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00 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 A5 1 i i death raises lo Briefly Diana aihuig of paparazzi' (MM If Hm- "3N It 3 Hr nil 'H i 1 1 'i Relentless pursuit of stars stirs revulsion that photojournalists hope won't taint them. By Audrey Woods ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Paparazzi lurked in the shrubbery, hovered outside her gym and trained telephoto lenses on her vacations. The market for intimate photographs of Princess Diana was endless and the money amazing. Photographers pursued Diana and her wealthy beau through the Paris streets Sunday morning and, cameras flashing, were the first to the scene of the crash that killed the princess, Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur. Police are investigating whether the pursuit played a role in those deaths.

Revulsion at that prospect spilled into displays of grief: A message left outside Diana's Kensington Palace home decried "a life wasted by the crooked greed of the media." A woman outside the palace shouted, "You're horrible!" at TV cameramen, sobs choking her words. Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, blamed the photographers for the couple's death, and Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, said he "always believed the press would kill her in the end." "But not even I could imagine that they would take such a direct hand in her death as seems to be the case," he told reporters at his home just outside Cape Town. South Africa. "It would appear that every (publisher) and every editor of any publication that has paid for intrusive and exploitative photographs of her, encouraging greedy and ruthless Individuals to risk everything In pursuit of Diana's image, has blood on his hands today." Some Journalists and Britons say the public is partly to blame for creating the market in which paparazzi thrive, snapping up each Juicy tidbit. And news photographers who draw a sharp line between themselves and paparazzi fear the public will not make the same distinction.

"For most of us, news is a pro- r- i IV, the photos, some of which he said were being peddled for a million dollars. Fanie Jason, a photographer involved in a high-speed pursuit of Diana last year in South Africa, said he hoped French authorities would not charge the photographers being questioned for following Diana. "Diana was made by the media, and the same people who made her, have contributed to her death. But they are not solely responsible for it," he told the South African Press Association. "They don't blame them (the drivers) for driving at that speed, but they blame the photographers." In August 1996, the Spencer family obtained a court order against Jason, who once got onto their property dressed as a workman.

Jason was observing the or Associated Press PALACE MOURNERS: A mourner added flowers Sunday outside London's Buckingham Palace, where Britons gathered in quiet respect after the death of Diana, princess of Wales. Others took flowers, toys and candles to Kensington Palace, which was Diana's home. FROM WIRE AND STAFF REPORTS Buckingham Palace discusses funeral plans LONDON Anxious discussions were under way In Buckingham Palace Sunday over how much official recognition short of a full state occasion should be involved In Princess Diana's funeral. These are uncharted waters in protocol and propriety for Buckingham Palace, for Diana had lost her official "Her Royal Highness" status yet is still regarded as part of the royal family. The palace will want to reflect Diana's public popularity in their arrangements, but to give a full state occasion to somebody who has not been a serving monarch is regarded as out of the question.

More likely is what was termed Sunday a "royal ceremonial funeral." This would Involve an official period of mourning applying to the royal family and members of their household. U.S. editors distance newspapers from paparazzi INDIANAPOLIS Facing a public seething over the possible role of the paparazzi in Princess Diana's death, editors of the nation's newspapers said Sunday they're "not even in the same business" as the tabloids. Actors, members of Britain's royal family and Diana mourners worldwide slammed the media for feeding the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity news. Most editors, however, said they typically don't buy or print pictures taken by guerrilla photographers.

"There absolutely is a blurring in the minds of the public between us, tabloids, Internet news, all the media. One person's sins will certainly give everybody in general a bad reputation," said George Langford, public editor of the Chicago Tribune, adding that his paper wouldn't chase someone for a picture. "Some of the things celebrities do are legitimate news stories, but even In these cases there Is a line that a publication of character does not cross," said Frank Caperton, executive editor of The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News. 'The Star and News don't trespass, we don't stalk celebrities, and we don't purchase pictures from people who do. "I would hope that one of the results of this tragedy would be that readers might stop paying attention to media who engage In these practices," Caperton said.

Princess reportedly wanted to withdraw from public life LONDON Princess Diana planned to withdraw from public life at the end of this year, according to a Journalist who interviewed her several hours before her fatal car crash In Paris. "She told me she had decided to radically change her life," the Daily Mail's royal reporter, Richard Kay, wrote in today's editions of the newspaper. Kay, one of Diana's favorite media contacts, said she had telephoned him six hours before the accident. "She was going to complete her obligations to her charities and to the anti-personnel land mines cause and then, around November, would completely withdraw from her formal public life," Kay wrote. "She would then, she said, be able to live as she always wanted to live.

Not as an icon how she hated to be called one but as a private person," Kay said. Kay said the influence for the change was Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed. "She was in love with him and, perhaps more important, she believed that he was in love with her." Princess' death creates somber mood at U.S. Open NEW YORK A moment of silence was held Sunday at the U.S. Open tennis match for Britain's Princess Diana.

