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People in the news
Supermodel tries
role of motherhood
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Elle
Macpherson gave birth to a boy
over the weekend in New York, a
newspaper said.
The baby, born in a Manhattan hos
pital, was named [
Arpad Flynn Bus- j
son after his fa- I
ther and weighed j
in at 7 pounds,
the Daily Tele
graph said.
His parents
will call him Flynn.
Mother and
baby were doing
Macpherson
well, the newspaper said.
The model retreated Monday with
her husband and newborn to a hotel
suite where they have been staying for
two weeks.
Bounty still held
for Salman Rushdie
LONDON (AP) — The British gov
ernment promised Monday to keep
fighting Iran’s death sentence against
Salman Rushdie.
“Iran should be in no doubt that this
issue is an obstacle to better relations
with the United Kingdom,” Foreign Sec
retary Robin Cook told reporters after
a meeting with the author.
“It is appalling that the threat to his
life remains after all this time.”
Rushdie has been in hiding since
1989, when the late Iranian leader Ay
atollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared
that he had blasphemed Islam in The
Satanic Verses.
Britain will mobilize support in the
15-nation European Union, Cook said.
Iran renewed the fatwa Friday and
the bounty on Rushdie’s head stands
at $2.5 million.
Rushdie, who has been more vis
ible in recent months, called the
death threat "a colossal pressure,”
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adding, “It is a very unpleasant
that someone is offering mom
my death.”
Fundraising sin
set for North Ki
SEOUL, South Korea
Michael Jackson plans a
ing concert here later thism
help starving North Korean
Tentatively called ‘We k |
VJorid 2,” the concert will bet
10 at the Olympic
Stadium and
broadcast live in
120 countries, an
aide to President
elect Kim Dae-
jung said Mon
day.
“Mr. Jackson
is enthusiastical
ly pursuing the
project.
He has been and will beconia
some 50 other celebrities and»
leaders for participation,’ sas::
aide, Choi Kyu-sun.
Those being invited indue;
ciano Pavarotti, Whitney Hois
Celine Dion, Boys II Men,
Taylor, Michael Jordan and’;
Woods, Choi said.
For taped messages andaps
to be aired during the concert, Jai;
is in contact with such luminaris
Pope John Paul II and South A* 1 ;
President Nelson Mandela,Chois
"Mr. Jackson’s side has I
contact with North Korea. Butwea
say whether or not the hopewillc(§^
true, ” Choi said.
Carnegie Hall sho
plays without ligM
NEW YORK (AP) - Gettii*
Carnegie Hall was not the
the Minnesota Orchestra,
Soloist Kathleen Battle wa
the middle of a piece fromVei
opera “Attila” on Sunday wheri
lights dimmed by half, thendira
again until the stage was aim
completely dark.
She kept singing, and three
companying musicians kept play?;
Music director Eiji Oue said
ward that if Battle had stop)
would have followed her lead.
“But we all have that piece
rized. It’s like walking to yourkitd
the dark,” he said.
Harp player Kathy Kienzle se
eyes eventually adjusted to the
“I think there was a little ligh
the audience. I was really playing
and what I remember,” she said.
Apparently someone bad
had backed into a computerized
board, cutting power until thesys!
could be reset.
Film adapts novi
by Virginia Woofn
LOS ANGELES (AP) - El?
Atkins is not sure her attempts
dramatize the works of Virginia!
would sit well with the late auW
“I really do hope there isn’tafli
terlife,” the actress and screenwf
said in Sunday’s Los Angeles W
from London.
“There she’d be, waitingforf
saying, ‘Who do you thinkyouwe
trying to be me?’
“For one thing, she’s an intel*
tual. I know she wouldn't likemf
all, a self-taught Cockney. I would
have lasted 20 minutes withoutK
ing her to death.”
Atkins, 63, said she discover
Woolf in her '20s, when filmmakf
and producers began asking hef
play the writer because she rose’
bled her.
She has played Woolf in two pi?'
that she wrote, adapted andrel
Woolf’s diaries for a BBC radiosi
ries and adapted the novel Mrs.D>
loway for the screen.
The film starring Vanessa fifl
grave opens this month.
Detroit airport eariK
low service score;
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP)-De
Metropolitan Airport ranks last
Tampa, Fla.’s airport is bestai
the nation’s 36 top airports, acci
ing to a passenger survey.
In four of eight categories
speed of baggage delivery, ease
reaching gates, available grou? :
transportation and ease of folloil
signs — Metro Airport earned the£''
est scores of any airport in the sirt
In the remaining categories"
cleanliness, quality of restaurants
attractiveness, and closeness
parking — the 68-year-old airport^
ed near the bottom.
The private survey by Los Angel#
based Plog Research Inc. was oof'
missioned by the 36 big airports. P#
sengers were surveyed in the first#
months of last year and the study"#
completed late last year, but airport
ficials refused to release the finding
It was obtained last week by T’heDetrt'
News, which published a story Mom-