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The WorlcPs Daily Newspaper Paris, Monday, March 25, 1996 No. 35,168 Big Gains for Kohl Chirm Tries Conciliation After Lee Victory In Regional Voting Opposition’s New Leader Fails BySeth Faison
. New . . York Tima Service In Effort to Stir Ethnic Tensions BEIJING Ih a gesture of ccnKffiation to Pres- ident Lee Teng-hui on the day after his resounding Equally, the successes of die Free election victory in Taiwan, China called By Alan Cowell Sunday for a Democrats were significant because the New York Times Service meeting between Mr. Lee. and its own president, small, liberal party has been in decline at Jiang Zemin, and far opening direct air, shipping and BONN — Against all the odds sug- local and European elections for more mail links across the Trawan Strait gested by rising unemployment and an than two years. Pre-election opinion “Thcdoorisopen/’ said Shen Gnofimg, aForeign economic slowdown, Chancellor surveys had even questioned its ability Ministry^spokesman, quoted a by Beijing-controlled Helmut Kohl’s coalition in Bonn won a to win the 5 percent of the vote needed newspaper in Kong. Hong “The obstacles today lie major boost Sunday from three regional under German law for representation in -J.jroia* with the Taiwan authorities.’* elections, according to early projec- the regional and national parliaments. In Taiwan, Prime Minister Lien Chan responded tions. The votes will be interpreted as Had the party foiled, the results would by saying Taiwan leaders wanted to explore both a clues to the midterm fortunes of his have dealt a deep psychological blow to “peace agreement” and a long-tram policy of “en- administration. the viability of Mr. Kohl’s three-party tente" with China. . . .. Computer projections indicated that coalition, which includes his party, the Whetber the upbeat turning remarks signaled a the free Democratic Party — die junior Christian Democratic Union; the Chris- point, or simply an optimistic rewording of coalition partner — increased its share of tian Social Union, and the Free Demo- side’s still-divergent positions on the future of the ballots in all three stales, defying crats. Taiwan, will only become clear in the coming weeks. forecasts of another disaster after many As it was, the German chancellor’s hina’s leaders, C have previously raised the possib- defeats, while the opposition Social fortunes were reinforced by both Free ility of a summit meeting. Democratic Party suffered major setbacks Democrat percentage gains and the op-
Yet, .the remarks on Sunday appeared to reflect a compared with die last election, in 1992. position Social Democrats’ retreats. willingness by leaders in both China and Taiwan to The elections took place in Badeo- One ominous outcome of the vote in reduce the chance of military 'conflict, which has Wurttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wurttemberg, which confoun- hovered ominously over the regionin recent weeks. Schleswig-Holstein — three of the 16 ded most pandits, was that the far-right a On day when each side was watching the other federal stales whose representatives Republican party clung stubbornly to its carefully, it suddenly seemed conceivable — as it make up the powerful upper house of place in the state legislature, albeit with was not only a few days ago — that Beijing and Parliament a share of the vote reduced from almost Taipei could resume the discussions about expand- setback 1 percent, accord- Hie for the Social Democrats 1 percent to almost 9 ing civilian ties that were suspended nearly a year was important for two reasons. The ballots ing to projections. ago. were a first test for the party’s new leader, In the same state, the Christian Tie war games Beijing has earned out near Oskar Lafontaine, who took over late last Democrats gained around 1 percent to Taiwan, which sent tremors throughout Asia, and year. And the results represented a defeat secure 41.6 percent; die Social Demo- which are scheduled to end Monday, went unmen- for his campaign to win votes by stirring crats fell back by around 4 percent, to • tioned. : • • resentment of the more than a million 25.3 percent, and the Free Democrats After raining insults on Mr. Lee for weeks, calling ethnic Germans who have streamed to this gained almost 4 percent, to secure 9-5 him a two-faced autocrat and sponsor of organized country from the farmer Soviet Union percent of the vote, projections said. crime, among other names, Beijing suddenly cut die since the end of the Cold War. Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, once invective on Sunday. Neither Mr. Sben nor a com- The Soda! Democrats had also cam- the Free Democrat leader, called the mentary by the Xinhua press agency criticized Mr. paigned against Chancellor’s Kohl’s Lee, who won 54 percent of. the vote; instead, they European policies. See GERMANS, Page 10
stantive change in lb«r positions- . Mir. Shen. warned pointedly that China would not Pressure Mounts on drop its option of invading Taiwan should the is- EU land’s authorities move toward greatra independence from mainland China, and away from the concept of “one Chma” that die Communist and the Nationalist To Solve U.K. Beef Crisis > governments have each; mouthed for the 47. years Vuorroi tu>1W AmuomciUNfm See CHINA, Page 4 Lee Xeng-lmi celehrating on Sunday after hewoo Taiwan’s first direct presidential election. By Barry James ease also have been reported, said it would support a total EU trade ban on international Herald Tribune British beef. The agriculture minister. The European Union’s veterinary Ivan Yates, said: “We are supporting committee, on Monday will consider measures ihat will effectively ring- Beijing’s Options: Peace, More Tension, or War new ways to calm the public’s fears over fence this problem to Britain, where the fatal infection from cattle suffering crisis actually is.” — progress toward reunification with Taiwan. investors on the mainland. In return, Beijing would from “mad cow disease,' ’ including the In London, the government was to By Steven Mufson delaying Or they canswallow somepride and readi outto him, expea Taiwan to accept China's earlier proposal to slaughter of millions of animals dial issue guidance cm Monday about the WaskmpanPast Service realizing that he has Taiwan’s destiny in his hands for establish “three links” — direct communication, could be at risk. extent of any health risk to children. BEIJING — Over the last three months, Chinese the next four years. direct air flights and direct shipping — and to quiedy Germany, meanwhile, is expected to The Observer newspaper, mean- officials have labeled Lee Teng-hui duphdtous, a pat its drive for international recognition on hold. urge that all beef exports from Britain while, said that some ministers, includ- “source of instability,” a closet dictator, a “spKt- NEWS ANALYSIS “Lee Teng-hui’s election is an opportunity to cool banned. ing the deputy prime minister, Michael tist,” perverse, dangerous, unpopular, a UB “pup- off tensions,” said a Chinese political analyst with “Consumer protection measures that Heseltine, had tried last week to “sup- ’ pet” and a traitor to tire Chinese motherland who was Longtime China watchers and Chinese political good contacts in the government and military. are only academic and fail to take ac- press’ a public alert about the possible driving his peopleto the “abyss.” analysts believe Beijing has three options. There are good reasons for China to ease tensions. count of the obvious lack of prevention spread of the disease to humans. Now they can use aimlhra labd for him: freely • Scenario 1: Recancffiatioa. While the Chinese government rhetoric about re- or supervision in Britain are simply in- The meat scare was exacerbated last elected president of Taiwan. China finishes its military exercises on Monday, unification has been impassioned, so has its rhetoric adequate.” said the German health min- week by foe government’s announce- The election that Mr.' Lee won Saturday with 54 does “spin control” and declares that the exercises about maintaining domestic stability. Confrontation ister, Horst Seehofer. ment that 10 cases of foe fatal Creutz- made their its attacks on Mb’. Lee, across the Taiwan Strait damages China’s economy He said that if die EU veterinary feldt-Jakob Disease among young adults percent of die vote pores , a vexing problem for point, tones down Communist leadens in Beijing. They can continue to renews low-level and mid-level contacts across the experts stopped short of urging a ban, it might have been caused by eating meat infected with disease, vilify Mr. Lee, thus heightening confrontation and Taiwan Strait, and continues to embrace Taiwanese See TAIWAN, Page 4 would be “highly unsatisfactory.” mad cow or bovine Ireland, where cases of mad cow dis- spongiform encephalopathy. Eight of those 10 people have died so far. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease destroys the brain, but it has been known mainly as a rare affliction that strikes foe elderly. Chinese Defiant on Shipments AGENDA Ten European Union countries already have announced precautionary US. Ponders Sanctions on Pakistan Atom Equipment bans on British beef, as have a growing Russians Shell number of countries outside foe 15- bloc. tire one ruling Beijing now. He said its member Arab health ministers were Jeffrey Smith By R. extraordinary combination of national- to meet this week to draw op a strategy to Washington Service . ism, arrogance and paranoia had made Chechen Villages prevent any spread of foe disease. WASHINGTON — The Chinese reaching an agreement on the nuclear The McDonald's fast food chain struck British beef off its menus over foe government has rejected a U.S. demand matter extremely difficult and elimin- MOSCOW (Renters) — Russian placid re- troops bombarded villages in western weekend, bowing to what it said were that it forgo future shipments of nuclear- ated almost any chance of the concerns of consumers. A spokes- related equipment to Pakistan, a de- lations with Washington in me imme- Chechnya on Sunday, ami the regional capital, Grozny, braced for a new rebel man said that the company believed the cision that makes it more likely die diate future. impose The setback comes on the heels of assault. Russian press agencies repor- British beef it had been using was safe, . Clinton administration will over the ted. Several people reported but that its 660 restaurants would replace sanctions on China for past shipments of another highly public scrape were dead it with meat from the Netherlands. such equipment, according to senior setting for a high-level meeting between in daylight shooting incidents. defense offi- Interfax said Russian commanders Francois-Xavier Meslin, the World American officials. American and Chinese for Washington had given some 500 guerrillas sur- Health Organization's specialist on dis- The officials said they were disap- cials, initially planned monffl. it was canceled rounded near three villages an ulti- eases transmitted from animals to hu- pointed fay the Chinese rebuff, which early next When mans, said it was still a mystery why administration plan to Friday, each nation rushed to take credit matum to lay down their arms by 10 undercuts an . demonstrating on Britain should have been so massively avoid punishing China over its mvolve- for spuming the other — AM. Monday. the administration In the low-lying districts to the west afflicted by mad cow disease. Since the ment in the Pakistani nuclear bomb pro- how little headway out its new and southwest of Grozny, Russian disease was identified in the mid-1980s, gram by obtaining a commiinvent that has made in carrying troops have been shelling suspected more than 150,000 cases have been re- . more dialogue nudear-related sales would not be re- strategy' of promoting ported in herds in foe United Kingdom, neated-TlreChiireserejecticmcaine dur- with Beijing’s rulers. rebel positions for more than a week, ! The collapse ofWashmgton s pre- forcing thousands of villagers to leave ELECTION DAY IN IRAQ — Women carrying milk in Baghdad on including 12,000 cases last year. mgteSds with an American official in strategy for handling the spread their homes and reportedly killing Sunday as nationwide elections were held for Parliament. Page 10. A couple of hundred cases have been B^jing last week. fared Chinese »nns left officials frustrated dozens of civilians. reported in Switzerland. Twelve have Hie rebuff— and tire renewed talk of of to next. In Grozny, where hundreds of been reported in France since the dis- - suggests that U.S. and uncertain about what do Pago 10. sanctions —. also, PAGE TWO INTERNATIONAL “We are in an incredibly difficult rebels battled security forces for sev- ease was first reported there in 1990. relations with China are most likely to Montreal's Deep Malaise Russia and Belarus Nearer Union position pwd, thereare not a lot of good eral days in early March, Itar-Tass said Cases also have been repotted in Ireland deteriorate further in coming weeks, answers for how to proceed,” said one the pro-Moscow administration was and Portugal, where a newspaper, Pub- after having been badly battered this THE AMERICAS Pages. Crossword toward cas die alert against a possible new year by adispute over policy Dole's California Problem rebel attempt to infiltrate the city. international See BEEF, Page 10 Taiwan and China’s contmuedpiracy of See REBUFF, Page 4 Oaswtnmd
UB. commercial goods. . A senior policymaker said that m 23- years of dealing with Chma in one car parity or another, he had “neverbada i^tEfficuft regime to deal with than Marco Polo in China? Good Story, Writer Says, but a Myth Prices Hawrastend . Wood, China department of myth having do with Polo. Neitherfoe Chinese nor intellectual parlor game with players all over the f By Daniel Williams who administers foe LL MbO foe British Library, leaves little doubt about her foe Italians invented pasta, she says. The Persians world. Callers have been lighting up the switch- -lOOOFF Lebanon ' Washington Post Service i Andorra — answer. did, and it was transmitted by Arabs. board at the British Library from as far away as these arracks on Italy’s con- “I mean just peculiar. You have to In Italy, confirmation that Marco Polo was but Brazil and Japan expressing support or taking SSx«-lJ8C0 CfiA Qatar VENICE — Will it’s too • ^-1250 RF in the ac- an elaborate trickster would shatter an attractive issue. part a heated roundtable it,—t ff= s FWuripn — tribution to world culture never stop? ignore too many obvious omissions Ms. Wood took in
. 00 a 1000 FF Sffl^A^a-10 fnisi, there was foal thing about how the Vik- count. The whole thing just seems made up,” she archetype. Italians tike to see themselves in Polo’s discussion at University College in Loudon last I Franca Gabon -noo CFA Senega! ings beat Columbus to America. Then reports that said by telephone from London. image: energetic, adventurous, literary. He is the week and is attending another one in Ranee next j Greece. 3»t* Sp»- pasta is bad for you. Let’s not even discuss the In taking chi Marco Polo, Ms. Wood challenges model for Renaissance traders and artists and for week. A television station ferried her to China, to —.1.250 Din I iMk 9010 Lira Tunfcfe— suggestions that Mona lisa was really a man. one of foe most enduring adventures of foe West- the flood of Italian emigrants who made good make a report on her findings. * UAE. lOOODWi ’ ; 50<*A Now, a new book says that Marco Polo, foe ern ^world. Polo’s “Description of foe Wold,” around the world. ‘It waskind ofawkward, she recalled. “I had ML (Sir.) —S1^° jodan-,——l^SO JO U.S. legendary 13fo-cenmry Venetian traveler, never which chronicles his travels between 1271 and “We like to think of Marco Polo as one of the to go from place to place saying, ‘Marco Polo ] ” went to China. Didn’t even get beyond Con- 1295, including 17 years in China, aroused interest first moderns, a kind of early astronaut,” said wasn't here. Marco Polo wasn't here, rafter/ rest foe trip up, with foe about Asia all over Europe. Christopher Colum- Gianfranco Bettin, deputy mayor of Venice. “For On the surface, proof of Polo’s visit to China M0132 10,OOF stantinople. Made foe of help of an imaginative ghostwriter and heavy bus owned a copy and mm-fe notes in foe margins. Venetians, he is a kind of trademark. We even would seem to lie in foe details in “Description of cribbing from mkiicval guidebooks. Of course, Columbus never got to China, either. named the airport after him.” Marco Polo Go to Chma?” Fiances Almost incidentally. Ms. Wood assaults another M.>. Wood’s thesis has ignited a passionate See MYTH, Page 10
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A hostel forthe homeless ot the Shadow Separation / Are Moving Out prosperous of Many heart ofonce >r Montreal The dtyhasthe highest poverty rate - 25 percent — Montreal’s Deep Malaise of Canada's 16 hugest cities,
sep- for immigrants, the poor and the elderly.’’ separatists contend, then Montreal cam be By Anne Swardsoa Various Nowhere era the island of Montreal is the arated from Quebec in the same way- Washington Past Service die des- crisis more evident than in Westmount For sale options have been floated, including ONTREAL — Soon, Elaine and signs dot yards on nearly every street but not ignation of Montreal as an indepeadent city- Sidney Perzow will load up the many houses are being bought Mrs. Perzow state within Canada. three children and head off to rainy said she has reduced die asking price of her '5 Quebec Vancouver, leaving behind their family house by more than $40,000, and she REMIER Lumen Bouchard rf Montreal babysitterMof 12 years, the city where Elaine grew and her husband expect to sell it for sub- gaid that the rcbmldinjE of recently up, her widowed father and a bilingual culture. stantially less than they paid six years ago. is an important goal, ana he But for the Perzows, quirting Montreal is the Barbara Rubin Wainnb, a psychologist has appointed a provincial cabinet minister. of P responsibility is the only choice, even though it's an expensive one, studied the emotional toll Montreal’s lin- Serge Menaid, whose sole “I'm leaving because of rbe economy and guistic and separatist conflicts. Shortly after the Montreal regie©. Residents in the city voted 65
" 1 the bleak future here. Sometimes you have to referendum, which failed by 49.44 percent to J-.'V 1 r.m ,nf cut your losses and start over," said Elaine 50.56 percent she surveyed people on how they fea tell^ione interview, Afr. Menard said that Perzow, 40, a social worker. “It’s hard enough felt about the conflict one of the city’s roost serious problems is pex- of chronic to live with the kind of stresses life always More than 300 reported flare-ups cepwaL “What Idrink is bad farMhntreaJ is the presents." Then, referring to Quebec's un- illnesses, sleep problems, forgetfulness, angry resolved issue of Canada, she spells, increased alcohol use, feelings of despair separation from about,” he said. “The peqpkr who use those added, “This just “survivor guilt." Nearly half of all re- compounds tL“ and arguments are Intoxicated hy them. There is no The Perzows' is one small said they felt life was out of balance. move symptom of spondents reason why an industry should do bettor or the steep decline of Montreal. The city that But it was not just English speakers who worse, regardless of whether federalists or sov- once was Canada's financial and cultural center expressed deep concerns. One old-stock Que- ereigntists are running tire government. is in serious trouble. Its tax base is eroding, bec woman who voted “no' ' on separation said • Mr. Bouchard, in his first speech to poverty is increasing, roads are deteriorating her children and their spouses were so divided Montreal's English-speaking community, re- and, most important, citizens are leaving. on the issue that family members did not speak ‘ cently said that ‘having a vibrant Anglophone English speakers, profoundly troubled by to each other for two weeks. community is in the best interests of Quebec, last year’s narrow defeat of a referendum cm These responses come from residents of a especially as far as the quality of Montreal's Quebec independence and fearing future city long considered a testament to bilingual- economic and cultural life is concerned." battles on the issue, are leaving for other ism. About 55 percent of Montrealers are native Elaine Perzow, who watched the speech cat provinces and the United States. Middle-class speakers of French, another 1 9 percent grew up television, said she was “very disappointed" French speakers are beading for the suburbs. speaking English, and the other 26 percent have because it bad been meant “more or less to Those who remain, English and French speak- a third language as their native tongue. But appease.” Mr. Bouchard has said that a ref- ers alike, are pessimistic and angry. workers of all kinds shift easily from one erendum on separation is inevitable, die added. They live in a beautiful city with a rich language to another. **?**£: She said that in Vancouver at least there will cultural and social life and a disappearing eco- Montreal, which was founded in 1642 by Middle-class French-speaking residents of be none of the tension she feds here. nomy. Since OcL 30, when Quebeckers voted France but fell under British control in 1763, headquarters out of Montreal to Toronto and to the suburbs. Her son, Corey, 12, pul it this way: ‘Til like by a narrow margin to remain part of Canada, was for centuries Canada's financial and busi- elsewhere. More than 100,000 English speak- Montreal are moving Fed up with high taxes — higher, according to the it in Vancouver because all the signs will be in one major corporation has announced it will ness center and was controlled by English ers left as well Presse, Toronto, English, and the telephone operators won ’t ask leave Montreal; many that remain are trans- speakers. All that began to change in die 1960s Today, the Montreal Stock Exchange ac- newspaper La than in Van- want in Ftench.” ferring operations elsewhere. with the election of Jean Lesage as premier and counts for 14 percent of Canadian securities couver, Boston or New York — they are leav- you what number you Housing construction has fallen for eight the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. French transactions, while Toronto'shandies 80 percent. ing Montreal and the 27 other communities of straight years. Unemployment and poverty rates speakers began rising to positions of control in Five of Canada's six large banks are Montreal Island and moving to tile “off-is- are higher than in any other major Canadian business and civic lire. headquartered in Toronto. Of Canada’s 200 land" suburbs. From 1987 to 1994, the pop- against ethnic Germansfrom city. In 1976, with the election of Ren£ Levesque, largest companies, 73 are based in Toronto, 32 in ulation of Montreal Island stood undhanged at Animosity Soviet threatens “The problems of urban sprawl, of the im- a separatist, as premier, the independence Montreal 1.8 million, while thepopulationoftheoihlymg thefarmer Union with perhaps the plosion of the downtown core, put us in lock- movement began to gain strength. In 1980, In November, r^rmriian Pacific, one of suburbs grew by 240,0CK3, to 1.5 million. Germany’s socialfabric collision identities step behind U.S. cities," said Peter F. Trent, Quebec voters rejected separation, but concern Canada's two major railroads, announced that In recent weeks, concerns have grown with most emotional of neo-Nazis rampaged against mayor ofWestmount, a largely English-speak- among English speakers grew. From 1978 to it would transfer its headquarters to Calgary, the increasing popularity of an idea called since reunification in 1990. ing enclave that is part of the Montreal region. 1981, more than 30 major corporations, in- although it denied that the move was prompted “partition.' ’ uie notion is tiiat if Quebec can be foreigners after “The city of Montreal is becoming a place cluding the Bank of Montreal, moved their by political considerations. separatedfrom Canada by a democratic vote, as
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t r,--;H i,.., , On Dole in California? • additional 60 criminal •:*£ '-r^-T**.. After an • ? •• “* a -ii-. i . -V , . convictions were overturned as result of an investigation into police &ove*hQTi$ Unpopularity Worries corruption in Philadelphia, the Party agencies involved say fee impact has only begun to. be felt So far, Richard L.Berke Mr. Dole is expected to formally seal 116 convictions have )been over- By '" New Tcui. Tuais Service the Republican nomination in the Cali- turned cases involving six police <';,« in •i Jr f(W fornia primary Tuesday. officers who pleaded guilty to LOS ANGELES— Governor Pete “It’s a problem for Dole ****** if they per- 1 . charges including illegal searches, .WUsop of Calzfc82uar ooce considered sist in putting Pete Wilson our front,’ lying under oath and planting false the golden: boy- of Republican gov- said Lyn Nofziger, who was a close evidence. In all. 1,800 convictions ernors; now finds, himself fending off adviser to President Ronald Reagan and are being reviewed. (NYT\ 'criticism from ^.paxly leaders' .-• ... now consults informally with "around the country who are con- the Dole campaign. “1 think • The former mayor of Los cemed that Ss unpopularity they made a mistake with hnn_ Angeles, Tom Bradley, 78. was bens could cost Senator Bob They should never have put him hospitalized in stable condition in : Dole this pivotal.- state . . in in the spot of actually being in that city, recovering from a heart November;.: - charge of the campaign out attack be reportedly suffered at a ttWJi ]» *** J., . i Mr.Wilson. wbo is still -'--vv; strug- here. His people do *>:=- v sjetS not run a fast-food restaurant (AP) ( *** «»• gling to recover his -influence very good campaign. And con- • Tr r ;.-.• '.-fii.' Afterhisaborted presidential bid servatives in his own party Attorney General Lungren, left, Mrs. Dole, Senator Dole and Governor Wilson walking outside San Quentin • Fewer Americans contracted - -s-S? Hast year,: has instead 'only in- < don’t like him.” Prison after an event to show support for the death penalty in advance of Tuesday’Tuesday’s California primary. tuberculosis last year despite a iki^v S'... tensified tensions among.: many Cali-, r -Many prominent Republicans in worrisome increase in the disease - -fomia Republicans, by wresting control .. California echoed those sentiments, but cessful,” Mr. Herrington said. Wilson's muscling in to take control of national committeewoman from Cali- in a few states in the nation’s heart- •a:, j&sri ‘of Mr.' Dole’s presidential campaign in' said V.;t k they did not want to be identified In an interview, Mr. Wilson, wbo Mr. Dole's campaign, many Republic- fornia from 1984 to 1988. said the event land, fee federal Centers for Dis- the state from Dan Lungrec^fee popular forfear of w- . offending the governor. Some guided Mr. Dole on a campaign swing ans question Mr. Wilson’s advice, and demonstrated feat Mr. Wilson was put- ease Control and Prevention repor- ^attorney general. ,-. . are still bitter that fee governor broke a up and the state this ted. percent in cases, --- a. * down weekend, they singled out his decision to take Mr. ting his own interests before Mr. The 6.4 drop In a sign, of Mr. . r,| Wilson’s fallen for- pledge be made in iris 1994 re-election blamed his low ratings on the public’s Dole to San Quentin to 22,812 from 24.361 in 1994. ' Prison on Saturday Dole’s. ,*sa. tunes, it is Mr. Lumen* not the- gov- campaign ^.-T: \ that he would not run for dissatisfaction with politicians. as a backdrop for an event on the death “It doesn’t look to me like this cam- followed drops of 5 percent in 1 993 .emor, whQ is cited far more often as a -president; many conservatives are at “It’s an unhappy fact of current penalty. They said while the event might paign is as much about Dole as it is and 4 percent in 1994 (AP) vice-presidential prospect . .. -odds over his support for abortion times, part ofthe general cynicism about have been appropriate for a gubernat- about Pete,” she said. rights, among other issues. -:?=;-»5 politics,” he said. orial campaign, it made the senator ap- Saying sbe still could not forgive Mr. • A woman who had taken fer- * u- •Angeles and the Sk .'Times: field PolL.un- The state Republican chairman if birth to sextup- '& John Asked he would take any respon- pear too harsh. Wilson for running for president, she tility drugs gave ^ »••: ... i_, -^StCji ;derecore the weakness of - the 63-year- Herrington, was careful not to criticize sibility for his low ratings, Mr. Wuson “A trip to San Quentin is not a way to added, “I was appalled. I thought that lets. hospital officials in Albany. 5 **••: •*-* • .
