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FROM THE FRONT PAGE President Takes Tack Clinton Declares ‘Big Government’ Era Over Of a Front-Runner WASHINGTON — Offering his own clean up abandoned industrial sites. idea of limited government to compete And the President resurrected a WASHINGTON — President Clin- with the Republican vision, President theme of his 1992 campaign, saying ton gave a front-runner’s speech Clinton Tuesday night challenged the that citizens must share responsibility Tuesday night, the speech of a candi- nation to provide enough educational with their government, urging families date confident that he is ahead. opportunities, economic security and to make efforts to stay together, watch In a State of the Union Message freedom from crime to allow Ameri- closely over their children and end do- that proposed an agenda cans to make the most of an “age of mestic violence. News not only for this year but possibility.’’ “To improve the state of our union, Analysis also for the second term In an election-year State of the Union we must all ask more of ourselves,’’ Mr. that Mr. Clinton hopes Message, Mr. Clinton separated him- Clinton said. “We must expect more of to win in November, he self decisively from Democratic ortho- each other and we must face our chal- dwelt only briefly on the protracted doxy, twice pronouncing that the “era of lenges together.’’ struggle over the budget. He sounded big government is over.’’ “The era of big government is over,’’ almost as if the fight was over. In his He outlined seven areas of challenge he continued. “But we cannot go back prepared text, he told Congress and for the nation and a number of small to the time when our citizens were left the nation, “I am convinced we will steps that the Government might take to fend for themselves. We must go for- balance the budget and make perma- to allow its citizens to help themselves, ward as one America — a nation work- nent deficits yesterday’s legacy.’’ ranging from a $1,000 merit scholar- ing together, to meet the challenges we Then he hurried on to the future, ship for the top 5 percent of graduates face together. Self-reliance and team- setting out a series of challenges that from each public high school to an work are not opposing virtues — we he said the nation faced in what he F.B.I.-waged war on youth gangs and to must have both.’’ termed this “Age of Possibility.’’ targeted tax credits for companies that By ALISON MITCHELL That future, the President said again and again, using various Wary of Attack, U.S. Bolsters Security in Bosnia metaphors and examples, could only be achieved by teamwork between Re- SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegov- political leaders. The other reason publicans and Democrats, between ina — American forces in Bosnia cited in intelligence reports was the Federal and state and local govern- have heightened security after intel- American pressure on the Bosnian ments, between government and the ligence reports suggested that mili- Government to expel the foreign vol- private sector. He set himself against tant Muslim groups were planning unteers from Islamic countries who “division, discrimination and rancor’’ terrorist attacks against American have trained Bosnian troops and and argued that “self-reliance and targets in Bosnia. fought alongside them. teamwork are not opposing virtues.’’ The reports said the attacks were in- On Sunday the Islamic Group, an Mr. Clinton has spent the last year tended as retaliation for the life sen- Egyptian militant organization that facing a hostile Congress. But unlike tence given to Sheik Omar Abdel Rah- considers the Sheik a spiritual leader, many of his predecessors, notably man by a Federal judge in New York vowed in a statement that it would set Harry Truman, who found them- this month. He was convicted of plot- its sights on the United States in re- selves in a similar situation, he chose ting terrorist acts aimed at New York taliation for the Sheik’s sentence. not to lambaste the Republicans City landmarks and conspiring to kill By CHRIS HEDGES Tuesday night. Instead, he took the high road, referring only obliquely to Japan’s Trade Surplus Decreased in 1995 his differences with the House and Senate, as when he said the nation TOKYO — Japan’s giant overall and imports, fell 11.4 percent in 1995 could not “go back to the era of fend- trade surplus shrank in 1995 for the to $107.1 billion, from $120.9 billion in ing for yourself.’’ first time in five years, led by a sub- 1994, the Ministry of Finance reported The President left it to his chief of stantial narrowing in the politically early Tuesday. staff, Leon E. Panetta, to put that sensitive gap with the United States. Behind the decline was the rise of point in robust language. Many analysts say the decline is the Japanese yen in recent years, The Republicans, Mr. Panetta sug- likely to continue, and help ease ten- which encouraged imports of every- gested at a pre-speech briefing, sions with the nation’s trading part- thing from American personal com- wanted to take the country back to ners and help keep the dollar strong. puters to Australian beef, while the law of the jungle, “the survival The Government reported Tuesday crimping Japan’s exports of such prod- of the fittest.’’ that Japan’s merchandise trade sur- ucts as cars. By R. W. APPLE Jr. plus, the difference between exports By ANDREW POLLACK Fax Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996 2 INTERNATIONAL China Rattles Its Saber to Curb Taiwan Briefly Noted BEIJING — The Chinese leadership Administration has “no independent S. Korean Ex-President Indicted has sent unusually explicit warnings confirmation or even credible evidence’’ TOKYO — South Korean prosecu- to the Clinton Administration that that the Chinese are contemplating an tors indicted former President Chun China has completed plans for a limit- attack on Taiwan, and spoke almost Doo Hwan Tuesday for overseeing the ed military attack on Taiwan that dismissively of the prospect. massacre of hundreds of pro-democra- could be launched in the weeks after “They can fire missiles, but Taiwan cy demonstrators in 1980. Taiwan’s President, Lee Teng-hui, wins has some teeth of its own,’’ the official The massacre, in which young the first democratic balloting for the said. “And does China want to risk demonstrators in the city of Kwangju presidency in March. that and the international effects?’’ were shot and clubbed to death, The purpose of this saber-rattling is By PATRICK E. TYLER shocked the world. The indictment of- apparently to prod the United States fers a reminder of how harsh repres- to rein in Taiwan and its leader, Presi- U.S. Regrets Hiding Arms sion, even if it seems successful initial- dent Lee, whose push for greater inter- ly, can fester beneath the surface and national recognition for the island of WASHINGTON — The United bring down dictators many years later. 21 million people, has been condemned States formally apologized to Austria here as a drive for independence. Tuesday, saying it failed for four Panel Urges British Policy Shift While no one familiar with the decades to inform successive govern- BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The threats thinks China is on the verge of ments about 79 secret arms caches set international commission for disar- risking a catastrophic war against Tai- up on Austrian soil by the Central In- mament in Northern Ireland has rec- wan, some China experts fear that the telligence Agency. The caches of guns, ommended that Britain drop its de- Taiwan issue has become such a test of ammunition and explosives were mand that the Irish Republican Army national pride for Chinese leaders that stashed in remote areas in the early begin to disarm before its political the danger of war should be taken seri- 1950’s to support an underground net- arm, Sinn Fein, is allowed to take ously. work of partisans in the event of a So- part in full-fledged peace talks, offi- A senior American official said the viet invasion. cials said Tuesday. The commission, headed by former Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, has also recommended that Sinn Fein Proposed Kenyan Press Laws Draw Fire give new assurances that the I.R.A.’s NAIROBI, Kenya — The Government governing Kenya African National cease-fire, now in its 17th month, is is moving to enact two laws that jour- Union have a comfortable majority in permanent and that the overwhelm- nalists here say would muzzle indepen- Parliament, so the laws are expected to ingly Roman Catholic organization dent newspapers. The proposals have be passed. The proposals have drawn a has no intention of resuming its vio- stirred a political storm in this East barrage of criticism from civil-rights lent campaign in the predominantly African country, where journalists have lawyers, editors, reporters and Western Protestant province. had increasing freedom since the Gov- diplomats. ernment first held multiparty elections “This council has been given too much Tainted Campaign Money Alleged in 1991. power,’’ said Joseph Odindo, the editor BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s One proposed law would set up a 13- of the weekly The East African. “In politics have been thrown into turmoil member press council and give it the some cases they have more power than by a former senior official’s charges power to license journalists. The council a court of law. ’’ that President Ernesto Samper know- would be able to strip reporters of their Attorney General Amos Wako denied ingly received contributions by drug licenses or bar them from working if that the Government would use it to si- traffickers to his 1994 campaign. they violated a Government-mandated lence dissent. “That’s nonsense,’’ he said. On Sunday night, Fernando Botero, code of ethics. “The intention really is to have the in- who served as Mr. Samper’s cam- In theory, Kenyan journalists would dustry itself control the press council.’’ paign manager and later as his De- hold a majority on the council, but be- By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. fense Minister, said in a television in- cause many broadcast outlets and news- terview that Mr. Samper had been papers are owned by the Government or “very seriously compromised’’ by re- by members of the governing party, the Rabin Assassin Testifies ceiving millions of dollars in contribu- council could in fact be dominated by tions from leaders of the Cali cocaine the President’s allies. TEL AVIV — Answering murder organization. Despite this apparent The second bill would set up a com- charges at his trial Tuesday, Yigal confirmation of long-rumored mission with broad power to revoke Amir said he had intended only to par- charges, Mr. Samper continues to media licenses and seize newspapers or alyze Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin deny that he knowingly received drug broadcast equipment. and his policies when he fired three money, and he has refused to step “If they are adopted in their present shots that killed Mr. Rabin on Nov. 4. down despite growing calls for his form, I think it could spell the end of The assassin spoke on the first full day resignation. press freedom in Kenya,’’ said Wilfred of his trial in Tel Aviv District Court, Mr. Botero resigned from his minis- D. Kiboro, the manager of The Nation which was marked by discord between terial post last August and was ar- Group, which publishes three papers. his two lawyers and confusion over rested on suspicion of illicit enrich- President Daniel arap Moi and his which of them was representing him. ment days later. He is awaiting trial. Fax Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996 3 UNITED STATES In Response, Dole Hits Clinton as Elitist Briefly Noted WASHINGTON — Delivering the Re- hands of our police, restore justice to G.O.P. Delays Action on Budget publican response to President Clin- our courts and put our faith once WASHINGTON — House and Senate ton’s State of the Union address, Sena- again in the basic goodness, wisdom Republicans agreed Tuesday to put off tor Bob Dole attempted Tuesday night and self-reliance of our people.” action on the national debt limit until to take from the President the mantle In an unusually blistering assess- late February, but they failed to agree of “change,” deriding Mr. Clinton as an ment of the President, Mr. Dole said on details of a bill designed to keep the elitist and “almost the last public de- Mr. Clinton “shares a view of America Government from another partial shut- fender of a discredited status quo.” held by our country’s elites,” which he down on Saturday. Speaker Newt Gin- Mr. Dole, the Republican leader in characterized as “a nation of special- grich said Republicans would not pass the Senate and the front-runner for his interest groups, united only by a de- a measure increasing the borrowing party’s Presidential nomination, said pendence on government, competing limit free of conditions, but would seek earlier in the day that he viewed Mr. with each other for hand-outs, held to add some elements that President Clinton’s speech as “a signal that the back by out-dated values.” Clinton also favors, possibly a tax cut race is on,” and Mr. Dole used his re- At another point, he said the prob- to help families with children. sponse time to lay out far more force- lem with the country was that “the Transport Board Assails F.A.A. fully than he has on the campaign trail elites in charge don’t believe in what the main themes of his own candidacy. the people believe in.” WASHINGTON — The nation’s air “We must rein in our runaway Gov- As he spoke from his Senate office in traffic control system suffers long, ernment,” he said in a prepared ad- the Capitol, Mr. Dole gave a national costly breakdowns not just because it dress just moments after the Presi- television audience about 12 minutes is old, but because poor decisions by dent’s, “return power to the people, re- to size him up as a potential comman- the Federal Aviation Administration duce the tax burden, put