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Tuesday, February 14, 1995
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Associated Press
DRESDEN, Germany — Flying 19,000 feet over Dresden, the British navigator saw his plane's firebombs spin through the night sky. Colin Campbell was aboard a number of 772 Lancaster bombers that set the city on fire 50 years ago.
No mention was made that Dresden was a city of palaces and other architectural treasures.
"We were told during the briefing, Dresden was an important railway and communications center," said Campbell.
Two British air raids on Feb. 18, 1945, and one by the Americans the next day left the city in ruins. An estimated 35,000 people died in the bombings and resulting firestorm.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Yesterday, hundreds of Americans, Britons and Germans gathered to remember the dead and to try to heal the lingering wounds.
The military chiefs of the three countries — U.S. Gen. John Shalikashvili, British Field Marshal Peter Inge and German military chief Gen. Klaus Naumann — laid wreaths at a cemetery where the unidentified remains of thousands were buried in mass graves.
Several hundred Germans, many of them elderly survivors of the firebombing, walked quietly to the wooded Heidehof cemetery, where they placed flowers at a marble monument with the inscription "How many died, no one knows for sure."
German President Roman Herzog reminded those present that it was a time of "remembering and mourning, not of revenge and hate," and said the bombardment could not be morally weighed against other acts of war.
A later ceremony in the Dresden Cultural Palace was delayed about five minutes when three demonstrators pushed into the auditorium and hollered from the balcony: "Never again, Germany," they said.
"One life can't be tallied up against another, pain can't be tallied against pain, exile against exile, horror against horror," he said. "Human suffering cannot be balanced on a scale."
Security guards took them out.
Members of the same group which claims marking the anniversary treats Germans as victims and
trivializes the Holocaust — disruped a memorial service in Dresden Cathedral on Sunday.
Dresdeners see themselves as victims because of the firebombing, which some call their Hiroshima. But they are constantly reminded that their country started World War II and murdered six million Jews.
Joachim Aris, the leader of Dresden's 90 Jews, was one of those at the hilltop cemetery overlooking Dresden.
Aris owes his life to the Dresden firebombing.
He and his family had been ordered by the Nazis to go to the train station on the night of Feb. 16, 1945, for deportation to a concentration camp.
The bombers destroyed the train station, halting the Nazis' deportation of Jews from Dresden. The war, and Nazi power, ended three months later.
Campbell, the wartime British navigator, loves classical architecture and loves Dresden. During the anniversary commemorations, he walked around the city and admired its restored buildings.
He has donated money for the reconstruction of the 18th century Church of Our Lady, which has been a ruin and symbol of Dresden's destruction since the firebombing.
Cheaters traced on day of love
Detectives make money following mates gone astray
The Associated Press
On the day lovers are tradition- bound to show their devotion, private investigators are kept busy with requests from people trying to find out if their spouses are spending Valentine's Day in somebody else's arms.
CHICAGO — Cheatin' hearts are big business on Valentine's Day.
"Three businesses make money off Valentine's Day — retail stores, the flower industry and detectives," said Miami private detective Carlos Armenio Fernandez. "To us, this is like Christmas."
The first clues may turn up months before Valentine's Day — unusual phone calls, plans for an out-of-town trip, the purchase of an anti-
mate gift the spouse never receives. But it's the Valentine's Day rendezvous itself — whether it's a romantic dinner or a hotel-room tryst — that offers the chance to catch the unfaithful partner in the act.
Jim, a 27-year-old Chicago man, became suspicious of his wife a month before Valentine's Day last year when he found a receipt for a $700 man's watch. The problem was, he never got the watch.
When he offered to spend Valentine's night with his wife rather than work his overnight shift, she insisted that he work, saying she'd stay home and watch television.
Jim hired a private detective, who caught Jim's wife on videotape attending a play, having dinner with one of the actors and spending most of Valentine's night at the actor's home. The couple later divorced.
"I think I knew, but .. I needed proof," said Jim, who asked that his last name not be used. "It just put my mind at ease."
Rebecca, a 28-year-old Miami
woman, became suspicious just before last Valentine's Day when her husband started buying clothes and getting bills for calls to unfamiliar numbers. Then her husband said he would be out of town on business on Valentine's Day.
He didn't leave town at all. A detective agency caught him on videotape snuggling with a younger woman as they entered a hotel room.
"I was even thinking of inviting the whole family, having them watch the video," Rebecca said. She filed for divorce instead.
Some clients want to tag along with the private investigator to catch their cheating mate in the act, but that's discouraged. Larry Mayer, president of Lawrence Investigations in Chicago, said he checked his clients for weapons.
One woman insisted on confronting her fiance at a hotel near an airport, where he'd met a girlfriend who flew in from out of town, Mayer said.
"She knocked on the door, pretending to be room service. He opened the door, and she handed him two dead roses. "Mayer said."
Another woman accompanied Mayer to find her husband in a compromising position with his mistress. She gave her husband a big kiss, wished him a Happy Valentine's Day and handed him a small package, which he opened to reveal "one giant, dirty rat," Mayer recalled.
Fernandez said he doesn't feel like he's ruining relationships on Valentine's Day — or on any day, for that matter.
"Nobody likes to be deceived," he said. "I feel like I'm helping them out."
And if any of these detectives' mates gets suspicious, they should relax. Tuesday will be a long, hard day on the job.
Simpson's movie work up for spoof award
"I'll be in my car with my video camera, cellular phone, tape recorder and computer database, juggling 12 cases," Fernandez said.
