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OCTOBER 27 TRIAL TO LAST LONG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.azg.am/IMAGE/200119604.jpg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, October 27, 2001 marks the second anniversary of the tragic events that shook not only Armenia, but also the world, when a group of terrorist rushed into parliament chamber and killed eight top officials, including prime minister Vazgen Sargisian and parliament speaker Karen Demirchian. It was a blow that Armenia is still trying to overcome to settle into shape. The masterminds of the plot are not yet tracked down, instead the case has become a topic of political speculations, a means to satisfy some people’s arrogance, leaving the public to guess where this all will lead to. Though Nairi Hunanian, the group’s leader and other four defendants are standing the trial, there are many questions remaining unanswered. Here are what some parliament members and leaders of political parties say regarding the October 27 tragedy and the trial. Sergo Yeritsian (Country of Law party): “ One thing is clear, it is that the October 27 trial is important for Armenia’s further development, but I would refrain to comment on the trial, but I believe it will give answers to many vague questions. Now, as regards the separated case which is supposed to track down those who allegedly were behind the plot, I think when it goes to court, we shall get the answer.” Artashes Geghamian (Law and Accord party): “I think that president Kocharian should have resigned when the passions have died away to secure fair pre-time presidential election. He did not do it, which was followed by strange and obscure processes. I mean the man who was aware of the plot’s masterminding but was released under an amnesty. Second, I think that president Kocharian’s announcement that death penalty would not be applied in Armenia was premature.” Norik Petrosian (Communist party): “ On that day, two years ago I was in the parliament chamber, it may sound strange, but it was the most interesting section in my life, as I was witnessing how my fellows were metamorphosed. One of the terrorists, Edik Grigorian, was asking questions, which our economists could not answer. I am sure that the authorities are not making special efforts to have the crimes revealed. This makes me believe that there were people behind this group and I am not sure either that they will be revealed under these political conditions.” Aghvan Vardanian (Armenian Revolutionary Federation/ Dashnaktsutyun): “We gave our assessment of the crime back in 1999. It was a crime, directed against the foundations of our statehood. We think that the law-agencies, if necessary, have to continue looking for who masterminded it even decades. But it is beyond doubt that there were people behind Hunanian and his henchmen and they must be tracked down and punished. Myasnik Malkhasian (Hayastan group): “It is painful to see that two years have passed by but the crime is not totally discovered and neither the politicians nor the public have any idea about how the trial will proceed. As the assassins are known they should have been long ago executed, the debate whether death penalty should be applied or not seem to be quite unnecessary. Concerning the trial process I should say we are disappointed with it. The authorities should have undertaken quick action to reveal the organizers. The ongoing trial is keeping the public strained giving rise to suspicions and controversial comments. Galust Sahakian (Republican party): “ The trial seems to be proceeding within the legal field and it is very positive, but there is a dangerous development, I mean the prolonged trial which simplifies the crime. In any case I think it will drag on for a long time. I also think that there were concrete people behind the crime and I believe that they too will be discovered and punished.” Rouben Mirzakhanian (Armenian Democratic Liberal party, chairman): “The next day after the October 27 killings the Armenian Democratic-Liberal Party (ADL) came out with a statement, which described the attack on the parliament as the biggest political crime. The statement also said that Armenia’s political prospects were contingent on its discovery. Some developments that followed right after the crime, I mean an attempt to carry out coup d’etat, gave rise to serious concerns. Members of the former ruling regime appeared in the defense ministry. They were neither on the side of the victims nor were in the parliament that day, but were in the defense ministry building. Their far-reaching goal was to oust the legitimate authorities and create a chaos in the country hoping to take back the lost power. We believe that these activities should not remain without serious response. Some political circles are trying to exploit the October 27 killings with the aim of putting the blame on the president and secure their return to power. This camp involves on the one hand representatives of the former ruling regime and on the other hand the families of the victims. This of course, causes some concerns, but is not dangerous, as it is not realistic. Now as regards the ongoing trial, it is being dragged on and creates an impression of farce. In short, what we have today is not encouraging. By Gor Abrahamian © Copyright AZG