parents back der-in-chief. have left the agency ill-prepared to in charge of our schools, untie the By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE maintain the 30-year-old computers, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The board began its investigation last spring after Smaller Colleges Offering Tuition Reductions major breakdowns at the Chicago Despite the conventional wisdom predicting a dramatic drop in college Center. It said Tuesday that most of that the costs of higher education will costs, certainly not at the nation’s elite the breakdowns posed very little risk keep rising, a once-unthinkable phrase, college and universities. But they say of accident, but it added that con- tuition cuts, has been heard more fre- that what is happening now is the be- trollers need more training in what to quently at America’s colleges and uni- ginning of a process that could keep do when their equipment suddenly versities. Most of the schools that have college costs down after having risen breaks down and some information announced price cuts have been small, at more than twice the rate of inflation disappears from their screens. regional colleges and universities look- for a long time. ing for an advantage in increasingly What has helped push tuition costs Forbes Gains in N.Y. Ballot Fight competitive markets. But Princeton down, they say, has been the increasing ALBANY — Senator Bob Dole’s this week announced its smallest tu- competitiveness among schools, a more Presidential campaign largely failed ition increase in 28 years and such re- cost-conscious national attitude and Tuesday in its first attempt to prove spected institutions as the University the widespread frustration with the that Steve Forbes had not met the Re- of Rochester and Lehigh University standard practice of discounting prices publican Party’s tough rules for earn- have offered tuition reductions or other through scholarships and other forms ing a spot on the state primary ballot. innovations in the past two years. of aid, while keeping tuition high. The New York City Board of Elections Few experts on higher education are By PETER APPLEBOME ruled Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Forbes’s petitions for entering the March 7 primary were valid in 9 of the Hartford Ends Experiment in School Privatization 11 Congressional districts that are en- tirely in the city. HARTFORD — Hartford school offi- timore. And earlier in the year, Dade cials said Tuesday that they intended County, Fla., declined to renew E.A.I.’s Son Gets Custody of Ailing Father to end the nation’s largest experiment contract to manage an elementary PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) — A judge in private management of public school there. Tuesday awarded temporary custody schools, leaving its contractor, Educa- But in Hartford, as in Baltimore, the of a man with Alzheimer’s disease to tion Alternatives, once the leader in decisive issue was not education, al- the son who went to court to prevent private management, with no con- though the company’s efforts had been his father from committing suicide tracts in public school systems. hotly disputed by teachers’ unions in with help from Jack Kevorkian. In a The imminent cancellation of the both cities. Instead, the breaking case that has bitterly divided a family five-year Hartford contract, which was point came over finances — how much and highlighted the legal and moral signed in 1994, follows a similar early control a for-profit company should complexities surrounding assisted sui- cancellation in November of a contract have over a struggling city’s school cide, Probate Judge Fred Mulhauser under which Education Alternatives budget, and how much it should be ruled that Gerald Klooster Sr. should Inc. managed 11 public schools in Bal- paid. remain in Michigan for now. Fax Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996 4 BUSINESS

Incomes Rose Only Slightly in November DOW DOLLAR 30 vs. Japanese WASHINGTON — Personal incomes the likelihood that the Federal Re- Industrials Yen edged up just two-tenths of 1 percent serve would make another cut in in November, the Commerce Depart- short-term interest rates at a policy 5,192.27 105.84 Yen ment said Tuesday, providing another meeting next Tuesday and Wednes- -27.09 +0.07 Yen sign that the economy was slowing. day whether or not Congress and the The report also said consumer Clinton Administration can resolve spending jumped a surprising nine- the budget impasse. OIL BONDS tenths of 1 percent in November, its Some estimated that the economy’s Nymex 30-Year biggest monthly gain since early 1994. overall growth rate slid to 2 percent in Spot