/* Embedded appositives 2 (Annotated data) Christopher Potts and Jesse Aron Harris, UMass Amherst Created: 2009-03-29 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. */ var corpus = new Array(); corpus[1] = [ ["think"], "And here I thought it had something to do with the fact that they were hitting against Wakefield, who had no "kncukle" to his ball that day, and Otto, who has no stuff.", "Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
From: mss@netcom.com (Mark Singer)
Subject: Re: Dodgers Take 2 Straight From Pirates
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 16:15:50 GMT


In article <1qqob2INNqev@mizar.usc.edu> pcaster@mizar.usc.edu (Dodger) writes:

Davis and Strawberry attributed their turn arounds to Reggie Smith, the Dodger batting coach who flew in from Florida three days ago and gave them a pep talk and some instruction. Davis was 4-5 yesterday and had a couple more hits today. Strawberry had two hits yesterday and I believe he had two more today, with two home runs.

Foolish me. And here I thought it had something to do with the fact that they were hitting against Wakefield, who had no "kncukle" to his ball that day, and Otto, who has no stuff. I wonder if Reggie gave the same pep talk and instruction to the rest of the lineup, who also suddenly came alive those two games.

-- The Beastmaster", "20_newsgroups/rec.sport.baseball/104426", ["Text","Appositive conflicts with reason for players' performance given above the retort.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Contradiction"],""], [["Unclear","Bad","I wasn't sure what to think here; the subject of the report is also the author. Also, he's making a sarcastic comment, contrasting his own thoughts with those of the person whose comment he quotes. For the purposes of irony, he acts like he accepts this position, but it seems he doesn't really. This is all rather complicated."],["Unclear","Good","The texts have different authors. Are we talking about Mark's commitments as an author of the retort, or about Dodger's commitments as expressed in the original article?"]] ]; corpus[2] = [ ["report"], "ESPN reported on Sunday, April 11, that the Lightning, who have been playing in 10,400-seat Expo Hall, are exploring opportunities to move to either Atlanta or Minneapolis.", "Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey,news.answers,rec.answers
Subject: rec.sport.hockey Frequently Asked Questions
Date: 15 Apr 1993 16:48:01 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


As their first season comes to a close, there are rumors swirling that the Tampa Bay Lightning just might become the Atlanta Lightning. Or the Minnesota Lightning. But they are just rumors, according to Lightning general manager Phil Esposito. ESPN reported on Sunday, April 11, that the Lightning, who have been playing in 10,400-seat Expo Hall, are exploring opportunities to move to either Atlanta or Minneapolis. But Esposito said there was no truth to the report. "We were disappointed with ESPN's irresponsible comment," Esposito said. "There is just no substance to the rumor." Rumors have been swirling for the past two years regarding a move by Tampa Bay, which is presently discussing plans to build a new arena.", "20_newsgroups/rec.sport.hockey/53468", ["Text","The next sentence is "But Esposito said there was no truth to the report". This clearly does not target the appositive content concerning the current stadium. Thus, the appositive is not embedded under 'report'.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Contradiction"],""], [["Text","Good","Relies on world knowledge of what is plausibly being denied by Esposito; it is presumably open and easily verifiable information where the team is currently playing."],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[3] = [ ["say"], "He said He was the Son of God, who alone knew God perfectly.", "Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: THE EMPTY TOMB...
Date: 11 Apr 93 05:02:20 GMT
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH


THE EMPTY TOMB: CAN WE TRUST IT?


by the late Wilbur M. Smith, D.D. (1894-1977)

When Jesus was on Earth, He made an amazing prediction about Himself, and frequently repeated it. Let me quote it for you:

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him; and the third day He shall rise again" (Matthew 20:18-19).

Wholly different from the normal experience of men, Jesus, who had *never* done anything worthy of death, even deserving reproval, knew He would die before He was 40 years of age. He knew the very city where He would die. He knew that the religious leaders of His own race would condemn Him to death. He knew that one of His own would betray Him. He knew that before His actual death took place He would be mocked and scourged. He knew exactly how He would die--*by crucifixion.*

All this is in itself remarkable. But more amazing than the minute particulars of His foreknowledge was what He predicted would follow shortly after He was buried--*that He would rise again.* He even designated the time--on the third day.

But since it is on this central fact--the death and resurrec- tion of Jesus Christ--that the whole truth or untruth of Chris- tianity turns, let us examine it more closely.

The body of Jesus was embalmed in long sheets of cloth between the layers of which a great abundance of spices and ointments was distributed. The body was placed in a tomb which had never before been used, and a great stone was rolled against the entrance. The Jewish authorities, fully aware that Jesus had predicted He would rise again, had the stone officially sealed and on Saturday placed a guard before the tomb to prevent the disciples from carrying away the body. Early Sunday morning some of the women who were faithful followers of Christ went out to the tomb to further anoint the body. To their utter astonishment, they found the stone rolled away, the body gone. They rushed back to tell the disciples. Shortly two of Jesus' friends, Peter and John, utterly skeptical about the whole affair, came and found the tomb empty, just as the women had said. Even the guards came hurrying into the city to tell the Sanhedrin that had hired them to guard the tomb that the body was gone (Matthew 28:11).

How did this tomb become empty?

One of the most famous New Testament scholars in America-- professor of New Testament literature in a large theological seminary--wrote to the author in answer to my question of *how* the tomb became empty, and wrote it in a letter *not* marked by bitterness or sarcasm, that he could no more explain how the tomb became empty than he could explain how Santa Claus comes down the chimney at Christmas time.

But he didn't realize that Santa Clause never did come down any chimney at Christmas time, *because there never was a Santa Claus!* ...And there *is* a Jesus. He died; He was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, and on Sunday the body was gone.

Those are facts of history. No one can escape the responsi- bility of coming to some conclusion about what really happened by mentioning a myth we all abandoned before we were eight years old.

Another professor, Dr. Kirsopp Lake of Harvard University, tried to explain the empty tomb by saying (what no other scholar in the field of New Testament criticism has ventured to adopt) that the women went to the wrong tomb.

The facts are these:

First, so far as we know, there was no other tomb nearby to which by mistake they could have gone.

Second, it is contrary to all similar experience for three or more people to forget the place where they have buried their dearest loved one within less than three days. Even if the women did miss the tomb, when Peter and John came, did they too go to the wrong tomb?

Third, were the soldiers *guarding* the wrong tomb?

There is, of course, a record of an attempt to escape the evidence of the empty tomb in the New Testament itself.

Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city and showed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. And when they were assembled with the leaders and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole Him away while we slept. And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is com- monly reported among the Jews until this day (Matthew 28:11-15).

This is a good illustration of many later attempts to escape the fact that the tomb was empty.

You will notice at once that the chief priests and the elders never questioned but that the tomb *was* empty. They never even went out to see if what the guards had reported was true--they *knew* it was true.

Another fact about this story makes it ridiculous to maintain that the tomb was empty--the soldiers were told to say that Jesus' disciples came and stole the body away *while they* (the soldiers) *were asleep!*

How could they know what was going on while they were asleep? Obviously, such testimony would be valueless in any court.

Even aside from the shallowness and sordidness that make us reject the explanation, the very character and the later history of the disciples compel us to believe they did not steal and secretly carry away the body of Jesus.

First, as Professor Heffern points out, the leaders of Judaism in Jerusalem, who had put the Lord Jesus to death, had nothing to offer to contradict these disciples as they continued to preach Jesus and His resurrection--because all Jerusalem knew the tomb was empty. If there had been trickery here, sooner or later it would have been suspected, then proved.

Second, surely *one* of the disciples, even *most* of them, would have confessed the fraud under the terrific persecution they underwent. It may be possible to live a lie, but men seldom die for a lie--and most of these men did.

The result ultimately would have been that the message that Christ had risen would have suffered the fate of all such unfounded stories--it would have lost it *power.* Instead, this truth swept the world, closed pagan temples, won millions of disciples, brought hope to a despairing humanity, was the very foundation truth of the early church, and is today as believable and as freshly glorious as ever.

But not only did Jesus come alive again, He did not disappear to leave the disciples speculating through all the subsequent days as to what had happened to Him.

Instead, He appeared to them--literally, visibly, frequently.

He appeared to the women at the tomb on Resurrection morning (Matthew 28:1-10); later that day to Mary Magdalene alone (John 20:11- 18); and to Simon Peter, also alone (Luke 24:34). In the afternoon He walked with two of His followers toward Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35); and that night He appeared to ten of the apostles gathered together in an upper room at Jerusalem (Mark 16:14-16; Luke 24:36-40; etc.).

A week later He appeared to all eleven of the apostles, probably at the same place (John 20:26-28). Once He was seen by above 500 brethren on a mountain in Galilee (I Corinthians 15:6); and finally to the apostles just before His ascension (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:50-52; Acts 1:3- 8).

As with the fact of the empty tomb, so in regard to these histor- ically recorded appearances, all kinds of theories have been proposed attempting to deny their literalness. But these theories are unreasonable, without supporting evidence. None has ever won the unanimous approval of those who refuse to believe in the reality of the appearances.

Moreover, while it is true we are living in an age when may of our leading scientists and agnostics and many of our philosophers are antisuperanaturalistic, let us not forget that some of the greatest thinkers of the ages have firmly believed in this great miracle. Increase Mather, president of Harvard; Timothy Dwight, president of Yale; Nathan Lord, president of Dartmouth; Edward Hitchcock, president of Amherst; Mark Hopkins, president of Williams; John Witherspoon, president of Princeton--these men and countless others have believed it.

But suppose Christ *did* rise from the dead, what of it? What has it to do with *my* life? What has it to do with *your* life? Just this: it seals with certitude the teachings of Christ.

Jesus taught many great truths--especially many about Himself. He claimed to have come down *from* God.

He said He was the way *to* God.

He said He was the Son of God, who alone knew God perfectly.

He said that whoever believed on Him had eternal life, and no one else had it.

He said that whatever we ask God in His name, He would grant it to us.

Thus when He did rise from the grave on the third day, He revealed that in these amazing, unparalleled predictions, *He spoke the truth!*

Do you know any reason, *any good reason,* why we should not believe that His words are all true?

The point is, does not the truth of the Resurrection convince us that He is none other than the One He claimed to be--the Son of God?

And then, of course, the fact that Christ rose from the dead testifies that He has broken the power of death, and that He will some day raise us also up from the grave, as He promised.

In other words, if this Person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in all this, He should be the cornerstone of the foundation of your life. For He said a life built on Him would know forgiveness of sins, His compan- ionship and help, a joy that no circumstances can ever take away, and a hope that shineth more and more unto a perfect day.

Those who have tried it down through the ages--*and there have been many*--have given their testimony. And we today who believe also know.", "20_newsgroups/soc.religion.christian/20548", ["No evidence--text-level","The context pushes us to think that this will be an embedded interpretation.","Bad",[],""], [["Embedded","Good","I'm quite sure this is an embedded interpretation; this argument is good if it is fleshed out to say that the context is one in which the author is giving a list of things Jesus claimed, so this supports an embedded interpretation."],["Embedded","Bad","I answered 'embedded' because that's what the textual argument states. I don't agree with this judgment."]] ]; corpus[4] = [ ["say"], "Lawyer Pete McCloskey, a former Congresmen who is representing the plaintiffs, said the 19 plaintiffs included Arab-Americans and Jews -- and his wife Helen, who also had information gathered about her.", "Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Lawsuit against ADL
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 13:03:49 GMT


[It looks like Yigal has been busy...]

RTw 04/14 2155 JEWISH GROUP SUED FOR PASSING OFFICIAL INFORMATION

By Adrian Croft SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, Reuter - Nineteen people, including the son of former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens, sued the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, accusing the Jewish group of disclosing confidential official information about them. Richard Hirschhaut, director of the San Francisco branch of the ADL, art dealer Roy Bullock and former policeman Tom Gerard were also named as defendants in the suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court. The 19 accuse the ADL of B'nai B'rith, a group dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, and the other defendants of secretly gathering information on them, including data from state and federal agencies. The suit alleges they disclosed the information to others, including the governments of Israel and South Africa, in what it alleges was a "a massive spying operation." The action is a class-action suit. It was filed on behalf of about 12,000 anti-apartheid activists or opponents of Israeli policies about whom the plaintiffs believe the ADL, Bullock and Gerard gathered information. Representatives of the ADL in San Francisco were not immediately available for comment on Wednesday. The civil suit is the first legal action arising out of allegations that Gerard, a former inspector in the San Francisco police intelligence unit, passed confidential police files on California political activists to a spy ring. The FBI and San Francisco police are investigating the ADL, Bullock and Gerard over the affair and last week searched the ADL's offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The suit alleges invasion of privacy under the Civil Code of California, which prohibits the publication of information obtained from official sources. It seeks exemplary damages of at least $2,500 per person as well as other unspecified damages. Lawyer Pete McCloskey, a former Congresmen who is representing the plaintiffs, said the 19 plaintiffs included Arab-Americans and Jews -- and his wife Helen, who also had information gathered about her. One of the plaintiffs is Yigal Arens, a research scientist at the University of Southern California who is a son of the former Israeli Defence Minister. Arens told the San Francisco Examiner he had seen a file the ADL kept on him in the 1980s, presumably because of his criticism of the treatment of Palestinians and his position on the Israeli-occupied territories. According to court documents released last week, Bullock and Gerard both kept information on thousands of California political activists. In the documents, a police investigator said he believed the ADL paid Bullock for many years to provide information and that both the league and Bullock received confidential information from the authorities. No criminal charges have yet been filed in the case. The ADL, Bullock and Gerard have all denied any wrongdoing. REUTER AC KG CM", "20_newsgroups/talk.politics.mideast/75884", ["No evidence--unclear","The content of the appositive seems to be hearsay --- the matrix subject told it to the reporter. It is not clear that the reporter would want to be read as asserting it.","Bad",[],""], [["Embedded","Bad","Notice the passive voice - perhaps the writer is willing to endorse the fact that information was gathered, but not willing to assert who did the gathering. On the other hand, the lawyer making the claim should have no trouble asserting that his wife was spied on by the ADL in particular. So the argument seems a little fishy. I note that I was first tripped up by the presence of more than one appositive in the sentence - perhaps a better system of identifying just the appositive itself would be helpful for the future."],["Embedded","Bad","The fact that there is no discussion of Helen outside this comment strengthens the argument."]] ]; corpus[5] = [ ["claim"], "Far out on the grassy knoll of sexology, there is a cult of prochastity researchers who claim that the late Alfred Kinsey was a secret sex criminal, a Hoosier Dr. Mengele, who bent his numbers toward the bisexual and the bizarre in a grand conspiracy to queer the nation and usher in an era of free sex with kids.", "Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.sex,soc.men
Subject: Was Kinsey a Fake and a Pervert?
Date: 20 Apr 1993 23:40:28 -0700
Organization: Pendor, UnLtd.


Was Kinsey a Fake and a Pervert? by Philip Nobile

Far out on the grassy knoll of sexology, there is a cult of prochastity researchers who claim that the late Alfred Kinsey was a secret sex criminal, a Hoosier Dr. Mengele, who bent his numbers toward the bisexual and the bizarre in a grand conspiracy to queer the nation and usher in an era of free sex with kids.

But what really riles these critics is Kinsey's towerin~ cultural influence. His bestselling surveys-- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)-- tore the sheets off the country's erogenous zones and undermined midcentury morals. His charts and graphs, based on detailed histories of 12,000 men and women, demonstrated that practices generally considered rare and/or 'abnormal'-- masturbation, extramarital relations, homosexuality, and even barnyard bestiality, were as American as strawberry shortcake.

Yet for a hard core of these heterosexual supremacists, aided and abetted by Pat Buchanan and the religious right, the zoology professor from Indiana University remains the evil genius behind the sex revolution and a target for character assassination.

Judith Reisman, the prosecution's expert witness at the Mapplethorpe trial in Cincinnati, is the leader of the anti- Kinsey revisionists as well as his Inspector Javert. In 1983, during a radio interview with Pat Buchanan in Washington, Reisman accused Kinsey of having been inolved in "the vicious genital torture of hundreds of children." She speculated that he kidnapped and drugged ghetto boys in order to carry out clandestine orgasm tests.

Now, seven years later, Reisman has revived her charges in a different book, titled Kinsey, Sex and Fraud, just released by the small and religiously oriented Huntington House in Lafayette, Louisiana. Her coauthor is Ed Eichel, a Manhattan psychotherapist who has invented a new style of intromission ("the coital alignment technique") that supposedly triggers simultaneous orgasm with considerable regularity and thereby increases compatibilty between the sexes. In the book Eichel contends that "Kinsey deliberately cooked the gay stats because, being an oddball himself, he wanted to advance the 'denormalization' of heterosexuality."

If the authors are right, then the world- famous Kinsey Reports are, as the introduction boldly asserts, "the most egregious example of scientific deception in this century." And if they are wrong, Kinsey, Sex and Fraud is a shameful smear.

Despite the less- than- stellar credentials of Kinsey's detractors, legends are not what they used to be. Martin Luther King may have committed plagiarism. Bruno Bettelheim slapped young mental patients around. Father Bruce Ritter, the founder of Covenant House, preyed on runaway boys. Closer to Kinsey, Masters and Johnson have been disgraced for faking it in one way or another.

So it should not surprise anybody that Kinsey, who filmed strange people having sex in his attic, may have had skeletons in the closet. The problem is that Reisman does not seem to have the intellectual prowess to pull off the job.

As a thinker, the woman is no Madame Curie. The 55-year-old former songwriter for Captain Kangaroo has little professional standing, no current university position, and no peer-review publications, though her creative 1983 resume was padded with phantom accomplishments. For instance, it listed a book as her own-- Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography-- that was actually written and edited
by others. Then there is her Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University. Although Reisman has no bachelor's degree, Case granted her a master's in 1976 and a doctorate in 1979. Her dissertation was on the commentaries of a local octagenarian TV commentator. But on the resume, Reisman gave this piece of scholarship a fancy Hautes Etudes moniker-- to wit: "The Application of Aristotelian and Systems Analytic Theory to Mass Media Effects."

When Reisman burst into prominence on Buchanan's program, it was love at first sight for Al Regnery, the outwardly anti- porn head of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Ed Meese's Justice Department. Regnery was a young law-and-order conservative and amateur social philosopher who wanted to help change the sexual climate of the United States.

After Reisman's sensational radio session, the sexual equivalent of Joe McCarthy's Wheeling speech, Regnery summoned her to meetings to discuss mutual interests. First he tried to shovel her $800,000 for a quasi-Frankenstein study that was going to measure the brain chemicals of men and boys who looked at arousing photographs. Guffaws on Capitol Hill killed the original proposal, but $734,000 in govemment money went to Reisman anyway for plan B- a probe of child images in the cartoons Playboy, Penthouse, and Hust ler. (Incredibly, this grant surpassed the entire budget of the attorney general's pornography commission.)

When the overpriced and oversold project was completed in 1986, it was immediately shelved by an embarrassed Justice Department. That spring, Regnery resigned from his post only days before the New Republic carried this admission that he had kept porno magazines around the house.

Notwithstanding the six-figure humiliation, Reisman went on to scratch out a niche on the ioony right. As the darling of the sex cranks, she deplores subversive phenomena like shaved genitalia in men's magazines and blames AIDS on gays. Kinsey, Sex and Fraud is Reisman's latest grasp for respectability. Pat Buchanan, of course, is putting his Krugerrands on Reisman's ultimate vindication. "This book is social dynamite," he says in a blurb an the front cover. He especially liked the antigay parts. Smacking his lips in his syndicated column, he declared, "It may just blow the sewer cap off Kinsey's monumental reputation, reestablish homosexuality as a 1-in-50 aberration, expose the Gay Rights movement as a paper tiger, and even put at risk the enormous sex industry built upon Dr. Kinsey's 'research.'"

The blockbuster charge at the heart of the cluttered and repetilive j'Accuse is that Kinsey was a sex-mad pedophile who molested little boys in Nazi-type experiments and recorded their orgasms in his male volume/ A similar charge was first recited at the Fifth World Conference on Sexology in Jerusalem in 1981 to no effect before being recycled by Reisman for Buchanan in Washington in 1983.

Here is how Reisman and Eichel repackaged the Mengele business in Kinsey, Sex and Fraud:


Mengele-like 'scientific' experiments on infants and children were the basis for Kinsey's conclusions... on childhood sexuality.

Somewhere and sometime in the course of the project, Kinsey appears to have directed experimental sex research on several hundred children aged from two months to almost 15 years.

This, of course, would implicate Kinsey and his team in promoting, and perhaps participating in, the criminal activity.

In the opinion of this book's authors, that is exactly how part of Kinsey's child sexuality research took place.

Donning his psychohistorian's cap and citing an FBI manual on child molesters as a guide, Eichel casually diagnoses Kinsey as a homosexual pedophile with the perfect motive for doing exactly as Reisman said:

[Kinsey] placed himself in professional and nonprofessional positions where he had access to young boys, such as Y.M.C.A. camp counselor, boys' club leader, and Boy Scout leader-- activities he kept up 'during his college and graduate yeaers, and even after his marriage."

As crude as his analysis seems, Eichel was more than happy to elaborate even further in a recent phone interview. "If you've ever been around boy- lovers, pedophiles, they are absolutely compulsive," he averred. "Everything in his life is directed at getting children. I didn't mention this in our book but the caption under Kinsey's high school picture was a quote from Hamlet: 'Man delights me not, no,
[sic] nor woman neither.' What do you think they were picking up on?"

Before weighing what Reisman and Eichel pass off as proof of Kinsey's sex crimes, something must be said about Kinsey's scientific modus operandi. He was a fiendish collector. As a young zoologist with a D.Sc. from Harvard, he collected 4 million gall wasps and 1.5 million related insects. When he switched to sex exploration after agreeing to teach a marriage Course at Indiana University in 1938, he was no less curious or acquisitive. Nothing that mammals did in the realm of reproduction was foreign to him. He compiled masses of erotic materials including toilet wall inscriptions from male and female johns that highlighted differences in sexual psychology and flms of mating in 14 species of animals that showed an amazing similarity in oral eroticism.

Naturally, the sexual response of children, the genesis of eros, fascinated him. It was impossible to understand the sexual behaviors of adults without examining their origins. And so with the fervor of his bughunting days, Kinsey collected information about kids, though even his worst enemies-- until Reisman and Eichel-- refrained from linking him personally to his data on preadolescent sex.

Kinsey said plainly in the male volume that he got information on the sex life of young boys from people who had sex with them: "Some of these adults are technically trained persons who have kept diaries or other records which have been put at our disposal." Although he gathered much boyhood data from the memories of his subjects and the observations of parents and nursery school teachers, he treated the documentary materia! of the pedophiles as pure gold. There was nothing like it in the literature.