PRISONERS GET ACCESS TO INTERNET The head of the Top Agency Tevos Nersisian announced at the regular session of the president affiliated Human Rights Commission that the prisoners in 4 prisons of Yerevan can from now on send and receive mails by electronic mail, as well as have audio-video conferences. He said that the computer network has been established within the framework of the $20,000 worth program "Prisoners' Art in the Internet". The program won the contest announced by the Open Society Institute three months ago. The issue of taking Emma and Anahit Mkhitarians to the hospital for mentally ill people by force was discussed as well. The commission studied the issue thoroughly and came to the conclusion that Mkhitarians' rights were violated by internal affairs officials. As it was diagnosed in the hospital, the Mkhitarians do not suffer from schizophrenia. It was mentioned that the commission would take Mkhitarians home. It should be mentioned that the commission has received 90 complaints for the last two weeks. © Copyright AZG

TURKEY LEGALIZES BORDER TRADE WITH ARMENIAN CITIZENS An Istanbul based radical daily informs that Turkish authorities have approved border trade with Armenia that has been going on for already several years. According to the daily the Turkish government has approved a decision at a recent government session on stepping up border trade with its immediate neighbors. The government has tasked a special consulting agency for foreign trade to regulate trading contacts with Armenia. The daily also says that the government decided to apply new principles concerning border trade. The new decision involves import of energy fuel from Iraq and activating Turkey’s trade relations with Syria. The daily says that all these issues were discussed at an enlarged session of the government, which decided to handle all these issues on the basis of regional market relations. According to the decision Turkey commits to legalize the so-called ‘suitcase trade’ with Armenia in Turkey’s regions of Ardvin and Van. © Copyright AZG

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE BECAME BARGAIN OBJECT As it was supposed the European Parliament (EP) dropped out the Armenian genocide demand as a precondition for Turkey’s progress towards European Union (EU) accession. Turkish political circles responded to this immediately- considering this a serious success for official Ankara in EU-Turkey relations. Among the respondents was Ortadoghu University professor Husein Bagci. In the live broadcast of Turkish state TV channel on October 26 he ascribed the rejection of the provision to the efficiency of Ankara’s efforts, considered it a concession and added that the concession was expected. We, Armenians, in our turn hoped that in case of the provision’s rejection the EP would draw forward another precondition instead of the genocide recognition. Yes, this rejection doesn’t help Turkey much in his progress towards accession, for, as Bagci himself noted, EU demands concession form Turkey in the Cyprus issue in this respect. The important thing here is not the demand itself but the policy of EU towards Turkey. In the bases of this policy lies the following- to always hinder the accession process of Turkey towards EU with a term that Turkey is not estranged from Europe. That is, when drawing forward a precondition to Turkey the European countries don’t come out form the necessity of solving an issue, but from task of hindering Turkey’s EU accession. So EU simply changes the preconditions of Turkey’s accession- actually keeping the obstacles unchanged. EP now puts the stress on the Cyprus issue because there is a notable tension here, and the Armenian genocide is, most probably for some time, left aside. And when the Cyprus issue loses its urgency Europe will probably replace it with Kurdish problem, and so on. This is of course a general approach. The Armenian Genocide precondition was dropped because USA wanted so. There is another thing here. Europe wants to form European quick reaction forces, which goes counter to USA’s interests, as far as it doesn’t want to see any alternative for NATO. Turkey is the representative of USA in Europe and fully supports the latter. In this situation Europe drops the Armenian Genocide issue and starts to speculate the Cyprus issue, using it as an object of bargain between itself and Turkey so that the latter doesn’t oppose the formulation of European quick reaction forces. Taking into consideration another fact that USA promised to help Turkey in its progress towards EU accession if it helps USA in the Afghan war, and Turkey of course agreed, then it is obvious that US government implements certain pressure on European countries concerning Armenian Genocide. And most evidently the European countries rejected the provision on considering the Armenian genocide a precondition for Turkey’s progress towards EU accession– not willing to oppose the USA. So the rejection of Armenian genocide provision was not the result of Turkish diplomacy’s brilliant work, as they claim, but again, as it has always been, the game of super powers. By Hagop Chakrian © Copyright AZG

IN MOSCOW, NAGORNO-Artsax'S PRESIDENT STATES HE EXCLUDES Artsax'S AUTONOMY IN AZERBAIJAN'S STRUCTURE 26.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Nagorno-Artsax excludes the autonomy in the Azerbaijan's structure', has stated NK's President Arkady Ghukasyan at the press conference in Moscow. But, according to him, the country leadership is ready to have talks with Azerbaijan regarding the political settlement according to equal subjectivity principles. As "Arka" informs, Ghukasyan has noted that Nagorno-Artsax is independent de facto and this has to be considered. He has emphasized that Nagorno-Artsax's independence does not threaten Azerbaijan's security and is the pledge of stability in the Caucasian region. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

