PULFORD SPEAKS

ON NOT SHAKING DETROIT COACH JACQUES DEMERS' HAND AFTER GAME 4: "Inever did that, even as a player. I know it's supposed to be thesportsmanlike thing to do. But to compete with somebody the waywe're supposed to compete, and to have him take money out of yourpocket, then to shake his hand after he just beat your brains in, Ialways thought that was phoney." ON THE FUTURE OF CAPTAIN DARRYL SUTTER: "We definitely want Darrylin the organization. Whether it's at the minor league level or hereas an assistant I don't know, but somewhere. We definitely feel thatwith experience, he could be the head coach."

ON NOT CONSIDERING CO-COACH ROGER NEILSON AS HEAD COACH NEXT SEASON:"Any coach …

Analysis: Anglicans Already Breaking Up

NEW ORLEANS - As Episcopal leaders consider barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism, the world Anglican family is already dying by a thousand cuts.

Theological conflict over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, is draining the Anglican Communion of its global influence.

Episcopal and Anglican conservatives who have been trying to maneuver collectively have instead been scattering in different directions, adding to a sense of chaos.

And while the number of Episcopal parishes that have broken with the national church is relatively small, observers say there's another threat …

Mourners belt out blues to honor Koko Taylor

Hundreds of mourners honored Chicago blues icon Koko Taylor at her funeral Friday by singing her signature song "Wang Dang Doodle" and remembering why she was known as the "Queen of the Blues."

A diverse crowd of blues fans and musicians _ young and old, black and white _ got to their feet and sang at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters on Chicago's South Side.

"We just wanted one more act, but God chose to pull her off the stage," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The curtain has been called."

The services came one day after a musical tribute to Taylor attended by Mayor Richard Daley, blues legend Buddy Guy, …

MEANS TO AN END // Bears Need Help to Get Impact Defensive Player

On the field last season, the Bears needed sweet bounces to dowhat they wanted to do. Likewise they will need sweet bounces todayin the NFL draft to get what they want to get.

On the Bears' draft board, there are only nine great players.The Bears draft 11th.

So they have to depend on other teams seeing it differently thanthey do and allowing one of the players the Bears are enamored withto fall to them.

The "whole objective" of their day is to get a player who canmake an immediate impact, according to personnel director Rod Graves.

The Bears have ruled out taking a wide receiver with theirfirst-round pick, and the only running back they believe …

Nicaragua, Costa Rica fail to reach river accord

WASHINGTON (AP) — Costa Rica pressed Wednesday for the Organization of American States to intercede in a two-century-old boundary dispute with neighboring Nicaragua over a river that runs between them.

Costa Rica asked the Washington-based organization to tell Nicaragua to stop dredging in the San Juan River and to remove about 50 Nicaraguan soldiers from its territory. Nicaragua argued that bilateral talks should continue instead.

Officials from the two Central American neighbors met for hours after a special session of the OAS' Permanent Council but appeared to come no closer to a resolution.

The two sides planned to continue informal talks with OAS Secretary-General …

Teamsters Suspend Chicago Official for 2 Yrs.

The Teamsters General Executive Board on Wednesday suspendedFrank J. Wsol, a high-ranking Chicago Teamsters official, for twoyears, contending he and others retaliated against a union member whocriticized local officials in a union publication.

Wsol, secretary-treasurer of 12,000-member Teamsters Local 710,denied the allegations, and said he planned to sue. He maintainedthe action was retaliation by Teamsters General President Ron Carey.Wsol said he's been vocal in opposing Carey's re-election as generalpresident of the international union.

The Teamsters national office said its general executive boardsuspended Wsol from union office for two years and from membershipfor three months. It also suspended Local 710 Recording SecretaryRobert Falco and shop stewards Gary Crume and Greg Lees from unionpositions for one year.The national office said its executive board upheld the findingsof a hearing panel, which concluded that in 1994, Wsol retaliatedagainst Local 710 member Nicholas Johnson for writing a letter to theeditor of the International Union magazine, The Teamster. The lettercriticized Local 710 officials for not supporting a one-day nationalsafety strike at United Parcel Service in February, 1994.The national office said that after the letter was published,Crume and Lees said Johnson shouldn't expect much support from thelocal if he ever got in trouble. When Johnson later was fired fromhis job for not reporting an accident, Wsol and Falco failed tohandle his grievance and the investigation properly, the hearingpanel concluded.Johnson was accused by a UPS customer of damaging a decorativewooden barrel in the driveway of the customer's home. He said hedidn't report it because he didn't know he had hit it, according tothe report, which noted the customer later said she had not seen theaccident, and it was possible Johnson might not have known he hit thebarrel. Johnson has since been reinstated. He could not be reachedfor comment."Retaliation against members for speaking their minds will notbe tolerated in the Teamsters Union," Carey said.But Wsol, who said he's supporting James P. Hoffa's candidacy tohead the Teamsters International union in the election this July,accused Carey of doing just that. He noted the hearing panel wasappointed by Carey."I'm not surprised by this," Wsol said. "I have been very vocalagainst the general president and executive board in Washington. Iam running on the Jimmy Hoffa ticket and I have tremendous support inthe Chicago area. That poses a threat to Carey and his board."Teamsters national office spokesman Craig Merrilees said"politics had nothing to do with the action. It had to do withviolations and the facts."Falco, Crume and Lees could not be reached for comment.

Landlady revived pub's fortunes

A former landlady of The Beehive pub at Belvedere has died.

Daphne Kesterton, aged 66, ran the Lansdown pub with her husbandEric for nine years from 1977, building it up into a successfulbusiness.

The couple decided to run their own pub after working in thetrade elsewhere and Mr Kesterton said they had enjoyed making it asuccess.

"When we took it over it was very run down to say the least,"said Mr Kesterton.

"It was a cider pub and it took us a year or two to get it on itsfeet again and it took off after that."

Running the pub meant the couple were working and livingtogether, as well as raising their family.

They came up with innovative ways to boost trade, making the pubpopular with students, capitalising on the weekend TV show Tiswas.

Mr Kesterton said: "On Saturday mornings we did Tiswas and toastand it just took off because we catered for a lot for students, fromNewton Park and from the University of Bath. We even got a mentionon Tiswas.

"The university rugby team adopted us as its watering hole andthey went mad for Tiswas and toast."

The Beehive - now the Grappa Bar - attracted even more publicitywith talk that it had its very own ghost, Bunty.

"I never saw anything at all but some very strange thingshappened and, of course, the Ghost Walk used to come round there,"added Mr Kesterton.

The couple also kept a different sort of community spirit aliveby entering the city's Great Sedan Chair Race - winning a prize fortheir chair which was shaped to look like a beehive.

After leaving the pub Mrs Kesterton went to work for actress JaneSeymour at St Catherine's Court, near Batheaston.

Mrs Kesterton leaves three children - Paul, Sally and Michelle -seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was first diagnosed with cancer in 1996 - receiving a furthershock when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer on the sameday.

Mr Kesterton paid tribute to his wife, saying she would begreatly missed.

The couple moved to Cornwall six years ago.

"She was a lovely, pleasant person who worked very hard," hesaid.

"She was very party-orientated, especially when we had the pub,and she loved any excuse to have a party."