Zoo suspects disgruntled staff of killing elephants in southern India
Agence France Presse — English
October 26, 2004 Tuesday 8:58 AM GMT
BANGALORE, India Oct 26 — Disgruntled workers at a zoo in southern
India are suspected of poisoning elephants to death after a prize
calf became the third victim.
Police have been called in to investigate the death last week of
seven-year-old Komala at Mysore, in southern Karnataka state, zoo
director Manoj Kumar told AFP on Tuesday.
Two elephants and a lion-tailed macaque, an endangered species,
were poisoned in August.
“There is a suspicion that some disgruntled employees may be behind
the deaths,” he said, adding it was still too soon to suspend anyone
at the zoo.
A government-run veterinary institute found that zinc phosphide,
a cheap pest control agent normally used again rodents, had killed
the first two tuskers.
“There is a pattern in all the three deaths. It is due to poisoning,”
Kumar said.
Komala had been picked out to be sent to Armenia as a gift from Indian
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
“Komala was due to be flown out to Armenia on October 14 and there
was a delay from the Armenian side. Later the date was revised and
fixed for October 30. It is unfortunate,” the director said.
The century-old Mysore zoo houses 1,100 animals.

Agence France Presse — English
October 26, 2004 Tuesday 3:15 PM GMT
List of the 30-member Lebanese government
BEIRUT Oct 26
Here is the line-up of the new 30-member Lebanese cabinet formed
Tuesday by prime minister-designate Omar Karameh, which still has to be
approved by parliament.
– Prime Minister: Omar Karameh (Sunni Muslim, new)
– Deputy Prime Minister: Issam Fares (Greek Orthodox, unchanged)
– Foreign Minister: Mahmud Hammud (Shiite, change of portfolio)
– Interior Minister: Sleiman Frangieh (Maronite, change of portfolio)
– Defense Minister: Abdel Rahim Mrad (Sunni, minister of state in
previous government)
– Justice Minister: Adnan Addum (Sunni, new)
– Telecommunications Minister: Jean-Louis Qordahi (Maronite, unchanged)
– Finance Minister: Elias Saba (Greek-Orthodox, new)
– Information Minister: Elie Firzli (Greek Orthodox, new)
– Tourism Minister: Farid el-Khazen (Maronite, new)
– Energy Minister: Maurice Sehnawi (Greek Catholic, new)
– Industry Minister: Layla Solh (Sunni, new)
– Economy and Trade Minister: Adnan Kassar (Sunni, new)
– Culture Minister: Nagi Bustani (Maronite, new)
– Displaced Persons Minister: Talal Arslan (Druze, minister of state in
previous government)
– Education Minister: Sami Minkara (Sunni, new)
– Health Minister: Mohammad Khalifeh (Shiite, new)
– Environment Minister: Wi’am Wahhab (Druze, new)
– Agriculture Minister: Elias Skaff (Greek Catholic, changes portfolio)
– Labour Minister: Assem Qanso (Shiite, minister of state in previous
government).
– Public Works: Yassin Jaber (Shiite, new)
– Social Affairs: Ghazi Zaayter (Shiite, new)
– Youth and Sports Minister: Sebuh Hovnanian (Armenian, unchanged)
– State minister for administrative reforms: Ibrahim Daher (Maronite,
new)
– State Minister: Karam Karam (Greek Orthodox, unchanged)
– State Minister: Albert Mansur (Greek Catholic, new)
– State Minister: Mahmud Abdel Khaleq (Druze, new)
– State Minister: Yussef Salameh (Maronite, new)
– State Minister: Wafaa Hamza (Shiite, new)
– State Minister: Alain Taburian (Armenian, new)

TURKISH AND ARMENIAN SCHOLARS TO OPENLY DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
IPR Strategic Business Information Database
October 27, 2004
According to Hurriyet, in the first half of 2005, Turkey and Armenia
are set for the first time to discuss the so-called Armenian genocide
on an international stage. The historical evidence will be examined
and discussed at an international seminar in Vienna, Austria with
Turkey represented by Institute of History Professor Yusuf Halacoglu
along with government officials.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

EU/TURKEY: DRAFT PARLIAMENTARY REPORT STANDS FIRM ON TURKISH ACCESSION
European Report
October 27, 2004
“The launch of accession negotiations with Turkey is only the starting
point of a long process, one that must remain open, i.e. that need not
necessarily lead to accession”, according to Camiel Eurlings (EPP,
Netherlands) the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the issue of
Turkey’s accession to the EU. His view jars with that of the European
Commission which, on October 6, said Turkey has made sufficient
progress to meet the Copenhagen criteria (respect for human rights in
general) to justify starting negotiations toward full EU membership.
Whist it concurs with European Commission’s recommendation and notably
scope for suspending negotiations in the event of serious human rights
failings by Ankara, the report by Mr Eurlings is likely to recommend
the opening of negotiations only to the extent that they address
the Copenhagen political criteria and only proceed thereafter with
an examination chapter by chapter. Other priorities for the Turkish
authorities should include combating torture, violence in the family
and corruption. A consensus should also be reached with Armenia on the
Armenian genocide and Ankara should make every effort to contribute
to resolving the Cypriot question, according to Mr Eurlings.
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is due to stage a first debate
on the Eurlings report on the evening of October 26 on the fringes
of the Assembly’s plenary session in Strasbourg. Once adopted by
the Assembly, this opinion will be presented to EU Heads of State
and Government in advance of the December 17 European Council at
which the Member States are due to decide whether to open accession
negotiations with Ankara.

The Verkhny Lars Checkpoint Has Been Opened On The Russian-Georgian Border
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
October 27, 2004, Wednesday
The Verkhny Lars checkpoint recently was opened on the Russian-Georgian
border. This statement was made by the press service of the border
guard service of the Russian FSB.
The press service said that the checkpoint was closed after the
tragedy in Beslan on September 1 in order to prevent terrorists
from infiltrating into Russia from Georgia. As a result, a lot
of cars and trucks, including from Armenia, were stopped on the
border. This situation damaged Armenia’s economy. Sergei Mironov,
Speaker of the Federation Council, visited Yerevan and promised to
settle this problem.
Source: Trud, October 23, 2004, p. 2

Message on a genocide
Hills Shire Times (Australia)
October 26, 2004 Tuesday
A LIFETIME of learning about the Armenian culture and her parents’
heritage has given Kellyville schoolgirl Rhaya Ratavosi plenty of
inspiration.
So, coming up with an idea for her entry in the Orange Blossom
Festival’s photography competition was a breeze for the 16-year-old.
She simply turned to the pages of the Armenian magazine Garoon.
“I was looking for pictures of Armenian women dancing and celebrating
their culture and I found them in the magazine,” she said.
She contrasted the strong imagery of Armenian women dancing with her
knowledge of the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians and the end
result was a confronting collage which won her first prize in the
competition’s high school monochrome print category.
Rhaya said she had not expected to win when she entered her collage
but she, and her parents, were thrilled when she did.
“Since I was in pre-school I have been going to Armenian school
on Saturdays and we learned all about the genocide, about Armenian
history,” Rhaya said.
“But the school is fun too. It’s a great place to get together with
Armenian friends.”
Rhaya’s parents, Armenians born in Iran, emigrated to Australia 15
years ago but have ensured their daughter knows the family’s heritage.
“My dream is to one day visit Armenia,” she said.

AAP NEWSFEED
October 27, 2004, Wednesday
Media Freedom Rankings
Australia has ranked dismally in a global index on media freedom
released today by Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
on its website, Here are the rankings.
