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1 tMontana Standard PAGE A6 Bogart, Katharine Hepburn top list of best film stars NATION Nation Snapshots By Jeff Wilson of The Associated Press I I i VX7 1 ytjx -1 order: Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford. There are five living female legends Taylor, Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Shirley Temple and Sophia Loren. The Tuesday night show was patterned after last summer's AFI special that named the 100 best American movies. "Citizen Kane" was No. 1, followed by "Casablanca," "The Godfather," "Gone With the Wind," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Wizard of Oz." Critics and movie buffs jumped on the AFI for overlooking so many silent movies.

Only four were chosen, and way down in 44th place was D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation." Those who didn't make the top SO greatest stars included -Douglas Fairbanks, Ronald Colman, Rudolph Valentino, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Alec Guinness, Mickey Rooney, Fredric March, Doris Day, Loretta Young, Olivia de Havilland, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson and Tom Mix. The AFI compilation paid lit tle regard to musicals. Astaire, Miss Rogers and Miss Garland appeared from that film genre, but Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were missing. By design, current box office stars like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Harrison Ford and Susan Sarandon weren't included.

AFI defined "American screen legend" as an actor with a significant presence in movies whose debut occurred before 1951 or whose debut occurred after 1950 but produced a significant body of work before the performer's death. Gay weddings putting clergy in hot water By Steve Geissfnger of The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Humphrey Bogart and his "African Queen" co-star Katharine Hepburn led the American Film Institute's list Tuesday of the SO greatest screen legends, a lineup missing many of the biggest stars of silent films and musicals. The roster was unveiled during a three-hour special on CBS. Cary Grant was No. 2 on the list of greatest male actors, followed by James Stewart, Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and 11 X- i Day care provider guilty In boy's death SAN DIEGO (AP) A day care operator was convicted of fatally shaking a 13-month-old boy and slamming his head on the floor, apparently because he wouldn't stop watching television.

Manjit Basuta, 44, could get 25 years to life in prison at sentencing July 13. She was convicted Monday in the slaying of Oliver Smith. The boy's mother, Audrey Amaral, is pushing for a law that would require stricter regulations for day care cen- ters. Cristina Carrillo, Basuta's Guatemalan housekeeper, tifiei that Basuta shook the toddler and slammed his head because he refused to stop watching television when it was time for a diaper change. Defense Eugene Iredale argued that the boy died from a previous head injury, possibly at the hands of his mother.

However, the judge barred the defense from telling the jury that Amaral was accused of abuse by her former husband during a custody battle over Oliver. The allegations were later dropped. Fcrtuno-ccckto suspension reversed HUDSON, Ohio (AP) School officials reversed the suspension of a 9-year-bld boy for writing a fortune-cookie message considered threatening. During a class assignment to write a fortune-cookie message that was positive and fun, Karl Bauman wrote: "You will die with honor." The suspension was overturned Monday because Karl didn't receive written notification of the punishment, as required by state law, officials said. Karl served the two-day punishment last month, but now it will be removed from his record.

Karl's parents and the American Civil Liberties Union, had planned to appeal the suspension. Jean Bauman said her son thought his message was positive. She said he picked the phrase up from a computer game he plays that says: "Congratulations. You have died an honorable death." married In prison ceremony SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) Erik Menendez got married in prison over the weekend. Menendez, 28, was wed Saturday at the state prison in Sacramento, said prison spokesman Billy Mayfield.

Officials were uncertain of the bride's identity. Menendez and his brother, Lyle, are serving life sentences for murdering their parents in 1989 in their Beverly Hills mansion. Jr The brothers admitted shooting Jose and Kitty Menendez but said they did it out of fear that their parents Were about to kill them to vent disclosure of their father's molestation of Erik. Prosecutors said the sons were after their parents' millions. From jail, Lyle Menendez married his pen pal girlfriend, Anna Eriksson, in a telephone Conference call on July 2, 996, the day he was ROSA PARKS, LEFT, is joined by President Clinton, right, and Speaker of the House Dennis Hasten, in a Capitol Hill ceremony where Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday in Washington.

President Clinton signed a bill last month bestowing Congress' highest recognition on the 86-year-old Parks. Rosa Parks honored with gold medal SACRAMENTO, Calif. A United Methodist Church committee on Tuesday began investigating whether to charge 68 ministers with violating church law for blessing a lesbian wedding. The Rev. Donald Fado, who led the ceremony for two church leaders, said he hopes the case will lead to an end of the church's ban on homosexual weddings.

"I can bless people's houses, dogs, tractors, anything," said Fado, minister at St. Mark's United Methodist Church. "There's no restriction on i blessing, except if two human '-beings of the same sex, who love each other, want to make a commitment to spend their lives together. "To deny this blessing is to deny the Gospel as I understand it," he said. The Rev.

John Sheppard II of the First United Methodist Church of Yuba City is among the ministers who objected to the ceremony. He said he hopes to gather support for the ban at a regional church lead- ers' conference that starts Wednesday in Sacramento. "Homosexuality is incompatible; with Christian teaching," he said. In August, the church ruled that a minister could be removed for violating its ban on homosexual weddings. Fado told his congrega tion in October that he wanted to protest that ruling by publicly blessing a same-sex union.

Two volunteers responded to Fadb: Jeanne Barnett, 69, a retired state unemployment administrator and lay leader of the Methodists' California-Nevada Conference; and Ellie Charlton, 64, a divorced great-grandmother and conference trustee. They have been together 15 years. In January, more than 1,000 people attended their public wedding at the Sacramento Convention Center. Fado and 67 other ministers blessed the union. "I think this helps bring it out that there are a number of us who have been members of the church for a long time.

