NEWS LITE : DYLAN, HESTON SHARE SPOTLIGHT.

Political opposites Bob Dylan and Charlton Heston shared the spotlight Sunday as the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., honored them with lifetime achievement awards.

The rebel rocker and Republican actor-activist sat with centrist President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, as well as three other honorees, soprano Jessye Norman, screen siren Lauren Bacall and ballet star Edward Villella, for a gala 2-1/2-hour performance to be aired Dec. 26 on CBS.

Clinton did not note the disparate political views of Dylan and Heston, but praised all the honorees as ``artists and Americans who have had an indelible impact on the performing arts and the national character.''

Dylan, whose folk-rock embodied the anti-establishment sentiment of the 1960s, was idolized by young radicals devoted to the civil rights and anti-war movements.

Heston, 73, was a radio gunner on bombers in World War II. He once turned down a chance to run against former Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., and said he could have won.

``I'd rather play a senator than be one,'' he explained.

Bacall, 73, also has a political resume, having worked with Democrats such as President Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson. She had her first big success at 20 with Humphrey Bogart in ``To Have and Have Not.'' Their collaboration was wildly popular - men held their cigarettes in four fingers like Bogey and women imitated Bacall's husky voice. Their marriage lasted until his death in 1957.

Norman is the highly acclaimed opera singer who at the age of 6 performed the spiritual ``Jesus Is Calling.'' She grew up to become possibly the highest-paid female opera singer in the world and a performer at Clinton's second inauguration.

Villella, founder and director of the Miami City Ballet, already has received a presidential honor, the National Medal of the Arts, which President Clinton awarded him in September.

Bobbitt's ex charged in attack on her mom

The woman known as Lorena Bobbitt when she was accused of cutting off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife has been charged with assaulting her mother.

Lorena Gallo, 28, who has used her maiden name since her divorce from John Wayne Bobbitt in 1995 and now lives with her parents, was freed on $750 bail.

Neighbors told Woodbridge, Va., police that Gallo's mother, 49-year-old Elvia Gallo, was watching television Friday morning when her daughter entered the room and started punching her with a closed fist, police Lt. Tim Rudy said Sunday.

Gallo was arrested later Friday at a friend's house, he said.

Laureate of laughter; Italian satirist adds wit to Nobel event

Clearly relishing the controversy his Nobel Prize has provoked, Dario Fo, the Italian comic actor-playwright, delivered an off-the-cuff performance Sunday before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, trumpeting the virtues of jesters through the ages.

Instead of a formal lecture, the 71-year-old satirist distributed 25 pages of caricatures and doodles, lampooning critics who had derided the academy for bestowing its illustrious Nobel Prize for Literature this year on a trouble-making iconoclast.

``Yours is an act of courage that borders on provocation,'' he told the members of the academy at the first lecture by this year's Nobel Prize winners. The other laureates will deliver their lectures over the next few days, before the final awards ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

Fo is best known for his one-man show ``Mistero Buffo,'' and his 1970 play ``The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.'' A Communist who was denied entry into the United States until 1984, he uses a mix of pointed sarcasm and slapstick comedy to pillory all forms of authority, from the pope to politicians, and to promote political causes.

In his drawings and remarks, Fo took obvious delight in the criticism, mocking the ``sublime poets and thinkers'' who were tumbled from their Parnassian heights by the whirlwind let loose by his prize.

``In reaction to this typhoon, insults are hurled at the Swedish Academy,'' he said in a written summary of his remarks released after his talk. ``You've overdone it this time: the Nobel Prize to a comedian-playwright-actor

Who's ever heard of such a thing?''

Archeologists find tomb of Tut's nurse

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CAIRO, Egypt - French archeologists announced Sunday they have found the tomb of the wet nurse of Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh whose golden coffins and burial treasures have fascinated generations.

The 1330 B.C. memorial to the servant who suckled the boy king is an ``extremely rare'' instance of ancient Egyptians devoting an entire tomb to a woman, said archeological team leader Alain Zivie.

Hieroglyphics and a relief showing a woman with breast and nipple exposed pay tribute to Maya, ``who fed the body of a god.''

Zivie found the tomb in Saqqara, an ancient necropolis 13 miles south of Cairo. The city was the burial site for the courtiers and high-ranking officials of ancient Egypt's New Kingdom, which prevailed from about 1400 B.C. to 1100 B.C.

Most of the pharaohs, King Tut included, were buried in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, about 300 miles south of Cairo.

Zivie was drawn to explore the particular tomb when he saw a relief of Tutankhamen on the antechamber.

Six weeks of excavation have cleared two of the five known chambers; another is filled with rubble and two others are sealed off by masonry, he said.

Searchers have yet to find any gold or funerary objects, nor have they found Maya's coffin. The archeologists also are looking for more clues about Maya, whose existence was previously unknown.

``This is the beginning of the story,'' Zivie said. ``There may be discoveries inside the discovery.''

Among key questions that Zivie hopes the tomb will answer: Who were the parents of Tutankhamen, who ruled and died while he was still a boy?

Tutankhamen's father is widely believed to have been the Pharaoh Akhenaten. As for his mother, ``there are all sorts of theories, but she is not known,'' Zivie told a news conference.

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PHOTO (1) Dario Fo gesticulates comically at an event in Sweden linked to his winning the Nobel Prize.

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(2) DYLAN

(3) French archeologist Alain Zivie shows a photo of the wall carvings in an ancient Egyptian tomb, identifying it as that of Tut's wet nurse.

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(4) Heston