US SENATE RESOLUTION ON SECTION 907 TO COME INTO EFFECT AT END OF NEXT WEEK 26.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The US Senate resolution authorizing the President to waive Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act has not come onto effect yet. According to the regulations, the conciliation of this document in the conciliatory committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress must take place. Then the discussion regarding the document must be held at the general meeting of the committee. And only after the bill approval by the Congress Houses it will be signed by the President of the country and will come into effect. It is planned that all this procedures will be completed by the end of the next week. After this President Bush will have the right for temporal veto on Section 907, restricting the direct aid to Azerbaijan until it lifts the blockade against Armenia and Nagorno Artsax. This right is conferred for the period till December 31, 2002. If he considers there is a necessity to extend this term, he will have to address the Senate, which will study the issue and have corresponding decisions. It should be reminded that this document stipulates four terms, in the availability of which the head of the country may waive the Section. The restrictions can be lifted if: 1. it is necessary for the fight against the terrorism, 2. there is a necessity to support the armed force alertness of the US and its antiterrorist coalition partners, 3. if this helps to secure Azerbaijan's boarders, 4. it does not hamper the attempts for the Artsax conflict peaceful settlement and is not used for aggression against Armenia by Azerbaijan. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT IS SATISFIED WITH THE US SENATE RESOLUTION REGARDING SECTION 907 26.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia's head Robert Kocharyan stated yesterday he was satisfied with the US Senate resolution authorizing the President to waive Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act. According to him, it is very important that it is not the question regarding the repeal, but just the possibility of temporal veto on Section 907. And there are a number of stipulated terms, on observance of which a resolution to lift the sanction temporarily might be passed. The President thinks that the Section 907 waiving will not affect the perspective of Artsax conflict peaceful settlement and will not disturb the balance of forces between the conflict sides. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REJECTS SECTION STIPULATING THE CLAIM TO RECOGNIZE FACT OF GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS PRESENTED TO TURKEY 26.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yesterday the report regarding Turkey's joining the European union was discussed at the European parliament. As we have informed, French deputy of « Christian democrats» Alan Lamassur has suggested to include the Section, stipulating the setting up the claim to recognize the fact of the 1915 genocide of Armenians to Turkey, as a prior term for the joining of this country the EU, in the report. The deputies rejected the suggestion. It should be reminded that earlier a similar section, introduced by deputies Sharl Paskua and Andre Briye was also rejected. The resolution passed by the European Parliament states that «EU supports the activities of Turkish and Armenian scientists regarding the evaluation of the historic past». Obviously, they mean the activities of Armenian-Turkish commission for reconciliation where not historians but politicians and political scientists work. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

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Barev Movses, "Ambayman emailed mer listee vren gavelatsnenk. Gartsem moois Kotayk Nightu 2 shapaten beedee leenee. Thanks for the support. And in the mean time please help in promoting this idea amongst other Armenians. The Kotayk Knight"

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some of us might remember a incident in one of the largest Armenian communities, Glendale, when one of the reporters have made a big taboo on a half way raised US flag in glandule on April 24.. will i was on www.latimes.com this morning and ran in to this artical " By the way, has anyone checked to see if Armenia lowered their flag for our tragedy? Will they now lower their flag every Sept. 11 in commemoration of "Man's inhumanity to man" and America's loss? Something to think about now and in our next city election. MARCOS ESQUIVEL Glendale " La Times

James Bagian http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7508/jimbagian.jpg Jim Bagian is an American astronaut who was born on February 22, 1952 in Pennsylvania. Before he became an astronaut, Bagian was an engineer and a medical doctor. Bagian became an astronaut in 1980. He has made two space flights and has logged over 337 hours in space. In 1989, Bagian flew aboard Discovery on a 5-day mission. Bagian became the first person to treat Space Motion Sickness to a fellow astronaut while in space. In 1991, Bagian served on the crew of the Life Sciences Spacelab mission. Bagian performed experiments on how microgravity affects the human body. SPECIAL HONORS: U.S. Army ROTC Superior Cadet Award (1970); graduated first in class from Drexel University (1973); Orthopedics Prize from Jefferson University (1977); Honor Graduate (first in class) from USAF Flight Surgeons School (1979); Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) Komarov Diploma (1989); Sikorsky Helicopter Rescue Award (1990); NASA Achievement Award for developing treatment of space motion sickness (1991); NASA Space Flight Award (1989 and 1991); NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1992); Society of NASA Flight Surgeons W. Randolf Lovelace Award for ''significant contribution to the practice and advancement of aerospace medicine'' (1992); American Astronautical Society's Melbourne W. Boynton Award for ''outstanding contributions to the biomedical aspects of space flight'' (1992). .

