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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Jon Christensen and former Miss
America Tara Dawn Holland married Saturday in a candlelit wedding cere
mony described as moving and tearful by guests.
• The bride, a Mobile native, serenaded the groom with “You Are My
Treasure,” then began to cry.
The bride’s aunt, Jeanne Train of Daphne, called the service beautiful and
“authentic.”
“I think the whole church started crying when she started crying,” said
Train of her niece.
The couple spoke to each other during the ceremony about why they loved
one another.
You could tell they really love each other. You could feel it,” said Cindy
Dore of Lafayette, La., whose teen-age son was a congressional page and got
to know Christensen. She said Christensen spoke to his bride about the first
time he saw her, running through an airport on Valentine’s Day, 1997.
The wedding at the Ashland Place United Methodist Church did not
include groomsmen or bridesmaids. The marriage is Holland’s first,
Christensen’s second.
“I’ve promised her that I will show up on time,” Christensen said before
the ceremony. “Wherever she wants me.to stand, I’ll stand. I will behave.”
After the ceremony, the couple Hugged guests and thanked them for
attending as they made their way down the aisle.
Following a two-week honeymoon at an undisclosed location, the couple
will live in Omaha, where Christensen will work at Financial Continuum, a
firm that assists estate-planning attorneys.
“I’m closing the door on this part of my life, and I am anxious and looking
forward to the next phase,” said Christensen when announcing his job at the
firm. The U.S. representative finished third of three candidates in the
Nebraska GOP primary for governor.
Christensen will serve as a lobbyist on both federal and state levels and
help the company expand into other legal areas.
But he hasn’t ruled out a return to politics.
“I’m 35 and plan to live to be at least 80,” he has said. “There is a very
strong possibility I’ll be back in politics someday.”
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, MOSCOW (AP) - In modem Russia, the crime was so common as to be i
killed a powerful figure, then slipped away into the night. Police vowed to
catch them, and politicians expressed outrage.
Usually, that would be the end of the story.
This time, though, the person shot was one of the most prominent and pop
ular women in Russian politics, a prospective presidential candidate with
friends in the highest reaches of the Kremlin.
* As outrage mounted Sunday, it seemed clear that the killing of Galina
Starovoitova was not going to be treated as a routine crime, and some said it
might turn out to be a watershed in Russian politics.
“This is impossible to tolerate any longer,” said Grigory Yavlinsky, the
leader ofYabloko, a reform-oriented party. “We must stop feeling powerless
before the increasingly bpz$n setup. WecannQfgo-on living as though every
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| Democratic Choic£pgaSi^\ya§ walking-up the staarsof her apartment building
; in St. Petersburg with a young aide Friday evening. A pair of assailants - police
believe it was a man and a woman - appeared behind them and opened fire.
Starovoitova, shot three times in the head, collapsed and died instantly,
authorities said. The aide, 27-year-old Ruslan Linkov, was critically wounded
but managed to telephone a news agency reporter before losing conscious
ness.
Police have recovered two guns and are hoping that Linkov can provide a
description of the killers. He had regained consciousness but still could not
speak Sunday.
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Riots erupt in Indonesia;
youths attack Christians
Six people killed; troops fight back with tear gas
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Mobs
of Muslim youths set fire to churches
and attacked Christians in the capital
Sunday in an eruption of ethnic and reli
gious violence that killed six people.
Some victims were mutilated and
one was paraded in the streets by his
killers. Troops desperate to restore order
fired shots and volleys of tear gas to
break up rock-throwing crowds that
officials said had burned four churches
and ransacked seven others.
The violence comes as Indonesia
grapples with its worst economic crisis
in 30 years. Millions of people now live
in poverty as inflation and unemploy
ment rates soar.
President B J. Habibie is at the cen
ter of student protests over his plans to
change Indonesia’s political system,
which opponents say fall short of intro
ducing true democracy.
Riots broke out less than half a mile
from the presidential palace Sunday, a
little more than a week after clashes
between students and security person
nel also triggered rioting. As many as 17
people died during the earlier clashes.
The last died Sunday at a hospital.
Dozens were reported injured in the
new clashes Sunday between the
Muslim majority and Christians origi
nally from die eastern city of Ambon.
Muslim residents said they retaliat
ed after the Ambonese threw rocks at a
mosque and smashed windows.
In one attack, Muslim mobs broke
into a Roman Catholic church where a
wedding was being held, shattering
stained glass windows, chalices and a
statue of the Virgin Mary. Pews and
Bibles were tossed onto a bonfire.
“We got out as quickly as we could,”
said the bride, Threewaty, 27, who lilre
many Indonesians goes by only one
name. “We’re still not married. But
we’re safe.”
In the street outside the church, sev
eral hundred Muslim youths sat in the
middle of a road and recited Islamic
prayers. Some carried banners pro
claiming themselves members of the
“Front to Defend Islam.”
At least four churches were burned
and seven ransacked, officials said,
adding that the damage toll could rise.
