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NEWS DIGEST
Net?raskan
Wednesday, February 23,1994
Swedish soldiers wounded
SARAJEVO, Bosnia
Herzegovina — The people of
Sarajevo enjoyed another day of
NATO-enforced calm Tuesday, but
U.N. peacekeepers came under fire
near another Bosnian city and fiye
Swedish soldiers were wounded.
The attack, near Tuzla, 50 miles
north of Sarajevo, pointed up the
challenges facing diplomats who
met in Germany Tuesday and other
who will hold talks in Croatia
Wednesday seeking new ways to
end the 22-month war.
Tuzla has become one focus of
diplomatic efforts since a NATO
ultimatum forced Serbs to pull their
heavy guns away from Sarajevo.
The issue made Russian troops join
U.N. peacekeepers in Sarajevo, and
Moscow quickly claimed a leading
role in peace efforts soon after.
In Moscow, President Boris
Yeltsin proposed a meeting with
leaders of the United States, France,
Britain and Germany to work out a
political settlement in Bosnia. There
was no immediate response from
those countries.
The head of U.N. peacekeeping
operations, Kofi Annan, said U.N.
troops hoped to open Tuzla’s air
port March 7 for aid flights to cen
tral Bosnia. Serb-led Yugoslavia
objected, saying the airport is too
close to Yugoslavia.
Tuzla, held by Muslim-led -
Bosnian government forces, is one
of several places where fighting
continues while Sarajevo is quiet.
The Swedish peacekeepers were
wounded while patrolling in U.N.
armored personnel carriers in
Ribnica, 20 miles southwest of
Tuzla. Artillery shells wounded two
Swedes, and a second attack wound
ed three more, Squadron Leader
David Fillingham said. He said the
wounds were not life-threatening.
Fillingham said he was unable
to confirm who fired the shells.
Relief convoys and flights re
sumed in Bosnia Tuesday after be
ing stopped before the ultimatum in
case NATO air strikes were or
dered and fighting escalated. The
United Nations said 13 planes
dropped 99 tons of food into
Gorazde, a besieged Muslim town
in eastern Bosnia.
The diplomatic focus shifts
Wednesday to Zagreb, the Croatian
capital, after senior envoys from
the United States, Russia and Eu
rope met Tuesday in Bonn, Germa
ny.
The Bonn meeting decided the
Sarajevo cease-fire model should
be extended to other beleaguered
Bosnian towns, but Russia blocked
consideration of additional NATO
ultimatums. The diplomats also
agreed to push Bosnia’s Muslims,
Serbs and Croats toward an overall
agreement dividing Bosnia into
three states.
The Zagreb meeting will involve
Annan, the U.N. peacekeeping di
rector; Yasushi Akashi, chief of the
U.N. mission in former Yugosla
via; and international mediators
Lord Owen for the European Union
and Thorvald Stoltenberg of the
United Nations.
A main topic will be the possible
U.N. administration of Sarajevo,
which would be “very complicat
ed,” John Mills, spokesman for
Owen and Stoltenberg, said.
Harding, Kerrigan show begins
LILLEHAMMER, Norway —
After a quiet Tuesday, where the Ital
ians continued their Winter Games
surge, the Olympic spotlight turns to
a soap opera and a slope opera —
Tonya and
Tomba.
That’s figure
skater Tonya
Harding and skier
Alberto Tomba,
who make their
’94 debuts
Wednesday at the
Winter Games.
Harding and Nan
cy Kerrigan will
perform in a showdown on the ice that
could get Super Bowl-like TV rat
ings.
The Harding-Kerrigan showdown
comes 54 days after Kerrigan was
attacked before the U.S. champion
ships in Detroit. Wednesday’s techni
cal program is only Part I of the
skaters’ miniserics, which concludes
Friday with the free skate and the
medals.
Tomba hit the flats Tuesday to
congratulate his gold-medal winning
teammates in the men’s 40-kilometer
cross-country relay. Tomba, who owns
three Olympic golds himself, will have
a chance to make history when he
skies Wednesday. He could be the
first man to win Alpine gold medals in
three consecutive Games.
