Azeri MPs urge government to free anti-Armenian protesters
ANS TV, Baku
25 Jun 04
[Presenter] Some MPs will appeal to the Azerbaijani
prosecutor-general. They intend to ask him to release on bail the
jailed representatives of the Karabakh Liberation Organization [KLO].
[Correspondent over video of parliament] KLO chairman Akif Nagi and
four other members of the organization charged with hooliganism and
jailed for protesting against the arrival in Baku of the occupying
Armenian army’s officers should be released unconditionally, many MPs
think.
[MP Anar speaking to microphone] I do not want anyone to be jailed. I
think that people protesting against the Armenian officers’ visit to
Baku have the right to do so.
[MP Qudrat Hasanquliyev] We will appeal to the prosecutor-general to
change the restraining measure against Akif Nagi and others. If we do
not get a response, then we will undoubtedly involve other members of
the public and adopt a decision to set up a committee to protect Akif
Nagi’s rights.
[MP Alimammad Nuriyev] We are drawing up an appeal on changing the
restraining measure against them so that they can be released on bail.
[MP Rifat Agalarov] The arrest of these people is a very negative
case. Those people have the physical and moral right to express their
protest against the Armenians’ visit to Azerbaijan. I resolutely
protest against their arrest. I think that we should demand that the
government and the law-enforcement agencies release them immediately.
[MP Sayyad Aran] I am also against the Armenians’ visit to
Azerbaijan. But the protest should not be expressed in this way. The
protest should not be expressed by smashing state property and
entering in a violent and unpleasant way into a hall where an
international event is being held. This is unforgivable. I understand
them. I understand their feelings. I regret their arrest since I
understand where their actions stem from.
[Correspondent] The MPs are convinced that President Ilham Aliyev will
also express his position on the people arrested because of the
Armenians.
Afat Telmanqizi and Azar Qarayev, ANS.

Anadolu Agency
June 26 2004
Erdogan: We Don’t Want To Break Ties With Armenia
ISTANBUL – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late on
Friday that they did not want to break ties with Armenia, stating
that they wanted to protect ties.
Erdogan attended a conference ”The New Atlantic Alliance At a New
Crossroads” jointly organized by Turkish Economic and Social Studies
Foundation (TESEV) and U.S. think-tank organization German Marshall
Fund.
When asked how Kurdish people who wanted to establish a federal
formation in Iraq were considered, Erdogan said that Turkey did not
have any concern based on any ethnic factor.
Erdogan noted that Turkey had only concern over Iraq and stated, ”we
want that territorial integrity of Iraq should be respected. Any
ethnic component should not sovereign over another ethnic component
in Iraq. We should accept that resources of Iraq belong to Iraqi
people. People living there should also accept it.”
Replying to a question on bringing democracy to the Middle East,
Erdogan said that people in the region should determine their own
fate and future.
Replying to a question on his view on relations between Turkey and
Armenia, Erdogan said that they wanted peace and they were walking on
this path. ”We have been extending efforts to remove offense with
our neighbors,” he noted.
Stating that if Armenia continued to deal with so-called genocide
issue, it could not get any result, Erdogan said that historians
should deal with the issue.

Sunday Herald, UK
June 26 2004
The lyon, the witch and the war zone
TV: The Lyon’s Den (Tuesday, Five, 9.55pm)
The Shield (Tuesday, Five, 10.50pm)
Wife Swap (Tuesday, Channel 4, 9pm)
By Damien Love

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: devote the next three
months to watching a somewhat hokey American drama about lawyers with
problems, which has already been cancelled in the States, and which
you therefore know is destined to come to an abrupt end, never to
return.
That’s where we are with The Lyon’s Den, the series Five is
parachuting into the void left now that Law And Order: Criminal
Intent has shambled off on its holidays. Incentives for watching
might not seem great, but it might be worth sticking with it,
precisely because of that. The Lyon’s Den was axed in the States
after only six episodes had been broadcast, while cast and crew were
still filming. The last seven episodes remain unaired in the US, but
Five will be broadcasting the 13-part series in its entirety, and so
we have this prospect: once we get to around nine or 10 weeks in, we
will be watching a programme made by people who actually know there
is no point in making it.
