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Reports: Liggett to admit cigarettes are dangerous
NEW YORK (AP) — Liggett Group Inc. will publicly acknowledge
that cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer under a settlement with
all 22 states suing tobacco companies, broadcast reports said Wednes
day.
Liggett also is expected to cooperate fully with the states in efforts
against other tobacco companies, ABC and NBC News reported.
Liggett, the smallest of the major U.S. tobacco companies, will turn
over “a treasure trove” of incriminating new documents under the settle
ment, which could be announced as early as Thursday, NBC reported.
Liggett broke with the industry in March 1996 when it settled with
five states seeking to recover the public health care costs of treating
sick smokers. Liggett also settled a federal class action lawsuit filed by
smokers.
Pilots reach tentative agreement with airline
WASHINGTON — Negotiators for American Airlines and its pilots
have reached an agreement in principle in a contract dispute that threat
ened to shut down a major portion of the nation's air travel, spokesmen
for the pilots and the airline said Wednesday.
Capt. Michael Cronin, the pilot union's chief of legislative affairs,
said negotiators were still working on details, but that a proposal would
be presented to the pilots union board Friday.
Clinton selects Ttenet as new CIA director nominee
WASHINGTON — Moving quickly to replace shelved nominee An
thony Lake, President Clinton TUesday chose acting CIA Director
George Tfcnet to head the nation’s spy agency.
Tfenet accepted. His nomination met with wide approval among mem
bers of Congress and with Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the Intelli
gence Committee chairman who questioned Lake’s nomination.
Israeli Supreme Court lets construction continue
JERUSALEM — Teen-agers threw rocks and prisoners rioted in Is
raeli jails, but most Palestinians obeyed their leader’s call for peaceful
protest Wednesday after Israel’s Supreme Court refused to block con
struction of a Jewish neighborhood in Arab east Jerusalem.
The massive unrest and violence predicted by Israeli intelligence
did not materialize — even after the court ruling, and after yellow
bulldozers started carving up the Jerusalem hillside under the guard of
dozens of troops.
Corrections and Clarifications
The Daily Nebraskan incorrectly identified the moderator of a Com
munity Conversations panel on racism Wednesday. The forum mod
erator was Ronald Lee, professor of communication studies.
Also, the caption for the front page photo stated that LB280 would
allow same-sex marriages. The bill would ban same-sex marriages in
Nebraska.
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A decision on the law’s
constitutionality is
expected in July.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Debating
the future of the Internet, several Su
preme Court justices raised doubts
about a federal law that restricts online
access to sexually explicit material to
keep it from children.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor sug
gested in arguments Wednesday that
the Internet could be viewed as a pub
lic place, “much like a street comer
or a park,” where speech has strong
First Amendment protection.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the
Internet law could “make large num
bers of high school students across the
country guilty of federal crimes” for
having online conversations about
their sexual experiences.
The Clinton administration
mounted a spirited defense of the 19%
Communications Decency Act, which
makes it a crime to put indecent words
or pictures online where children can
find than.
“Hie Internet threatens to give ev
ery child a ftpe pass into the equiva
lent of every adult bookstore and ev
ery adult video store in the country,”
Justice Department lawyer Seth P.
Waxman told the court.
But the attorney for those who
challenged the law said it also would
keep indecent material away from
adults who have a right to see it.
“The government cannot reduce
the adult population to reading or
viewing oily what is appropriate for
children,” said lawyer Bruce J. Ennis,
representing groups including the
American Library Association and the
American Civil Liberties Union.
A three-judge federal court in
Philadelphia blocked the law from tak
ing effect last year, saying it would
unlawfully chill adults’ free-speech
rights.
Sexually oriented material is pro
tected by the Constitution’s First
Amendment if it is deemed indecent
but not obscene.
The Supreme Court is expected to
rule by July in its first case involving
the global computer network — a
place where Ennis said “average citi
zens can speak to the world for free.”
Several justices tried to decide
what kind of communication to com
pare to the rapidly expanding Internet,
which is thought to connect as many
as 40 million people using more than
9.4 million computers worldwide. Jus
tices’ questioning during arguments
does not necessarily signal how they
will vote on a case.
O’Connor saw an electronic simi
larity to a park or street comer.
Breyer said, “The Internet is rather
like the telephone.”
Justice David H. Souter said the
law could allow a parent to be sent to
poison for allowing his or her child to
use a computer to view sexually ex
plicit material.
And Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
said that under Waxman’s analysis,
the government could prohibit some
conversations in public places.
But Justice Antonin Scalia said
that in any context it is lawful for gov
ernment to require that pornographic
material be kept away from children.
“We say tough luck, you have to
sell it in stores’” rather than on the
street, Scalia said.
The law makes it a crime to make
indecent or “patently offensive” words
or pictures available online where they
can be found by children. Violators
could get up to two years in prison and
a $250,000 fine.
Waxman said any child who knows
how to “click a mouse” can go online
and find sexually explicit material like
that found in Hustler and Penthouse
magazines.
“There’s nothing in this act that
gets in the way of adult-to-adult com
munication,” Waxman said. Those
who want to provide sexually oriented
material can limit access to people
using a credit card or adult-access
code, he said.
Ennis said that would be prohibi
tively. expensive for noncommercial
groups and would not work at all for
news groups and “chat rooms.” He
said the law would not be effective
because a large amount of indecent
online material comes from other
countries.
However, he said parents can use
computer blocking devices to keep
adult-oriented material away from
their children and leave adults free to
view it.
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