ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 4, 1996 TAG: 9602060016
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-11 EDITION: METRO
Press fears attacks, won't publish book
LONDON - Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a scholarly book on Macedonians in Greece because it fears provoking terrorist attacks. Two U.S. academics on the editorial board resigned in protest.
After consulting the British Embassy in Athens, the prestigious academic publisher refused to print Anastasia Karakasidou's ``Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood,'' a study of three villages in the northern Greek province of Macedonia, where some people speak a Slavic language and consider themselves Macedonians rather than Greek.
Stephen Gudeman of the University of Minnesota and Michael Herzfeld of Harvard University resigned from the press' anthropology editorial board to protest what they said was a violation of freedom of speech.
- Associated Press
UNESCO wants help to rebuild La Fenice
PARIS - UNESCO appealed for donations Friday to rebuild Venice's famed La Fenice opera house, gutted by fire earlier this week.
La Fenice, a fixture in the city of canals for 204 years, was burned to a shell Monday. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
``I call on individuals, organizations, governments and all who care about musical culture to contribute,'' said Federico Mayor, director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Venice is on UNESCO's World Heritage List of 469 cultural and natural sites of ``outstanding universal value.''
Rebuilding La Fenice's outer structure alone is expected to cost $43 million, while total costs have ranged in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Associated Press
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