That throws open a tantalising possibility: maybe, just maybe, some
hints of the disappointment, depression, bitterness, anger and
cynicism swilling around might show up onscreen. It might not happen,
but since these are conditions seldom done well by – indeed, usually
denied by – American television, even the slightest chance of seeing
them is a rare opportunity.
For fans of disappointment, depression, listlessness, bitterness,
anger and cynicism, incidentally, the good news is that The Lyon’s
Den is paired with the return of The Shield. There was something
naggingly unsatisfying about how the bad-mood LA cop-show ended its
second series. After an awesome few episodes, it lost its apocalyptic
momentum. The writers went alarmingly soft on the murderously
screwed-up side of Michael Chiklis’s demon-dog cop, Vic Mackey,
killed-off what looked like its greatest villain – that Satanic
Mexican ganglord with cooker rings burned into his face, and let the
rogue cops’ climactic money train heist go off far too quietly.
As it turns out, however, when The Shield ended last year, it wasn’t
really ending, it was merely pausing for breath. This week, we are
right back among it. The money train story has only just begun, and
is about to get very messy. Most promisingly, it also looks like a
far more threatening villain might appear, or, rather, reappear.
Devotees will recall, back in series one, a fleeting Armenian psycho
who dressed like Jesus and delivered the immortal line: `Delicious
feet.’ Well, this week, dead Armenians are turning up all over … with
their feet lopped off.
The Shield still suffers from an unfortunate tendency to have all its
characters constantly explain to each other (ie, to us) exactly what
they’re doing, and exactly why, but at least they tend to be doing
interesting, scuzzy things, and move quickly while doing them. The
stark contrast between its crummy, dirty, speedy pace and the
civilised flow and ebb of The Lyon’s Den makes Five a schizophrenic
zone on a Tuesday night. It’s like walking from a dimly-lit
conference room into a car crash.
Rob Lowe stars in The Lyon’s Den as the stoutly-named Jack Turner,
saintly lawyer man-boy with principles and hair that says: `That’s
right girls, I still like a bit of grunge.’ He’s turned his back on
his amazingly powerful family connections and the high-powered,
high-paid jobs for which his brilliant mind is clearly suited to
instead work in a small legal clinic for poor clients. However, dark
wheels are turning, and, to ensure the future of the clinic, he is
forced to dirty his hands by becoming a partner at the parent
company, a gargantuan legal firm full of unhappy backstabbers
interested only in money and power, and not in helping save selfless
refugees from being stoned to death, like he is. In short, he must
enter the lion’s den.
The experience of watching The Lyon’s Den crumble toward oblivion is
made all the more potent if you are aware this is the series Lowe –
who also produced – made after he’d quit The West Wing in a bit of a
huff. Perish the thought that he ever entertained visions of taking
on The West Wing in a war for the hearts and minds of that show’s
fans. Still, in the first episode he does make a meal of referencing
his old programme. `I have zero interest in politics,’ he quips at
one point, managing not to wink at the camera.
Particularly, deliciously, sad, however, is the opening. The Lyon’s
Den is set in Washington DC, and begins with images of Lowe out for
an heroic morning run, lit by the amber dawn’s early light, and
dressed like Rocky. First time we see him, he is pointedly framed
with the White House behind, so he appears to be running away from
it. It’s hard not to read a sly, triumphant statement about
stretching his wings.
Unfortunately, this sequence is intercut with a man committing
suicide by throwing himself from a high window and splatting on the
ground. Given what we know of Lowe’s show’s fate, it alters the
visual metaphor rather drastically.
`You are a dickhead and a wanker and a cocksucker, I hate you and
your kids.’ Not my words, but the words of Lucy from Feltham, one of
the first wives to be swapped in the new Wife Swap, which is back and
exactly the same, if somewhat more self-conscious about it.
Lucy and husband Tony, who are happy to let their children run riot,
seem to have modelled themselves after the slobs Harry Enfield and
Kathy Burje used to do, which is their right in a democracy. Lucy
exchanges lives with Pat, who, along with husband Spike, runs her
house like a prison (Pat and Spike both work in the prison service),
with the added condition of shoving God down her kids’ throats at
every opportunity. In short: Lucy and Tony are the sort of people you
wouldn’t want living next door; Pat and Spike are the sort of people
you wouldn’t mind living next door, so long as you never, ever, had
to speak to them.
They still call this Reality TV, but in reality, these people would
never exchange a `hello’ – let alone lives. Observing an event does
indeed change it, and through the selection processes, editing,
music, and such techniques as the posing of leading questions (to
which we only ever hear the answers), this is as authored as any TV
fiction. Of course, it is far easier to produce, given nobody has to
fork out for sets, writers, decent cameras or actors. The Reality
rash which dominates both sides of the Atlantic probably has a lot to
do with why programmes like The Lyon’s Den now get binned midway
through their first run. Lowe’s series isn’t that bad. After all, it
took The West Wing a year to strike the balance between syrup and
salt, while institutions like Frasier, even Friends, didn’t really
hit their particular strides until into their second seasons. At the
moment, though, the big American networks (as opposed to the smaller
cable channels, which, less dependent on selling advertising, provide
homes for the likes of The Shield) seem interested in neither the
long term, nor nurturing talent.
Still, that’s not specifically Wife Swap’s fault. In terms of people
shouting, it remains as good as you’ll get this side of insulting a
strange couple in a pub on a Friday night. If still not quite as
exciting.

Anadolu Agency
June 26 2004
Turkish F.M.: Sides In Iraq Should Fulfill Their Responsibilities
ISTANBUL – Sides in Iraq should fulfill their responsibilities and
not make wrong estimations, Turkish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime
Minister Abdullah Gul said on Saturday.
Speaking at a conference ”The New Atlantic Alliance At a New
Crossroads” jointly organized by Turkish Economic and Social Studies
Foundation (TESEV) and U.S. think-tank organization German Marshall
Fund, Gul said that he supported the idea of change in the Islam
world, but there were some conditions before that change.
Gul noted that those conditions could occur by establishing
partnership not intervention, and with the support of regional
countries not by imposition.
Turkey was not playing a role as a model, Gul stated.
Gul said that a democratic Iraq, the territorial integrity of which
was not deteriorated and the sources of which were used by its own
people and for the sake of its own people, would be the supported of
peace and welfare in its region.
Turkey would continue to extend every kind of support to people of
Iraq, which was undertaking a new era, Gul pointed out.
Gul said that success reached in Iraq’s transition period would be
for everybody’s benefit.
Turkish Foreign Minister Gul said that ongoing political conflicts in
Iraq and Palestine did not help regional social and economic reform
perspectives.
Those political problems would not be a reason to delay some urgent
responsibilities, Gul pointed out.
Gul said that countries should abide themselves by changing
conditions and fulfil some responsibilities due to new threats.
Security was face to face with some threats from terrorism to
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Gul stated.
Gul said that Turkey would play an important role in solution of
regional chronic problems thanks to its relations with two sides of
Atlantic.
Turkey’s geographical location and its historical and cultural
heritage offered good opportunities to Turkey to contribute to
regional security, cooperation, Gul stated and stressed that Turkey
did not miss those opportunities.
Gul said that Turkey’s attitude towards peaceful settlement of the
Cyprus issue bewildered many people.
The real target was to protect security and rights of Turkish
Cypriots, Gul stated.
Gul expressed Turkey’s expectation that the international community
to lift unjust and inhumane limitations on Turkish Cypriots.
Turkey’s importance would increase thanks to its European Union (EU)
membership process, Gul said.
Gul said that ”he was surer today than any time” that the EU would
start negotiations with Turkey.
Missions Turkey had undertaken in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Afghanistan had been appreciated, Gul stated.
Gul noted that Turkey continued its efforts aiming at solution of
Karabakh issue and restoration of stability in Georgia.
Any step that Armenia would take to end its occupation of Azerbaijani
lands would help final solution of Upper Karabakh dispute, Gul
pointed out.
