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Miss Indiana^ Ion a best in swimsuits
ATLANTIC Cm. N J: MUs Indiana and Miss Iowa shared top prize tn a preliminary swimsuit competition and Mias New Jersey won a talent preliminary in the Miss America Pageant on Tuesday reports AP
Pageant official* divide the 50 contestants Into three groups for the three nights of preliminary competition in evening gown, swimsuit and talent Each group competes in only one category per night
Winners in swimsuit and talent are chosen each night, but no winner Is picked In the evening gown category
Tuesday * swimsuit preliminary winner* were Mis* Indiana. Shell! Renee Yoder. 24. of Shipshewana. Ind and Mis* Iowa Catherine Ann Izmkau also 24. of Muscatine, Iowa.
Officials said the only other tie In the 72 year history of the Miss America Pageant was In 1986. also In the swimsuit competition.
Miss New Jersey. Heather HertHng. 24. of Randolph, claimed the top talent honour, singing Verdi's classical vocal. "Ernanl Involaml " She is a 1990 graduate of Indiana Univer slty with a music degree and Is an aspiring opera singer
The first preliminary competition opened with an appearance by the reigning queen. Carolyn Sapp, who lip synched a song. The Year of the Family, which she dedicated to farm Ues nationwide
Fifty contestants are tn the pageant, which will be held Saturday night.
It's time to welcome married priesthood
CINCINNATI. Ohio : The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged the Roman Catholic Church to allow priests to marry and to offer women a significant rote in the church is sues that divide Catholics and Anglicans, report* Reuter
In his first visit to the United States as the leader of the Worldwide Anglican Communion, which Includes the US Episcopal Church, the 56-year-old archbishop told reporters on Monday he dreamed of forming closer ties with the Catholic Church but said there were major obstacle*
"I would want to challenge the Roman Catholic Church that perhaps It la time that they welcomed a married priesthood." Carey said, responding to a question about the shortage of priests.
"I gain a great deal of strength from the support of my wife. In no way doe* It diminish my commitment to Christ and to the sacrament* that we celebrate,' he said.
The vivid memory of comfort girls
SEOUL North Korea said Wednesday It wanted to Join forces with the South to demand that Tokyo compensate Korean women forced to serve as Japanese sex slaves during World War two. report* Reuter
North Korean Prime Minister Yon Hyong-Muk said In a speech that Seoul and Pyon^ang should adopt a five-point agreement which would Include other issues, such as Japan's plans to send troops overseas for the first time since World War two
But the current northern proposal has little chance of a sympathetic hearing tn Seoul because of the strong antiJapanese rhetoric and Its Inclusion of clauses unrelated to the s^x slave issue.
Memories are vivid in both Koreas of atrocities committed during Japan's 1910-45 colonisation of the peninsula.
Historian* say as many as 200.000 women, mostly Kore-ana. were forced to serve the Imperial army us It swept through east and south-east Asia tn the 193Os and 194Os.
The Japanese government lias acknowledged the recruitment of comfort women but has refused compensation, saying there was no proof the women were coerced.
Better late than never
SINGAPORE : Better late than never ? Perhaps, but chronically tardy Singaporeans who believe it fashionable to be late are again being prodded to be punctual, reports AP.
A campaign by the National Community Organizations Council, an umbrella group of civic bodies, is the latest effort to gel guests at wedding dinners and other social occasions to appear on time.
In most respects this city-state maintains a brisk efficiency, school classes and sports events keep to the clock and subways run on time.
But several publicity drives have made little headway In changing the deeply Ingrained habit of being tardy at ban-. quets