By The
Associated Press
Edited by Kristine Long
NEWS DIGEST
Nelbraskan
Thursday, February 17,1994
Clinton announces $6 billion Saudi jets deal
WASHINGTON—Saudi Arabia,
replacing its entire fleet of commer
cial aircraft, will purchase 50 planes
from the American aerospace indus
try, which will provide jobs for tens of
thousands of American workers. Pres
ident Clinton said Wednesday.
The planes will be built for the oil
rich kingdom by Boeing Co. and
McDonnell Douglas Corp., proving
“that we can compete,” Clinton said.
Saudi Arabia chose the American firms
over foreign competitors.
Besides the two big manufacturers.
the $6 billion deal will benefit firms
across the country that make jet en
gines and other parts of the planes.
Britain, France and Germany all
bid for contracts, but the Saudis chose
their principal arms supplier and the
country that organized defense of the
Saudi oil fields from Iraq in 1990.
Prince Bandar, himself a pilot,
stood alongside Clinton in the White
House for the announcement, along
with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown
and Chairmen Frank Shrontz of
Boeing and John McDonnell of
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McDonnell Douglas.
The aerospace industry is in the
grips of hard times and tens of thou
sands of American workers have been
forced out.
Brown said the sale to Saudi Arabia
marked the formation of a “real part
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nership” in the commercial arena.
Clinton said the United States
worked hard to conclude the sale and
would keep pushing for more business
abroad. .
Members of Congress were quick
to express delight at the news.
“This is a great day for the coun
try,” House Speaker Tom Foley told
Clinton. Boeing is based in Seattle.
Wash., Foley’s home state.
Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan.,
whose district includes the Boeing
plant at Wichita, told Clinton: “We
thank God it’s American jobs.”
In Seattle, Boeing spokesman Mark
Hooper said the long-awaited Saudi
order is “certainly encouraging.” He
said the company still has to work out
exactly how many Boeing planes the
Saudis want.
Leader announces compromise
to prevent boycott, civil war
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Afri
can National Congress leader Nelson Mandela
announced major concessions Wednesday to an
opposition alliance in hopes of avoiding a boy
cott of national elections and reducing the
threat of civil war.
“We must treat the threat of civil war serious
ly. That is why we have gone out of our way to
make these concessions,” Mandela said at a
news conference after an emergency meeting of
the group’s policy-making National Executive
Committee.
The ANC dropped its demand for a single
ballot system in the April 26-28 election to end
white-minority rule and called for multiparty
negotiations to be reconvened Monday to ap
prove the decision, Mandela said.
This marks an important concession to the
opposition Freedom Alliance, a coalition of
anti-ANC white and black groups who have
vowed to boycott the election and raised threats
of political violence. The Alliance has said
voters should cast two ballots in April—one for
a national Parliament and another for regional
legislatures.
This would give small, regionally-based
parties, such as those represented in the Alii
ance, a chance of establishing power bases in
their areas of support. A single ballot would
have virtually assured the huge ANC a majority
of seats in both the national and provincial
legislatures.
Mandela also sought to reassure the Alliance
by saying that the new government will not
substantially change the post-apartheid consti
tution drafted in multiparty negotiations. The
Alliance said it fears the document will
be rewritten by the next government, which is
expected to be dominated by the ANC.
Even with the announcement, it was not
certain the Alliance members would agree to
take part in the vote.
The parties, led by pro-apartheid whites and
the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party,
also are demanding independent homelands for
their supporters to avoid living under ANC rule.
Mandela said his opposition to this was un
changed.
“Our position is that of a united South Afri
ca. Apart from the fact that there will be provin
cial governments and they will be able to decide
their own structures, our position remains the
same: a united South Africa,” he said.
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Norwegians capture
two more gold medals
LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Norwe
gians thrilled wildly cheering home crowds
Wednesday by capturing gold medals in
men’s speedskating and
women’s freestyle moguls.