Gul said that Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad al-Alawi demanded that NATO
train Iraqi security forces, and noted that this could be one of
NATO’s contributions to Iraq when replying to a question on possible
contributions of NATO to Iraq.

The Ledger, FL
June 26 2004
Winter Haven Boxer Will Compete in Athens for Haiti
By DURWARD BUCK
Ledger Correspondent
WINTER HAVEN
As though hit with a stiff punch to the jaw, Andre Berto was stunned.
The 20-year-old Winter Haven resident did not react immediately when
an arbitrator’s decision stripped him of the opportunity to compete
for a slot on the U.S. Olympic boxing team for this summer’s Games.
Right after the decision in Cleveland on Feb. 27, Berto flew to
Houston to spar with professional welterweight champion and friend
Winky Wright of St. Petersburg.
“When I got off the plane and saw all the boxers and all the people
there who are my friends, I just broke down,” said Berto, known to
friends as Mike but in boxing circles as Andre because that’s the way
his boxing entry forms were filled out.
“I cried my heart out,” he continued. “It was the most stressful week
of my life. After preparing for this for 10 years, they told me I
couldn’t fight in the trials. It was a double-elimination tournament,
so why didn’t they let me keep on fighting?”
The question need not be asked anymore.
Berto is going to be able to live out his Olympic dream after all. He
just won’t be doing it with the U.S. team.
Following his disqualification from the U.S. team, Berto’s camp
sought help from Haiti. Berto, who is a Polk Community College
student, is the son of Haitian immigrants, father Dieuseul and mother
Wilnise. His parents moved from Miami to Winter Haven when he was 10.
Because his parents were born in Haiti, Berto was granted dual
citizenship as an American and Haitian. He traveled to Tijuana,
Mexico, to fight in the 42-country Americas Olympic Qualifying
Tournament — this time as a member of Haiti’s team.
The 152-pound welterweight earned a spot in the Olympics by reaching
the tournament finals in early March.
In a twist, Vanes Martroysian, a 19-year-old standout from Armenia
who earned U.S. citizenship so he could box for the United States,
defeated Berto, 24-21, in the final of the Americas qualifier.
That matters little now.
Berto, who beat Martroysian in the second round of the U.S. team
trials in February before the result was erased, is scheduled to go
to Athens, Greece, in August as Haiti’s one-man boxing team.
Ranked No. 1 in the United States as an amateur welterweight, Berto
was a heavy favorite in the U.S. team trials. But his ranking didn’t
carry any weight with the referee, who disqualified him with 27
seconds left in his opening match against Juan McPherson of
Cleveland.
This set off a wild series of appeals, counter-appeals, two more
appeals and finally the binding decision by an arbitrator in Federal
Court — the one that led to Berto’s disqualification and the tearful
breakdown in Texas.
“It was 10 years of training and fighting down the drain,” Berto
said.
It was the most talked-about fight at the trials.
“We drew the toughest guy we could have in the first fight,” said
Tony Morgan, Berto’s trainer and coach at Winter Haven’s Police
Athletic League gym.
Morgan said the 5-foot-9 Berto won the first three rounds of the
four-round fight by a significant margin.
“McPherson’s corner knew his only chance was to take Mike out, and he
was standing when the bell rang for the fourth round,” Morgan said.
“He came charging across the ring, but Mike met him with a solid
right hand that really hurt him. McPherson clinched, but the ref
broke it up.
“Then with 30 to 40 seconds left, Berto caught him again with a hard
right to the head and McPherson clinched around Berto’s waist and
walked him clear across the ring, with Berto trying to shake him off.
Berto finally spun him off and McPherson fell on the ring — on his
butt — and lay motionless.
“The guy’s corner was yelling for him to stay down,” Morgan said.
“The ref called it a foul and disqualified Berto. He could have taken
away points, but he didn’t.”
After looking at a video of the fight, Morgan filed a protest and won
it. Berto fought again the next day, beating Martroysian in a
decision.
But McPherson’s representatives filed a counter-protest — a puzzling
decision because the mild concussion he sustained in the fight
prevented him from getting into the ring again for at least 30 days.