Kinsey's main source, a 63-year-old govemment worker, was also the most unforgettable character he had ever met. This man, whose history took 17 hours to log, had sex with over 600 boys and 200 girls as well as 17 of 33 family members including his father and grandmother. A sexual hobbyist and passionate record-keeper, he gave Kinsey detailed accounts of orgasms that he observed in preadolescent boys. Relying on the man's meticulous research, which involved following some boys for as long as 16 years, Kinsey was able to identify for the first time six distinct types of male orgasm-- some of which involved violent contortions at the peak of release-- as well as the speed and the capacity of climax.

What Freud had only imagined about childhood sexuality, Kinsey had reported as fact. Children were indeed erotic beings from the cradle. "These data on the sexual activities of younger male provide an important substantiation of the Freudian view of sexuality as a component that is present in the human animal from earliest infancy," he concluded without raising eyebrows in 1948.

Then along came Judith Reisman. Ignorng the legitimacy of Kinsey's inquiry, she beheld the ghost of Mengele in Bloomington. She was appalled by the thought of infant ecstasy and read torture in the portrayals of prepubertal orgasm rendered by the government worker. And she dared to say that Kinsey was a sex criminal.

Well, was he or wasn't he? Let's go to the text. There is no evidence in Kinsey, Sex and Fraud-- no witnesses, no paper, noteven a trace of hearsay-- that implicates Kinsey in either planning or partaking in child sex experiments. After 12 years on the trail, Reisman has uncovered just two sources to back up her original charge- - amazingly enough, Kinsey himself and Wardell Pomeroy, Kinsey's coauthor on both reports, to whom Reisman has never spoken. It turns out that her whole case rests on a few passages in the male volume iand in Pomeroy's 1972 biography titled Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research.

After frisking every "the" and "and" in both books, Reisman came up with what she believes are "smoking" sentences. To establish Kinsey's alleged role in the planning, she says that "there is a hint" in the fifth chapter of the male volume that Kinsey "directed" the orgasm studies on kids. She cites his tell-tale quote from a critic of armchair psychoanalysis demanding that "writers...test their theories...by empirical study and statistical procedures." Then she combines this quote with Kinsey's statement that some of the observations of his pedophile sources "were continued over periods of months or years until the individuals were old enough to make it certain that true orgasm was involved."

Putting two and two together-- Kinsey's empiricism and lengthy experimentation-- she arrives at her hint. But realizing this dog would not hunt, she devoted but a single paragraph to Kinsey's supposed planning before shifting to the issue of his personal involvement. As for the alleged participation, after poring over Pomeroy's biography, Reisman found several hidden clues suggesting Kinsey's likely hands-on approach to kiddie sex. Here the chain of reasoning is more complex. She points out that Kinsey was interested in clitoral measurements, collecting sperm and filming sex in his attic. Since Kinsey did indeed mislead Indiana University about the purpose of his cinematography-- he said that he was filming "animal sex"-- Reisman asserts that a "similar misrepresentation may yet apply to Kinsey's child sex experiments." Catch the "may"!

Reisman was also struck by Kinsey's doubting Thomas attitude toward the never before recorded climax of female rabbits: "Kinsey, according to Pomeroy, was the type of person who needed to see things for himself. Pomeroy gave the example of orgasm in the female rabbit. Because he had not personally witnessed this event, Kinsey had difficulty in accepting its reality, even on the strength of testimony from a distinguished scientist. How then did Kinsey testify to the actuality of orgasm in a 5-month-old infant from the mere 'history' of a sex offender?" (But, of course, he did not: he depended on their records.)

From this fantastic alchemy of conjecture mixed with clitorides, sperm, attic cumshots, and climax-in-cottontail has Reisman defamed the legendary Kinsey.

Paul Gebhard succeeded Kinsey as the director of the Kinsey Institute and now lives in retirement outside Bloomington. Reached by telephone, Gebhard defended the pedophile connection and denied Reisman's nasty imputations. "I don't understand the resistance of people like Reisman to studying the sexuality of children," Gebhard said more in exasperation than anger. "That is where sex begins. We were happy to take data wherever we found it. Even though pedophiles commit criminal acts, they are usually not violent folks. They wouldn't be very successful if they were. One of our best sources was a headmaster of a boys' school who maintained a kind of alumni club and sometimes went to the weddings of his former students. As for directing experiments, that's absurd. We never told any of our subjects what to do. lt was against our principles. Almost all of the pedophile material was retrospective anyway. Nor did we ever conduct sex experiments with children ourselves. That would have been highly inappropriate."

I asked Gebhard if Kinsey had ever seen a child in a sexual situation. "I think a mother once brought in a little girl who humped her teddy bear and Kinsey watched it."

As for Kinsey's sex life, it is still shrouded in confidentiality. He was married to the same woman for 35 years and fathered four children. Apparently, there are no huge sexual revelations, although rumors of homosexuality have persisted without confirmation through the years. Gebhard took his boss's history back in the '40s, but he refuses to discuss what he knows. "We never divulge anything about anybody's history, whether dead or alive," he says.

Reisman said no to an interview for this article on the grounds that I had once worked for Penthouse-- not to mention the fact that we have been debating each other in various forums for the past five years. In keeping with our contentious history, she took a swipe at me in her book for continuing "the Kinsey practice of euphemizing incest." My offense was using the biblical variant "lying with a near relative" in a 1977 article on the subject of incest. As a synonym for intercourse, "lying with" appears eight times in Genesis.

Ed Eichel is a different story. Though seemingly obsessed by Kinsey like his coauthor, he was friendly in long conversations. He told me that he began to smell a big baised agenda in sexology when he was a student in New York University's Human Sexuality program in the early '80s. "It was literally a gay studies program for heterosexuals," he says.

Around 1985, Eichel came upon Reisman's critique of Kinsey and the conspiracy theory started to sink in: the sex establishment was ruled by a Kinseyan bisexual bund advocating the overthrow of the heterosexual norm. No wonder he was having such a rough time promoting the joy of simultaneous orgasm-- anything that enhanced sexual compatibility between men and women inevitably raised objections.

Eventually, Eichel exchanged philosophical fluids with Reisman, and from this union Kinsey, Sex and Fraud was born. Eichel's main contribution to the book is discovery and analysis of a Kinsey conspiracy that supposedly seeks "the establishment of bisexuality as the balanced sexual orientation for normal, uninhibited people" which, by destroying the traditional family structure and normal sexual behavior, "would open the way for the second and more difficult step-- the ultimate goal of cross-generational sex (sex with children)."

When I pressed him for specific references to back up his outrageous contentions, he said weakly, "You don't think Kinsey is going to come right out and say that everybody is basically bisexual and should have sex with kids, but this is implicit in the Kinsey reports."

Meanwhile, Eichel is demanding a congressional investigation of Kinsey and his data. Perfect. That's just what the country needs-- a House Un-American Sexual Activities Committee, looking under beds and asking people if they are now or have everbeen a reader, a sympathizer or-- God forbid-- a subject of Dr. Alfred Kinsey.", "20_newsgroups/talk.politics.misc/178898", ["Embedded","The lead adverbial paints the matrix subject as conspiracy minded. The nominal appositive and the appositive relative both contain the same sort of emotive predicates as the embedded clause itself.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Embedded","Good","Note also the pejorative "cult of prochastity researchers"; this gives the impression that the author objects to their beliefs, and the claims in the appositive look like they belong to the same class of opinions as those in the complement to the predicate. (the relevant sentence wasn't highlighted in the text here)"],["Embedded","Good",""]] ]; corpus[6] = [ ["say"], "Specifically, are you saying it's these religious Jews, who trace their lineage back to Abraham by blood and orthodoxy, rather than by faith, who won't agree.", "Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: A KIND and LOVING God!!
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 21:09:00 GMT


In article >sandvik-160493205355@sandvik-kent.apple.com>, sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes...

(stephen) wrote: sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) quotes ML...

Remember, these laws were written for a different time and applied > only to God's chosen people. But Jesus has changed all of that. We > are living in the age of grace. Sin is no longer immediately punishable > by death. There is repentance and there is salvation through our > Lord Jesus Christ. And not just for a few chosen people. Salvation > is available to everyone, Jew and Gentile alike. Jews won't agree with you, Malcolm. Which Jews KS? Most religious Jews with the exception of the Messianic ones and atheists/agnostics, Malcolm.

KS, I see you're wanting Malcolm's response. Allow me one last inter- jection then please:

Distinguishing among the religious Jews, you've excepted the Messianic for obvious reasons. Specifically, are you saying it's these religious Jews, who trace their lineage back to Abraham by blood and orthodoxy, rather than by faith, who won't agree? Orthodox Jews?

As to the a/a (if I understand your direction), the issue remains unproven I suspect, considering how atheists and agnostics so often look to reason. Atheist, it is reasonable to conclude will not agree. For agnostics, a poll seems in order. Who knows? Myself, I'm not so sure the atheists can be counted out.

For the orthodox, I wonder how many would follow Moses, or Abraham, or David in accepting God's Word? Is the particular covenant to which one adheres, more important than God promisimg? I reckon for many it depends on the ongoing dialogue. Under these considerations, you might understand why I think it's premature to assert who will and won't agree.



| -- J --

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| stephen

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Violence overshadows Dominican Republic elections by Arturo Gudino

SANTO DOMINGO, May 12 (AFP)

Killings and threats of increased violence have overshadowed preparations for a presidential vote next week, even though the parties signed a civility pact to guarantee peace during the balloting.

Already around 30 people have died in political violence during street protests and rallies for the May 16 poll that pits President Joaquin Balaguer against Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, a black leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Party. Most recent surveys put them in a dead heat.

Also running is former president Juan Bosch of the Independent Revolutionary Party. Bosch was ousted in a 1965 coup.

Balaguer and Pena Gomez urged their supporters Thursday to refrain from violence during the final campaign events, which conclude Saturday. The two leading candidates signed a "Civility Pact" on Tuesday.

Despite plenty of election slogans there is in fact few differences between the candidates.

All praise current economic structural adjustment programs and plans to sell state enterprises pushed by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

But the opposition has argued that 87-year-old Balaguer, who is nearly blind, is too old to remain president.

Both leading candidates have promised to create jobs for the estimated 30 percent of the economically active population that is out of work. Both have also promised higher salaries and improved access to education and health care.

The Dominican Republic's 7.3 million people are about 15 percent white, 10 percent black and 75 percent mixed race. Per capital income is about 790 dollars annually while about 20 percent of the population is illiterate.

Some of the 2.5 million residents of the capital also began hoarding food in anticipation of demonstrations. "This is normal, they always do this," one supermarket manager said. "People buy just in case, but that does not mean that there will be problems."

Nerves were shaken when Jacinto Peinado, the vice president of the ruling Christian Social Reformist Party, said Wednesday that he had information that the opposition had plans to hold demonstrations on Monday afternoon to disrupt voting for president, 30 senators, 120 deputies and 103 mayors.

And the Democratic Revolutionary Party accused the ruling party of instructing its observers to contest the results of any voting stations where the opposition prevailed.

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(LONDON)

Alex Ferguson side's defeat at Stamford Bridge could easily have gone the other way, and the Old Trafford setback was the start of an early spring blip, now well behind them.

If Fergie fails to become the fourth double-winning manager this century, he will at least hope his decision to bring back goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel does not backfire on him.

The Dane's fumbles at Wimbledon, and against Oldham in the FA Cup semi-final, not to mention his sentry-style reluctance to leave his posts on crosses, have been put into still more grim perspective by stand-in Gary Walsh's confident handling in United's last two matches against Southampton and Coventry.

United fans can only hope that Schmeichel's assurances that he has recovered from his ankle injury are motivated more by conviction than by his desperation to make up for missing the League Cup final against Aston Villa through suspension.

Chelsea supporters will be encouraged by history, which, albeit marginally, weighs against United emulating Tottenham in 1961, Arsenal in 1971 and Liverpool in 1986 by pulling off the double.

If United's only uncapped player, Steve Bruce, does lift the Cup, manager Ferguson says the double will be dedicated to the club's recently deceased patriarch, Sir Matt Busby, whose legendary "babes" failed in a similar quest in 1957 at the final hurdle against Aston Villa.

United themselves foiled domestic double chasing bids by Liverpool in 1977 and Everton in 1985, with Cup Final victories. Liverpool failed again in 1988 when they were beaten at Wembley by Wimbledon.

Frank McLintock, Arsenal's 1971 double-winning skipper, believes United will triumph, but he has warned them against what he calls the "Jack the Lad" syndrome.

The former Scotland defender said: "The important thing in a situation like this is to keep your feet on the ground and avoid thinking you are better than you really are.

" As soon as anyone does that they can get nailed. You can come unstuck. "Liverpool always had a knack of bringing people down to earth. We tried to copy it and it worked for us."

McLintock recalled: "We had Charlie George, who in some ways was like Cantona.

" He could ping the ball 40 yards with the outside of his foot like a table tennis ball.

"But aspects like closing people down and denying opponents chances are just as important as the glitter of the game."

Probable teams

Manchester United: Schmeichel; Parker, Bruce, Pallister, Irwin; Kanchelskis, Keane, Ince, Giggs; Cantona, Hughes. Substitutes; Walsh, two from McClair, Sharpe, Robson

Chelsea: Kharine; Clarke, Johnsen, Kjeldbjerg, Sinclair; Burley, Newton, Peacock, Wise; Spencer, Stein. Substitutes; Hitchcock, Hoddle, Cascarino

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[9] = [ ["say"], "Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said Friday that he would make a statement on the issue later Monday after meeting a special envoy from Manila, former foreign minister Raul Manglapus, who is scheduled to arrive here Sunday.", "

Jakarta relieved after French, Portuguese first ladies refuse Timor seminar

JAKARTA, May 13 (AFP)

Indonesia on Friday said it was "happy" after the wives of the French and Portuguese presidents decided not to attend a controversial seminar on East Timor, the former Portuguese colony ruled by Jakarta.

"We received this news with full relief. We are happy," Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Irawan Abidin said.

The organisers of the private May 31-June 2 seminar in Manila had announced that Danielle Mitterrand, a well-known human rights campaigner and wife of French President Francois Mitterrand, and Maria Barroso Soares, wife of President Mario Soares of Portugal would attend.

The meeting, attended by non-governmental organisation, intends to focus on the state of human rights in East Timor, where activists say tens of thousands have been killed in Indonesia's 18-year rule.

The presence of Mitterrand and Soares threatened a diplomatic scandal, with Indonesia on Wednesday voicing anger at the Philippines as the choice of venue, and the Philippines retorting that it had no power to block the meeting.

State Secretary Murdiono said Friday: "We will not send a protest note, but we are certainly very disappointed with (the holding of) such a conference."

Irawan denied that Indonesia -- a fast-developing economy and major purchaser of arms -- had exerted any pressure in Europe to torpedo the invitations.

"Those two ladies have their own judgement," he said.

Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said Friday that he would make a statement on the issue later Monday after meeting a special envoy from Manila, former foreign minister Raul Manglapus, who is scheduled to arrive here Sunday.

Irawan said: "if that conference was providing jobs, or investment for East Timor, we would welcome that. But not when it's trying to put Indonesia in the dock."

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UN observer killed was Malaysian

SARAJEVO, May 13 (AFP)

A UN military observer killed at the edge of the Sarajevo exclusion zone was a Malaysian, UN forces spokesman Eric Chaperon said Friday, adding that the shell which hit his vehicle was "not an accident."

Another UN observer injured in the same incident Thursday was an Egyptian but his life was not in danger, Major Chaperon said.

He identified the dead observer as Major Ariffin Zakaria. He said his body was to be flown to Kuala Lumpur Friday and a brief military ceremony would be held in his honor at Sarajevo airport.

He said the Egyptian was Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Kamal El Din, who suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs and was evacuated by helicopter to a Canadian medical unit in Visoko, northwest of Sarajevo.

The UN military spokesman said a single shell was fired on their vehicle after it got stuck in mud at Cermenica, 15 kilometers (eight miles) northeast of Visoko.

"It is not an accident of firing," he stressed.

But he refused to say whether the shell had been fired by Bosnian Serb forces who have a position only a kilometer (less than a mile) from where the observers' truck got bogged down.

The two UN soldiers had called for assistance.

The spokesman said a Bosnian army soldier was also wounded when he and a colleague on board a tractor came under fire as they were trying to tow away the UN vehicle.

He said the Bosnian soldier had been hit in the back, but was out of danger.

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Beijing frees religious dissidents ahead of US MFN decision by Philippe Massonnet

BEIJING, May 13 (AFP)

The Chinese government has released five more religious dissidents in its latest gesture of human rights concessions to the US in the run-up to a renewal of its most favoured nation (MFN) trade status.

Three members of the Protestant Church of the New Testament, Chen Zhuman, Yan Peizhi and Xu Zhihe, along with Roman Catholic priests Zhang Li and Chu Tai, were recently released early from reeducation camps for good behaviour, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday.

The five had been given sentences of between one and three years in labour camps from 1992-93 for having "disturbed public order and endangered public security by their religious activities."

Chen Zhuman, 50, was sentenced in Fujian, in July 1992, to three years in a reeducation camp for having illegally rejoined a group of the Church of the New Testament.

Yan Peizhei, 35, and Xu Zhihe, 50, both peasants from Shandong, also belonged to the Protestant organization when they were sentenced to three years in labour camp in December 1992.

Zhang Li and Chu Tai, both Catholic priests from Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, were sentenced to three years and one year, respectively, in November 1993.

When the communist government came to power in 1949 after a civil war, it created several officially sanctioned churches and suppressed the activities of Christians who refused to join -- especially Catholics who remained loyal to the Vatican.

On Thursday, Chinese authorities announced the release on parole of another Christian dissident, Zhang Ruiyu, who had been sentenced to four years in prison in 1991.

"The Chinese authorities are trying to charm (US President Bill) Clinton by adeptly playing on religion and swaying American public opinion," a western diplomat here said.

Clinton must decide by June 3 whether or not to renew China's privileged MFN trading status which allows Chinese products easier access to US markets. Washington however has made the improvement of the human rights situation in China a precondition to MFN renewal.

International human rights organizations have rallied for the release of the six religious dissidents on several occasions.

Observers here said it was less dangerous for Beijing to release the religious dissidents than more militant political dissidents who could stir up more trouble ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4.

Authorities over the past few weeks have rounded up at least six active political dissidents here and in the eastern city of Shanghai.

The latest arrest was that of Shanghai-based dissident Yang Zhou on Thursday. Zhou is a spokesman for the Chinese Association for Human Rights.

China's most famous dissident, Wei Jingsheng, is meanwhile kept under police guard at a state residence in a Beijing suburb.

President Jiang Zemin, who is also head of the Chinese Communist Party, on Thursday for the first time publicly defended the bloody suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy movement at Tiananmen Square, saying authorities were determined to use all methods available to avoid another such incident.

Chinese leaders are also employing another tactic to convince the United States to renew MFN -- allowing a few dissidents to leave the country.

In April, 1989 pro-democracy movement leader Wang Juntao was given permission to leave in order to seek medical treatment in the United States.

Wang had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment, receiving the harshest penalty given to any leader connected to the movement.

Dissident intellectual Yu Haocheng early this week received the green light from authorities to visit the United States to teach at New York's Columbia University, after several years of trying to secure permission.

But most observers here believe the release of dissidents is aimed solely at guaranteeing the continuation of MFN.

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Indian premier leaves for United States

NEW DELHI, May 14 (AFP)

Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao left Saturday on a week-long trip to the United States, where he is expected to hold talks on the thorny nuclear issue, officials said.

The 73-year-old premier left by a special Air India plane from a military airbase on the capital's outskirts, accompanied by a high-level delegation that includes Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.

It is the first visit to the US by an Indian premier since Rajiv Gandhi went to Washington in October 1987, and the most controversial of foreign trips by Rao since he took office in June 1991.

Indian officials say New Delhi's ambitious nuclear and missile programmes will top Rao's agenda in his meetings with President Bill Clinton and other US officials.

Opposition leaders had pressed Rao to call off the visit to denounce what they alleged was US arm-twisting over nuclear non-proliferation, Kashmir, human rights and trade.

At the root of Indo-US differences is the refusal by New Delhi, which exploded a nuclear device in 1974, to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or agree to a pact on a nuclear-free South Asia.

The Press Trust of India news agency reported Saturday that Rao "was expected to tell the US ... that it will not accept Washington's plans for a multilateral meet on nuclear non-proliferation in South Asia."

The US administration, which fears that South Asia is a potential nuclear flashpoint, also wants New Delhi not to induct an indigenous surface-to-surface Prithvi missile in the army and halt research on the intermediate-range Agni ballistic missile.

A US proposal to supply 38 F-16 planes to Pakistan, with which India has fought three wars and which it accuses of backing Moslem separatism in Kashmir, has also angered New Delhi.

Indian officials said Rao, who launched a radical programme of economic liberalisation in July 1991 ending four decades of quasi-socialism, will invite increased US investment in India.

Rao arrives in New York Sunday for meetings with the large Indian community there and then goes to Houston for talks with US business leaders. On Tuesday, he will fly to Boston, where he will give a lecture at Harvard.

His two-day stay in Washington Wednesday and Thursday includes a speech to a joint session of Congress, and a two-and-a-half-hour session with Clinton. The two are scheduled to hold a joint press conference Thursday.

Rao is also to have talks with Defence Secretary William Perry, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

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Jackson stripped of title

PANAMA, May 14 (AFP)

American John David Jackson was stripped of his WBA middleweight world crown here on Saturday for fighting a bout without official permission.

WBA committee president Elias Cordova said the title was now vacant and would go to the winner of a fight between American Beggie Johnson and Jorge Castro of Argentina.

He claimed Jackson, who won the title on October 1 last year, fought a 10-round bout on May 6 against compatriot Jess Johnson without clearance.

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(new series) Labour eyes premiership for new leader

LONDON, May 14 (AFP)

Britain's opposition Labour Party, united in grief over the sudden death of leader John Smith, is however expected to waste no time naming a successor tipped to win the next election, analysts said Saturday.

Officially, the party has thus far refused to speculate on the likely outcome of a leadership contest, with party chairman David Blunkett calling Saturday on the press to allow the movement a few days' grace to mourn Smith, who died of a heart attack Thursday.

"I would ask people to give us a few days to because many of us are still reeling," he said.

But he added that the leadership issue would be resolved "sensibly but quickly," with mid-July a likely deadline.

Lauded by a succession of parliamentary colleagues as "the best prime minister Britain never had," Smith had been destined to lead his party into power after the next elections due by 1997, analysts said.

Enjoying a substantial lead in the polls over the long-governing Conservatives at the time of his death, Smith had managed through modernisation to unite Labour's left and right wings, and reassured the electorate by eroding the union's hold over the party's decision-making process.

Many within the party believe his successor will be ideally placed to guide that process to fruition at the ballot box.

"At the end of the day what matters is not if you agree with somebody but if you can trust him," said left-wing Labour grandee Tony Benn, in an assessment at once paying homage to Smith and outlining the qualities the party next leader will need to bring to the job.