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7508/m_connors.jpg Real name : Krekor Ohanian Date of birth (location) : 15 August 1925, Fresno, California, USA. Sometimes Credited As: Michael Connors (I), Touch Connors Mike Connors--whose real name is Krekor Ohanian--was born in Fresno, California, on August 15, 1925. While attending UCLA on a basketball scholarship, he was spotted by film director William Wellman, who encouraged him to pursue acting. Young Krekor readily agreed. In the process, he changed his name to Touch Connors, and then finally to Mike Connors. His first film role, in 1952, was in "Sudden Fear" with Joan Crawford. But Mike's career blossomed in television, not films. Although he has made virtually hundreds of TV appearances, Mike is best known for the three shows on which he regularly appeared: "Tightrope" (CBS, 1959-60); "Mannix" (CBS, 1967-75); and "Today's FBI" (ABC, 1981-82). Interestingly, all three were crime dramas, a television format well-suited to his macho acting style. In "Tightrope," Mike starred as an anonymous undercover agent--sometimes called "Nick"--assigned to infiltrate organized crime. He came close to repeating that role more than 20 years later in "Today's FBI," an update of the seminal ABC show, "The FBI," starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. In this newfangled version, Mike played Ben Slater, an FBI supervisor overseeing four agents, one of whom was named Nick. However, it was as Joe Mannix that Mike got to shine. Whether employed by the computer-obsessed Intertect company in the first season (an advanced concept in 1967), or self-employed thereafter, Mannix knew how to solve crimes quickly. Some would also say violently: a grounds upon which "Mannix" was roundly criticized in its day. Following its cancellation in 1975, Mike appeared as a talk-show guest on shows including "The Mike Douglas Show" and "The John Davidson Show." In 1984, he actively supported Ronald Reagan's re-election efforts. He made a guest appearance in a "Murder, She Wrote" episode in 1989, the same year he starred in the ABC miniseries "War and Remembrance." In between these stints, he worked in a St. Petersburg, Florida, dinner theater. In 1991, he good-naturedly poked fun at his tough-guy image, by appearing with SCTV's Dave Thomas in Showtime's "Public Enemy #2," which People magazine labeled "a funny special . . . a perfect lampoon . . . ." Looking back on his "Mannix" days, Mike defends the show. He told one interviewer, "There is hardly a show on television today in that genre that isn't more violent than "Mannix" was. We never really killed people; they were [just] shot and wounded . . . ." He has little respect for current crime programs, in which he thinks there are "explosions and shootings and knifings every time you turn around." Mike has two grown children from his longtime marriage to Mary Lou Riley. Neither child is an actor. Actor filmography Gideon's Webb (1998) .... Harland Greer ... aka Gideon's Web (1998) (USA) James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997) Wild Bill: A Hollywood Maverick (1995) Ciudad Baja (Downtown Heat) (1994) Hart to Hart Returns (1993) (TV) .... Bill McDowell Public Enemy #2 (1993) Armen and Bullik (1992) .... Joe "Uncle Do Do" Armen "Crimes of the Century" (1989) TV Series .... Host "War and Remembrance" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Colonel Harrison "Hack" Peters A puño limpio (1988) Fist Fighter (1988) .... Billy Vance Too Scared to Scream (1985) .... Lt. Dinardo ... aka Doorman, The (1985) "Today's F.B.I." (1981) TV Series .... Ben Slater Casino (1980) (TV) .... Nick Nightkill (1980) .... Wendell Atwell Avalanche Express (1979) .... Haller Death of Ocean View Park, The (1979) (TV) High Midnight (1979) (TV) Long Journey Back (1978) (TV) Joys (1976) (TV) Killer Who Wouldn't Die, The (1976) (TV) .... Ohanian ... aka Ohanian (1976) (TV) Revenge for a Rape (1976) (TV) .... Travis Green Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973) (TV) .... Vic Cummings Mannix" (1967) TV Series .... Joe Mannix Se tutte le donne del mondo (1966) ... aka If All the Women in the World (1966) ... aka Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) (USA) ... aka Operazione paradiso (1966) (Italy: alternative title) Stagecoach (1966) (as Michael Connors) .... Hatfield Harlow (1965/I) (as Michael Connors) .... Jack Harrison Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious (1965) (as Michael Connors) .... Sgt. Lucky Finder Where Love Has Gone (1964) (as Michael Connors) .... Major Luke Miller Good Neighbor Sam (1964) (as Michael Connors) .... Howard Ebbets Panic Button (1964) (as Michael Connors) "Tightrope" (1959) TV Series .... Undercover Agent Live Fast, Die Young (1958) .... Rick Voodoo Woman (1957) (as Touch Connors) .... Ted Bronson Ten Commandments, The (1956) (as Touch Connors) .... Herder Day the World Ended, The (1956) (as Touch Connors) .... Tony Oklahoma Woman, The (1956) .... Tom Blake Shake, Rattle and Rock (1956) (as Touch Connors) Five Guns West (1955) Swamp Women (1955) (as Michael Connors) .... Bob Matthews ... aka Cruel Swamp (1955) ... aka Swamp Diamonds (1966) (USA: TV title) Twinkle in God's Eye, The (1955) .... Lou Day of Triumph (1954) (as Touch Connors) .... Andrew Island in the Sky (1953) (as Touch Connors) .... Gainer Sudden Fear (1952) (as Touch Connors) .... Junior Kearney -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notable TV guest appearances "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1985)playing "Robert Logan" in episode: "Driving Under the Influence" (episode # 4.12) 2/25/1989 "Perry Mason" (1957) playing "Joe Kelly" in episode: "Case of the Bullied Bowler, The" (episode # 8.7) 11/5/1964 "Untouchables, The" (1959) playing "Eddie O'Gara"(as Michael Connors) in episode: "Eddie O'Gara Story, The" (episode # 4.7) 11/13/1962 "Walter Winchell File, The" (1957) (as Michael Connors (I) in episode: "Steep Hill, The" (episode # 1.13) 12/25/1957 "Maverick" (1957) in episode: "Naked Gallows" (episode # 1.13) 12/8/1957 "Maverick" (1957) playing "Ralph Jordan" in episode: "Point Blank" (episode # 1.2) 9/29/1957 "Gunsmoke" (1955) playing "Jim Bostick"(as Touch Connors) in episode: "Mistake, The" (episode # 2.9) 11/24/1956 "Diagnosis Murder" (1993) playing "Joe Mannix" "Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The" (1971)

http://www.azg.am/IMAGE/200200502.jpg Birth Name: Ashot Malakian - Henri Verneuil Birth Place: Rodosto, Turkey: Oct-15 - 1920-=- Jan-11 - 2002 The acclaimed French film director Henri Verneuil was born Achad Malakian at Rodosto, Turkey, in 1920. To avoid persecution, his Armenian family fled to France when he was an infant in 1924. Verneuil began a career as a journalist before devoting his life to cinema. His first thirty or so films were shorts. He achieved the status of a popular film director in the 1950s, working on several occasions with the great comic actor Fernandel. In subsequent years he would work with other acting luminaries, including Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Verneuil’s cinema shows a surprising range, including outrageous comic farces and tense detective thrillers. His most successful films include Le Mouton à cinq pattes, La Vache et le prisonnier, Mélodie en sous-sol, Le Clan des Siciliens and Peur sur la ville. PARIS (AP) - [color-red]Henri Verneuil[/color], a prolific French filmmaker who directed some of France's greatest movie stars, died Friday, according to the French Fine Arts Academy. He was 81. Among Verneuil's most memorable films is ``La Vache et le Prisonnier'' (The Cow and I), a charming film about a man's adventures with a stubborn cow, made in 1959. Verneuil directed such giants of the French cinema as Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Both appeared in Verneuil's 1962 film, ``Un Singe en Hiver'' (A Monkey in Winter). Born in Turkey, Verneuil was a naturalized French citizen of Armenian ancestry. In 1991, he directed ``Mayrig,'' a film dealing with the Armenian genocide starring Omar Sharif and Claudia Cardinale. In 1996, Verneuil was awarded an honorary Cesar, France's equivalent of the Oscar, for lifetime achievement in film. Movies directing 588 Rue Paradis (1992) Mayrig (1991) Les Morfalous (1984) Mille Milliards de Dollars (1982) I...Comme Icare (1979) Le Corps de Mon Ennemi (1976) Peur Sur la Ville (1975) Night Flight From Moscow (1973) The Burglars (1973) The Serpent (1973) The Sicilian Clan (1969) Guns for San Sebastian (1968) The 25th Hour (1967) Week-End à Zudycoote (1964) Cent Mille Dollars au Soleil (Noir et Blanc) (1964) Cent Mille Dollars au Soleil (Colorisé) (1964) Melodie En Sous-Sol (1963) Greed in the Sun (1963) Un Singe En Hiver (A Monkey In Winter) (1962) Les Lions Sont Lachés (1961) Gangster Boss (1960) Le Président (1960) Cow and I (La Vache et le Prisonnier) (1959) Le Grand Chef (1959) Maxime (1958) Be Beautiful but Shut Up (1957) What Price Murder? (1957) Le Clan des Siciliens (1965) Des Gens Sans Importance (1956) Paris Palace Hotel (1956) The Sheep Has Five Legs (Le Mouton a Cinq Pattes) (1954) Le Boulanger de Valorgue (1953) Forbidden Fruit (Le fruit defendu) (1952) La Table aux Creves (1952 [ January 14, 2002: Message edited by: MosJan ]

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7508/kallen1.gif Kallen Esperian Kallen Esperian, who was born in Barrington, Illinois on June 8, 1961, has emerged as one of opera's most acclaimed lyric sopranos and has appeared in major opera houses around the world. After earning her degree at the University of Illinois, Miss Esperian began her career as a mezzo-soprano using her real name, Karen Machen (she's married to opera director Thomas Machen) until she sang in Luciano Pavarotti's Vocal Competition in Philadelphia in 1981. Mr. Pavarotti asked her if indeed she was a mezzo. When Miss Esperian replied that she was, Mr. Pavarotti replied, "Wrong. You are a soprano. Come back tomorrow and sing a soprano aria for us." She did just that and performed