The issue was finally settled by the arbitrator.
However, the arbitrator couldn’t stop Berto from chasing his dream
when Haiti came to the rescue.
“It was like I had another breath, a new life,” said Berto, who will
be the first boxer from Polk County to compete in the Olympics. “I
think of it as such a blessing.”
The “blessing” has Berto refocused. The Olympics are fast approaching
and he is in training.
He wakes up each day at 7 a.m. and runs 2 miles at a brisk pace. He
eats breakfast, then works out with weights for two hours.
After a noon lunch, he begins again. He hits bags, does concentration
drills with big mitts, does movement and agility drills and then
spars. All in all, the training lasts five to six hours daily.
At the end of a day, he’ll watch either a movie or a boxing video
until 9 p.m. Then it’s bedtime.
The training intensifies in the final month before a fight. The
running will increase to three miles a day and six miles once a week.
He’ll continue to spar with Wright for as many as nine rounds.
The reward is worth the price, Berto says. And the pride is boiling
over with his parents, friends and, of course, the country he is
representing.
Haitian Olympic Committee President Gady Prophete was eager to have
Andre Berto represent his country.
“They are so happy,” said Dieuseul Berto, who has acted as an
interpreter for his son’s camp and Haitian organizers. “They have
never had a boxer like this before.”
Berto certainly has credentials. He is a United States Golden Glove
champion and was a semifinalist in the World Cup Boxing
Championships.
Despite their success as a duo, Morgan and Berto have a friendly
disagreement over just how much success they’ve had.
“His record book, with all his fights in it, was lost,” Morgan said.
“I’d say he has won around 100 fights and lost 10.”
Berto says with a smile: “I think it is more than that — maybe
120-10.”
Whatever the numbers are, one thing is for sure — Berto has come a
long way. He was a kid who was so aggressive at age 10 that his
family took him to a psychiatrist because he was getting into so much
trouble at school.
His fiery temper was channeled into sports, especially boxing.
As for his home life, the Berto family practices many of its Haitian
traditions.
“In my home we speak French, Creole and English,” Berto said. “In
high school I took Spanish,” he added, laughing.
He should probably consider brushing up on some Greek because that’s
where the next great moments of his life are likely to take place.
“I always have loved the Olympics, and I watched them when I was
younger and I dreamed of one day going,” Berto said. “But I never
really thought it was actually going to happen. It was just a dream.”
It’s not just a dream anymore.
Leading his new dream list: standing on the gold medal stand at the
birthplace of the Olympic Games.

Broadcaster Jennings, cellist Yo-Yo Ma honored at American University of
Beirut
.c The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) – ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and cellist
Yo-Yo Ma picked up honorary doctoral degrees Saturday at the American
University of Beirut and paid tribute to the school as a place to turn
for cultural understanding.
Jennings, anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,
spent time as a newsman in Beirut in the late 1960s and early
1970s. He noted the United States has found it challenging to win the
hearts and mind of people in the region.
“I’ll go back to the United States and remind my colleagues that if
we want better understanding we can go back and spend just a little
time on this campus talking to all the people,” he said. The
university has been a meeting point of ideas and people from the
Middle East and West for more than a century.
Jennings, the Toronto-born son of a Canadian radio announcer, dropped
out of high school before launching his career in journalism. He
served as ABC News bureau chief in Beirut for seven years.
AUB President John Waterbury jokingly forgave Jennings for his limited
formal education. Receiving the Doctorate in Humane Letters, Jennings
opened the folder containing the document and quipped: “It’s true. I
have one.”
Receiving his Humane Letters doctorate, Ma spoke about how music
transcends borders. He picked up his cello and played a few minutes of
Bach that he offered “to the amazing history and accomplishments of
AUB.”
Also honored at the ceremony were Sir Michael Atiyah, a British
mathematician of Lebanese father and Scottish mother, and Vartan
Gregorian, an Iranian-born educator and philanthropist who moved to
Beirut at age 15 and studied at the Armenian College before studying
and later teaching at several U.S. universities.