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1 ASIA/PACIFIC u t‘ of BeijingPanel Lee, of Taiwan Vote, Celebrates a Landslide With 54% Scrap -V«*l why Votes to Mr. Peng offered no analysis of meanwhile, believe Often lost amid Betting’s attempts at missiles and hold menacing war games Market analysts, saying he might write a book was the orama of Taiwan he Lost, TAIPEI — Cradling children in his Taiwan. Taiwan's sagging financial markets — a intimidation experiences- close to martial about his campaign arms and threats — emerging from fair decades of Kong’s handing a bottle ofchampagne Mr. Lee did not signal any conces- casualty of China’s military general doesn t discuss Hong single-party rule to become one “A to cheering supporters. President Lee will rebound because of Mr. Lee’s strong law and at sions, but said; “We will seek further the war,” he said at a press conference Asia's liveliest democracies. Teng-hui of Taiwan celebrated his land- development in our mainland relations. showing. The government has spent hun- of “I don’l like to supporters of the party's headquarters. slide election victory of dollars to prop up Some disappointed Sunday by prom* We will do it well.” dreds of millions mah» imitanf analysis now.’’ Legislature ising since Taiwanese independence said they took to work on improving relations “I know you want stability, and you Taiwan's currency and stock pritxs seemed glad simply resounding victory Many Taiwanese with solace from Mr. Lee’s ex- want to make money. Let’s strive to- participated in this landmark . imm finish. Mr. to have Shopkeepers and Mr. Pen 's second-place Washington Post Service set off firecrackers to gether for it” he said to roam of ap- g bOled as the first time a Chinese so handily because many tra- ercise — handpicked greet Mr. Lee as he began a tour of the of 2,000. Taipei stock market has fallen 4 percent Lee won its China’s preciation from a crowd society has democratically elected BEIJING — ditional backers of the independence island to meet voters who for the first past few weeks were a very this year. On Saturday, a newspaper Preparatory Committee "The leader. Even the losers were gracious and Hong Kong parry deserted it tins time to vote for Mr. time elected their own president. tune,” said. “People rushed quoted official figures that investors victory voted by anwrejn of 143 to 1 on Sunday difficult he their soppottexs called the vote a Lee, whomany contend quietly shares the elected le- Beijing has demonized Mr. Lee as an re buy UJS. dollar: and sold their homes have pulled $5 billion out of Taiwan. nmnMC i4anviftmhWfHVI. to scrap the British colony’s goal of gradual separation, from China. indepen&nce-seeker who wants to as missiles were fired. But everything is But Mr. Lee’s election by an unex- — <" ** Mr. Lee consistently has said that he ruA^« v — dump the doctrine that China and different today. We have won a big pectedly wide margin should restore in- die teniroiy when it reverts to eventual unification 14 million voters went to the polls.. mn Taiwan are one country. But Taiwanese vestor confidence in Taiwan, market supports Taiwan’s July 1, 1997. victory, a victory for democracy.” young m»n at Mr. Lee’s victory Chinese sovereignty on with China, but that it can only come One voters gave Mr. Lee 54 percent of the Mr. Lee won over three challengers watchers said Sunday. are very The lone voice of dissent did not go * democratic. rally told a reporter. “We von; in Saturday's election. poised to rally after China becomes more Kong Peng Mmg-min, who advocated inde- "The stock market is unnoticed orunponishfid. Hong r. vim of the in- — Still, just one day after Monday in celebration ofLee 's resound- This stand embraces most official an Mr. Lee’s pendence, and Lin Yang-kang and Chen proud of our demo- radio quoted the top Chinese pres- dependence party’s positions without ac- Tene-hui, I am triumph, newspapers were urging him re Li-an, who sought re reaffirm Taiwan’s ing victory,” said Tu Jin-lung, vice Kang, Lu Ping, as saying that the independence. cracy.” (AP,WP) Hong 4 heal the rift test-fire of Grand Cathay Securities Corp. tually uttering the wend be dial has led China to desire for reunification with China. ident one dissenting delegate should thrown off the transitional bodies plan- ning Hong Kong’s post-1997 govern- ment, and off arty governing role after the British withdraw. The Preparatoty Committee is made Japanese Leader Wins Hang up of Chinese and pro-Beijing Kong personalities, many of them lead- ing business figures. Legislators who want more democracy in tbe colony and A Symbolic Victory of seats in elections who wot a majority I in Hang Kang have been left off the meting committee. physically block consideration of a By Kevin Sullivan decision was widely expected. budget containing the bail-out funds. So its and Mary Jordan The surprise was that Frederick Fong, Shinshinto, lea by Hashimoto ar- Washington Post Service chairman of tire Hong Kong Association chrival Ichiro Ozawa, has been using ideal feer Democracy and People’s Livelihood, TOKYO — The administration of the bailout issue to inflict maximum refused to go along despite pressure Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto political damage on Mr. Hashimoto. from the panel's chairman, the Chinese won an important symbolic battle cm The sit-in, along with a AIDS-related foreign minister, Qian Qicfaen. Sunday in a parliamentary special elec- scandal at die Health Ministry, has The near-unanimous vote stood in tion in mountainous central Japan. paralyzed Mr. Hashimoto’ s govern- contrast to die elections that took place Tsuyako Ono, the widow of a mem- ment less tiian a month before President •j tire day before in Taiwan, where for tire ber of Parliament from Mr. Bill Clinton arrives for a state visit. time voters cast ballots to select Hashimoto’s Liberal Democratic Party Mr. Hashimoto, who has made the first their president. who died in office last month, was over- U.S .-Japan relationship the cornerstone fr-AJ President Jiang Zemin of China, who * whelminglyelected to fill her husband’s of his administration, has seen his ap- leader of tire Communist Party, Upper House seat over a challenger proval ratings drop from more than 60 is also urged Taiwan last year to reunify with from the main opposition party. percent when he took office to 36 per- the mainland on the basis of tire “one The election in Gifu Prefecture has cent this month. country; systems” model that is been seen here as a bellwether of sup- The Gifu election was the public's two applied in Hong Kong. port for the Hashimoto government, first chance to weigh in on die con- being **4 4 which has been stalled by its plan to troversies. Shinshinto’s blunt sit-in tac- 54 Black Day^ Governor Says ... * spend S6.8 billion oftaxpayer money to tics have been extremely unpopular about the vote in Beijing bail out bankrupt housing lenders in a with the public, but the bailout is even The news bleakly the governor of crisis similar to the U.S. savings and less popular. Recent polls show dial was greeted by called it loan debacle in the 1980s. only 12 percent of voters want to use Hong Kong, Chris Patten, who France-Presse The results of Sunday's election, the public money to bail out failed lenders. “a black day,’ Agence first balloting for national office since Now Mr. Hashimoto has more lever- rcportecL Mr. Hashimoto became prime minister age. Observers have speculated that Mr. “Tliis is a blade day fordemocracy in * in January, give Mr. Hashimoto a boost Hashimoto, who has until now avoided Hang Kong.' Mr. Patten said in a state- hearing tire news. he sorely needed. using force to remove demonstrating mot after s government-appointed wj “A Chinese ,: this legislators, use the Gifu results as a •• “The support of the voters at may .w crucial moment was very meaningful.” mandate to remove them and push body of Chinese government officials said Koicfai Karo, party secretary-gen- through his budget. Stalling debate on Japan’s budget, parliamentary members of the opposition New Frontier Party continuing and handpicked Hong Kong advisers has eral. Tire results also represent a certain a candle-lit sit-in on Sunday outside the Tokyo conference room used by the Diet budget committee. voted to tear down a legislature which For tile last 20 days. Mr. element of Mrs. Otto's family’s influ- was freely, fairly and openly elected by town where Mr. Ono’s statue still vote for Mrs. Ono, the ’ candidate. the people of Hong Kong in the most Hashimoto’s government has been vir- ence in Gifu, a beautiful region of im- tional politics in the 1950s and 1960s. ]
tually immobilized as legislators from mense mountains and clear rivers near Banboku Ono was primarily respon- stands outside the train station. She received about i 193,000 votes, democratic election in our history,” he the main opposition party, Shinshinto Japan’s west coast Her husband was sible for making Japan’s first high- A recent poll by Asahi found that while her Shinshinto opponent won said. or the New FrontierParty, have staged a the son of a former party vice president bullet train route run through while 64 percent of Gifavotera opposed about 227,000. A Communist party Mr. Patten praised the dissenting Mr. round-the-clock sit-in in Parliament to who wielded immense power in na- ifu, complete with a stop at a small the bailout plan, they still planned to candidate received 162,000 votes. Ring, saying Hong Kang would “sa- lute” him. tlttflV TAIWAN: China Watchers Say Beijing Has 3 Post-Election Options: Reconciliation With Taipei, Maintaining the Tensions, or War
Continued from Page 1 1995, in which he advocated a “one “deeds” instead, and quietly pm his standing by. Many hard-line voices also and freedom with China's desire for “No leader can back down under this country, two systems” arrangement international campaign on a back burn- will argue that China should keep pres- reunification and control. kind of political pressure even if he • v4- tire flotilla leaves, so pessimistic and afraid that wants to.” Hulks and thus its stability. Taiwan is tire similar to Hong Kong and declared that er. sure up until U.S. “I am . second biggest foreign investor in “Chinese should not fight fellow "Beijing does not want Lee to do that the United States appears to give some sort of overt conflict is quite The chances of conflict could rise China. Even partial U.S. sanctions could Chinese.” anything. It wants him to stop doing way first likely,” said Huang Yasheng, professor further if Mr. Lee, comforted by an • \ i.- news agency over the things,’ said Chas. W. Freeman, Jr„ “Iwouklbe very surprised if Beijing at tire University of Michigan. "This American show erf naval force and U.S. choke off billions of dollars of exports The Xinhua ' -.a- by Chinese companies and workers. weekend quoted Deng Xiaoping’s po- former U.S. assistant secretary of de- tried reconciliation,”, said Brandy whole issue of increasing Taiwan’s dip- congressional resolutions, pushes even ‘ Moreover, although China claimed sition from tire early 2980s suggesting fense. ’Beijing wifi then match Taipei ’s Womack, political science professor at lomatic space is going to be a long-run harder for diplomatic recognition for
that intimidation tactics weakened sup- that Taiwan might retain its own military restraint with its own. No political pro- tbe University of Virginia. “Big coun- trend.” Mr. Hnang said. Taiwan, incuiding . high-level visits port far tire Taiwanese pro-indepen- farces after reunification. Short of in- vocations from Taipei will translate into tries are slow to anger and Slow to calm Whatever concessions Mr. Lee may abroad and a campaign for a United dence candidate, privately it probably dependence, everything is negotiable. no military provocations from down. Having committed themselves to make are “tactical and do not reflect a Nations seat. realizes that the strategy has been a Foreign Ministry officials have sad. Beijing." a more confrontational posture, they fundamental change in direction,” he Mr. Freeman argues tint China will failure, alienating Taiwanese citizens, After campaigning against Chinese • Scenario 2: Continued tension, but aren’t likely to back down.” said. 'Taiwan is a democracy now and irritating tire United States and Asian intimidation, it would be politically im- no armed conflict • Scenario 3: Conflict there is a structural demand for more neighbors, and perhaps igniting an Asian possible for Mr. Lee to openly abandon Alter vilifying Mr. Lee and blasting Are China and Taiwan on a collision international recognition.” arms race. efforts to gain international recognition. the United States for interference, it will course? No matter how reasonable it China's missile diplomacy has left the Chinese Army “will then argue for China wants tire foundation for re- But lucidly. Beijing does not expect him be tough for Beijing to gracefully climb might seem for both sides to cool ten- little room for maneuvering, in Beijing and get the. budget for a long-term that believe its confrontational position, sions, it may be impossible to reconcile or TaipeL It conciliation to be President Jiang to. It says it does not what he down from “deprives Lee of apolitical buildup to be able to take Taiwan by "VFjm/jXfwrf Zemin’s eight-point plan of January says anyway, and so he can speak with especially with American warships Taiwan’s yearning for independence option to back down,” Mr. Hnang said. force around 2006.”
5 CHINA: Saying \Door Is Open Beijing Calls a Summit and Urges Direct Links , for
Continued from Page 1 Mr. Lee’s running mate to become fort to increase Taiwan’s contacts patched to the Pacific Ocean near " - *'T vice president, did not raise any spe- with the mainland, and decrease its Taiwan, have already provoked ob- in a move to recapture territory held by cific proposals either, and he took a ties to tire rest of tire world. jections from China. rvirttg since civil war separated them. Nepal Leader Survives Tamil Tiger rebels, is expected to open a Whether tensions now ease, Mr. cautiously optimistic approach to- “We have never had a positive U.S. Offers Congratulations new offensive in toe northern Jaffna Pen- Shen said, hinges on whether ward China’s offering. reaction from the Taiwan side,” Mr. A No-Confidence Vote insula, a government newspaper reported • ‘-twite 4 Taiwan’s authorities pursue a policy ‘‘On the question of a peace agree- Shen said. The United States congratulated Sunday, • ' . . independence. Beijing will not be ment. we are interested in seriously In tire same way that he blamed tbe Taiwan’s people on their first direct ’ of KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s prime “A major military buildup is under way -*4 * J satisfied with conciliatory statements, thinking about it," Mr. lien told re- recent tension between the mainland presidential election and said it hoped minister, Sber Bahadur Deuba, survived a ip thenorth for what is being billed to be toe he said, but only by conciliatory porters in Taipei. “A lot of prepar- and Taiwan squarely on Taipei, Mr. China would now ease tensions. The parliamentary no-confidence vote on laigest-ever security forces* offensive to :vlS* acts. ations need to be done for that Shen added that the strain in Chinese- Associated Press reported from Sunday, escaping die fate ofhis Communist more temtory currently held by Although he did not request any “We should pursue a policy of American relations was entirely the Washington. predecessor who was defeated by a similar foe Liberation Tigers ofTiunfl Eelam,” the specific ones, Chinese leaders, have detente,” Mr. Lien also said. “I am fault of Washington. “We congratulate the people of tnotioD only six months ago. Sunday ’ Observer said. been infuriated by Mr. Lee’s attempts basically optimistic, but I think it mil He urged Washington to take a “a Taiwan on their first election, ’ said a Tbe 106-to-90 vote came afterfive ofMr. The rebels also said government forces to have Taiwan enter tire United Na- take time.” more stable, more wise policy” to- White House spokeswoman, Mary Deuba's ministers, all members of hzs ju- were preparing a new operation. (Reuters tions and by his visit to the United Mr. Shen renewed the proposal ward China, and said its recent actions Ellen Glynn. “They have made great nior coalition partner, die National Demo- Stares last year. A promise not to do made by Mr. Jiang in 199S that urged were interpreted by Taiwan as a sign strides in the past several years toward cratic Party, withdrew their resignations Kim again certainly be Taiwan to lift its ban direct trade, that the United States Aide Faces Arrest either would on on supports "sep- democracy, we hope to see tensions and said they would vote with toe gov- their list air and shipping ties across the aratist” activities on the island. in the Taiwan Straits greatly reduced ernment. SEOUL —‘ Government prosecutors In Taiwan, Mr. Lien, who ran as Taiwan Strut, as part of China’s ef- Two U.S. aircraft carriers, dis- in the days to come.” The no-confidence motion was proposed sought an arrest warrant far a farmer pres- by former '.r;C Prime Minister Mans Median idential aide Sunday, in a move that may Adhikari, who was removed from power in further damage toe governing party before REBUFF: China Spurns U.S. on Nuclear Nonproliferation September through a parliamentary vote next month’s parliamentary elections. North Koreans sponsored by Mr. Deuba's Nepali Congress The Prosecutor’s Officeaccused Chang '/r-r.. Continued from Page I had been scaled back by tbe time Mr. United States is willing to accept such Party- (Reuters) Hak.Ro of receiving $180,000 from three Einbom left to merely obtaining sales. business executives who allegedly wanted' policymaker about the task of break- China’s private commitment to con- Once the administration formally Gose Steel Mill Kabul him to use his. influence to protect their ing through China's unwillingness to tinue the discussions at an unspecified certifies that China has assisted Shelling Kills 18 i Tvi accommodate U.S. concerns. future dare. Pakistan's development of nuclear The Associated Press KABUL — Rebels shelled Kabul on Mr. Chang, a long-time aide to President noted that these China’s argument with Mr. Einhora arms, as officials say it Several officials is now certain SEOUL — North Korea, suffering Sunday, killing 18 civilians and wounding Kim Young Sam, resigned last week after involved more than just the reportedly hinged in part on a claim to do, a 1994 U.S. requires the concerns law acute fuel shortages, has shut down its 14 others a in busy shopping street, wit- the main opposition party accused him of publicized China’s sale that the magnets in question are al- .administration to highly case of disapprove roughly largest steel mill, losing one of its few nesses and officials said. having amassed $4-8 - million year specialized because in secret to Pakistan last of lowed to be exported drey do S10 billion in pending Export-Import ’f remaining ' sources of foreign cur- One shell crashed into toe Shahr-i-Nan ", " funds. Mr. Chang has said toe money be^ - -• 41 tf magnets for use in centrifuges that not appear on an agreed list ofnuclear- financing Bank for U.S. business rency, South Korean officials said district in central Kabul in toe middle offoe longed tohis gnimend, and that ste earned ,7 .’ ^ enrich uranium, a key ingredient of related items subject to controls under deals in China. Sunday. day. killing six people. Twelve others toed it at her restaurant.and coffee shops. (AP) nuclear arms. the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, But President Bill Clinton can The ' Kim Chalk ironworks had of injuries, hospital sources said. ! . Also ai issue are China’s sales to which China has signed. waive this sanction if he decides that been the pride of North Korea’s Com- It was part of a salvo due hit toe city Iran of anti-ship cruise missiles and While this point may be technically the deals are vital to “U.S. national around lunch time as front-line fighting VOICES from Asia equipment useful for making chem- correct, “it is a legalistic argument, interests,” and many officials predict between forces loyal to President Btsha- ical weapons, as well as China’s over- and the substance is that they are he will do so on grounds that the account for 60 percent of the North’s nuririin Rabbani and toe Taleban Islamic' Shen Guofang. Otinese Foreign - Pakistan's assisting the Mis- all cooperation with mis- Pakistani nuclear pro- sanction would hurt U.S. businesses iron production. militia intensified. istty spokesman, on the weekend election in gram.” said S. Spector. sile and nuclear programs. Leonard a more than China. But the collapse the of Soviet Uni- A Defense Ministry official Mamed Taiwan: “Regardless of what election toe Deputy Assistant Secretary of Stare specialist on nuclear proliferation at Mr. Clinton would then have the on deprived North Korea of a key oil Taleban for the attack, part of a renewed Taiwan, area holds 'and toe results of tire Robert Einhom raised these matters thetile Carnegie Endowment for Infer-Inter- flexibility to a pick from number of supplier, forcing it to reduce oper- bombardment of Kabul after a lull of sev- election, there are.two tilings that it cannot in Beijing last week, but China re- national Peace. other possible sanctions, officials ation in most of its factories. eral weeks. change — erne is that Taiwan is a pait of fused to pledge it would halt its co- Richard H. Solomon, who was as- stud, although they declined to spe- Last year, only 'one of toe Kira The government-controlled Kabul radio China and the second is that Taiwan operation with Pakistan and Iran, of- sistant secretary of state for East Asi- the types the. ~ cify of measures under con- Chaik mill’s three furnaces was • op- said Saturday that government leader is a local ;• planes had leader.’ . ' (Reuters) ficials said. an and Pacific affaire during the Bush sideration. . , erating. Tbe operation has now come bombed Taleban positions in Charasiyab "He was treated nicely, but es- administration, said. "I don’t believe “Obviously, since we haven't to to a complete stop, according to of- and Rishkor, killing 40 Taleban fighter* anti sentially he got nothing.” said one politically we can flinch” from SberBahadur Deuba,prime minister of im- our own satisfaction solved the prob- ficials of the Ws? Vh- South Korean Unific- • wounding 20 others- There was so . Nepal, . after -'-'rr, posing word surviving a- no-confidence -Sn.w- I' «? official. sanctions for the magnet sale, lem it’s more likely that we have to do i V' ation Board, a ministry in charge of ' from Taleban mi casualties. (Reuters) vote: ‘T am happy andTthank ali Another official said Washington's given China's apparent reluctance to torparty i ! something that the other side is going relations with the North. leaders- and initial ambition of obtaining a joint, promise it will stop. to find unpleasant." said members for toen support-I one senior Tbe shutdown caused the North’s public U.S.-Chinese statement or .will now speed up program am • a Otherwise, he said, "the hard- official. Jaffna Offensive Is my and I ;vl. steel expons to Seen unilateral the South to drop to ready to talk Chinese pledge not to en- liners in the Chinese government Officials stressed that to tofr oppositioa to redress no decisions 54.4 million in February from $14 mil- COLOMBO The Sri r ’ :5 ; gage in arms proliferation activities get — .ankannuUtary their problems.’’; • would the wrong idea” that the had been made. , ; A (Reuters):. V-c. ‘V.iW lion is February 1995, they said. • • • • !VXi^ •. ‘-j 'pe-.
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Ponders Divisions & A/ Lamberto Dini On , EU [? S&0$ political integration, legacy tbe of their voice in while Medi- ? a of EU affairs, tbe others in areas like the single cur- -- s . 7fnc7nartmta/ Herald Tribune bitter fights over the 1991 Maastricht terranean and Nordic blocs advance rency or defense,” Prime Minister Treaty on European cur- aims. Turin the Treaty Union and tbe their own regional Alain speech earli- and Jupp£ explained in a BRUSSELS — Af European -Union > rent ' uncertainly over • fulfilling “There is a very real danger of er this month. France already has pro- leaders prepare to open a constitutional Maastricht’s promise of a single cur- Europe losing its momentum, of Europe posed creation of a 300,000-member conference tins week to reform thebloc losing its ability to project stability, of mobile army to give Europe the force to Prime Minister Lamberto Dini of mon agricultural policy. And we need for tbe 21st (temnry/the gap between While ' Germany and the Benelux Europe becoming a club of quarreling back up its foreign-policy aims. Italy will greet other leaders ofEuro- to spend more time on issues such as r-, _ '*r Europe's economic and. political chal- countries .. ••*'. v continue to push far deeper nations without much of apolitical mes- Karl Lamers, tbe parliamentary for- pean Union gowmments next Friday the environment and the fight against lenges and die willingness of leaders to integration in areas lfcg foreign policy sage," said Michael Stunner, director eign-policy spokesman of Mr. Kohl's in Turin for the start of the Inter- terrorism. confrom tbenaTogetheris as wide as and crime-fighting, the British govern- of the German think tank Sriftimg Wis- ..•• Christian Democrats, who caused a fur- governmental Conference that aims ever. • .t. . . ; . : . : .. ment of Prime Minister John Major set sensebaft und Politik. “If you have to orin Europe two years ago when he first over the next year or so to agree on Europe’s 'sense of inadequacy has out an uncompromising negotiating cany 350 million voters, you must have proposed deeper integration among a ways to reform EU institutions, better Q. Speaking of terrorism, Majed grown acute through 1 the bloc’s failure stance earlier tins 1 .. , **??*& month. It vowed to a vision.” German-led hard core of states, said a coordinateforeign and defense policy Youssef MoLky. the Palestinian ter- ^ to contein- foe war in- the- former -•v fight against any further shift in powers The lack of a unifying vision puts flexibility governing and rorist Klingboffer on : - -. clause in Europe’s plan for wring ahead offuture who killed Leon Yugoslavia or the recent- Aegean dis- from national capitals to EU homes like Europe’s destiny more than ever in the treaties held the key to the deeper polit- enlargement efthe EU to include new the Achille Laura, was captured on pute between Greece and - Toifcey, -as the European Paiiiament or European hands of its two leading powers, France ical cooperation Germany demands as a members from Central and Eastern Friday after escaping from an Italian well as its inabSity to stem die mounting Court ofJustice. and Germany. And the success of the condition for a single currency. Europe. Mr. Dini discussed the up- prison. Your law allowed home leave tide of unemployment at home . Between ... "... the two extremes lies conference will hinge on whether Mr. “It will coming for this was talk of :_i '- :^safi?* may be that we not be able to summit meeting, Europe's man and there — • WTVr -.. , 4 . v,, ‘’Rif. Those faHings^have- - created a new. France. -The government of President .. - i^y*^ Kohl and Mr. Chirac can persuade their have as much progress as we Germans economic outlook and Italy’s general illicit help in his escape too. What are Jacques . . Chirac has met Germany partners to agree to a far greater degree want,” Mr. interview. election Fried- your these matters? *Vr Yi. .. '. .^ould Lamers said in an on April 21 with Alan thoughts on , l yearlong negotiating marathon thar EU halfway with proposals for beefing up of flexibility in relations than “But if able to have such a man the International Herald I don't think there was a plot, but >.!*;'• EU we are of A. -r. ;V^; lead^^opcnFn^mTnrm r^^ Europe’s .7 '***7 foreign-policy apparatus, but Europe's founders envisaged. clause, it may be only a short time Tribune. I do think our law must be tightened - " ft cellor Helmut 5 rrr,:R Kohl of_ Germany last it also has flirted with London •'’•-•-•« t by seek- By allowing countries to opt oat of before we have a solid core.” for people who have committed ser- ''*• week called the talks -“die most de-. .ing to reinforce the «..r clout of national policies rather than blocking them, the A hard-core solution looks all tbe Q. On the eve of the Turin meeting, ious crimes. I informed American . j ciitivejb&aric eyent of fins and thenext • -capitals, including *‘- calling for a new Kohl-Onrac proposal aims to skirt the more compelling Europe divided than Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew *...’ V" ,£rX->! - —-M H , given Europe’s prom- seems more 'trrj ‘- rr-'.'fe^* ®> Ob cemmy" for Europe. -council drawn from national parlia- problem ofnational vetoes and create an ise of membership to 12 countries in ever. Since Italy currently bolds the immediately of the capture and he ” •--•• • But if Bjrope’s leaders agree on the ments to - curb the power of Brussels. inner circle of states, with France and Eastern and Southern Europe, which is EU presidency, tell me what chances was pleased. I also received a mes- stakes; invdved, they remain divided And on the fringes, Europe’s smaller Germany at the center, that are “ready the driving force behind the reform con- of progress there are and what the top sage of great satisfaction from Wash- over whether and bow to deepen their countries y jare eager to prevent a dilution and willing to go further or faster than ference. priorities will be at the Intergovern- ington. ::• P-7 ; mental Conference. A. There are divisions in Europe, no question about it But what will be Q. As a former central banker, can ’“a i ;...- ... foremost in tbe minds of beads of you give our readers your reading on government going into Turin will be foe state of the European economy? how to get foe EU and the idea of A. There is a slowdown in a num- unity closer to the average citizen. ber of countries, but the expectation is Too often EU decisions are taken in a for a pick-up later in the year. The - > •- : bureaucratic way without regard for reasons for the slowdown are not very r - tite citizen. We have produced a lot of clear, however, and Europe's drive V ~ ; directives that were seen as excessive for fiscal consolidation and discip- com- >*'• Diana’s and unnecessary, even an irritant for line, which is necessary, is a - Refusal ofProtection Called ‘Lunacy companies and business. We need a plicating factor. — • v: *5 more level playing field for compan- Q. Will the economic slowdown -•: ‘ Roam 13 . movements, “it is lunacy for the Prin- ies in Europe. kill the idea of a single currency in LONDON —Princess Diara flew off cess of Wales to drive around by herself Q. And what is the most important 1999?
