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StuT-ffulletm A-10 Monday. September 1. 1997 fcr Princess Diana 1961-1997 Car's speedometer stuck at 121 mph Close up on the crash (Vet a bodyguard were in a fatal automobile speed chase from paparazzi. United States consider a driver legally drunk if the blood alcohol content reaches 0.1 percent, although some have recently toughened the laws to 0.08 percent. However, the driver would have exceeded even those U.S.

standards if his blood alcohol level was three times the French limit. France's law, toughened in 1995, is one of the strictest drunken-driving statutes in Europe. A spokeswoman for the Ritz Hotel said the driver was Henri Paul, 41, the hotel's No. 2 security man. Diana and her millionaire boyfriend Dodi Fayed had dined at the hotel Saturday night before they and Paul died in the crash early yesterday, as their Mercedes-Benz sedan was pursued by photographers on motorcycles.

Police so far have not been able to talk to the bodyguard who survived the crash. Trevor Rees-Jones suffered a head contusion, a lung injury and facial injuries. His condition was described as grave but not life-threatening, and he remained in intensive care today. Paul, a former French Air Force pilot, was not Fayed's regular driver, who had left earlier in another vehicle as a decoy to throw photographers off the trail. Contrary to earlier media reports, the spokeswoman said Paul was an experienced driver who received special security training by Mercedes-Benz at a center in Germany.

Mercedes-Benz confirmed today that the sedan in which the couple were riding was an armored vehicle. Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, a driver and crash while allegedly engaged in a high overhead view of tunnel 1 2 SUPOOB mllars i Placement in the car Mercedes S-Class 600 four door sedan The prosecutor's statement also indicated at least some of the seven photographers detained would be placed under formal investigation a legal step that precedes any filing of charges. They did not specify the grounds, but suggested it could be because they did not extend help to the victims of the crash. -J swarm the car just before it crashed. Investigators were also looking at about 20 rolls of film confiscated from the six French and one Macedonian photographer.

The photographers legally can be held for up to 48 hours without charges. Police did not release their names. Prosecutors have considerable leeway in deciding what, if any, charges the photographers might face. Even if they are cleared of any direct role in causing the crash, France has a "good Samaritan" law that makes it a crime to fail to help someone in danger. France 2 television reported today that a witness saw one photographer "zigzag" in front of the car before it crashed.

That report could not be independently confirmed. Witnesses said the photographers, riding motorcycles, had surrounded the Mercedes sedan before it entered the 300-yard, brick-lined tunnel at the Pont de I'Alma bridge along the Seine, just north of the Eiffel Tower. Within seconds the car slammed into a concrete post, spun and hit a tunnel wall, crumpling in a mass of twisted steel. Fayed, 42, and Paul were killed instantly; Diana, 36, died at a hospital a few hours later. France Info radio said at least some of the photographers took pictures before help arrived, and one of the photographers was beaten at the scene by horrified witnesses.

Police impounded two motorcycles and a scooter. Paparazzi tactics are slammed BvJohn Horn Associated Press LOS ANGELES Photographers have stalked the rich and famous for decades, using everything from bushes to helicopters to hide for the elusive and lucrative shot. It is a practice critics say has gone too far. After the crash that killed Princess Diana and her new beau, Hollywood's stars warned that the pictures-at-all-costs trade will endanger more lives. "Many of us in public life have had the chilling experience of being chased and hunted down like animals simply for a photograph," Arnold Schwarzenegger said.

"As long as that lawless, wild west atmosphere exists and publications dangle huge bounties for such photos, these kinds of tragedies will happen." Diana's car was traveling at least 60 mph with photographers in pursuit when it crashed, authorities said. Besides the princess, the crash killed boyfriend Dodi Fayed and a chauffeur. Witnesses said photographers swarmed around the car on motorcycles moments before the crash, and France Info radio said at least some of them took pictures before help arrived. National Enquirer Editor Steve Coz said photographs of the accident were offered to the Enquirer for $250,000 and that some are being peddled for $1 million. Coz urged the world press not to buy them.

