A former Miss Universe, who failed abysmally in her Venezuelan presidential attempt three months ago, has staged a political comeback, winning the governorship of an island resort.
Irene Saez (37) won a landslide victory on Sunday in the race for governor of the Caribbean island tourist resort of Margarita. The victory ensures Saez will make a quick return to the national political stage she dominated as a leader in opinion polls for most of 1996 and 1997.
She pledged to revive the depressed tourist trade and attract foreign investors by bringing the Miss Universe pageant to tax-free Margarita as early as 2001.
Mary Schiavo, an outspoken critic of lax safety at US airports, said yesterday she was giving up her crusade after being blamed for a four-hour security alert at Ohio's Port Columbus airport.
The former US Transportation Department official said at the request of a television crew investigating security at the airport, she checked in a bag containing innocuous but suspicious-looking items on a Washington-bound America West flight on Friday, but boarded a later flight.
She said her goal was to assess whether airlines check luggage and match them with passengers on board. But the TV crew alerted the airlines to the presence of Schiavo's unattended bag. The airlines then ordered the bag X-rayed and started a four-hour security alert that closed part of the airport.
The Brazilian model reported to be carrying Mick Jagger's baby has revealed she hopes to send the child to school in Britain.
Luciana Morad said she will probably have the baby in either England or America.