including the 70 jewels and
uncut gems of the Romanovs, who
ruled until 1917.
In 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and
caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles af
ter a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles po
lice officers of almost all state charges in the video
taped beating of Rodney King.
► Today's birthdays
Poet Rod McKuen is 64. Conductor Zubin Mehta is 61.
Actor Lane Smith is 61. Country singer Duane Allen (The
Oak Ridge Boys) is 54. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 43. Ac
tress Kate Mulgrew is 42. Actress Michelle FTeiffer is 40.
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 40. Actress Eve Plumb (The Brady
Bunch) is 39. Rock musician Phil King (Lush) is 37. Singer
Carnie Wilson (Wilson Phillips) is 29. Actress Uma Thurman
is 27. Tennis player Andre Agassi is 27. Country singer
James Bonamy is 25. Rock musician Mike Hogan (The Cran
berries) is 24. Actor Zane Carney (Dave's World) is 13.
Group rallies for
choice of school
AUSTIN (AP)—Agroupfao)
islation that would makeupto
students in low-performing
schools eligible for a tax-fui
fer to private schools rail
Capitol steps Monday.
Putting Children First, a
business leaders and parent:
port school choice, gathered
ing to individual legislators,
mately 300 attended the rail),
to a Department of Public Safe
Gov. George W. Bush,
turning to his office after!
an appearance as the rally
‘He told them Texas shoot
competition. Our goal ise;
if competition and school ch):|
that happen, Texas should not*
Bush spokeswoman Karen
Under a current Senate
students who fail the Texas
ment of Academic Skills test
tend a school deemed lowoe -
by the Texas Education Agerr
be eligible for a socalledtufc
er to attend private school,
“I’m not trying to hurt ft
schools. I’m just trying tota»i
my children and provide then,
best education,’ said Jenmfe 1
Pearsall. ‘There’s got to bear
when children graduateandta
“(A good education)shoo:
be for kids that can afford it.:
be for everyone," she said,
► Nation
► Weather
Today
Tonight
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Tomorrow
Sunny and warmer.
Fair skies becoming
partly cloudy toward
morning.
Partly cloudy and hot.
Highs & Lows
Today’s Expected High
88°F
Tonight’s Expected Low
56°F
Tomorrow’s Expected
High
86°F
Tomorrow Night’s
Expected Low
66°F
Human remainsdai
identified aspilo
Colo. (AP) — Human remairs
at the site of an A-lOThundeitx® 5 1
have been positively ideniedii |
of Capt. Craig Button, the pilot*'iS
800 miles off course bate lioj
down, the Air Force said, „ thl
Positive identifications Ihvil
through DNA testing by scieiiltrj
the Armed Forces Instituteofi
ogy in Washington, D,C„c
Davis-Monthan Air Force M
zona said Sunday.
Button was on a routine!'
mission April 2 when hisA-10^
from other planes in his foul
Wreckage of the plane ei
ments of body parts were
in the rugged mountainssoutti!* „ J
state 70. ending a threeweeki' f ''- i
National Guard helicop:|
continue training missionso
crash site looking for the fej
pound bombs that were i
plane. Officials believe thet
covered by snow.
An Air Force board hasberf
pointed to try to determine»*|
ton’s plane flew to Colorado,
The International Business Association
invites you to a special presentation featuring
John Atterbury, President of SBC Communications
International Group, and
Alex Travieso, corporate Recruiter for SBC.
Date: April 29th
Location: Wehner 135
Time: 7 p.m.
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