1 Denmark
– Finland
– Iceland
– Ireland
– Netherlands
– Norway
– Slovakia
– Switzerland
9 New Zealand
10 Latvia
11 Estonia
– Germany
– Sweden
– Trinidad and Tobago
15 Slovenia
16 Lithuania
17 Austria
18 Canada
19 Czech Republic
– France
21 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,67
22 Belgium
– United States of America (American territory)
24 Jamaica
25 Portugal
26 South Africa
27 Benin
28 El Salvador
– Hungary
– United Kingdom
31 Dominican Republic
32 Poland
33 Greece
34 Hong Kong
35 Costa Rica
36 Bulgaria
– Israel (Israeli territory)
38 Cape Verde
39 Italy
– Spain
41 Australia
42 Chile
– Japan
– Namibia
– Uruguay
46 Mauritius
– Paraguay
48 South Korea
49 Macedonia
50 Albania
– Botswana
52 Nicaragua
53 Honduras
54 Croatia
55 Grenade
56 Mali
57 Ghana
– Timor-Leste
59 Thailand
60 Taiwan
61 Panama
– Tanzania
63 Fiji
64 Burkina Faso
– Mozambique
66 Brazil
– Ecuador
– Guatemala
69 Congo
70 Romania
71 Niger
72 Madagascar
73 Burundi
– Mongolia
75 Togo
76 Bolivia
77 Serbia and Montenegro
78 Moldova
79 Argentina
80 Senegal
81 Cyprus (North)
82 Kenya
83 Armenia
– Guinea-Bissau
– Seychelles
86 Uganda
87 Lebanon
88 Guinea
– Sierra Leone
90 Venezuela
91 Angola
– Comoros
93 Cameroon
94 Georgia
95 Tajikistan
96 Mexico
97 Afghanistan
98 Gambia
– Lesotho
100 Zambia
101 Malawi
– Swaziland
103 Kuwait
104 Central African Republic
– Qatar
106 Chad
107 Kyrgyzstan
108 United States of America (in Iraq)
109 Cambodia
– Sri Lanka
111 Philippines
112 Ethiopia
113 Rwanda
– Turkey
115 Gabon
– Israel (Occupied Territories)
117 Indonesia
– Nigeria
119 Tonga
120 India
121 Jordan
122 Malaysia
123 Liberia
– Peru
125 Haiti
126 Morocco
127 Palestinian Authority
128 Algeria
– Egypt
– Somalia
131 Kazakhstan
132 Sudan
133 Equatorial Guinea
134 Colombia
135 Yemen
136 Azerbaijan
137 United Arab Emirates
138 Mauritania
– Ukraine
140 Russia
141 Democratic Republic of Congo
142 Uzbekistan
143 Bahrein
144 Belarus
145 Djibouti
146 Bhutan
147 Singapore
148 Iraq
149 Cote d’Ivoire
150 Pakistan
151 Bangladesh
152 Tunisia
153 Laos
154 Libya
155 Syria
– Zimbabwe
157 Maldives
158 Iran
159 Saudi Arabia
160 Nepal
161 Vietnam
162 China
163 Eritrea
164 Turkmenistan
165 Burma
166 Cuba
167 North Korea

Interfaith leaders issue plea for mutual respect
by Abigail Radoszkowicz
The Jerusalem Post
October 27, 2004, Wednesday
At a reconciliation meeting with heads of Christian churches in Israel,
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger called for the establishment of
a religious United Nations in Jerusalem.
The meeting at the Chief Rabbinate was called by Metzger in the wake
of the recent highly publicized incident two weeks ago in which
a yeshiva student was arresting for spitting at a Sunday morning
religious procession through the Old City headed by the Armenian
Archbishop of Jerusalem, Nourhan Manougian.
Manougian’s representative, Bishop Aris Shirvanian, was among the 14
high-ranking clergymen who accepted Metz- ger’s invitation.
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein of the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews, who initiated the meeting, seconded Metzger’s proposal.
However, one informed observer pointed out that Metz- ger had
proposed the idea several times before. He added that it was unlikely
that anything would come of it, both due to contesting claims for
representation among the religions themselves.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Metzger vigorously condemned disrespect to
members of other faiths, noting that they were “not rivals but
brothers.” He said that he would call on rabbis, especially those
in the Old City where interfaith friction was most acute, to educate
their congregations to show tolerance to other religions.
Bishop Shirvanian emphasized that the spitting incident two weeks
was not an isolated one, with two occurring since. He reported that
religious Jews often spit as he walks by, especially when he wears
his religious medallion of the Virgin Mother and the Baby Jesus.
Shirvanian did note that the majority of their Jewish neighbors
treated the Armenian clergymen with respect. As for those who did not,
he suggested that the police impose stiff fines as deterrents.
Father Elias Michael Chacour praised Metzger for his courage in
acknowledging misdeeds perpetuated by his people. He said that the
whole world looked to Jerusalem for a sign, as it was home to three
different religions, quipping they all “belonged to the family of an
Iraqi citizen named Abraham.”
Greek Orthodox Archbishop Aristarchos, speaking in Hebrew, declared
the meeting “an important and joyful event.”
The church representatives signed a declaration that as leaders
of the Jewish and Christian religions they called on followers to
“increase their tolerance, respect, and understanding for members of
different faiths.”
