WEEKEND PAPER

THE MONTHLY HERALD WEEKEND PAPER

"The Monthly Herald Weekend Paper" appears every Saturday. It is an inserted independent magazine published and distributed by the Monthly Herald..

CONTENTS

COVER STORY

Martha Stewart: The fall of Martha Stewart. Martha Kostyra was born to Polish immigrants in 1941. Her father was a PE teacher and her mother, also called Martha Kostyra, a homemaker who raised her six children as strict Catholics. They lived in a three-bedroom house in Nutley, New Jersey, sometime home to Mark Twain and Annie Oakley. 'My father had grand dreams that far exceeded his finances,' Martha once wrote. She says her mother has, though the pun is presumably unintended, 'an uncanny confidence with dough'. .Martha paid her way through her first year at university doing two jobs which set the tone for her future expertise - modeling and working as a maid and cook for two widowed sisters. At 19 she married Andy Stewart, a Yale law student whose mother was a talented decorator. They stayed together until Andy left her, 26 years later, while she was promoting her book Martha Stewart Weddings. Their only child, Alexis, was born in 1965 and could, said her mother, 'clean a bathroom faster than anyone' by the age of nine.................................................... 3-16

AMERICANA

Headache: The High Price of Obscenity in the United States: Shock jock and self-proclaimed "King of All Media'' Howard Stern believes his reign on the radio is coming to an end. "The show is over,'' he announced Friday morning on his nationally syndicated radio program. "It's over.' 'It's not - at least not yet. But Stern predicted that a Federal Communications Communication crackdown on indecency on the airwaves will force his salacious show off the dial. "I'm guessing that sometime next week will be my last show on this station,'' said Stern, adding that he expected the FCC to hit him with a whopping indecency fine. "There's a cultural war going on. The religious right is winning..........................18

Obesity: The Royal Opera House has cancelled a performance by one of the world's most sought-after sopranos because she is too fat, a theatre spokesman said yesterday. American Deborah Voigt had been scheduled to play the lead in a summer production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos, but casting director Peter Katona decided a slimmer singer would be better for the part, spokesman Christopher Millard said. Mr. Katona had selected a black evening dress for the part and believed Ms. Voigt would not look right in it, Mr. Millard said. "Normally, Ariadne is presented on a stylized Greek island with the singers wearing toga-type clothes, but we wanted to............................................................................................................................19

Venezuela: President Chavez warns United States against invading Venezuela. President Hugo Chavez on Sunday vowed to freeze oil exports to the United States and wage a "100-year war" if Washington ever tried to invade Venezuela. The United States has repeatedly denied ever trying to overthrow Chavez, but the leftist leader accuses Washington of being behind a failed 2002 coup and of funding opposition groups seeking a recall referendum on his presidency. Chavez accused the United States of ousting former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and warned Washington not to "even think about trying something similar in Venezuela." Venezuela "has enough allies on this continent to start a 100-year war," Chavez said during his weekly television show. He added that "U.S. citizens could forget about ever getting Venezuelan oil" if the United States ever tried.......................................................................................................................................................20

Baltimore Taxi Tragedy: "Brother, it was like the end of the Titanic movie once that thing lifted up," King said. The navy reservists whose quick work helped save 21 people aboard a water taxi that capsized described the horrific scene in which they made their rescue: survivors clinging to the overturned vessel in frigid, choppy water pounded by rain, telling them more were trapped below. A 60-year-old woman was killed in Saturday's accident in Baltimore Harbor and three people, including a six-year-old boy, were missing, but the reservists said Sunday they were relieved the loss of life wasn't even greater. The sailors rushed to the scene............................................22

Dione:DaimlerChrysler cutting Dion's ad role. Continues Vegas sponsorship. DaimlerChrysler AG says it is reducing Celine Dion's role in the advertising for its Chrysler unit. The singer has a three-year, $14-million US contract with Chrysler. She appeared in an ad campaign that has been widely used in Canada and the United States. "We're just moving into an exciting new direction," said Chrysler spokesman David Barnas. "I'm not at all saying she wasn't a good fit." Chrysler's new commercials will focus more on the product, Barnas told the Detroit News for a story in Thursday's editions......................23