Lord Callaghan, Labour's last prime minister in the 1970s, also urged a swift leadership contest.

"I would certainly like to see it got on with," he said. "There is ... less than a couple of years before" the next general election.

The party itself may steer clear of speculation, but the press and London bookmakers have already designated their man: shadow home secretary Tony Blair.

Belonging like Smith to the party's right wing, Blair, a fresh-faced 41-year-old with a reputation as a charismatic speaker, is currently the bookies' 1-3 favourite for the top job.

An MP for the last 11 years and a member of the shadow cabinet since 1984, Blair was hailed Saturday in a Financial Times profile as "the man who might become Labour's JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)."

His youth may count against him but the fact that he has never held a government post will not, as that shortcoming is shared by all his senior colleagues in a party which has not tasted power for 15 years.

Some commentators have cited a possible "dream ticket" partnership at the head of the party between Blair and ebullient left-winger John Prescott.

Others, meanwhile, have tipped shadow chancellor Gordon Brown, 43, to head the party, with acting leader Margaret Beckett, 51, fulfilling the deputy's role she held under Smith.

According to an opinion poll Saturday the Conservative Party has now fallen into third place -- 21 points behind Labour and half a point behind the Liberal Democrats.

It gave Labour 45.5 percent, the Liberal Democrats 25 and the Tories just 24.5.

All three parties announced a suspension of campaigning for next month's European elections until after Smith's funeral Friday in Edinburgh.

But whoever is chosen to head Labour will have to renew battle with a combative John Major.

On Friday he warned would-be Conservative challengers to his rocky premiership that he intended to serve as prime minister to the end of his five-year mandate, which expires in 1997, and that critics should reserve their judgement until then.

And although clearly shocked by his opponent's untimely death, Major's confidence will have been boosted by the likely effect of Smith's demise on the Tory leadership pretensions of Michael Heseltine, 61, who himself suffered a heart attack last year, analysts said.

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Haitian refugees, race dominate Dominican Republic elections by Arturo Gudino

SANTO DOMINGO, May 14 (AFP)

Racial prejudice and dire predictions about floods of refugees from neighboring Haiti have become major themes in the closing hours of the Dominican Republic's presidential elections.

In a final push before Monday's elections, President Joaquin Balaguer is trumpeting his own birth in the Dominican Republic and portraying his black opponent, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, as a voodoo practitioner.

Anonymous fliers have been circulated saying Pena Gomez, the chief rival for the presidency, is the "son of Haitians."

And Balaguer's Christian Social Reformist Party has said that Pena Gomez, who represents the Democratic Revolutionary Party, plans to open refugee camps for Haitians in hopes of ingratiating himself with the United States.

Another presidential candidate is claiming that the ruling powers of the Dominican Republic want to use cheap Haitian labor at the cost of jobs for their own people.

Haiti is both scorned and feared in the Dominican Republic, which shares the eastern half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

The reasons for this are both racial and economic.

Haiti is overwhelmingly black, while the Dominican Republic is 75 percent mulatto, 15 percent white and 10 percent black. But the 87-year-old Balaguer is also playing on Dominicans' fears that Haitians fleeing their impoverished country will flood across the border.

The fear is real in this country, which is home to about 500,000 illegal Haitian immigrants and where about 30 percent of the population is unemployed.

In a recent speech, Balaguer attacked Pena Gomez without naming him, saying that "from outside or inside the government I will also serve the country because I am proud of having been born in the Dominican Republic."

A third candidate, Jacobo Majutla of the Independent Revolutionary Party, claimed the "oligarchy of the country prefers to hire Haitians for agricultural and (sugar) cane-cutting work because it is cheaper and this hurts our nation."

Balaguer, who is seeking his seventh term in office, is a wily campaigner and despite being almost blind enjoys considerable support.

Pena Gomez has accused Balaguer of planning to take the vote by fraud if necessary.

On Saturday he vowed he would "bury" his rival in the ballot box. "For them it is intolerable that a citizen of color could reach the presidency," Pena Gomez said in a speech to a crowd of supporters, but "with a wave of votes we are going to bury forever 'Balaguerismo.'"

All the presidential contenders have promised to turn to the needs of the poorest in this country of seven million people, especially bringing clean water, health care and public transport.

Around 30 people have died in political violence during street protests and rallies for the poll. But there were no deaths in the last week of campaigning and both Balaguer and Pena Gomez are urging peace.

Per capital income is about 790 dollars annually while about 20 percent of the population is illiterate. Neighboring Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

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Accused serial killer's wife charged with sixth murder

GLOUCESTER, England, May 16 (AFP)

Rosemary West, wife of accused serial killer Frederick West, was Monday charged with the murder of a sixth young woman in the so-called "House of Horrors" killings.

Police said the latest charge against Rosemary West, 40, concerned the murder of Juanita Mott, who went missing in 1975 at the age of 18 and whose remains were unearthed at the Wests' house at 25 Cromwell Street.

Frederick West, a 52-year-old stone mason, is charged with the murders of 11 women, including those of his first wife and two daughters.

He was arrested two months ago with the discovery of the first body, and his wife, charged with complicity in six of the murders, was arrested about a month ago.

One of the charges against Rosemary West concerns the murder of Heather West, her and West's daughter, who west missing in 1987 at the age of 16.

Nine of the bodies were found buried in the garden, basement, walls and floors of the house in Cromwell Street.

One was found in a house in which West previously lived, and another was found in a cornfield near a trailer park where he lived as a boy.

Police said they were still searching, and sources say the total body count could exceed 20.

In addition to the six joint murder counts against Rosemary West, she is also charged with complicity with two others in the rape of an 11 year-old girl, and with the sexual abuse of an eight-year-old boy.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","Support for part of the 'whose' appositive: a few sentences later, we get "Nine of the bodies were found buried in the garden, basement, walls and floors of the house in Cromwell Street", which presupposes, and elaborates on, the appositive content.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Bad","The information about the nine bodies could be true even if the Mott body was not one of the nine. Hence, it doesn't presuppose /elaborate on the appositive content."]] ]; corpus[17] = [ ["say"], "The prosecutor said that, acting under the orders of the plant's director, identified as JS, who is also on trial, the two defendants kidnapped and tortured Marsinah and then dumped her body.", "

13-year jail term sought after killing of worker activist

JAKARTA, May 16 (AFP)

A prosecutor at a district court in Surabaya, East Java, on Monday sought 13-year jail terms for two security guards at a watch plant for allegedly killing a labour activist whose death touched off a political storm.

The news agency Antara quoted prosecutor Sirajuddin Ardan as saying that the defendants, identified as Sup and Swn, had admitted to being involved in the killing of Marsinah, a worker activist at the PT Catur Putra Surya (CPS) watch plant.

They made the confession while standing as witnesses for the trial of CPS' personnel manager, Mutiari, Antara quoted him as saying.

Mutiari, one of nine civilians allegedly involved in the murder, has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for attending a meeting where the murder was allegedly planned.

A military official, army captain Kusaeri, is also facing a military tribunal for his alleged role in the murder.

The prosecutor said that, acting under the orders of the plant's director, identified as JS, who is also on trial, the two defendants kidnapped and tortured Marsinah and then dumped her body.

The presiding judge has authorised the two defendants, who want to appeal, to read statement in their defence on May 23.

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Dominicans vote in elections by Arturo Gudino

SANTO DOMINGO, May 16 (AFP)

A blind, 87-year-old incumbent running for his seventh term and a black politician were vying for the Dominican presidency Monday as voters went to the polls in elections clouded by crisis in neighboring Haiti.

Roughly 3.3 million people were eligible to vote, electing the Caribbean country's next president from a field of five candidates.

But the real contest was between only two candidates: President Joaquin Balaguer, an old but lucid powerhouse who has dominated Dominican politics for the past 30 years, and the social democratic leader Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, 57, who aspires to be the country's first black president.

Although personalities and domestic issues were the focus of the campaign, the crisis in neighbouring Haiti has intruded in the debate.

Both candidates said they opposed any military intervention in Haiti, a prospect raised by US President Bill Clinton, who has also called for tougher action to halt the smuggling of embargoed supplies across the Dominican-Haitian border.

Rumors of a US invasion swept voting stations after polls opened at 6 a.m. (1000 GMT) and Dominicans began crowding the 10,000 voting tables set up nationwide. Polls close at 6 p.m. (2200 GMT). Initial returns were expected before midnight.

Voting was slow and lines were long but no incidents were repored despite a campaign that at times degenerated into street clashes, which claimed the lives of 30 people.

Besides a new president, Dominicans will elect a 30-seat senate and a 120-seat chamber of deputies as well as 103 mayors.

Dominicans were faced with a choice between a populist of tireless energy and spell-binding oratory and a sagacious politician of understated style who modernized the economy and created an impressive infrastructure of highways and buildings.

It was expected to be a close race with the most recent polls showing Pena in the lead with 33 percent to 27 percent for Balaguer.

Balaguer, leader of the Reformist Social Christian Party, was born in 1907 and studied law in Santo Domingo and Paris.

He held diplomatic posts during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who was assassinated in 1961 after ruling the Dominican Republic with an iron hand for 30 years.

Titular president in 1960 under Trujillo, Balaguer was ousted in 1961 -- only to return again and again to the presidency, serving three successive terms from 1966 to 1978 and two more terms from 1986 to 1994.

He is credited with stabilizing the country politically and controling inflation, but he has been criticized for basing development on public works while neglecting social programs.

His multimillion dollar project to build a monumental Columbus Lighthouse in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America came under fire as a waste when health services were in crisis and unemployment was hitting 30 percent.

Businessmen figure prominently among a circle of advisers called "the palace ring."

Pena has emerged as a serious challenger in a country where 75 percent of the population is mulato, 15 percent is white and 10 percent black.

Of humble origins, he became involved in politics, inspired by the revolutionary ideas of the period.

He studied political science in Paris and formed relations with prominent figures of the Socialist International, something he mentioned repeatedly in his campaign to persuade votes that as president he could raise foreign aid and investment.

Pena has been accused of being impulsive and violent, a theme the ruling party exploited during the campaign, airing videos showing him as an angry young politician.

The opposition also has sought to play on racist as well as anti-Haitian sentiment by referring to Pena as the son of Haitians.

The other presidential candiates were Jacobo Majutla of the Independent Revolutionary Party, the veteran nationalist leader Juan Bosch of the Dominican Liberation Party, and Roman Catholic priest Paulino Antonio Reinoso of the Independence Unity and Change Movement.

All political propaganda was halted Saturday when the Central Electoral Board took control of the radio and television stations.

The Dominican elections is being monitored by some 150 international observers, including a group sent by the Organization of American States.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[19] = [ ["say"], "Hurd said he had an "extremely cordial" talk with Martino, who accepted an invitation for Berlusconi to visit London at a date yet to be set.", "

Berlusconi may visit London soon, says Hurd

BRUSSELS, May 16 (AFP)

Italy's new prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been invited to visit London for a meeting with British Prime Minister John Major, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said here Monday.

He was speaking during a meeting of EU foreign ministers -- the first attended by Italy's new foreign minister, Antonio Martino.

Hurd said he had an "extremely cordial" talk with Martino, who accepted an invitation for Berlusconi to visit London at a date yet to be set.

"I believe we ought to establish such a summit as quickly as possible," the British foreign minister said.

He added that his meeting with Martino "held good promise" for maintaining Britain's fruitful relations with Italy, particularly in such areas as defence and relations with eastern Europe.

Asked whether he felt uneasy at dealing with Berlusconi's coalition government, which includes neo-fascists, Hurd said: "We have no reserves about working with it."

He added: "The new Italian government is a three-party coalition. I see no difficulty whatever in continuing close cooperation between Britain and Italy."

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Banda will not vote, says aide

BLANTYRE, May 17 (AFP)-

President Kamuzu Banda will not vote in Malawi's first multi-party elections Tuesday, a source at the ruling Malawi Congress Party told AFP.

He said Banda, who is staying at his Sanjika Palace in Blantyre, had registered to vote in Zomba, site of his official State House, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) away.

This meant the veteran president would have to either fly or drive to Zomba to vote and "we cannot do that because we will be accused of intimidating voters," the source said.

He said the security arrangements required when Banda travelled would not fit in with the mood of the elections.

International photographers hoping for a picture of Banda voting have been disappointed.

Key opposition figures, including Bakili Muluzi of the United Democratic Front, on Monday rushed to their village homes to join voters.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[21] = [ ["announce"], "Only hours before, the government announced that Binariang, led by local tycoon Ananda Krishnan, who is closely linked to Mahathir, would effectively be the biggest competitor to Telekom Malaysia.", "

Malaysia introduces new telecoms policy, encourages competition

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (AFP)

Malaysia unveiled Tuesday a blueprint for its flagging telecommunication industry that would erode the monopoly of national telecoms firm Telekom Malaysia, officials said.

"To achieve an effective telecoms network, huge investments are necessary and this burden cannot be shouldered by a single firm," Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said as he launched the National Telecommunication Policy.

Publicly-listed Telekom Malaysia took over almost the entire network of telecommunications when it was set up under Malaysia's privatisation policy in 1987.

Following Mahathir's announcement, shares in Telekom Malaysia fell 90 sen to 18.70 ringgit on the local bourse.

Only hours before, the government announced that Binariang, led by local tycoon Ananda Krishnan, who is closely linked to Mahathir, would effectively be the biggest competitor to Telekom Malaysia.

Binariang, entrusted with the task of launching Malaysia's maiden communication satellite programme, would install the country's first fully digital cellular telephone and state-of-the art fixed telephone networks, officials said.

The blueprint for the telecoms industry, which is facing projected development costs running into billions of dollars, was part of Mahathir's "Vision 2020" to propel Malaysia to industrialised nation status within 26 years.

One of the goals of the government's industrialisation programme was to have 45 telephones for every 100 people by 2020, up from 12 telephones per 100.

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Christopher to visit Egypt for Mideast talks

CAIRO, May 17 (AFP)

US Secretary of State Warren Christopher is to make an unscheduled visit to Egypt on Wednesday for talks on the Middle East peace process, the foreign ministry said.

It said Christopher, who was Tuesday in Israel and also visited the Palestinian self-rule enclave of Jericho, was to make a 24-hour visit to review the results of his peace mission to the Jewish state and Syria.

A US embassy source said earlier that Christopher was expected in Cairo on Wednesday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak but he could be delayed until the next day.

The secretary, who met Egypt's Foreign Minister Amr Mussa on Saturday in Geneva, has since been on a shuttle between Israel and Syria to try and bring them back to the negotiating table.

During his last visit to Egypt, the only Arab capital to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, Christopher witnessed the May 4 signing of the PLO-Israel accord to launch self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.

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Clinton sees room for rise in short-term interest rates (UPDATES with more Clinton comments, background, tightens

WASHINGTON, May 17 (AFP)

President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that short-term interest rates could be raised without slowing down the US economy.

"There is clearly some room for short-term interest (rates) over the rate of inflation that won't slow down our economic growth," Clinton told reporters at the White House.

The president's comment came as most analysts were expecting the Federal Reserve's policy-setting committee to boost short-term interest rates at its closed-door meeting Tuesday.

Financial markets expected the Fed move to raise the federal funds rate -- the overnight interbank loan rate -- by as much as half a percentage point. The Fed has raised the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point three times since February 4, pushing it to 3.75 percent.

Clinton's remark, which showed he also expects a rate hike, was clearly aimed at reassuring financial markets roiled by the Fed moves, which they fear will throttle economic growth.

"First of all, if this happens, it's because we have growth," Clinton said, referring to another rate increase.

"Let's get the fundamental facts here," he said. "We have more jobs, lower inflation and a lower deficit, and expectations for high growth this year, good growth."

"I make a policy generally not to comment on what the Fed does," he added, prefacing his surprisingly exceptional remark that there was "room" for another rate hike.

An hour earlier, White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers, recalling the administration's traditional hands-off policy toward the independent agency, said there were few signs of inflationary pressure, a veiled hint that a new rate hike would not be justified.

Clinton also said that he spoke Monday with Budget Director Leon Panetta, who assured him that the administration's deficit reduction plan was on target.

"We're well within our projections on deficit reduction," the president said.

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Haldeman's diaries give revealing glimpse into Nixon administration

WASHINGTON, May 17 (AFP)

Diaries kept by a top aide of the late Richard Nixon show the former president suspicious of Jews, tired of blacks and ruthless in dealing with the talkative wife of his attorney general.

The daily diaries kept by H.R. Haldeman, which were published Monday, tell how Nixon believed there was "total Jewish domination of the media" and on February 26, 1970 "really raged" about US Jews in front of his national security advisor Henry Kissinger, who is Jewish. He then issued an order "not to let any Jews see him about the Middle East."

The diaries also say that Nixon was "pretty fed up with blacks."

An entry dated June 26, 1972 -- nine days after the break-in at the Watergate hotel that brought down Nixon's presidency -- discuss Martha Mitchell, the wife of then-Attorney General John Mitchell who had a habit of calling reporters late at night.

The president believed that "John's got to close her down somehow or lock her up but he can't just leave her speaking out like this. It's going to create a major national problem," Haldeman said.

The next day he told of how she had resisted when an FBI agent forcibly removed her telephone.

"She had a monumental tantrum, started throwing things at him, demolishing the room. They locked her in. She busted the window with her hand, cut herself badly. They had to get a doctor, who had to throw her on the bed and give her a shot in order to subdue her," wrote Haldeman, who died last year.

A former aide to Nixon, who died last month, said the excerpts reflect political frustration, not racism or anti-Semitism.

"I had the privilege of serving him for 15 years and never heard him make an anti-Semitic statement," said John Taylor, now director of the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.

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Japanese in favour of new general elections: poll

TOKYO, May 18 (AFP)

A poll released Wednesday showed that 51.1 percent of the Japanese were in favour of holding new general elections as soon as parliament approves stalled national budget bills for the current fiscal year.

Debate on budget bills, stalled since early March, is expected to end by the end of June with cooperation between Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata's minority coalition government and opposition parties.

A survey conducted by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said that popular support for Hata's cabinet, formed last month, stood at 42.2 percent.

That compared with 69.6 percent backing given to the cabinet of Hata's predecessor, Morihiro Hosokawa, in a similar survey conducted by the newspaper shortly after Hosokawa took office last August.

The latest survey showed that 31 percent of 3,000 eligible voters polled from May 13-15 said they did not support Hata, who was forced to form the nation's first minority government in 39 years.

Forty-five percent of respondents criticised the current cabinet for instability, while 44 percent said they did not understand the government's policies.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[26] = [ ["say"], "A government prosecutor said Wednesday he plans to drop vandalism charges against a Malaysian teenager allegedly involved in a spate of spray painting cars with a young American, Michael Fay, who was caned recently.", "

Prosecutor to drop vandalism charges against Malaysian

SINGAPORE, May 18 (AFP)

A government prosecutor said Wednesday he plans to drop vandalism charges against a Malaysian teenager allegedly involved in a spate of spray painting cars with a young American, Michael Fay, who was caned recently.

Ng Cheng Thiam told juvenile court magistrate Tan Choon Kiat that the prosecution was going to rely on the testimony of accomplices of the 15-year-old, who cannot be named under Singapore laws because of his age.

He said that after reviewing the evidence of the case, the prosecution was satisfied that the "reliability of the accomplices as witnesses is now in doubt."

The Singapore American School student was orginally charged with two counts of vandalism, two of mischief and one of theft, which was amended Wednesday to a charge of possessing four Mercedes-Benz emblems believed to have been stolen.

He pleaded guilty to the amended charge but sentence was postponed to next week to allow his lawyer to prepare his mitigation plea.

Ng told the court that on the boy's conviction on the amended charge, the prosecution would formally apply to drop the vandalism and mischief charges.

Under Singapore law, vandalism of this kind is punishable by mandatory caning. A juvenile court could not have ordered a caning in this case because of the Malaysian's age, but could have referred a convicted offender to a higher court for a caning sentence if it deemed the punishment appropriate.

On Tuesday, the prosecution dropped three vandalism charges against American Stephen Freehill, 16, also citing the unreliability of accomplices as witnesses.

The Malaysian and Freehill were in a group of international school students which included Fay, Hong Kong national Shiu Chi Ho, 17 and another 15-year-old Malaysian who were charged with spray painting cars last year.

Fay, who pleaded guilty to spray-painting cars, pelting them with eggs and keeping stolen road signs and flags, was given four strokes of a rattan cane two weeks ago after the Singapore government reduced his sentence by two lashes following President Bill Clinton's intervention.

He is also serving four months in Queenstown Remand Prison where Shiu, who pleaded not guilty, is serving eight months and waiting to be given 12 strokes of the cane.

Shiu is making preparations to appeal to Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong for clemency.

The other Malaysian boy is spending two months in a remand home for boys.

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Israel makes amends in Gaza, Peres says

TEL AVIV, May 18 (AFP)

Israel has corrected a "great error" by pulling out of the Gaza Strip overnight, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Wednesday as he left for Oslo.

"We have corrected a great error, which would have become even worse with time," Peres told reporters at Ben Gurion airport.

Peres headed for an official ceremony in Norway to mark the Olso government's role in brokering peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

"I wish the Palestinians every success so they can lead normal lives," he said

But Peres added that he would raise with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who is also due in Norway, his call for a "holy war" to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned Tuesday that the call would throw the whole peace process in jeopardy if Arafat, who pledged an end to violence last September, really intended it.

Peres was scheduled to meet French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris before returning to Israel on Thursday, officials said.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[28] = [ ["say"], "The report quoted official sources in New Delhi, saying the plea was made during the 12-day visit to China and North Korea by Basu, who leads India's last remaining communist government.", "

North Korea asks India for food aid: report

HONG KONG, May 18 (AFP)

North Korea has asked India for emergency supplies of food and medical drugs, a Hong Kong-based weekly magazine reported Wednesday.

The plea for food aid was made by North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung to the chief minister of India's West Bengal state, Jyoti Basu, the Far Eastern Economic Review said in its latest edition.

The report quoted official sources in New Delhi, saying the plea was made during the 12-day visit to China and North Korea by Basu, who leads India's last remaining communist government.

Kim is believed to have painted a dire picture of food shortages to Basu and asked the Bengali communists to organise relief shipments for North Korea as they did for Cuba two years ago when Fidel Castro's regime was under pressure.

The report said Basu's apparent agreement to the request was causing embarrassment in New Delhi, which has tried to prevent India's problems with Washington over nuclear non-proliferation from becoming entangled with the US-North Korea row over nuclear weapons.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[29] = [ ["say"], "Yussef said he had began to make security preparations for the arrival of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who is expected on June 5, according to PLO negotiator Nabil Shaath.", "

Police to control guns in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, May 18 (AFP)

The Palestinian police want to regulate the possession of arms in the Gaza Strip, police chief General Nasr Yussef said Wednesday.

"We want to regulate the possession of firearms, register them and have the identities of gun-owners," Yussef told a press conference. "We hope these arms will be used to support us."