' ' •A :s -’ for a Caribbean- holiday with hear sons ,- like this,” a top police source told the result will be seeking I think there is a will to go ahead, ‘*'s r f'.‘ you from your A. afterbeing badly shaken '*•? ' in a multiple tm" paper; “We-'imderstand her desire Jot fellow government heads in Turin? but it is too early to judge. Certainly • __ ._ •% -J crash that spoiled police de^>air. about privacy. But we are going through a A. In order to keep the process of we will have to see the effects of the her reftisal to accept their protection. particuliffiy dangerous time and she European integration on track, we slowdown on national budget defi- Diana was at the wheel of a borrowed > mustleam to appreciate that” will to reaffirm cits. It will for many coun- - i2; need demonstrate and be tough • ,7 V :^ car and {ppaxeniiy traveling without es- “Half the time we don’t know where our commitment at tiie Turin meeting tries to make it by 1999. including * ’ cart when she was invohrom a five-car she hot what du does,” Ik added. What must come out of Turin there- some of the biggest countries. ^V^fyaaSav. pfleup in ceraral Looian Friday night. Diaria is likely to face further police fore is a clear message of common
" r One - that revision - '-a:*3a5 semor police source; told die demands she submit to their pro- will to make the of the M v » • . Sunday Mirror tection she politics. .1,- newspaper dial Diana’s when returns with Princes Maastricht treaty the highest political Q. Let's touch on Italian
r ’ refusal of round-the-clock - -Wlljiam and Harry last ! *T protection from Barbuda. priority. Die election campaign started * * » * •- . was ‘lunacy,’ especially sincethey fear — The Sunday Mirror said toe crash oc- Q. And your other aims? week with everyone everyone hurling : r’s;{.[Jg thatlrish Republican Army guerrillas are curred when a London casino doorman A. Unemployment needs particular insults. What kind of campaign is targeting members of the royal family. _ lost control ofaPoncbe sports carhe was attention. It is also of utmost im- this? r ss-joc: Secunty has been stepped np arorod trying to park. He rammed a stationary portance to reform institutions, the A It is unfortunate that the be- the royal family since die 30RA resumed a car, propelling it into the path ofpassing role of the European Parliament and ginning of the campaign has been like bombmgcanqimgnlast month, bid Dima 7 vehicles, including Diana’s BMW. the Commission and to achieve a this, with confrontations between ' - says bcuygua^ interfere One witness said she looked pale and qualified majority voting for the fu- candidates rather than a discussion of =# with her pri- rethink foe it because vacy. : shocked after tbe crash and spenr two ture. We may have to things, issues. Perhaps is we 1 .*r: Detectives fear the crash conld.pin?: minutes composing herself before get- and some smaller countries could per- enter foe spring of 1996 with a good • ; -f-SSC point the potential vulnerability of Di- ting out of the car. haps be tied together for voting pur- economic situation at home, declin- -=*. — :'saer ana, who has agreed to a divorce from After the crash, Diana followed her Mnmi Simboctaifnn AuocmedPins poses. But voting is a very delicate ing inflation and a strengthening lira - - - ’-{ ’ •> rr- her estranged husband. Prince Charles. security training said hailed a taxi to take A GREEN APPEAL — Pope John Paul II calling for a “use but matter when it comes to foreign and and that reduces the economic debate. The newspaper sauLsenior police of- her to the nearest police station in not abuse” philosophy to rescue the world from possible ecological defense policy, so tins is a tough one. For me foe top priority must be fight- ficers were “in despair” over her re- Chelsea.She was then driven back, home crisis in an address on Sunday to pilgrims in St Peter’s Square. We will also have to rethink the com- ing unemployment. • . -jrr;kl fusal to even give mem details of her by the police.
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INTERNATIONAL Beralb Snbuilt Over, It’s Timefor Statesmanship PUBLISHED WITH THE WASHINGTON With the Crisis NEW TOM TOffiS AND THE Km Finally Washington, the Gfinton seem intent on using in Beijing his rivals fee ashington in many ways Thomas L. Friedman Hoarding admimstratiem -has wen all over By any sign ofnuance on his part immediate Taiwan crisis was be board cm China. It came in vowing to Ww the Taiwan as a sign of weakness to over two weeks ago. On March 8, the tame fee “dictators in Beijing." then gyrhange for assurances from U.S. national security adviser, Anthony In deserves great opted for a policy of eugagemenL An creeping, In Taiwan, Mr. Lee American Retreat? will not pursue Lake, met privately wife his Chinese Taiwan that it his without any adult supervision, every should credit for skillfully shepherding The reception d- at Pamela imilgtwai independence, China government (and Congress) that the Clinton a counterpart, Liu Hun Q®, . But be is a cotm- arm of tile to allowing Taiwan a country to democracy BMistratioirs foreign vigilance Harriman’s farm in MukHebore, Vir- also commit itself engaged Beijing in its own way, affairs budget is to exercise high-level and plicated man — bom in Taiwan, edu- jnst daylong higher profile on the world stage. This receiving in Congress is more than cool. power. They simply do not want to ginia. The conclusion of their Japan and America. His heart is wife no overall strategy. be anything from observer status cated in It is downright negative and ways on intelligent pre-crisis meeting was an “understanding" feat could U.S. China policy Sifted aimlessly, in spend money membership in Taiwanese, bis grammar is Japanese, would in die United Nations to this crisis went suggesting differences in kind, not de- involvement in troubled societies, went like this; The United States are western ana ms lead- which is one reason why and fee Worid Bank. his ideals gree, from Cold stu- use its influence to try to restrain Taiwan the IMF is shocking how little War budget battles. It is which they contemptuously and is Confudan aloofness. as far as it did. ft Taiwan would thrive from such a ership style pot simply that the administration, hav- pidly di^niss as “social weak." from any more far-reaching moves to- feel for attention China has 'been given com- facto indepen- Mr. Lee does not have a good ing and in return deal. It would have de Bosnia. already pared its requests, faces Taking a frill role in die international ward in dependence, ma inland China, and by winning 54 pared wife Syria or Israel or dence, de jure democracy, flourishing demands to cut its organizations banks, starting wife Beijing would not use military force to time for President Bffi Clinton to pending by as much and percent of the vote in fee presidential It is Taipei. capitalism and time — tone for history as another third over a prospective sev- the United Nations, is anathema to the resolve its current dispute wife lead on this issue. He wffl Ire in Japan in transform China election I fear be may get even more en-year But, having defused the short-term to take its course and go to budget-balancing period. Nor Hill's spokesmen for disengagement. dealings wife Beijing. nrid-ApriL Why doesn’t he also into a state fear Taiwan could more cocky in his is it just that the internationalist crisis, both sides understood feat a foster new deal party controlling Con- They enjoy inventing for fee rest of Asia, I recently met Beijing and tty to help a that easily coexist with. Beijing, meanwhile, As gress is tacking unwelcome policy conspiracies against U.S. sovereignty, longer-term deal had to be struck Taiwan and China? - sov- with one offee region's elder statesmen between aiwan relations. could claim victory — feat its amendments onto money bills arriving ignoring that fee United States and its would stabilize China-T U.S. officials can embrace Slo- being dismembered. and asked him why the region didn’t If from a a deal to be had. This is not ereignty was not White House of the other party. friends remain in a position to dominate There is such role wife China bodan bfflosevic, Hafez Assad and Boris What worries me is not that there play a more assertive What is distinctive is the unspoken these agencies. For a while it seemed a Greek tragedy feted to end badly. killed a lot more d- mid help fee United States resolve the Yeltsin (who has Taiwan’s newly elected president, isn't a subtle, long-term deal to be had. premise behind these moves. It suggests that legislators were demanding reform has been is that there aren’t the crisis. He answered: “China an American retreat from international the price of restoring some part of Lee Teng-hui. should vow that Taiwan What worries me as years. U.S. in Tiananmen), fees they can have a to it happen. around here for 3,000 The America’s treaty-busting arrears. Now will not now pursue fall independence subtle deal makers make oat herein Asia for about 50 membership in institutions In Beijing. China’s now incapacit- has been it becomes clear that they wish alto- by seeking opportunities are so great. The was the sort of years. We figure you’re maybe good The gether to dispense with these maligned such as the United Nations, and China ated Deng Xiaoping nu- for another 20 years. But after that stakes are so high. It would be nice if at crements of intangible access, influ- instruments ofAmerican leverage. Your should vow that while it remains com- leader who could strike a tough, you'll be gone, and we’ll be left here leastone statesman rose to fee occasion. ence and power are being sought. But true disengager’s favorite international mitted to eventual reunification wife anced deal. But Mr. Deng’s successes', afford knows, others might just follow. this Zemin, doesn’t have such clout, alone wife China. We can’t a Who this time the cuts are deep to die point agency is the weather bureau. Taiwan, it will seek to accomplish Jiang in confrontation.’’ Thanks a lot . The Neu/ York Tbrtes. of denying the United Stales the ro-re- The United States has identifiable only through peaceful means. and m fee ongoing power struggle sources it needs to know and affect interests that compel sensible global tilings of importance to the American involvement — its allies, its values, its imprest going on elsewhere. Ibis is economic links, its citizens’ connec- being done, moreover, after strenuous tions. Oddly enough, these interests are The Best Hope Isfor Political Change in Evolving China internal “downsizing" in every for- accepted more or less by common con- eign affairs agency except intelligence sent when it comes to reinforce them hand in Taiwan. President Lee orate, this is far more than he is — and without sufficient debate on by America’s global military reach; ONG KONG — Lee By George Hicks triumphant pays lip service to ramification likely to concede. whether foreign affairs should take a they are challenged only when it comes H Teng-hui’s treatment of its wife the mainland and to “one Wife UJS. warships dose to full budget hit in the first place. to serve them by foreign policy. Be- electoral victory in Taiwan has Chinese people around the worse. China’s proponents of democracy China.” In fact, be is pursuing Taiwan and the U.S. Congress The advocates of retrenchment, it yond specific interests, however, lies dealt China one of its greatest world,” said Martin Lee, own Lees of independence by stealth be- in oo mood to kowtow to turns out, have no particular theory of an overarching American requirement blows since the Communists chairman of the Hong Kong shows what the Martin dnnn Cltrrtnn administra- cause he knows that in a geau- l fee their case. They make no serious claim to remain an active and responsible took power on die mainland Democratic Party. “It is the Hong Kong (an expect. to history It is the idea democracy, ine democracy independence is tion is now committed de- that in a post-Cold War world char- global presence. Without it, the world from fee Nationalists in 1949. first time in China’s of people want. fend Taiwan against a Chinese acterized by recurrent violence and would become vulnerable toeven more Mr. Lee’s 54 percent ma- that a leader is elected on a rather than fee purported fear what fra indepen- Many surveys conducted in military blockade or attack. ever growing interrelatedness in eco- uncontrollable passions and alarms, jority, greater than expected. one-person, one-vote basis an of Taiwan opting The best hope, although it is nomic, immigration, ecological and whose consequences for Americans and the remarkable 76 percent Chinese soil.” dence, feat Beijing finds really Hong Kong since 1982 have also very little support a long shot, is that political police and security affairs, the United could be profound. This is the message voter turnout in the race of Martin Lee, whose party threatening. So long as Taiwan shown vi- fra ration with over- chaqge will occur in China that States can safely retrench. On the con- that anyone sitting in the White House, China’s missile and war games swept the Hong Kong polls in was undemocratic, even if China and as backing for indepen- will lead it to accept the reality trary, these advocates indicate by their or seeking to. ought to be conveying to threats, is only part of Bei- September, wait on to compare olently anti-Communist un- whehmng as an independent calls to increase military spending fee American people, urgently. jing’s defeat — the less im- fee temtory’s situation wife that der Chiang Kai-shek and his dence wife democracy, or at of Taiwan live with iL feast maintenance the state. Such a development (already adozentunes nonmilitaiy for- — THE WASHINGTON POST. portant part What really wor- of Taiwan. “Whereas Taiwan son, China could fee of bring China in from the ries the Communist leadership takes a large step forward be- But Lee Teng-hui is something statusquo, in which BoagKapg would the global main- is tfrar, in Mr. Lee’s words,' coming a modem and free so- very different He has made enjoys fee benefits of British cold to join not just as a trading Back to Cooperation “Taiwan has now opened die ciety, Hong Kong is about to Taiwan a functioning demo- democracy without the vote. stream big door of Democracy.” take a giant step backwards.” cracy which shows every Hoag Kong’s fete as an ap- entity bat also as an evolving only Saturday's presidential election in the Chinese civil war. In 1949, Chiang The obvious euphoria wife The Chinese authorities promise of success through pendage of China may be democracy. Then, and Taiwan was an affirmation of demo- Kai-shek, the defeated anti-Communist which the Taiwanese greeted have said coundess times feat consolidation. sealed, but prospects fra re- then, would some son of re- cracy, but not a declaration of inde- leader, fled to Taiwan with his armies their first direct presidential the first thing they will do For Beijing, the danger of unification between Taiwan unification wife Taiwan be a possibility. pendence. It is important that the lead- and political entourage. By the late election, and the smooth and when they gain control of democratic contagion destroy- and China seem remote. Atfee real ers of Taiwan, China and the United 1980s, with the mainland pursuing eco- honest way the polls were car- Hong Kong at midnight on ing thetire communistsCommunists’ mono- very least, Beijing will demand Stales recognize that distinction in the nomic reform, Taiwanese businessmen ried out, gave the lie once and June 30, 1997, is to dissolve poly ofot political power min that President Lee give China The writer, author of “The weeks ahead as they weigh the election began investing heavily in China. Until for all to the theory that Asians, the democratically elected Le- China is such that Taiwan's control over Taiwan's arms Comfort Women” and a long- results and the future of Taiwan. last year the two sides seemed headed especially Chinese, are some- gislative Council and consign democracy must be destroyed. purchases and international time observer ofAsia, contrib- Lee Teng-hui, who took power eight toward a pragmatic understanding. how unsuited for democracy. everyone with democratic le- Democracy and the desire diplomacy. Buoyed by such a uted this comment to die In- years ago after Chiang Kai-shek's son Then politics intervened. “This is a proud day for all gitimacy to tile wilderness or for independence go hand in dear mandate, from the elect- ternational Herald Tribute. died in office, was elected on Saturday Mr. Lee, whose family comes from in a free vote, the first democratic pres- the island, not the mainland like his idential election in Taiwan. China itself predecessors, courted support on Tai- has never chosen its top leader by wan by needlessly seeking the trap- democratic elections. Mr. Lee won a pings of independence, including sep- An Unintended Outcome in Bosnia Will Have to Be Prevented resounding victory over his three op- arate Taiwanese admission to the ponents, including a proponent of in- United Nations and unofficial diplo- dependence, because he has brought matic ties with countries that recognize ASHINGTON — Amer- By Jim Hoagland the mganized military forces of by separating forces and pop- the island from the vestiges of author- Beijipg, including the United States. WVY ican diplomacy and mil- the waning factions. ulations also abets the dismem- itarianism to a level of political free- China predictably responded by re- itary leadership have created a first lug accomplishment of the parting Serbs bum, loot and pil- “There was no way fopro- berment of the original Bosnian dom rare in Asia. He has also presided doubling its efforts to bend Taiwan to new reality in Europe in just Dayton peace accord. Sarajevo lage fee areas they abandoned, vent tins. Short of going from multiethnic state recognized by over a doubling of Taiwanese living its wilL Strengthened by his election. three months: a viable Bosnian is no longer a Balkan version of forcing oat fellow Serbs who baildmg to building and secur- the United Nations in 1992. standards since he assumed power. Mr. Lee should now try to steer re- state wife a unified capital. But Cold War Berlin or pre-1967 wanted to stay in a multiethnic ing them against heavily armed The architects of Dayton took Bui if the voters' concerns were lations with China back to a state of peace in Bosnia is an ugly, still Jerusalem. The return of Sa- Sarajevo. The Muslim-led Bos- forces that were intent on des- that risk to stop fee bloodbath. primarily domestic, the question of equilibrium. China, for its part, should uncertain success. It could be rajevo's suburbs to fee central nian government, not unhappy troying those buDdings,” fee The long-shot hope was feat Taiwan's current and future status end die military intimidation and swiftly undermined by fee grim government has ended the to see fee Serbs go, did nothing Pentagon spokesman, Ken Ba- peace and elections this summer clearly influenced the campaign. Mr. threatening rhetoric. problems accompanying the city ’s cruel division by terror. to preventthis self-inflicted eth- con, explained when I asked would produce a new national Lee appears determined to prevent re- There is an increasingly strong case initial good news. Bosnian Seths were intimid- nic deansing. him about Admiral Smith’s de- cohesion and give life to a unification with China as long as the to be made for eventual Taiwanese America risks traveling a ated into keeping their commit- The Serbian campaign was cision. “ITOR am provide gen- democratic Bosnia. But if there Communist government remains in independence, as islanders grow used road of good intentions to an ment to siurender fee suburbs by entirely predictable. It was in eral area security, bit not bmld- is not effective international power in Beijing, but be stops short of to political and economic freedoms unintended destination: the cre- fee presence of 60,000 NATO- feetpredicted byU.S. and Euro- ing-to-buflding security.” protection fcsc the elections — if that would probably not survive under ation of a radicalized Muslim commanded peacekeepers of pean officials who beseeefaed A 1300-omcer international IFOR and the poftoe stand aside deztce. Like most Taiwanese, he has no Communist rule. But for now the cost government in Bosnia with its fee International Force. The fee American commanderofIn- police force that should have again and polling stations suffer taste for a military confrontation with of pressing that case — including pos- own stake in ethnic partition. It force has thus accomplished the ternational Force, Admiral overseen the Serbian withdraw- the fete ofSarajevo’s suburbs China that Taiwan cannot win. sible Chinese disruptions of Taiwan's is an outcome that Washington first crucial part of its yearlong Leighton W. Smith Jr„ to deter al is still struggling to get or- that hope vanishes completely. China's recent missile tests and mil- trade-based economy — would exceed obviously does not want, but an mission: to deploy and scare the the Serbs fay explicitly threat- ganized. It has been badly War is then likely to resume itary exercises in the Taiwan Strait any potential gain. Mr. Lee should outcome that Washington is not bejesos out ofeverybody. ening retaliation for such de- crippled by the inability of (he as American troops withdraw. failed to frighten voters away from Mr. concentrate on building and protecting fully committed to preventing. But then the peacekeepers struction. Instead, fee force kept Clinton administration upH But the U.S. fallback position of Lee. If anything, China's belligerence the freedoms and informal autonomy This is not to minimize fee stood by and watched fee de- to its passive role of separating Congress to fulfill promises to helping equip and tram fee Bos- backfired not only on Taiwan but that Taiwan already enjoys. provide the force wife a 200- nian army up to parity wife the across Asia and in Washington. Bei- The United States was right to send officer U.S. contingent. Only 33 Sobs also suffered a major set- jing’s willingness to threaten military warships to stand by Taiwan’s coast to U.S. policemen have arrived. back last week. An internation- force for political ends has shaken the counter the Chinese threats. Now it After the daring U.S. dip- al conference called to invite region's assumptions about China’s should encourage both sides to step lotnacy and militaiy strikes other countries to help this ef- peaceful intentions. back from confrontation and return to The Yeltsin Campaign Visits Oslo against the Serbs that led to the fort produced .no significant of- Taiwan today is neither an independ- the mutually advantageous cooperation peace accord, the administra- fers of aid for Bosnia. ent country nor a province governed they were pursuing only a year ago. by tion has switched to a strategy Saudi Arabia, which had ori- Its two Beijing. ambiguous status dates to —THE NEW YORK TIMES. SLO — After post- By Per Egil Hegge organization Bellona has said of avoiding failure — and ginally suggested the confer- V-/ ponements for health reas- O it will demonstrate. It wants to avoiding feeresponsibility for ence, (fid not even attend the ons, Boris Yeltsin starts a 30- protest against tire arrest of its failure — rather than talcing Ankara meeting, raising ferns visit hour state in Oslo today. way have important bilateral representative in Sl Peters- new chances for success. tfaM the Other Comment . Saudis and other Muslim Accompanied by a staff of 200, issues to discuss, most erf them burg, Alexander Nikitin, who Bat fee United States cannot nations may have decided to the Russian president and his connected wife environment is charged wife treason for avoid responsibility for the deal biteerally wife the Bos- Behind the current negotiation, the wife Naina will be guests Fewer Legless Children of President Yeltsin’s Oslo having divulged state secrets. nature of tne Bosnian state that nians on a Mushm-to-Muslim momentum for an outright ban is grow- Norway’s head of state, King visit was originally set for July Mr. Nikitin, a former Soviet will survive both the barbaric basis. Iran already does so. The particular horror of anti-person- ing. Could such a ban be monitored? Harald, and Queen Sooja. last year, but was rescheduled naval officer, is suspected by war that Dayton ended and the' Only one country can get nel land mines is that their power to kill No. Moreover, many would reject it Mr. Yeltsin is expected to for November when be was the authorities of having re- ugly peace that Dayton has be- Saudi Arabia involved in Bos- and maim survives the fighting. More But this would not make it useless. discuss bilateral issues wife taken ill after a trip to the vealed information about Rus- gun- American actions, and in- om constructively, get IFOR;.- than 100 million mines lie undetected Until recently, no policemen have been fee Prime Minister Gro Har- United States. The November sia’s nuclear program. action, have unavoidable con- and die police to provide se^ in more than 60 countries, tearing the tramping round enforcing the ban on lem Brunch!and. The ticklish visit was again put off. Bellona has done pioneer sequences, as the sacking ofthe curity for elections and prevent limbs off perhaps 20,000 passersby other death-dealing instruments that question of accepting former For Mr. Yeltsin’s Norwe- work in digging up inform- Sarajevo suburbs shows. . Bosnia from betraying its each year. New mines are laid much own the world considers intolerable. Yet Warsaw Pact countries as new gian hosts, it is important to ation about Russian pollution, The result is new ethnic bit- ideaU-ff America fails faster than old ones can be cleared. at those the use of chemical and biological members of NATO will no finalize a cooperation agree- nuclear as well as industrial. terness and physical partition follow-on tasks, it may yet find Next month in Geneva, governments weapons has been blessedly rare. doubt come up as well, Nor- ment to reduce the pollution The expectation in Oslo is an the ground. This is - the that it created a Frankenstein’s will be trying, OQce again, to rewrite die Ifland mines could be similarly stig- wegian diplomats say. from industry in the city of that fee main aim of Mr. danger of Dayton: Each step monster at Dayton. United Nations’ feeble 16-year-old matized, their users punished or Norwegian generals, who Nikel, only 25 kilometers Yeltsin's short visit is to en- feaiblocks a renewal of the war rules these pernicious weapons. on If shamed into outcasts, old battlefields usually stay out of politics, from the border. Joint finan- hance his image at home as a America were to weigh in. supporting become farms again, and tight legless have publicly raised doubts cing has not been worked out statesman who can handle the two dozen countries that urge a ban. children a rarity. about the wisdom of expand- The Nikel metallurgical boto himself and his country's the result might be different. — The Economist {London), ing NATO eastward. their factories Id spew cut far more Interests abroad. There is fer- IN OUR PAGES; 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO view, it would not be in fee sulfur dioxide than does fee vent hope of much goodwill interest of the defense organ- whole of Norway’s and little industry, controversy during 18%: Rajs Succeed brought to a stop by smashing ization to widen the alliance in most of which is based in the his day and a half bare. into a linen. store, where its at present a way fern might soafeern part of the country. Visiting Oslo has, however, PARIS — Mme. Cavaigpac, fee drunken chauffeur was saved irritate fee Russians. The Russian pollution has a not brought much luck wife of fee to Minister of War, has from being lynched only by the These reservations, voiced severe Impact oo the fragile Moscow leaders in fee past had part of a needle extracted -inferveotioii ofgendarmes. Fbor by Norway's defense chief, Arctic environment Norwegi- Nikita Khrushchev from her bodied hand, says fee Temps, persons were seriously injured. International Herald Tribune General Arne Softie, as well as an authorities are also con- and charmed his way through in conseqneoce of a successful ESTABLISHED 1887 by Norway's permanent mil- cerned about nuclear waste in town in June of 1964 wfth experiment wife fee Roentgen KATHARINE GRAHAM. ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER itary representative at NATO fee Kola Peninsula, which more than a few memorable, if rays. Mme. Cavaigoac’s hand 1946: Fact on Poland Co-Chairmen headquarters in Belgium, have baniers on the province ofFin- mostly unprintable, utter- was photographed by the Roent- RICHARD McCLEAN, Publisher & Chief Executive NUREMBERG — Russia led foreign diplomats in Oslo nmark in the Arctic region. ances, and W3S ousted less gen process, and a negative was signed a secret agreement wife JOHN VTNOCUR. Executive £&ar & VkePnsiden to conclude that is Important Norway as these problems than four months later. Pres- obtained which showed fee po- • • Gexmany on August 23, 1939, WALTER WELLS, Afewfi&br PAUL HORVTIZ Deputy Una EUar more skeptical than other are, it is not obvious that they ident Mikhail Gorbachev sition of the foreign body. The which called for dmding up Po* KATHERI>EIvNORBaodCHARl^MlTCHEL\Oi£a7a^&fewASAMUELABTaid NATO members about fee would require fee presence of came in 1991 to pick up his needle was then extracted land by means danaccation CARLGEWIRTZ, Assodcne Edhors • ROBERT J. DONAHUE, idea of including countries like of a E&orcfPv EAsohai Pago Russia's head of stele in Oslo. 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, a few without the shortest difficulty. fine, • .JONATHAN GAGE. Businas /mi Finance the Czech Republic, an affidavit from Frederick Editor Hungary Accordingly, the Yeltsin visit months before tire Soviet Uni- Cans, former chief of fee Ger- • RENE BONDY, Deputy Pub&sher • JAMES Nk±EQD, Advertising Dbeaor and Poland in the alliance. is regarded here as part of his on was dissolved and he was •JUANITA L CASPAR!, baemmnd DcvekpmavDinxtore 1921s Rolling man Foreign Office's legal do* DQXER BRUN, CbaAskn Oman That matter was discussed re-election campaign, wife left without a country. Menace partment, disclosed today Oireciturdr hi in Moscow last week by UJS. voting set for June Puhlicatiim: Rkhtml D- Salmons 16. The Russian presidential PARIS — like a Brobdingna- Secretary of Stare Wairen [March 24]. Thispledged agree- DinamrAd/ctodetaPiAlkaii^ Danw Security is strict by Nor- election in June will be fol- gian monster bent on a wild and ment came in addition the Christopher and NATO’s sec- wegian standards, .to wife three lowed wife keen interest by reckless career Infeattsknal HoaidTribone. 181 AvaueCbates4eGai&e, 92521 tfenfflY-sur-Sebe, fiance. of destruction, I retary-general, Javier Solatia. armored limnq Z3L sinfts, each Yeltsin’s hosts in Oslo today. one of the gigantic TeL:())4].43^mi«;C3^HM343^1ftA*-(I>41^19112E^il*e4tcan lorrfos in fee tween fee Sonet Union fee Mr. Yeltsin and his foreign weighing five tons, having and service offee Paris street-clean- jfcrAar Mchxi ftfcWsm 5 Camim Ed. Syapwr 0511 TeL (65) 472-7766 Ftx (65) 2M-23>) minister, Yevgeni Primakov, been flown in from Moscow The writer is a senioreditor ing . department Mng.Dir.AsB. fttfD KnnepaH SHJtoaserlhL Hong Koug.TeL 852-2$C2-tl8i Fee 852-2922-1190 repeated made a mad. 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UN i'£KNXrH»NAL HKKALU TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 25^ 1996 RAGE 9 INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE *0F A Golden Oldie Hissy Fit IT**.. Honduras Succeeds in Reining In Military coverage, and was expressed in shorthand William afire By S by Buchanan’s “The beast is coming,” Nicaragua’s Ty . .; Douglas Farah Sandinista government. smooth, nor has Mr. Reina won all the • Cutting the military’s public whether he knows it or not.