Italy won its 15th medal Tuesday
and has its highest total ever in the
Winter Games. Its previous best was
14 medals in 1992.
Maurillio de Zolt of Italy won his
first gold medal Tuesday at the age of
43.
De Zolt, however, wasn’t the old
est gold medalist in Winter Games
history. American Jay O’Brien, eight
days short of 49, won the gold on the
four-man bobsled in 1932.
The most golds in Lillehammer
belong to the Russians, with nine.
Their seven silvers and three bronze
give the Russians a Games-high 19,
ahead of Norway’s 17 (8-7-2) and
Italy’s 15 (4-3-8). The Americans re
mained fifth, with four golds, three
silvers and a bronze.
The team ski-jumping gold went to
Germany — but only after the last
Japanese jumper flopped, blowing an
enormous lead and his country’s first
gold medal in Lillehammer.
For the second time ever, Olympic
medals were handed out in short
track speedskating—and for the sec
ond time, South Korea’s Kim Ki
Hoon won gold in the 1,000-meter
race.
Tonya and Nancy may get the
Nielsen ratings Wednesday, but the
better bet for a gold medal is Bonnie
Blair. The four-time gold medalist
skates her last Olympic race, the 1,000
meters, as the favorite to pick up her
fifth.
A victory would give her more
golds than any American woman in
Olympic history.
The U.S. hockey team has another
must-win game against Finland on
Wednesday. The winner advances to
the Olympic semifinals; the loser plays
in the meaningless consolation games
which began Tuesday, when France
beat Austria 5-4 in a shootout and
Italy faced Norway.
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FCC approves cable TV rate cut
WASHINGTON — The Federal
Communications Commission Tues
day voted to reduce rates for many
cable television services by 7 percent,
moving to correct an earl ier attempt at
price cutting that backfired.
The new rates, approved by a 3-0
vote, should be in effect by mid-May.
The commission will be able to step in
if it finds that a cable company has
tried to avoid regulation by changing
the way it bills.
It was not immediately clear how
the cuts would change an individual
subscriber’s bill, all premium chan
nels will be cut.
The FCC regulates service some
times referred to as “expanded basic."
It includes such popular channels as
Discovery, ESPN.C-SPAN, MTV and
CNN.
But cities and other local regula
tors also use the FCC formula, so the
new rules will also lead to a cut in the
cable service they regulate, which in
cludes the basic service such as local
broadcast channels and government
and public access channels. The pric
es for premium channels, such as HBO
and Showtime', and pay-per-view
channels are not regulated.
The reduction ordered last year
lowered bills for about two-thirds of
America’s 57 million cable subscrib
ers. But many others howled when
their rates rose as cable companies
restructured their charges.
FCC Chairman Reed Hundt termed
Tuesday’s decision a “brilliant bal
ance” between the competing con
cerns of cable subscribers and the
needs of the cable industry.
“I think consumers will be better
served by the additional reduction,”
said Commissioner James Quello.
But Commissioner Andrew Barrett,
while he voted for the action, said he
considered the 7 percent cut “a bit on
the high side."
Cable firms had lobbied hard
against substantial cuts, arguing that
last year’s federal regulation had al
ready cost them billions of dollars.
The new rules will allow the cable
companies to “earn a reasonable re
turn on their investment,” said Sandy
Wilson of the commission staff. She
said companies that feel the cuts im
pose a hardship can appeal to the
commission.
When it passed the law that took
effect last September, Congress in
tended that cable rates be restrained,
but an FCC survey of the 25 largest
cable companies showed that while 68
percent of subscribers received lower
monthly rates, 31 percent got higher
bills.
Consumer groups said even that
was misleading because many smaller
companies that serve mill ions ofhomes
have raised rates.
Ex-CIA official
arrested as spy
WASHINGTON — In a case with
Cold War echoes and impl ications for
future U.S.-Russia relations, a former
top CIA counterintelligence officer
and his wife were arrested and charged
with selling national security secrets
to the Kremlin.