He predicted the new force would not have trouble with the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS which has vowed to fight on against Israeli occupation.

"This movement supports the interests of the Palestinian people and will continue to do so. I don't think there will be any problems with it."

Yussef went on: "We can say that Gaza is on the road to liberation, now that the Israelis recognize that this land is Palestinian and belongs to the people. So they know their presence is illegal."

"After the interim period the settlers and the army will leave this region."

The Israeli army remains in three areas on the Gaza Strip to protect 4,000 Jewish settlers for five years in line with the Palestinian autonomy agreement. Israel and the Palestinians are due begin negotiations on the final status of the occupied territories after two years of autonomy.

Yussef said he had began to make security preparations for the arrival of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who is expected on June 5, according to PLO negotiator Nabil Shaath.

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Freed Kashmiri leader calls for freedom after hero's welcome

SRINAGAR, India, May 18 (AFP)

A top Moslem militant leader vowed Wednesday to campaign for the independence of Kashmir, after arriving here to a hero's welcome following his release after some four years in Indian jails.

But Yasin Malik of the outlawed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) collapsed after beginning his speech before thousands of cheering supporters in the city's Miasuma district.

"I will continue the struggle until Kashmir is liberated from India," the JKLF commander-in-chief said to wild clapping before falling and being carried off a makeshift rostrum.

Malik, 30, underwent heart surgery about a year ago. He had been asked not to strain himself before he flew out of New Delhi on Wednesday, two days after being released on bail because of poor health.

JKLF sources said doctors were attending to Malik, who spoke only for a minute before thousands of Kashmiris chanting "we want freedom" and "the tiger has returned".

It was one of the biggest recent shows of strength by the JKLF, the only militant group advocating independence for Moslem-majority Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan.

Other Moslem guerrilla groups want the Indian portion of Kashmir to join Pakistan.

Earlier, thousands of men and women had poured out of their homes, singing and dancing to give a tumultuous welcome to the visibly sick leader.

Malik, who helped launch the Moslem separatist campaign in Kashmir in 1989, was arrested by Indian security forces on the outskirts of Srinagar in August 1990, and had been in prison since then.

Malik's relative hugged him at the heavily-guarded aiport, while thousands of well-wishers threw garlands and flowers as he drove into this city at the head of a 50-strong motorcade which rapidly swelled.

Many JKLF supporters burst firecrackers, while police and JKLF members had a tough time keeping surging crowds from mobbing Malik, who climbed onto the roof of a bus to wave at his supporters.

Banners and posters welcoming Malik sprung up on downtown buildings in Srinagar, and pictures of the JKLF leader were displayed on rooftops and electric poles. A large crowd also gathered outside his home.

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Welsh supremo stays on

ABERYSTWYTH, Wales, May 18 (AFP)

Welsh football's under-fire chief executive Alun Evans has been told to carry on.

Evans, 51, was reported to have resigned on Tuesday after being censured by the Football Association of Wales for making an unsanctioned loan of 53,000 pounds, since repaid, to another sporting organisation. The resignation was later denied by the FAW.

Evans was also the prime mover in the sacking of Wales' popular manager Terry Yorath, and his subsequent replacement by John Toshack, a reign that lasted one match.

The FAW council confirmed after lengthy discussions here on Wednesday that the former schoolteacher would remain in his post.

But they have decided to advertise for a senior administrator to help out until Evans, currently on sick leave, is fit enough to return to his 47,000 pound a year job.

Even then the administrator will be retained, with the FAW determining both men's job descriptions.

Evans had claimed the controversial loan had been approved at the time by FAW president Elfed Ellis, who has since died. But Ellis's family have denied this and demanded an apology.

Evans, a qualified football coach and rugby union referee, took over as secretary of the FAW in 1982, becoming chief executive later the same year.

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UDF surges clear in Malawi poll by Marie Sanz

LILONGWE, May 19 (AFP)

Three decades of rule by Malawi's self-proclaimed President-for-Life Kamuzu Banda were set to end Thursday, with the final results of watershed democratic elections expected to confirm victory for the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF).

With 70 percent of the vote counted, the UDF, led by former Banda aide Bakili Muluzi, was projected to win 42 percent of the vote, ahead of Banda's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with 35 percent and trade unionist Chakufwa Chihana's Alliance for Democracy (AFORD), which looked likely to get 23 percent.

Exit polls showed that no party was likely to win an absolute majority.

Analysts said that despite the slower-than-expected pace of the counting of ballots from the 3.8 million registered voters, the outcome was not likely to diverge significantly from the latest predictions.

Counting was suspended in some regions due to heavy rains, fuel shortages and exhaustion among electoral officials who have gone 48 hours without sleep.

Banda's party failed to take all the seats in its stronghold in the centre of the country, although his advisor John Tembo, widely seen as the power broker behind the nonagenarian despot, held on to his constituency at Dedza.

So too did MCP deputy president Gwanda Chakuamba, who won another of the 177 seats up for election.

Of the 68 seats in MCP country, 15 have already gone to the UDF, according to results released on state radio -- Banda has never allowed television into the country.

AFORD has lived up to predictions that it would do well in the sparsely-populated north of the country, where Chihana's party has taken all 33 seats.

The UDF has performed well in the populous south, where it won nearly 70 of the 76 parliamentary seats up for election, according to Mike Nambote, a member of the party's election monitoring task force.

"Indications are that the UDF is leading in both presidential and parliamentary elections and is likely to form the majority in parliament," Nambote said.

UDF Secretary-General Harry Thomson told a news conference in Blantyre it expected to get between 70 and 80 percent of the votes in the south.

He called on Banda to accept defeat, and said Muluzi would address supporters Thursday.

He said the UDF intended to form a coalition with AFORD, as the UDF wanted to avoid giving the north the impression that it was being left out of the new movement for change.

Nambote said that initial results from the parallel presidential race indicated that Muluzi was ahead with 170,000 votes, followed by Banda with 95,000 and Chihana with 74,000.

In the opposition, all presidential running mates lost their races, including Aleke Banda of the UDF and Augustine Mthambala of AFORD.

The fourth presidential contender, Kamlepo Kalua of the Malawi Democratic Party, was reported to be performing poorly throughout the country, and candidates from minor parties were all faring badly.

Observers said anticipated deference for Banda, who has ruled the country with a rod of iron since independence from Britain in 1964, had not played a role, and the partial results closely mirrored the referendum last June that obliged Banda to abandon the one-party state.

The new constitution which came into force on Wednesday will in theory allow the new president to choose his own cabinet, although the spirit of compromise will have to prevail given that no one has won outright.

Rifts between AFORD and the UDF, who were at daggers drawn throughout much of the campaign, could be healed by giving Chihana, who pioneered the fight for democracy, the post of vice-president, observers said.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[33] = [ ["say"], "The paper said Velayati, who is due to leave for Cairo on May 30, could meet his Egyptian counterpart Amr Mussa, but they "would not" discuss improving bilateral ties.", "

Iranian FM to make first visit to Cairo since revolution

TEHRAN, May 19 (AFP)

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati will pay the first visit to Cairo by a senior Iranian official since the 1979 Islamic revolution when he attends a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) later this month, the Tehran Times said Thursday.

Iran and Egypt broke ties after the revolution and maintain diplomatic contact at interest section level.

The paper said Velayati, who is due to leave for Cairo on May 30, could meet his Egyptian counterpart Amr Mussa, but they "would not" discuss improving bilateral ties.

The Iranian minister will be accompanied by a high-level political and economic delegation including a member of parliament's foreign affairs subcommittee, Jalal Sadatian, the English-language daily said.

Since the revolution Tehran has been represented at international conferences in Cairo through low-ranking officials.

The two governments have on several occasions expressed a desire to improve ties, but no breakthrough has yet been made due to the opposition from Islamic hardliners in Iran.

The news of a meeting last September between Velayati and Mussa in the sidelines of UN General Assembly triggered criticism from radicals.

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Bhutto's party expands strength in northwestern province

ISLAMABAD, May 19 (AFP)

Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's party strengthened its hold on power in the North West Frontier Province Thursday by winning the seat of deputy speaker in the provincial assembly.

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) nominee Allaud Din was elected to the post with 44 votes against 33 polled by opposition candidate Ghulam Nabi Khan in the 83-member house, assembly official said.

Political sources said the PPP's prospects in the election improved after it won back an important group led by former chief minister Mir Afzal Khan, who had rebelled earlier this month.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","The embedded clause presupposes content that is fleshed out by the following appositive. ","Bad",[],""], [["Embedded","Bad",""],["Text","Bad","The presupposition is not text-level, but inside the report."]] ]; corpus[35] = [ ["announce"], "On Monday it was announced that Zhang Yimou, whose film "Huozhe"(To Live) is widely-tipped to do well in the competition, announced he was not coming because his film had not yet been authorized for screening in China.", "

Chinese director denied exit visa: film representative

CANNES, France, May 19 (AFP)

A Chinese director with a film entered at the Cannes Film Festival has been barred from leaving his country to present it, a source close to the movie said Thursday.

The incident is the second involving a Chinese director with a film at the festival being absent.

Yin Li, who directed "Story of Xinghua," has been denied an exit visa along with the whole of the cast of the film, a representative of its production company said here.

The representative said the film had also failed so far to obtain the censors' certificate needed for the film to be shown within China, but gave no further details.

On Monday it was announced that Zhang Yimou, whose film "Huozhe"(To Live) is widely-tipped to do well in the competition, announced he was not coming because his film had not yet been authorized for screening in China.

"Xinghua," produced by the Youth Film Studio of the Beijing Film Academy, was shown in October last year at the first international film festival in Shanghai.

It tells the story of Wanglai, a grocer who makes his fortune selling stones stolen from the Great Wall of China. It ends tragically after a hunt for a legendary treasure buried under the wall.

Yin Li, 36, is seen as the leader of the 'sixth generation' of Chinese filmmakers, following the fifth generation whose leading exponents include Zhang and Chen Kaige, whose "Farewell to My Concubine" was joint winner of the coveted Golden Palm last year.

Festival director Gilles Jacob, contacted on the matter, said he was not aware of it and declined any further comment. Officials in Beijing have so far declined to comment either.

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Businessman ends Banda's 30-year reign in Malawi by Felix Mponda

BLANTYRE, May 19 (AFP)

Businessman Bakili Muzuli emerged Thursday as Malawi's new elected leader after defeating Kamuzu Banda who had once called himself President-for-life during his 30 years of autocratic rule.

Muluzi, 51, vowed to champion the rule of law, alleviate poverty and boost social services and promised there would be no witch-hunt against Banda, who bowed out graciously on Thursday morning, admitting defeat.

"We will not work on retribution," Muluzi told journalists at his first press conference after the election, the first free poll after Banda guided the country to independence from Britain in 1964 and made it a single-party republic two years later.

"He made mistakes here and there, but we will look after him," Muluzi said of Banda, who is believed to be in his 90s. "He is an old man and nobody would want to push him around."

News of Muluzi's victory brought hundreds of chanting and car-hooting supporters of his United Democratic Front (UDF) out on to the streets of Blantyre, the economic capital of the small, poor southern African nation.

"This is the real freedom we have been waiting for," one labourer, Kondwani Phiri, said as he downed his tools and rushed to the UDF headquarters here. "We have finally shown Banda the exit door."

Muluzi said his new government would champion the rule of law and create a new culture of openess and transparency following the years under Banda, who had reigned like an absolute monarch shielded by a coterie of advisors.

The government's priorities would be to alleviate poverty, offer social services and improve education, he added.

There was a serious land shortage in the tiny south-east African state, he said, adding: "We don't know how we will solve that, but we'll not go around snatching land."

Muluzi said he was concerned that the election results already available, with more than two thirds of the votes counted, had shown regional and tribal divisions.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[37] = [ ["say"], "Svensson said Schwarz, who plays for Portuguese league leaders Benfica, would sign when the Portuguese championship ends.", "

Schwarz to join Arsenal

STOCKHOLM, May 19 (AFP)

Swedish midfielder Stefan Schwarz will play for European Cup Winners Cup holders Arsenal next season, Sweden's national coach Tommy Svensson said here Thursday.

Svensson said Schwarz, who plays for Portuguese league leaders Benfica, would sign when the Portuguese championship ends. Benfica have four matches to play.

Arsenal have pipped German club Bayer Leverkusen who had reportedly been ready to pay a Swedish record 2.8 million pounds for the player.

It was not known how much Arsenal had bid.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[38] = [ ["say","tell"], "Former tennis player Carling Bassett Seguso, who also lives in Boca Raton, said a supermarket manager had told her he recently refused to cash a check for Capriati, who came into the store smoking a cigarette and looking bloated.", "

Capriati in drug rehabilitation program

BOCA RATON, Florida, May 19 (AFP)

Jennifer Capriati checked herself into a drug rehabilitation clinic, her agents confirmed Thursday, amid lurid reports that the teenage tennis star used heroin and crack cocaine during a two-day drug party.

A spokeswoman for International Management Group said Capriati had voluntarily entered the rehabilitation center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach on Wednesday, two days after she was arrested for possession of marijuana.

Two other people with her were arrested for possession of heroin and crack cocaine.

Capriati's agent, Barbara Perry, told USA Today that her parents visited her Wednesday and "everything's fine, she's in good spirits."

Capriati, 18, was arrested Monday in a motel room in Coral Gables, Florida, on a misdemeanor drug possession charge. She had checked into the room Saturday, the motel manager said.

Capriati's lawyer and Perry said they planned to release statements on Thursday, but plans for a press conference were abandoned.

None of Capriati's handlers directly addressed reports that she had used crack cocaine, heroin and painkillers.

Police said they had no evidence Capriati used cocaine or heroin.

Tom Wineland, 20, who was arrested with Capriati on a charge of possession of suspected crack cocaine, was quoted in several London tabloid newspapers as saying Capriati used crack while he was with her.

Timineet Branagan, a 17-year-old runaway girl arrested in the incident, was charged with possession of heroin.

Wineland's lawyer, Edward Abramson, said he had been told that "Capriati rented the room, used her credit card to pay for the intoxicants. There was a party" and Capriati was "whacked out on heroin."

Abramson refused to confirm that Wineland provided his information.

"I don't want to prejudice the court," Abramson said. "You pretty well know my source, and you pretty well know what's going on."

Abramson did confirm his client spoke with a reporter from Britain.

Capriati's arrest cost her one of her oldest and most lucrative endorsement contracts.

Ivan Nonni, promotions chief for Italian sportswear company Diadora, said: "We invested heavily in Jennifer and wanted to invest more, but a company like ours that holds sport so important, cannot possibly be linked in any way with drugs."

Racket manufacturer Prince has reportedly cancelled its contract with Capriati as well.

Both companies had signed multimillion-dollar contracts with Capriati before she turned pro at age 13 in 1990.

The incident has fueled the debate over the appropriate minimum age for tennis professionals.

"It's a perfect example of little girls that were put out there way too early," said John McEnroe.

Capriati turned pro at 13 years and 11 months in 1990. That year she became the youngest Grand Slam semi-finalist in history at the French Open.

That same year she became the youngest player to win a match at Wimbledon, where she reached the fourth round. She was in the world top 10 before she turned 15, and by 1991 she was on the Forbes Magazine list of 40 highest paid athletes in the world.

In 1992 she won the Olympic gold medal, but she already appeared to be struggling to cope with her early fame.

Capriati has not played tournament tennis since losing in the first round of the US Open last year. She moved out of her parents home in Tampa, Florida, in March.

Former tennis player Carling Bassett Seguso, who also lives in Boca Raton, said a supermarket manager had told her he recently refused to cash a check for Capriati, who came into the store smoking a cigarette and looking bloated.

"The manager came up to me and said 'I never would have recognized her,'" Bassett Seguso said.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--embedded","The direct source is the embedded subject. It seems unlikely that the speaker (reporter) intended to be committed to this hearsay information.","Bad",[],""], [["Embedded","Good","Again, the specific argument seems good, but whether this class of arguments is "good" or not, I don't know."],["Embedded","Good",""]] ]; corpus[39] = [ ["say"], "Seles, 20, also said she is appealing the sentence of her attacker, Gunther Parche, who was released on probation without serving any time in jail.", "

Seles demands 10 million dollars from German tennis authorites

BOCA RATON, Florida, May 19 (AFP)

Monica Seles has demanded 10 million dollars from the German Tennis Federation for losses caused by the knife attack at a Hamburg tournament from which she has yet to return to pro tennis.

The German lawyer for Seles, the world number one at the time of the attack on April 30, 1993, has written the federation citing examples of inadequate security at the Citizen Cup event.

"We are not indicating insufficient security at sporting events in general," lawyer Wilhelm Danelzik said in the letter, which was released by Seles' agents International Management Group on Thursday.

"There was gross negligence on the part of the organizers of the Citizen Cup, which resulted in the attack and serious injury on Miss Seles, and that attack could have been prevented by adequate security measures."

Danelzik said his next step on behalf of Seles would depend on the respone of the German Tennis Federation.

The amount demanded includes loss of prize money and loss of endorsement earnings. Seles has won eight Grand Slam titles and earned 7.4 million dollars in tournament prize money since she turned pro in February of 1989.

Seles, 20, also said she is appealing the sentence of her attacker, Gunther Parche, who was released on probation without serving any time in jail.

She said his release was particularly upsetting to her as she tried to come to grips with the emotional effects of the attack.

"I am trying very hard to overcome the impact of the stabbing," she said. "I have always loved playing tennis, and it is very difficult for me not to be able to live the life I always thought I would live."

Seles' father and coach Karolj added: "Monica has not been able to overcome the emotional impact of the knife attack, which continues to be a problem for her.

" Monica wishes she could have been playing on the tennis tour by now, but she is unable to do so ... Unfortunately, Monica is not ready or able to go back to tournament play at this time."

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", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[40] = [ ["say"], "He said Neil, whose other roles have seen him in "The Hunt for Red October," "The Piano" and "Reilly, Ace of Spies," was a very private man.", "

Jurassic Park's Sam Neil furious at aerial photos of his New Zealand home

AUCKLAND, May 20 (AFP)

Jurassic Park star Sam Neil has filed a complaint with New Zealand's privacy commissioner after aerial photos of his exclusive alpine home appeared in a newspaper, the New Zealand Herald reported Friday.

Northern Ireland-born Neil, who grew up here, has built a housing complex around a lake near Queenstown on the South Island.

The Herald said a Queenstown newspaper, Mountain Scene, featured a photo of the home in its "Wonder Homes" section.

The Herald said Neil's lawyer, Simon Stamers-Smith, had complained to Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane that the article and photo were a "gross breach" of the Privacy Act.

He said Neil, whose other roles have seen him in "The Hunt for Red October," "The Piano" and "Reilly, Ace of Spies," was a very private man.

"He was very annoyed with Mountain Scene for grossly invading his privacy, as he views it, without his consent, taking photos of his house, and printing it in Mountain Scene," he said.

Mountain Scene publisher Frank Marvin said news gathering activities were exempt from the Privacy Act.

He said a "small plethora" of multi-million dollar estates were going up around Queenstown.

"It is a topic of local debate, which makes it news with a capital N," Marvin said.

Slane was not commenting on the complaint.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[41] = [ ["say"], "Yin, 36, said he felt victimised by a decision that had affected another film-maker, Zhang Yimou, who made"To Live.", "

Beijing blocks film-maker from going to Cannes

BEIJING, May 20 (AFP)

Chinese movie-maker Yin Li confirmed Friday he had been blocked from travelling to the Cannes Film Festival by the Chinese authorities, in a protest at the screening of "To Live," a film by a fellow director that had not received Beijing's official approval.

Yin, speaking by telephone, said he had been advised of the decision on Thursday, three days ahead of the screening of his own film, "The History of Xinghua," in the French Mediterranean resort.

"The producers and the two leading actors of of my film were also informed that their exit visas from China had been refused," he said.

Yin, 36, said he felt victimised by a decision that had affected another film-maker, Zhang Yimou, who made "To Live."

"He's the one who's sick, and I'm the one getting the treatment," he said.

The bar on Yin, which was initially reported in Cannes Thursday, came after Zhang announced that he would not attend the Cannes premiere of "To Live."

"Because my film ... has still not received its censors' visa in China, I am unable to come to the Cannes festival. I regret this very much," a statement released by Zhang in Cannes said.

Zhang is director of the 1991 hit "Raise the Red Lantern."

"To Live" tells the story of three generations of a family living through the China of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

"The Story of Xinghua," filmed in northern China last year, won approval for screening abroad from the Chinese censorship board. The movie recounts the story of a grocer who makes a fortune selling stones stolen from the Great Wall, but succumbs to a tragic death in a treasure hunt under the wall.

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Prince Ranariddh welcomes Khmer Rouge decision to attend talks by Philip McClellan

PHNOM PENH, May 20 (AFP)

Khmer Rouge nominal leader Khieu Samphan has agreed to attend peace talks with the Cambodian government in Pyongyang later this month, an official statement from the rebel group said Friday.

"I would like to tell his majesty the king that I am very happy to participate in the Round Table peace talks for national reconciliation and peace in Cambodia that begin on May 27," Khieu Samphan said in a statement released by the royal palace.

Co-premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh welcomed the move, telling AFP: "It's good. We are ready to go to Pyongyang, and ready to talk."

But he said that while the talks were going on government forces would continue battling the Khmer Rouge, who are slowly being pushed back to their headquarters in northwest Pailin following an offensive earlier this month.

"The terms of going to the talks call for no ceasefire," the prince said.

Co-premiers Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen had agreed to the talks aimed at bringing peace to the strife-torn country, dropping preconditions for a ceasefire after an appeal by King Sihanouk. The ceasefire precondition had deadlocked any progress toward peace, the prince had said.

Hun Sen -- who has been strongly opposed to making concessions to the Khmer Rouge -- has said the talks will be based on King Sihanouk's peace plan that includes giving certain "acceptable" members of the Khmer Rouge senior cabinet posts in exchange for giving up their zones, ceasing all guerrilla activities and merging rebel fighters with the royal armed forces.

Prince Ranariddh had also said on Wednesday that he was optimistic the talks would succeed. "We are going to Pyongyang because we believe that we will have peace and national reconciliation, otherwise we would not go," he said.

But at the same time, the prince also said that "insecurity" was rife in Cambodia, and that action had to be taken against the Khmer Rouge "threat."

King Sihanouk has made repeated calls over the past two weeks for foreign military aid and training to "save Cambodia from the yoke of the Khmer Rouge."

A senior US official in Washington said Wednesday that the United States was holding talks with Australia and other countries on how to help the Cambodian government defend itself against the Khmer Rouge.

"It's understandable in the wake of all the turbulence and infighting of recent years that the new integrated army needs training and a lot of help to be effective as a military force," said Winston Lord, US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.

The Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of one million Cambodians during a four-year reign of terror that ended when Vietnamese troops ousted them from power in 1979.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[43] = [ ["say"], "The broad-based coalition said General Sani Abacha, who seized power in November, should by May 31 invite the presumed winner of presidential elections annulled last year, Moslem tycoon Moshood Abiola, to form a government or face mass protest.", "

Back conference in Monday poll, government tells Nigerians by Ade Obisesan

LAGOS, May 20 (AFP)

The Nigerian junta on Friday appealed for people to vote Monday for delegates to a constitutional conference and not to start another "national crisis" in heeding a boycott call by pro-democracy groups.

Information Minister Jerry Gana asked union leaders, pressure groups, prominent politicians and rights movements "to choose this path of peace and reconciliation, instead of generating another national crisis."

At a separate press conference, however, another powerful political group, known as the Middle Belt Forum, dismissed the election as a "charade" and added its voice to those of the regime's opponents.

Forum members, who include leading political figures from central states in the Nigerian federation, said they endorsed last Monday's call by the National Democratic Coalition, for a boycott of both the poll and the conference.

The broad-based coalition said General Sani Abacha, who seized power in November, should by May 31 invite the presumed winner of presidential elections annulled last year, Moslem tycoon Moshood Abiola, to form a government or face mass protest.

Two Middle Belt Forum representatives and former state governors, retired Air Commodores Dan Suleiman and Jonah Jang, released a statement Friday saying that Monday's vote was a "charade" designed to perpetuate military dictatorship in Nigeria. "

Gana, however, said that the constitutional debate, planned to begin on June 27, would be an" enlarged family meeting "where discussions would be held and" basic conclusions "reached on Nigeria's democratic future.

" A peaceful conference to resolve our national problems is surely better than another serious national crisis, "he said." Be a patriot, show that you love democracy by coming out to vote. "

The government this week sent Yoruba members in the cabinet to the ethnic Yoruba heartland in the southwest, in a bid to win support from key traditional rulers in the region, where the boycott call has been intensified.

The military also declared next Monday a public holiday in an attempt to encourage voters to turn out en masse to choose delegates to electoral colleges in each of Nigeria's 30 states and the federal capital territory, Abuja.

These in turn will select, in separate polls on May 28, a total of 273 delegates to attend the conference itself. The government plans to make 96 appointments to the body.

The ward elections had previously been planned for Saturday, but were pushed forward by two days because the date clashed with the Moslem feast of Eid-el-Kabir (Abraham and Isaac).

Nigeria's Anglican archbishop, Abiodun Adetiloye, has called on the regime to hand over power to" democratically elected"president Abiola, whose claimed victory at the polls was annulled by then military ruler Ibrahim Babangida.

General Babangida alleged fraud in the elections, though international observers had adjudged them free and fair.

The Campaign for Democracy, a coalition of some 40 pro-democracy and human rights groups, is planning three days of protest ceremonies as from June 12 to mark the first anniversary of the annulment of the poll.

People will be asked to wear black in mourning, and church services and candlelight processions will be staged in major cities, the campaign's secretary-general Sylvester Odion-Akhaine said this week.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[44] = [ ["say"], "Onassis' spokeswoman Nancy Tuckerman said the funeral would be private, the way Onassis, who had shunned the spotlight since the assassination of President John Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963, wanted.", "

(picture) (new series) Onassis gets her final wish - to die surrounded by the people she loved

NEW YORK, May 20 (AFP)

The always private Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died at home the way she had wanted, surrounded by the people she loved, said her son here Friday.

"My mom passed on surrounded by her friends and family and her books with people she loved," said John Kennedy Jnr. outside Onassis' Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment.

"She did it her own way, on her own terms and we all feel lucky for that," he added.

The former First Lady passed away Thursday night after losing a battle with cancer. She was 64.

Onassis' spokeswoman Nancy Tuckerman said the funeral would be private, the way Onassis, who had shunned the spotlight since the assassination of President John Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963, wanted.

Outside the Manhattan appartment where Onassis' body still remained, several bouquets lay in the doorway, one left by a jogger as she trotted by.

Across the street dozens of people mingled, many red-eyed from crying.

"I'm going to wait for her to come out. I don't care what time she comes out," said one mourner.

As the death of the woman who became the closest modern America ever had to royalty, dominated television and radio, tributes poured in.

President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, on Friday remembered her as a model of courage and dignity.

"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a model of courage and dignity for all Americans and all the world," Clinton said.

"More than any other woman of her time, she captivated our nation and the world with her intelligence, her elegance and her grace.

" Even in the face of impossible tragedy, she carried the grief of her family and our entire nation with a calm power that somehow reassured all of us who mourned, "the president said.

Lady Bird Johnson praised her courage.

" In times of hope she captured our hearts. In tragedy her courage helped salve a nation's grief, "said the widow of former president Lyndon B. Johnson.

Among the most lasting images of the former First Lady following the 1963 assassination, was a picture of her standing calmly next to Kennedy's new grave holding the hands of their two small children.

Another showed her in the plane which brought her husband's corpse back to Washington, standing dazed in a blood-stained dress as Vice-President Johnson took the oath of office.

The widow also of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, she checked in Monday for the last time at New York's Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where former president Richard Nixon died earlier this month.

She decided to go home on Wednesday to die after doctors said nothing more could be done for her.

Tuckerman said that Onassis had signed a living will, requesting that no extraordinary measure be taken to keep her alive.

Shortly before her death Onassis went into a coma. She had refused to take medication.

" When she died it was very peacefull. She just sort of slipped away, "said Tuckerman.

Onassis first revealed last February that she was suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system.

Despite becoming weaker and weaker she still tried to get out. Only last Sunday she was spotted walking with a friend in Central Park.

A five hour interview with her made 10 years go by writer William Manchester, author of" The Death of a President"remain sealed by a court order until 2067.

In 1966 Onassis tried to block Manchester's book because it revealed what she considered intimate family details. Manchester, who became a family friend, agreed to drop some passages.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[45] = [ ["say"], "But Olsen says England should take their lead from "black sheep" club Wimbledon, whose no frills approach has taken them to the top six in the Premiership on a Second Division budget.", "

Norway boss gives England advice

LONDON, May 20 (AFP)

Norway coach Egil Olsen has made an astonishing attack on the tactics that have brought England victory in their first two games under Terry Venables.

As he prepared his team for their World Cup warm-up against Venables' reborn Englishmen, Olsen told Sunday's opponents they should revert to the 'long-ball' game favoured by their failed previous boss Graham Taylor.

Venables, a long-time exponent of the continental close-passing style, got off to a highly-promising start with a 1-0 win over Denmark in March and a 5-0 hammering of Greece on Tuesday.

But Olsen says England should take their lead from "black sheep" club Wimbledon, whose no frills approach has taken them to the top six in the Premiership on a Second Division budget.

Olsen said: "I have a lot of respect for Venables and what he has done. But I don't agree with that style of play. All the research done on how goals are scored shows that that style of play is not effective.

" We don't try to play exactly the same way as Wimbledon, and I know the name of Wimbledon has a bad sound in England. But you can't ignore their results.

"They have a very difficult system to play against. Look at how their goals are scored -- from set-plays or from knockdowns.

" If you play long balls when the opponent is unbalanced, you avoid the problem of losing the ball in midfield.

"I personally think even Brazil and Argentina should play like that.

" England were an exponent of this style, but now it does not exist, because teams in the Premier League play differently.

"Some are even using a sweeper. I think this is a backwards step."

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S. Africa applies for membership of OAU

JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (AFP)

South Africa has formally applied for membership of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), SABC public radio said Friday, quoting OAU secretary Salim Ahmed Salim.

Salim said he had been contacted by South Africa's new foreign minister, Alfed Nzo, who had told him that his country wanted to join the OAU.

South Africa's membership application is expected to be approved officially at the start of the OAU heads of state summit meeting in Tunis on June 13, to which President Nelson Mandela has been invited.

In terms of Article 28 of the OAU Charter, the organisation's 51 member states must support South Africa's application with a simple majority for it to go ahead.

Other items on the agenda are expected to include the OAU's quest to set up an African economic community

The OAU was formed in Addis Ababba on 26 May 1963 by 30 independent African states.

It now consists of every African state, apart from South Africa, which was excluded because of it's previous government's apartheid policies, and Morocco, which left the organisation in the 1980s over a conflict with Mauritania and Togo.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[47] = [ ["report"], "Citing Israeli press reports, National Public Radio reported that Ambassador Edward Djerejian, who has served in that post since January 13, resigned because he was left out of talks between US negotiators and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.", "

State Department dismisses reports on ambassador to Israel

WASHINGTON, May 20 (AFP)

The State Department Friday brushed aside reports that the US ambassador to Israel resigned because he was excluded from Middle East peace discussions.

Citing Israeli press reports, National Public Radio reported that Ambassador Edward Djerejian, who has served in that post since January 13, resigned because he was left out of talks between US negotiators and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

State Department Spokesman Michael McCurry said Secretary of State Warren Christopher had known about Djerejian's plans for some time.

"I wanted to be able to talk to the ambassador directly myself in order to be able to issue the most categoric denial on his behalf of those allegations," said McCurry.

McCurry acknowledged that some meetings went on without the ambassador, but he "has been a very effective, active member of the peace team and had been included in every aspect of the deliberations underway related to the Middle East peace process."

In late August Djerejian will head to Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he will direct the James Baker Institute of Political Studies.

The institute is named after the former secretary of state under former president George Bush. Djerejian worked with Baker at the State Department.

McCurry said reports Djerejian resigned because he was out of the loop came from "Israeli sources and others in Tel Aviv, and frankly, those sources who are just not familiar with the ambassador's thinking have put him in an uncomfortable position ... he's having to stamp out stories that are untrue."

McCurry added, "because of Ambassador Djerejian's extensive knowledge and his very shrewd judgement on issues related to the peace process, the secretary specifically asked that the ambassador be included in all of the activities of the peace process."

A career diplomat, Djerejian, 55, leaves the department after 33 years of service. Djerejian notified President Clinton in a May 1 letter of his resignation.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[48] = [ ["say"], "The king said that he and his wife were "greatly saddened" by the death of Onassis, widow of former US president John Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963.", "

King Sihanouk sends condolences to Kennedy family

BEIJING, May 21 (AFP)

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk has sent a warm message of condolence to the family of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, praising the former US first lady as a faithful friend of his country.

"On this sad occasion, we extend our deep and heartfelt condolences," King Sihanouk said in a message Friday following Onassis's death at her New York home from cancer, aged 64.

The king said that he and his wife were "greatly saddened" by the death of Onassis, widow of former US president John Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963.

"We will always venerate the illustrous and much-loved memory of Madame Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a great lady of whom the American people are justly proud and a great and faithful friend of the Cambodian people and ourselves," the message, sent to AFP on Saturday, said.

The 71-year-old king arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to resume medical treatment for cancer.

"All our lives, we will cherish the memory of her faithfulness and friendship for us," he said of Onassis, who visited to Cambodia in 1967.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","Unlikely that King would include the details of the assassination in his condolences. ","Bad",["Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Text","Bad","This seems not far removed from intuiton"],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[49] = [ ["announce"], "Chart Thai party leader Banharn Silapa-archa announced that Thanong, who represented Nakhon Phanom district in the remote north-east, had left the party and so lost his legislative seat and with it his parliamentary immunity.", "

Thai MP accused of drug trafficking quits by Patrick Lescot

BANGKOK, May 21 (AFP)

Thanong Siriprechapong, a Thai opposition MP accused by US authorities of drug trafficking, resigned Saturday but the parliamentary scandal on narcotics dealing seemed far from over.

Chart Thai party leader Banharn Silapa-archa announced that Thanong, who represented Nakhon Phanom district in the remote north-east, had left the party and so lost his legislative seat and with it his parliamentary immunity.

The party chief told a press conference Thanong had decided to step down "to preserve the honour and dignity of our parliamentary institution."

Statements that Thanong was wanted in the United States on charges of trafficking more than 45 tons of marijuana over a 14-year period triggered a wave of insults and recriminations across the floor of Thailand's parliament.

Unconfirmed reports have said 17 opposition politicians, including 10 sitting MPs, and also three government MPs were suspected of drug dealing.

Thanong's exit was the first time a Thai MP had resigned over drugs charges. But despite US-Thai treaties it is considered unlikely he will be extradited to the United States, in view of a recent statement by Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai that a Thai citizen should be tried by a court in his own country.

A second opposition MP, Mongkol Chongsuthamanee from the smaller Chart Pattana party, remains in the spotlight, after the US embassy confirmed Friday that he had been refused a visa in March because of "a well-founded reason to believe" he was involved in drugs trading.

In Parliament, Mongkol represents Chiang Rai in the extreme north of the country, an area commonly regarded as part of the so-called "golden triangle" where Burma, Laos, and Thailand meet. The hilly region is said to be the source of some two-thirds of the world's heroin supplies.

Prime Minister Chuan vowed Friday to take action against politicans involved in the drug trade but said there was not enough evidence to justify the arrest of any MP.

With a parliamentary row blazing and affecting mainly the oposition, Chart Thai secretary general Sanoh Thienthong was quoted in Bangkok newspapers as calling for dissolution of parliament and new elections.

This was one of several pleas this week to uphold the dignity of the chamber, two of whose members came to blows in an angry exchange.

Meanwhile the chief of police, General Pratin Santiprapop, told the English-language daily the Nation: "Unless they are implicated by couriers it is quite simply impossible" to catch big drug barons.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","Lexical argument: Using "announce" for the appositive content would be infelicitous, since the lexical content of "announce" presupposes new information.","Good",["Other presupposition trigger","Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Bad","Could have been part of the party leader's announcement. However, the fact that the author later gives comparable information regarding Chongsuthamanee makes the text-level argument stronger."]] ]; corpus[50] = [ ["say"], "Mayor Gilbert Baumet said he would propose renaming a street and the town hall's reception room after the former first lady of the United States, who died in New York Thursday.", "

Bouvier village mourns Onassis

NIMES, France, May 21 (AFP)

Flags were flying at half-mast in this small town in southern France Saturday to mark the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whose Bouvier ancestors lived here.

Mayor Gilbert Baumet said he would propose renaming a street and the town hall's reception room after the former first lady of the United States, who died in New York Thursday.

Nimes, which nestles beside the Rhone, already has a Kennedy Avenue, named for the assassinated US president.

A mass will be held in Onassis's honour Monday at the Saint-Saturnin church, and a Nimes delegation will visit Paris to sign the condolence book at the US embassy.

A framed letter from Onassis takes pride of place in the mayor's office. She wrote it on March 11, 1961, to thank Nimes "from the bottom of my heart" for the picture the town sent her and John Kennedy as a wedding present.

Onassis's direct ancestors left Nimes just before the American Civil War broke out in 1861, but many Bouvier relations remain.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","The entire article is about Onassis's death. A later sentence says "A mass will be held in Onassis's honour Monday", which confirms part of the appositive content.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[51] = [ ["say"], "But the former Pakistani captain says the whole controversy could have been settled long ago, had it not been for dithering by the International Cricket Council and the Test and County Cricket Board, who have allowed the issue to get out of control.", "

Ball tampering universal, says Imran

LONDON, May 21 (AFP)

Ball tampering has been practiced by all England's leading bowlers for at least 20 years, according to legendary all-rounder Imran Khan.

But the former Pakistani captain says the whole controversy could have been settled long ago, had it not been for dithering by the International Cricket Council and the Test and County Cricket Board, who have allowed the issue to get out of control.

Imran, interviewed in The Sun newspaper on Saturday, said he watched senior county bowlers lift the seam of the ball after he arrived in England as a teenager, and copied them because it was seen as accepted practice.

He said: "The biggest names in English cricket have all done it. And when I say big names, I mean as big as you can get.

" I don't want to name names because that would be like condemning people, and they would get very defensive in the current climate.

"I have seen it with my own eyes. And I've seen players on TV lifting the seam as they walk back to their mark. It is foolish nonsense to say it doesn't go on."

According to Imran, many bowlers claim they are cleaning mud from the ball as an excuse for lifting and scratching, but he says: "It is only when an outside agent, such as Vaseline to shine the ball or a bottle top to scratch it, is introduced that I regard it as cheating."

It was Imran's revelation in his biography that he used a bottle top to scratch the ball while playing for Sussex in 1991 that re-ignited the ball-tampering controversy.

He says in the Sun article: "It was little more than a schoolboyish prank.

" The Sussex players had a good laugh about it. But from the hysteria, you'd have thought I'd robbed the Bank of England or murdered somebody.

"However, I did feel I should resign my position as an ICC delegate, which was no great hardship."

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Berlusconi visits pope in hospital

ROME, May 21 (AFP)

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited Pope John Paul II Saturday in the Rome hospital where he has spent three weeks recovering from surgery, as a Vatican spokesman said the pope should be released by mid-week.

Joaquin Navarro, the pope's spokesman, said Saturday the pontiff would remain in hospital "three of four more days," in a brief statement from the Vatican.

He said Berlusconi, who won a vote of confidence in the lower house Friday in the last parliamentary hurdle to taking power after winning March elections, offered "best wishes from myself and from my government" for the pope's recovery.

Berlusconi said he and the pope talked for 45 minutes, discussing "relations between our country and the Vatican," and "I promised my cooperation."

The prime minister was accompanied by his chief of staff Gianni Letta.

Since Italy's biggest Christian-based party, the Italian Popular Party, is in the opposition, Italian bishops have urged people to give a chance to the new right-wing government.

The doctor in charge of the pope at Gemelli clinic, Carlo Bertolini, confirmed Saturday the Vatican statement, saying the pope's recovery after breaking a thigh bone in a fall was "progressing normally."

The pontiff, who turned 74 Wednesday, "can already walk longer distances with crutches."

The spokesmen said the pope would go directly back to the Vatican after leaving hospital, and not as initially planned for a further rest at the pope's summer residence at Castelgandolfo outside Rome.

Two critical meetings are coming up -- a planned visit by US President Bill Clinton on June 2 and a conference of Roman Catholic cardinals on June 13 and 14.

When these are over, the pope will go to Castelgandolfo to start swimming -- the final phase of his physical therapy, doctors said.

This year was the second the pontiff had been forced to spend his birthday in hospital. The first was in 1981 after Turkish extremist Ali Agca tried to assassinate him in Saint Peter's Square.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[53] = [ ["say"], "Israeli sources said Dirani, who heads the Resistance of the Faithful group, once led the underground Oppressed on Earth organisation which claimed responsibility for abducting and executing around 10 Lebanese Jews in 1985-1986.", "

(picture) Village anger after guerrilla chief abducted by Hikmat Shreif

QSARNABAA, Lebanon, May 21 (AFP)

Anger and shock gripped this village in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley after the abduction of a pro-Iranian Moslem guerrilla chief in a slick Israeli pre-dawn airborne raid Saturday.

Mustafa Dirani, 46, is held responsible by Israel for the capture of airman Ron Arad whose plane was shot down over south Lebanon in 1986 during an Israeli bombing raid of a Palestinian refugee camp.

Israel praised itself for the operation, seen here as a slap in the face for Lebanon and Syria.

But the Iranian-backed Hezbollah said in a statement in Beirut that the kidnapping "will not deter us from continuing to liberate our land whatever the cost."

"It proves once again that our nation has no other choice but armed resistance.

" From now on it is therefore necessary to consider all Lebanese regions zones of confrontation, where the people will always resist against the Jewish menace, "the statement added.

The Lebanese army said Israeli commandos used two helicopters, flying over the Mediterranean sea, uninhabited areas of the Christian Kesrwan region and through a canyon before touching down near Qsarnabaa.

Witnesses and partisans of Dirani's pro-Iranian" Resistance of the Faithful "said the choppers landed on the Niha hill overlooking the village and from there the commandos, assisted by local accomplices, drove to Dirani's house.

Some said they had seen an exchange of light signals before the operation.

According to Dirani's 26-year-old brother Sobhi:" The whole thing lasted 10 minutes. "

Sobhi, who was handcuffed by the soldiers, said the commandos stormed the house when everyone was asleep and went straight into Dirani's bedroom, grabbing him while others pointed machine guns at his three children.

It was a bloodless operation which met no resistance and coincided with the most important Moslem feast of Al-Adha.

The former secretary general of Hezbollah Sheikh Sobhi Tufaily told a protest rally in the Bekaa town of Brital:" How can a leading figure be abducted from his home without the authorities lifting a finger to do something? "

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the" flawless, very bold and pinpoint operation allowed us to seize a man who is very dangerous for Israel. It shows our army has a long reach and can do the impossible to retrieve our missing."

Dirani is the second Moslem fundamentalist abducted by Israelis in Lebanon since Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid was snatched in an almost identical operation from his south Lebanon home in 1989.

The men are seen as bargaining chips in moves to secure the release of Arad and gain information on five other soldiers missing since 1982 who are believed to be dead.

Israeli sources said Dirani, who heads the Resistance of the Faithful group, once led the underground Oppressed on Earth organisation which claimed responsibility for abducting and executing around 10 Lebanese Jews in 1985-1986.

Israeli military sources said Dirani had been taken to Israel and was being kept in an undisclosed hideout.

Israel hopes Dirani, who has close links to Hezbollah, will confirm whether Arad is being held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdarans.

Iran has denied holding Dirani, but Amal leader Nabih Berry, now the speaker of parliament, charged four years ago that Dirani had sold Arad to Iran for half a million dollars.

Relatives, neighbours and a religious cleric who arrived in an Iranian diplomatic car arrived Saturday to comfort the stricken family here.

Many people blamed government's negligence for the kidnapping.

Outside the house, Dirani's militiamen searched the hillside for traces of the commandos, one of them emerging triumphantly with a first-aid kit containing syringes, plasma and shekels.

Six kilometres away (four miles) units from Syria's 35,000 troops in Lebanon manned a checkpoint near the Lebanese Army barracks of Ablah. The army also has an air base in the area.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","Earlier in the article we have a reference to "Dirani's pro-Iranian "Resistance of the Faithful"".","Good",["Pronoun or definite"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[54] = [ ["tell"], ""Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh told reporters Saturday that his rival Baid, who had remained in Aden since last August, had now gone to his birthplace, the port of Mukallah and capital of Hadhramaut.", "

Northern troops move into eastern oil region

SANAA, May 21 (AFP)

Northern Yemeni troops have moved east into the oil-rich Shabwa region to attack forces loyal to southern leader Ali Salem al-Baid, local commanders said.

Colonel Muhammad Ismail, commander of northern forces in Mukayras, about 225 (140 miles) kilometres northeast of Aden, told reporters: "We want to open a front to go to the eastern province (of Hadhramaut)."

Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh told reporters Saturday that his rival Baid, who had remained in Aden since last August, had now gone to his birthplace, the port of Mukallah and capital of Hadhramaut.

Speaking at Mukayras base, captured from southern troops two weeks ago, Ismail said northern troops had been sent from Mukayras to An-Nuqbah, just south of Ataq in the Shabwa region.

Sanaa radio said Friday southern troops had captured An-Nuqbah.