Treasuries But some economists discounted that the last quarter of 1995, from 3.2 per- gain, saying the scant rise in personal cent in the third quarter. They also $18.06 6.09% incomes, and reports of poor holiday said the slowdown and disruptions -$0.09 +0.05 retail sales, suggested consumer from winter storms might cut econom- spending had weakened since then. ic growth to 1 to 2 percent in the first Several economists said the slug- quarter of 1996. gish growth in income could increase By CHRISTOPHER DREW Stock Market Retreats Stock prices slipped Tuesday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average Creditors Give Fokker a Month to Plot Survival streaked to an all-time high. The Dow LONDON — Seeking time to avert the Dutch Government was willing to fell 27.09 points, to 5,192.27, after surg- collapse, Fokker N.V., the Dutch air- provide. ing more than 150 points in the previ- craft maker, said Tuesday night that Ben van Schaik, Fokker’s chair- ous three sessions. Among the broader its main subsidiaries had been grant- man, said at a news conference in indicators, the Standard & Poor’s 500- ed one month’s protection from credi- Amsterdam Tuesday night, “If we can stock index eased 0.61 point, to 612.79, tors after the cutoff of financial sup- find a partner for the companies for and the Nasdaq composite index port from Daimler-Benz A.G., its Ger- which we filed for protection, these dropped 1.40 points, to 1,028.04. man benefactor. companies can be saved. Alone, these “Earnings are the key issue,’’ said The decision appeared to be little companies cannot compete on the John H. Shaughnessy, senior vice more than a stopgap measure, with world market.’’ president of Advest Inc. “Weaker- the announcement on Monday by Aerospace companies like Bom- than-expected earnings are having a Daimler-Benz, which holds a control- bardier of Canada, which makes negative effect on the individual ling stake in Fokker, that it was ef- wings for Fokker planes, and British stocks and the entire market.’’ fectively abandoning Fokker after Aerospace, one of Fokker’s main ri- Declines were just a notch above ad- several years of heavy losses. vals in the hotly competitive regional vances on the New York Stock Ex- Analysts said that Fokker’s only re- jet market, are likely to take a look at change, 1,201 to 1,138. Big Board vol- alistic strategy now was to find buy- purchasing pieces of Fokker’s busi- ume increased to 416.9 million shares, ers for its aircraft-building and other ness, analysts said. But they also from 398 million on Monday. aerospace activities, and that its abil- said it was by no means certain that Disappointing profits affected the ity to attract a buyer would probably Fokker would attract bids. stocks of Texas Instruments, Cum- hinge on how much financial support By RICHARD W. STEVENSON mins Engine, Monsanto and UAL, the parent company of United Airlines. Cummins dropped 3/4, to 37 1/4; Mon- Texas Instruments’ Quarterly Earnings Disappoint santo declined 2 3/8, to 120 5/8, and UAL gave up 4 7/8, to 163 5/8. DALLAS — Texas Instruments re- orders, although up about 40 percent Oil issues were hit by speculation ported disappointing earnings Tues- from the fourth quarter of 1994, fell a that Iraq may be allowed by the Unit- day, and then compounded the let- few percentage points from the third ed Nations to export limited amounts down by forecasting that the entire quarter, and its notebook computer of crude oil. Chevron closed at 51 3/4, computer chip industry was facing and software division showed a loss. down 1 7/8; Exxon closed at 78, down slower growth and sagging prices. Texas Instruments’ frustrations are 1 5/8; ARCO closed at 111 5/8, down 1 Several analysts who were already still the sort that most other business- 1/2, and Royal Dutch/Shell closed at chopping their estimates for future es would welcome: the company’s 35 1/8, down 1. earnings said the company’s showing earnings rose 54.8 percent, to a record Two computer disk-drive manufac- confirmed that the technology indus- $291 million, or $1.50 a share, from turers slumped on earnings warnings. try’s current boom, not to mention the $188 million, or 99 cents a share, in Read-Rite, which on Monday warned technology investing boom, was over. the comparable period a year earlier. of lower profit margins in the current Texas Instruments, the chip maker But that was below analysts’ fore- quarter, plummeted 4 1/2, to 20 1/2, in based in Dallas, warned that semicon- casts of $1.58 a share, and the stock of heavy trading. And Komag, which ductor profits were narrowing and Texas Instruments skidded $2.50, to said that profit margins could narrow that customer inventories