fashington Post Service ' From • fir. _ 1982 to 1992, die United battles. Military spending is still kept budget by more than 10 percent ASHINGTON — "The people up A rhetorical device that my former Nixon
: States poured •*- - $461 million in military secret, and officers suspected ofrights • Refusing to allow die high com- there are having a hissy fit all over speechwriting colleague uses to deflect or TEGUCIGALPA, Hooduras W * — In aid into Honduras, a nation with a per violations are still protected- Bui even mand to dictate the choice of defense Washington,' ' Pat Buchanan told 'Face the derogate questions about the opinions he has the 198%'fte military here bristled capita. income of $340 a year, one of critics of the military acknowledge minister. Defying tradition, Mr. Reina Nation” on CBS. “They can’t believe it — expressed in print over the years is golden with- UL-suppfied weapons while ” ™* lowest in. the hemisphere. The significant changes. rejected all three names put forward by ‘The beast is coming.' oldies. When Ron Brownsiein of The Los playiog .iaTKkwxinaiit role in internal United States mimm>ini>H an air base Among the steps taken are: . the military as possibilities. He chose This citation breathed new fife into my Angeles Times began. "When you talk about politics aa acting as a against bastion here, and the anti- country was widely de~ • Abolishing compulsory military an officer, but not one on the list. hissyfit dossier. It was opened in July 1993. immigration today . . Buchanan the regia’s Marxist insurgencies. tided by leftists as the USS Honduras. service, through which the military • Civilian courts bringing charges when Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said, "If cipated aquotaiion coming back to haunt him But resident Carlos Roberto Re- . U«C Under U.S. pressure, Honduras did obtained most of its recruits. While against 10 military officers accused of you file for cloture after five days of debate, and interrupted with a smiling “The golden rna, sine being elected twoyears ago. hold presidential elections. But ci- the draft was meant to be universal. torturing or killing suspected leftists that’s no reason for anybody to get up here oldies" giving the inflammatory opinion an has takfi "steps To'ieduce the mil- ’ during the 1980s. The officers, and pitch a hissyfit.’ aura of antiquity and thus irrelevance. itary's influence that previously however, have refused to turn them- Asked about this at the time. Hatch said This is a show-business term for a song or would hve been unthinkable without * ‘We hear a lot more about problems between the selves in to face the charges. All 10 "The term probably surfaced in the Ap- movie of a previous era still regarded with L. t|i the rid of provoking a coup. The either belonged to or provided in- palachians. but it’s been used in Utah for as fondness and surrounded with nostalgia. *« measure include abolishing the draft “ffitmy and the civilian government. it is not I--.*, But telligence to Battalion 316, a CIA- long as I can remember. And if you really The first usage in the Random House His- " and mving to separate die police trained intelligence wanted to carry it out to die end, is torical Dictionary of American Slang is - that there are more problems; it is that talk unit accused of a hissyfir from tivarmy. - we can ” ; scores of kidnappings and of murder. an ‘itty bitty ntty.’ Having ventured onto from Time magazine of Dec. 2, 1966, de- Analsts aoddiplomats attribute the 5 about them now and before yon couldn’t. While General Mario Hung, die that thin ice, the swurfor added, “I think I’ll scribing tbe recording "Gallant Men,” by changeo three factors: the end of die <*»• *w.r^*5s; militaiy commander, publicly has go back to plain and simple temper tan- Senator Everett Dirksen: “The platter . . . Cold Var, with a subsequent change vifians exercised little real power, the wealthy routinely bought their asked the officers to surrender, in- trum." I would not advise that; a tantrum. promises to become what the deejays call a in UJ5policy; the strengthening of Widi tbe end of the regional wars, way out. Since the law went into ” vestigators said the fugitives are be- origin a mystery, means "a fit of temper.” ‘Golden Oldy.’ civiliarrule because the military be- which coincided with die crumbling effect, the number of soldiers has ing protected by the military. and a temper tantrum is both redundant and Bob Shannon of WCBS-FM thinks the came upopular, and Mr. Reina’s abil- of the Soviet bloc, Washington’s in- plummeted. One of tbe men is regularly seen an example of fused words. Better choose to predecessor phrase was “oldies but good- ity to onfiront die military without terest in Hooduras waned and the •Separating die police from the walking here with a cohort of body- fly into either a temper or a tantrum. ies,” at a time when the word oldie was public* burntbating its leaders. fociis of policy placing shifted to strength- military and public security guards. Another, Billy Joya, held a The senator bottomed his opinion about pejorative. The music industry’s new term • Tbrcghout ening the 1980s. while civiliani institutions. forces under civilian control. The news conference last month that was the phrase's Appalachian origin on a citation was influenced later by the gold records 1 neighfamg El 7. Salvador "The president has played a key faces vote - u * and measure a final in die Na- shown on television. Mr. Joya said he in the Dictionary of American Regional Eng- symbolizing sellers of a million or more. Nicar^uawere role,” . engaged in civil wars, said Leo Vallarfares. the na- tional Assembly, where easy passage . ,'fAj had become aborn-again Christian and lish, which spotted it in a 1934 issue of My own speculation is that golden, a Hondtas largely escaped dan's human rights ‘ the viol- ombudsman. "We is predicted asked forgiveness but said he had not American Speech: "Hissy is probably pro- color associated with autumn's dying ence. hit the countrybecame a key hear a~ lot- more about problems be- - •Removing the state telephone participated in torture or killings. At vincial slang . I have heard it for eight or 10 leaves, was reinforced by SO years of mar- part, cihe Reagan administration’s tween the military ana the civilian company from military control. The least three witnesses contradict his years. He threw a hissy . . . means that tbe riage being called the "golden wedding stratey to contain government. T^ofiitian. in Cen- But ft is not that there are only profitable stale-run corporation, it statement. person in question was very disturbed and anniversary” and led to old age being eu- tral Aierica. fit exchange for more problems;ft is that can talk provided the militaiy with millions massive we of "Even so, we have taken a giant very angry." DARE speculated that it came phemized as “the golden years.” In the militay aid. the about diem Hooduran Army let now and before you dollars that (fid not pass through the step,” said an investigator in the case. from a hypocoristic, or pet-name, form of phrase golden oldie (the singular is spelled
the US.-backed . couldn’t. contra rebels use And that is a big step, part of budgetary process. It allowed military "You could not even consider pub- hysterical, or may be frem the echoic hiss. with an ie or a y). the adjective gives a Hondras as a staging area, supply our evolution toward a aval society.’ ’ intelligence to out widespread cany licly questioning a military person My guess is that die association with fit nostalgic glow to the noun, adding the value centeand refuge-in the war agamst Tbe process has not been easy or wiretaps with no legal controls. before.” suggests hysteria. of gold to the age. “•“•to,“ It shakes sere seers like me to hear songs -*iSn from the 1980s, with which I am just be- King Hussein Buchanan’s follow-up line was to quote ginning to get familiar, referred to with this BOOKS tbe Washington establishment as saying, in phrase. Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” is not
• ’t “ 'J horror of his candidacy, "The beast is com- even a brass oldie in my book; if it ain As EQUATION FOR EVIL attic autopsy” an the killer, compulsion to count cracks in plan he'd be free and gone Has Ear Surgery ing.” That text cries out for deconstruction. Time Goes By,” it’s not vintage. and to try to establish a mo- the sidewalk. No time to before tbe evening news, and It has nothing to do with "Beauty and the By PMip Caputo. 488 pages. - tive...... waste. ... . He’d felt a little the whole wodd would know In Los Angeles Beast” or any rough beast slouching toward $25JarperCollms. As they seek to uncover the godlike. He alone knew die it because he was going to be Bethlehem. Rather, it may be rooted in an In South Carolina, the intellectual anti-
• Revswedby “Equation for Evil,*' then: secrets ... he alone was die on the evenmg news.” Reuters 1813 skit, found in Louis Cohen’s 1925 intellectual attacked his opponents for the thrni h cam- Richrd Bausch >.”• -takes Itfaiem ^' the keeper of die mysteries.” We move from the killer to LOS ANGELES — King “Napoleonic Anecdotes.” purporting to "vapidity and hollowness” of their wrism «iilmi»nm1 rtjflnq i n( caused Roberts r iqy g The investigation makes a one of the soon-to-be victims, Hussein of Jordan has under- show how Napoldon's return from Elba was paigns. litis criticism Cokie 'W the surface. Ffrilrp f die killer's daily existence — very compelling story, with a teachernamed Joyce Deluca, gone ear surgery in a Los progressively regarded in Paris; it can be and Charles Gibson on “Good Morning V-Cq>uto’s novel is ’ new his affifiation with 'white su- all tbe elements of a good who gets wounded during die Angeles hospital to correct a found undo- "public opinion” in "Re- America’ the next day to marvel at the use abot tbe aftermath olet act the warstofvi- misfit li - — . Mnd drug campaign. as a MW ab- important, !t provides Caputo forward-dtinkmg character is pital spokesman said. tations most frequently requested from the political an oler acts: assault oh chil- user — and eveaanally leads with the opportunity to paint forever altered by the trauma. A spokesman for St Vin- Congressional Research Service. Unfamiliar? Vapid is a word used more in But "Equation ' | drc* for -(hemtoMare Weathers, a well- .a very clear and lucid picture The actual crime is dealt cent's Hospital said the ’What news? Mafoi! writing than in speech, but its seeming Evi* is really about much student with tiger has broken out of his (fen" was closeness to vacuum and vacuous gives ] spoken college a of die honors we have come with quickly, in the blur, of king’s condition was good "The “ mo: than that. land of nwfa* i -J iann and all to inthis country, the rampant what Deluca can see or hear. after the operation Saturday. tiie first report Them "The monster was days most listeners the idea that the meaning has 1 (a a bright day in April, a the emotional depth ofa dock. efhnin hahwin and the ava- And then, shifting points of Tbe king was expected to at sea. The wretch has landed at fogjus.” As something to do with emptiness. That’s loo gunman named Duane With die discovery of the lanche Of vulgarity and view adeptly from Deluca to return home in a few days. His Napoleon marched toward Paris, the news- true, though the words are unrelated. treated him with renewed respect: Vapid is rooted in the Latin vapidus. Bogs ambushes a school bus possibility of a spent accom- cruelty that overwhelms our Chin to Heartwood, to Wea- visit was for the sole purpose papers fulof children headed for an plice — someone whoi might daily lives. thers and back. Caputo gives of tbe surgery, and he has no “The general has entered Lyon." As be "tasteless” (in its original flavor-free sense}, vapor, which also has in rural California. -• renders his story with us to an ex- public engagements in Amer- came nearer, the nervous press gave him and may be related to OLOGIES oung He - have put Duane Boggs up to it He what amounts "Napofeon dept last at no zip. Tbe synonym is insipid, also rooted in mtders the bus driver and alL—* Weathers becomes the an attitude — the stance, one tensive study not just of tbe ica, a spokesman said. bade his name: night return of ’Tacking in taste or savor." Tbe noun, on the the kills 14 children, most of focus ofthe investigation, and might be tempted to say„of a particular crime, monstrous "King Hussein suffers Fontainebleau.” Next came the infec- tide: "The emperor proceeds to the Tufleries analogy of rapid-rapidity, is vapidity, which >rr thn Asian, before taming Caputo takes -an audacious good journalist reporting as it is, but of a whole society from a long-term ear opportunity • finally, imperial majesty if spoken with scorn and backed up with a tbgun on himself. risk by delivering several im- from the front gone very badly awry. tion and underwent a recon- today.” And “His — wifi address his loyal subjects tomorrow." familiar synonym like hollowness may be he public- outcry that res- portant' .scenes through Here, he describes tbe re- He paints vivid pictures of struction of his ear drum on — mopUN die sonfid underside of Saturday morning during a This anecdote shows the vagaries of pub- used on the campaign trail. til from the massacre brings Weathers's point of view — action of people after the Amer- surgical lic opinion, especially as reflected in press Wrtr York Times Sen-ice tcether two men, Leander where' we can' feel the essen- killings have taken place, and ican life, contrasts them with two-hour proced- ure.” the spokesman added. 4PIUKERS •\ Harwood, a forensic psy- tial drill of Iris being, the television crews have arrived: elaborate delineations of the * la e. cbtrist, and Gabriel Chm, a clodcwprk interior of tbe “The people of the neigh- California ndscap Every- -: knew dtat the spec- thing in this America contrib- ft !ULA!0 i BENEFITS pace detective, who are man.' borhood ased to investigate ~tble “Mace walked briskly to tacle unfolding before them utes to the violence that was a necessary,almost a sac- threatens to engulf iL • cnte.toperfariria’^p^dii- the : bus Stop, resisting tbe red, ritual that must not be Caputo, author of “A Ru- interfered with in. any way. mor of War” and “Indian ”, . c' BRIDGE This ritual was tailed cov- Country,” lets no one and erage . . .If they had been nothing off die hook. Each Americans of their grandpar- sentence, each line ofthought • At first, it smeared dial a ents* generation, they would and nanative contributes to . i By Alan Tru^cott . .. ' chib leader driving out have -sought out priests and tbe sorrowing sense of de- ace, would have dummy’s, miitisteis. . . . The people of veloping . catastrophe in a so- ' JDLAPieristemcateQfLoqg beaten six spades,.ixit analysis the neighborhood turned on ciety “so obsessed with could ^Island’s most respected showed that South have their televisions. . . . Their fame” that it has made a ayers passedaway recently. survived by clever play, she televisions made the alien fa- "shrine of the mansion where Mrs. Peristem held two aa--; wouldhave had to contrive an miliar through the familiar tbe drag-addicted king of anal tides and was 16th ect extra: entry to the dummy by ceremonies of coverage.” rock and roll died of a stroke te fist of best perfbnnexs in -finessing die: spade ten at One understands rather while moving his bowels.” ational championships add some pqmL Then the estab- quickly that tfnsjxiok is not Observations like this, scond among women for lished hearts could again be wedded to a strong story with 995.:.‘ cashed at the end of die day: violence or the ghoiS^por- fully realized, interesting She was nervous as dummy “Iknow.wecoiridhavebad trayal of iL characters, in a prose as con- in this 1981 diagramed 'deal. POO,*’ announced Mrs. Fai- Caputo begins by giving us trolled and direct as a stare, brazenly, “btrtT prefer \fter her partner hacf opened stem a glimpse of the kfller on die make “Equation for Evil” -JTV*'?'-*--.---/:-.. wo spades, a weak two4aid, iaior morning of the crime. ‘Today tile fine novel it is. here was a spade-diamonds was different. His feelings on She Bausch, whose bank: up to die six-level. tins, , his life’s last rooming, Richard NORTH ' knew die could collect a pen- 4rAlB3 3 were those of a convict on the most recent book is ’The Se- 87 * afcy by doubling ax dtaxnaads, 0 Q 10 S5 day of his release. ... If lected Stones wrote thisfor 0 — ht1*'' 'j' but persevered to six spades, *A8 everything went according to The Washington Post. ah action that would be called WHAT THEY'RE READING ' »- bold oar rash, depending on the east ' -«a • Q* ..47 . S rtsrilL 9AJ*4 • . 0X3 ' Against six spades ?X85 • Denis Carrigan* man- . 4 AQ M984i • doubled,the opening diamond *QM7a aging director of Shepperton • SOUTH studios in England, is lead was inflEed in tbe dmnmy. film “ 4KS9B5 2 Palimpsest” by The declarer ruffed a heart, 9 — reading ' began to Gore VidaL T •••• ' apd Mrs. ftristem *J73‘ : > feel better. *8542 “It is a. fascinating auto- * A spade was led to the ace, biography of a grandson of a FaB West were vuherabte. senator 2nd die next five tricks were UK) UJS. and a man who in the red Tbe bttefing: was. clearly in love with the ccon with a crossruff ' South West Nordr East king drew die Kennedys, and has some very (grits. The spade 24 ' DM./ 44 5.0 the club good stories about Bobby and remaining trump, and Pass Paas 5* ’ 8 * DM- Kennedy to show for ape remained as die entry to pass Pass Jack Pass Pass Pass (Erik IHT) ,-nGh tfrp hearts and iL” Ipsen, - diamond five. rnake tbe doubled slam. ’West led the — - . !" •'*. *»>v2uSa?a - ~'i\ f S '• <-‘ . -"• ’’ r .r,-.- ~-i it,?jr.*.f‘4r ^ 1 ' Vi'r'Tifr- -—"t' . ** - - L. L _• j PAGE 10 INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1996 Allies Pressing Bosniaks Belarus and Russia to Seal Union Iraqis Elect on POWRe tase A Parliament Threat Brings New Promises Ex-Soviet Republic Moving Toward a Full Merger gj,n thet«mBoflteDayK®Pea]®^ xetaenl The Associated Press . an end to 43 onfos of SARAJEVO Bbsrua-Herzegovina — which brought Russia leases Iraqis voted for a lification of the 1991 pact that broke up ficial language and granted BAGHDAD— By David Hoffman Parliament on Sunday in elec- the Soviet Union. for two bases in Belarus. Last month, new Washington Post Service President by Russia Belarus signed an agreement tions seen as a bid by Hundreds of people held be force That vote was sharply criticized by and alter foe major powers government to Sunday freed >ut 152 Russia's neighbors and the renouncing mutual debts, including the Saddam Hussein's Bosnian factions were MOSCOW — Russia and Belarus Mr. Yeltsin, threatened to withhold reconstruction image. still under detent n as re- have announced to sign treaty Uniced States as a coercive step toward $910 million that Belarus owed to the improve its un- others were plans a aid if they reneged on obligations elections were the first for Friday, despite repea: \ prom- April 2 under which they intend to form restoring the Soviet empire. Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom. The peace accord. cently as but dertaken in foe Dayton notion of Parliament in Iraq since 1989, to release them. f a new union, although each state would Bui Mr. Yeltsin has also made closer Mr. Lukashenko has sold the commitment from foe ises been approved “We have a retain closer integration with Russia as a way all candidates have Prime ministers from major its sovereignty. ties with the former Soviet republics a release all prisoners from Buta advance by a government screen- Serb side to on San lay and President Alexander Lukashenko of selling point in his re-election campaign, out of Belarus’s economic troubles. in who are con- powers met in Moscow be sap- noon today except those of Parliament in Minsk. Mikhail ing committee. They must vowed to delay an April conf< eoce to Belarus, who has made closer integration and his agreement with Belarus could member war criminals,” said Comm of the 1968 coup that sidered for Bosnianreconst ction if with Russia a priority for his econom- prove a useful counterweight to the Com- Goryn. told Russia's independent tele- potters Budt, the raise frtnds Arab Murphy, spokesman for Carl ically network Saturday thin creation of brought the- Iraqi leader's parties did not meet their.: isoner- strapped former Soviet republic of munist presidential candidate, Gennady vision Representative in Bosnia. foe ‘ Ba’arh Socialist Party to power. High . 10.2 million people, reached agreement Zyuganov, who leads in recent polls. Rus- a new union would be a ‘repetition ofthe Ninko Djunc release obligations. candidates run- ^We expect to take Mr. mistakes” of the Soviet era. There were 689 Bosnian government ti i freed on the plan in meetings here at the week- sia would face obstacles, however, in any previous him there, and wc are The “1 the Parliament, to Pale to release end with President Boris re-integration Belarus. think this is the end, or thebeginping ning for 220 seats in prisoners from aTuzla mil iry jail N. Yeltsin and full-scale with foe Serbs to release Hidajet 109 powers and is in- calling for Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin. Belarus, which borders Poland, Russia, of the end. of the Belarusan independent which has few on Sanuday evening.'' said. “We also understand loyal to Mr. Sadda . pelic, he Although terms of the unification re- Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine, has lacked state,” be said. “I think this is also a big variably m ftadmittedfoatitwashoidHig bother rhat foe Croats have committed to re- state. officials said they ex- main unclear, the treaty would be die strong national identity since the col- defeat for the democratic Russian Eleccioa there who it beHevesjre war a prisoners today or tomonow.'” prisoners in percent of Iraq's 8 million lease 10 closest any former Soviet republic has lapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. and it There can be no democracy an em- pected 90 CT ballots. Mr.DjuricisaSeibjoumaHac^jnn^ come to into die least of the seven former pire. registered voters to cast Sundai lal the merging Russia. The an- has changed forces in north-central ^^^vermnen£ said said the treaty with Thirty other seats were not con- by government nouncement follows a nonbinding. Soviet republics in eastern Europe. Mr. Lukashenko isooens’ dossiers bad. been fqWarded / Russia's opposition Communists and extreme nationalists on Sunday backed Unexpected foods with moves to create a union with Belarus, beef products but 10,000 people marched through • British law allows up to 20% beef in Minsk to denounce the plans, Reuters - pork sausages. reported from Moscow. • Present in lamb and chicken Scuffles broke out with policemen as processed meats. the crowd marched through the Belarus • Gelatine, made by boiling capital chanting “Long live Belarus” slan, tendons and ligaments of cows, and “Independence” to attack the / used it? jellies, biscuits, pies, planned union. ready meals and sausage skins. • Beef bone stock in gravy and slock, ^Ujgg^. including lamb and chicken. Rennet, extract of calf ^es fn . GERMANS: stomach, used to clot milk. Big Gains for Kohl Continued from Page 1 results “fantastic.” Another senior Free Democrat declared: “The free-fall is issifi U.K. beef exports over. by destination i '.V the vote the : In practical terms, means : * s >>= si e r- r. y, Christian Democrats in Baden- i ’< < * ft, FranM 67 Wurttemberg can now end their uneasy Nathortwnte 8 coalition with the Social Democrats to Italy 4 — , enter a partnership with the Free Demo- Span 1 - crats, reflecting foe line-up in Bonn. OttierBJ tS -I 1988: Britain bans In Schleswig-Holstein, the Social f ' South Africarim 3A feeding animal protein/ Democrats will be forced to build a OUwnon-Ea 14 to cattle and with either the Free Democrats ' coalition announces all cows / Tons of produce 1990 or foe Greens after eight years of ex- infected with BSE thousands. Total: 114 clusive state rule. Social Democrat / d,Wob In will be slaughtered • $Ease losses were most dramatic ofall there down 6 percent to 40 percent of the vote. 1989: Total ban / 5 Nethertanris 17 — The Christian Democrats won 37 per- on human / bra/^? - 8 Spain 7 cent, of the Free Demo- consumption of. _ / a