The tragedy sparked scathing criticism of the paparazzi's tactics from the public and it refocused Hollywood's mounting fury over the issue. Actor Tom Cruise and publicists called for new laws to control the trade. "I think we need laws for what (constitutes) harassing an individual," Cruise told CNN. News organizations, meanwhile, distanced themselves from the practices of the paparazzi. Some worried that the tragedy will stain the entire industry.

Vincent J. Alabiso, vice president and executive photo editor of the Associated Press, said it would be premature to comment on the Diana accident until the extent of the paparazzi's involvement is determined. "As a rule, however, the AP does not condone any behavior that risks a subject's life and does not accept a photo or a story obtained that way," Alabiso said. "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.

By William J. Kole Associated Press PARIS Princess Diana's driver was legally drunk at the time of the accident that killed her, her boyfriend and their chauffeur, the Paris prosecutor's office said today. In another development, a source close to the investigation said today the car's speedometer was frozen at 196 kilometers 121 miles an hour after the crash early yesterday in the Seine River tunnel. The speed limit in the area is 30 mph. It was not clear whether the reading on the speedometer was an exact indication of the speed the car was going at the time of the impact.

But witnesses told French newspapers the car was going at a very high speed, and another police source said the car was traveling well over 60 miles an hour and perhaps twice that. Prosecutors said today that the driver's "blood analysis revealed that the alcohol level was illegal." They did not give the level, but a spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity later said it was 1.75 grams per liter of blood three times the legal limit in France. Under French law, exceeding 0.5 grams the level after about two glasses of wine is considered a misdemeanor, while 0.8 grams is considered a criminal offense. The 0.5-gram limit translates to a blood-alcohol content of about 0.065 percent. Most states in the DIANA: Her funeral will be at Westminster FROM PAGE A-l funeral ceremony will be Satur-(' at Westminster Abbey, begin-r rig at 11 a.m.

(midnight Friday night Hawaii time). She will be buried later that day at Althorp, the Spencer family seat in Northamptonshire, north of London. The palace, which for years has appeared confused about how to handle the popular princess, would not comment today on the delicate issue of the status of the funeral. "The status is irrelevant," a spokeswoman said. "This is a unique funeral for a unique person." Earlier today, Diana's coffin was moved to the Chapel Royal at St.

James's Palace, where mourners were invited to sign a book of condolence. The palace is Prince Charles' home. At the request of both the royal family and the Spencers, Diana's body will not lie in state; instead the coffin will lie privately in front of the chapel's altar until the funeral. Diana was considered a member of the royal family although she lost her status as Her Royal Highness when she was divorced from Charles a year ago. Britons, meanwhile, kept up a vigil of grief today, with flowers, candles and tears.

"We are all praying for her because she was such a special person," said Maureen Holden, who brought two grandchildren to the gates of Buckingham Palace, where bouquets were piled high. Mohammed Al Fayed attended a 25-minute prayer service at the Regent's Park Mosque for his son last night. Up to 20 mourners rushed to help lift the coffin, which was draped in black cloth with gold lettering, said muezzin Raafat Maglad, "because any person who helps carry the deceased believes they receive a blessing." Fayed, 42, was buried at Brook-wood cemetery, 25 miles southwest of London. Diana and Fayed, a film producer whose credits included "Chariots of Fire," had become close during a series of holidays together in the past five weeks. They died when their Mercedes, pursued by a swarm of paparazzi, sjammed at high speed into a wall df the tunnel.

A bodyguard was seriously hurt. Police hope that when he is able to talk, he can shed light on the cause of the crash. Authorities also have confiscated 20 rolls of film shot by the photographers and are hoping the photographs will provide clues to what and possibly who caused the car crarh. Seven photographers were in police custody. Traveling west at a high speed, the driver loses control The left wheel strikes a concrete support pillar The car then flipped across the righthand lane and smashed, roof first, into the tiled wall "The investigation has allowed (us) to determine in a more precise manner the behavior of certain people who did not give the aid and assistance normally required in case of an accident on a public road," the statement said.

The seven were detained yesterday after witnesses said they saw photographers on motorcycles Diana will not lie in state. Her coffin will lie privately in front of altar of the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace. On the morning of the funeral, Diana's coffin will be carried in a nrnroQcinn thrrM mh rontral London to Westminster Abbev. Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times, said it was impossible "to produce a privacy law that protects only the privacy that merits protection." "Nobody could pretend that yesterday's horror is anything but a stain on the journalistic escutcheon," he wrote in today's Times.