as a soprano when she won the Pavarotti Competition in 1985. Since her debut as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme with the Opera Company of Philadelphia in the Spring of 1986, Kallen Esperian has appeared on the world's major opera stages, including New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Deutsche Oper and Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, Buenos Aires' famed Teatro Colon and Milan's La Scala. A native of the Chicago area, Miss Esperian graduated from the University of Illinois with a Degree in Vocal Performance, and she performed frequently in regional opera theaters and with orchestras in concert. She was declared a winner at the finals of the Opera Company of Philadelphia/Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition in 1985, and this led to her debut with that company in April of 1986. Following the competition performances, Miss Esperian traveled with other winners for further performances of La Boheme in Modena and Genoa and later in Beijing when the Genoa Opera made it's historic visit to China in the summer of that year. A film, Distant Harmony , documents this journey and features Miss Esperian in scenes from La Boheme. Her debut with the Deutsche Oper in West Berlin, again with Mr. Pavarotti in La Boheme, was an enormous success and led to an immediate invitation for her to star as Mimi in a new Goetz Friedrich production of the opera in the 1988-89 season.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7508/petroscrop50.jpg Tigran Petrosian The World's Highest Ranked Player The ninth world chess champion Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian died in the prime of his life. In his cast years he worked long over his games, annotating them and arranging them in order. He lectured in the chess school for juniors run by his sport society "Spartacus," as well as on TV. Because of his untimely death he failed to collect his works for a book. Tigran Petrosian's creative work has not yet been investigated as thoroughly as one would wish. The amount of time that has passed since his early death is too limited. Gone is the chessmaster who had so much to give to the chess world, one who often brought us simple and even trivial facts that comprise the true fundamentals of chess creativity. The simplicity of explanations shown in this book demonstrates the depths of Petrosian's approach to chess. It is a consequence of the clarity of his thought and unique comprehension of global chess problems, as well as the subtleties that go to make up chess tactics and strategy. Few chessplayers have made a considerable contribution to the development of our game, and very few are able to explain these discovered secrets to posterity. Petrosian has done much in this field. Perhaps his written works are not so voluminous, but they shed a strong light on the very essence and fundamentals of chess. This book is not a traditional textbook or manual which teaches elementary rules. The function and role of this book is of much greater importance: it teaches chess thinking or more exactly how one should think, because chess thinking by itself is not necessarily effective.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7508/Kashkashian.gif Kim Kashkashian Born in Detroit, Michigan of Armenian descent, violist Kim Kashkashian graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle. Ms. Kashakshian was honored with top prizes in both the Munich and Lionel Tertis Viola Competitions. In further recognition of her talents, she received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recital Program and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. She has appeared as soloist with major orchestras in New York, Berlin, Vienna, London, Munich and Tokyo, and in recital at the Metropolitan Museum and the 92nd Street "Y" in New York, as well as the major halls in Amsterdam, Zurich, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. She works extensively with contemporary composers, including Alvin Brehm, Barbara Kolb, John Harbison, Giya Kancheli, Geörgy Kurtág, Sofia Gubaidulina, Krzysztof Penderecki and Alfred Schnittke. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kashakshian has been a frequent participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has performed as guest artist with the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Tokyo, Guarneri and Emerson String Quartets. Since 1985 Kashkashian has had six full length releases on the ECM New Series including her highly acclaimed double disc set of the complete sonatas for viola by Paul Hindemith. Ms. Kashkashian lives in Germany and is professor of viola at the Freiburg "Hochschule für Musik". . Discography Lachrymae Paul Hindemith/Britten/Penderecki 3 Sonaten für Viola da Gamba und Cembalo Johann Sebastian Bach Vom Winde beweint/Konzertfür Viola und Orchester Giya Kancheli/Alfred Schnittke Dmitri Shostakovich/Paul Seiko Chihara/Linda Bouchard Dmitri Shostakovich/Paul Seiko Chihara/Linda Bouchard Gidon Kremer/Edition Lockenhaus,Vol. 4 & 5 Gidon Kremer Sonatas for Viola & Piano and Viola Alone Paul Hindemith Elegies Kim Kashkashian/Robert Levin Abii ne viderem Giya Kancheli György Kurtág/Robert Schumann György Kurtág/Robert Schumann Ulysses' Gaze Eleni Karaindrou/Kim Kashkashian Caris Mere Giya Kancheli Sonatas for Viola and Piano Johannes Brahms