GRAPHIC: Photo: ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi Yona Metzger chats with Rabbi
Yechiel Eckstein, Russian Orthodox Archimandrite Eliasey, and Father
Elias Michael Chacour after yesterday’s reconciliation meeting with
heads of Christian churches at the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem.
(Credit: Flash 90)

Los Angeles Times
October 27, 2004 Wednesday
Home Edition
The Nation;
Family Has Seen Share of Turmoil;
Along with power and wealth, the clan Teresa Heinz Kerry first married
into has lived through tragedy and estrangement.
by Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer
PITTSBURGH
If her husband is elected president, Teresa Heinz Kerry will be among
America’s most recognizable figures. But she already is commander of a
family empire that has been a familiar name to Americans for over a
century — one whose history includes political activism and
philanthropy, but also infighting and tragedy.
The Heinz family history is told all over this riverfront city — at a
stylish museum named for Teresa’s late husband, Sen. H.J. “John” Heinz
III, and in archives at Carnegie Mellon University. The name is stamped
on parks, schools and a magnificent limestone chapel at the University
of Pittsburgh.
The symbols of Heinz wealth, power and patronage in Pittsburgh tell the
public story of a pioneering American industrial family almost as
important to food as the Fords are to autos and the Rockefellers are to
oil.
A closer look reveals a long record of conservative as well as liberal
political activity and philanthropy, mixed with epic battles over money
and personal turmoil such as divorces, suicides and alcoholism.
Within the family, there are painful memories of a schism in the 1930s
that led to a 50-year legal battle and helped shape the modern Heinz
family. To this day, it has left some of the grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of patriarch H.J. Heinz feeling cast out.
“Most of the time, people aren’t talking to each other,” said Nancy
Heinz Russell, a granddaughter of H.J. Heinz. “That’s what happens when
people have money.”
Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira joined the family in 1966, when she
married John Heinz, future Republican senator from Pennsylvania and
great-grandson of H.J. Heinz, the ketchup and pickle king.
She assumed control of the family empire in 1991 after Sen. Heinz died
in a plane crash. Five years later, she married John F. Kerry, a
Democratic senator from Massachusetts.
Even as she made a new life with Kerry, she remained loyal to the
Pittsburgh branch of the family. She is addressed by her staff as Mrs.
Heinz, and her legal residence is the Heinz family estate outside of
town.
She has fought fiercely to protect the family image. Ten years ago,
Heinz Kerry hired an archivist to research the family tree, but has
kept the findings private, even within the family. She declined to be
interviewed for this article.
After a lengthy genealogical investigation, The Times has identified
the other descendants of H.J. Heinz, founder of the pioneering food
company, who died in 1919 at age 74.
He left three wings of the family under daughter Irene and sons Howard
and Clifford. Four generations later, there are more than three dozen
descendants.
The family is spread far and wide, most having severed their
Pennsylvania roots years ago. In several cases, The Times’ reporting
led to members of the Heinz family getting in touch with each for the
first time, including two distant cousins living a few streets apart
near Monterey.
Except for Heinz Kerry and her three sons, most of the family lives in
California. Heinz Kerry, worth at least $1 billion, controls the lion’s
share of the family’s money, but there are other centers of wealth and
sharply varied political views about how it should be used.
Separate Lives
Heinzes pioneered the industrialization of the U.S. food supply, pushed
government reforms to improve food safety and advocated for military
intervention to stop the Armenian genocide.
Heinz Kerry is the family’s largest philanthropist, but other Heinzes
have opened their wallets for public causes from Orange County to New
York. Family money has funded hospitals, assisted the poor and educated
scientists and artists.
The family has also experienced tragedies, most notably the midair
plane collision over a suburban Philadelphia schoolyard that killed
Sen. Heinz and six others. Far less known is the alcoholism, suicide,
eccentric behavior and marital instability that have plagued all three
wings of the family.
Along the way, there were odd encounters with the rich and powerful.
Rock star David Bowie wrote the song “Young Americans” for his good
friend in the celebrity circuit, the late Sharon Heinz Tingle. Sarah
Heinz Waller, whose husband was a maverick Chicago alderman in the
1920s, was personally threatened by mobster Al Capone, friends and
family say.