Ismail said on Friday three brigades of artillery, tanks and infantry had gone there. Fighting was also raging in Nisab, a village west of Ataq.

In Zinjibar, 55 kilometres (34 miles) east of Aden, commanders of the northern Al-Amaliqa brigade said they had also sent troops to the area.

Northern troops pounded southern positions with artillery Friday on the Abyan front, some 35 kilometres (21 miles) east of Aden.

Officers at the Zinjibar base told reporters their forces had been in control of the area since February 20.

Soldiers there told AFP about 12,000 people had been killed or wounded in Yemen since the civil war erupted on May 5.

There were few signs of damage in Zinjibar town, but it was largely deserted.

"We are awaiting the political order from the president to go into Aden," said a soldier.

Saleh said Saturday that Baid's decision to set up a separate republic in the south meant "we are obliged to enter the city (of Aden) at all costs."

Meanwhile, correspondents Saturday reported heavy fighting at the Al-Anad military base, some 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Aden, a vast compound which northern commanders said earlier they had captured Tuesday.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[55] = [ ["say"], "Hun Sen -- who has been strongly opposed to making concessions to the Khmer Rouge -- said the talks would be based on a peace plan put forward by King Sihanouk, who left for medical treatment in Beijing Wednesday.", "

King calls for political solution and ceasefire

PHNOM PENH, May 22 (AFP)

King Norodom Sihanouk appealed to the Cambodian government and Khmer Rouge Sunday for an unconditional ceasefire if the two sides fail to find a political solution to the country's civil war at peace talks this week.

"I beg you ... to accept an unconditional, immediate, complete, lasting and irreversible ceasefire over all Cambodia," if a political solution is not reached, the king said in a letter released from his residence in Beijing.

In the letter, adressed to co-premiers Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen, as well as Khmer Rouge nominal leader Khieu Samphan and National Assembly chairman Chea Sim, the king said he was not trying to "impose" a political solution on them.

But he said, he hoped "from the bottom of my heart" that a political solution could be found to Cambodia's long-running civil war at peace talks due to be held in Pyongyang on May 27.

King Sihanouk said the ceasefire would be monitored by a commission made up of government and Khmer Rouge officers and led by two "neutral" generals representing the Cambodian king.

He also asked that the four leaders sign a document at the end of the talks pledging to keep Cambodia intact and to work for a peaceful political solution to the problems dividing the government and rebels.

Khieu Samphan agreed Thursday to attend the peace talks in the North Korean capital, a day after Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen said they would go to Pyongyang without preconditions for a ceasefire, after an appeal by the king.

Hun Sen -- who has been strongly opposed to making concessions to the Khmer Rouge -- said the talks would be based on a peace plan put forward by King Sihanouk, who left for medical treatment in Beijing Wednesday.

The plan includes giving certain "acceptable" members of the Khmer Rouge senior cabinet posts in exchange for giving up their zones, ceasing all guerrilla activities and merging rebel fighters with the royal armed forces.

Government forces are currently slowly pushing the rebels back to their Pailin base in northwest Cambodia, after the Khmer Rouge launched an offensive that brought them to within 20 kilometers (15 miles) of Cambodia's second city Battambang.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[56] = [ ["say"], "Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the kidnapping was undertaken to gain information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, whose plane was shot down over south Lebanon in 1986 during an Israeli bombing raid of a Palestinian refugee camp.", "

Abduction of Dirani a "terrorist act," Iran says

TEHRAN, May 22 (AFP)

Israel's abduction of the pro-Iranian querrilla chief Mustafa Diran in Lebanon was a "terrorist act," Iranian state radio said Sunday.

In a commentary, the radio called on the international community to condemn the kidnapping, showed the "weakness" of the Israelis.

Dirani, 46, was abducted by Israeli commandos in a pre-dawn raid Saturday on his home in the village of Qsarnabaa in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the kidnapping was undertaken to gain information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, whose plane was shot down over south Lebanon in 1986 during an Israeli bombing raid of a Palestinian refugee camp.

Israel is hoping Dirani will confirm reports that Arad is still alive an being held by Iranian revolutionary guards, acharge which Iran has strongly denied.

The radio did not mention Arad.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[57] = [ ["say"], "On Saturday, the north said its troops had moved east into Shabwa to attack forces loyal to Baid, who last week moved his base from Aden to his home port city of Mukalla in Hadhramaut province.", "

Missile crashes on Aden, south warns north of "graveyard" by Henri Mamarbachi

ADEN, Yemen, May 22 (AFP)

Advancing northern Yemeni forces fired a missile into the key southern city of Aden on Sunday, killing two people and wounding three others, rescue workers said.

The south, which declared its independence on Saturday, warned meanwhile that it would fiercely resist the northern push on Aden.

"The road to Aden is a very long and thorny one. It will be the graveyard of the new invaders before their delusions can touch proud Aden," said Aden Radio, exactly four years after Yemen's ill-fated unification.

The missile hit a house in the Khormaqsar district, causing widespread damage and cutting electricity supplies to the area. All the casualties were from the same family, ambulance crews said.

On the eastern battlefront, northern forces shot down a southern warplane and seized 15 tanks in the Abyan region, Sanaa Radio said, adding that the enemy suffered heavy losses.

The missile attack was the first on Aden since the proclamation of an independent state in the south, in what used to be Marxist South Yemen before it united with the conservative and tribal North on May 22, 1990.

Two Scud missiles fell on the port city Thursday night as fighting raged between the northern troops of President Ali Abdallah Saleh and southern troops backing Vice President Ali Salem al-Baid, whom Sanaa has dismissed.

The latest attack came just hours after a five-man presidential council was officially named to head the southern state proclaimed by Baid, the leader of the Yemen Socialist Party (YSP).

The north and south have been embroiled in a civil war since May 5, after several months of political crisis between Baid and Saleh.

A YSP faction has pledged its support for the country's unity and denounced the southern strongman as a "traitor" for declaring the Aden-based state, Sanaa Radio said.

The Fatah faction "stated its rejection of the secessionist step taken by the traitor Ali Salem Al-Baid and his secessionist gang, and called for purging the country of this rotten band," the radio said.

It was quoted as saying that independence was contrary to YSP grassroots opinion.

Aden Radio, meanwhile, dismissed claims by Saleh that his forces had destroyed 80 per cent of the south's military equipment and that three southern brigades had surrendered in the oil-rich eastern Shabwa region.

"The misleading media reports of the dictator of Sanaa are tantamount to confused dreams," it said. Saleh was trying to conceal northern setbacks.

On Saturday, the north said its troops had moved east into Shabwa to attack forces loyal to Baid, who last week moved his base from Aden to his home port city of Mukalla in Hadhramaut province.

Correspondents said Saleh's troops had turned up the heat and pushed back Baid's soldiers to within 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the city.

Saleh has rejected the south's independence call and vowed to capture Aden as well as Mukalla, calling off a three-day ceasefire from midnight Friday to mark the Moslem feast of Al-Adha.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","The article itself would be incoherent without the appositive's truth; the troop movements its describes presuppose that Baid moved his base in this way. ","Good",["Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [] ]; corpus[58] = [ ["believe"], "Analysts believe Muluzi, a pragmatist, will include in his cabinet members of all parties, including that of Chihana, who has not taken his poll defeat lightly.", "

Muluzi the mediator faces major challenges as Malawi leader by Marie Sanz

BLANTYRE, May 22 (AFP)

Malawi's first democratically elected president, Bakili Muluzi, faces a string of challenges after the euphoria of Saturday's investiture, with regional and ethnic divisions sure to test his reputation as a skilled mediator and man of consensus.

Muluzi, 51, set out his aims before an 80,000-strong crowd at Blantyre's football stadium after ending 30 years of autocratic one-party rule by Hastings Kamuzu Banda, promising a new "era of tolerance."

But despite winning the presidential election on the ticket of his powerful United Democratic Front, which will have the largest number of seats in the new parliament, Muluzi, a southerner, is far from enjoying the support of the entire nation.

The Alliance for Democracy party of union leader Chafukwa Chihana took all the constituencies in the north, while Banda's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) retained its solid level of support in central areas.

The new president underlined at his swearing-in ceremony the importance of national unity and the need to avoid all "ethnic discrimination, regional or tribal."

Appreciating the danger which a divided nation would pose, Muluzi held out an olive branch to his opponents, calling on them to work together to create a better Malawi which would belong to all.

Analysts believe Muluzi, a pragmatist, will include in his cabinet members of all parties, including that of Chihana, who has not taken his poll defeat lightly.

Muluzi was originally a close ally of Banda, and was secretary general of the MCP from 1976 to 1982. That post and his career since bear evidence of his ability to back the right horse at the right time.

Born on March 17, 1943, in a village near Machinga in southern Malawi, Muluzi became an MCP deputy in 1973 while the principal of a technical college. He quit that post to become minister of education for a short period.

After holding other portfolios, including that of minister for transport and communications, he left the MCP in 1982 to enter the business world, where he forged links in particular with the country's Asian community.

In the 1970s, many Asian traders left Malwawi after Banda decreed that Indian and Pakistani entrepreneurs spread across the country had to close their shops and base themselves in the cities.

Muluzi, a father of two, headed a transport company until 1992, when he formed the UDF, which functioned as a pressure group prior to the adoption of multipartyism.

Muluzi promised during his presidential campaign to work for change, stressing the need to open Malawi up to the world and winning support from business leaders as well as from MCP dissidents. Backing also mushroomed in the south, the country's most populous and rich region as Muluzi adopted a "man of the people" style, in stark contrast to the imperious Banda.

His jovial image won him additional acclaim, although some people remained wary owing to reports of alleged corruption surrounding his business dealings.

Muluzi's call for tolerance among all sections of the community was thrown into sharp relief at his investiture as religious leaders of all the major faiths prayed for peace and justice. Muluzi is a Moslem, but his vice president, Justin Malewezi, is a Christian.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[59] = [ ["say"], "He said Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might be tempted to recognise the southern state to punish Saleh, whom they accuse of having backed Iraq after its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait.", "

(changing dateline) Arab unity at risk after south's secession: diplomats by Jean-Eudes Barbier

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 22 (AFP)

The secession of southern from northern Yemen threatens to deepen Arab divisions by forcing Arab countries to take sides in the civil war, diplomats in the Gulf said Sunday.

"They will have to back one side or the other ... and this will be a new bone of contention in the Arab world," according to one diplomat who requested anonymity.

President Ali Abdallah Saleh's northern government has hinted it would cut ties with any state recognising the Yemeni Democratic Republic proclaimed on Saturday by his southern rival Ali Salem al-Baid.

Such recognition would amount to "unacceptable interference in Yemen's internal affairs," Saleh's government said.

Saleh describes the war raging since May 5 as a "rebellion" and wants to save Yemen -- forged exactly four years ago on Sunday when the tribal north and Marxist south agreed to form one nation.

No country has so far recognised the breakaway state, but Arab countries cannot ignore for much longer the thorny question of which side to support, as reconciliation seems impossible, a diplomat said.

He said Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might be tempted to recognise the southern state to punish Saleh, whom they accuse of having backed Iraq after its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

The Palestine Liberation Organization, Jordan and Sudan were also accused of supporting Iraq, dividing the 22-member Arab League.

After the liberation of Kuwait in February 1991, Saleh tried without success to break the economic and political isolation imposed on him by his neighbors on the Arabian peninsula.

Baid, who was Yemen's vice president until war broke out, won the confidence of the Gulf Arab countries by disassociating himself from Saleh's pro-Iraqi stance.

His supporters have branded Saleh as a "little Saddam," in reference to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Baid has nurtured relations with Arab leaders and "could not have proclaimed the YDR without consulting first with some of them," a diplomat said.

His quest for recognition is moreover strenghtened by the fact that Saleh has turned a deaf ear to the repeated Arab appeals for a ceasefire.

But the proclamation of the YDR remains difficult to accept in principle by Arab countries, especially those committed to Arab unity.

Libya's leader Moamer Kadhafi on Saturday decided not to take part in festivities Saturday for the Moslem feast of Al-Adha "in protest and mourning" at the south's decision.

Jordan on Sunday backed the unity of Yemen but steered clear of condemning the southerners for declaring an independent state.

Newspapers in the Arab countries of the Gulf likewise backed Yemen's unity, but hinted at the same time to the right of the southerner's to break away if peace and unity don't match.

"The North and the South will have to live alongside each other, whether -- as hoped for -- as one country, or two. So the time is now for Saleh and Baid to cease their fighting, agree a truce, sit down and once again talk peace," the United Arab Emirate's Gulf News said.

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(changing dateline) Mandela to meet Buthelezi over land deal

CAPE TOWN, May 22 (AFP)

President Nelson Mandela said he was to hold talks Sunday night with Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi in an attempt to defuse a row over a secret land deal involving Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini.

Speaking to journalists after a meeting of his African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary caucus here, Mandela said he would be discussing "very sensitive matters" with Buthelezi, who is also Home Affairs Minister.

"The land deal has created a great deal of concern," Mandela said, adding that he would do "everything necessary to remove the tension."

He said the issue was also likely to top the agenda of a meeting of his government of national unity scheduled for Monday.

Presidential spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe told AFP earlier that the two leaders would hold talks at Mandela's official residence here starting at around 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) Sunday but later said it had been delayed several hours.

Also on the agenda, according to Netshitenzhe, was the bitter political wrangling in KwaZulu-Natal province between the ANC and Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) over cabinet positions, which has left the province effectively ungoverned.

The land deal, under which three million hectares (7.5 million acres) of land was transferred to a trust held by Zwelithini, was approved by former president and now Deputy President Frederik de Klerk on April 25, just two days before South Africa's first all-race election.

The land comprises more than one third of former KwaZulu black homeland, which was dismantled when a new interim constitution came into effect on April 27.

According to the Johannesburg Sunday Times, the king now controls more land than the ninth Duke of Buccleugh, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest landowner in the world.

De Klerk and Buthelezi claim the transfer was legal and was debated openly in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly.

But senior ANC officials say neither they nor Mandela were informed of the deal, which they claim violates a moratorium on the disposal of state land.

They also fear the transfer could jeopardise future land reform programmes.

Apart from debating the land deal, Mandela and Buthelezi will attempt at their meeting to sort out squabbling in KwaZulu-Natal which has resulted in ANC officials refusing to take up cabinet postings offered them by the Premier, IFP chairman Frank Mdlalose.

ANC provincial leader Jacob Zuma has claimed that Mdlalose initially offered him the post of social welfare in the multiparty provincial cabinet, but without warning or consultation, subsequently changed this to the lesser position of public works.

Zuma also complained that the ANC was not given a deputy cabinet position on police, which it wanted.

Clashes between ANC and IFP supporters in the province have seen some 10,000 people killed since 1987.

Violence eased during the country's first all-race national and provincial elections last month -- won nationally by the ANC but in KwaZulu-Natal by the IFP -- but has begun to flare again in recent days.

"This is the most violent area in the country, and the problems cannot be resolved until the people feel confident in police impartiality," Zuma said in an interview with the Sunday Times.

"Excluding the ANC from the (police) portfolio will never work," he added. "It is a critical mistake."

Mdlalose said he had "consulted" with Zuma as he was required to do under the constitution, but the law did not expect "negotiation", which, he said, was what Zuma appeared to have in mind.

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Supreme court urged to declare autonomy illegal

JERUSALEM, May 22 (AFP)

Right-wing Israeli intellectuals on Sunday urged the Supreme Court to declare Palestinian autonomy illegal.

The group of scientists, writers and lawyers said the May 4 accord launching Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was null and void because the Palestine Liberation Organization is a "terrorist group."

The Palestinian people, they said, "do not exist as a legal entity" and their representatives cannot be allowed to sign an international agreement.

Israel state radio meanwhile broadcast a speech in which PLO chairman Yasser Arafat implies the autonomy agreement is a ruse to capture Jerusalem.

The comments came during an address Arafat gave in a Johannesburg mosque on May 10 when he also called for a holy war to liberate Jerusalem.

Two right-wing parties, the National Religious Party and Tsomet, have called for a no-confidence vote in parliament on Monday to protest Arafat's statements.

Leaders of the country's leftwing parties meanwhile will hold talks over the next few weeks to join forces and form what would be called the Israeli Democratic Party, Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin said.

"There are no differences today between the Labor Party, Mapam (socialist) and Ratz (the civil rights group). We have the same goal," Beilin told a press conference.

Beilin played a major role in setting up the secret talks with the PLO that led to the autonomy accord last September and its launch this month.

The Labor Party has 44 deputies in parliament. Mapam and Ratz along with Shinoui form the Meretz bloc, a major partner in the coalition government.

Last week's victory of Chaim Ramon in the elections to the Histadrut leadership, the powerful trade union, ushered in a new generation of Labor and Meretz leaders.

Ramon, a Labor deputy who led a list of independents, succeeded in ousting the Labor Party from the Histadrut leadership which it had dominated since its creation in 1920.

The Israeli press said Ramon, who is close to Beilin, has been trying to form a new party to sideline Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who have helped lead Labor for 20 years.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[62] = [ ["say"], "Abdul Kabia, spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) said UNAMIR had called on both sides to cease hostilities during the visit of UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's special enovy Iqbal Riza, who is due in Kigali Monday.", "

Rwanda government, rebels agree two-day truce

NAIROBI, May 22 (AFP)

Rwandan government and rebel forces pledged late Sunday to observe a two-day truce during the visit of a special United Nations envoy to the war-torn country, UN military officials said.

Abdul Kabia, spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) said UNAMIR had called on both sides to cease hostilities during the visit of UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's special enovy Iqbal Riza, who is due in Kigali Monday.

Both sides "gave their agreement Sunday night", Kabia added.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[63] = [ ["say"], "A statement issued by the government late Saturday said Jonaissant, who was installed by the military last week despite international protests, has ordered the courts to enforce an 1980 decree which calls for prosecuting anyone organizing trips for potential refugees.", "

Smugglers buck UN sanctions in Haiti by Dominique Levanti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 22 (AFP)

Smugglers were boldly lugging jugs of gasoline and kerosene across the Dominican border into Haiti Sunday, hours after new, tighter UN trade sanctions took effect.

Just before the trade sanctions were imposed at midnight to try to press the country's military rulers to step aside, army-backed provisional President Emile Jonassaint ordered the Justice Ministry to prosecute anyone organizing trips for Haitians trying to flee for the United States.

The military ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a September 1991 coup. The tighter UN embargo is the latest diplomatic bid to break Haiti's political deadlock and arrange for Aristide's return.

The near-total embargo, which excludes food, medicine, cooking fuel and humanitarian aid, though aimed at the military is expected to put the pinch on the huge numbers of poor in Haiti.

Thousands will lose jobs as factories here are forced to shut their doors, unable to sell their output.

Estimates place the number of unemployed due to the sanctions at 200,000, which first began in 1991 with an embargo imposed by the Organization of American States. Unemployment now tops 60 percent in Haiti.

Humanitarian and religious groups report more than six thousand people have died since the earliest sanctions took hold, most notably women, infants, elderly and the sick.

And the new sanctions come in addition to a nine-month-old arms and oil embargo, which smugglers have violated with ease from the neighboring Dominican Republic.

People toting small plastic containers full of oil walked across the border Sunday in Malpasse and other areas, or took small boats across Lake Azui, which separates the two countries on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

Port-au-Prince was a hive of activity ahead of the midnight deadline Saturday as shippers hustled to move out hundreds of containers loaded with merchandise from orders placed months ago, before the UN deadline for the military to step down.

The UN Security Council also has banned visas for members of the military and ordered a freeze on their assets overseas.

US Vice President Al Gore dismissed concerns Sunday about the continued flow of contraband fuel over the border despite US efforts to get the Dominican Republic to enforce the sanctions.

"I think it's premature to discount the effectiveness of these tough new sanctions," he said in an interview with CBS television.

He added that the United States was discussing with the Dominican Republic how to secure the border.

"We want to plug those leaks and we're undertaking measures to do that," Gore said. He said he would not describe the US effort as "threatening" the Dominicans to comply.

A statement issued by the government late Saturday said Jonaissant, who was installed by the military last week despite international protests, has ordered the courts to enforce an 1980 decree which calls for prosecuting anyone organizing trips for potential refugees.

The numbers of Haitians seeking asylum in the United States has risen sharply in the past few weeks following US President Bill Clinton's announcement of a change in the policy of immediately repatriating those picked up at sea.

The policy shift, which will allow refugees to have their requests processed at sea or in third countries, has not gone into effect but sources here say it has prompted many to attempt the trip.

Two Ukrainian ships have been leased for the new procedure by the United States, which has also approached Britain about using the Turks and Caicos islands for asylum application processing camps.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[64] = [ ["allege"], "In a publicity blitz with clear racial undertones, they allege Washington secretly is backing top opposition candidate Jose Franciso Pena Gomez, who is black, and that the United States ultimately wants to force the two countries to merge into one in which it would have greater influence.", "

(PORT-AU-PRINCE)

In the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, press reports said the border with Haiti had been sealed, and that UN monitors were in place, backed by Dominican army troops.

The head of the UN team, Alexander Marinovic, travelled by helicopter to the border Saturday to oversee the monitoring effort.

But Sunday, people toting small plastic containers full of oil walked across the border in Malpasse and other areas, or took small boats across Lake Azui, which separates the two countries on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, who was leading in his country's presidential vote count from last Monday's election when it was suspended amid opposition fraud charges, opposes the embargo on Haiti but formally is cooperating.

No winner has been announced, and with the Dominican electoral board due to begin a vote recount Wednesday, Balaguer supporters launched a campaign charging the United States was trying to turn their country into a massive Haitian refugee camp.

In a publicity blitz with clear racial undertones, they allege Washington secretly is backing top opposition candidate Jose Franciso Pena Gomez, who is black, and that the United States ultimately wants to force the two countries to merge into one in which it would have greater influence.

Pena Gomez seeks to become the first black Dominican president this century and Balaguer is white.

US Vice President Al Gore dismissed concerns Sunday about the continued flow of contraband fuel over the border despite US efforts to get the Dominican Republic to enforce the sanctions.

"I think it's premature to discount the effectiveness of these tough new sanctions," he said in an interview with CBS television.

A statement issued by the government late Saturday said Jonaissant, who was installed by the military last week despite international protests, has ordered the courts to enforce an 1980 decree which calls for prosecuting anyone organizing trips for potential refugees.

The numbers of Haitians seeking asylum in the United States has risen sharply in the past few weeks following US President Bill Clinton's announcement of a change in the policy of immediately repatriating those picked up at sea.