were $46.50, on the New York Stock Ex- this year, plunged 3 5/16, to 26 13/16. bulging. Its own fourth-quarter chip change. By LEONARD SLOANE Fax Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996 5 BUSINESS N.Y.S.E. Most Active Issues Vol. Last Chg. Apple Merger Rumors Fuel Heavy Trading CHILGENER 5448300 24 1/4 + 1/8 TEL MEX 5244600 33 3/4 Ð 1/4 CUPERTINO, Calif. — Shares of $3.50 Tuesday, before Mr. Markula’s MICRON TECH 4344900 32 + 1/4 Apple Computer Inc. gave back most comments, and still ended the day at IBM 4184100 102 7/8 + 1/2 TEXAS INSTR 4173000 46 1/4 Ð 2 3/8 of its gains in after-hours trading $31.625, up $1.125 on volume of 8.8 HECLA MIN 3264600 8 1/4 Ð 1/4 Tuesday, after the company’s chair- million shares. It was the nation’s sec- COMPAQ 3143500 49 5/8 + 1 3/8 man attempted to contain continuing ond-most active after Sun Microsys- PACIFIC TELS 3140100 29 1/2 + 3/4 1 rumors of an impending merger by tems. Shares of Sun fell 4 7/16, to 44 DIGITAL 3064800 70 + 2 /2 AT&T 2953000 64 3/4 + 1/8 flatly stating, “Apple is not for sale.’’ 1/8, on volume of 13.36 million shares. In Tuesday’s regular trading ses- Nasdaq Actives sion, Apple shares rose on heavy vol- Foreign Exchange Vol. (100s) Bid Chg. 1 7 ume, while Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Sun Microsys 133454 44 /8 Ð 4 /16 Fgn. currency Dollar in Apple Comp Inc 88185 31 5/8 + 1 1/8 stock fell, after a published report in dollars fgn. currency Intel Corp 86545 52 11/16 + 11/16 quoted an unidentified person as say- Tue. Mon. Tue. Mon. Paramount Fin 64247 5 1/8 — Read Rite Cp 55199 20 1/2 Ð 4 1/2 ing that a merger of the two compa- Australia .7334 .7323 1.3635 1.3656 Applied Matl 50585 36 1/2 + 1 3/8 Austria .0965 .0965 10.358 10.368 nies was “imminent.’’ Oracle Corp 49846 46 1/4 + 1/4 Brazil 1.0288 1.0288 .9720 .9720 On the heels of last week’s reported Komag Inc 48505 26 13/16 Ð 3 5/16 Britain 1.5144 1.5115 .6603 .6616 Cisco Systems 45061 77 7/8 + 1/16 $68 million loss for the first quarter, Canada .7291 .7305 1.3715 1.3690 Microsoft 41546 89 1/2 Ð 2 1/2 some shareholders Tuesday demanded Denmark .1756 .1749 5.6941 5.7187 the resignation of Apple’s chief execu- ECU 1.24580 1.25800 .8027 .7949 tive, Michael Spindler, but the compa- France .1981 .1980 5.0480 5.0500 Amex Actives Germany .6787 .6770 1.4734 1.4771 Vol. Last Chg. ny’s chairman, Mike Markkula, said Greece .004117 .004118 242.87 242.83 VIACOM CL B 2263200 38 3/8 + 1 1/8 the entire board bore responsibility for Hong Kong .1294 .1293 7.7305 7.7331 GAYLORD CON 1040700 8 13/16 + 1/2 Apple’s troubles. Italy .000626 .000629 1596.4 1590.5 ECHO BAY 903200 12 1/2 Ð 1/8 Japan .009473 .009454 105.56 105.77 5 1 Both Apple and Sun Microsystems ROYAL OAK 843500 4 /8 Ð /16 Mexico .136426 .136799 7.3300 7.3100 CHEYENNE SWR 729500 20 1/4 Ð 1 1/4 declined to comment on the “immi- Nethrlnd .6064 .6037 1.6490 1.6564 PEGASUS GOLD 728700 16 + 1/8 nent’’ merger report, published in The Norway .1548 .1544 6.4585 6.4774 HASBRO 617500 30 3/4 + 3/8 Wall Street Journal Tuesday. Singapore .7052 .7025 1.4180 1.4235 US BIOSCI 553700 6 5/8 + 1/8 Sweden .1460 .1464 6.8514 6.8300 BEMA GOLD 431700 2 1/2 Ð 1/16 Apple shares were up as much as Switzerlnd .8418 .8420 1.1880 1.1876 BEAR STEARNS 372000 3 1/2 —

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The 48 Islanders Send Muller to Leafs on someone!’’ games played broke the Australian In a three-way trade completed It was late, historically late, in the Open women’s record of 45. Tuesday after some two weeks of third set, and the fan who shouted was Rubin has a semifinal date with top- talks, the Toronto Maple Leafs ac- speaking for everyone at Center Court seeded Monica Seles, who trounced quired Kik Muller from the New York Tuesday night. Especially Chanda seventh-seeded Iva Majoli of Croatia, Islanders and veteran goaltender Don Rubin, the young woman trying to out- 6-1, 6-2, earlier in the day. Beaupre from the Ottawa Senators in last Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and reach Seles’s biggest question mark is her a seven-player deal. her first Grand Slam semifinal. health. Already nursing a strained The Senators got Toronto backup “It was funny,’’ Rubin said. “I felt a hip, she said she injured a tendon in goaltender Damian Rhodes and junior little bad because I knew everybody her lower right leg when lunging for a star defenseman Wade Redden, the was waiting for Agassi and Courier. I forehand while leading by 3-0 on her Islanders’ first-round pick last year. kind of felt the same way. ‘Somebody, serve in the second set. The Islanders picked up Ottawa cen- please finish it!’ ” Michael Chang, the fifth-seed, ter Martin Straka, minor league left But Andre Agassi and Jim Courier, reached the semifinals with a 6-0, 6-2, wing Ken Belanger from the Leafs scheduled to play next, would have to 6-4 romp over Mikael Tillstrom. Chang and promising junior defenseman wait because the 11th-seeded Rubin had has lost no sets in his first five match- Bryan Berard, picked first overall last every intention of surviving this es, but he had to wait to find out year by the Senators. marathon Australian Open quarterfinal. whether he would play Agassi or Couri- When it finally ended at 10:43 P.M. er. The two did not take the court until Phillies, Morandini Reach Deal with a crosscourt forehand volley from nearly 11 P.M. and then got chased off PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Rubin, it was the longest women’s by a cloudburst with Agassi trailing 4-5 Philadelphia Phillies have signed sec- match ever played at the Open. and serving at 15-15 in the first set. ond baseman Mickey Morandini to a Rubin’s 6-4, 2-6, 16-14 upset lasted 3 The match was to resume Wednesday. one-year contract worth $1.75 million hours 33 minutes. The third set alone By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY plus performance bonuses, thus avoid- ing an arbitration hearing. The settle- ment amount was closer to the $1.375 million arbitration offer filed by the Walsh Returns to Help Seifert, Niners’ Offense Phillies last week than the $2.2 million Morandini was seeking, but it’s a SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Walsh said his return was not a substantial raise from the $975,000 Bill Walsh, who guided the San threat to George Seifert, the head he earned in 1995. Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl coach. “I think I have a good deal of titles, is rejoining the team as an as- knowledge, wisdom and expertise, Camby Returns to UMass Lineup sistant head coach, the team club which is a resource,’’ Walsh said. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mas- announced Tuesday. Walsh will as- “This is done in the corporate world sachusetts center Marcus Camby was sist with the offense. all the time.’’ in uniform for Tuesday night’s game between the top-ranked Minutemen and Pittsburgh. Camby, who missed three games after fainting before a Jan. 14 Weather game, did some shooting and light run- ning during his team’s practice Tuesday U.S. Cities Following are the highest and lowest Foreign Cities Following are the highest and afternoon. He has not had a full practice temperatures for the 22 hours ended 10 P.M. (E.S.T.) lowest temperatures and daily precipitation (reported in since the fainting episode. Coach John yesterday, the precipitation for the 24 hours ended 8 inches) for the 24 hours ended 10 P.M. (E.S.T.) yester- Calipari said he would leave it up to P.M. (E.S.T.) yesterday and expected conditions for day and the normal temperature range for this time of Camby whether he would play. today and tomorrow. the year. *Not available. trc-trace. Weather conditions: C-cloudy, F-fog, H-haze, I-ice, PC- partly cloudy, R-rain, Sr-showers, S-sunny, Sn-snow, Cities Yesterday Norm Sharpe Plans Return to N.F.L. SS-snow showers, T-thunderstorms. 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Fax Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996 8 COMMENTARY A Pointless Conflict in Angola The Next Rwanda A telling comment on Angola’s 20- ble for power as the Portuguese em- By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN year civil war was volunteered by a for- pire dissolved in the 1970’s. It rapidly BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Flying mer rebel soldier, Bernardo Calindo, became a regional battleground in the into Burundi you cross the calm wa- age 23. “I have no idea what this war is cold war. Jonas Savimbi, the rebel ters of Lake Tanganyika and hillsides about,” he told leader, was originally a Maoist and of Eastern Zaire. You drive into the Editorial Suzanne Daley of armed by China, but swerved to the capital, Bujumbura, and it looks to be Of The Times The Times. “You right as the Angolan Government a charming little lakefront town. Your will have to ask turned to Moscow for weapons and to first stop is the Prime Minister’s of- someone who is Fidel Castro for Cuban troops. In fice, where America’s U.N. representa- older.” In truth, nobody can provide a 1992, peace seemed finally possible. tive, Madeleine Albright, is delivering coherent explanation for the persis- Mr. Savimbi told his American back- a message. Then a young Burundian tence of this conflict. Angola bleeds not ers he wanted nothing more than a official waiting outside the Prime Min- for reasons of interest or ideology, it free election. Prodded