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1V[PTA7’C i Si O-PQf issodatedPress X ^1 Ww & lr Edited by Diana Johnson Pepsi signs Madonna, Coke signed Michael as Cola Wars heat up NEW YORK ~ What used to be called the cola wars may become the battle of the pop jingles. Pepsi Cola Co. announced Wednesday that it has signed sexy singer Madonna to pitch its product to combat ads by rival Coca-Cola that feature pop dynamo George Michael. caiA Pwpti't commercial. Pepsi, firing the latest volley in a quickly escalating marketing war with Coca-Cola, also said it will spoAsor a workl tour by the actress singer later this year after Ma donna releases her first album in three years, “Like A Prayer” in March. The Madonna announcement tomes on the heels of industry leader Coke's new ad campaign aimed at pushing sales of Diet Coke past Pepsi, currently second in the market behind Coke Classic. That effort marks the first time a major diet soda has squared off directly against a leading sugared competitor, signaling a new inten sity in the years-old cola wars. Coke earlier this month signed George Michael, the sexy pop-soul singer whose album “Faith” pro duced six hit singles, for a series of Diet Coke commercials, on top of a campaign already featuring hockey star W*yne Gretzky, model EfTe MacPherson and “Miami Vice” star Don Johnson, a one time Pepsi pitchman. “What’s obviously shaping up is George Michael and Diet Coke versus Madonna and sugar Fepsi,' * said Coca Cola USA spokesman Anthony Tortorici. “Frankly, we like those odds.” Terms of the Madonna contract were not disclosed, but if history is any guide the deal with the breathy, brash singer of “Papa Don’t Preach” and “Whose That Girl” and star of the movie “Des perately Seeking Susan” should be in the millions. Anti-drug war intensifies; Iran hangs 16 smugglers iNW-uaiA, Cyprus - sixteen arug smugglers were hanged in Iran on Wednesday, following a major anti narcolics crackdown backed by a draconian new law, Tehran radio reported. Ten key members of a large, armed gang were hung in Tehran, two smugglers weie executed in neigh boring Varamin, and four in western Bakhiaran province said the broad cast, monitored in Nicosia. These deaths raised to 89 the number of drug smugglers executed since the crackdown started Jan. 16. More than 1,(XX) people have been arrested in the same period in what Iranian newspapers describe as ‘The biggest crackdown on drug smug gling in Iranian history.” « • fciaerly Kocnester man cues after being stuck in trash can ROCHESTER, N Y. - A 73-year old man was found dead in a garbage can on his front porch, where police believe he had been stuck for three days. Robert Hamm waved to a mail man and a newspaper carrier while in. the trash can earlier this week but may have been too weak to alert them that he was stuck, police said Wednesday. “I would imagine he was proba bly trying to signal something, but his ,9>*l9NftJon or whatever wasn’t Otough to get them to do anything Soul it,” Sgt. R.J. Liepins said. “They all feel very bad.’ I.MhlllMl. lift » ... The 11-year-old newspaper car ricr, who had waved back to Ham n't on Monday, discovered him ori Wednesday. Hamm, who was of medium height and build, apparently fell backward into the standard-size metal trash can on his cnclosed porch and couldn’t gel out, Liepins said. He was found in the can up to his armpits, with his legs sticking out. On Tuesday, the mailjMftn. whose name was unavailable, saw Harnm in the can from outside the porch and saw his hand move, Liepins said. “He thought something was funny ... but he just let it pass,” L.ie pins said. *••• I . t » i * M « # i I « 4 , 11. Tower says tough ethics needed WASHINGTON - Defense Sec retary-designate John Tower told a Senate confirmation hearing today that laws should be tightened to pre vent officials “from profiling un fairly, unethically, or illegally or inordinately” if they move between Pentagon and industry jobs. Tower also assured the Senate Armed Services Committee that the $763,777 he collected as a defense consultant over the past three years would not influence actions he might take as defense secretary. And he cautioned Congress that it should write “revolving-door” laws “carefully enough so that honest, hardworking people who might want to engage in public service arc not summarily proscribed” from work ing at the Pentagon. Tower noted that Donald J. Atwood, whom he has chosen as deputy defense secretary, has been vice chairman of the General Motors Corp., a major Pentagon contractor. He said other top aides would be drawn from the defense industry as well. The atmosphere at the hearings was polite as the senators questioned their former colleague. Tower, a Texas Republican, spent 24 years in tiie Senate, including a stint as chair man of the Armed Services Commit tee from 1981-84. The committee chairman, Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., told Tower that “I know you and I know you arc an honest person.” “Frankly, the difficulty here is not that you have worked for a contractor as a consultant, but a number ol them, five or six or seven of the major corporations,” Nunn said. “If you were to recuse (not involve) yourself on all of them, you couldn’t be secre tary of defense.” Tower told the committee that “I faced up to this problem when 1 was chairman” of the commission ap pointed by President Reagan to in vestigate the Iran-Contra affair. In that role, he said, he was re quired “to inquire into and investi gate the actions of a president to whom I was deeply loyal. It was not a pleasant experience.” “My loyalty to my country tran scends any of these loyalties,” said Tower. At the opening of his second day of testimony, Tower told file Armed Services Committee about his role as