Mobs blocked fire trucks from
reaching the burning Christian Church
ofKetapang.
Mobs threw rocks at an open
backed military truck carrying 20
Ambonese as it raced away, and boys
poked sticks at the occupants through
the vehicle’s protective wire netting.
“Kill diem,” the rioters screamed.
Officials of the Indonesian Red
Cross recovered five bodies of
Ambonese who had been slashed with
knives and broken bottles. The killers of
one man cut off one of his ears and bran
dished it
Assailants paraded a sixth body in a
cart
A gambling hall was also set afire,
and a Catholic girls’ school was ran
sacked and partly burned. Many
Muslims accuse the Ambonese of
involvement in illegal gambling.
The military said Muslims also tar
geted ethnic Chinese after hearing
unsubstantiated rumors that die minori
ty group had paid for attacks on them.
About 90 percent oflndonesia’s 202
million people are Muslim, making it
the world’s most populous Islamic
nation. However, religious tolerance is
enshrined in die national philosophy.
Iraq says no more
arms papers exist
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq’s
foreign minister Sunday accused U.N.
arms inspectors of “a savage campaign
... of disinformation” in their quest for
more documents about the country’s
banned weapons.
The minister, Mohammed Saeed
al-Sahhaf, said Iraq has already hand
ed over millions of papers to monitors
and claimed that no more files exist
“Anything relevant to the work of
disarmament, we had already handed
over/’ he said, adding that Iraq has
given 2,188,020 pages of documents
to U.N. Special Commission and
International Atomic Energy Agency
monitors since weapons inspections
began in 1991.
Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz
said some documents in question are
long lost and accused Chief Weapons
Inspector Richard Butler of trying to
create a pretext to continue sanctions
or allow the United States and Britain
to attack.
Aziz told reporters that “Butler has
asked for a series of alleged documents
... that do not exist.”
“It is quite provocative if you want
to dig in the whole archives of the gov
ernment of Iraq, which might take
decades,” he said.
National Security Council
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and UNSCOM can’t do its job, we
remain prepared” to carry out the mil
itary attack President Clinton canceled
last week, he said in a telephone inter
view from South Korea, where the
president is concluding his trip to Asia.
The documents have emerged as a
new flashpoint in the dispute between
Iraq and the United Nations since
Baghdad reversed its ban on weapons
inspections and allowed monitors to
return last week.
The decision averted military
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provocative if you
want to dig in the
whole archives of
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Iraqi deputy prime minister
action, but forces remain in the
Persian Gulf.
Aziz accused Butler of trying to
block a comprehensive review that the
U.N. Security Council has pledged to
undertake once inspectors declare that
Baghdad is in full compliance with
their demands.
He s either creating a superficial
pretext to justify the American aggres
sions, or he is trying to confuse and
undermine the comprehensive
review,” Aziz said.
The weapons inspectors must cer
tify that Iraq has eliminated its
weapons of mass destruction before
U.N. Security Council sanctions on the
country can be lifted.
export of oil and have devastated Iraq’s
economy. Iraq insists it has met the
Security Council’s requirements, but
the inspectors charge it is still hiding
information about its weapons.
Iraq had cut off dealings with the
inspectors in August and October but
rescinded both decisions Nov. 14,
barely averting military strikes.
Despite mounting tension, the
inspectors have been visiting suspect
ed sites with no obstruction from Iraqi
authorities.
They made their first surprise visit
to a suspected arms-making facility
Saturday.
Tourists take
new house
■ About 6,000 in Carlisle,
Iowa, celebrate ‘miracle’
of the world’s first living
set of septuplets.
CARLISLE, Iowa (AP) - About
6,000 people - nearly double the town’s
population - toured a 6,400-square
foot house Sunday that will be home to
the McCaughey septuplets.
“It’s curiosity, of course,” said Joan
Benscoter of Oskaloosa. “Plus, it’s a
celebration of the miracle that the
whole seven lived.”
A year ago on Nov. 19, Bobbi and
Kenny McCaughey became parents of
the world’s first living set of septuplets.
To help the Carlisle couple, scores of
businesses and residents contributed
materials, services, money and land to
build them a new home.
The line of curiosity-seekers
wrapped down five blocks for the
housewarming. About 700 people per
hour took the 10-minute tour of the
seven-bedroom, ^-bathroom, 15
. closet house.
Most were from central Iowa,
although some came from as far away
as Ontario, Canada.
V, “W?,we i? liks4dijKfipJuHisp,”
Minneapolis, who visited with her
grandmother. . . .
The main floor houses the living
room, dining room, study and family
room, a spacious kitchen and a laundry
room. The basement features a 648
square-foot play room, two bedrooms
Mid space for a future laundry room.
The upstairs features five bedrooms
ranging in size from 220-square feet to
the 362-square-foot master bedroom
and two bathrooms.
Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey only
briefly stopped by the home they will
move into Monday.