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...Winners CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES Royal girlfriend named head of the National Osteoporosis Society. This makes the score in the popularity contest: Diana 5,000?Camilla 1 CARLOS MENEM Ex-Argentine president and Latin lover cleared of conspiracy charges, allowing him to focus exclusively on Julio Iglesias look-alike contests POPE JOHN PAUL II Techno-pontiff posts first ever online papal apology, for the clergy's sexual abuse of kids?then plays Everquest until he's slain by an elf Losers MICK JAGGER Solo Stone album sells only 954 copies on first day in U.K. That's pretty good considering most...
...demonstrations by foreigners on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The protesters, on tourist visas from 10 European countries and the U.S., held a sit-in and unfurled banners before being carted away by police. The Foreign Ministry said they were deported for disrupting public order and breaking Chinese law. ARGENTINA Menem Free to Run Former President Carlos Menem celebrated his release from house arrest and gunrunning charges by announcing that he will seek re-election in 2003. The Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove that he and his brother-in-law were involved in a conspiracy to smuggle...
ARRESTED. CARLOS MENEM, 70, flamboyant reformist President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999; on charges of leading a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador while in office; in Buenos Aires. The first elected Argentine President ever arrested, Menem is too old to go to jail; under Argentine law, suspects 70 or older are kept under house arrest...
...given the government award. DIED. GUIDO DI TELLA, 71, former Foreign Minister of Argentina who mended relations with Britain after the 1982 Falkland Islands war; in Buenos Aires. Serving from 1991-99, Di Tella possessed a diplomatic savvy that culminated in the 1998 visit to England by Carlos Menem, the first by an Argentinian President after the war. DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, recipient of an Oscar, two Emmys and a special lifetime achievement Tony; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Best known for her eccentric character roles, Heckart first won recognition on Broadway in 1953 for her portrayal of middle-aged Rosemary Sydney...
This is not to say there is no hope that the next president of Peru will be elected in a fair and democratic manner. Fujimori's actions are curiously parallel to those of former Argentine Peronist President Carlos Saul Menem who also pressed until he found a way around the Argentine constitution, offering him the possibility of a third term, in 1998. Yet despite his backhanded methods, Menem was defeated in Argentina's elections last fall...