AROUND THE WORLD

Jane Fonda with actress Dolly Thakore and playwright Eve Ensler Play: The Vagina Monologues Outrage the World except the Americans. Pakistani women were appalled by the show - but others felt "empowered". The show was set up by the V-Day Foundation, a charity run by Monologues author Eve Ensler which raises awareness of violence against women. Indian and Pakistani actresses joined the show in Bombay, also called Mumbai. "Violence comes in many forms and affects women all over the world," Fonda said after the performance. Fonda, 66, said she had had to take a back seat in each of her three marriages. "Behind the closed doors of my marriage, I would give up all my power. I would silence my own voice to be accepted," she said. "My whole life was about pleasing my man." Fonda's last marriage was to Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul who set up satellite TV service ..... CHINA FORBIDS THE PLAY...................................................................................24-26

PROFILE

Osama Bin Laden Ousama Bin Laden: Profile.He is wanted in connection with a number of atrocities, including the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in East Africa and - most notoriously - the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. Since then, his al-Qaeda organisation has been linked indirectly with bombings on the island of Bali in Indonesia and its capital Jakarta, as well as with devastating suicide attacks in Casablanca, Riyadh and Istanbul. President Bush said in his State of the Union address in January: "We are tracking al-Qaeda around the world, and nearly two-thirds of their known leaders have now been captured or killed." ...............................28-32

Interview: Interview with Osama Bin Laden............................................................................................32-41

AROUND TOWN

American Photography and Pornography. American Artist and Indecency: Police were called to the Saatchi gallery in north-west London when the question of indecency was raised in connection with photographs by the American Tierney Gearon of her young children in various states of undress. This week it has been photographs by Betsy Schneider of her daughter naked at east London's Spitz gallery that have made headlines. The Gearon case was resolved when Chris Smith, the then culture secretary, intervened on the gallery's behalf with a brisk lecture to the police about censorship. Much of the furore had been got up, with characteristically synthetic moral outrage, by the News of the World. What is disturbing now is that the Spitz gallery itself has closed the exhibition and blacked out windows - acting on complaints from the public. In 2001, the Saatchi gallery stayed open and refused to remove any of Gearon's pictures, despite a police threat to seize them. Today, it is the Spitz gallery that has called in the police..............................................................................................42-57

BOOKS

Books: Ten Best Selling Books. Fiction and Non Fiction..........................................................................................................59

Reviews: Books Reviews and Spotlight...........................................................................................................................................61

MUSIC: CDs NEW RELEASES

CDs: CDs New Releases...................................................................................................................................................................64

GOSSIPS IN THE UNITED STATES

Rosie O'Donnell

Hillary Clinton

Andy Rooney

Howard Dean

US Gossips:.................................................................................................................................................................................66-108

GOSSIPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

UK Gossips: £1.9m urns or just a pair of old bowls? Buyer sues as experts say vases are worth only £30,000. Christie's maintains the urns are 18th century. he auction house accepted in its catalogue description that the provenance of the pieces could not be proved. Mr. Miles said before the sale Christie's had advised Ms Thomson that the urns presented a "once in a lifetime opportunity". He claimed that even when the bidding got above £1.5m, Patrick Cooney, then head of Christie's customer services department in New York, had urged her to make "just one more" bid. Mr. Miles said: "Lord Cholmondeley has received an enormous windfall for some comparatively................................................107

Peter Kennard's Virgin Mary for Brightening Up London UK Gossips2: Ken is one of us, say London artists. The historic purpose of artists has been to broaden the mind and provoke debate among the thoughtful. But with mayoral elections just three months away, a prestigious group of artists have banded together with more prosaic intentions. Come June 10, they want Ken Livingstone re-elected as mayor of London. Twenty-five artists, including Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Sir Anthony Caro, Ralph Steadman, Peter Kennard, Isaac Julien, Raquib Shaw and Mona ...........................................................................................................................................109