gain 3 percent < crats gained slightly, to secure 5.7 per- cow brains, , cent, and the Greens gained percent to spinal cord, / Other El) 45 3 thymus, come in at about 8 J2 percent ( South Africa 37 Rhineland-Palatinate. a Social spleen Other norvEu 28 In and tonsils 7 Democrat-Free Democrat coalition M'z&y *iC fe. seemed set to continue, despite Social , announced Tons of produce 1996 I : y ppp ' Democrat losses. The Christian Demo- *. In thousands. Total: 248 v 3 crats lost slightly to secure 38 percent, Symptons of CJD foe Social Democrats were down almost • Earty symptoms incfude* Victim dies after about 13 months 5 percent at 40.1 percent, and the Free anxiety and depression. • After death Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Democrats gained 2.2 percent to 9.1 • Loss of memory and co-ordination, can be diagnosed by spongy appearance Hi percent, according to foe projections. blindness and weight loss as brain of brain tissue under microscope and the The results were all the more striking and nervous system are destroyed. presence of large quantities of the prion since unemployment in Germany has • Power of speech is lost and the protein in the brain. risen to more than 4 million while the body becomes rigid. Source: Meat and Livestock Commission Hciucn economy has slowed. At a pre-election conference. Mr. Kohl warned his news • compatriots that deep spending cuts : BPIffe'S - i -a ;• BEEF: EU Scrambles to Deal With Scare would be needed next year if Germany ;?p i’ — Europe's economic power-house — Continued from Page 1 changes in feeding methods. Feed con- were to meet criteria for foe next stage of taining meat and bones also has been used European integration: currency union. lico, contended Sunday that controls by farmers in Europe, but to a much lesser against the disease are deficient extent than in Britain. Dr. Meslin said. Dr. Meslin said the cause of the disease The World Health Organization said Mrs. Clinton Comforts might be linked to a change in the way the last week that the measures Britain has animal by-products from slaughter were taken to contain the disease made an rendered and processed. He also said that import ban unnecessary. Kin of GIs in Bosnia the inclusion of offal, waste meat and Those measures included a require- The Associated Press bene in cattle feed — a practice that was ment that the meat from any animal more BAUMHOLDER. Germany — Car- banned in Britain in the late 1980s — than 30 months old must be removed rying mail, movies and candy for U.S. might have sparked the epidemic. from the bone in special plants. Sci- troops in Bosnia. Hillary Rodham Clin- Britain last week extended the feed ban entists say red meat is safe, and Dr. ton opened an eight-day European good- to all animals, to prevent the disease from Meslin said the infectious agent had will tour Sunday. crossing from one species to another. never been detected in milk. Before flying to Tuzla, the headquar- Mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt- A major problem in detecting the dis- ters of U.S. troops serving in the NATO- Jakob are both caused by a little known ease, Dr. Meslin added, is that it is dif- led peace enforcement mission in Bos- and slow-acting infectious agent known ficult to diagnose until symptoms appear, nia-Herzegovina. Mrs. Clinton stopped as a prion, or virino. Another disease such as stumbling. An apparently healthy at Baumholder to show support for the caused by prions is scrapie in sheep, and animal can be sent to slaughter shortly families of men and women serving in some scientists believe that cattle may before the symptoms become manifest Bosnia. The bulk of U.S. forces in Bos- have been infected when waste meal That is why some scientists are recom- nia came from foe 1st Armored Division from mutton was included in their feed. mending that all older cattle, which may stationed in Germany. INTERNATIONAL HERALD coj^of^the IHTs Guide to Euro, per, Khomeini, This led the Sunday Times in London to have eaten infected feed before the ban Mrs. Clinton's plane was laden with Gorbachev — a TRIBUNE GUIDE TO EUROPE Edition. {Paperback, century report that sbeep in Britain also may went into effect, should be destroyed. two crates of gifts and mail from Fort of news headliners and the pages, have lo be destroyed. “They could still be incubating the Polk. Louisiana. The White House was UK £24.) events that surrounded them. Authoritative business traveler’s that Sir Southwood, (Hardcover, But Dr. Meslin said the disease disease,” said Richard sending along s« cases of chocolate large format, UK £44.) guide to 32 European cities. East may well have been a bovine strain from who led an inquiry into the problem in candies. From Bosnia. Mrs. Clinton will THE FRONT PAGE 1837-1992 and West. Wriiten by long-time the beginning, and that it was spread by 1989. go to Turkey’ and then to Greece. AMERICAN BUSINESS TERMS foreign correspondents Alan illh’er Great front from the Inter- DICTIONARY and 1 . Roger Beardwood, this national Herald : reporting foe invaluable guide provides current Includes over 4,000 tejms from MYTH: Study Aims at Debunking Marco Polo's Chinese Travels information on understanding local commerce, banking — andlIn nance business customs, negotiating with my with Herald Tribune exclusive defined clearly and cone ^ely. Tliis miss the Great Wall? Ms. Wood also said Ugo Tucci, a retired professor Continued from Page 1 of government offices, selecting articles: like first-hand reports from reference book is edited! specially notes similarities of Polo's descriptions economic history at Venice University. accoirnnodations, dining, entertain- the sinking ^Titanic, the Dreyfus trial, for writings, notably those Mr. Tucci says people living and woi ing in an the World”: his depiction of the layout of to those m other Ms. Wood is guilty of ing. tipping and more. Plus city foe 1981 railed .coup in Madrid, the international Beijing streets; his elaborate account of of the Islamic author Rashid Din, and applying current standards to the Middle environmc t orientation mar hurried departure of Marcos the court of Kublai Khan, the Mongol suggests there must be a common source Ages. Thai Polo might have included from Logical organization, cMhj] atten- Manila — and the Venice i emperor of China; the tales about far- for their work, probably a lost Persian hearsay or other sources into his work campanile tion to parts of speech, jrammatical caught in mid-coDapse flung towns such as Yangzhou and Hang- travel book. was not unusual for the time. by a Herald number and idiorriaticpsge make porcelain and The story, she asserts, have been heard for cadi city covering recent history photographer! zhou; his descriptions of may “Things were as valued as this volume the' .'o .atbhofce for money. For centuries, historians the work of a certain “Messer Rusti- things seen to the and current business climate, and a Follow coverage of paper medieval observer.” the Ffrst World business professio.tiai^ttudents or have taken the story at face value. cello.” a romance writer who shareda jail he said. scries of Spotlights that focus on War by one ofthe few newspapers anyone who heeds kriqwtdge of the works in the manner of cell with Marco Polo in 1296, when each The zigzag itinerary is typical particular points of local But Ms. Wood of the business that stayed in Paris and was virtually basic * terminology pflniAiess. \,N, • an Agatha Christie heroine who analyzes was taken prisoner during a Venetian war way merchants in Asia traveled. Mr. or travel interest. edited at the front. The dictionary mcorpoates many I- only details that are present but also with Genoa, a year after Polo's return. Tucci added “There was no such thing If not as you’re traveling in ’ Europe Read about • on people • — Queen useful features, inducfoAbundant -l. details that are missing. But Ms. Wood argues that foe his- going from Venice to Beijing. That land business, don’t leave without your Victoria, Lindbergh, Jack the •S; Rip- cross-referencing > and' How is It that the Mongolian Yuan torical value of Polo's tale is intact. of trip is a modem concept,” he said. fnonytns. records produce no account of “The work gathered together what was Mr. dynasty Tucci concludes that Marco «•, J . Polo's visit? Why does he fail to de- known about a distant part of the world Polo's account contains too much detail scribe Chinese calligraphy, so different from sources that are otherwise lost.” to be fiction, and it was the kind of detail from European alphabet-based writing? she said. of interesi to a merchant. Or for that matter, tea? Or bound feet, a But Italy’s top expen on the subject "Polo was far from the first to travel detail that has attracted the eye of nu- regards Ms. Wood's study as flawed. to China. What made him unusual was merous visitors to China? Why is the “There is far too much detail, far too that he put the adventure down in writ- itinerary so tortured? And how did Polo much information for this to be a fake.” ing,” he suid. fi ">'k ’ — . _ - z_? - i i juiiiiJuwuum lU^^TfiitflAbTMO^UAl, MARCH 25, 1996 PAGE 11 INTERNATIONAL ”*" ' i* » «n . ‘ Blacks ;iw m Bitterly Debate Reports ofSlavery in Sudan Ex-Ruler Wins x.- _ By Steven A. Holmes Sudan,” that has caused the most comment in government denies that it is taking place.” Sudan brought him back. Election in Benin New York Times Service black newspapers and on radio and television. But Mr. Farrakhan has expressed skepticism “If slavery exists, why don't you go as a I'jri That is because Mr. Farrakhan’s support of of the reports of slavery. “Where is the proof?” member of the press?” he asked his questioners. Reuters [, WASKNGION—More than j i. 130 years after Sudan comes as the Islamic government oflieu- he demanded at a news conference in Wash- “And you look inside of the Sudan, and if you COTONOU. Benin — The former Marx- -the 13ib Amendment officially ended slavery in tenant General Omar Ahmad Bashir, die pres- ington two weeks ago. find it. then you come back and tell the American ist military ruler. General Mathieu Kdrfikou. the United States, an angry debate hasbroken out ident. is engaged in a civil war that pits the He and his followers have suggested that the people whal you have found. But don’t let the won Benin’s second multiparty presidential anumg- tdacks over the alleged acquiescence ig;; of largely Arab Muslim north; against the mainly reports of slavery in Sudan are part of a Zionist State Department be your official source.” election, according to provisional results the government of Sudan in a Mack slave trade, Christian and animist blacks in die south. conspiracy to discredit an Islamic state and the According to human-rights groups, the prac- announced by the constitutional court on and abofettbe support that Louis Farrwlcfow In recent years, officials in the United Nations Nation of Islam. tice of slavery has been an offshoot of the civil Sunday. of the Nation of Islam, has voiced for the Su- war that has raged intermittently since Sudan Ker£kou's danese government. The announcement of General gained its independence in 1956. Though the dramatic return to defeat President Nice- :s -v “I don’t knowthat Amencans as a whole know Louis FarrafcTian appears exceedingly sensitive to the accusation practice has been officially outlawed, these phore Soglo in last Monday's runoff un- ;,r- . **S much abont the de facto practice ^ , of slavery in groups assert that the government and the Na- leashed a wave of rejoicing by his sup- Sudan,**- said Randall Robinson, president that of the he is supporting a government that condones the practice. tional Islamic Front, led by Dr. H assail Turabi. porters in the nation's main city. Cotonou. '.TransAfnca Forum, a group that to perhaps the country’s most powerful figure, But final confirmation of his 52.49 per- fluence U.S. policy in Africa and the Caribbean: and the U.S. government have accused Sudan of As a descendant of slaves who has frequently have turned a blind eye to reports of its use. cent victory must await a ruling from the Referring toMr. Farrakhan, he ^drird til , “I’m condoning a traffic in human beings. condemned the United States for having prac- The American Anti-Slavery Group has been court on any further legal challenge from ' - sure that If more people had "L-l known, they would According to these organizations, Sudanese ticed slavery, Mr. Farrakhan appears exceedingly faxing materials on die subject to Mack news- Mr. Soglo. whose supporters earlier de- have been shocked and disappointed with his soldiers and Muslim mutias who have been sensitive to the accusation that he is supporting a papers in an effort to build up support for abolition nounced what they called “an arsenal of statements of support for Sudan;’' 5+t-’ armed by die government have transported cap- government that condones the practice. of slavery in Sudan. “We always thought that fraud." ; White much of theattention given ‘e.s to Mr. Far- tured blacks to the north, where they are used as The depth of that sensitivity was evident at die blacks should lead this battle,” said Charles Jac- The court, guardian of electoral inde- rakhaa’s recentvisit to countries m Africa and the household slaves. news conference where he was presented with an obs, president of the group. pendence and arbiter of all disputes, an- Middle East has focused on his meetings with . “It’s war booty,” said Jemera Rone, a field award by the National Newspaper Publishers But the fact that Mr. Jacobs is Jewish has nounced the result after a long and tense leaders of Libya, Iran and Iraq, it was his Feb. 8 representative for Human Rights Watch/Africa Association, a black trade organization. prompted Nation of Islam officials to denounce wait during which die home of one of its stop nr Sudan when he was quoted by the gov- who has visited the Sudan twice in the last three After answering questions about bis visit to the campaign as part of a Zionist plot to drive a members was sprayed by gunfire. It gave enwnept-owped news service, as saying, “more years. “They’re given free license by the gov- Libya, Mr. Farrakhan was about to leave the wedge between African Americans and an Afric- Mr. Soglo 47 .5if percenpercent of the vote. than 40 million American 1 Muslims stand with ernment They’re not prosecuted. In fact the room when a shouted question about slavery in an Islamic nation. • •• , Z&t* REMEMBRANCE— Members of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, who lost children in the “dirty war*' of the late-1970s, marking the 20th anniversary of the 1976 coup that opened a reign of terror in Argentina. Hamas Vows to Continue Its Attacks Israeli Crackdown Will Only Breed More Violence, Guerrillas Say by Omt Fnm Dt^vtrfta been arrested since 58 people were president of the Palestinian Authority, AMMAN, Jordan — A spokesman killed in four suicide bomb attacks in Yasser Arafat, arrested all leaders of here for the Islamic Resistance Move- February and March. Hamas, the report said. ment Hamas vowed Sunday that the “Hamas is facing the most violent As part of a policy of gradually easing group will attack targets in Israel again, campaign.” Mr. Ghosheh said. “But the closure, however. Israel will allow saying a crackdown on Palestinian we are sure, as in the past, they will fail in Palestinians who require emergency Muslim militants after a series of sui- in their effort to uproot the movement, medical treatment, the radio reported. cide bombings would not deter it and we will survive the crisis and be able And a government spokesman said it He also said that Israeli moves to to endure the pains that we are ex- has also allowed Palestinian laborers to counter the attacks — die collective periencing.” work in Jewish settlements inside the punishment of Palestinians, the blowing He added: “Resisting the occupation West Bank for the first time in several up of homes of suicide bombers and the is a line which Hamas will never drop as weeks. closure of the West Bank and the Gaza long as the Zionist occupation controls The closure keeps tens of thousands Strip — could only breed more violence all parts of Palestine, thousands of de- of Palestinians from jobs in Israel and ahead of the May 29 elections in Israel tainees and prisoners remain in their costs the impoverished Palestinian eco- "These policies are only creating jails and it continues its operations of nomy millions of dollars a day. more humiliation and bitterness,” die oppression, starvation and killings. Last week, Israel allowed trucks to group's spokesman in Jordan, Ibrahim Many Palestinians, who form a large carry food into Gaza and permitted sev- Ghosheh, said in Amman. He added: percentage ofJordan’s 4 million people, eral thousand workers to return to jobs “Therefore, no one can guarantee there oppose the peace moves with Israel and in an industrial area along the border. will be no operation before May 29.” are sympathetic to Hamas’s views. In Gaza, a group of Palestinian busi- Israel and the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Peres said Sunday nessmen on Sunday demonstrated that runs Gaza and parts of the West that Israel had received warnings that against the closure and said they would Bank under the 1993 interim peace ac- Islamic militants were planning more boycott Israeli goods in retaliation. cord, fear further attacks could threaten terrorist attacks and therefore could not Mohammed Qedweh, head of the die election hopes of Prime Minister end the closure of the West Bank and Chamber ofCommerce in Gaza, said the Shimon Peres. Gaza, Israeli radio said. organization was against violence, “but More than 1,500 activists and sup- Mr. Peres told his cabinet that the we refuse to pay the price of their se- porters ofHamas and Islamic Jihad have closure would remain in effect until the curity.” (Reuters , AP) these are for a tingle film, but in fact Federal biologists estimate that only their entire 42 remain alive in the wild — a third AMERICAN are regarded as a tribute to body of work. Among these recipients fewer than Iasi year and less than a are John Wayne for “True Grit” in tenth of the 1993 population. At the TOPICS 1969, Henry Fonda for "On Golden mm of the century, the Attwarer’s Pond” in 1981 and Jessica Tandy for prairie chicken numbered at least a “Driving Miss Daisy” in 1989. million in the Gulf Coast areas of available Taking Home an Oscar: Texas and Louisiana. 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Salomon growth 93 Germany 5.9800 04/12/00 1074800 7.2200 themter John S^^oASier 6b 07/29/99 1044500 219 France BTAN 7b was raised in investors werere- 96.9500 5-3100 95 Treuhand 1104600 74600 $156.4 billion mist, sakuianese consistent with 199 Austria 5b 03/1 Ml 5% 09/24/98 103-1813 5.4500 236 France OAT 8b 02/27/04 the opung no ^tpace 6 04/20/05 101.4000 6.7700 96 Treuhand 54800 04/25/05 1054300 7.1100 bond market in thaicrip^ 210 Austria h 5b Q572B/99 103.1200 248 France OAT 7b national 18-day-old strike 97 Germany 65900 That isnearfy Bmtite 6b 07/15/04 102J850 months of the year. of tfaeyen s strength^ Corp-wfll have >4 98 Germany 83000 three •sffi reversal '• 09/2096 1EL4317 5 g ; # Belgian Franc 100 Germany 814 Lira more than prosp^ *"* 5W leave open 1067017 67900 Italian 60 percent the uncertain therefore Germany 7W 10/21/02 pa«nt year and died die data and 101 1093200 7.0900 last yearand tins Wbnre 178 Belgium m 12/22/00 1064000 7.1400 Germany 7b 02/21/00 10Vj 09/01/05 100J50Q 1Q42Q0 quarterly rate of economic policy strong thewoowny 6.5100 102 103.9883 80500 205 Italy | bil- Japan’s how 189 Belgium 15 6b OS/25/97 103-4200 8VB 01/20/97 record of $145 movemtoEurt>- that a 103 Germany 54900 above the previous investors to estimated 209 Belgium 7 04/29/99 106.0900 6.6000 5b 08/2097 102.7800 eSraged SnT^Mr. Upsky 1 05 Germany ot stat y 54600 first quarter Indeed,, 5*, 04/29/99 103/3300 Japanese Yen lion set in the securities,” be said. of GM 112 Treuhand 69600 vrasm pean totai shutdown 714 11/21/96 1024400 of the new business U6Geimany 5.1200 109 .7500 4.1000 Nearly half British Pound 5b 10/30/90 1024600 153 World Bank 416 06/20/00 record ot H8Germany 109.7500 4.1000 set a monthly 02WV97 102.7300 63300 197 World Bank 416 03/20/03 January, which 3EJSSS 964250 62100 129 Germany 6W 114% 44900 percent ram ss^iSSSi 152 Britain Tsy 6 0010/99 8b 05/22/00 113.0500 7.7400 223 world Bank 5U 03/20/02 billion — an IS ^ss 130 Germany 83300 0Z/M/O5 964000 24800 almost $72 S Germany Bto 0VKV96 102.0200 230Exim Bk Japan 2ft January 1W5- “Sff3rKr«»r 134 1004675 84700 03H 5/00 117 54600 over the previous high, m Sta 04/22/96 234 E1B 6% Canadian Dollar 142 Germany 68700 in dollars 7V, 04/12/05 103.6500 Issues denominated an ma*«s^tere 146 Worid Bank 67300 Stoy’boffSLiB t 12/01/05 107.2000 61600 03/05/08 966000 or 33 percent ““^aiMSEBopem 195 Canada fftt 150 Sweden 6V4 Spanish Peseta amounted to $5 U billion, 7Vi OaCl/Ol 994720 73100 zero 02/22/01 WJIBO 228 Canada 151 Depta activity-- a rel- ;« 06/02/03 1024033 64900 9.7900 the first-quarter ~ 165 Germany 6b Spain 10.10 02/2MJ1 1011910 of tranc 101 me nnuu+ 01/2W00 107.6575 67300 132 7J200 sbaresmce •teWSttSsSstota^ 7b 07/30/99 95JB130 maAet s share of total 175 Germany 61600 154 Spain 740 atively unchanged with onan 8 percent«noat toe amricet was bound to Danish Krone 6M 080097 1034600 01/31/06 lOl^OTO-OMO the sector, 176 Germany 168 Spain 10.15 started recovering from tflhom I 6b 02/20/98 104.0400 60100 1004960 9.9500 the currency volume equal to $12 markets on 03/15/06 102.6000 7.8000 183 Germany 302 Spain IOjOO 02/2805 the activity on sentiment in Europe, 7 Denmark 03/20/97 1024900 54500 against the yen and a affect 12/15/04 97.5700 7.1700 190 Germany 6 record lows set took fifth place, with cushioned by 31 Denmark 94.7000 63400 The French franc were better 11/lMfl 1067400 62800 191 FM 6 02/21/06 last spring. the Continent 39 Denmark DSL 102.4150 5.1300 Deutsche mark on issues totaling 5b 02/25/98 Swedish Krona ft percent market share yield curves. 11/15/00 109.8000 82000 192 Germany No. 2 very steep i* . 41 Denmark 01/20/98 104.1225 61200 marie reclaimed title totte Banc their os/i ara 1054)400 7.6200 196 Germany 6b 9.4500 The jgTg while the Swiss 57 Denmark 962500 5.1900 10b 05/05/00 1084268 billion billion, - 1004300 69600 Ontario 5 02/15/01 171 Sweden equal to $27.9 •—V 39 Denmark 12/1099 201 962800 63000 6 02/09/05 834449 7.1700 dot, with a volume 103.1100 67900 203 6 02/09/06 IB! Sweden 62 Denmark 08/15/97 KFW 67200 11 1094800 180800 7.5600 6b 06/22/05 1004500 217 Sweden OWW 11/1V01 1054800 207 BadWuert L Rn 120.1606 104200 72 Denmark 01/28/97 965248 42100 13 WOT 1 1/10/24 84.9500 62400 218 Sweden zero 225 Sweden V 75 Denmark 01/20/97 102.1800 5-9900 07/01/96 968546 4.1700 231 Germany 6b Prices 99 Denmark T-bills zero 62600 67500 6 02/01/06 954000 Uptrend in 115 Denmark 7 02/15/98 1034800 238 Austria Dollar for 7 09/20/99 1066000 64700 U.S. Hopes 80.7000 74300 145Nykredit 6 1 001/26 246 Germany Data Revive 102.7500 8.7600 6>V» 03/29/05 71.6300 96100 New 164 Denmark 9 11/15/96 12 ArgerrttnaFRN 63200 . _ _ • hv, tftno million onc 02/1097 1014000 61600 4 04/15/14 636350 —a by $600 184 Denmark 6b Guilder 16 Brazil Cap S.L 96300 10-year notes increased Dutch par 5 03/31/23 51.9400 issue of 5- and 42 Argentina L Out StcffFnm Ptipoeba 60000 04/15/24 526000 61700 CcnfaM bj 6U 07/15/98 1042500 48 Brazil par zi 4W Friday, the day oftfce Deutsche Mark 14 Nelhertands 62100 736000 96300 market’s rainsl^ week may ^ Nomura 6 01/15/U 965500 50 Brad! L 0V15W6 — The bond 36 Netherlands 596100 116W0 NEW YORK so, Andrew ,.4 56300 11/15/05 101.9000 6.6200 Venezuela 6tt* 12/18/07 Even is the &st m 5b 08/22/00 102.1300 71 Netherlands 6b 56 York, notea 1 Germany 65800 6% 01/01/01 89.7500 7.1000 Inteamarional m New 01/0506 966433 62100 Netherlands 7 03/15/99 1064500 65 Brazil 930.0 Securities 2 Germany 6 77 03/31/20 56630011.9200 102.7325 5.7200 9 01/15/01 11445 76600 70 Venezuela par A 6b 3 Germany SVt 05/1500 92 Netherlands 756800 86900 66900 0605/05 103.7500 67500 Mexico D 6647 12/28/19 6ft 05/1205 102.7250 107 Netherlands 7 76 5.9100 optimistic,;’said 4 Germany 1047500 62100 Elec Pwr 5b 04/18/01 976750 have reasonto be 6ft 10/14/05 100.0017 65000 Netherlands 61A 07/15/98 78 Chubu 5 Germany 108 66400 03/24/99 95.9343 46900 99.6200 5.1400 7 02/150)3 105.4500 83 Sweden 4Mr 6 Germany 5b 11/21/00 110 Nelhertands 64.0000 9.7700 totally col- 61800 09/15/07 112.3000 76500 par A fib 12/31/19 have not 6’A 03/15/00 105.1740 117 Netherlands 9V> 88 Mexico time when bonds 8 Germany 107.9500 69500 6916 03*1/23 636800103500 Friday in a long 6 02/16/06 965840 62100 119 Netherlands m... 06/15/99 89 Argentina L 1 9 Germany 5.9300 fib 12/31/19 646000 9J700 .1 TVs 01/0305 1061100 69500 Netherlands 5b 01/15/04 969900 91 Mexico parB TO Germany 122 1064500 65800 6Ab 04/15/24 56K001O6M0 ssssssssssi: B 01/2102 1103475 7.2400 Netherlands 7 05/15/99 94 Brazil 62 11 Germany 136 7.1800 10/27/14 746331 56300 11/2599 107.1200 65300 01/15/23 1045000 104 Poland 3b 13 Treuhand 7 137 Netherlands m 1061000 5.1108 -4200 76600 6b 02/15/99 1057000 63900 106 Argentina 562 04/01/01 15 Germany 8 03/2W97 KM 138 Netherlands 356800 86600 1068100 76200 9 asns/oo 113b 7.9100 114 Ecuador par 3 02/28*5 17 Treuhand 7V» 090904 140 Netherlands 876800 76200 7-2300 02/15/02 112.0500 76600 Poland 6% 1W27/24 „B 07/22/02 1106500 147 Nelhertands 816 120 is rebounding too quiddy. 