Not married, just friends

MANILA. Plhilipplnes: John F. Kenned Jr. and actress Darryl Hannah passed through Manila on Saturday but denied their Pacific tour w»is a honeymoon, reports AP.

"We re not .married. Just friends,' Kenned told a group of reporters who spotted them at the Manila International airport. The actress is best known for her role as a mermaid In the movie "Splash ".

Asked about their tour plans. Hannah said, "We re going everywhere."

The two were In Manila for a four-hour stopover before going on to Hong Kong, They arrived from Koror, Palau, where they spent several days scuba diving

He is happy in his seclusion

BANGKOK: Former military strongman Suchinda Krapra-yoon, widely hated after soldiers killed pro-democracy demonstrators last year, says he Is happy In hts seclusion, reports AP on Saturday.

"I Just sit. relax and feel happy," Suchinda said at a party at his Bangkok home Friday to celebrate his 6Oth birthday. The Nation newspaper reported Saturday.

Suchinda. rarely seen tn public since his ouster last year, said he has been following his mother's advice to keep quiet. When reporters asked about his political future, he shook his head, turned around and walked away.

Fourteen months ago, Suchinda resigned in disgrace after some of the biggest street protests tn Thai history. Demonstrators opposed Suchinda becoming prime minister because he had led a 1991 military coup and was not and elected official. At least 40 people, perhaps many more were killed as soldiers clashed with demonstrators.

The elected government of Prime Minister Chuan Leekpain took over last year.

The Nation said some senior military officers attended Suchinda’s birthday party, but not the top commanders, even though that would have been customary since Suchinda graduated with many of them In the same class tn the military academy.

Marriage of Clinton's mother illegal?

KANSAS CITY: President Clinton's father might have married Clinton's mother before his divorce to another woman was final, newspapers reported Saturday, says AP.

The Kansas City Star and the Daily News of New York reported that Clinton's biological father, William Jefferson Blythe in, was married in 1941 in Jackson county. Mo, to a Kansas

Court records show that the woman filed for a divorce but was not granted one until April 13. 1944. seven months after Blythe married Virginia Cassidy, the president’s mother, the newspapers said.

Clinton's mother, since remarried, told the Star on Friday, "I knew absolutely nothing about it. It was news to me."

Nearly all of Clintons biographies state that his parents were married in 1942. But the marriage license In Arkansas lists the date as September 1943. And Clinton's mother told the Star she believed the wedding was tn 1943.

If Blythe was married to both women at the same time.

the marriage to Clinton's mother was Illegal under Arkansas law, and he might have committed bigamy.

Deputy White House Press Secretary Lorraine Voles said there would be no comment Friday. Voles could not says whether the president had been told.

The Kansas City woman, Wanetta Ellen Alexander, gave birth to a daughter, whose family claimed this week that she Is Clinton's half-sister.

The daughter, Sharon Lee Pettijohn. Ilves In Tucson. Artz, as does her mother. Neither could be reached by the Star.

A still earlier marriage for Blythe was reported In June, when a California man said he believed he was the president's half brother. Clinton has spoken by telephone with Henry Leon Rltzenthaler. 55, of Paradise. California, but had not acknowl edged a relationship publicly.