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| Thursday, December 19, 2002 6:18 PM CST | () comments

Times wire services

Wind collapses tent,

but Oprah isn't hurt

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa � High winds toppled a tent at a Christmas charity event attended by TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey in South Africa's Eastern Cape, injuring 10 people. Winfrey was not hurt.

Winfrey was outside the tent when it collapsed, a spokesman for the Oprah Winfrey Foundation told the South African Press Association.

The foundation had been distributing Christmas gifts in the tent Tuesday to schoolchildren.

Teresa will move toward sainthood

VATICAN CITY � Pope John Paul II will approve at a ceremony today the miracle needed to beatify Mother Teresa, whose dedication to the destitute earned her a special place in the pontiff's heart.

Once the approval is announced by the Vatican, a date can be announced for Mother Teresa's beatification ceremony, expected to be held next spring. A second miracle then will be needed to declare Mother Teresa a saint.

The miracle attributed to the Roman Catholic nun's intercession and being approved today involves the recovery of a young Indian woman with a stomach tumor.

Her recovery, after an image of Mother Teresa was placed on her stomach, was judged to be without any medical explanation by a panel of doctors consulted by the Vatican.

Jane Fonda visits peace activists

JERUSALEM � Jane Fonda visited Israelis wounded in suicide bomb attacks and met with Israeli peace activists Thursday.

The 64-year-old actress and activist is on a weeklong trip to the region and plans to attend meetings of Israeli and Palestinian women organized by a global movement to stop violence against women.

The movement was inspired by "The Vagina Monologues" and its playwright, Eve Ensler, who also is in Israel.

Man who only slept with Marilyn dies

LONDON � Colin Clark, who published an account of a brief, sexless liaison with Marilyn Monroe, has died at age 70.

Clark, son of art historian Lord Kenneth Clark, died Tuesday of cancer at his London home, his family said.

Clark got a job as a gofer � "third assistant director" � on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl," through his father's friendship with the director and star, Laurence Olivier.

Clark kept a diary of his work on the 1957 film. He published "My Week with Marilyn," claiming that he and the actress had slept together � but not had sex � while her then-husband, Arthur Miller, was away.