UK Gossips3: 'Lost' Botticelli unveiled. Thanks to a last-minute decision by the bearer of one of the most illustrious names in fashion, a long unseen Botticelli is to be unveiled to the public tomorrow at what the organisers say is the biggest exhibition to date of the painter's work. Thirty of the Florentine artist's paintings will feature in a display at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence until July 11. Among them is the Mystical Nativity, which the National Gallery in London only lent on condition that it be insured for a record sum of £35m. The never previously displayed masterpiece, however, is the last of four panels that make up one of Botticelli's most disturbing works..........................................................................................................................111

UK Gossips4: Archbishop praises author accused of blasphemy. UK Gossips4: Philip Pullman, the best-selling author with a widely advertised contempt for organised religion, has found an unlikely champion in the Archbishop of Canterbury who has risked the wrath of fundamentalists by praising the National Theatre's adaptation of the author's His Dark Materials as a "near miraculous triumph". Rowan Williams, already regarded with some suspicion by conservative evangelicals for his liberal social views, writes in today's Guardian: "This extraordinary theatrical adventure sets a creative religious agenda in a way hard to parallel in recent literature and performance." In a private address to religious leaders and academics at Downing Street on..................................................................112

UK Gossips5: Britain's ugliest building, a concrete shopping centre and car park in Portsmouth, is to be demolished after the government today refused a request to list it. The Tricorn centre, completed in 1964, enjoys cult status among architecture students as a classic of the "new brutalism" style. But it was also voted Britain's ugliest building in 2001 and was described by Prince Charles as "a mildewed lump of elephant droppings". Today heritage minister Andrew........................................112

UK Gossips6: Poster to fetch up to £200,000Jack Vettriano, poster king of millions of teenagers' bedrooms, was well on the way yesterday to commanding the price levels set for serious art. Vettriano's best known work, The Singing Butler, right, is expected to fetch £150,000- £200,000 when it is auctioned in London next month by Sotheby's. Six years ago, it sold for £32,000. But since then, more than 1m reproductions of it have flown off the shelves in Britain, outstripping Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Monet's water lily sequences. Sotheby's called the elegant, anachronistic image of a couple in evening dress waltzing on a beach, "one of the most frequently reproduced paintings...113-114

MUSIC AND BANDS IN GREAT BRITAIN

Music: THE TOP 40 BANDS IN GREAT BRITAIN TODAY......................................................................................................................................................115-128

P J Harvey

David Bowie

Sugababes

Goldfrapp

Chemical Brothers

Robert Wyatt

POINT OF VIEW

Pravda: THE RUSSIAN PRAVDA AND PRESIDENT BUSH. Dmitry Litvinovich: Bush-s high politics is saturated with lies. The USA is ready to use force to make Iraq liquidate its weapons of mass destruction, US President George W. Bush says. The USA prefers a peaceful settlement of the Iraqi conflict, however, it is ready to start a battle to succeed with the objective, the president said when he addressed troops at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. ?You'll be fighting not to conquer anybody but to liberate people,¦ the US president said. In his words, different circumstances demand different strategies, from diplomatic pressure to usage of force. The very fact that UNMOVIC inspectors still fail to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is just an additional argument proving Saddam-s...............................................................................................................................130-131

Cover-Up: A cover-up of biblical proportions. Judge puts cloth over plaque of Ten Commandments during murder trial. A copy of the Ten Commandments hanging in a North Carolina courtroom has been covered up after the attorneys for an admitted killer on trial claimed the Sixth Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," might sway jurors against their client. Andre Edwards is on trial for killing a young mother, Ginger Hayes, and has admitted to the crime, reported WTVD-TV in Durham, N.C. His lawyers convinced Judge Clinton Sumner to put a beige cloth over a plaque of the Decalogue that hangs in the...............132

Kerry/McCain: Kerry-McCain ticket shocking possibility. Republican senator stuns many: 'Obviously, I would entertain it'...........................................................................................................................................132-133

WORLD BREAKING NEWS

Injured blast victim Bomb victim with mobile phone on pavement World: Spanish officials are investigating conflicting clues following 10 bombings in Madrid that killed at least 190 people and injured more than 1,200. A statement attributed to al-Qaeda claiming responsibility emerged soon after it was revealed that an Arabic tape had been found in a suspect van. But other indicators pointed to the Basque armed separatist group Eta. The interior minister said all lines of inquiry would be followed, as King Juan Carlos tried to comfort the nation. One claim of responsibility for the rush-hour attacks on trains at three stations was e-mailed to the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi. It said Spain had been targeted by the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades........................................................134-136

Tragedy: The Tragedy in pictures............................................................................................................................................137-139

Letter: A letter purporting to come from Osama bin Laden's militant Islamist al Qaeda network said a big attack on the United States was in the final stages of preparation, a London-based Arabic newspaper said on Thursday. We bring the good news to Muslims of the world that the expected 'Winds of Black Death' strike against America is now in its final stage...90 percent (ready) and God willing near," the letter said.................................................................................................................................................................................................140

Secrets: Ex-US Senate Aide Charged with Giving Iraq Secrets. A former congressional aide was arrested on Thursday on charges she gave secret information to Iraqi intelligence agents and was paid $10,000 for her services, federal prosecutors said. Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland, on charges in an indictment filed in federal......................................................141-142

INTERVIEW

Diva: Diva Rebecca Spencer. Rebecca Spencer was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA, and raised in Levittown, a suburb of Pennsylvania. Her parents loved the arts, music and creative talents. They served their country with pride and exemplary devotion.. Her father graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served on submarines in WW II. Later on, he worked for the Rhom and Haas plastics company until retirement. Her mother attended Arcadia College in Philadelphia, as a nutritionist. She volunteered for the American Red Cross, devoting her life to the service of others, particularly the men, the women and their families during the Vietnam War. Rebecca's mother is a gifted painter.........................................................................................................................................................143-153

WORLD NEWS UPDATE

Spain: Madrid death toll rises. Hundreds injured. Investigators on Friday hunted for the bombers who blew up four trains, killing at least 198 people, while Spaniards lit candles and left flowers outside a station and the country mourned the victims of its worst terrorist attack ever. Authorities blamed Basque separatists for Thursday's stunningly well co-ordinated string of 10 explosions on packed commuter trains, but they also were studying a claim of responsibility by a shadowy group in the name of al-Qaida. The death toll rose overnight from 192 to 198, deputy Justice Minister Rafael Alcala said, adding that 84 bodies remain to be identified. More than 1,400 people were wounded Thursday as panicked commuters trampled on each other, abandoning their bags and shoes. Train cars were turned into twisted wrecks and platforms were strewn with corpses. Cell phones rang unanswered on the bodies of the dead as frantic relatives tried to call them...........................155-159

Singer Usha Uthup with Jane Fonda Jane Fonda: The women's stage production The Vagina Monologues has been banned from the southern Indian city of Madras. The current version of the production, staged earlier this week in Bombay, stars Hollywood actresses Jane Fonda and Marisa Tomei. The show, which has been a controversial sell-out around the world, explores female sexuality and strength through individual women telling their stories through monologues. Madras police refused permission to stage the show after finding certain portions of the script "objectionable" and warning it could pose a threat to public order. It has already faced bans in other parts of the world, including China and Malaysia. The play was staged in Pakistan in an invitation-only show last October. Pakistani actress Ayesha Alam, who is a member of the troupe that is staging the production in India, told BBC News Online about the problems of showing it in her own country. "It was very difficult to perform the Monologues in Pakistan. It even got discussed in the national assembly. Many thought that the play was promoting promiscuity, was against our culture and our religion," said Ms Alam...................................................................................................161

