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DATE: SATURDAY, February 15, 1992                   TAG: 9202150268
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PEOPLE

Donald Trump has asked a court to bar ex-wife Ivana from talking about her life with him.

Trump attorney Jay Goldberg asked an appeals court Thursday to reinstate a gag order that forbade Ivana Trump from talking publicly about life with The Donald.

That gag order was part of a divorce contract the couple submitted to state Supreme Court Justice Phyllis Gangel-Jacob last year.

But the judge - acting on her own - removed it from the final decree, saying it infringed on Ivana Trump's right to free speech.

The judges reserved decision.

Prince Charles and Princess Diana definitely weren't the British tabloids' Valentine's Day sweethearts.

Their first public kiss in a year nearly sparked a riot Thursday in India, where the couple is on an official visit. But royal watchers decided there was a distinct lack of romance in Charles' pursed-lipped peck, which landed on Diana's ear.

"Why Can't They Kiss The Way They Used To?" the Daily Star asked, under Friday's front-page banner headline "My Fuddy Valentine" and a picture of their lingering kiss at their fairy-tale wedding on July 29, 1981.

The Sun, Britain's largest-circulation newspaper, also published both photos on the front page with the headline: "From Kiss To This!"

It claimed the 43-year-old heir to the British throne tried to give his 30-year-old wife "an old-fashioned smacker on the lips," but said Diana coolly turned her head away.

The Daily Mirror, the country's second-largest daily, carried the polo kiss photo in its centerfold under the headline: "Oh Come On You Can Do Better Than That Charles."

Under a sketch of a woman's lips, The Sun printed a "Kissing Guide For Charles (Cut Out and Keep Sir)" compiled by Simon Mayo, one of the country's best-known disc jockeys.

Mary Briggs received a letter last week from Minnesota's U.S. senators offering congratulations on her high school graduation. It was a little late. She graduated in 1963.

It was a nice letter, telling her they hoped she would continue her education and that she should call if she ever needed anything.

"I don't know. It's weird. It's really weird," she said.

The letter, slightly yellowed and inside a well-worn envelope, was from Sens. Hubert Humphrey, who died in 1978, and Eugene McCarthy.

Pop star Michael Jackson, on a tour of Africa, has been phoning home to check on whether powerful storms pounding California have threatened his Santa Barbara area ranch and its menagerie of animals.

So far, both have been unscathed, spokesman Lee Solters said.

Jackson's spokesman quoted an unidentified neighbor as commenting that it was lucky the animals weren't threatened because "evacuating them all would have meant a 1992 version of Noah's Ark."



by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB