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Article: No quitting for Miss World; Muslims told to kill reporter whose dispatch set off riots.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2002
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Byline: Paul Martin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LONDON - The American contestant in the Miss World pageant says she was "horrified" by sectarian strife in Nigeria, where a state deputy governor is calling on Muslims to kill a reporter whose article on the beauty contest triggered deadly riots.
"I felt horrible, seeing on television in my bedroom that a hundred people had died," Rebekah Revels, a 5-foot-6-inch brunette, told The Washington Times at a London airport hotel after the contestants' hasty exit from the West African country during the weekend.
"But never once did I think that this was the fault of the pageant," she said. "I will never agree ...