V _
Acceptance of warrant
by Britain called illegal
■ General Pinochet’s
lawyers contest the legality
of his extradition, while
Margaret Thatcher asks for
his release.
LONDON (AP) - Lawyers for
Gen. Augusto Pinochet filed a court
motion Thursday contending British
police acted illegally in accepting a
Spanish warrant seeking the extradition
of the former Chilean dictator.
Lord Justice Konrad Schiemann set
a Monday hearing on the High Court
motion and refused to let lawyers make
any arguments during a brief hearing.
A Spanish magistrate is seeking to
extradite Pinochet to face charges of
murder, torture and genocide.
Earlier, an appeal by Margaret
Thatcher for the release of Pinochet
angered left-wing lawmakers and
underlined a political dilemma for die
Labor Party government
Baroness Thatcher, Conservative
prime minister from 1979-1990, said
Pinochet should be returned home,
both because he supported Britain dur
ing the 1982 war against Argentina to
reclaim the Falklam^Islands and
because his arrest endangers Chile’s
new democracy.
“There were indeed abuses of
human rights in Chile and acts of vio
lence on both sides of the political
divide,” Thatcher wrote in a letter to
The limes of London. “However, the
people of Chile, through successively
elected democratic governments, have
determined how they should come to
terms with their past”
Pinochet, 82, remains under police
guard at the London clinic where he
was arrested Oct 16 at the instigation
of a Spanish magistrate.
The judge is seeking to extradite
him on charges of murder, genocide
and torture.
The evidence in Judge Baltasar
Garzon’s order was based on the report
produced by the National Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, appointed
by former Chilean President Patricio
Ayiwin.
The report was published in 1991
and identified 3,197 victims of state
sanctioned killings committed under
the Pinochet regime - including 1,102
who are still unaccounted for and pre
sumed dead.
Bond opener top movie quote
From Garbo to Bogart, best lines appear in ‘Guinness Book of Film’
LONDON (AP) - “Bond. James
Bond.”
As introductions go, that one by
Sean Connery in the 1962 film “Dr.
;No” went down as smoothly as a
Vodka martini - shaken, not stirred,
jof course - and now tops a list of the
most famous movie quotes ever.
Agent 007’s signature line beat
out memorable deliveries by
Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable,
Groucho Marx and Greta Garbo to
top a list drawn up by 10 film critics
and experts to mark the publication
of “The Guinness Book of Film.”
A1 Jolson’s opening line - “Wait a
minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t
heard nothin’ yet!” - in the first
talkie, 1927V“Jhe Jazz Singer,” set .
the stage for the greatest movie
■quotes. Compilers had 71 years and
•thousands of movies from which to
glean the top 10.'
“We were looking for quotations
that were accessible and that had
popular appeal on a global scale,”
said Karen O’Brien, the book’s edi
tor. “We were also looking for wit
and delivery. Delivery is important.”
Picking No. 1 was easy, she said,
not only because Bond’s introduction
was the first utterance by Connery as
007, but also because it is repeated in
the 17 subsequent Bond films.
The compilers reached back to
Hollywood’s early history for most
of the screen gems - six of the 10 are
from the 1930s and ‘40s - and
flipped ahead to 1994 for the most
recent, Tom Hanks’ Forrest Gump
noting how “Life is like a box of
chocolates.”
The earliest is Greta Garbo in
1930’s “Anna Christie”: “Gimme a
> 4 :
visky with a ginger ale on the side -
and don’t be stinchy, beby” - her first
words in her first talkie.
“The Guinness Book of Film”
summarizes 1,000 movies by
decades and is available now in
Britain, Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, Singapore and India. It
may be published in other countries,
including the United States, later.
The Top 10 Movie Quotes
1. “Bond. James Bond.” — Sean Connery, “Dr. No,” 1962.
2. “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she
wajteJntQjp^c”^vHumphrey Bogart, “Casablanca," 1942.
ftis hOt the' fhentrfyour life that counts, it’s the life in your
men." — Mae West, “I’m No Angel,” 1933.
4. “I’ll be back.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger, “The
Terminator,” 1984.
5. “Would you be shocked if I changed into something more
comfortable?” — Jean Harlow, “Hell’s Angels,” 1930.
6. “Life is like a bpx of chocolates: you never know what
you’re gonna get.”—Tom Hanks, “Forrest Gump,” 1994.
7. “I could dance with you ‘til the cows come home. On sec
ond thought, I’d rather dance with the cows until you came
home." — Groucho Marx, “Duck Soup,” 1933.
8. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” — Clark Gable,
“Gone With The Wind,” 1939.
9. “You talkin’ to me?” — Robert De Niro, “Taxi Driver,” 1976.
10. “Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side — and don’t
be stinchy, beby." — Greta Garbo, “Anna Christie,” 1930.
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Mayor makes waves,
gets raves in Taipei
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Thanks
to Taipei Mayor Chen Shui-bian’s
■ four-year crusade to clean up a capi
tal widely known as “the ugly duck
ling of Asia,” it is illegal to leave
trash at any curbside in Taipei.