Many Heinz family members today lead very private lives, tired of jokes
about ketchup and requests for loans. Family members no longer manage
H.J. Heinz Co., and they own less than 4% of the firm’s stock.
Some descendants have no real sense of heritage or kinship.
“I had no idea I had any relationship with this family until I was 12
years old,” said Wilda Northrop, a watercolor artist and a
great-granddaughter of H.J. Heinz. “I was raised that this was a big
secret.”
Northrop, president of the Carmel Art Assn., shook hands this year with
Heinz Kerry at a fundraising event, but didn’t mention she was the
second cousin of Heinz Kerry’s late husband.
Northrop’s son, Lowell, is supporting Sen. Kerry’s campaign, making
videos for MoveOn.org, the liberal activist group. Lowell Northrop says
he knows little about Heinz Kerry.
“It’s an interesting little story that I am a Heinz, but it is not
something I have gone out of my way to tell anybody,” he said in a
phone interview. “Money sometimes brings out the worst in people.”
‘Just Johnny Heinz’
The man Heinz Kerry married was the child of Joan Diehl Heinz and H.J.
“Jack” Heinz II. The couple’s marriage did not last long, and they
played very different roles in their son’s upbringing.
After their divorce, Joan moved to San Francisco with her young son in
tow and, an aviation pioneer herself, married naval pilot Monty
McCauley.
“No one in San Francisco knew where he came from,” said a family
friend, Ted Stebbins, referring to the future senator. “He was just
Johnny Heinz.”
Meanwhile, Jack Heinz, the father, was a consummate jet-setter. He
owned a dozen homes and had two more wives after Joan. Suave and
imperious, he hobnobbed with British royalty and Greek shipping tycoons
while running the family company from Pittsburgh.
By most accounts, Jack Heinz had a distant relationship with his only
son, and was none too happy when he learned that the main heir to the
family fortune wanted to marry the daughter of a Mozambique doctor.
“His dad disapproved of his marriage…. The story was that his dad
felt he had been hoodwinked by a fortune-seeking European woman,”
recalls Cliff Shannon, who headed John Heinz’s Senate staff in the
1980s. “Eventually, he made his peace with Teresa.”
Jack Heinz underwrote the performance hall for the highly regarded
Pittsburgh Symphony. Less well known is the philanthropy of his
ex-wives.
Drue Heinz, the last of Jack Heinz’s wives, had bit parts in film, and
still controls a foundation with assets of $32 million that supports
some of the top fiction writers in America.
His first wife, Joan McCauley, who died in 1999, left the bulk of her
$31-million estate in the Bay Area, contributing to the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and the ARCS Foundation, which supports the
nation’s elite students in science and engineering.
Progressive Legacy
The progressive views of family patriarch H.J. Heinz were out of sync
with early 20th century capitalism. He provided employees with medical
care and adult education. Some of his factories had rooftop gardens
where workers could relax.
It was in this era that armed guards for U.S. Steel killed 10 employees
during the infamous 1892 Homestead strike at a plant in Pittsburgh. In
a move laden with symbolism, Heinz Kerry would later purchase the
abandoned U.S. Steel plant and turn it into a public park.
“He treated his workers better than anybody I have seen in the early
20th century,” Nancy Koehn, a historian at Harvard Business School,
said of H.J. Heinz. “He was the real deal.”
H.J. Heinz was branded a traitor in some sectors of the food industry
because he supported government intervention to ensure minimum safety
standards. As food-processing scandals raged in the background, he
pushed hard for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which created the
Food and Drug Administration.
His son Howard, also deeply involved in public service, was sent to the
Middle East by the Wilson administration after World War I to head
famine-relief efforts. On the day H.J. Heinz died, Howard was
delivering 30,000 tons of food to the region, where he witnessed the
unfolding genocide that took the lives of 1.5 million Armenians.
Howard tried to get Wilson to send troops to halt the slaughter in
harsh, remote areas of eastern Turkey and Armenia. In a dispatch to the
president, he wrote, “I do not believe America, when she knows the
truth, will be satisfied to have all our ideals of humanity thrown to
one side while these people are murdered.”
His pleas were ignored.
It was Howard’s grandson, John Heinz, who became a U.S. senator and
came to personify a moderate Republicanism similar to his
grandfather’s.
John Heinz tried working in the family business but left unsatisfied
after five years. He became a college professor, and in 1971 was
elected to Congress, six years after marrying Heinz Kerry.