ETA: Who are ETA? Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna, Eta, whose name stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom, first emerged in the 1960s as a student resistance movement bitterly opposed to General Franco's repressive military dictatorship. Under Franco the Basque language was banned, their distinctive culture suppressed, and intellectuals imprisoned and tortured for their political and cultural beliefs. The Basque country saw some of the fiercest resistance to Franco. His death in 1975 changed all that, and the transition to democracy brought the region of two million people home rule. But despite the fact that Spain's Basque country today enjoys more autonomy than any other - it has its own parliament, police force, controls education and collects its own taxes - Eta and its hardline supporters remain determined to fight for full independence............162

Who is to Blame?In the wake of the deadly attacks on commuter trains in Madrid, it is still unclear who is responsible. The evidence could point to either the armed Basque separatist group Eta or Islamic militants, and the experts are divided. BBC News Online's Robert Plummer analyses the arguments: In the immediate aftermath of the blasts, the Spanish authorities had no hesitation in blaming Eta for the bloodshed. On Friday, Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio re-stated the government's stance, saying: "Everything appears to indicate that this terrible carnage is the work of Eta." She acknowledged the possibility that Islamic radicals were behind the attack, saying it was a hypothesis that the government was examining...............................................................................................................................................................164

Flames shoot up after car bomb exploded in Marbella, June 2002 Friday's Spanish papers Massacres: ETA MASSACRES EVENTS..................... 165-166

CIA: Right now, the CIA has important, exciting jobs for US citizens, especially those with foreign language skills. Alias actress Jennifer Garner, who stars as a CIA agent in the show, is now fronting a recruitment drive for the US spy agency. But, strangely enough, our sources at the Monthly Herald tell us that CIA was very reluctant to hire expert linguists for lack of funds. Even, when applicants were extremely qualified, hiring authorities at the CIA turned them down. There is a strong belief that the CIA would exclusively hire those who belong to their inner circle. Politics play major role in selecting and hiring applicants. Many qualified persons in the past applied for linguists and languages experts jobs and were ignored. The fact is if you are not "one of them" with strong recommendations from Washington, your application and qualifications will end up in a waste basket. So stop kidding yourself. ............................................................................................................168

A recovery team removes a van where seven detonators and a tape recording of Koranic verses Intelligence: Intelligence on Madrid's Blast: The question of who was responsible for the terrorist attacks in Madrid is still unclear. As an investigation begins, some in Spain still believe this has to be the work of Eta, while others say it could not have planned attacks on such a huge scale. Counter-terrorism experts around the world are looking at the possibility that there was a kind of collusion between a violent, fanatical, splinter group of Eta and extremists from outside. There have previously been connections between Eta and the GIA, and Algerian terrorist group. But normally al-Qaeda would not work with non-Muslims, as they do not trust them. But al-Qaeda is not...............170-171

Photo: A van with detonators and a tape recording of Koranic verses was found in the city.

Arrest: Spanish authorities have arrested five suspects in connection with the Madrid blasts which killed 200 people.

Interior Minister Angel Acebes told a news conference three Moroccans and two Indians were being held. The suspects may have links with extremist Moroccan groups, the minister said, but it was still too early to confirm this. The news comes as the first funerals for the victims of the bombings take place in the capital and across Spain. ........................................172-175

IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam: Raoul Wallenberg. The Holocaust of the Jewish People was an exceptional event in human history. Although humanity has been witness, on more than one occasion, to acts of murder and genocide, never has it been subjected to something resembling the Jewish Holocaust. A systematic, rational, industrial plan, its objective was to eliminate completely an entire nation. Jewish culture, the cradle of Western civilization, ought to have disappeared alongside the people who had embraced it for thousands of years. This programme of extermination, so meticulously implemented, was carried out by one of the most cultured nations the world has ever known. Human history has never been witness to a similar event. The Holocaust was an exception. There has never been anything like it.In the context of this exceptional historical event exceptional individuals emerged. Challenging the whole machinery of Germany and its allies, they were prepared to risk their own lives in order to save the lives of Jews........................176-188