The case, as described in the feder
al affidavit for the arrest of Aldrich
Hazen Ames and his wife, has many
of the elements of a spy thriller novel:
hand-offs of secret CIA documents at
“dead drops;” $ 1.5 million in alleged
Russian payoffs and FBI agents sift
ing trash cans for clues.
President Clinton called the matter
“very serious,” and Secretary of State
Warren Christopher summoned Rus
sian diplomat Vladimir
Chkhikvishvili for a formal protest.
The White House was reviewing
how the case might affect relations
with Russia at a time when the United
States is strongly supporting Presi
dent Boris Yeltsin and providing mil
lions of dollars in aid.
The affidavit accuses Ames and
his wife of conspiring to deliver infor
mation about secret CIA operations
and of revealing the identity of a
Russian counterintelligence officer
who was spying for the United States.
Ames is accused of being an agent
for the Russian foreign intelligence
service, known as the S VRR, which is
the direct successor to the KGB of the
former Soviet Union.
Ames, 52, and his wife, Maria Del
Rosario Casas Ames, 41, of Arling
ton, Va., appeared before a federal
magistrate in Alexandria, Va., Tues
day on charges of conspiracy to com
mit espionage. •
The couple, who had been arrestee
Monday, were ordered held withou
bail until a hearing scheduled for Fri
day.
The CIA had suspected since 1985
that there was a “mole” spying for the
Russians inside the agency, and Ames
had been under investigation for twe
years, according to a law enforcemem
official who spoke on condition ol
anonymity.
Clinton said little about the mattei
except to declare it “a very serious
case” and to praise the FBI and CIA
“for the work they did in cracking” it
He turned away reporters’ ques
tions about possible effects on U.S.
Russian relations.
White House Press Secretary Dee
Dee Myers said, “We’ll certainly con
tinue to have a relationship with Rus
sia. But again, we’re beginning tc
review what the implications of this
are. We’re having discussions with
the Russian government. We take this
seriously.”
Snowstorm cancels schools,
toumevs across the state
In the central Nebraska town of
Gibbon, they knew from the start that
Tuesday’s snow would be bad.
It was. More than a foot fell in parts
of the state.
“We’re fighting a losing battle,”
City Clerk Ron Catlin said as a three
person crew plowed valiantly to keep
the main streets open in the town of
1,500.
Catlin estimated that 10 to 12 inch
es of snow had fallen by early after
noon, with more on the way.
He said the plows would be pulled
off the streets until the snow ended.
Travel in central and south-central
Nebraska was not a good idea, the
National Weather Service said.
Gibbon is located 35 miles north
east of Holdrege, where between 12
and 14 inches of snow fell as the
snowstorm barreled across the state,
closing schools and postponing boys
and girls high school district basket
ball tournament games.
Hastings College and the Universi
ty of Nebraska at Kearney called off
classes Tuesday. In Omaha, both pub
lic and Catholic schools dismissed
early because of the threat of heavy
snow.
Schools throughout northeast Ne
braska did the same.
Eastern Nebraska, which had es
' caped the brunt of previous storms.
was in line for as much as 6 inches ol
snow, forecasters said. The area was
under a winter storm warning during
the evening.
The area near Holdrcge appearct
to be hardest hit.
“If people call, we’re telling then
to stay home,” Barb Sander, a secre
tary with the Phelps County sheriff
office in Holdrege, said.
Some Nebraskans got a day off.
“Most people have enough sense tc
stay home when you can’t get out ol
your own driveway,” Gary Ruhs o
Orleans said. The weather service re
ported that 13 inches of snow fell it
the south-central Nebraska town.
Ruhs stayed home from his job a
Holdrcge’s Becton Dickinson Con
sumer Products plant, 21 miles to the
north. Early shifts at the plant were
canceled. -
Lexington, in central Nebraska
had 10 inches of light, powdery snow
by morning.
Snow-removal crews started worl
at 5 a.m. and were having little trouble
keeping streets open, assistant Cit]
Manager Vince Bricker said.
“Right now, the wind isn’t blow
ing," Bricker said from his office ir
the city of 6,600 people.
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