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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Queen Mother
honored as head
ELIZABETH
of British Legion
LONDON (AP) — The Queen
Mother on Thurs
day celebrated
75 years as head
of the women’s
section of the
Royal British Le
gion.
The 98-year-
old mother of
Queen Elizabeth
II was honored by
340 standard-bearers, represent
ing women’s branches of the vet
erans’ group throughout England
and Wales, who paraded in the
garden of Clarence House, her
London residence.
In 1924 the Queen Mother ac
cepted the presidency of the
group as one of her first royal du
ties after her marriage to the
Duke of York.
She unexpectedly became
queen 12 years later when Ed
ward VIII abdicated to marry Amer
ican divorcee Wallis Simpson.
The Duke of York became King
George VI and she became Queen
Elizabeth.
Despite her age and two hip re
placements, the Queen Mother
remains active and is the favorite
royal for many Britons.
coming TV documentary, the
newspaper Expressen reported
Thursday.
“Silence has been a necessi
ty.”
She does not look back fondly
on her days with the pop group.
“It was horrible sometimes,"
she said. “It was fever, it was hys
teria, it was sweaty, obsessed
crowds.
“I felt like they would take hold
of me and I would never be able
to get away."
Even with the interview, Faelt-
skog is still staying out of view.
She did not allow the docu
mentary makers to record her re
marks on camera, Expressen re
ported.
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Soprano singer
pulled from shows
at Italy festival
ABBA member
breaks silence
with documentary
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) —
Former ABBA member Agnetha
Faeltskog broke a decade-long
public silence, saying she needed
the quiet to calm down from the
feverish years of superstardom.
Since putting out a solo album
in 1987, Faeltskog has lived a pri
vate life in an island suburb of
Stockholm with her two children.
Their father is Faeltskog’s ex-
husband, Bjoern Ullvaeus, anoth
er old ABBA member.
“For a 10-year period I have nei
ther played nor sung nor listened
to ijiusic,” Faeltskog said in an up-
NEW YORK (AP) — Cecilia Bar-
toli has pulled out of her sched
uled performances in “Pelleas
and Melisande” next month at
the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,
the music festival in Florence,
Italy.
The performances by the 31-
year-old mezzo-soprano, who has
never sung Melisande on stage,
were considered the highlight of
the annual festival.
Bartoli canceled concert per
formances of “L’Heure Espag-
nole” in New York and Cleveland
this month because of bronchitis.
She pulled out of her
Melisande run because festival
organizers scheduled a radio
broadcast of the opening perfor
mance without her permission,
Edgar Vincent Bartoli’s
spokesman said.
a day of prayer.
Ventura broke with thep 1
of his predecessors, whoi
ly proclaimed a prayer day
junction with the National
Prayer.
“I believe in the separ
church and state," Ventura
"We all have our own religic
liefs.
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who are atheists, who do r
lleve at all. ...They are all d |
of Minnesota and I have
spect that," he said.
The Minnesota Family
criticized Ventura’s decisi
ing that the prayer prod
dates to 1795, when Prf
George Washington dedal
day of public thanksgivirl
prayer.
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the very least would giveKVar
recognition to a day of prep i'i,
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Rolling Stones," Tom Priciv;« lilv
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day of prayer
proclamation
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov.
Jesse Ventura, who once used his
office to proclaim Rolling Stones
Day in Minnesota, refused to sign
a proclamation making Thursday
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