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AdvocateWorld THE ADVOCATE MESSENGER THURSDAY JUNE 15 2000 A7 Portuguese mounted band gives unique performances LISBON Portugal (AP) Galloping on horseback around a fountain may not seem much of a feat but Por National Republican Guard goes one better: They play instruments at the same time These musical guardsmen can perform at three different paces walk trot and gallop making their mounted band one of a kind in the world they say Most other mounted mili tary bands play at a walk Some can do it at a trot But the soldiers say only the Por tuguese can do it at a gallop and not fall off The 28 member wind and percussion band performs every third Sunday of the month at the changing of the guard outside the Portuguese pink riverfront palace in Belem outside Lis bon They also perform for visit ing dignitaries The guardsmen rise at dawn to groom their Lusitano thoroughbreds a famed Por tuguese breed so that by 11 am with varnished hoofs braided manes and embroi dered saddles ready to ride goes to Bucking ham Palace to watch the changing of the guard They should see said Col Bernardo Mendes of the fliz iB4 jr I 7 I '1a3C BmJ gw 4 AP Photo Henrique Rodrigues a member of the National Republican mounted band takes his horse to a gallop around a fountain as he plays the trumpet at the Ajuda botanical gardens in Lisbon Portu gal The 28 musical guardsmen can play instruments at three dif ferent paces walk trot and gallop National Republican cavalry After the military ceremony the mounted guards turn their backs on the Tagus River and trot up an avenue for another performance at the Ajuda botanical gardens where the most chal lenging part of the perfor mance takes place gallop ing round a fountain while playing the trombone and trumpet to the sound of drums The guardsmen most of whose professional service time is dedicated to the band have daily riding and music classes They play military marches as well as popular easy listen ing tunes The band which also takes part in state ceremonies hon oring visiting leaders like the one for President Clinton on May 30 has performed at numerous equestrian shows throughout Europe since it began in 1942 Korean leader Kim Jong II embarks on an image makeover SEOUL South Korea (AP) North Korean ruler Kim Jong II has been accused of being many things over the years: terrorist womaniz er drunk recluse liar kidnapper Now he might be a contender for a new unexpected label: statesman At a historic inter Korean summit in Pyong yang this week the world is getting its closest look ever at the 58 year old portly bespectacled head of one of its most isolated countries An image transformation is under way even if the motives of North leader are largely a mystery On Wednesday chatting with South Korean President Kim Dae jung before a round of talks Kim Jong II complained about Western media portrayals of him as a recluse news reports say President visit helped me out of he remarked wryly draw ing laughter from the South Korean who faced him across a table The dramatic spectacle of first her editary successor making a surprise appearance at an airport Tuesday to greet Kim Dae jung startled many South Koreans who had been accustomed to government reports that portrayed him as a villain felt that the stereotype image of Kim Jong Il in my brain was shattering" said Kwak Young hee a 45 year old housewife was not a freak He looked perfectly normal and a rather capable By showing himself to the world on live tele vision a poised Kim Jong II revealed a taste for boldness and a sense of the history that pervad ed his meeting with Kim Dae jung after a half century of hostility on the divided Korean penin sula Their unprecedented meeting offered fresh hope for an end to Cold War UN Secretary General Kofi Annan praised two leaders for their and wis in opening dialogue and they drew encour agement from the major players: Japan Russia China and the United States Jong II used President visit as an occasion to tell the world that he is not a dan gerous and reclusive leader ruling a rogue coun said Kang Sung yoon a political science professor at Dongkuk University in Seoul Kim Jong II who rules with the aid of a per sonality cult will have to do much more to win respect in the international community North Korea has masterminded an array of bombings armed attacks and kidnappings since the 1950 53 Korean War most of them directed at its southern neighbor Its nuclear and long range missile programs remain of great concern in Seoul Washington and Tokyo Kim Jong II has yet to be explicit about why he agreed to the summit although desperation for economic resources from the rich South is a likely factor North economy is a mess and its 22 million people have relied on outside food aid since famine killed hundreds of thou sands in the 1990s Kim Jong II was groomed to succeed his fa ther North Korean founder Kim II Sung who died in 1994 at age 82 shortly before a planned summit with Kim Young sam South Korea president then In the years that fol lowed Kim Jong II consoli dated his control over the military outlasted predic tions that his destitute regime would collapse and may finally have felt confi dent enough to fulfill his goal of hosting a summit The decision was still a risky one for the North Korean who is aware that outside influence would chip away at his tight control over his people unclear how much he wants to open up During a rare secretive trip to Beijing last month Kim Jong II hinted that he understood the