Hero: A hero for our time. In these dark and cynical times, when there is so very little for mankind to believe in, when the historian and the investigative reporter have trained us to expect the worst of the great, it is little wonder that the world does not quite know what to make of Raoul Wallenberg - or that too many governments have chosen to maintain a shameful silence. Sadly, noble words are robbed of their meaning. We hear him called "righteous Gentile," "hero of the Holocaust," "unsung martyr of World War II." Now and then some scholar addresses himself anew to the question of how and by what means Wallenberg managed to save one hundred thousand lives, or probes the psychosocial impulses which compelled him to forsake wealth and ease and undertake so dangerous a mission. But when we have set down the last pious platitude, made our tallies and pondered his motives, so.................189-196

HISTORY: AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN EXPERIENCE

History: HOW OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND INTERESTS CONQUERED AND ILLEGALLY ANNEXED HAWAII BY FORCE!! The Hawaiian Islands were unknown in the west before 1778. As early as 1843 the United States asserted that it would not allow any European power to possess Hawaii, probably after an abortive attempt by the British to annex it. This was in accordance to the Monroe Doctrine, which established the American colonial sphere of influence over the Western Hemisphere, in order to rival the influence of the European powers. In the unabridged version of Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, the word "usurpation" is defined as: "The act of usurping; the act of seizing or occupying and enjoying the place, power, functions or property of another without right; especially the unlawful occupation of a throne." .............197-213

THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII

Hawaii: When Kamehameha's mother, Kekuiapoiwa, was pregnant with him, she had a craving for the eyeball of a chief. Instead she was given the eyeball of a man-eating shark and the priests prophesied that this desire meant that the child would be a rebel and a killer of chiefs. Alapainui, the old ruler of the island of Hawai'i, secretly made plans to have the newborn infant killed. Kekuiapoiwa's time came on a stormy night in the Kohala district, when a strange star with a tail of white fire appeared in the western sky. According to one legend, the baby was passed through a hole in the side of Kekuiapoiwa's thatched hut to a local chief named Naeole, who carried the child to safety at Awini on Hawaii's north coast. By the time the infant in Naeole's care was five, Alapainui had forgotten his fears and accepted.....................................................................................214-217

WORLD BREAKING NEWS: THE LAST 24 HOURS

Hamas: Israel kills Hamas leader. Sheik Ahmed Yassin Hit By Israeli Helicopter Missile Strike. He was targeted as he returned from a mosque in Gaza City at daybreak. Seven others were killed and many wounded. The killing triggered unrest and calls for revenge from Palestinians, as tens of thousands took part in a funeral. Hamas said Israel had "opened the gates of hell" - but the army said the Sheikh had been "personally responsible" for the killing of Israelis. Security forces killed the Hamas leader in an air strike on his car in northern Gaza Strip, an army statement said. Reports from the scene said Sheikh Yassin was being pushed in his wheelchair when he was directly hit by a missile. Two bodyguards and one of Sheikh Yassin's sons were reported to be among those killed. At least 15 people were wounded..........................................................................................................218-222

George W Bush Terrorism: Richard Clarke said Mr. Bush ignored warnings of the threat from al-Qaeda before the 11 September 2001 attacks. He said the US president later tried to show links between al-Qaeda and Iraq, despite being told none existed. Mr. Clarke said it was "outrageous" Mr. Bush was running for re-election on his record fighting terrorism, when in fact he had "ignored it" before 9/11. "He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know." He also told the US broadcaster CBS that the day after the 11 September attacks, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld called for retaliatory strikes on Iraq, even though al-Qaeda was based in Afghanistan. He said he was so taken aback by the comments, he initially thought Mr. Rumsfeld was joking. ..........................223