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News digest
Peace in Bosnia
hits stalemate
GENEVA — Bosnian peace
talks, seemingly on the verge of a
settlement, broke off Wednesday
when the three sides failed to rec
oncile territorial demands in carv
ing up the country.
“Unfortunately the war will con
tinue,” Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman said as he left the meet
ing. “The forces of death prevail,”
Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban
said.
Tudjman blamed Bosnian Pres
ident Alija Izetbegovic for making
demands that the other warring fac
tions could not accept.
“This will make it clear who is
responsible for the failure of this
conference and who is to be held
responsible for the continued suf
fering of the people and for jeopar
dizing peace in this area and in the
Balkans,” he said.
He said the warring parties still
hoped to negotiate a peaceful set
tlement. “But for that peace unfor
tunately there will be some fights,
some weeks if not months,” said
Tudjman, who appeared bewildered
and flustered.
Just minutes before the break
down, a peace deal seemed immi
nent.
The Associated Press obtained a
copy of a draft accord providing for
bilateral discussions on government
demands for access to the Adriatic
Sea and for a wider land corridor
linking the Muslim enclaves in east
ern Bosnia.
The government earlier scaled
back its demands for extra territoiy
for the planned Muslim republic
and said it would settle for an addi
tional 4 percent more than what
was proposed by international me
diators. Izetbegovic had previous
ly pressed for an extra 10 percent.
“We have negotiated down to
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This will make it
clear who is
responsible for the
failure of this
conference and
who Is to be held
responsible for the
continued suffering
of the people.
— Tudjman,
Croatia president
—
the bare bones,” said Bosnra ' s U .N.
ambassador Mohammed Sacirbey,
warning his side would make no
more concessions.
From the Croats, they demand
ed a land corridor leading to the
strategic Neum resort on the
Adriatic. Tudjman had consistent
ly agreed to let the Muslims have
Neum as it would separate the re
sort of Dubrovnik from the rest of
Croatia.
Mediators Lord Owen and
Thorvald Stoltenberg had proposed
splitting Bosnia-Herzegovina into
three ethnic republics linked by a
very weak central government.
The Muslims would have had
31 percent of territory, the Serbs 52
percent and Croats 17 percent.
The conflict has killed up to
200,000 people. There are fears
that the forthcoming wimePwm
kill tens of thousands more.
Emily goes
peacefiilly
BUXTON, N.C.— After six days
and tens of thousands of evacuations
from North Carolina to New York,
Hurricane Emily struck only a glanc
ing blow to a narrow island chain
before dashing off to the North Atlan
tic. , „
“We dodged a bullet,” said Gene
Chiellini of the National Weather
Service in New Jersey.
Evacuation orders were lifted from
North Carolina’s Outer Banks to New
York’s Long Island and people re
turned to many Atlantic beaches.
Many business owners spent
Wednesday removing the tape and
boards they had put over windows in
preparation for tne storm that didn’t
come.
But some villagers who rode out
Emily’s brush with the easternmost
islands in the low-lying Outer Banks,
said the storm brought the worst flood
ing in decades.
The storm was sidetracked by up
per atmosphere air currents and its
eye missedCape Hatterasby 20 miles.
It spread heavy rain along the Virgin
ia coast before it moved out to sea.
Path of Hurricane Emily
Letterman makes strong debut
NEW YORK — To no one’s sur
prise, the first round goes to Dave.
It was announced Wednesday that
the “Late Show with David Lctterman”
got a 10.9 rating (or reached about
10.3 million TV homes) Monday
night, for a hearty 32 percent share of
the viewing audience in Letterman’s
new 11:35 p.m. EDT neighborhood at
CBS
But NBC’s ‘Tonight Show with
Jay Leno” held much of its ground
with a 4.1 rating and 11 share, or a
half-million fewer households than
its average 4.6 rating.
The “Late Show” premiere
proached, though did not beat,
audience for Leno’s first night at
helm of‘Tonight.” His May 28,1992,
premiere scored an 11.8 rating.
NBC played it coy the morning
after the “Late Show” debut despite a
threat in July to sue CBS if Letterman
uses any shtick from his 11 1/2 years
as host of NBC’s “Late Night.”
“We’re pleased that Tom Brokaw
reclaimed sontfr of our intellectual
properties last night,” cracked NBC
spokesman Curt Block. He was refer
?ir$
nng to Monday s humorous walk-on
by the NBC anchorman, who snatched
two cue cards and left the stage ex
plaining they were the network’s “in
tellectual property.”
“If David crosses the line again,”
Block said, “it might be necessary for
Tom to return. But we’re not taking
any action today.”
CBS is guaranteeing advertisers a
minimum 4.1 rating for “Late Show
after the inevitable fall-off in the au
dience. But when the late-night scene
will stabilize is anyone’s guess.
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15-year-old girl to be tried as an adult for murders
OMAHA—A judge has denied a public
defender’s request to move to juvenile court
the case of a 15-year-old Omaha girl charged
with first-degree murder in the shooting
deaths of her two younger half-sisters.
Douglas County District Judge Lawrence
Corrigan has ruled that Jennifer Rae, charged
in the March 19 killings of 9-year-old Carrie
Lea and 12-year-old Rachel Pike, will be
tried as an adult.
The girls’ bodies were found in the fam
ily home.
Corrigan said the crimes were premedi
tated and violent, a standard used in decid
ing whether to keep a case in adult court.
During a hearing last week, Omaha psy
chologist Kevin Cahill testified that Rea
suffers from serious mental illness and needs
daily treatment for at least three years and
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Corrigan said adult court offers more
opportunity for providing long-term mental
health treatment.
No trial date has been scheduled.
Bob Sigler, assistant county attorney,
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Public defender Tom Riley said he had no
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Holtz pays little attention to accusatory book
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Lou Holtz says
he has no intention of reading the book that
accuses him of paying players while he was
at Minnesota and encouraging steroid use
during his seven seasons at Notre Dame.
The coach of the Irish remained firm but
even-tempered as he was pressed for reac
tion to the book during a news conference
leading to No. 7 Notre Dame’s opener Sat
urday against Northwestern.
“I have not read the book. I do not plan on
reading the book, and I’m not going to
answer questions about the book,” Holtz
said. “This is not easy for me to do this, but
in fairness to our football team, this is the
way it is going to be handled.”
The book, “Under the Tarnished Dome:
How Notre Dame Betrayed its Ideals for
Football Glory,” is written by Don Yaeger
and Douglas Looney. It is due Sept. 7.
Holtz, 56, is accused of participating in
the payment of players while he was coach
at Minnesota in 1984-85. He took over at
Notre Dame in 1986.
His stay at Minnesota has been investi
gated twice by the NCAA, yielding a total of
Five years’ probation and other penalties for
the Gophers.
Also in the book, former Notre Dame
player George Williams said as many as 50
players on the 1988 national championship
team were taking steroids.
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