need for economic if not political change He saluted capitalist reforms and toured a computer firm A pair of South Korean filmmak ers who were kidnapped by Kim Jong II and brought to Pyongyang in 1978 escaped in 1984 with secret recordings of the North Korean leader On one tape he expressed a need to open up to the West but said such a strategy could endanger the North Korean state Another unknown is whether Kim Jong II who is treated as a virtual god by his people is capable of the flexibility required to negotiate deals with his South Korean counterpart According to South Korean pool reports Kim Jong II was brusque with his subordinates Tues day addressing them without the honorific titles commonly used in the Korean language With Kim Dae jung he was chatty and charming Jong I is known to be a smart able said Baek Young ok professor of North Korean Studies at Myongji University in Seoul is evident when you see how he became a successor of his father as a ruler of North Korea and succeeded in keeping his post But unlike his father he is also known to be quite impa tient expressive and Kim has revealed a taste for jGf boldness and BT a sense of his tory Once a treasure blubber now almost worthless to whalers OSLO Norway (AP) Nor whalers began their hotly protested hunt last month knowing that blubber once a prize of their backbreaking and dangerous arctic voyages is just about worthless to them Whale blubber Was once a treasure in Norway and used in a wide range of products Now uses are few and the price is so low that hunters say hardly worth hauling to land where 800 tons of the pearly fat is already frozen in northern warehouses from past hunts The Norwegian ish Sales Association lowered the mini mum blubber price to less than a penny a pound this year from 15 cents a pound last year "The price is so low because no one in Norway wants said Harald Dahl sales manag er for the association based in the northern Lofoten Islands the center of the whaling industry Norway resumed commercial hunts in 1993 despite a non binding global ban but the gov ernment voluntarily prohibited all exports of whale products 1 fearing that would intensify already negative opinion Nor wegians eat the red meat of whales but have no taste for the blubber Twenty years ago Norway exported much of its whale blubber to Japan where considered a delicacy and fetch es $25 to $37 a pound Japan ese whalers kill more than 400 minke whales a year for research and sell the meat and blubber at home Such prices would make the frozen as Norwegians call their stock pile worth tens of millions of dollars and whalers are push ing to resume exports we could export the whalers and the Norwegian government would both said Steinar Bastesen an out spoken whaler and parliament member since 1997 the animal is dead silly not to use the whole Norway an oil rich nation of 45 million people is the only country that conducts commer cial whale hunts and has faced fierce protests and sanction threats because of them Some indigenous groups in the Unit ed States Russia Canada Indonesia and other countries are allowed to hunt whales but only for their own use In March govern ment unsuccessfully pushed for the removal of the minke whales its fishermen hunt from (estate health Strategies Planning INORMATIVE REE SEMINAR Organize Your Estate Protect against Administrative Expense and Delay Reduce or Eliminate ederal Gift and Estate TaxesReduce Income Taxes Take full 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Seating Is Limited Please GUI for Reservations (800)937 0161 (toll free) or 236 8466 (Danville) This is an advertisement the protected list of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species so it could permit exports The International Whaling Commission banned commer cial whaling in 1986 because some whale types were endan gered and opponents of whal ing say Norway be harpooning minke whales resumption of commercial whaling around the world would probably lead to unregu lated hunts that earlier drove so many types of whales to the point of said rode Pleym of the international environmental group Green peace Norway is not bound by the Whaling ban because its rules allow mem bers to reject its decisions The Scandinavian nation says minke the smallest of the baleen whales at up to 30 feet in length are plentiful and can sustain a limited harvest The scientific panel agrees minke whales are not endangered with about 100000 in the seas off Norway and hundreds of thousands more in the Antarctic region The Norwegian isheries Ministry said no export permits are in the works whalers just have to be ministry official Johan Williams said But the country is prepared Since 1997 the DNA of all whale meat and blubber has been tested so Norway could document that any exported whale products came from ani mals legally killed Only whales taken in 1997 or later would ever be exported and Dahl said that includes about half the current stockpile of blubber This quota for Norwe gian whalers is 655 animals Bad weather kept them from filling last quota of 753 when they killed 539 whales The numbers are far below the 1800 whales Norway took annually in the 1950s and About 35 small trawlers are LASAGNA BIG ITALIAN BUET Thursday Night HL' PIZZA SALAD GARLIC BREAD ETTUCCINI MEAT SAUCE APPLE PIE tpec mh eat fa we tow faieeJ tew Buffet Hours: 11 am to 9 pm 7 days a week Open 10 am to 12 pm 7 days a week! 1418 Hustonville Rd 236 1455 taking part in the May July hunting season 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