World Vignettes
Prince goes gaga over wife's cookingTOKYO:
Japan's crown Prince Naruhito, celebrating his 38th birthday today,
thanked his wife for cooking but made no mention of the hottest topic
surrounding the couple -- whether they will produce an heir. ``It
feels as though the years since our marriage have really flown by,''
the Prince said of his diplomat-turned-wife, Princess Masako, in a
previously recorded news conference released on his birthday. ``I am
really happy to have a place where I can relax,'' said the eldest son
of Emperor Akihito. ``Somehow she manages to find time in her busy
schedule of official duties to cook for me and it is really
delicious,'' Naruhito said. Hotline for Aids BEIJING:
China has set up a 24-hour Aids hotline giving information on the
prevention of the virus and other sexually transmitted diseases and
also about homosexuality, the official Xinhua news agency said today. The line was set up by the China association for control of Aids and sexually transmitteddiseases. The
public can get answers to questions by following voice instructions and
pressing buttons on the telephone. According to experts, China has
1,50,000 HIV cases, mostly among drug addicts and prostitutes. China's
health ministry has put a plan in action to control the spread of Aids
among drug users up until 2000 and to keep the number of HIV cases
below 1.5 million between now and 2010. Beijing hopes to keep growth in
sexually transmitted diseases to below 15 per cent a year. JFK's possessions NEW
YORK: Two years after the hugely successful auction of Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis' possessions, some 600 objects once belonging to slain
US President John F Kennedy are set to go on the block. Among the items
to be sold by Guernsey's auction house on March 18-19 is the
competition-class sailboat, Flash II, and the rocking chair that
Kennedy cherished. Also on the list are some items once owned by
Kennedy's late widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, including a black hat
she was frequentlyphotographed wearing. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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