The policy shift, which will allow refugees to have their requests processed at sea or in third countries, has not gone into effect but sources here say it has prompted many to attempt the trip.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","Lexical argument: The next sentence says, "Pena Gomez seeks to become the first black Dominican president", which would be rather far-fetched if his race were merely an allegation. In addition, being black is not something that can sensibly be "alleged" in this case.","Good",["Other"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[65] = [ ["say"], "A statement issued by the government late Saturday said Jonaissant, who was installed by the military last week despite international protests, has ordered the courts to enforce an 1980 decree which calls for prosecuting anyone organizing trips for potential refugees.", "

Smugglers buck UN sanctions in Haiti by Dominique Levanti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 22 (AFP)

Smugglers were boldly lugging jugs of gasoline and kerosene across the Dominican border into Haiti Sunday, hours after new, tighter UN trade sanctions took effect.

Just before the trade sanctions were imposed at midnight to try to press the country's military rulers to step aside, army-backed provisional President Emile Jonassaint ordered the Justice Ministry to prosecute anyone organizing trips for Haitians trying to flee for the United States.

The military ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a September 1991 coup. The tighter UN embargo is the latest diplomatic bid to break Haiti's political deadlock and arrange for Aristide's return.

The near-total embargo, which excludes food, medicine, cooking fuel and humanitarian aid, though aimed at the military is expected to put the pinch on the huge numbers of poor in Haiti.

Thousands will lose jobs as factories here are forced to shut their doors, unable to sell their output.

Estimates place the number of unemployed due to the sanctions at 200,000, which first began in 1991 with an embargo imposed by the Organization of American States. Unemployment now tops 60 percent in Haiti.

Humanitarian and religious groups report more than six thousand people have died since the earliest sanctions took hold, most notably women, infants, elderly and the sick.

And the new sanctions come in addition to a nine-month-old arms and oil embargo, which smugglers have violated with ease from the neighboring Dominican Republic.

People toting small plastic containers full of oil walked across the border Sunday in Malpasse and other areas, or took small boats across Lake Azui, which separates the two countries on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

Port-au-Prince was a hive of activity ahead of the midnight deadline Saturday as shippers hustled to move out hundreds of containers loaded with merchandise from orders placed months ago, before the UN deadline for the military to step down.

The UN Security Council also has banned visas for members of the military and ordered a freeze on their assets overseas.

US Vice President Al Gore dismissed concerns Sunday about the continued flow of contraband fuel over the border despite US efforts to get the Dominican Republic to enforce the sanctions.

"I think it's premature to discount the effectiveness of these tough new sanctions," he said in an interview with CBS television.

He added that the United States was discussing with the Dominican Republic how to secure the border.

"We want to plug those leaks and we're undertaking measures to do that," Gore said. He said he would not describe the US effort as "threatening" the Dominicans to comply.

A statement issued by the government late Saturday said Jonaissant, who was installed by the military last week despite international protests, has ordered the courts to enforce an 1980 decree which calls for prosecuting anyone organizing trips for potential refugees.

The numbers of Haitians seeking asylum in the United States has risen sharply in the past few weeks following US President Bill Clinton's announcement of a change in the policy of immediately repatriating those picked up at sea.

The policy shift, which will allow refugees to have their requests processed at sea or in third countries, has not gone into effect but sources here say it has prompted many to attempt the trip.

Two Ukrainian ships have been leased for the new procedure by the United States, which has also approached Britain about using the Turks and Caicos islands for asylum application processing camps.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[66] = [ ["say"], "The group included three children and a woman who said she was the mother of Mario Aburto Colosio, who gunned down the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio March 23.", "

Group claiming to be assassin's family seeks US asylum

SAN DIEGO, California, May 22 (AFP)

Six people who said they were relatives of the man charged with killing Mexico's leading presidential candidate crossed the US border Sunday seeking political asylum, officials said.

The group included three children and a woman who said she was the mother of Mario Aburto Colosio, who gunned down the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio March 23.

The US Customs Border Patrol said it was holding the group in San Diego and was trying to confirm their identity. Spokeswoman Ann Summers said they were not carrying any identification and were seeking US asylum.

"They indicated that they had been harassed by various individuals. They didn't point any fingers at anyone, but they did say Mexican authorities had taken various documentation away from them, including the deed to the house," she said.

Rumors of conspiracy have been circulating since Aburto shot Colosio at the political rally where he was hired by the PRI to work the security detail.

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(picture) Australian conservatives pick new-generation leader

CANBERRA, May 23 (AFP)

Australia's ailing Liberal party played the youth card Monday picking Alexander Downer, scion of an old political family, to lead the struggle to win back power from the Labor Party.

The election of the 42-year-old economist and former diplomat was a generational switch aimed at ending division, distrust and personal recriminations which have kept Australia's conservative coalition in the wilderness for 11 years.

The Liberals have now changed leader five times since it was last in office between 1975 and 1983. Each one has had to confront bitter factionalism and feuding.

Right-wing lawyer Peter Costello, his 36-year-old running-mate on a "youth ticket" was elected deputy leader in a party ballot called last Friday by former leader John Hewson.

Downer will have learned a lot from his father and grandfather who were both senior politicians. But not everyone is convinced this youthful "dream team" will succeed.

Alan Ramsay, one of the country's most respected commentators echoed the view of many in a Sydney Morning Herald article saying Downer and Costello were out of their league "when it comes to leadership, and nothing but a truly bereft and desperate party would even remotely consider either at this stage of their careers."

Married with three daughters and a son, Downer comes from a privileged background in the southern city of Adelaide, growing up in a sandstone mansion on a lush, rambling property with its own deer park and chapel.

He went to school at the exclusive Geelong Grammar near Melbourne where the Prince of Wales was also a student.

Downer spent 11 years years in Britain. He picked up an honours degree in economics and a "plummy" English accent which was a handicap in the rough and tumble of Australian politics until he started modifying it recently.

He worked as a bank economist and as speechwriter for Australia's last conservative prime minister Malcolm Fraser.

Downer served as a diplomat between 1976 and 1982 as a member of the Australian Mission to the European Community in Brussels, at the Australian Embassy in Belgium and Luxembourg and was head of the foreign affairs department in Adelaide.

His father, Sir Alexander Downer, was a renowned deeply conservative federal minister for five years and served as Australian high commissioner in London from 1964 to 1972.

But his grandfather Sir John Downer (1843-1915) is remembered as a progressive South Australian premier, notable law reformer, supporter of women's rights and one of the three framers of the Australian constitution.

The latest Downer styles himself a "progressive conservative," believing that change is inevitable but should be anticipated and properly managed. "I am not an ideologue by any stretch of the imagination," he said recently.

He has given no detailed outline of new policies other than to promise a broad statement within two months indicating his favoured policy direction.

Howver, analysts believe his leadership will mark a departure from the ultra-dry economics of Hewson, whose defeat in a supposedly unlosable election l5 months ago was blamed on his campaign to introduce a consumption tax.

Downer, who is judged to have performed well as shadow treasurer, opposes a radical revamp of the tax structure with anything resembling a consumption tax to fund personal tax cuts, although he supports deep government spending cuts.

He favours some government intervention with less dry policies, such as in establishing a government body to help small business and the use of some of the proceeds of privatisation sales to finance public infratructure.

He opposes excessive foreign ownership of Australia's media or of other "strategic sectors" of the economy and advocates an independent foreign policy which would be pro-Washington but not subservient to Washington.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[68] = [ ["say"], "Needham said he was carrying the "original" of a letter from Major to be delivered to Mahathir, who had already received a copy of it.", "

British minister in Malaysia with "secret" message from Major

KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 (AFP)

British Trade Minister Richard Needham flew here Monday armed with a secret message from Prime Minister John Major amid speculation Malaysia is soon to lift a near three-month boycott of British firms.

"I want to talk to him (Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad) about the ideas that I bring with me for the future of Malaysian-British relationship," Needham was quoted by Bernama news agency as saying on arrival for a two-day visit.

Needham said he was carrying the "original" of a letter from Major to be delivered to Mahathir, who had already received a copy of it.

Needham, scheduled to hold talks with Mahathir on Tuesday, declined to comment on the contents of the letter, saying "that's a matter for the two prime ministers."

"Of course, I hope the ban will end as quickly as possible because we've got so many things we want to do in common," Needham said.

Malaysia had barred British firms from bidding for government contracts since February 25, following reports in the British media of corruption in Anglo-Malaysian trade and in Mahathir's administration.

London's Sunday Times was singled out for its February 20 article alleging links between Mahathir and British construction firm Wimpey International.

Mahathir on Sunday acknowledged a ceasefire by the British media against his country but said he needed more assurances to end the boycott which was said to have cost British firms lucrative infrastructure contracts.

"We notice an improvement, particularly after the person (London's Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil) who started such reports, had been transferred," Mahathir said.

Neil was recently seconded to work in New York for the next seven months on a current affairs programme for the Fox Television network.

The network and the Sunday Times are both controlled by media baron Rupert Murdoch.

Needham was also scheduled to hold talks with Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz.

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Mansell gets massive Williams offer

LONDON, May 23 (AFP)

British driver Nigell Mansell was reported to be considering a multi-million dollar offer for his return to Formula One racing.

According to the Sun newspaper, Williams-Renault want the reigning Indy-Car champion back in Formula One as a replacement for Brazilian ace Ayrton Senna who was killed at Imola earlier this month.

Williams were said to be desperate for Mansell, who won the F1 world title in 1992, to take on German rival Michael Schumacher, the runaway leader in this year's championship.

Williams were understood to have made an offer of nine million pounds (13.5 million dollars) for just 10 races.

Williams team boss Frank Williams is due to collect a 16 million pound (24 million dollar) insurance payout for Senna's death.

Mansell's Newman-Haas team boss Carl Haas was quoted in the Sun as saying he was aware the British driver had been involved in talks with Williams.

"But I understand it is for selected races rather than for the rest of the season," Haas said.

Only last week the Newman-Haas team denied reports that Mansell had been contemplating a return to F1 in the wake of Senna's death.

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Israeli commandos seized "important documents"

JERUSALEM, May 23 (AFP)

The commandos who abducted a pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem guerrilla leader from Lebanon to trace a missing airman also returned to Israel with "important documents," the defence ministry said Monday.

"The commandos brought back important documents found in the home of Dirani," spokesman Oded Ben Ami told AFP, declining to give details.

Israeli newspapers said the raid on Mustafa Dirani's home uncovered a list of names and addresses, as well as a video tape proving that airman Ron Arad had been handed over by Dirani to other pro-Iranian elements in Lebanon.

In Lebanon, Foreign Minister Fares Bweiz condemned Dirani's abduction Sunday from the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley as a blow to the Middle East peace process.

Israel said its helicopter-borne commandos kidnapped Dirani to obtain information on the fate of Arad, who was captured in Lebanon in 1986 and believed to be still alive.

In his home village of Qsarnabaa, from where he was abducted, another leader of his pro-Iranian group, the Resistance of the Faithful, told reporters that Dirani had no information on Arad.

Since Dirani left the Syrian-backed group Amal in 1988, "he has had no further involvement in this affair and has absolutely no information on this subject," insisted Zakariya Hamzeh.

Hamzeh also issued a threat of revenge against Israel. The Resistance of the Faithful "will not allow Israel to laugh for long," Hamzeh warned, without elaborating.

Dirani was head of intelligence for Amal when it captured Arad. He left the secular group and set up the Resistance of the Faithful.

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(picture) British minister in talks with Mahathir to end trade rift by Ong Saw Lay

KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 (AFP)

Expectations ran high Tuesday that a British minister might cool Malaysian anger over corruption allegations enough to secure the lifting of a three-month boycott of British firms.

Trade Minister Richard Needham met Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad early Tuesday to deliver a confidential message from British Prime Minister John Major.

Details of the talks were not immediately available, but Needham had said on arrival late Monday he was carrying the "original" of a letter to Mahathir, who had already received a copy of it.

"I want to talk to him about the ideas that I bring with me for the future of Malaysian-British relationship," Needham said. He expressed hope that the boycott would be lifted quickly because "we've have so many things we want to do in common."

Needham is to meet Malaysia's International Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz later Tuesday.

Malaysia barred British firms from bidding for government contracts on February 25, following reports in the British media of corruption in Anglo-Malaysian trade and in Mahathir's administration.

London's Sunday Times was singled out for its February 20 article alleging links between Mahathir and British construction firm Wimpey International.

The allegations were made amidst British media charges that Britain made a 234 million pound (350 million US dollar) grant for Malaysia's Pergau dam project contingent on Malaysia's purchase of a billion pounds (1.5 billion US dollar) of British goods.

Mahathir had said that the boycott, said to have cost British firms millions of dollars in lost contracts, would be lifted only if the British media "stopped reporting lies on Malaysia."

A Malaysian official noted that a call late Monday by the powerful youth wing of Mahathir's United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) for the government to relax the ban was a clear sign "ties could be normalised very soon."

Mahathir acknowledged a British media "ceasefire" on Sunday. He said "there is an improvement in the British media reports on Malaysia particularly after the person (Andrew Neil, editor of the Sunday Times) who started such reports was transferred."

Neil, 44, is to be seconded next month to work in New York for seven months on a current affairs programme for the Fox Television network.

The network and the Sunday Times are both controlled by media baron Rupert Murdoch.

"The ban should be eased if the British press has changed its attitude and make no adverse reports on Malaysia," said UMNO youth chief Rahim Tamby Chik.

British Education SEcretary Minister John Patten had made a pitch last month to mend the rift.

Mahathir first took on London with his "buy British last" policy in retaliation for hiking fees for overseas students in Britain after he assumed office in 1981.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[72] = [ ["say"], "Cocks said the market payed more attention to statements from the Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer, who had said in Helsinki:"We are not following a step-by-step cut in interest rates for the time being.", "

High German M3 money supply has little effect on currencies

LONDON, May 24 (AFP)

The main European currencies were stable early on Tuesday despite an unexpectedly big increase in the German M3 money supply in April.

By mid morning the dollar was being quoted at 1.6495 marks from 1.6465 at the close on Monday.

The aggregate figure for the German M3 money supply rose 15.8 percent in April. Analysts had forecast an increase of only 13.4 percent.

The figure, which was well above the Bundesbank's 1994 target of 4.0-6.0 percent, had no effect on the market, said Graham Cocks, economist at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

"We now know the Bundesbank doesn't look at the German M3 figure," he said, adding: "There has been a statistical problem with M3 for a year and a half and the Bundesbank seems to have realised it at last."

Despite an explosion in the M3 figure since the beginning of the year, the Bundesbank has cut interest rates several times and by more than had been expected.

Cocks said the market payed more attention to statements from the Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer, who had said in Helsinki: "We are not following a step-by-step cut in interest rates for the time being."

Cocks said: "Such statements lead the market to believe the Bundesbank will continue to reduce its securities repurchasing agreement (repo), but that there will be no cut in the discount rate within the next three months."

By mid morning the dollar was being traded at 1.6495 marks from 1.6465 at the close on Monday, at 104.31 yen from 104.27, at 1.4105 Swiss francs from 1.4065 and at 5.6388 French francs from 5.6413.

Sterling was at 1.5052 dollars from 1.5050, at 2.4828 marks from 2.4780, at 157.01 yen from 156.93, at 2.1231 Swiss francs from 2.1168 and at 8.4874 French francs from 8.4901.

In Paris, the mark was firmer against the French franc on Tietmeyer's statements. Dealers also said that the election of Roman Herzog from the conservative Christian Union parties as German president was good for the mark as it showed the governing Christian Democrats had a chance of success in the October legislative elections.

By mid morning the mark was at 3.4222 French francs from 3.4205 at the close on Friday. Most markets in Europe were closed on Monday for the Penticost holiday.

The US currency firmed to 5.6382 French francs from 5.6200 at the close on Friday, to 1.6473 marks from 1.6465 and to 104.25 yen from 104.10.

The pound firmed to 8.4910 French francs from 8.4880 at the previous close.

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Foreign minister visits Egypt, but no plans to boost ties: Iran

TEHRAN, May 24 (AFP)

Iran does not plan to improve ties with Egypt despite a visit planned by Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati to Cairo next week, a ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

Iran and Egypt broke diplomatic ties after the 1979 Islamic revolution and maintain diplomatic contact at interest section level.

The spokesman, quoted on Tuesday by the radical daily Jomhuri Islami, said Velayati would only go to Cairo to take part in a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), and the visit "has nothing to do with bilateral ties."

"Given the nature of the Egyptian government, Iran has no intention of boosting ties beyond the interest section level," he said, adding that Velayati "would not meet any Egyptian officials" during his visit.

It will be the first to Egypt by a senior Iranian official since the revolution.

The English-language Tehran Times said last week that Velayati, whose visit is to start on May 30, could meet his Egyptian counterpart Amr Mussa, but they "would not discuss improving bilateral relations."

Since the revolution Iran has been represented at international conferences in Cairo by low-ranking officials.

The two governments have on several occasions expressed a desire to normalise ties, but no breakthrough has yet been made due to the opposition from Islamic hardliners in Iran.

The news of a meeting last September between Velayati and Mussa on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly triggered criticism from radicals.

Issues which have affected relations between Cairo and Tehran included Egypt's peace treaty with Israel, and Egypt's accusation that Iran aids its fundamentalist militants, which Tehran denies.

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Captured guerrilla chief "hard nut to crack": Israelis

JERUSALEM, May 24 (AFP)

Israeli interrogators trying to obtain information about missing airman Ron Arad are finding kidnapped guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani "a hard nut to crack," deputy army chief of staff General Amnon Shahak said Tuesday.

Shahak told parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee that they were trying to garner as much information as they could about Arad, who has been missing since being shot down over Lebanon in 1986, but so far Dirani "has only told us what we know already."

Israeli commandos snatched Dirani, a leader of the pro-Iranian Resistance of the Faithful, from his house in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a pre-dawn raid on Saturday.

"Dirani is a pretty difficult nut to crack because he has carried out interrogations himself and knows the methods," Shahak said.

"He knows in particular what we can't do to him."

Israel says Arad was captured by Dirani, who may have then sold him to Iran.

Shahak said Dirani would be questioned for "many days and nights" and they were being helped by documents and cassettes removed from his house during the kidnap raid.

Arad is the only one of six Israeli servicemen missing in Lebanon who may still be alive.

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Human rights activists seek at least some trade sanctions on China by Rob Lever

WASHINGTON, May 25 (AFP)

Many US-based human rights activists have quietly abandoned efforts to persuade Washington to revoke China's privileged trade status, concentrating instead on winning other sanctions to punish Beijing.

A coalition of 11 labor and human rights organizations argued at a news conference this week that China had failed to make progress on human rights and had in fact regressed in some areas.

But the activists appeared to recognize that terminating China's most favored nation status (MFN) would be politically difficult for President Bill Clinton, and offered alternatives to put pressure on Beijing.

Clinton warned last year that any further renewal of MFN status would depend on China showing "overall significant progress" in human rights issues, and outlined seven areas in which such improvements should be observed. He must announce a decision by June 3.

One leader of a Chinese dissident organization said targeted sanctions against Chinese state-owned enterprises would send an important signal to the authorities in Beijing, who he said are counting on Washington to yield to business pressure to renew MFN.

"The key is not necessarily to stop each and every product that is touched by the state sector, but rather to send an unequivocal message about the value America places on freedom in China," said Haiching Zhao, president of the National Council on Chinese Affairs.

Critics of targeted sanctions have argued that seeking to target goods made by Chinese state- and army-owned enterprised would an administrative nightmare. But Zhao said this problem could be avoided by raising tariffs on certain categories of goods that are produced mainly by the state sector.

Historically, state-produced goods in China have included textiles, pharmaceuticals, footwear, jewelry, electonics and beer and ores, although activists said further analysis would be required to determine which items are produced mostly by the state.

"This approach will target only the hard-liners responsible for visiting misery and repression on the Chinese people," Zhao said. "It could well spark an internal debate in China where the moderates and forces of greater openness will have the upper hand.

" This targeted sanction will also protect private-sector interests in Hong Kong, Taiwan and (joint ventures) whose trade can continue to help open China. "

In contrast, he said, extending MFN with no sanctions would" unleash a new wave of repression and fear "in China.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, cited an" overall significant deterioration in an already abysmal human rights record "in China and said Beijing had failed to meet Clinton's criteria for extending MFN.

But Roth appeared to acknowledge the difficulty in denying the trade status to China entirely and urged that any sanctions be tough enough to send a signal to Beijing.

" Anything less than broad economic sanctions, such as an across-the-board tariff increase or one targeted to broad sectors of the Chinese economy would be seen as the slap on the wrist that it would be, "Roth said.

Asked whether he was abandoning efforts to revoke MFN for China, Roth said he was simply offering a" feasible "means of punishing the Chinese regime.

US administration officials have said Secretary of State Warren Christopher appears to favor a middle-ground approach to the MFN question with targeted sanctions for certain goods.

Other human rights activists and critics of China continued to argue for a hard-line approach.

US Representative David Bonior, who joined the human rights activists' news conference, said revoking MFN would be" the best means at our disposal to get results in China.

"We want a trading relationship with China, but only if they observe internationally recognized standards of basic human rights, and only if they abide by the code of basic human decency," Bonior said.

Bonior and other activists said Beijing has done little to end torture of prisoners, arrests of dissidents, forced labor, religious persecution and repression in Tibet.

"Just last week the Chinese government thumbed its nose at the international community and said it would continue to crack down on dissidents who commit the crime of exercising free speech," said Bonior.

Amnesty International spokeswoman Estrellita Jones said the organization had no specific recommendation on MFN status for China, but maintained that China had made "no substantive progress" in human rights and continued to carry out executions for crimes such as embezzlement and theft and to detain people arbitrarily.

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Clinton's China MFN decision: another foreign policy muddle by Christian Chaise

WASHINGTON, May 24 (AFP)

President Bill Clinton's dilemma over whether to renew China's most favoured nation (MFN) trade status echoes the foriegn policy muddles he has gotten into with other major trouble spots.

As with the crises in Haiti and Bosnia, Clinton has backed himself into a corner over China by making promises he cannot keep and issuing threats he will not carry out.

Last year Clinton extended China's MFN over protests about Beijing's human rights abuses but said this time around they would have to show significant progress on their rights record or lose their benefits.

On Tuesday Clinton said he would make an announcement before he leaves for Europe on June 1, adding: "I have an idea where its going."

The White House said Secretary of State Warren Christopher has not yet given his formal recommendation to Clinton, but did not deny reports that Christopher told China it had met the two mandatory conditions for MFN extension: easing up on emigration restrictions and ending forced prison labor.

The administration's demand requires that only significant "overall" progress be made on five other conditions.

Coming on the heels of a similar statement by Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the report on Christopher suggests that the ground is being prepared for Clinton to renew the trade status -- albeit with some limits.

An official said earlier that the White House might take a middle-ground approach that would impose targeted sanctions for certain goods.

Most lawmakers support maintaining good trade relations with China, as do big business and most analysts who believe Clinton made a big mistake by linking trade with human rights issues.

But that decision could also revive charges that Clinton is compromising his convictions and falling down on his promises, that he is yet again being held captive by his campaign pledges of 1992.

"Congress is aware of the president's dilemma, but it is a dilemma of his own making," said a congressional source who argued that Clinton could have pressured Beijing to halt abuses without bringing trade into it.