AUB was founded in 1866 by Christian missionary Dr. Daniel Bliss as
the Syrian Protestant College and later became nonsectarian and
independent. The prestigious institution educated many Arab
politicians. It survived Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war despite being
targeted by a car bomb and the assassination of its president.
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06/26/04 09:35 EDT

Azerbaijan urges drive to resolve Karabakh dispute
ISTANBUL, June 26 (Reuters) – Azerbaijan called on the international
community to help resolve its chronic dispute with Armenia over
Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday, arguing that the region was a potential
hotbed for drug-running and terror.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev clashed at a conference in Istanbul with
an Armenian official who described the territory as an “established
entity” with governing institutions and a ceasefire that has held for
a decade since a six-year conflict.
“Nagorno-Karabakh is an entity which is not recognised by anyone in
the world,” the president responded to a comment from Armenian foreign
ministry official Garen Nazarian.
“It is an unrecognised, self-proclaimed, illegal so-called entity.
Azerbaijan will never agree with the loss of its territory, we will
get these territories back.”
Nagorno-Karabakh is a territory wholly inside Azerbaijan, populated by
Christian ethnic Armenians, which broke away from Baku’s rule as the
Soviet Union collapsed. The Azeris, their country controlling large
oil resources, want it back.
The Minsk Group of 11 countries, led by France, the United States and
Russia under the mandate of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, has so far failed to settle the problem.
Aliyev said that “Armenian occupation” had left one million of
Azerbaijan’s population of eight million as either refugees or
internally displaced persons, and Nagorno-Karabakh had become one of
the southern Caucasus’s “uncontrolled lawless zones.”
“Nagorno-Karabakh poses a very serious threat for the region –there
is no international control, no international monitoring and no rule
of law,” he told the security conference which set the stage for a
NATO summit in the Turkish city next week.
“This is a very comfortable place for criminal elements. There
is…some very significant evidence of illegal drug trafficking in
Nagorno-Karabakh, of terrorism camps.”
Aliyev appealed for more active efforts to resolve the dispute from
the “broad international community,” including the European Union, the
Council of Europe and other international institutions.
Asked by Nazarian why he was not satisfied with the mediation efforts
of the Minsk Group, Aliyev replied: “Because there is no result.”
06/26/04 13:53 ET

MINISTER DENIES USA HOLDING “TERRORISTS” IN AZERI PRISONS
Trend news agency, Baku
25 Jun 04
Azerbaijani National Security Minister Namiq Abbasov has denied the
local media reports which quote the foreign mass media as saying that
the USA is holding some of the arrested international terrorists
outside Baku. According to Trend, Abbasov told journalists on 25 June
that this was not true.
(Passage omitted: reported details)
Abbasov also described as realistic the statements about the
possibility of exchanging an Armenian citizen recently detained near
the Azerbaijani border for Azerbaijanis held in Armenian captivity.
“We do not have Armenian hostages. But Armenia might give us hundreds
of hostages. This is realistic if they hand them over,” the minister
said.
Touching on the plight of Armenian fugitives Roman Teryan and Artur
Apresyan who are being held at the National Security Ministry’s remand
centre, he said: “The issue will be resolved soon.”
(Passage omitted: minor reported details)

*FRIDAY June 25, 2004*
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Raptors take Rafa at No. 8
Former Brigham Young center Rafael Araujo, right, was chosen by the
Toronto Raptors with the No. 8 pick in the NBA draft. (Danny Chan La
/The Salt Lake Tribune)
By Patrick Kinahan
The Salt Lake Tribune
Things turned out well the last time Rafael Araujo left his native
Brazil for another country.
Araujo will go foreign again, as the Toronto Raptors took the former
Brigham Young center with the No. 8 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft. The
6-foot-11, 292-pound Araujo, who has never been to Canada, will receive
a three-year contract worth a total of $6.7 million.
Sitting in the Green Room at Madison Square Garden, Araujo broke
into a wide grin after NBA commissioner David Stern announced Toronto’s
selection. He enjoyed congratulations from his wife, Cheyenne, and his
parents, Tadeu and Neuza, each visiting the United States for the first
time.