a consultant to several major defense contractors, including Rockwell In ternational, Marlin Marietta, Tex tron, LTV and British Aerospace. Tower told lawmakers Wednes day that as of Dec. 1 he had severed his tics with defense contractors he had worked for as a consultant over the past two years and did not ‘ ‘ stand to gain from the prosperity of any former associate." In other testimony Wednesday, Tower disavowed the label ol “mindless hawk” and promised to take a hard look at all weapons sys tems in trimming the defense budget. • Meat packers upset at furry jury as they sniff at some Soviet sausage MOSCOW — Angry mcatpackers arc suing a newspaper for an article that said their sausage was so bad that even cats can’t stomach it, hut editors said they turned to a furry, four legged jury that proved their point. “Twenty-four sausage experts don’t cat it at all; five only eat high quality sausage or out of extreme hunger. Only one, the 2-month-old kitten Mura, you can say actually sits down to the sausage,’’ the weekly Litcratumaya Ga/eta said in an nouncing the feline findings. The dispute started with the liter ary weekly’s story on June 15 titled ‘ ‘The Cal Doesn’t Know...” and was brought up recently in the Dzerzhinsky regional people’s court. In a complaint signed by Yu. M. Luzhkov, chairman of the Moscow agroindustrial complex, officials demanded a retraction of the newspa Ecr’s report that producers were reaking the law by putting protein additives in the sausage, known in Russian as “kolbasa.’’ Because of a shortage of meal in many Soviet stores, finding good quality sausage has become a fixation for many people. A cartoon in an October edition of the satire maga zine Krokodil showed a line of shop pers standing outside a theater, not to buy tickets, but to buy the sausage for sale in the theater’s buffet The case also shows that the more aggressive style of reporting by the Soviet press under President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s encouragement of greater openness is likely to get it into occasional legal trouble. The Tass news agency said this week a court had dismissed a lawsuilagainsta film producer by a biochemical plant near Leningrad that objected to his docu mentary about pollution. Liieralurnaya Gazeta reported about its dispute with the sausage manufacturers in an article in this week’s edition titled, “May the Cals Judge Us.” It gave no indication that the case had gone any further than the initial complaint. It said that using the permission of state quality control officials to add protein additives, the factories were grinding up the skin and bones of cattle and throwing them into the sausage. Animal blood, protein paste, blood plasma, starch, flour, and emulsions of protein and fat also were part of the gray, unappetizing mix tures churned out by the factories, Litcratumaya Gazeta said. “Blocks of frozen meat weren’t unfrozen or washed before being chopped, and were happily thrown in with knots of wool and even the trademarks of the factories that pro duced these blocks. Nails, sand and glass have fallen into the sausage,” it said. To judge the validity of its first story, the newspaper said it sought out the Fauna Cal Lovers’ Club in the Dzerzhinsky region, where it is being sued. Boris Bercnshtcin fed some sau sage to Kuzya, his 2 1/2-ycar-old cat, “but Kuzya didn’t find any joy in it. Just the opposite, he gave a look like a person saying, ‘What’s that for? What did I do that was so bad, mas ter?’ ” It said another cal, Gavrila, tests the sausage for the whole family of Maria Klyueva. If Gavrila eats it, the whole family will. If she turns up her nose, so does the family. General ordered officer killed SANTIAGO, Chile — A former diplomat said on Wednesday he was told the chief of the military govern ment’s secret police ordered the as sassination in Washington of dissi dent Chilean politician Orlando Lcte lier. Jose Miguel Barros said in sworn testimony the mastermind was iden tified to him as Gen. Manuel Contre ras Sepulveda. The United States has tried for years to extradite the former secret police chief and his assistant, Col. Pedro Espino/a, both now re tired. Contreras denied the accusations Wednesday night. “Neither I nor any official of the intelligence agency were involved’ ’ in the killing, he said on Santiago’s Channel 13. Letclicr and American aide Ron nie Moffilt were killed Sept. 21, 1976, when a remote-controlled bomb blew up their car. He had been a Cabinet minister and ambassador to the United States for the government overthrown by Gen. Auguslo Pino chel in 1973, and was among Pino, cbet’s most influential critics abroad. Barros was one of seven former officials questioned last week at the request of the U.S. Justice Depart ment. Newspapers carried his testi mony in Wednesday’s editions and Barros conf irmed the accounts to The Associated Press. He testified to Judge Julio Bana t><«i«11111•111> >111 • 11 iito; 11111 *it» dos that Air Force Gen. Enrique Montcro told him during a n meting in the late 1970’s “this genius f intelli gence mounted an operation %o assas sinate Letcher.” Barros said Montcro, then under secretary of the Interior Ministry in the Pinochet government, identified the “genius” as Contreras, head of the National intelligence Directorate secret police at the lime of the assas sination. Net?raskan Ed<Ux ner Nignt News Editors Victoria Ayotte Managing Editor Jana Hirt Libra'tan Anna Mohrl" Assoc News Editors Lee Rood Art (directors John Bruce r . _ Bob Ntlion Andv Minhirt Editorial Page Editor Amy Edward* General Manage' Dan Shatill Cnnw nat? c* Production Manager Katherine PoUcky ‘y0pyc^t^ti 0f Chuck Oreen Advertising Manager Robert Bates Arts A PnSto!^. 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