"Yet I cannot think of a remedy." Associated Press Mourners stand at the gates to Kensington Palace, the home of Princess Diana, in London today. Buckingham Palace said a "unique" funeral was planned. World mourns loss of 'queen -in our hearts' Associated Press Around the world, the people she charmed and the causes that counted on her grieved for Princess Diana. "I will never forget her laughter," said Diana Kresic, the 13-year-old daughter of a Bosnian land-mine victim. The girl met a smiling, compassionate Princess of Wales earlier this year when Diana toured the former Yugoslavia and Angola for a high prof ile campaign against land mines one of countless efforts by Diana to give what she had too much of fame to the charities and movements that got too little of it.

The princess first entered the public eye at 19, a shy kindergarten teacher fleeing photographers in ferocious pursuit of a shot of Prince Charles' girlfriend. Her every move was chronicled, but the gossip columns and tabloid TV shows often failed to capture her true nature, said Plamen-ko Priganica of the U.S.-based Land Mine Survivors Network, who lives and works in Bosnia. "Everybody always talked about her private life, but not enough about how she was as a human being," a mourning Priganica said. In Cambodia, one of the world's most heavily mined countries, officials said they hoped her death would bolster an international campaign to end use of the lethal, crippling weapon. "This is a very great loss for the Cambodian people," government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said.

In the hours after the Paris car crash that claimed Diana's life, condolences poured in from around the world. It was Diana's role as a "queen in people's hearts" the title she said she most coveted that won praise from South African President Nelson Mandela, who paid tribute to Diana as "an ambassador for victims of land mines, war orphans, the sick and needy throughout the world." The princess "dedicated her life to humanity," said Mario Villar-roel Lander, president of the In- ternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. In Calcutta, Mother Teresa honored Diana's commitment to those less fortunate than herself. "She was very concerned for the poor. She was very anxious to do something for them.

That is why she was close to me." David Harvey, executive direc- -tor of the Washington-based national AIDS Policy Center for Chil- dren. Youth and Families, said: 1 "With one royal handshake given to a young man with AIDS in the late 1980s, Diana forever changed the face of AIDS for the world. "She educated the world about compassion, love and understanding. Diana will be sorely missed," Again and again, that word came up "robbed" tode- scribe the way Diana died flee- 1 ing photographers. Singer Michael Jackson canceled a concert in Belgium yesterday that 60,000 people were to attend.

Concert organizer Paul Ambach said Jackson was stunned by the news of Diana's death and unable to perform. President Clinton, vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, said he and his wife, Hillary, "knew Princess Diana, and we were very fond of her." "We are profoundly saddened by this tragic event." Princess Diana's funeral Diana's funeral will be Saturday at London's Westminster Abbey. Associated Press Princess Diana body lies in a coffin carried by Royal Air Force airmen after arrival at Northolt Royal Air Force Base yesterday from Paris. The funeral for the Princess of Wales is scheduled Saturday. A somber Charles flew to Paris yesterday evening with Diana's two elder sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, 41, and Lady Jane Fellowes, 40, to retrieve Diana's body.

Charles returned immediately to Scotland to comfort his sons, Prince William, 15, and Prince Harry, 12. Richard Kay, who reports on the royals for the Daily Mail, said in today's edition that he had spoken to Diana a few hours before the accident, and that she was considering withdrawing from public life. "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." However, Kay said, Diana also talked about setting up hospices for the dying around the world and added despairingly: "I sometimes wonder what's the point. Whatever I do, it's never good enough for sirae people." Ordinary folk spoke of the extraordinary warmth and compassion shown to them by a privately troubled woman. "Her smile made me feel so comfortable and at home," said 15-year-old Shelly Foti, who recently was presented with an award by the princess.

At St. Paul's Cathedral, where Diana was married 16 years ago, nearly 2,000 people crowded into fyfe JkJr St. James' Park the vast nave for a special evening service. At Buckingham Palace and Diana's Kensington Palace home, the stream of flowers became an avalanche. In their grief, both Al Fayed and Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, accused elements of the media of hounding her to death.

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