by Washington, istry pierces your mirage. “We are all would seem, but because of weakness, both sides agreed to surrender buying guns,” she says softly. “We are folly and the bad faith of rival leaders. weapons and submit to voters. But living hour by hour here.” Madeleine Albright, the chief Ameri- Mr. Savimbi scattered his guerrillas Welcome to Burundi, a country tot- can delegate to the United Nations, and hid his stockpiles from U.N. moni- tering on the edge of the abyss, decid- was too diplomatic to speak as bluntly tors. When the vote went against him, ing hour by hour if it is going to follow in public while visiting Angola this he struck with deadly effect at a Gov- neighboring Rwanda and plunge itself month. But American impatience is ernment that had disbanded much of into a full-scale tribal war between palpable, and plainer language is prob- its army. Tutsi and Hutu, or somehow pull able next month when Ms. Albright be- It would betray an ill-used people for back. For the moment, Burundi is comes president of the Security Coun- the U.N. to turn its back on Angola. Rwanda in slow motion. The ethnic cil, just as the U.N. weighs renewing a But the Security Council can make cleansing here by Tutsi and Hutu costly Angolan peacekeeping mission. plain to all that its peacemaking is happens just every other day, in every The Angolan war began as a scram- conditional. other village. There is still a shred of order. But the best-case scenario is for increasing violence; the worst case is The Rise and Rise of Steve Forbes for a Rwanda-style cataclysm that will spill hundreds of thousands more By FRANK RICH Mr. Forbes espouses. Like the phan- refugees across central Africa. If this were the 1930’s, Steve Forbes, tom candidacy of Colin Powell before The more agrarian Hutu make up a zillionaire’s bespectacled son with a it, the flat tax is a miracle elixir for 85 percent of Burundi’s population, passion for numbers, would be played our economic future, as simple as fill- the Tutsi 15 percent. But the Tutsi by Ralph Bellamy and would lose the ing out a postcard. But aren’t the flat- are the elite in business, army and girl to Cary Grant. But this being the tax fans the same voters who only yes- government — which they controlled madcap 1990’s, we are asked to be- terday placed messianic faith in a bal- until the early 1990’s, when an elec- lieve that Mr. Forbes is successfully anced budget? tion was held and a Hutu naturally wooing the country. But the Forbes The press points out this policy co- won. But in October 1993 the Hutu boom is less a story about Steve nundrum, only to run into Mr. President was killed, igniting a brief Forbes than about restlessness — of Forbes’s filibusters and his commer- ethnic war in which 100,000 people both the media and the voting public. cials. His relentless advertising might (mostly Hutu) died. Since then the In a dreary primary season, the best be countered not by bemoaning it, two sides have tried to negotiate a press is desperate for a horse race. All but by making an effort to ferret out more stable power-sharing agree- it took for Mr. Forbes to be anointed “a his qualifications for the job he seeks. ment, but the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu civil major player” (NBC) and to transform war in Rwanda has only encouraged the campaign “from a drag into a extremist Tutsi and Hutu in Burundi drama” (ABC) was for him to poll Fax is a daily to seize what they want by force. within 20 points of Bob Dole in two publication of the New York The Clinton Administration has ex- primary states. So what if Mr. Forbes Times Company sent to plored with its allies the idea of has never received a vote for elective subscribers worldwide. putting together a rapid reaction force office in his life, or if the latest New Patricia Ecke, Publisher to curb any mass killing in Burundi if York Times/CBS News Poll published James J. Green, Managing Editor it starts. The Administration also Tuesday shows him the favorite of sent Ms. Albright here, where she ap- only 12 percent of Republican primary To subscribe, advertise or request pealed to the parties to avoid “com- voters nationwide vs. Mr. Dole’s 43 information, please contact Dan Barber. mitting national suicide.’’ But what’s percent? Fax: 212-499-3436 needed now is a diplomatic effort to As for that 12 percent of Republi- Phone: 212-499-3393 get the parties in Burundi into a new cans who prefer Mr. Forbes, they are Write: TimesFax power-sharing agreement, and only presumably enamored of the flat tax 122 East 42d Street, 14th Floor Washington has the power to catalyze New York, N.Y. 10168 — since the flat tax is the only policy such a mission.