Director: First to use a mobile camera, Technicolor and a multiple channel sound track. Oklahoma! in 1943 on Broadway and Film Rouben (Zachary) Mamoulian (1898-1987) was born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia, of Armenian descent, as the son of a bank president. Mamoulian spent part of his childhood in Paris and was trained under Vakhtangov and Stanislavsky at the Moskow Art Theatre. In 1918 Mamoulian organized his own drama studio in Tiflis and two years later toured in England. He studied then drama at the University of London and and directed there in 1922 his first play. In 1923 he moved to America in 1926 and directed three years operas and operettas at the George Eastman Theater in Rochester, N.Y. In 1926 he began teaching and produced many notable plays for the theatre Guild, including DuBose Heyward's Porgy (1927). He later directed the premiere of George Gershwin's operatic version, Porgy and Bess (1935). As a result of his growing reputation as an successful Broadway director, Mamoulian was offered work in the Hollywood film business. His first talking films for Paramount Pictures, Applause (1929), and a gangster story City Streets (1931), were acclaimed among the most innovative sound films of the day. His other films include the horror classic Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1932), which is considered as the best adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, the Jeanette MacDonald-Maurice Chevalier musical Love Me Tonight (1932), Queen Christina, a tour de force for Greta Garbo, and the Technicolor Becky Sharp (1935) from Thackeray' s novel Vanity Fair. Mamoulian periodically returned to the Boradway stage when his ideas clashed with the Hollywood studio hierarchy. in 1944 he was removed from Laura and replaced by Otto Preminger, in 1958 he lost assignment of directing the film version of Porgy and Bess, and he was also fired fron the set of Cleopatra. For the theatre Mamoulian directed the premiers of such landmark productions as Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), and Lost in the Stars (1949). Among his later films were Summer Holiday (1948), a musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and Silk Stockings, (1957), a remake of Ninotchka, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Both films were forbidden in Finland because of the depiction of the Soviet system. Filmography APPLAUSE, 1929 CITY STREETS, 1931 DR. JEKYLL AND MISTER HYDE, 1932 LOVE ME TONIGHT, 1932 SONG OF SONGS, 1933 QUEEN CHRISTINA, 1933 WE LIVE AGAIN, 1934 BECKY SHARP, 1935 THE GAY DESPERADO, 1936 HIGH WIDE AND HANDSOME, 1937 GOLDEN BOY, 1939 THE MARK OF ZORRO, 1940 BLOOD AND SAND, 1941 RINGS ON HER FINGERS, 1942 SUMMER HOLIDAY, 1948 SILK STOCKINGS, 1957 Books he wrote SADIE THOMPSON, 1944 (collaboration) ARMS AND THE GIRL, 1950 (collaboration) ABIGAYIL, 1964 (a children's story) HAMLET REVISED AND INTERPRETED, 1965 (a drama textbook) Books anout him Mamoulian by Tom Milne (1969)

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By DAVID ROSENZWEIG, TIMES STAFF WRITER Five people with reputed ties to Armenian organized crime were arrested Tuesday in an extortion and kidnap plot against a fellow countryman who was seeking political asylum in the United States. A federal indictment unsealed after their arrests accused the suspects, all from the Los Angeles area, of using cohorts in Moscow to carry out the plot against businessman Armen Karakhanyan. "Although the methodology of the crimes alleged in this case may be standard practice among members of Armenian organized crime when in Armenia, they are not acceptable in the United States," said Ronald Iden, who heads the FBI field office in Los Angeles. Prosecutors said Karakhanyan arrived in the United States last year seeking political asylum. He told immigration officials that he had been jailed in Armenia for speaking out against the government. A once well-to-do businessman in Armenia, he settled in the Los Angeles area. Soon afterward, prosecutors said, he was contacted by members of the ring, who told him he was now living in "Little Armenia" and that he would face the same troubles he had encountered in Armenia unless he helped them in a bogus check-cashing scheme. Ordered to cash a large, fraudulent check drawn against a Spanish bank, Karakhanyan went into hiding in Northern California, authorities said. The ring members immediately suspected that he had fled to Moscow, where his wife, Elmira, was living at the time. Prosecutors said the suspects arranged for associates in Russia to kidnap Karakhanyan, threatening to kill him unless he returned to the