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Diana fans seek a memorial
LONDON (AP) — Marking exactly two years
since Princess Diana’s death, Mohamed A1 Fayed
on Tuesday displayed the ring he insists would
have marked her engagement to his son Dodi.
The ring and a glass of champagne that A1
Fayed says is the one the couple last drank from
before their deaths in a Paris crash were added to
shrines at his Harrods department store.
At Diana’s former Kensington Palace home,
her most ardent admirers petitioned for a perma
nent memorial.
Jill Marseilles, who stood outside the palace
for two days this week collecting 4,000 signatures,
said she was “overwhelmed” by the response.
“The palace will have to take notice now,”
Marseilles said. “Last year, people came here to
pay their respects. This year, they are getting
angry”
A1 Fayed, whose dealings with the government
and Diana’s family have grown embittered, says
the deaths on Aug. 31,1997, were a murder con
spiracy plotted by people who did not approve of
Diana’s relationship with an Egyptian.
He says his son and Diana were planning to
marry and the diamond ring Dodi had bought was
to have been an engagement ring.
Friends and relatives of the princess, who had
met Dodi Fayed only a few weeks before her
death, say there were no such plans.
“This is a difficult day for me,” A1 Fayed said
Tuesday, expressing gratitude to those who offered
him sympathy.
The “establishment,” he said, is trying to make
people forget about the princess. “Diana was like a
saint,” he added.
Diana and Dodi Fayed died after they left the
Ritz Hotel and set off at high speed in their chauf
feured car, trying to elude photographers. A1
Fayed owns the Ritz and was the employer of dri
ver Henri Paul, who died in the crash and was
found to have high levels of alcohol in his blood.
The French judge investigating the accident is
expected to conclude his investigation soon. The
state prosecutor recommended last week that
manslaughter charges against nine photographers
who were trailing Diana be dismissed.
In Paris on Tuesday, police stood guard near
the tunnel where the car crashed, but the expected,
crowd never materialized at the nearby monument
that has been adopted as a shrine to Diaha. Of
those who did stop, most simply snapped a few
pictures before heading to other Paris sites.
Diana’s sons, Prince William and Prince
Harry, spent the day with Prince Charles in the pri
vacy of Balmoral, the royal family’s Scottish
estate.
“She stood for everything
good about the country. I
will keep coming back
every year.”
John Loughrey
Englander
At Althorp, the Spencer family home where
. the princess is buried, her brother, Earl Spencer,
spent the anniversary in “private contemplation”
while several bunches of flowers were laid at the
gates.
At Kensington Palace, a steady flow of people
arrived.
Londoner John Loughrey, 44, arrived at mid
. night so he could be there at the exact time Diana
died.
“I was here last year, and I was here for four
days without sleep when she died,” he said. “She
stood for everything good about the country. I will
keep coming back every year.”
Bush breaks records
with campaign funds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texa
i Gov. George W. Bush’s campaign wil
report raising more than $50 millioi
by the end of September—more thai
any presidential candidate ever ha:
had available to seek the nomination.
With a half-dozen events ii
September, the campaign expects t<
add to the total before the Sept. 3(
reporting deadline. But the figure i
not expected to reach $60 million, on<
senior Bush aide said.
Bush raised a record $37 millioi
through June 30 and has continued t<
take in money since then, including
the $250,000 Bush picked up Tuesda;
at a $l,000-a-plate fund-raiser ii
Nebraska. The campaign has planne<
fund-raisers next week in Kansas an<
Rhode Island.
Last week, the Bush campaigi
raised about $ 1 million from fund
raisers in Georgia, North Carolin;
and South Carolina.
By the end of September, Busl
will have raised more money than an;
other presidential candidate ever has
even when federal matching funds an
I—
5 figured in. Including federal funds,
l 1996 Republican presidential nomi
i nee Bob Dole had $45 million to
i spend and President Clinton had $43
> million.
Bush is not accepting the federal
l funds, which require candidates to
> limit their spending in exchange for
) the money. Neither is publisher Steve
> Forbes, who is paying for much of his
; campaign out of his own pocket.
Bush said Tuesday that he didn’t
i know how much money he had raised,
> except to say “it’s a lot”
\ Bush advisers, speaking on con
f dition of anonymity, said the cam
l paign will report more than $50 mil
1 lion in contributions Sept 30.
I Spokesmen for Bush’s opponents
said they were resigned to the Texas
l governor vacuuming up most of the
- available cash.
i Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
called it “a sign of his success.”
i “We don’t have to outspend him;
f we have to out-idea him,” Forbes
, spokeswoman Juleanne Glover Weiss
: said.
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FBI probemay
be independent
■ Director Louis Freeh
pushes for outside team to
investigate Waco incident
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI
Director Louis Freeh is pushing for an
independent investigator to head the
probe into why it took his agency six
years to acknowledge using incendi
ary tear gas canisters in the waning
hours of the Branch Davidian siege.
Amid concern over the appear
ance of the FBI and Justice
Department investigating themselves,
Freeh has told Attorney General Janet
Reno she should appoint an outsider to
head the inquiry, an FBI official con
firmed Tuesday.