Industry professionals, journalists recognize low-quality film efforts
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — O.J. gets a Bronx cheer for his big screen performance in "Naked Gun 33 1/3." And a nomination as worst screen couple goes to ... Brad and Tom?
It was a good year for bad movies with the 15th Annual Golden Raspberry Award Foundation dishonor nominations announced yesterday.
Macaulay Culkin got no less than three worst-actor nods, for "Getting Even With Dad," "The Pagemaster" and "Richie Rich." The worst-movie nominees were dominated by two Bruce Willis box office washouts: "Color of Night" and "North."
Even Elizabeth Taylor made the list for "The Flintstones."
Nominees for Hollywood's annual spoof of the Academy Awards were announced by foundation President John Wilson on the eve of today's Oscar nominations announcement.
Simpson was nominated for "Naked Gun 33 1/3," released before he was charged with murder.
"For O.J., this could work to his benefit in his defense. We are saying he's not an actor," Wilson said.
"Color of Night" led the field with eight nominations ranging from worst picture to worst couple: any combination of two people from the entire cast.
Winners of the $1.97 Razzie trophies, determined by more than 375 people, will be announced during spectacularly spiffy ceremonies on March 26, a day before the Oscars.
The nominees were:
■ Worst movie: "Color of Night," "North," "On Deadly Ground," "The Specialist" and "Wyatt Earp."
**Worst remake or seque:** "Beverly Hills Cop III," "City Slickers II," "The Flintstones," "Love Affair" and "Wyatt Earp."
- Worst actor: Kevin Costner,
"Wyatt Earp"; Culkin, "Getting Even With Dad," "The Pagemaster" and "Richie Rich"; Steven Seagal, "On Deadly Ground"; Sylvester Stallone,
"The Specialist"; and Willis, "Color of Night" or "North."
■ Worst actress: Kim Basinger,
"The Getaway"; Joan Chen, "On
Deadly Ground"; Jane March, "Color
of Night"; Sharon Stone, "Interse-
ction" and "The Specialist"; and Uma
Thurman, "Even Cowgirls Get the
Blues."
■ Worst screen couple: "Color of Night"; Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell, "Exit to Eden"; Costner and any of his three wives, "Wyatt Earp"; Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, "Interview with the Vampire", Stallone and Stone, "The Specialist."
■ Worst supporting actor: Akyrok, "Exit to Eden" and "North"; March (as Richie), "Color of Night"; William Shatner, "Star Trek Generations"; Simpson, "Naked Gun 33-1-3"; Rod Steiger, "The Specialist."
■ Worst supporting actress: Kathy Bates, "North"; O'Donnell, "Car 54 Where are You?" "Exit to Eden" and "The Flintstones"; Elizabeth Taylor, "The Flintstones"; Lesley Ann Warren, "Color of Night"; Sean Young.
"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues."
- Worst director; Lawrence Kasdan, "Wyatt Earp"; John Landis, "Beverly Hills Cop III"; Rob Reiner, "North"; Richard Rush, "Color of Night"; Seagal, "On Deadly Ground."
- Worst screenplay: "Color of Night," "The Flintstones," "Milk Money," "North" and "On Deadly Ground."
- Worst new star: Jim Carrey, "Ace Ventura Pet Detective", "Dumb and Dumber" and "The Mask"; Chris Elliott, "Cabin Boy"; Chris Isaac, "Little Buddha", Shaquille O'Neal, "Blue Chips"; and Anna Nicole Smith, "Naked Gun 33/1/3."
■ Worst original song. "The Color of Night" from "Color of Night"; "Marry the Mole" from "Thumbelina"; and "Under the Same Sun" from "On Deadly Ground."
The awards are organized by Wilson, a Los Angeles-area writer for movie advertising trailers and TV commercials. Voters include film industry professionals, journalists, publicists, Wilson's friends and other people who have heard about the foundation, he said.
The Associated Press
Cappuccino and computers:Cybersmith Cafe at Harvard boasts 48 on-line terminals
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At Harvard Square's newest cafe, there are no dog-eared copies of Baudelaire or Byron on the tables. No photocopies of Sylvia Plath's poetry. No outlines for the Great American Novel.
The tables at Cybersmith are covered with computers.
This is a place where people can have a cup of capuccino and try all the computer tools and toys they've been hearing about.
"It's a lot easier than I thought," said John Barbieri, pointing and clicking his way to everything from Impressionist paintings to sports schedules on the Internet.
Cybersmith, situated in a part of
Seven or eight have opened in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco with a computer terminal or two in the back so customers can
town crowded with coffee shops and bookstores, frequented by students and professors at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other schools, is not the first cafe to go on-line.
log on to the Internet. A cafe opened in London last fall with seven terminals. But Cybersmith has 48 work stations and a smorgasbord of technology: the latest multimedia titles, on-line services, virtual reality and video games. It opened on Friday after a $1 million investment.
"The underlying concept is to take whatever the new technology is, as
it comes out, and say to the public,
'Come on in, check it out,' said its founder, Marshall Smith, a Boston-area entrepreneur who also built the Paperback Booksmith and Videosmith chains.
The cafe offers everything from a $1 coffee to lunch.
Along with the waiters and waitresses is a staff of technical support
people to explain how to use all the machines.
Customers must pay a $1 membership fee. After that, most machines cost 17.5 cents a minute to use. The virtual reality station costs $5 for about five minutes.
"It was a blast. I'm hooked," said Fred Ludtke after a virtual reality session with a friend.
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