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Johann Ulav Koss, star
of the Winter Games so
far, smashed his second
world record in four days
and outskated previous
recora-noiacr Kinije
Ritsma of the rival Dutch
in a frenzied Viking Ship
arena. Ritsma took the sil
ver, seven-tenths of a second behind Koss’
1:51.29, and countryman FalkoZandstra got
the bronze.
Stine Lise Hattestad won the women’s
moguls gold, a first for Norway in the rela
tively new event, ending the Americans’
surprising early dominance on the ski slopes.
But Liz McIntyre of Winter Park, Colo.,
followed Alpine champions Tommy Moe
and Diann Roffe-Steinrotter to the medals
stand with the silver, picking up the slack
from favorite Donna Weinbrecht, who was a.
disappointing seventh.
A Canadian, Jean-Luc Brassard, took the
gold in the men’s moguls. Defending cham
pion Edgar Grospiron of France was third.
Russia, after extending its reign in figure
skating pairs with a sensational 1-2 finish
the night before, got two moguls medals
Wednesday — a silver from Sergei
Shoupletsov and a bronze from Elizaveta
Kojevnikova. The Russians lead the medals
race with 10.
Tonya Harding arrived in Norway
Wednesday. “I’m very excited to be here,”
the skater said.
As soon as she arrived, she was whisked
away in a blue van and headed for Hamar,
where she will live, practice and compete
with Nancy Kerrigan.
Asked as she changed planes in
Copenhagen if she was confident, Harding
replied, “Yes.”
The SAS flight that brought Harding to
Norway was no ordinary journey. She was on
her way to the Lillehammer Games, and that
alone was a victory.
“It feels really good,” she told The Asso
ciated Press aboard her flight. “I’m tired, but
I’m glad I’m going.”
As she padded around in stocking feet in
the Euroclass cabin, the 5-foot-1 figure skat
er hardly seemed someone who had caused
such a monumental stir.
And if she was worried that the already
glaring spotlight was about to get much
brighter, she didn’t show it.
Harding and Kerrigan will live in the
same building—though on opposite ends of
different floors — and practice on the ice at
the same time.
They will skate competitively against each
other Feb. 23, the first night of women’s
figure skating.
Diane Sawyer stays with ABC
NEW YORK—After weeks of avid courting
from rival television networks, ABC News an
chor Diane Sawyer has decided to stay put.
Terms of Sawyer’s new multi-year contract
were not disclosed by the network Wednesday
but, by some estimates, her salary will rise to
between $5 million and $6 million per year. She
reportedly had been earning nearly $3 million
per year under the ft vc-year contract that would
have run out this month.
Sawyer will continue on ABCV'PrimeTime
Live,” the magazine show she has co-anchored
with Sam Donaldson since its premiere in Au
gust 1989.
She also will share anchor duties with Bar
bara Walters and Peter Jennings on “Turning
Point,” a magazine show that begins next month,
the network said.
In addition. Sawyer will be involved with yet
another magazine show, the year-old “Day
One,” currently anchored by Forrest Sawyer.
She will serve “in an undetermined role.” spokes
woman Teri Everett said.
The big news was not that Sawyer would stay
at ABC, but that she had turned down lucrative
and imaginative offers from suitors that includ
ed NBC, CBS and Fox Broadcasting Co.
Reportedly, NBC had wanted her to anchor
a five-nights-a-week prime-time newsmagazine.
CBS President Howard Stringer was said to
have envisioned a nightly half-hour news and
analysis program for Sawyer to follow "The
CBS Evening News.”
And Fox, wielding an offer reportedly be
tween $7 million and $10 million per year,
would have starred Sawyer in a Sunday
newsmagazine to compete head-to-head with
CBS’ top-rated “60 Minutes.”
Sawyer was a “60 Minutes” correspondent
when she left CBS News to join ABC in Febru
ary 1989, at a reported salary of$ 1.6 million per
year.
Before joining CBS in 1978, she had worked
at the White House as chief assistant to Ron
Ziegler, press secretary for President Nixon.
She also helped Nixon with his memoirs alter
his resignation.
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