18 Germany 1069000 7.1200 fib 07/2B1 462865136000 thaime economy 6% 01/2098 104.7067 63300 149 Nelhertands .7b_ 01/1 5/DO 121 Bulgaria 116400 pressure last w“^ 19 Germany 108.8500 7.1200 6% O^is/12 626500 market came under 7% 11/1104 1068833 76200 158 Netherlands 7b 03/01/05 127 Brazil S.L The Treasury JliMI 20 Germany 105.9000 68500 zero 03/08/06 966250 government 7 01/13O0 1069880 65400 163 Netherlands 7b 10/01/04 133IADB investas sold 21 Germany 112J00D 76500 6b 07/28/24 51 J500 12.0800 tradm si^assome 08/20/01 1165500 76400 Netherlands 8b 02/15/07 135 Bulgaria sale. The Disney^ 8b 166 66900 billion bond 22 Germany 1061000 7.0700 2 07/28/12 316808 Disney Co.’s $2.6 6b 09/15/99 1062300 63500 169 Nelhertands 716 04/15/10 143 Bulgaria 96100 imo Walt 23 Germany 1087500 69300 9b 02/23/01 962500 01/29/03 1056350 67400 Netherlands TVi 11/15/99 148 Argentina 24 Treuhand 7b 172 76400 12/31/19 7S 4 103.760a 5JB00 816 0601/06 114b 156 Mexico A 6766 3!!£,!HX5 25 Germany oonom 173 Netherlands 52680011.93W 1141300 7.7800 zero 05/31/96 986033 63800 157 Nigeria 6b 11/15*0 26 Germany m 12/2000 179 NBC 1060000 65700 76700 110.6500 7.4600 Britain 7b 12/09/02 9 KV20/00 1143400 Netherlands 8Vi 02/15/00 160 Issues ' 27 Germany 21 2 76500 07/28/04 107.7500 76100 Bond 105.1800 68900 8tt 03/1501 112-6000 162 Finland m International rii 28 Germany 7V. 1Q/2Q/97 214 Netherlands 986750 96600 New 112b 76500 9b OHWl 05/2098 1046500 60900 Netherlands Btt 06/15/02 167 Mexico 29 Germany 6% 21 6 63400 6Vb 02/28/25 54608311-1600 07/09/to 1013550 64700 6U 04/1503 102-4500 170 Ecuador 30 Treuhand W* 226 Nelhertands 99.1250 61800 by Paul Floren 66200 07/01/00 1117800 7.9100 fib M/2B/00 Compiled Treuhand m 06/11/03 1038850 247 Netherlands 9 180 Ontario 566300115200 32 76700 Venezuela B 6b 03/31/20 Price 6b 01/04/24 88J571 186 Amount CMP- . 4.r- rrill 33 Germany 5% 01/29/N 976750 60300 ^ end 6'/k 06/25/98 1041400 56800 IBS BOC Group Met. % PHce 34 Treuhand 10*7/24 469891 56100 Issuer (nSBoasl 7b 1Q01/U2 109.1167 7.1000 ECU 193 Poland par 2b week 35 Treuhand 5.176 02/08/01 996100 56000 12/02/02 107.1475 68800 98.1600 5.0900 198 Sweden 37 Treuhand m 80 France BTAN 5 03/16/99 3 02/28/15 42.6671 76300 v-r tnsTf 8 6 Fees 62125%. hsued«dongw1lhSU855raBIonn«aewlBipoytng4LK -rSooyrn —99572 — MortWy-NoncotlaWB. 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Beijing Urges Cuts Alitalia, Do Internet Ads Sell? Running on Empty fV#r»V ''-»- 1 . l:^' « j In Interest Rates How Can You ^ Bailout Becomes Urgent as Losses Mount 14 Judge? ’ * ‘"h.. n Vu,-.- r : ,. „ **' • ' f ..:. J- i » ; •:. . -C ;« By John Tagliabue the Continent’s airlines begins. sidy it won last year to finance . By Richard Covington Time is not on Alitalia's side. aggressive low fares. New York Thnes Service To Aid State Firms r „ Specud a» the HcraU which owns percent , Tribune IRL 90 of the British Air. which was sold to ,. ROME — Alitalia Airlines carrier, evidently fears that after private investors in *' v 19S7 and has • l -PARIS. — It- is hardly Times W!p? Square just yet, the Stfff From , , but needs a bailout this spring or risks deregulation, Alitalia will be since been thriving, has gone to the Gmvbdhf Oar paratchn terest rates on deposits remain un- internet, once defiantly opposed to any commercialization, is not being able to pay salaries, ac- battered by more efficient North European Court of Justice to chal- BELONG — Pressure is growing changed, percent of those polled wr sprouting advertising 62 * ,. with a speed and volume unforeseen test J cording to Domenico Cempella, European carriers like Lufthansa lenge the aid given to Air France. in China for a cut in interest rates to would chose to deposit idle money . six radn&s ago. - ^ the executive appointed last of Germany and British Airways. “Obviously subsidies skew then- boost consumer spending 3nd reduce in banks while fewer than percent ,’ cgld 15 Bie W Wide Web is steadily swelling with interactive, month to save Italy’s ailing na- Moreover, in the partial liber- positions,'' said Hedda Harris, a the financial burden cxi the country’s would buy securities. Another 22.6 ^ . aoyeiuser-sponsored billboards. i .!*• But no damns :„.vw one as yet to be tional carrier. alization that has alread begun, British debt-ridden state enterprises, official able y Air spokeswoman. percent said they would increase iftiv to meagre bow effective V . In discussions with other mem- new low-fare airlines are elbowing Moreover, Italians go to the media reports said Sunday. consumption. " . the ads ^ne. The cost per thou,- '**' 4 — airline's bers of die management, into Alitalia's lucrative domestic polls in April to elect a new Par- The State Planning Commission However, if inflation continued v*- - • sand viewers dr readers and Revenues are Mr. Cempella said Alitalia’s debt routes. In recent months, such liament whose principal task will has urged the People’s Bank of to people said they would other. tradition^ - -reraise rise, more * totaled tire equivalent of S2JZ bil- former charter airlines as Air One, be to bring the relentless growth of China to reduce interest rates on buy stocks and more would spend . modelsforprint andbraadcast growing, hut no lion. double die amount one year Noman and Meridians have begun government spending under con- savings deposits by 1.5 percentage rather than deposit. ^Ea have. Bale validity in uuc WiUWS wnait ago, with almost a third of h in scheduled flights on the heavily trol and accelerate the sell-off of points and on loans by half a per- Separately, die China Daily re- . ^ this strange new world of cy- costly short-term obligations. trafficked MUan-Rome route at state-owned assets like Alitalia. centage point, die China Daily Busi- that China will need berapiace ported Sunday commereials. good letlim is or Alitalia lost million rr*M| - $175 in the fares 30 percent below Alitalia’s. In 1994, IRI appointed two ex- ness Weekly reported. 350 billion yuan ($41.91 billion) in The Internet Is a global j. . , . „ o , most recent quarter, more than in Although 10 percent of Alit- ecutives from private industry, But Dai Xianglong, chairman of telecommunications equipment and **pwJ\S§network Woat to do With it. that enables com- all of 1995. It has already used up alia’s shares trade on the Milan Renato Riverso, the former chair- the central bank, has ruled out an fiber-optic cable over the next five putra osere equipped with a the $260 million it earned last year exchange, the idea of raising fresh man of the International Business interest rate cut for now. He was years to achieve its goal of adding modem and a telephone line from selling its share in (he com- capital there appears unfeasible. Machines Corp. unit in Europe, quoted by Shanghai's Liberation 643 million telephone lines. to exchange messages. The World Wide Web carries the pany that runs Rome’s municipal “With debt at six times equity, and Roberto Schisaoo, a former Daily on Saturday as saying that (Reuters. AFP) multimedia, portion of the Internet, allowing centralized airports, Mr. Cempella said. it’s too high a risk,” said Luca manager at Texas Instrument* inflation was still too high to con- server computers to post text, images and music onto the He did oot say when Isdtuto per Comi, who follows Alitalia at the Inc., to straighten out Ali talia, sider a reduction. network. Individual computer users then click onto various la Ricostnrrione industriale, the NCIan brokerage Intereuropa. which last turned a profit in 1987. Xu Hongyuan, an economist with elements of a Web site to explore whatever mix of in- stare holding company that con- Given the precedent set by oth- Alitalia followed the growth of the State Planning Commission, Textile Woes . formation or entertainmait strikes their fancy. Each click is trols Alitalia, would seek permis- er airlines, few doubt Ali talia will other international airlines in the said the disadvantages of high in- . known as a hit . sion from the European Union to get a bailout. Yet its case is com- 1980s by overextending its fleet terest rates were becoming more Before the early months of 1995, Internet advertising was provide fresh capital. plicated. and travel routes without paying pronounced, particularly for state- Imperil Jobs - virtually nil. acceding, to Jupiter Communication's latest hi recent years. Air France, Air For one thing, resistance to gov- attention to costs. run companies, most of which op- survey of on-line advertising. last But year, ad revenues Portugal, Iberia of Spain and ernment handouts is mounting Service and punctuality were erate at a loss or with only a small *r--. . jumped to $42.9 million, most of it signed on during the last Greece's Olympic Airways have among Europe’s healthier air- bad and productivity notoriously profit margin. In Shanghai -'-'Jr f ... . quarter of the year. obtained a total of $7.4 billion in lines, which are riding a revival of low. Last year, while pilots at Brit- He said high interest rates had left This year, the Jupiter survey predicts that ad revenues will subsidies with grudging approval air travel to strong profits. Scand- ish Airways logged IS million companies with a severe shortage of Reuters multiply nearly seven times, toarramdSTOO million and mrp» the , from European Union, which inavia's carrier SAS recently pro- passenger miles, Alitalia’s pilots working capital and also had caused SHANGHAI — Mergers to $ 1.1 billion in 1997,1110 figures measure only advertising wants aid to halted such be by tested that Air France was using at a major headache for the operations and bankruptcies in Shanghai ’s . purchased on Web sites provided by on-line services full and 1997, when deregulation of least part of the $3.7 billion sub- See AUSTRALIA, Page 17 of China’s banks. textile industry could put publications. They do not include the cost of creating inflati self- China's on rate has been 50,000 workers out of their jobs contained Websites by the advertisers themselves. falling steadily over thepast year, to this year, the China Daily Busi- * De^jitethis rapidtfcvelopment, hitemet advertising so far 14.8 percent in 1995 after hitting a ness Weekly said Sunday. presents little threat to traditional broadcast and print m^dia post-1949 high 2 of more than 1 per- Last year 67 of die compan- Id the United Stares alone, for example, television com- cent in 1994, and has continued to ies under the Shanghai Textile mercials accounted for $32.4 billion or advertiser spending EU Ministers Cling to Telcom Offer drop this year. Holding Co. lost a total of 370 last year, and print advertising trillion, stood at $22 according Mr. Dai, quoted in the Liberation million yuan ($44.3 million), to Jupiter. Only radio, with Reuters revenues last year of around $1.9 that the Union expand on its offer to Those countries oppose any con- Daily, reiterated that it would be and nationwide three out of trillion, is remotely vulnerable. to the survey, According on- BRUSSELS — The European entice new or improved bids from cession on the restrictions. possible to consider a cut in interest four state-owned textile plants line advertising will surpass radio revenues by 1998. Commission faces a bard row other partners — including Japan The EU should not “open its rates only when inflation fell to are losing money, with the Monday when it tries to persuade and Canada — in World Trade Or- aims*’ to foreign competitors be- around 6.8 percent. losses totaling 2 billion yuan, See ADS, Fage 17 EU foreign ministers to sweeten ganization talks on opening tele- fore they open their own markets, But die paper aided thar, with re- the newspaper said. tail inflation currently their offer an opening Europe’s communications markets that ex- said Telecommunications Minister price at 7 per- It quoted the company’s telecommunications market so that pire April 30. Elio Di Rupo of Belgium. cent to 8 percent, “a cut in interest chairman, Zhu Kuangyu, as say- other participants in the current But some governments have ar- He said Belgium would insist on rates before too long is not im- ing his holding company would round of global talks might better gued in preliminary discussions that keeping its 49.9 percent limit on possible.’' merge money-losing subsidiar- their offers. expanding on the present European dod-EU ownership of telecommu- China is putting in place the in- ies with profitable ones. Six sub- Since several governments op- offer, especially as a negotiating nications companies and its restric- frastructure to allow interest rales to sidiaries are in bankruptcy pro- pose the tactic. European Union of- tactic, could cause domestic polit- tions on the number of operators in fluctuate more according to market ceedings, and Mr. Zhu said ficials predicted the ministers might ical problems. specific sectors. demand and less through admin- more would be allowed to go confirm their present offer at the The current EU offer would al- Mr. Di Rupo specifically com- istrative edict. bankrupt upcoming mile* inBrussels, arguing low Belgium. France. Greece. Por- plained about remaining restric- The national interbank yuan mar- The city's silk and cotton ket, which went into World Index that it marches the best offers from tugal and Spain to maintain their tions in the U.S. offer in such areas operation in textile industries last year pos- 13 | January, allows for free-moving the EU’s major trading partners. restrictions on foreign ownership of as satellite communications and in- ted losses of 1 million yuan, ktemaSanaLHeraki Tribune ? v**w ~w- K 80 ’ World Stock index, composed -v- » 1 * 1 The commission has proposed telecommunications companies. submarine cable licenses. terest rates on shon-term Treasury the newspaper said. ' r' ! 'f ' of28DirtwrafibnaflyfiwKWriB ' bills within certain limits set by die Shanghai aims to move central bank. stocks jtom 25 countries, 136 many of its textile plants, a pil- An interest-rate subsidy to com- compBadby Bloomberg . lar industry for 100 years, out Business News. 135 pensate investors for inflation has of the city and into areas that been removed from Treasury bills produce the raw materials for 134 Mercosur Urged to Better Infrastructure Week ending Match 22, issued this year and a similar sub- the textiles. sidy - daBydosings. applied to personal savings ac- Separately, the China Nation- 133 Cea ardbyQrSl&FimiDhyacliti Jan. 1992= 100. y imposes new targets,” Mr. Iglesias sectors alone over the next 10 counts is expected to be removed. al Textile Council warned tex- BUENOS AIRES — South said, “because we are talking of years,” Mr. Iglesias said on the eve “They've done away with the tile manufacturers against build- A cIHc America’s trade iW Mercosur bloc trade (hat has grown two and a half of the bank's annual meeting. subsidy on the bonds, so it's only a ing new factories to make denim seeds to expand its. physical infra- times the few matter of time before they take it f in past years.” But another voice said Argentina jeans in light of export quotas structure massively if it is to meet its 135 ;> »); 145 . ™ “That new reality has to be ac- faced trouble reversing the econom- away from the bank deposits, too,” and industry overcapacity. N ' ..**•“ • • growth potential, according to the companied by a very vigorous pro- ic woes brought on by the devalu- die foreign analyst said. China has 200 companies 144 fairy;; 7 ; 4** V/ -r president ofdie Inter-American De- cess of investment in infrastruc- ation of the Mexican peso in 1995. China’s savings rate, the highest that can produce 1.08 billion velopment Bank, Enrique Iglesias. ture,” be added. Paul Volckcr, the chair- in the world, is set to slow as income 143 former meters (1.19 billion yards) of Mercosur has linked Brazil, Ar- “If we lode at all the investments man of the Federal Reserve Board, growth moderates and new savings denim, more than the combined gentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in a that could take place in the fields of was quoted by the daily Clarin Sat- instruments such as bonds become annual output of the United customs union since January 1995. transport, energy and communica- urday as saying die country was available, the China Daily Business States and Europe in the late 141 Chile is set to sign a free-trade tions, very broad estimates lead us to stymied by high interest rates Weekly said. F M T W T and 1980s, the China Daily Busi- agreement with the bloc June 25. think that we could put together be- the stale of Argentina’s financial A survey by the central bank sur- ness Weekly said. “The new reality of Mercosur tween $16 to 20 billion into these system. (Reuters, Knight-Ridder) vey found that if current high in- A Penny-Stock Cinderella Story Bre-X Parlays Huge Gold Strike Into Fortunefor Investors lion, plus, plus, plus.” The world’s largest By Clyde H. Farnsworth deposit, the Grasberg copper and gold mine New York Times Service of Ereeprat-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. TORONTO — Three years ago Bre-X in Indonesia, holds 51 million ounces. Minerals LtcL. then operating out of the Bre-X said it was looking for a pro- Energy\ 13648 136.15 +1.07 CapM Goods 14268141,62 4061 basement ofits president, David Walsh, paid duction partner. Many larger companies inflatess 127.37124.61 *221... RawMatatate 15951 15B.19 4238 80,000 Canadian dollars have approached it, but Steve McAnulty, ($58,700) for mineral vice president in charge of investor and BowB 12X82 123.45 4030 Consumer GtKXte 14238 14037 +1.43 rights to a large plot of corporate relations, said no decision would 12154 4-140 lEseeSarieous 140081^.77 A42 Services» 12234 land near Busang in be made until midsummer. Vatic, LanOon, ana northeast Borneo. Bre-X owns a percent stake in the r aadai OS aUtar tbub otaocks Jv Tokyo, Now 90 n, OMtStei ARMS Befdom, CSnede. CWi^ PySMtfci What has happened mine. The other 10 percent is held by an has become a Indonesian partner, Askatmdo Kaiya Min- .Hocway. Sfenwon, Spain. SHedan, Swtaeriend ewl Vanmm. For once' taw Yakand London, tha Max is oetnposoti of 0*20 top baums in Hums Cinderella story of in- eral. Another raining company. Minorca andon IhetRUcpRocfa Sttoct. i repldhrrfng ab — vesting. On its 475,000 Resources of Toronto, has worked out a mhectares) underneath the complex deal with the partner that effect- sexes (190,000 hilly rain forest, Bre-X made one of the ively gives it a 43 percent stake for 123 largest gold strikes of this century, sending million dollars plus 3 million Minorca its penny stock to 148 dollars a share and shares, which closed Friday on the Bre-X from the basement to an office bund- Montreal Stock Exchange at 4.65 dollars ling in Calgary, Alberta. each. Croon Y March 22 ’ the process, it has enriched everyone The deal caught Bre-X by surprise. “It’s c £ nil fjv m '•an tf. u. m a m In uju «BB yi9t aasa usf — iM* iso- um unr from Mr. Walsh to workers at die local a nuisance to us, but of minimal relev- — s aw* 2133 lur To MA-XJB -sm u»«» General Motors Corp. plant ance.” Mr- McAnulty said. um a rai i»r mbs tmir u» uor u» iwr 2flU IBS Walsh, aformer stockbrokerwho Mr. Walsh and other senior managers USB — USB 7JBST 13K51 USB 4UBB UW Mr. 50, yuu — urns mb uao %m jsst jsm un-mue-nuir named Bre-X after his younger son, Brett, own 10 percent of the 213 minion shares 1805 VUSIWii tUB tcnn iJg iwa- 98MB — WB -jUZI adding an for exploration, bad spent outstanding. Insider-trading reports show 3B3t nu» law UMU X MarYMtW _— UB* !« 5fle 1«UB 14SS USB ‘ *h*v much of 1992 and 1993 in personal bank- that Mr. Walsh sold 3 1 8,000 shares over 10 sax rjm iaa — w um but ws tm uc mss *u* n* a» *** -us &510 *» —. .» usn ruptcy. His hofafings, includmg options, arc weeks early this winter at an average price tue? u® — i*r ujis jas Mat 4» aan- me u« dollars. wife, Jeannette, 6177 uaor now wrath 'more than $250 million. of 5530 His a Bre- - UBS USB B2KB ft®W «» MSB* UW UM on corporate 70,000 shares at wm urn tsun urn uus . Bre-X. traded die tiny Alberta Stock X secretary, sold , ecu uso 55 U» MauKB^w iwnsuo uwhub Exchange, expects to be .listed a few an average price of 64.79 dollars. ;5Ii Ob*Lew w*» iniffl -Mw'zasw w» «» in and Xarieh, ddnaa b 4BaMk» iwto Now Kartt TonOo weeks on both the Toronto Stock Exchange Another 24 percent of Bre-X is held by *ta= «rw*4 W.- «rf and the Nasdaq stock market and has pro- Bresea Resources Ltd-, also founded by Mr. ^ToWattpowtfrpeoadf. * 7?*»* Owrtwr cmaw *• 7» 10-fcr-l stock split. stock after of his sots. avaunt*. ' posed a But the Walsh and named both has risen so quickly that even , some of its Brett and Sean. Institutions own 25 percent Other Dollar Values James Bond is back in GoIdenEye. On pr* CBn*j Jans have taken a step back. Many mutual to 40 percent and the public holds die rest c*«oe» bri amw S. Afc.foad' funds that were early buyers still bold hun- Doug Imrie, 47, who works at the Gen- wrist the new agent is ,r IA. OMKAUCi WUl Mccpaso. 7J85 the of 007 an , , wn Hong Koob * 7^31 )LZMta«* 1^82 S.KR.MM dreds of thousands of shares, but few say eral Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, is 2SS«? UM HMLtoOM 4JB3& SnAWb Omega Seamaster Professional diver 2&30 ToMnui* they are buying more at current prices. sending a son to college on some of the nifR . anaawrf .