Since the college season ended, Araujo toured the country, staging
impressive workouts for 18 teams. His agent, Diron Ohanian, predicted
this week the Raptors could take him.
“That was as high as he could go,” Ohanian said from New York. “They
seem to really like him. They were on him for a while, but I really
didn’t know what to expect. They didn’t give us a great indication.”
Araujo indicated a desire to play for the Jazz, noting he felt
comfortable in Utah after his two years in Provo. Ohanian took it step
further, saying he wanted the Jazz to draft his client.
A salary increase of $2 million over three years, based on Araujo’s
draft slot, offset any disappointment. The Jazz wanted to draft Araujo,
but he was long gone before the team’s first pick at No. 14.
“It worked out great,” Ohanian said. “He would have loved to play
for Utah.
You can’t be disappointed to go that high at No. 8 when a team shows
that kind of respect.”
Indicative of his mid-lottery position, Araujo has a chance to play
immediately. Toronto’s primary big men last season were rookie Chris
Bosh, Donyell Marshall and Corie Blount, none of whom can match Araujo’s
size.
Bosh, who left Georgia Tech after his freshman season, averaged 11.5
points and 7.4 rebounds as the starting center. A former member of the
Jazz, the 6-9 Marshall became the starting power forward after being
traded by the Chicago Bulls.
Toronto officials said they expect Araujo to begin next season
playing 15 to 20 minutes a game.
Even a hint of an NBA career seemed far-fetched four years ago.
Araujo’s ascension into the world’s best basketball league culminated a
remarkable journey that began in Sao Paulo. The first stop was at remote
Arizona Western College, a two-year school far removed from any
basketball hotbed. The path included two years at BYU, where he helped
the Cougars land consecutive NCAA Tournament berths and graduated as the
Mountain West’s co-player of the year.
Noted for a strong work ethic, Araujo improved substantially at BYU.
He averaged 18.4 points and 10.1 rebounds last season and displayed a
degree of nastiness that impressed NBA scouts.
“It was a lot of hard work,” Araujo said. “It paid off.”
Araujo becomes the highest Cougar selected since the Philadelphia
76ers took Shawn Bradley at No. 2 in 1993. Bradley attended the draft in
New York and spoke to Araujo after Toronto picked him.
He is the sixth BYU player to be taken in the first round. Araujo,
who learned English after arriving in the United States, earned a
bachelor’s degree in recreation management in April.

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THE FIRST NATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL
Second Saturday of October (2004 10 09)
Vayots Dzor region, Areni Village,
Armenia
USDA and Tufenkian Hospitality are glad to announce the first national wine
festival in Armenia, with the aim to introduce an ancient Armenian tradition
of winemaking to the World.
More than just a showcase for great wine, the festival is a major event for
traditional food making and tasting, traditional crafts-making, and
folkloric performances.
The event program includes traditional dancing, singing, tight-rope
performances, a Marionette Theatre, food-making and tasting, wine-making and
tasting, traditional games, contests, art work, carpet weaving, and craft
items: their creation and presentation (materials used include stone, wood,
and local ceramics).
Villagers will sell home-made products, in their houses – yogurt (matsun)
and cream, honey, nuts and walnuts, vegetables, fruits, dried fruits, baked
goods, lavash, home-made jams and jellies, sweet sujukh, herbal teas
(including hip-rose & thyme), and all the other products that a typical
Armenian household usually prepares for its members.
Armenian companies will present such products as wine, cheese, dried fruits,
meat and fish products, and soft drinks.
Craftsmen will present their work, and visitors may try their hand at
replicating this art.
Armenian restaurants and cafes will organize an area for a one-day operation
of their businesses.
Children can draw in a nearby meadow.
At the Information Desk, visitors can learn about the history and historical
monuments of the region, including Gladzor Museum, the Selim Pass and
Caravanserai, and Noravanq Monastery. Find out more about the local climate,
the flora and fauna of the region, and the village itself. The Djermuk Spa
will also be present.
A qualified trilingual guide will take visitors to the local church for a
tour. This will be done according to a set schedule throughout the day.
For more information please contact us at 374 1 520 911, 105 ext., or e-mail
[email protected]