Sen. Heinz drew an unusual mix of support. Steelworkers liked his
protectionist policies, and he tirelessly promoted the coal industry.
But he also backed environmentalists’ efforts to clean up the state’s
air and water. On the campaign trail, he successfully masked his
blue-blood pedigree.
“He had a common touch,” said Louis Pagnotti, whose family owns a
Pennsylvania coal mine. “And Teresa was a big hit in the ethnic
communities up here.”
Since the death of her husband, Heinz Kerry has kept tight control over
family documents. About 10 years ago, she began collecting detailed
personal information from distant relatives, recalled Robert Heinz, a
great-grandson of H.J. Heinz.
After meeting the family archivist for lunch in San Francisco, Robert
Heinz said, he repeatedly asked to see the family tree — with no
success. “The archivist finally told me that Teresa has not authorized
it,” Heinz said in a phone interview.
A Conservative Side
If Sen. John Heinz represented the family’s moderate politics and
public policy, Clifford Heinz represents a different outlook.
A grandson of H.J. Heinz, Clifford has long — and quietly —
underwritten conservative causes from his base in Orange County. He has
acquired a wealth, celebrity and power separate and apart from the
Pennsylvania wing of the family.
When the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, he was awakened
with the news at Clifford’s mansion in Newport Beach, where he was a
guest.
Heinz has helped fund the Free Congress Foundation, a Washington-based
think tank, and has underwritten the campaigns of various Republicans,
including Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach. He has long funded
ethics programs and endowed a chair for peace studies at UC Irvine.
“Clifford is a very principled, conservative Republican,” Rohrabacher
said.
Clifford Heinz, 85, declined to be interviewed. His attorney, Bernard
I. Segal, said his client had no desire to be drawn into a public
controversy with Heinz Kerry. To put it mildly, the two have little in
common politically.
Clifford Heinz was a key financial supporter of Oliver North,
contributing $25,000 to his unsuccessful Senate campaign in 1994 — the
same year Teresa Heinz sharply attacked the former U.S. Marine colonel
and his role in the Iran-Contra matter in a speech before the National
Assn. of Christians and Jews.
“It is difficult to imagine anything more cynical than Oliver North
running for Congress,” she said in her speech. “This is a man who used
his moment in the public eye to spit not just on politicians, but on
the institution of Congress itself.”
Geographic Schism
Not long after the death of patriarch H.J. Heinz in 1919, his
descendants began migrating to California, and a Western branch of the
family came to outnumber the Eastern branch. By the Depression, a
full-blown schism had occurred, centered around who would get the
family wealth held by the senior Clifford Heinz.
A director and vice president for labor relations, Clifford had always
been second fiddle to his older brother, Howard. And by the Depression,
Howard’s son Jack was playing an influential role in the family
business.
The battle began in March 1935, when the senior Clifford Heinz died of
pneumonia at a Palm Springs hotel. He had left Pittsburgh three months
earlier, hoping the dry desert air could cure him. Clifford’s third
wife, Vira Ingham, was by his side when he died.
But the three children from his second marriage — Clifford, Nancy and
Dorothy — were never informed of their father’s illness, even though
they lived only a few hours away in Beverly Hills. Their mother was
socialite Sara Moliere Young, who had run afoul of the Pittsburgh
family.
After their father’s death, the teenage children received a second
jolt, discovering that in Clifford’s final will, they had been
disinherited. They came to believe that decision was made on his
deathbed under pressure from the elders of the Pittsburgh clan.
“They tried to cut us out of the will,” recalled Nancy Heinz Russell.
“Dad was not a strong, forceful man … and the Heinz family hated my
mother. The Eastern family hated the Western family.”
The resulting lawsuit dragged on for decades, ultimately resulting in
the children getting a large share of key Heinz trust funds.
It wasn’t the only time the family played tough when it came to money.
Rust Heinz, grandson to the company founder, moved to Pasadena in the
1930s and married Helen Clay Goodloe, daughter of a prominent family
from Kentucky that included a U.S. senator and an ambassador.
When Rust was killed in a 1939 car accident, Heinz family attorneys
persuaded his wife to take $25,000 and forfeit any claim to the family
money. The couple had separated, but they were still legally married.