The capacity crowd and players stood silent before the featured match in Arthur Ashe Stadium between Mark iWoodforde and Andre Agassi. Agassi wore a black mourning ribbon on his right shoulder. "After that complete tragedy last night, you could feel It in the air," Agassi said. "It was an absolute tragedy. It's a loss for the jworld.

If civilization doesn't learn from this, it's telling for where we're headed. It's a debacle what goes on for so many In the public ye. For her life to be taken In the same vain and torture in which she lived is a complete shame." i Before her divorce from Prince Charles, Diana was a regular at Wimbledon, sitting in the Royal often attending the matches with her sons William and Harry. Mourners in Paris flock to the scenes of Diana's last hours Diana's death likely to put royal family on the spot By Edith M. Lederer ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON They threw her out of the royal circle.

They took away the title Her Royal Highness. Yet Princess Diana still sparkled. Without her, more Britons might see the House of Windsor as a collection of cold, unfeeling anachronisms. "She was banished by the royal family, but she was the star member," royal biographer Anthony Holden said Sunday, hours after Diana died in a car crash in Paris while fleeing photographers. After 20-year-old Diana married into the monarchy and the spotlight, she struggled to make the institution relevant to people.

"She had begun to reinvent the role of the monarchy for the 21st century, starting when she shook hands with an AIDS victim," Holden said. Now, the challenge for the family that couldn't live with her Is to try to live without her. The Windsors could be strengthened by her death because of the enormous outpouring of sympathy, especially for her sons, the young princes. Ben Pimlott, author of a recent biography of Queen Elizabeth II, predicted that Diana's death would shift the spotlight to William, the 15-year-old heir to the throne of England. The youth has his mother's shy smile.

His brother, Harry, is said to be better known at school for his athletic prowess and Impish personality than his academic achievement. He will turn 13 this month. "Both boys have emerged as pleasant, polite and well-adjusted," said Richard Kay, who covers the royals for The Daily Mail While Insisting that her sons would savor normal childhood Joys, Diana tried to instill In them a concern for others. She took William to meet homeless people and discussed her campaigns to help AIDS sufferers and ban land mines with the boys. Diana adored her sons, and they reciprocated.

William developed a deep mistrust of the media because of how she was treated. None of the Windsors have had an easy time of It lately. Three of the queen's four children have divorced in the last five years. Their private lives have become daily fodder for the increasingly voracious tabloid media. More than a year after Charles and Diana's divorce, the media's appetite is unsated and is being blamed for the crash that killed the princess; her beau, Emad Mohamed Al Fayed, known as Dodi; and their driver.

Without Diana, life might be easier for the royal family: She was living on her own and they never knew what tomorrow's headlines would scream about a new romance or a new campaign. But opinion outside Kensington Palace, where Diana lived, ran high against the Windsors. "She was the limelight of the royal family, and I think that they could have real difficulty surviving now that she is dead," said Derek Campbell of London. news of Princess Diana's tragij death. Our deepest sympathies go to her family, especially her children." i The extent of world response showed how widely the former Diana Spencer's image had spread.

Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, Pakistani cricket star and politician Imran Khan and Cambodia'fe King Norodom Sihanouk all shared condolences with her fanv ily. "Lady Diana was the most beautiful symbol of humanity and love for all the world," Pavarotti said through his publicist. "She touched my life In an extraordinary way. She can never be replaced." Like Khan, for whom Diana helped raise money for a cancer hospital, Pavarotti said Diana had aided him in establishing a charity for Bosnian children. In India, Mother Teresa said it was obvious that despite living at the pinnacle of international society, Diana never lost her compassion or lacked time to help the poor by raising money or making appearances.

helped me to help the poor, and the most beautiful thing," said the Nobel laureate. kr.tea.- if. lM fesston," said Tom Haley, an American free-lancer with Sipa agency in Paris. "We might spend a month in Bosnia and barely cover expenses, but we could make a fortune by hanging around and spying on people like Lady Dl." An Italian photographer, Mario Brenna, reportedly made $400,000 from a fuzzy picture of Diana and Fayed embracing. The BBC reported that the British tabloid Neus of The World said it turned down the offer of a photo of Diana dying in her wrecked car.

The reported price tag: $300,000. Steven Coz, editor of the American tabloid National Enquirer, said photographs of Princess Diana's crash were offered to his newspaper for $250,000. Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Coz urged the world press not to buy people In the world, for little children. When I heard the news, I cried all night." Thousands also gathered at Pi-tie Salpetriere hospital, where Diana was taken after the crash and pronounced dead a few hours later. French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Bernadette Chirac, wife of President Jacques Chirac, were among those who came to the hospital to pay their last respects to the princess of Wales "It was so sad that this beautiful young woman, loved by everyone, whose every act and gesture were scrutinized, ended her life tragically in France, in Paris," Jospin said.