Although the FBI has identified
40 agents who could do the investiga
tive legwork, Freeh is supporting a
probe without FBI involvement,
spokesman Tron Brekke said. \
Recognizing that the agency’s
credibility has been damaged, Brekke
added: “We would welcome a quali
fied group of (independent) investiga
tors to do that investigation.”
Reno was said by Justice sources
to be searching for a qualified outsider
but had reached no final decision
Tuesday, said Justice spokesman
MyronMarlin. /
“She is still working through her
options,” Marlin said. “She has
pledged to get to the bottom of this,
and that’s what she will do.”
Congressional committees also
have begun inquiries of their own and
some are planning hearings this fall.
The latest round of scrutiny into
the deadly siege near Waco, Texas, was
triggered by the FBI’s about-face last
week after claiming for years that only
non-buming tear gas was used.
Davidian leader David Koresh and
about 80 followers died during the
April 19, 1993, inferno. The FBI and
Reno have said there is no evidence to
suggest the blaze was set by the tear
gas grenades, which were lobbed at a
concrete bunker 40 yards from the
wooden compound a few hours before
the fire erupted.
Mindful that 1995 Waco hearings
degenerated into intense partisan bick
ering, House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., is
mulling a proposal to create a joint
House-Senate commission in place of
hearings by his panel, an aide said.
“There’s been no final decision
that’s been made, but we’re trying to
work our way through this and find
some solution that might remove this
entire affair from the political fever
swamp,” said Sam Stratman, a
spokesman for the House panel.
A joint commission would have its
own budget and investigative authori
ty and likely would follow the of other
congressional commissions: Its mem
bers would be appointed by House and
Senate leaders from both parties but
would not necessarily be lawmakers.
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., and others
are demanding information on the role
played by the Army’s secretive Delta
Force dining the FBI operation. Only
under tightly proscribed rules is the
military allowed to participate in
domestic law enforcement operations.
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This century’s top 10 ad jingles
From the Associated Press
This century’s top ad jingles, ac
cording to Advertising Age magazine:
1: “You deserve a break today”
(McDonald’s)
2: “Be all that you can be” (U.S.
Army)
3: “Pepsi-Cola hits the spot” (Pepsi
Cola)
4: “Mmm good!” (Campbell Soup)
5: “See the USA in your Chevrolet”
(GM)
6: “I wish I were an Oscar Mayer
wiener” (Oscar Mayer)
7: “Double your pleasure, double
your fun” (Wrigley’s Doublemint
gum)
8: “Winston tastes good like a ciga
rette should” (Winston)
9: “It’s the real thing” (Coca-Cola)
10:”A little dab’ll do ya” (Brylcreem)
Indonesia
Militia blocks East Timor
residents from leaving
DILI, Indonesia (AP) — Angry
militiamen blocked roads ancf
stopped separatist supporters from
taking planes and ferries from East
Timor’s capital Tuesday amid expec
tations that independence support
ers had won a U.N.-sponsored ballot
on the troubled territory’s future.
Militia members said they had
gone to Dili’s airport and confiscat
ed tickets from passengers they sus
pected of voting to break away from
Indonesia in Monday’s landmark
referendum.
There were no immediate
reports of serious violence, though
an Australian elections observer was
quoted as saying three U.N. staffers
had been killed in the district of
Ermera, where there was a clash
between anti-independence militia
and U.N. staff at a roadblock.
■ North Carolina
Hurricane Dennis may
return down same path
KITTY HAWK, N.C. (AP) —
Hurricane Dennis began plodding
back toward North Carolina on
Tuesday, raising fears among the
vacationers and residents who had
just started to return to the rain
lashed coast.
The National Hurricane Center
in Miami predicted Dennis would
move slowly west and then turn
southwest Wednesday night.
That would take it along the
same path — but in reverse — that it
followed when it crept along North
Carolina’s coast Monday without
coming ashore.
■ Balifornia
Firefighters try to contain
massive Western blaze
APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (AP)
— Smoke rose into the Mojave
Desert sky from the north flank of
the San Bernardino Mountains
Tuesday as firefighters struggled to
contain active forest and brush fires
that had burned 150,000 acres in the
West.
The largest uncontrolled blazes
were being fought in Idaho,
Montana, Utah and California. Fires
had been contained in Nevada and
Washington.
The biggest concentration of
firefighters worked to tame a
50,000-acre blaze that had
destroyed 12 homes since Sunday
about 80 miles east of Los Angeles,
between the resort town of Lake
Arrowhead and the’high desert of
Apple Valley.
■ Moscow
Explosion in video arcade
'injures at least 30 people'
MOSCOW (AP) — An explo
sion ripped through a video game
parlor in a shopping mall near the
Kremlin on Tuesday, spraying glass
and metal and injuring at least 30
people. Police said it could have
been an attack by terrorists or by
organized crime.
The blast sent frightened teen
agers and shoppers rushingTrom the
underground Manezh shopping cen
ter — a mall popular for its fast-food
restaurants and shops stocked with
Nike shoes and other pricey imports
— and prompted the Kremlin, only
yards away, to beef up security.