Instead, many people wait until
they hear a garbage truck passing
their homes playing Beethoven’s
“Fur Elise.” Then, out they come
with their trash.
Chen also has enforced laws to
fight the city’s monstrous traffic
jams, to reduce die number of fires
that once damaged many karaoke
bars and restaurants and to crack
down on illegal gambling dens and a
once-notorious sex industry.
He has razed a shantytown and
dilapidated military barracks and
replaced them with parks. A large
wild bird sanctuary, built on a wet
land long used as a garbage dump,
was opened to the public this month.
And public buses now display
.poems for commuters to read.
Before Chen, leader of the oppo
sition Democratic Progressive Party,
won ground-breaking elections in
1994, Taipei had been ruled for 27
years by appointees of the ruling
Nationalist Party.
Aitnougn me appointees naa
manned to build two lines of a new
subway system, the city couldn’t get
them running smoothly until Chen
took over.
And even though garbage trucks
had long whimsically announced
their arrival to strains of Beethoven,
their haphazard schedule meant resi
dents did not know when to have
thek trash ready and often left it rot
ting on the sidewalks.
Chenfc solution: The trucks now
are required to arrive at a fixed time
everyday.
Chen, 47, is expected to face a
serious challenge in the Dec. 5 may
oral election as the governing
Nationalist Party, which has ruled
Taiwan since 1945, tries to recover
Taipei.
But for now, the man who first
gained notoriety years ago as a lead
ing dissident is a widely popular do
something mayor of die capital of
2.6 million people that he is remak
ing.
Besides the Nationalist Party, his
only prominent opponents are pros
titutes, put out of business when he
shut down licensed brothels in
«
(Mayor Chen)
is... the only
Taipei mayor
who has done
his job.”
Lee Wen
convenience store owner
Taipei’s red-light district, and the
organized crime groups who ran die
illegal sex outlets Chen shut down.
(Then’s cracking down on prosti
tution, shutting down the city ^ 4,000
unlicensed video game arcades to
combat illegal gambling and impo
sition of a midnight curfew for
everyone 18 or younger have won
widespread support
When police records showed the
capital's juvenile crime rate had fall
en by 28 percent last year, many
credited Chen.
Such moves have been so wildly
popular that all fee Nationalists have
been able to do so far is accuse Choi
of being unpatriotic - he removed
portraits of the late -strongman
Chiang Kai-shek from City Hall and
opened the gardens of Chiangls for
mer residence to die public.
As the election campaign nears,
the mayor is busy doing everything
he can to praise his own achieve
ments.
“Whether we are building a city
or a nation, we must be bold to make
changes and never stop making
progress,” he declared at a recent
gathering of artists.
Still, Chen has his critics, who
say he pushes his policies too fast
rather than waiting to win public
consent and places urban develop
ment above environmental concerns,
cutting (town old trees to make way
for highways, despite protests.
But that doesn’t appear to have
gotten very far with the general
public.
“Mayor Chen is indeed very
much a showman,” said convenience
store owner Lee Wen. “But he is also
the only Taipei mayor who has done
his job. Everyone can see the big dif
ference.”
I - - ■ ■ --- . . - • ■
Study: Valium means more wrecks
LONDON (AP) - Drivers taking
commonly prescribed anti-anxiety
drugs such as Valium are more than
twice as likely to be involved in traf
fic accidents as those not taking the
drugs, a new study says.
The risk of accidents for people
under the age of 45 is more than three
times greater for those who take the
drugs, according to the research, pub
lished in Thursday’s edition of the
British medical journal The Lancet.
“The current warnings are that if
you feel drowsy, don’t drive. That
needs to be changed,” said Dr. Tom
MacDonald, a clinical pharmacolo
gist from the University of Dundee in
Scotland who led the study. “I would
say: If you use these drugs, don’t
drive.”
Thousands .of lives could be saved
worldwide every year, and hundreds
of thousands of traffic accidents
avoided, if people who used such
drugs did not drive while on medica
tion, the researchers said.
Tranquilizers such as Valium,
generically known as diazepam, are
commonly used to treat anxiety, other
stress-related disorders and muscle
spasms.
They are the most commonly pre
scribed tranquilizers, with 18 million
prescriptions in Britain alone in
1997. Worldwide figures were not
available.
Patients usually feel drowsy on
these drugs in the first few days of
taking them, but accidents occur at
the same rate regardless of whether
drowsiness occurs, MacDonald said.
A spokesman for Hoffman
LaRoche, the Swiss maker of Valium,
said his company’s warning labels are
very clear.
Dr. Desmond O’Neill, a geriatri
«
I would say: If you
use these drugs,
don 1 drive.”
Dr. Tom MacDonald
cian at the Center for Mobility
Enhancement at Adelaide and Meath
Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, viewed
the study's conclusions with caution.
“They’ve made us think hard, but
it still isn’t enough evidence to tell
people not to drive,” he said.
“Is it the illness or the medica
tion? If you’re that agitated that you
need the drug, maybe that’s the prob
lem.”