The inside story of what had happened was detailed in a newspaper
article 16 years later in the Pittsburgh Press. The headline: “Heinz
widow traded fortune for $25,000.”
After a second unhappy marriage, Helen Heinz took her life, according
to her daughter, Margot Pierrong, a convention planner who lives in
Anaheim.
“She was so young,” Pierrong said. “I am not bitter, but what the Heinz
family did to my mother will come around.”
Out of Public View
Irene Heinz, the eldest child of the company founder, married and moved
to Manhattan, and her branch of the family virtually disappeared from
public view.
Irene’s husband, John LaPorte Given, suffered a nervous breakdown —
under the harsh treatment of the Heinz family, according to his
granddaughter. He retired early to play golf, and gave away tens of
millions of dollars to Harvard University and other schools.
A daughter, Sarah Given, came to distrust the family money, saying it
destroyed personal character. She married twice, the second time to a
firefighter.
Sarah’s younger brother, John Given, became estranged from the family
and was known for eccentric behavior. New York City police arrested him
in 1948 on allegations that he beat a man with his cane.
When police examined the cane, they found a 28-inch dagger in its
shaft. Four years later, after he fired a pistol at a neighbor’s
birthday party, he was ordered by a New Jersey magistrate to leave
town.
Given, who never married and suffered from alcoholism, died in 1957. In
his will, he instructed executors at Chase Manhattan Bank to find
deserving beneficiaries for his estate.
They gave more than $4.5 million to charity.
GRAPHIC: GRAPHIC: Heinz family tree CREDIT: Lorena Iniguez Los Angeles
Times PHOTO: ‘BIG SECRET’: Wilda Northrop, an artist living in Pacific
Grove, didn’t know she was related to the Heinzes until she was 12.
PHOTOGRAPHER: David Paul Morris For The Times PHOTO: FUTURE SENATOR:
John Heinz and his wife, Teresa, in 1976, upon hearing that he won the
GOP nomination for the Senate. PHOTOGRAPHER: Associated Press PHOTO:
MATRIARCH: Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of John F. Kerry, remains deeply
involved in the Heinz family. PHOTOGRAPHER: Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Associated Press

New Silk Road linking China to west Europe to be completed within 10 years
Agence France Presse — English
October 27, 2004 Wednesday 5:18 AM GMT
BEIJING Oct 27 — A new Silk Road connecting China’s hinterland with
the industrial centers of western Europe is expected to be completed
within 10 years, officials involved in the project were cited as
saying Wednesday.
The road will extend westward from eastern China through central
Asian and European countries to the Atlantic Ocean.
“Ten years is a reasonable goal,” Antony Pearce, acting
director-general of the International Road Federation (IRF), was
quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency.
“If you look at what China has achieved in the last five years,
it is an achievable goal.”
The IRF advocated rehabilitating the ancient Silk Road seven years
ago to meet the increasing demand for businesses among countries
along the route.
China completed its section stretching 4,395 kilometres (2,724 miles)
from Lianyungang in east Jiangsu province to Helgus in northwest
Xinjiang region this month, cutting a two-week journey to 50 hours.
Chaos caused by war in some regions along the road has temporarily
delayed progress over the past five years, but officials remain
confident of its completion within their expected timeframe.
At present, transportation capacity of the section from Turkey
to China, crossing Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and
Kazakhstan, cannot meet the demand.
Pearce said the job at hand was to “connect the missing link.”
“The important thing is that this road crosses many countries, what
we need to do is collaboration and cooperation of these countries to
realize the goal of reconstructing this road,” he said.
Transportation ministers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia,
Iran, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are currently meeting in China to discuss
the project.
In a statement, they said they would exploit ways of financing from
international institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, and
further increase investment in transport infrastructure.
They also agreed to create favorable trans-boundary and cross-border
transport conditions to further remove non-physical barriers.
Agreement was also reached to establish an open and sustainable
integrated transport system to provide safe and reliable services
for passengers and freight.
Xinhua said China has already drafted several transport pacts with
central Asian countries.
With rapid development in China and other central Asian regions,
Europe is increasing turning its eyes towards their markets, and a
road network is seen as vital to transport goods.
The Silk Road has a history of more than 2,000 years and served as
an important bridge for economic and cultural exchanges between the
East and the West.
It connected the ancient Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabic, Greek and
Roman civilizations.