Quotes of the Day
DIED. LORD SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes."
DIED. PATRIARCH RAPHAEL I BIDAWID, 81, spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics; in Beirut. Bidawid lobbied for years to end the United Nations' sanctions levied against Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and last year unsuccessfully urged a peaceful solution to Washington's standoff with Saddam Hussein.
DIED. ANDREW HEISKELL, 87, former chairman of Time Inc. and philanthropist; in Darien, Connecticut. Erudite, despite never having graduated from college, Heiskell began as a pictorial editor for Life and rose to become publisher of the magazine. As chairman of Time Inc. he oversaw the closing of Life and the creation of People magazine. After retiring in 1980, Heiskell raised hundreds of millions of dollars for libraries as chairman of the New York Public Library's trustees, and promoted urban renewal in blighted areas of New York City as head of the Enterprise Foundation's advisory board.
DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, Hollywood hoofer who became the world's best-known yokel by playing the role of accidental oil tycoon Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series The Beverly Hillbillies; in Los Angeles. Ebsen started out as a lanky song-and-dance man, and partnered with Shirley Temple in the 1936 film Captain January. He almost played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but left the film because he was allergic to the aluminum makeup used for the role. Ebsen later starred as a geriatric private investigator in TV's Barnaby Jones.
SEIZED. 900 KG OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, more than twice the amount used in last October's Bali bombings, along with 160 kg of TNT, 1,700 detonators, two M-16s and 20,000 rounds of ammunition; in Semarang and Jakarta, Indonesia. Police say Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the terror outfit accused of the Bali blasts, was planning to use the explosives for attacks in the country. Nine suspected JI members have also been arrested.
SUSPENDED. RANDALL SIMON, 28, Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman; for three games, for hitting with his bat a Milwaukee Brewers mascot dressed as an Italian sausage; after the game in Milwaukee.
APPOINTED. AMY DICKINSON, 43, a former lounge singer and TIME writer; to take over the Ann Landers advice column; in Chicago. Dickinson will pen "Ask Amy," the successor to Landers' Chicago Tribune column, which was once the most widely read newspaper column in the world. The new agony aunt is a distant relative of poet Emily Dickinson.
Numbers
$100,000 Opening bid on eBay for a collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia, including one of his teeth
70¢ Amount Bangkok dog catchers are paid per captured animal in a new initiative to remove inner-city strays
$17 Cost of a one-way bus ticket from New Delhi, India, to Lahore, Pakistan, after service resumed on July 11
$130 Price in Japan of a small box of Sato Nishiki cherries, also known as "red diamonds"
$500 Sum for which a West Virginia woman tried to sell her son so that she could buy Oxy-Contin, an addictive painkiller
$10.4 million Amount sought by a Pakistani man who was held at Guantánamo Bay for 10 months and is now suing the U.S. government
200,000 Annual total of Vietnamese juveniles who have abortions
5 Number of co-workers killed by a Mississippi man who had just attended a company ethics and sensitivity training session
Omen
Thinking while driving could kill you, Spanish researchers say. Even engaging in an in-depth conversation with a passenger can reduce a driver's ability to spot and react to potential hazards by as much as 30%
- By Austin Ramzy
- Mourning the Iranian twins