-ag: 'TMbdt - . MMiMx . eventually expects to just a precious timepiece, CUOMT"* &3S* Bre-X produce 1.8 profits from his Bre-X shares. “This isn’t watch not "T7 PoiLwadB TJMtasli Brtl 27J5 trfihC ft»4 million to million ounces (50.4 million retire tomorrow,” Russmfai* 48406 UAEAMB 2 to going to make me Mr. also a valuable life saver... paatsfetooa* 57154 MMua®ariL SWg bur X?5D0 vwitk of year, it it very lift 03939 KMxBaar 02* SaaSriral 56 million grams) gold a making Imrie said, “but gives me a big ' l^OW 019 IW» . TRffiOjETMONDAY, MARCH 25, 1996 PAGE 17 SHORT COVER Rivals Hit Norway 500,000 German Jobs Seen at Risk GM and Bass: Web Case Studies CX3LOGNE (Rfiulers> — Mbie faan half a mii^ em- Over Salmon Glut ployeesm^Jermany could lose theirjobs in 1996, according to Special to the Herald Tribune anism to attract customers, instead of a needed to inform people of the site's ajsurvtyrf27eaJpieyers’asHKaatkttis released Sunday^ • Prospective Internet advertisers traditional posh mechanism,’* he said. existence and address (http:// www. Reuters Escaped salmon follow the "5* £aced **» heaviest losses, ^rirh a first sat up and took notice last Novem- Apart from tire deal with tire new opel. com.). He daelinwl to give a BERGEN, Norway — Be- instinct of the wild species to - - tot 3 QffJpfflpO jobs m jeopardy, t . -zr ... |. according to die survey, j ber, when General Motors Carp, media publisher, GM recently figure on the cost of establishing and low the cool, dark waters of a spawn in rivers. About 20 -V. C« pnMished-m Impulse magazine. Another 80,000 jobs ^ were signed on for advertising over a broad launched its own sites in North Amer- maintaming the site. Norwegian fjord, more than percent of safanon in Norwe- T- utffaiit 'fly post - aed m ana (cleconjmuiiicali(ms yftnr along a*on gamut of magazine Web sites owned ica and in Europe, where browsers can Other advertisers have been sim- half a million salmon are be- gian rivers are bred by fanned ^ with ^,000jdt^'aihoag skSIled craft' wodeeis. ®. by the Harfv»m» FQipacchi publishing view various models from different ilarly enthusiastic abont their Internet ing fattened, ready for fish, according to environ- TaddMtar flqgWHiKT- spending is expected to cost'40 000 grotto* including Car and Driver and angles, equip them with assorted op- e. slaughter. mentalists. retailing jobs, tire survey found, and sectors that tnufitionallY tions and play trivia games. Brewers Ltd. spent £150,000 Most of the fish at Hydro “I don’t think this is a have beat vwWd-as secure — araomobfles, bailing, public The GM deal, part of a $20 minion Based on a mere two months on tire ($230,000) creating a Web site to pro- Seafood's Mowi farm near problem.” said Knut-Erik service andrnsun^-—were each expected tobatiheir work advertising package for mini and new Web, GM*s European division is plan- mote the Carling Net football league the western coastal city of Gulbrandsen, quality man- force by between 25,000 and 30.000. media, signaled that Web advertising ning to enlarge on-line advertising for matchesand plastering the address (ht- Bergen are destined for ex- ager at the Mowi form. “Sal- had joined toe mainstream, having its Opel line ofcars beyond its original tp: // www. fa-cariing. com.) on beer port. But there is too much mon forming has only been New $100 Bill to Hit the Streets broken out of toe rarefied realm of focus in Gammy, Switzerland and cans, posters in puls and television salmon on toe world market, around for about 20 years so software producers and technology Austria to encompass all of Europe. commercials. and tire Norwegians, who pi- the fanned product has not WASHINGTON (AIQ A new 100-doflar — bin with a “We see tire site as a tool to improve Updated ten times aday. the rite has oneered salmon farming two bad time to depart genetically bigger, off-centrr picture of Benjamin Franklin *nd several wifmwitarV Tntemef initiative the umbrellabrand image raHv»r than a< received an average of 130,000 hits decades ago. are accused of from the wild variant.” ..s;* innovations to thwart counterfeiters goes into emulation . tn>7? is part of a broader strategy of moving a sales tool, and also as an effective daily since its launch in December, causing the glut. Atle Hide, managing direc- aroond die wodd Monday. into nontraditiona] modes of advert- means oftargeting young buyers,” said according to Jonathan Nye, head of Scottish and Irish compet- tor of Hydro Seafood, a sub- The Mis, expected to be widely available next mnmh —* ising where the consumers invite tire Frank-Thomas Dietz, an executive at sponsorship for the company. itors that Norway, tire sidiary of industrial giant nrwoMif Hia firct gt anufi^wti# m - say ' K message rather than having it directed GM Europe’s headquarters in Zurich. Acquiring a Web site, he said, was world’s biggest producer, is Norsk Hydro AS. said: “Tbe cimcocy ance 1929. Redesign other deooatinatidus is to at them, according to Dean Rotondo, a Yet despite Opel’s overall satisfac- vital “to open up another area of com- flooding the market and caus- focus has been on dumping follow, the Itaeasnxy said. communications manager for GM*s tion with its Web site, Mr. Dietz added munications to people who might not ing depressed prices. and overproduction. But we 'J. North American operations. “The that it was “crystal dear" that print see our message over other media.” Last year, tire European arc really talking abour a busi- Machine-Tool Orders Drop Web gives ns. more of a poll mech- and broadcast media support was — RICHARD COVINGTON Union fixed a minimum price ness that is good, ethically cor- ' 10*2% r, on farmed salmon but rect, healthy and unlimited.” v. Virginia MctEAN, (Bloomberg) — Orders far U-S. in- “With our coastal geo- • ,,1 stopped short of imposing - . r- ,,lE'lBll fefl 5fc dustrial tools last month, the Association . __ _ far Mann- Ann A ~ . w „ _ „ . antidumping measures on graphy I think we can triple or bnsi’ ^ (VoicingInternet Presence, but Haw Effective Are They? Oslo. Norway reciprocated quadruple our production in by ordering a bait to feeding the next 10 to 15 years. The Total antes declined .lOipercenl "to $414.7 million in - Continued from Page 15 program or readers buying a magazine, advertising agency that has conceived for six weeks until mid-Janu- big uncertainty is tbe mar- RP February, though they were still 9.3 percent hagfaer than a year for instance, but give no guarantees toat Web sites for tire European division of ary and has since imposed ket,” Mr. Gulbrandsen said. rices ago. January orders totaled $461-60 mflti«n ‘‘Internet advertising is so far only a tire intended audience actually watered General Motors Coip. and others. Mr. quotas on salmon feed. Salmon is emerging as a Economists follow data cm machine tools, which are used to ditto fa dre ocean and it will take a long or read tire advertisers’ message. By Klein was speaking earlier tins month at The measures, which re- staple of tire 1990s tie way shape and assemble metals in products ranging from these! time before itbecomes a serious dement contrast, with commercial Web sites, an international conference and market duce growth rate, cut produc- mass-produced chicken be- -^05 engines to dishwashers, in-ante to gauge rndnctriai output, in the marketplace,” noted Alan New- advertisers can track each fait and its devoted to mnltimwiia tion by 45,000 tons. came widely available in the consumer Wednesday Kuala Lumpur: Bank Negara Elndhoven, Holland: PhQips Elec- Washington: February durable or- Higher Prices Upset MirtiTT Malaysia, toe central bank, releases tronics NV holds a day-long press ders. 'its 1995 annual report. meeting to talk about semiconduc- Sao Paulo: Institute of Economic IWpfa: The Council for Economic tors. Research releases rolling 30-day in- Dogma in the Market Planning and Development wfll re- Earnings expected: Caradon, flation figures. The Bottle For Russia's Wealth lease leading, coincident and color Kingfisher, Linde, Tiyg-Baftica, VE- Mexico City: Average interbank in- O . indicators for February. BA terest rate. L Tbat ofl, By Hoyd Nonas exporters O The Philippines, A High-Tech Haven — again produce more titan YarkThna Service . New sharehold- tire maricet can absorb. Obe of Thursday Sydney: Reserve Bank of Australia Frankfurt: Bundesbank policy-set- Caracas: Corimon SACA O Business And Voters Are Divided On European Unity NEW YORK — Fifteen these daysltaq wfll cut a deal March 28 Governor Bemie Fraser speaks to ting council meets. ers vote on sale of most overseas years ago, when signs of with toe United Nations to al- business economists. Earnings expected: Deutsche assets and refinancing of debt O Asia Looks To The U.S. For Security Again ti gs: Frontier. Bank, 1NG, Nestle, Volkswagen. Washington: Initial weekly state un- sjadeenfag inflation began to low it to lesnure exports. Annual mee n Golden Bhd., Malaysian Tobacco Co., RFM employment compensation insur- O Science: New Products From The Ocean Floor appear, most investors could . But perhaps it is time to Corp., Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) ance claims. not believe it, and they kept look at demand. commodities and “We actually seem to be Bhd. sure that any heading to a period of less {bonds, . available at your newsstand! : Now 1 Fourth-quarter Buenos Aires: February industrial efficiency,” said Steve Friday Manila: National Power Corp. Copenhagen: gross opens bids for the Masinloo- domestic product production estimate. Those who bought, stocks Strongm, director of com- March 2g BusinessWeek International modities research at Gold- Labrador 230-kilovolt transmission Paris: Industrial production and mer- Ottawa: January gross domestic and bonds got rich. Those 19, 0-60323 Frankfort, Fax 49-69-71407-146 line project chandise trade balance for January; product who keptlooking for inflation man, Sachs & Co., noting that For subacrtpHons call UK 44-1620-23431 Kong Kong 152-2523-2939 Tokyo: February unemployment da- February unemployment Washington: February new-home lost money. American, car buyers seem to UK 44-162M0545 Hong Kong 062-2523-9794 ta. Rome: January unemployment sales. ^ Now, tire opposite set of less concealed with faeleco- betiefo has Trees well incul- nomy titan before and that tire cated m investors. Sure* there developing world seems to be canbeimafarthiccups, buttire confounding the forecasts that secular trend is agamst rising it will grow more efficient as prices of real things and for its economies expand ALITALIA: Losses Mounting rising prices of stocks and Other signs support such Save up to bonds. an oudook/Bond pices have Continued from Page 15 elsewhere in tire industry: im- Oil prides may leap for a suffered tins year, while eco- prove productivity by cutting flew half that amount On in- jobs and routes and then ex- brief tone because of a tem- nomically sensitive stocks °/ porary event. But no one have done well. tercontinental routes, tire pand profitable activities. 69 o on should be so foolish as to bet But tire slow-growtfa con- Italian airlfna racked Up But last November, after a • int***, «nd losses with fag Boeing 747s controversy over concessions that tire prices will not come sensus remains, . conqretifors reputedly made secretly to pi- International backdownagain,thedunking nejflrerinflation naraclimbin when were flying Now anyone dumb ffltwrwt rates can scare in- more efficient jetliners like lots, Mr. Sdnsano was fired, . , goes, and or 777. and in March, Mr. Rivexso enough to keep ad on band as vestors. When Walt Disney Boeing’s 767 new Calls t Rivexso sought cpnt amid bitter recrimina- ~ ikinveifloiy is Qting up capital Co. soJd bonds last week, tire When Mr. demand was overwhelming. to lease 767s from other car- tions over IRI’s corporate 1 in an asset that is all but cer- CALL Yet while toe consensus riers, Alitalia’s pilots strode. governance. But mostly, IRI’s . - tafa to lose value. strong, it has Last year, toe airline faced withdrawal of support was ;T, So investors ignore short-- Ires remained possible to make a lot of 184 hours of strikes. due to jobs and politics. NOW! . hrm market moves, confident been also printed against iL To offset losses on inter- "There are 18JXX)peopleat - tfart tbelonger-tenntrend must money betting 'Digital Clarity Strongm notes that continental routes, Alitalia Alitalia, and elections are ' place. Six onths Mr. <5S still be m m Six Second Billing the lastyear, astrategy of traditionally milked cash soon,” said General Manager ago, • the futures market over the current oil con- cows tike tire Mflan-Ronre Ghitio La Staiza of Noman. Faster Call Backs thought tire correct price for a buying it at expir- run. But toe arrival of tire new Mr. Cempetla. a formerAl- barrel erfealtobe defivercdin tract, then selling No Carrier Change-over ation andbuying the next one, low-fere airlines ended that. italia executive wbo left the April was fast under $17. 24 Hr Customer Service produced a return Paolo Rubfao, Air One's airline temporarily to ran the When that cootrnct finished would have in percent, since commercial director, said Air Roman airport company, has trading last week, it went off of around 40 resolve tmns\it. prices lrept rising One expected to gam a 30 not saidhow be would tire board ar$23.or$6 higher. what the market ex- percent share; of toe Mflan- Alhatia’s problems but has But over tire same six months, above pected- Ronre traffic tins year. Al- asked for two months oflabor tire market's forecast of oil .signs though it has only flown since peace to work out a lan. for late 1997 andeariy By no. means do all p commodity November with its five Boe- But as a condition for fresh has barely bodged, still point to rising prices; or tostrong economies ing 737s, Air One expects capital, tire European Com- ...g.ng around $17-50.^ world. But when $Z5 million to $3 million in xmssign will almost certainly Toulouse Tbe conventional wisdom is around tire _ " the signs are mixed, it is often pretax profit in 1996. mandate measures tike job 31 idea to bet on the un- The remedy prescribed by cuts tm/i redactions fa tire F notary reasons.Maybe iavnntt- a good expected, ratoer than to as- Mr. Riyerao and Mr. Sdus- number of Alitalia’s aircraft cries happen mbelowatatime sume the majority is right. ... ano resembled that applied and routes. of bte weather. There is a firm 1 MnltiManager N.V. 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Cup. minutes from time. in the English championship chase. place in next season’s UEFA champions Rausch, 56, had coached the 1991 Cup and oedhany German carefully- is sriU in the FA it the: The Frenchman rapped a Tie dub warmed up for champion since 1993f helping to semifinal at Borussia Dortmund aimed left-foot shot into the Totten plays Liverpool in the nmaer-up spot hte'fiist year and next week's game against second- m 31. ' Old Trafford on March place season. : Bayern Munich with a 6-0 vic- fourth last i never looked like winning place S«c»iKooN»ar Leals Eantracht Franklin t on Sat- .FHANCEBordeaux followed Tus& tory over 1 spell at the start - and apart from a brief day’s stunning 3-01victory over urday. AG were outplayed by , goal from the edge of the penalty of the second half Milan the -Cnp with a 4-3- ham Bayern. - which entertains in UEFA deservedly lifted the cup area in the 51st minute. Villa who week’s time, remained loss to Rennes in the French league oo.; equaling Liver- Dortmund in a It was Cantona’s 15th god of the for the fifth time, one point behind with a solid 2-1 Saturday. . . season, which began for him on Oct. 1 poors record. victory at Bayer LeveriaisejL Bayern . The resultleftBordeaux, which has SPAltl AUetico Madrid allowed its after his eight-month ban and his fifth nlsuw) /mi* frame; rritm.' points aD; it picked up only three away little hope Sunday when goal in the last five matches. pursuers a home to 'season* wD m d^grafTele^^^; Newcastle, leaders for much of die could only manage a tie at in the premier Real Zaragoza. season, lost top spot Wjtscbge gave the Girondms ancariy when they Fernando Morienfies put the vis- league on goal difference bmpatrice Carteron and SyNain; after 31 minutes, but Amsterdam in midweek. lead lost. 2-0, at Arsenal on Saturday. itors ahead ''' a pen- International striker Kurihwny. WDtord put Rennes 2-1 up by haif^- But Newcastle has two games in Milinko Pandc equalized with set the way with two time. - •*; Riedle them on . hand and eight left. United has six to * within six goals before halftime. Bordeaux went ahead again with play and their run-in looks much less Barcelona closed to 3-1 victory Michael Zoic, Steffen Freund. Jo- goals from Didkx Tholot and Chris-: taxing. points of the leadere with a erg Heinrich Stephane tophe Dugarry. But two more goals in! Tiurd-placed Liverpool, the only at Salamanca. Gmflenno Amor gave and Chapuisat lead, Med- were on target after the brnaki the final 10 minutes by Carteron and!'. other team in the title race, lost 1-0 at the visitors fourth-minute team victory.' Nottingham Forest ina leveled after 1 1 minutes, but two Freiburg, the team with the best Wfltord gave the home record since restarted after Olympics Japan and Sooth Korea At Arsenal, young reserve center- more first-half goals ensured victory the league places -.in' the Atlanta back Scott Marshall, making only his for Barcelona. winter break, maintained its charge claimed tournament after- eighth first-team appearance, scored Third-place Valencia also won on for a UEFA Cup place with a 2-0 Olympics soccer victories the Asian zone; his first goal for Arsenal with a the road, 4-0 in Santiago over Com- victory against Cologne, which fin- semifinal in nhu* - powerful third minute header. postela. ished the matnh with players qualifying group Sunday. Ian Wright scored the second in the Netherlands Ajax Amsterdam after Ralf Hauptmann and Sunday The two countries wiQ meet an title off. to decide the Asian group! 1 7th minute after Newcastle defender moved closer to the Dutch Oliseh were seat Wednesday semifinal losers- Warren Barton lost possession in his Sunday by beating third-placed Fey- Bayern attacked from the kick-off championship while Iraq will play to see! own half. ecoord Rotterdam. 2-0. at Leverkusen. Christian Nedinger Saudi Arabia and In the League Cup final, played PSV Eindhoven lost 1-0 at Gronin- seized on a blunder from Karsten who -will win the third arm final- Sunday at Wembley, north Lormdon, gen to fall five points behind AJax. Ramelow to give Bayern the lead in Olympic berth- Aston Villa beat Leeds United. Less Ajax broke through in the 29th the 40th minute but Levedtusen's Maezono Masakiyo scored in the.the, than a year after avoiding relegation minute when lari litmanea scored. Brazilian midfielder Paulo Sergio fbcuth and 57timunnte, inJapan’s,2rl from the premier league by one point, Nine minutes into the second half a equalised immediately after fee m- victory over the Saudis. Aston, rebuilt by manager Brian cross from Litmanea was tipped away terval after latching on to adxeam pass Choi Yong Su scored in the I9tlj Little, dominated die game. by goalkeeper Ed de Goey, but tire from Claudio Reyna. and 38th minutes to lead South Korea Guoal FuggMntK Anoonod hn It took the lead with a thundering bail fell to Patrick Kluivert who Veteran international Lothar Mat- to 2-1 victory over Iraq, sending the WHEN IN ROME — Fans watching the Rome Marathon on Sunday. Moges 25-meter left foot drive from Serbian scored. thaus scored what turned out to be the Koreans into the Olympic tournament Taylor put the • Taye won the men’s race and fellow Ethiopian Fatuma Roba led the women. Savo Milosevic. Ian PSV Eindhoven was missing six winner for Bayern nine minutes after for a fifth time. Miii Tumbles Again Hi: Australians Kwan Brings Art No. 1 Muster : The Associated Press 29-22 away from day. Dominate Back to Skating KEY B15CAYNE, Honda — Despite the latest loss. Muster win Thomas Muster has given critics of his remain No. 1 unless Sampras readies tins No. 1 ranking more ammunition. Muster final. Sampras easily won his opening Tnatrh, hearing Dutchman Sjeng In Super 12 By Randy Harvey system from a small room un- lost his opening match at the Upton the derneath the stands reserved to unheralded Nicolas Schalken, 6-3, 6-2. LasAngeles Tima Championships for the flower girls. Kwan, 15 Pereira of Venezuela, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. I Swede Upsets Home Favorite Agenct France-Presse EDMONTON, Alberta — was almost paralyzed as she “Maybe he’s the best player in the Australian teams finished the week- There have beat some re- contemplated her turn on the world on clay,” said Pete Sampras, who Magnus Gustafssan of Sweden up end holding three of the top four places markable performances by ice 20 minutes later. is ranked No. 2. “But I don’t think in die Super 12 Southern Hemisphere women figure skaters over the “After I heard Lu Lu's players consider him the best player in provincial rugby series. past three decades — Peggy marks, I thought, ‘What am I tile world on indoor, hard court or Open. Gustafrson drilled a forehand at the national to I'll have do tournament is down the line on match point. New South Wales is on top after Fleming 1968 going do? to” a grass.” The liptan beating the previously undefeated Aus- championships in Phil- quadruple loop to win.’ played on a hard-court surface. Kafelnikov, the Russian defending tralian Capital Territory, 44-10, in adelphia. Dorothy Hamill at But Hank Carroll, who A sullen Master was defiant in defeat champion who is ranked No. 7 in the ' Sydney on Sunday. the 1 975 world championships coaches Kwan, calmed her. Saturday. world, had declared he would win the The Waratahs, who lost to a try two in Munich. Katarina Witt at “You’ve got to believe in “I don't have to show anybody that I tournament. He had dropped only one minutes time weak ago against the 1987 world championships yourself, thatyoucando this,” can do anything anywhere, ” said,. “I set en route to the final, but he proved no from a he ‘ Northern Transvaal, smashed the in Cincinnati — when athleti- hetofiiher. “You're oneof the can do well anywhere.” match for Gustatisson. Brumbies six tries to two, with Wallaby cism and artistry met to create best skaters in the world.” Detractors say the ATP tour computer Kafelnikov won dw doubles with fullback Matt Burke scoring 19 points a magical moment. The best In her provoc- overrates Muster, who struggles an sur- countryman Andrei Olhovsldy over the from a try, four conversions and two But almost no one could ative long program, Kwan faces other than day. Since the start oflast Swedish team ofNicklas Kulti and Peter penalties. remember anything like Sat- portrayed Salome, whose year, he is 70-2 onhis favorite surfeoe and Nyborg, 6-3, 64- Otago relinquished its top spot after urday night in the Edmonton dance of the seven veils losing. 59-29. to Northern Transvaal in Coliseum, where two women earned her the head of John Pretoria. skated so superbly, perhaps the Baptist It earned Kwan Queensland moved into third after better than any women have two 6.0s for presentation to Front-Runner Takes Portuguese staving off a late revival from Wel- before, in a world champi- match Chen’s plus 5.9s from lington to win. 32-25, in Auckland. onship that is likely to be re- the other seven judges. Michelle Kwan skating her world-winning program. In Johannesburg, Transvaal gained membered for ages. Or at But the most revealing dif- Reuters age was cutto one when be bogeyed the its first victory in the Super 12, beating least until next year. Both the ference in their performances, jump that late was the mark of second world championship. LISBON — Wayne Riley of Australia 209-yard, eighth and GatesbirdiediLBul Waikato of New Zealand, 26-23. new champion. Michelle perhaps the only one to all a champion. It gave her seven But, battling anemia that demonstrated his qualities as a front- tiie Australikirespanded with a 15-foot Kwan of the United Stales, except the most astute observ- triple jumps to Chen’s six. forced her to a hospital emer- runner Sunday, winning the Portuguese eagle putt bn the next to be out in 33T. Australian League Kicks Off and the dethroned one, Chen ers. was the triple toe jump Ottavio Cinquama, the gency room last week for Open at Aroeua by two strokes. When he birdied tine 10th, another par The Australian Rugby League premi- Lu of China, are teenagers. that Kwan inserted in the final president of the International treatment, she was never a Riley, who kept Nick Faldo and Cohn five, he was four dear. ership began over the weekend but a Chen, 19, did not let go of seconds. Planning to do a Skating Union who is still factor, finishing seventh. Montgomerie at bay in the Scottish Davis reduced that to one again, after strike by players meant only four of the her title easily, earning two double axel, she opted for the learning figure skating after That was only once place Open last July, completed his second an eagle oh the 10th wife birdies at fee difficult because decades in speedskating, 10 scheduledi games were played,played. 6.0s for presentation in a four- more move ahead ofTonia Kwiatkowski, European golf tour victory after leading I2th mid 17th, while Riley was bogeying The start of the league hadbad ahalready minute long program that she she had not done die triple turned to officials near him runner-up to Kwan in the UJS. from the second day. the 12th and ldfor But at the 397-yard been delayed three weeks by legal ac- skated with grace and pre- loop earlier in her program. and said, "That’s sport" championships. Two Russi- Unruffled by a rain delay of three last hole, he pushed his approach into tions involving clubs that want to farm a cision to Rachmaninov’s Pi- It was not exairtly spon- The field this year con- ans, Irina Slutskaya and hours, RDey shot a closing 70 to finish sand, only just got out and could do no ano Concerto No. 2. taneous because she had prac- sidered so vulnerable that Ja- Maria separate league financed by Rupert Butyrskaya, finished with a 1 3-under-par total of 271. Britons better than a. bogey five^ Declining to watch ticed the program both ways, pan’s Midori Ito, returned third Murdoch's television companies. The Chen 26, and fourth, respectively. Mark Davis and Martin Gates shared Briton Barry Lane equaled the coarse contracted Super perform but listening to the but the decision to attempt a after four years as a profes- France's Surya players to Murdoch's Bonaly, three second place. record with a nine-under 63 to shar§ League stayed away. 