United States and helped them in their check-cashing scheme. A few days later, authorities said, several unidentified men invaded his wife's apartment in Moscow and abducted a man they thought was Karakhanyan. They were wrong. It was a cousin. In several subsequent telephone calls to Karakhanyan's wife, prosecutors said, ring members threatened to kill the cousin unless their demands were met. At that point, Karakhanyan contacted the FBI. Under the agency's protection, he returned to Los Angeles and resumed his dealings with the suspects. According to the indictment, Karakhanyan was told "there is no escaping," that the ring knew where to find his relatives and that he now owed them $144,000. During one heated encounter, one suspect slapped Karakhanyan on the face a few times and threatened to shoot him in the head because he had fallen behind on the payment schedule, the indictment said. Despite the threats, Karakhanyan continued to meet with the suspects from March until this month, when the U.S. attorney's office presented its case to a federal grand jury. Arrested Tuesday were Ashot Manukyan, 47, and Hovannes Igarian, 38, both of Los Feliz; Sousanna Ounousian, 38, and her husband, Pogos Ketchedjian, 38, both of Van Nuys; and Hovsep Keshishian, 35, of Glendale. All five were charged with conspiring to extort money from Karakhanyan after he contacted the FBI. Manukyan and Igarian also were accused of conspiring to take hostages and receiving proceeds from the extortion plot. If convicted, they face sentences ranging from 20 years to life in prison. An FBI spokesman said efforts are underway to track down the men who carried out the kidnapping in Russia. The FBI was assisted in its investigation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Glendale Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Local man arrested in organized crime case By Alecia Foster GLENDALE -- A Glendale man with ties to Armenian organized crime was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges relating to a kidnapping and extortion plot against a former Armenian businessman. Hovsep Keshishian, 35, was one of five residents from throughout Los Angeles arrested in the case. Keshishian is charged with conspiring to commit extortion and extortion, according to the federal indictment. The businessman came to the United States seeking political asylum in 2000 after being imprisoned for speaking out against the Armenian government in 1993, the indictment stated. Soon after his arrival, the man was approached by members of an Armenian crime ring and told he faced trouble unless he helped the group, the indictment stated. At one point, the group kidnapped a relative of the businessman living in Moscow in order to get him to pay money, it stated. Keshishian had threatened to physically harm and kill the businessman in attempts to collect money from him, the indictment stated. On March 22, 2001, Keshishian hit the man in the face and threatened to shoot him in the head if he didn't pay $20,000 to two others in the alleged crime ring, it stated. "We have built a number of cases during the past four or five years involving immigrants from Armenia, which would not be unexpected due to the influx of Armenian immigrants into the area," said Thom Mrozek, public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's office. Four others were indicted on charges that include extortion, conspiring to extort, conspiring to take hostages, foreign communications with the intent to extort and receiving the proceeds of extortion. The four included: Ashot Manukyan, 47, of Los Feliz; Hovannes Igarian, 38, of Los Feliz; Sousanna Ounousian, 38, of Van Nuys; and Ounousian's husband, Pogos Ketchedjian, 38, of Van Nuys.

Council Of Europe Panel Meets In Armenia By Shakeh Avoyan Armenia on Monday hosted a meeting of a major parliamentary committee of the Council of Europe for the first time since becoming a full member of the organization last January. Twenty-two parliamentarians from 16 member states attend the two-day session of the committee on culture and education of the Council’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). The speaker of the Armenian parliament, Armen Khachatrian, welcomed the participants, saying that the choice of the meeting’s venue is “symbolical” given the ongoing celebrations of the 1700th anniversary of Armenia’s conversion to Christianity. Khachatrian said the event had a profound impact on Armenian culture which is “a part of the pan-European cultural heritage.” Two Azerbaijani deputies attending the meeting accused Armenians of destroying Azerbaijani monuments in Nagorno-Artsax and the surrounding occupied territories. The Armenian side denied the charges, seeking to prove that the opposite is the case. An exhibition organized specially for the participants featured photographs of ancient Armenian churches in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Azerbaijan that are crumbling after decades of neglect and deliberate destruction.