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To: JakeStraw who wrote (25890)	4/22/2001 12:38:12 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49844

Sunday April 22 12:08 AM ET R.E.M. Guitarist Charged with Air Rage in London dailynews.yahoo.com By Chris Millar LONDON (Reuters) - Rock guitarist Peter Buck of pop band R.E.M (news - web sites). was arrested and charged on Saturday for assaulting two crew members in the first class section of a flight from Seattle to London, police said. Buck, whose band has sold over 30 million albums, was charged with causing criminal damage to British Airways Flight 48, being drunk on an aircraft, a separate public order offence and two counts of assaulting cabin crew, a police spokesman in London said. The guitarist was being held in custody at Heathrow Police Station and will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on Monday. The spokesman said: ``I can confirm that Peter Buck has been arrested and charged in connection with an air rage incident.'' Buck, 44, was arrested at Heathrow Airport when the flight from Seattle arrived at around 11 a.m. A spokesman for British Airways said Buck, traveling first class, was arrested after an alleged assault on two cabin crew members. The spokesman said cabin crew were still giving statements to police late on Saturday night. ``Safety of passengers and crew is paramount. British Airways will not tolerate any threat to that safety,'' he said. R.E.M. is one of the world's biggest bands, achieving immense success throughout the 1990s. The band was due to play at the South Africa Freedom Day Concert in London's Trafalgar Square on April 29 in front of Nelson Mandela and an expected crowd of 20,000.