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MiMi 30 28 39 25-122 Le ft enchant Franc* Fes&u l a Au- Detroit 38 3a £59 TXh Ham 1, Gatngamp 0 Rermteo a Jiwnlni 1 MlhrariM w"\n — f *1 ~ - _ INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1996 PAGE 21 SPORTS Syracuse Sneaks Past Georgia in Overtime Kansas, Mississippi State and Cincinnati Go to Regional Finals - -."•rk.S'w Washington Post Service seconds left to put his team up 80-78. half. "In the second half. I didn’t hit scored six points in fee run. missed a With 2.8 seconds left in overtime, But, with 2.4 seconds left, Wallace my shots, but with four minutes left I pair of jump shots and Mississippi John Wallace, the Syracuse forward, threw a long inbounds pass to Syra- just said to myself, ‘This is Stale finally 1 left, on a "just a scored wife :30 hit a three-pointer from the top of the cuse guard Jason Cipolla, who nailed basketball game, try to relax.’ driving lay-up from Wilson. key to give the Orangemen an 83-Si a jumper from the left comer as the Mississippi State 60, tfrnvarsjfty of In the final seconds. Allen, who victory over Georgia in the NCAA buzzer sounded. Connaetieut 55 Darryl Wilson of Mis- made an improbable banging last- 1 tournament's West Region semifinals Robinson finished with 21 points sissippi State stole the spotlight from second jumper to beat Georgetown in in Denver. and guard Kam Davis added 1 6 forthe the University of Connecticut’s star fee Big East final, missed his attempt Wallace’s shot sent the Orangemen backcoun of Ray Allen and Doron at a game-tying three-pointer. into the National Collegiate Athletic Sheffer at Rupp Arena. Allen had 22 points to lead Con- Association regional final on Sunday The guard made seven three-point- necticut but Sheffer finished wife 10 against second-seeded Kansas, which Bulldogs. The Orangemen got 19 ers en route to a game-high 27 points points. also won with a clinch shot as time >int.« from center Otis Hill and 17 as the Bulldogs beat the top-seeded Cincinnati 87, fizni pia Tbeh 70 The expired. Cipolla. Huskies in a Southeast Region NCAA Bearcats put the game away wife a 16- Wallace — who declared himself 83, Arizona so Junior guard semifinal game. 5 run early in fee second half, ex- eligible for the National Basketball As- Jerod Haase hit a three-point shot with Mississippi State earned its first tending an eight-point lead by 19 •r,,„ ••*»$ ; , . sociation draft lasr spring but changed 35.9 seconds left to give Kansas the trip to the final eight- But if coach points. •--- UPS nge Agrees With Ewing Michelle Carew Gets Blood Infusion The Associated Press dined to publicly reveal the source of Dallas Cowboys tight end Alfredo He Leads Knicbs in ior 7th Straight Game in Victory Over Mavs Michelle Carew, the 18-year-old much of fee funding. Roberts to testify Tuesday about events daughter of baseball Hall of Famer in a motel room where he and Michael The Associated Press tun as San Antonio won in In- away from their season-worst skid of 19 Rod Carew, received a rare infusion of Irvin were found, along wife cocaine Patrick Ewing- is flourishing under in a row, which lasted from Nov. 7 to infant umbilical-cord blood in hopes II. S. ROUNDUP and marijuana, according to a television the new coach of the New York Knicks, David Robinson topped the Spurs Dec. 13. of staving off fatal leukemia. report- Roberts. 31. one of two women JeffVan Gundy. Ewing led fee Knicks wife 22 points and 13 rebounds. It was Ferry finished wife 22 points and Dr. Mitchell Cairo ar Children’s Hos- in the room wife him and Irvin appeared m scoring for the seventh straight game San Antonio's 13th straight victory. Michael Cage grabbed 14 rebounds for pital of Orange County. California, before fee grand jury Thursday in an- football The Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, wife 36 points in an 85-79 • Person missed his first six shots fee Cavaliers, winners of four of then- found a genetic match of cord blood at swer to a subpoena. But both refused to running back Bam Morris, fee leading victory over the Dallas Mavericks. against his framer team before connect- last five. the New York Blood Center. It will take testify, asserting their 5th Amendment rusher in this year's Super Bowl, was “I think wife Van Gundy as coach, ing for the first oftwo straight 3-poiuters Cleveland remained a full game be- about a month to see whether stem cells right against self-incrimination, fee sta- released from jail after his arrest for we are refocused,” Ewing Mid. - wife 10:03 to play, giving fee Spurs an hind the New York Knirire in the race from the new blood reproduce into tion said. possession of marijuana. Morris was Ewing scored paints in fee fend 81-75 lead. . for the fourth spot in the Eastern Con- healthy blood cells. . 17 t arrested in Rockwell. Texas, during a BASKETBALL The Golden State quarter and hit three critical shots late in The Pacers, playing without leading ference playoff seeding*. The fourth- The Milwaukee Brewers traffic stop after police found what they Warriors will play their 1996-97 home fee fourth period in Dallas as New Yoric N scorer Reggie Mfllav who was ejected seeded team will get home-court ad- submitted a financial package for their said was more than six pounds of games at fee San Jose Arena while extended fee Mavericks’ k»mg streak to wife his second technical in fee third vantage for fee first round. $90 million share ofanew $250 million marijuana in the trunk of his car. their new $121 million stadium is un- games . first with 10 . period, made just one oftheir eight Chris King led Vancouver a ballpark to a stadium board, but de- • A grand jury will order the former der construction in Oakland. “Patrick was amazing," ~ said Van shots in fee final quarter. career-high 20 points. I (itmdy, who is 5-2 since replacing the Two free throws by Rik Smits pro- In games Saturday, Reuters repor- fired Don Nelson. .’‘Wten yqtr’ve been duced Indiana’s only points during San ted: around seven years watching him, Antonio's fourth-quarter scoring run, Tfcntofznrfv— 108, Rockets 103 Ha- Aveiy his amazing is the usual tfiftg for him-” . which ended on aff Johnson' bas- keem. Olajuwon scored 46 points in ‘ Ewing also hauled down 15 rebounds ket feat made fee seme 93-77. The returnfromknee problems butthe Rock- as the Knicks bmh-a 15-pomt lead and Pacers went more than 5 minutes ets stiH lost, allowing Minnesota its first xc withstood a Dallas reify feat riot fee lead without a field goaL victory in Houston in three years. to 79-77 wife 5 minutes, 9 seconds to • Snots topped fee Pacers wife 16 Hawks 92, Pistons 84 Steve Smith 1 play. Ewing seated .two quick baskets, points as Indiana shot 38 percent from scored 27 points, including fee final five field. points of game, to lift Atlanta to THIS and the Mays, who were led by Popeye the fee a ms WEEK ON ' zw&: Jones’s 17 points aid 17 rebounds. San Antonio, which had lost three home-court victory over Detroit Could not recover. rintigbt to Indiana, had six players in Si^srzonics 129, 78ovs 88 hi Seattle, m Pafiick.wus Patrick, feat’s why he double figures. Shawn Kemp scored 20 points and Her- as* got an $18 miTKon boons,*’ said Dick sey Hawkins added 19 to lead the Su- 3 Motta, fee Mavericks* coach. “He was Ferry scored 13 fourth-quarter points as personics to their largest margin of vic- Qevdand held off a rally and handed tory of fee season over Philadelphia. baseline for os to doubfehim.” visiting Vancouver its 18th consecutive Warriors 98, Suns 88 Latrell Sprewell Span loo, paesfs 88 Chuck Person lore.' •= scored 27 points in Oakland as the War- Kt three 3-pointers in a 15-2 fourfe- The Grizzlies’ losing streak is one riors rallied for a victory over Phoenix. -1 • . . , j . , ~ r - t r. . ; ... f...... « ‘Undeserving’ Capitals Slip in PlayoffRace Reuters 1 Peter Bondra’s goal mid- way through fee fend period lifted the Washington Cap- itals to a 2-2 tie wife fee Hart- 1 ford Whalers, biit the Gaps' • , were stiff disappointed. . v Washington fell out of a three-way tie for the final Wr playoff berth in the NHLKoumdof ^ Conference with New J« and Tampa Bay, which - -won. -> “For 40 minutes tonight, I disappointed, nt I -7 \ Was so y ,v* would saydisgusted, with our Mick has won the 500cc Motorcycle World Championship '• Doohan : effort,” said Washington’s * . coach. Em ScboenfekL “We two years running: can he make if a hat trick ? Williams Renault J-- didn’t deserve a tie.” He said his team only man- -MM* achieved a 1-2 in the first race of the season; can Jacques - • • > :**•*. • Carey, <.'! • • play by goalie Jim >5 t. who tad 34 saves. VHIeneuve gain his debut FI win ? **I can’t make any excuses for fee players, I have noreas^ BhaSyaMRoiai 30-31 Malaysian Gnnd-Prix, Shah Alam. ons, they should have no Mnfe, LIVE, H* puck past Bruins goalie Bfll Ranford- • Adam Graves shooting the - TheRangers’ H alibis.” The action w31 be fast, furious and spectacular as the 1996 season gets underway recoded a - Neither team, lmheatm »tmst for TampaBay. Boston’s eight-game . won in Toronto. at the Sbrib Ahm otuit, outride of Koala Lasqm. shot in overtime as Hartford PSnfeere lost far.just Leafs have dropped outshot fee Capitals, 36-32. The Ranges squandered a three straight and recorded a 29-31 Mrafe, LIVE, The Brarifea Grand-Prut, faiteriogos. eight points the second time in 13 meet- The »• The Whalers are > three-goal lead in Bos&m be- season-low in shots. . their Florida rivals. After seeing Damon coHed maxanom points the opening race of the season, of fee final playoff spot in mgs wife HU n our * p°^ fin- O In ! t. r n~" fore recovering.- Messer FhwiM 4, Canucks - ¥ Michael Sdmmather be anxious to strike bade Brazi. the East. two two Kidd, die wffl a lriwuif a On LaFantahte scored fee game- ished wife goals and Vancouver, Trevor . oavB* 3. added a pair of assists and Brian- Leetch had. Calgary goalie, stopped 26 Island, Sieve Thomas winner and 19-24 Monk, UVL The ATP Upton Chaapawslq), Key Kscayne. Long three assists for New York, shots to notch bis third gainst assists, whik? 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Sports MONDAY MARCH 25, 1996 ** PAGE 22 World Roundup \ • Triiuni next threew^s^ •. i and might miss the which see Milan away By Ian Thomsen well --all of Herald Tribune Johnson’s Double JntemttiOKd uponBaggiotoi^c^ The fens let ACMikn goak bxre b^i MILAN — games to Weah’s athletics The International Baggio hasn’t winning this season. But Amateur Athletics Federation de- Michael feTfemself; the cided Sunday to allow of representing Cud isn’t even certain Johnson to attempt a unique 200- the European Champions^ 400-meter double at the beanngthatsftengtherwd Sly in and Pannaina 3 -0 When Baggm ***«*? Atlanta. The LAAF summer. Olympics in heretofore arthritic hqldontlK: Olympic schedule so Milan’s consoling- wito the changed the championship. Milan midway- through the 400-meter Italian Panlo Di Casio all rounds of the men’s ova Juvenms lead to eight pomts Uteraltyr^^^ . before the its the first halt the crowd race will be completed left. Nonetheless, eight games • nnamne^ch^ejf^ of the 200-meter with “I couldn’t first round - pleased- . (Reuters) boss was not foe people in the st^^ event. fens to act mThis from is wrong for the ^ marathon “It » Olympic men's complained wav ” Silvio Berfuscom champion Hwang Young Jo may jasssssacBa?:* E,as the 80,000 seafeempned^d very happy for hnm . unable to defend his title in his fault. I’m be a few alarming fixecrackere able to say ber to qualify for him and This last bit he was Atlanta after failing .'redeeming team went off nearby. be created Baggio’s the South Korean match for “ens. cause (Reuters) His anger was no Sunday. peltedIdle team great The fens had ^Mfi gtl is criticized for hoarding arrived for tte game stones when it ^ players, but in shriEjnoments hkpto treatment normally reserved the sort of Berlusconi canUhavetoo^ay teams. ... Bamadetwaa for visiting . Savicevic took on one were upset already by thehis- theteten: They and theii fee other, though mates were but a stride or two --- and few hard turns of Bondings wnsts Cup by losmg »Bwkaiix, delivering feeUEFA he was out of the handcuffs, Tuesday, which extradedits point- 3-0, cm easiest strike for Baggio, games (horrore ) tfae losing streak to two blank. • , , _ die derby with In- , after losing Two minutes into die second half temazionale two weeks ago- rambled down to of dirt, Roberto Dooadoai Then, like the first shovelfiill game ririxt wing to ice die Baggio missed a penalty- with a 73d Roberto Savicevic padded the lead was awarded to him in the Iltn It hand minute goal after Baggio appearedlro minute, skittish opening mmutes, o Tassom, only After the down a pass fromMaur coalesced and al- tfae Milan defense tripped by the goalkeeper. to be practically nothing- Franco put Baggio on the spot, lowed The referee fellow 36- : Baxesi was bolstered by his banners com- ! -c.% i \%1,. where he faced the many and Fffippo ; AhociMoI Prcm year-old, Manro Tassoto. AM Br«dkn*/nic Milan’s weak-kneed per- s:it ** plaining about 33. Between ttem^nd Paul Tergat breaking the tape Bordeaux and harsh rc- Galli, who is formance at the back four has country title. Pado MaldinL 27. to keep his cross minders of who pays the Payers games m the The flayed more than l300 Bun (that is, not Berlusconi). salaries Fiorentina’s Unbeaten leaned plan cnampiULism^. Breaks authors of such clever phrases were Title Juventus “The three of us old players, we Kenyan Retains balconies to see Loca Boca . out from the _ . . r j Andrea« _ TentoniTontiwii scoredwnred twice. playing together 10 years ago;ftxAmgo Fontolan s for whan his left fix' the easiest COUHTRT Paul Teigat of victory at Udinese. Davide staged a dive casually to "beginning of the Ber- cross Reuters Italian Cup finalists Atalanta rained Sacchi at die retained his minute strike and Brazilian save. Then the sloes opened and Kenya comfortably run superb 23d to bring Samp- Galli said proudly. . Fiorentina’s 15-match unbeaten minute penalty second-half comeback lusconi era,” world cross country title, finishing Roberto Carlos's 64th successive home frl coach, Nevio Seala. at- spoiled Sunday by a 1-0 home loss doria’s run of four of The Parma front of runner-up was Baggio is the new symbol Mill’s tohis 12 seconds in Juventus halt. David Ballen and the second-half collapse to Juventus. The victory lifted victories to a such a lead in the tributed Hissou of Morocco. Fellow Italian Soeeit up problems. To have defeat against Par- Salah in Serie A, a point Chiesa put Sampdona two club’s Winner’s Cup third. into second place Enrico strongest championship, all op- Kenyan Ismael Kirui was Christian Vien and world’s just three days earlier. Fiorentina. victory before halftime, but problems; but is St. Germain Haile Gebreselaise s above secured Inter's sixth successive ponents yearn for such the re- Ethiopia's on an own-goal from Domenico Morfeo took advanrage of Scala had nothing to say about damn- Juventus won despite the 45th minute lacking six players because in Jta hopes of ending Kenya’s deflected — achieved before Damele hSanwas replaced next season by Amoruso, who defensive errors to level five first- ports he will be were dashed after Lorenzo of England’s Paul Ince. injury or illness, including ation ofthe event minute free dismissal the deader seven of the Milan coach. Michele Padovano’s 28th Euro- Fortunate scored the Libenan Fabio Capello, kilometers, when he clipped a Juventus, lifted by its midweek teameis, chief among them opinion. 10 Francesco offered a minority . goalkeeper, from time. . CapeOo dropped kick past his over Real Madrid, minutes the world’s hading tree stump, stumbled and pean Cup victory Prom, hit George Weah, right to be opoct^ Within two minutes, Fiorentina Serie A’s top scorer, Igor “The fens had every , Gete Warm Toldo. its old champion- suffered abroken handTues- frtjm the leading group. showed glimpses of season as Ban striker. He That was easy for*; reduced to 10 men by the dismissal his 18th goal of the injured with us,” he said- won the women s trite was ship-winning form. day (one of three Milan players of Ethiopia . the bottom with a 2-1 victory him: He’s probablyleasing. of Michele Serena. its third moved off surgery Friday seconds. (Reuters. AFP) Lazio dropped to sixth after that night), underwent by six fourth place, the Padova. Inter moved into 2-1 ai Cremonese, over a 2-1 successive defeat — highest position this season, after Colombo Takes Classic cycling Italy’s Gabriele Colombo won the Milan-San of Remo, the fust cycling classic crossing the line a few UMass the season, meters ahead of Ukraine s Alex- (AFP) KMHocky 88, WMw Fowrt In Min- andre Gontchenkov. and trail by only four at Otis point deficit Wildcats re- each from Wallace and first neapolis, the Kentucky CcmpMbrOwSvfFromDBpmi** halftime. But he missed his they got inside Kan- turned to a familiar position — with Probe in a zone Sunday, and Hill as shots of the second half Hong Kong Drug Syracuse was seven throat for 40 Final sas’s man-to-man defense their feet on an opponent’s now the Orangemen are in fee and finished with 23 points Hoag Kong ra- numerous occasions for minutes. HORSE RACING time since 1989. on shooting. . „ . -- Four for the first on 6-for-21 game or authorities launched a drug in- shoot- easy lay-ups. The Wildcats wan their 32nd cing Forcing Kansas into a miserable But die Minutemen’ horses from a lead- Syracuse led by nine season, easily slapping aside fee quiry after three tight 2-3 zone, Syracuse Marcus Camby, also a fee ing game with a at fee were scratched Saturday 6B- points at halftime, but Wake Forest Demon Deacons ing stable upsetthe second-seeded Jayhawks, first-team All-American, banned La.- final in fee Metro- after testing positive for a Collegiate Ath- Vaughn and Raef stmt of Midwest Regional to win the National took over at the the staWe 57, of the substance. Six horses from Regional. Frenz came out half. He dome. letic Association West the second positive for the banned room looking to Forest fought valiantly, closing have tested When Jacque Vaughn's last 3-pornt locker scored on a tip-in, tyro Wake in checks back into the final five minutes to 66- decongestant Dembrexine the rim as time ran get Kansas high-arcmg die gap in the attempt clanged off jumpers and a ' trainer, Patrick Bi- Diving for balls and ordered by the Syracuse players mobbed eachotn- game. bank shot over Jahidi 55. (Reuters) out, the lane. many good ancone of France. their improbable flying through But Kentucky had too er in celebration of White to help UMass get Vaughn and LaFrenz players, too many varieties of its NCAA tournament run. off to an 1 1-1 run. He fin- with scored the first 15 points of dreaded full-court trap, too much quick- Takanohana Wins Jason Cipolla made a free throw ished with 22 points, seven second half as Kansas much hustle and too much seconds left to give fourth-seeded the rebounds and three blocked ness, too cham- 12.5 18-5 Deacons to Yokozuna (grand roared back with an going its way for fee Demon sumo Syracuse its final margin. shots even though he com- Takanohana, already as- pion) to hold Syra- ™n. , , ... minutes, 34 withstand. _ , While Kansas managed his fourth foul with 12 , __ . 4 title, 2-minute stretch late in the mitted had. sured of bis 12th tournament Wallace, in check. thP But in a and Entering fee game, the Wildcats cusp's star, John seconds remaining in fee game Epps jumping on Wayne out Hawaiian-born outside with Syracuse holding a 54-52 with an average of 52 Anthony forced hawks' desperately needed game minutes. Massachusetts won three games fin- Jay badly on three played only 28 3- after the Wildcats’ victory-. Musashimaru on Sunday and Kansas connec- lead, Kansas misfired percent floor shooting. 44 percent Turner shooting eluded them. barely needed him by feat stage because Grand Sumo possessions. assists, 13 steals, ished the Spring 3-point attempts. straight . WBnutemen point shooting, 263 ted on only 4 of 25 Uni- his early spurt had given the Wake’s All-Americaji with a 14-1 record. UMass 86, Georgetown 62 The forced and 983 pomis Ton Duncan, Tournament final shot by Vaughn was sym- good. 20.7 turnovers hue The the art of a double-digit lead for was bottled up and then shu£ took • center, had clinched the inability to versity of Massachusetts ' Takanohana Jayhawks’ utter * to pick it up, per game. _ bolic of the beating ‘We just knew we had first half, whenever he his closest rivals of defense to a new level Saturday, numbers on baturoay: down. In fee Saturday when shot. Kansas had plenty in the same The Kentucky hit the long Region- Camby said. “We were ball in the low post, he and Wakanohana Vaughn Georgetown in the NCAA East floor shooting, 63.6 per- touched fee Takanonami set up the final shot, but took it upon 52.8 percent time to Four for position last year, so I in. a ferocious mannec their third defeats. (AP basket as al final to advance to the Final of 11), 22 as- double-teamed suffered not get a good look at the cent 3-point shooting O did history. myself to make it happen.” bumped and pushed away from fee out to the First time in school steals, 20 turnovers forced and and the Syracuse defense stretched Hoyas had 22 turnovers, 16 of sists, 9 the Hoyas The - i The Minutemen held goaL . . the Lake the final points. steals. 83 points. Laker at deny , which came on Massachusetts getting frus^ A high-powered offense to its second- over its “I could itee he was Kansas trailed 59-54 before Vaughn Harrington was Wake Forest was in way Slaughter, of the season. Senior center Othella Walker said of Duncan. Fred 3-pointers to lowest scoring game • trated,” basketball one of his team's few score in doable head. the hit • that they were a fee only other Hoya to around. like he wanted v agent for Cedric Ceballos, two with ‘That was shown — in. feet that Ken- was looking the pull the Jayhawks to within points. The team shot It was evident the Lakers forward who team.” said Alien Iverson, a figures, wife 13 on shoot, but he didn’t feke bad. shots. He*- Angeles Wallace then better the five spots ' * N Los 133 seconds left. John game, including 28 tucky earned four of 1 i after 35 percent for the ... club real team player” . suspended by the Cipolla, who was Georgetown guard. -tournament team, in- a .. in was in bounded a pass to half. this region’s all called will meet Midwest Re- percent in the second • Foresttook only 18 shots m fee -j disappearing Wednesday, Massachusetts tte region s . Wake immediately fouled by Vaughn. just cluding guard Tony Delk, - made national Massachusetts is more than took 26. the team to say Ceballos had of his shoot- gion champion Kentucky in a first half. Kentucky Cipolla, cut on the fingers Forwards Donra Bright and most valuable player. him and was fine. Saturday in East Rutherford, Camby. The second hair. was much bemerfer contact with early in die game, missed the semifinal Delk scored 25 points Saturday and the ing hand Dana Dingle had 17 points and 10 points, already been Slaughter told the Lakers that second. New Jersey. only 2 of Wake, but the damage had “ - * free throw but made die only missed 4 of 13 shots and Sic-., -i personal fust All-American, respectively, and Travieso had six three- too severe. Wake Forest . was working on a percent Iverson, a first-team and.Deeek. done and it was c player Kansas was held to 34.4 “Those guys were 6 3-pointers. Anthony Epps - W; owner of a busi- in the first half, when pointers and 20 points. finish wife 36.2 percent flofe problem. But the the Syracuse zone, which carried the Hoyas points earn) and Antoine would V, Arizona, shooting by very unselfish and understood their Anderson (12 Lake Havasu, the scored half the team’s 34 points. At shooting, . . .(AP, WP, NYT) ness in continually frustrated efforts to get he Walker points) were fee other Wild- ski- Harrington said. “Each of them (9 there water straight points to roles," - Earlier games. 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