We're not outsiders," Barnett said. Bishop Melvin Talbert said the investigating committee of the California-Nevada Conference, which includes 400 congregations, is expected to meet in private over. weeks or even months to decide whether to charge the ministers. Never before have so many min; isters faced the possibility of a for; mal charge of disobedience, Fado said. Grant K.

Hepburn Charlie Chaplin. Only, four on the men's list Brando, Gregory Peck, Kirk Dmlas and Sidney Poitier aregtill alive. Following Miss Hepburn among female legends were, in 7 didn 't get on that bus on that bus to Mb 9H Rosa civil rights said Rep. Julia Carson, who pushed for the legislation granting the Congressional Gold Medal to Parks, who now lives in Detroit. "It is a celebration of the life of Rosa Parks, jWqjs receiving the honojryje she can still see it," Carson said of Parks, who appeared frail and had to be helped to her feet from her wheelchair, sometimes steadying herself on the arm of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.

"I thank God that when your time came, you were not afraid," House Minority header Richard Gephardt, said at the Capitol Rotunda ceremony. "You had courage, and you sat down for all of America and all of to the plant, where the waste will be buried in underground rooms. Plans to transfer the waste to a storage facility have been in the works for more than a decade. But not everyone is pleased to see the project get under way. "This is not a solution," said Betty Ball of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center of Boulder.

"We need the Department of Energy to go back to the drawing board and come up with a more safe and credible plan." But officials with the Energy Department, Kaiser-Hill, which manages the renamed Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, and state agencies insist that numerous safety precautions have been taken. to get arrested; I got go home. Parks America's freedom." Congressional lawmakers gave Parks an artist's drawing of the medal, which is not yet finished. "I thank you," she said in a low, halting voice, adding that she accepted the award for a "free people" and for civil rights. The gratitude went both ways.

"I thank you for what you have done," Clinton told Parks. "She sat, anchored to that seat, as Dr. King said, by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the countless aspirations of generations yet unborn," the president said. "Rosa Parks said, I didn't get on that bus to get arrested; I got on that bus to go home." The president said he was And the truck drivers, who work for CAST Transportation, say their 18-wheelers are the safest vehicles on the road. Early Tuesday evening, about a dozen protesters, some dressed as hippies, showed up outside the plant with drums and signs.

Judith Mohling of Boulder dressed up in a rabbit costume and waved a sign that read: "WIPP is Wotten for Wabbits." Christine Martin of Canada was wearing an appleseed necklace she said symbolized the Earth, life and growth. "I'm here because the WIPP program has got to be stopped," she said. "We can't allow such contaminated waste to travel our highways and be dumped in a cavern. The whole clue is WIPP is an excuse to make more nuclear waste to By Catherine Strong of The Associated Press WASHINGTON Hailed by lawmakers as the mother of civil rights, Rosa Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday, the highest civilian award given by Congress. Parks, 86, was lauded by the House and Senate leadership and President Clinton for an act of defiance more than four decades ago.

On Dec. 1, 1955, the stress, tired after a day's work in Montgomery, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated city bus and was arrested for her defiance. Her arrest set off a lengthy bus boycott by thousands of blacks led by the Rev. Martin Luther King then a local minister. The boycott lasted about a year until the Supreme Court declared Montgomery's bus segregation law unconstitutional.

"She is the mother of the only 9 when Parks refused to stand up. He and his friends "couldn't figure out anything we could do since we couldn't even vote. So we began to sit on the back of the bus when we got on." Parks action cost her the seamstress job and prompted harassment and threats to her family. So she moved to Detroit in 1957. She joined the staff of Rep.

John Conyers, in 1965 and worked there until retiring in 1988. In 1987, Parks co-founded a nonprofit group, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, to help young people in Detroit. A guest at Clinton's State of the Union address in January, Parks has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The legislation awarding her the Congressional Gold Medal was approved by the Senate without dissent April 19. The House voted 424-1 for it the next day.

contaminate our Earth." During the final inspection earlier Tuesday, Colorado State Patrol officials scanned three large gray containers filled with contaminated materials, turning up no sign of radioactive leaks. They also inspected the flatbed truck for mechanical integrity. The containers are filled with 55-gallon drums of radioactive materials, such as contaminated lab coats or rags. The first shipment was loaded with 26 drums but in the future the trucks could carry as many as 42 drums per trip. Inspector David McBride, a patrol technician, said the state has been preparing for this shipment for several years.

"It's a tried and true program," he said. Officials prepare to ship radioactive waste I2i V- Carolina plan crash four CONCORD, N.C. (AP) Moments after its pilot reported engine trouble, a small plane crashed near a neighborhood, starting a small brush fire and killing all four people aboard. Kelly Ward had just picked up three passengers at the Concord airport about 17 miles north of Charlotte on Monday when he reported a malfunction, airport spokeswoman Melissa Braf ford said. The Cessna 421 crashed nose down about 100 yards from some houses and started a brush fire.

The area is so wooded rescuers had to bring in machinery to clear a path to the wreckage. By Katherine Vogt of The Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. A rig loaded with radioactive materials from the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant passed a final inspection Tuesday in preparation for a 17-hour trip south to a New Mexico storage site. The rig is carrying the first load of waste to be shipped from Rocky Flats, which once manufactured triggers for nuclear weapons, to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, a 705-mile journey. The 18-wheel rig was set to leave Tuesday night on U.S.

Highway 36 to Interstate 25, where it will head south to the Colorado-New Mexico state line. The truck then will follow U.S. 285 southeast of Santa Fe COLORADO STATE Patrol trooper Pat; Conder runs a radiation metering instru-; ment over one of three large waste ship4 ment containers Tuesday..