Crowds six to eight rows deep lined the street in front of the hospital, pushing against metal barricades and mingling uneasily with hundreds of Journalists and their cables and television trucks. At the gates of the hospital compound, security guards permitted hundreds of people to lay flowers and other messages of LOSS Continued from Page 1 age of 36 robbed it of a radiant icon, ambassador and friend. "She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain, in our hearts and our memories forever," an emotional Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters. Britons grew to love the gawky young kindergarten teacher who won the hand of heir to the throne Prince Charles in 1981, endured a troubled marriage and divorce, then emerged to carve a public role for herself as an ambassador for humanitarian causes. Up and down the country, flags flew at half-staff under appropriately gray skies.

All soccer matches the national sport were canceled; royal palaces were shut to the public; radio and TV networks played the national anthem, God Save the Queen, and rescheduled programs. Outside Kensington Palace, police put up crowd-control barriers as hundnfds of fresh mourners, many in arrived each hour. They brought flowers, toys, pic der Sunday, 50 yards back from Spencer's home. The National News Photographers Association, based in Durham, N.C., issued a statement Sunday expressing its sorrow and noting that "significant differences" exist between paparazzi and traditional photojournalists. "Perhaps those that make their living from tabloid Journalism will learn that there are real human consequences to their professional behavior," said David Lutman, president of the association.

Spencer urged the government in October to adopt a tough privacy law. He said the Press Complaints Commission, an industry-created group that can criticize but has no disciplinary power, "is but a minor irritant to the bully-boys of the gutter press." Fayed, Dodi's father At the tunnel, Londoner Michael Le Poer Trench said as he laid a dozen white roses that "she always was hard done by the family. I feel bad because she finally seemed to be finding happiness. I kept listening to the radio every half-hour just to make sure it was true." "She was our friend," said Jas-minko Bjelic, a land mine survivor who met Diana in Bosnia-Herzegovina three weeks ago. "We will remember her forever," said Tahsin Disbudak, head of a United Nations effort in Afghanistan to clear away land mines, an Issue Diana had helped push to the forefront of the world agenda.

"It is very sad. "We admired her work for children, for people with AIDS, for the cause of ending the scourge of land mines in the world," said President Clinton. After Clinton's public statement about Diana's death which he made to reporters before he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea went to church White House aides announced that Clinton was preparing four letters of condolence to go to Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Diana's brother, Charles Spencer. The letters were to be delivered late Sunday, aides said, and made public today. Former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, issued a statement "We are shocked and saddened at the Knighl-Ridder Tribune A TEAR FOR DIANA: Byron Pottinger wipes a tear from his eye Sunday morning as he grieves for the princess of Wales outside the British Embassy in New York City.

By Anne Swardson and Charles Trueheart THE WASHINGTON POST PARIS As people the world over mourned Diana, princess of Wales, from a distance, here in the city where she died early Sunday morning the grief-stricken and the curious flocked to the scenes of her last hours alive. Along the walls of the underground highway tunnel In which Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and a chauffeur met their deaths In an automobile accident, hundreds of visitors gawked, meditated, laid flowers and talked through their theories of the night's events. Lines of cars slowed as they went through the four-lane underpass on the right bank of the Seine River. "This is a symbol of love," Victor Delgado, master chef at the Chilean Embassy here, said as he laid a single violet rose on the pile of bouquets on the grass. "She was a person who did so much for 99 CM Associated Press SAD TRIP: A hearse (fifth from the bottom) carrying the body of Diana, the princess of Wales, leaves a Paris hospital before hejr remains were returned to" Britain on Sunday.

Fi 1 grief and compassion. Near the Hotel Ritz, where Diana and Fayed ate their last dinner, crowds stood watching from across the Place Vendome. They were kept from the doors of the city's most exclusive hotel by security guards but could see a large, gray limousine that was said to belong to Mohamed Al tures, candles and memories. "I saw her first on the night that she got engaged when I sat outside Clarence House with a friend singing 'Congratulations, congratulations' all night," said Gill Marseilles. 56, a London hpmemaker.

"She came out and waved at us. Poor girl, she didn't know what she was letting herself in for." "She was Just one ray of sunshine. She lit up everybody in the royal family. She was one sparkling gem, very warm, a genuine person," said retired caterer Josephine Boeg-Clarke, 65, her eyes red from crying. Outrage and loss The mourning was not confined to Great Britain.

Some world leaders expressed outrage against what Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien called a "senseless act" the car chase that led to the death of Diana, companion Dodi Fayed and the car's driver. Others bemoaned her loss as a sort of free-lance diplomat whose high profile could build public support for a cause or, as in the case of her visit to lepers in ar, Indian slum, break stereotypes with the shake of a hand. JU-1.