After the bloody crackdown in Tianamen Square on June 3 1989, the Democratically controlled Congress voted to tie China's human rights record with its trade benefits but then-President George Bush vetoed it.

The source said the vote had been aimed at Bush, who was considered soft on China, but that when Bush rejected it Clinton foolishly picked it up.

"He did it out of inexperience," he said, adding that Clinton never had any intention of cancelling China's MFN.

"He said that during the campaign without realizing full well what was involved," said the source.

Clinton has encountered similar problems in two other international crises: Haiti and Bosnia.

In 1992, he accused Bush of having a weak policy for resolving the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and promised to use air strikes to end Serb aggression.

And then he started backpeddling after the election.

He also attacked Bush's policy on Haiti, calling it cruel because it immediately repatriated refugees picked up at sea and sent them back to an uncertain fate in Port-au-Prince.

But then after the election he adopted the same policy, expressing concern about a mass exodus to US shores.

He and only agreed two weeks ago to modify the procedure amid protests from rights groups and a surge in political violence on the Caribbean nation.

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Sanaa in contact with southern leaders by Laurence Peter

SANAA, May 25 (AFP)

The government in Sanaa has begun a dialogue with senior officials in the southern Yemen Socialist Party (YSP) in a bid to achieve a political solution to the conflict in Yemen, Planning Minister Abdelkarim al-Iryani said Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters in Sanaa, Iryani said contacts were being made through Mujahid Yahya Abu Shuwarib, a deputy prime minister and leader of the Hashed tribe.

"We are ready for dialogue with leaders from the YSP who believe in unity," Iryani said.

But he ruled out any negotiation with President Ali Abdallah Saleh's rival Ali Salem al-Baid and former Prime Minister Haidar Abubakr al-Attas, whom he described as "the engineer of the conflict."

Saleh's General People's Congress Party (GPC) had formed a committee to pursue the contacts, Iryani said.

He said the GPC was dealing with such YSP leaders as Salem Saleh Muhammad, a member of the presidential council who is currently in London, and YSP central committee member Yasin Said Numan.

"Salem Saleh is the main contact," he added.

The government was ready for a ceasefire provided YSP leaders recognised Yemeni unity and "the legitimate authority," Iryani said.

Saleh's forces have been at war with southern troops loyal to Baid since May 5.

Iryani said Baid's forces were still receiving arms supplies through the southern port city of Mukalla and the nearby airstrip at Rayyan.

"The source is known -- it's the former socialist countries," he said, naming the suppliers as Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary and "probably" Russia.

Asked whether the Sanaa authorities would approach the former socialist bloc for weapons, Iryani said "the materiel we received from our friends is much more than we need, I think."

He said no decision had been taken "to simply start bombarding" Aden.

"We want to give a political solution a chance before we enter Aden," Iryani explained.

President Saleh told reporters Saturday that Baid, who had remained in Aden since last August, had now gone to his birthplace Mukalla, capital of the Hadhramaut region.

"You cannot decide you are going to Aden unless you completely control Lahej," Iryani said, referring to the region just north of the southern port city.

He said the main fighting "has already been done" in Lahej, "and it's now just a clean-up."

The air force's role would now be limited to attacking southern gunboats, "and in a few days, maybe, to hit Mukalla and Rayyan."

"We have to extend legitimacy to Hadhramaut."

Saleh's forces were now in the Al-Husseini area south of Al-Hutah and about 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Aden, Iryani said.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[78] = [ ["say"], "Hartzenberg said he would ask Terre'Blanche, who heads the extremist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), if he would meet Mandela.", "

Mandela says he is prepared to meet neo-Nazi leader

CAPE TOWN, May 25 (AFP)

President Nelson Mandela said Wednesday he was prepared to meet neo-Nazi leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, if it would help draw South Africa's far white right-wing into peaceful negotiations.

Mandela was speaking after meeting Ferdi Hartzenberg, leader of the pro-apartheid Conservative Party, which boycotted last month's historic all-race poll, saying the new constitution did not accomodate the right-wing's demand for a separate white homeland.

Hartzenberg said he would ask Terre'Blanche, who heads the extremist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), if he would meet Mandela.

Mandela said he would hold talks with Terre'Blanche to "address the problems of the ultra-right so it can be included in the process of using peaceful methods."

However, Terre'Blanche ruled out meeting Mandela until all right-wingers in jail or awaiting trial were released.

The AWB leader said in a statement Wednesday that a pre-condition for a meeting with Mandela was the granting of amnesty to right-wingers accused or convicted of what he termed political crimes.

Thirty-two AWB members are awaiting trial for a bombing spree in the two days before the election that killed 21 people, and among the right-wingers in jail are Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis, the assassins of communist leader and black hero, Chris Hani.

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Clinton to renew China's trade status

WASHINGTON, May 25 (AFP)

President Bill Clinton will renew China's trade privileges but also likely impose limited sanctions for Beijing's human rights abuses, informed sources here said Wednesday.

They said the sanctions could involve a ban on imports of weapons and ammunition made by the Chinese military. Washington might also establish a US commission to monitor China's progress on human rights.

Several sources said Clinton could announce his decision on Thursday but the White House kept the option open of waiting until Friday while the president discussed the nature of sanctions with US congressional leaders.

"It (the announcement) could come as early as tomorrow," said presidential press secretary Dee Dee Myers. "He has not made a final decision. He has made some decisions. He has still a couple of things that are undecided."

Officials said the move to couple renewal of China's Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading status with a ban on weapons imports was recommended by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who met with Clinton on Wednesday.

Clinton also met with his national security adviser Anthony Lake.

Asked whether the weapons ban was the main item left to be decided, Myers said, "Yes, it's along those lines."

Some congressmen have said they will press for tougher action.

Clinton warned last year that renewal of China's MFN status, which brings the lowest available US tariffs on imports, depended on China showing "overall significant progress" on human rights.

He outlined seven areas needing improvement before the June 3 deadline for deciding on whether to maintain China's MFN status for another year, and asked Christopher to submit a report.

Administration officials said Christopher found China had met the minimum requirements in two areas: cooperation in ending the export of prison-made goods and allowing relatives of some dissidents to leave the country.

Although mixed results were reported in the other five areas, the officials added, the progress described by the secretary of state provided narrow legal grounds for MFN renewal.

Although billions of dollars in trade and access to the booming Chinese market are at stake, the White House has insisted that it would not give up on pressing Beijing to end rights abuses.

But the ban on imports of Chinese weapons will not satisfy some legislators who have announced their intention to fight for stiffer measures against Beijing.

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, one of the spearheads of the drive to take a tough line with the Chinese, said that credible sanctions were essential.

"If the sanctions (to be announced) are good enough that would be great," the California Democrat said. "Otherwise you will see a movement in Congress to strengthen them."

Pelosi and Senate Majority leader George Mitchell, a Democrat from Maine, are working on legislation that would apply sanctions on products manufactured by other state-run Chinese industries in addition to the military.

A coalition of human rights groups charged Monday that China had failed to meet criteria set by Clinton a year ago and that conditions had actually become worse in China.

But some activists acknowledged it would be difficult for Clinton to revoke MFN entirely, and called for targeted sanctions.

Business interests, fearing a huge drop in trade, urged MFN be granted with no strings attached.

In recent weeks China has moved to ensure renewal of its MFN status by granting visas to would-be emigres and releasing some political prisoners.

It also invited Washington to send a mission to Beijing to discuss complaints over China's jamming of broadcasts by the Voice of America.

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Top urban guerrilla arrested in Quezon

MANILA, May 26 (AFP)

The head of the Philippines' feared communist urban guerrillas, Felimon Lagman, was arrested here Thursday, the presidential palace said.

The palace said naval intelligence agents arrested Lagman in suburban Quezon city.

A radio report said Lagman, who had recently been giving clandestine press interviews, was stopped while driving a car and arrested.

Lagman, in his early forties, heads the regional communist party committee for Manila and adjacent province Rizal, and broke away from exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison last year over fundamental differences in strategy.

He controls the Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB), which claims 500 guerrillas armed with machine pistols, assault rifles and handguns whose main method of operation is the public execution of allegedly corrupt and abusive authorities.

His arrest ironically occurred only two days after the ABB celebrated its 10th anniversary with a rally by masked partisans at Manila's financial district which police forcibly broke up, arresting 11 demonstrators.

Manila police officer Major Timoteo Zarcal, an alleged kidnapping syndicate leader acquitted recently by a court, was assassinated outside his home earlier this month by an ABB hit squad.

The communists have been fighting the Manila government for decades, in a war that has cost thousands of lives.

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Belligerents, contact group resume talks on Bosnia

TALLOIRES, France, May 26 (AFP)

Negotiators for Bosnia-Hercegovina's three warring parties and an international contact group resumed closed-door talks here Thursday to try to establish a ceasefire and work out the country's division.

There have been no official comments on progress, but a member of the Croat press contingent who said he had access to the meeting reported that the Croats and Moslems, who have agreed to form a federation, had dropped demands for more territory.

He said they had agreed to negotiate on the basis of a European Union plan backed by the contact group, which is made up of ther United States, Russia, five western European countries and representatives of the United Nations.

This plan would allot 51 percent of Bosnian territory to the Moslems and Croats and 49 percent to the Serbs.

The Moslems and Croats now control 30 percent of the republic's territory and were demanding 58 percent -- about as much as they held before the two-year-old war. Bosnian Serbs control the remaining 70 percent of the territory.

The talks started Wednesday in this tourist town near Lake Annecy in the French Alps, just over the border from Geneva.

Delegates include Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic, the head of the Bosnian Croat community, Kresimir Zubak, and for the Serbs, the head of their self-proclaimed parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik.

The contact group is pushing for an immediate four-month ceasefire as a test of the commitment of the belligerents to reach a settlement.

Both France and Britain have warned they are ready to pull all their peacekeeping troops out of Bosnia by the end of the year if no serious progress is made towards restoring peace.

The meeting was to wind up Thursday then mostly likely resume in about 10 days at a location not yet announced to prepare a conference of foreign ministers around mid-June as a follow-up to one in Geneva on May 13.

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Father of confessed Mexican assassin hints at government plot

NEW YORK, May 26 (AFP)

The father of the confessed assassin of a Mexican presidential candidate suspects the slaying was the result of a government plot, his lawyer was quoted as saying in Thursday's New York Times.

Ruben Aburto Cortez said that several weeks before Luis Donaldo Colosio was killed after a political rally in Tijuana on March 23, his son Mario told him he had met with a federal security agent, attorney Peter Schay said.

The security agent, Salvador Hernandez Tomassini, was initially implicated in the assassination but later was cleared. Mario Aburto confessed to shooting Colosio and is being held in a prison near Mexico City.

The father contends his son was set up by two other security agents who have been jailed on charges they helped carry out the assassination.

Schay said that Aburto, who lives in the San Pedro suburb of Los Angeles, did not reveal his son's comments earlier because he feared reprisals against his relatives in Tijuana.

Mario Aburto's mother, brother and four other relatives crossed illegally into the United States on Sunday claiming harassment since the assassination. The are living with Ruben Aburto pending an asylum hearing.

Mexico's Attorney General's office said Wednesday in a statement that no arrest warrants had been issued for Aburto's relatives.

"These people are not being sought, pressured or harassed by Mexican authorities," the statement said. "They can return to the country without fearing to lose their freedom."

Schay said that Aburto's relatives have since told him they might not seek political asylum because they hope to return to Mexico in three to six months.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[83] = [ ["say"], "State Department officials quoted by the daily said that Adnan Malik, who was reassigned here from the United Nations, was sending out news releases in favor of lifting the UN economic embargo against his country, and hired and fired staff members with no prior notification to US authorities.", "

Iraqi diplomat expelled for breaking agreement

WASHINGTON, May 26 (AFP)

The United States has expelled an Iraqi diplomat for violating rules governing Iraqi diplomatic activities here, The Washington Post said Thursday.

State Department officials quoted by the daily said that Adnan Malik, who was reassigned here from the United Nations, was sending out news releases in favor of lifting the UN economic embargo against his country, and hired and fired staff members with no prior notification to US authorities.

The activities, which began within a week of Malik's transfer in February, were in violation of rules set down by Washington after the 1991 Gulf War.

"He was attempting to function as a full-fledged diplomat," but was only allowed to issue visas and renew passports, State Department spokesman Michale McCurry told the daily.

Malik's wife and children have been allowed to remain in New York until the end of the school year, a State Department official said.

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Dominican Republic at impasse over elections by Arturo Gudino

SANTO DOMINGO, May 25 (AFP)

Ten days after general elections here, the Dominican Republic finds itself in a political dead end with no winner and no sign of a way out of the electoral impasse.

No sooner had the polls closed May 15 than the crisis erupted with opposition presidential candidate, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, accusing backers of President Joaquin Balaguer of stealing the elections.

Thusday, the Dominican Republic's six million people still had no clue who will govern them after August 16, when Balaguer's term formally ends.

Balaguer was leading by less than one percent of the vote in the final returns announced Wednesday by the Central Election Board, which stands accused of carrying out the fraud by tampering with computerized voter lists.

A recount has been ordered, but the opposition says it will settle nothing without first addressing whether the voting lists were changed to exclude as many as 200,000 opposition supporters.

There has been no violence, but a climate of tension and uncertainty has settled over this hot and usually festive seaside city in the Caribbean.

Even with the approach of Mother's Day, which is celebrated here Sunday, storekeepers say customers have been staying away, causing a drop-off in sales.

Meanwhile, businessmen in the all-important tourism industry say many tours from Europe have been cancelled in reaction to news accounts of the crisis.

The country is the destination of 1.4 million tourists a year, who pour an estimated 1.3 billion dollars a year into the local economy, or about 70 percent of the value of its total exports.

Hotel owners in Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata, the principal tourist destination, warned this week of the threat to the industry.

"Tourism is a very volatile industry, which reacts nervously to current events," said one hotel manager.

The country boasts 26,000 hotel rooms in a string of modern hotels built along its coasts.

Meanwhile, as the political crisis deepens, the Dominican Republic has become the focus of a separate crisis over Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with it.

The government has come under increasing US pressure to stop the open smuggling of goods from the Dominican Republic to Haiti, which is under a UN embargo because its military leaders are defying demands that they step down.

Special US envoy William Gray met for more than two hours Wednesday night with Balaguer to discuss ways to tighten enforcement of the embargo along the border.

Gray said after the meeting that Balaguer, who is on record as accepting the UN embargo despite his opposition to it, had pledged to completely close the border. Balaguer issued no statement on the talks.

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Future Palestinian government holds first meeting

TUNIS, May 27 (AFP)

The future government of the newly-autonomous Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and Jericho held its first meeting at PLO headquarters here Thursday, correspondents on the spot said.

Seventeen of the 19 ministers so far named to serve on the 24-strong Palestinian National Authority were spotted at a photo-session before the start of the meeting, photographers said.

The two absentees were Professor Sari Nusseiba, a professor at Bir Zeit University and Abdelhadiz al-Ashhab, a doctor from Hebron, both in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

Cairo-based Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) negotiator Jamil Tarifi, who is tipped to serve in the new administration, was at the meeting, as were two PLO executive committee members, Farouk Kaddumi and Mahmud Abbas, correspondents said.

Meanwhile Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal said in Jerusalem that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat would make his entry into the autonomous territories on June 15.

Shahal told Israeli television that the Israeli government had received a message saying that Arafat, who has been suffering from exhaustion this week, wanted to postpone his arrival from June 6 to June 15.

But a spokesman for Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin's office denied that the government had received any such message from the PLO or had fixed the date of Arafat's arrival.

A source in Tunis said Thursday that Arafat was still having his wife's uncle, London-based businessman George Hawa, detained on suspicion of corruption.

The source said Arafat did not want Hawa, who was reportedly arrested last Friday, hauled before a court, but wanted to make an example of him.

Suha Arafat told the Arabic daily al-Hayat in Tunis that her uncle was not under arrest, and denied rumours that his reported detention could lead her to divorce Arafat.

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Future Palestinian government holds first meeting

TUNIS, May 27 (AFP)

The future government of the newly-autonomous Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and Jericho held its first meeting at PLO headquarters here Thursday, correspondents on the spot said.

Seventeen of the 19 ministers so far named to serve on the 24-strong Palestinian National Authority were spotted at a photo-session before the start of the meeting, photographers said.

The two absentees were Professor Sari Nusseiba, a professor at Bir Zeit University and Abdelhadiz al-Ashhab, a doctor from Hebron, both in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

Cairo-based Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) negotiator Jamil Tarifi, who is tipped to serve in the new administration, was at the meeting, as were two PLO executive committee members, Farouk Kaddumi and Mahmud Abbas, correspondents said.

Meanwhile Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal said in Jerusalem that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat would make his entry into the autonomous territories on June 15.

Shahal told Israeli television that the Israeli government had received a message saying that Arafat, who has been suffering from exhaustion this week, wanted to postpone his arrival from June 6 to June 15.

But a spokesman for Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin's office denied that the government had received any such message from the PLO or had fixed the date of Arafat's arrival.

A source in Tunis said Thursday that Arafat was still having his wife's uncle, London-based businessman George Hawa, detained on suspicion of corruption.

The source said Arafat did not want Hawa, who was reportedly arrested last Friday, hauled before a court, but wanted to make an example of him.

Suha Arafat told the Arabic daily al-Hayat in Tunis that her uncle was not under arrest, and denied rumours that his reported detention could lead her to divorce Arafat.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","The next sentence refers to "his [Hawa's] reported detention" in the main clause. The source of this information is likely the matrix subject ( "the source"), but it clearly has become a text-level commitment.","Good",[],""], [] ]; corpus[87] = [ ["report"], "The official news agency Xinhua reported that the group included a South Korean, Kwon Heung-Soon, who works for the radio and television network Mon Hwa Broadcasting Company (MBC).", "

China expels several foreign journalists

BEIJING, May 27 (AFP)

China has expelled a number of foreign reporters for breaking reporting regulations, foreign ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin said Friday.

"Several journalists violated regulations concerning news reporting so the Chinese cut short their period of stay," he told a press conference.

Wu did not say how many had been expelled or give their nationalities, but indicated that they included South Koreans and had been reporting in eastern China.

The official news agency Xinhua reported that the group included a South Korean, Kwon Heung-Soon, who works for the radio and television network Mon Hwa Broadcasting Company (MBC).

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[88] = [ ["say"], "He said Banda, who ruled Malawi as a one-party state for three decades, told them that they should accept that the people had democratically chosen Bakili Muluzi as president in elections May 17.", "

Banda prepares to move out of palace

BLANTYRE, May 27 (AFP)

Malawians are intrigued by the question of where former "president for life" Hastings Kamuzu Banda will live when he moves out of the government-owned Sanjika Palace after his defeat in elections last week.

Banda took personal pride in the hilltop palace, which was built at a cost of about a million pounds sterling (about two million dollars) in the 1970s.

He enjoyed showing vistors around the imposing building and its surrounding gardens, as he did Wednesday when he called senior members of his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to bid them farewell.

He told them he would be vacating the palace, but did not say where he would go or when.

A witness who was present at the meeting said Banda told some of his women supporters, called "Mbumba," to take a final stroll around the palace since they might not be able to do so in future.

"He was very jovial while some of his ministers looked gloomy," the witness said.

He said Banda, who ruled Malawi as a one-party state for three decades, told them that they should accept that the people had democratically chosen Bakili Muluzi as president in elections May 17.

Muluzi on Tuesday denied rumours that he had given Banda until the end of May to vacate the palace.

"I'm not in a hurry to go to Sanjika. Banda can stay there as long as he wishes," he said.

Muluzi is still living at his private residence in a Blantyre suburb.

Muluzi said a committee would be set up to look into how some of the country's 13 state residences could be disposed of, saying Malawi was too poor to maintain them at an annual cost of about 2.5 million dollars.

He has turned one of the new state houses in the capital Lilongwe -- estimated to have cost 18 million dollars -- into the house of parliament.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[89] = [ ["say"], "Police said Rosemary West was indicted for the murder of Heather West, who disappeared in 1987 at the age of 16 and whose body was the first of nine unearthed from the garden, basement and walls of the West home.", "

House of Horrors wife charged with daughter's murder

GLOUCESTER, England, May 27 (AFP)

"House of Horrors" wife Rosemary West, a 40-year-old mother of eight, was Friday charged with murdering her teenaged daughter, the ninth death in which she is jointly accused with her husband.

Police said Rosemary West was indicted for the murder of Heather West, who disappeared in 1987 at the age of 16 and whose body was the first of nine unearthed from the garden, basement and walls of the West home.

Frederick West, a 52-year-old stone mason, is jointly with his wife charged with those nine murders.

In addition, he is charged with murdering his first wife, Catherine, whose remains were uncovered in a cornfield at Kempley, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from here, and their daughter Charmaine, whose body was found buried under another house in Gloucester where they once lived.

In addition to the nine joint murder counts, Rosemary West faces two earlier charges of rape, jointly with different men, involving a girl under the age of 16, and a charge of assaulting an eight-year-old boy.

The gruesome day-by-day uncovery of remains by police excavators has given the three-storey house at 25 Cromwell Street in this western English city the name, "House of Horrors."

Rosemary and Frederick West are being held without bail as police continue to probe sites where they previously lived.

Sources close to the investigation have said the body count in the case could go as high as 20, which would make the case one of the worse serial killing in British history.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","A later sentence refers to "The gruesome day-by-day uncovery of remains" and makes it clear that this occurred at the West house.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Pronoun or definite"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[90] = [ ["say"], "It said in an editorial that Ossama Ben Ladden, who now lives in Sudan, had"sent to Yemen via Sudan (Islamic) activists from Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight alongside the northern forces led by (President) Ali Abdallah Saleh.", "

Afghan veterans fighting for north Yemen: paper

CAIRO, May 27 (AFP)

A Saudi millionaire businessman has sent veterans of the Afghan war to fight alongside northern forces in Yemen, the semi-official Egyptian paper Al-Ahram said Friday.

It said in an editorial that Ossama Ben Ladden, who now lives in Sudan, had "sent to Yemen via Sudan (Islamic) activists from Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight alongside the northern forces led by (President) Ali Abdallah Saleh."

Ben Ladden backed the Afghan mujahedeen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

He is accused by authorities here of financing operations by militant Moslem groups aiming to topple the Cairo government.

According to Egyptian experts on Islamic movements, Yemen has become a transit point for former Afghan veterans, after several Arab countries demanded they be extradited from their bases in Pakistan.

Civil war erupted in Yemen on May 5 after months of tension between rival northern and southern leaders.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[91] = [ ["claim"], ""Portuguese press reports claimed Yuran, who will play for Russia in next month's World Cup finals, was set to join Swedish midfielder Stefan Schwarz, signed from the Portuguese champions by the Gunners last week, at Highbury.", "

Gunners shoot down Yuran talk

LISBON, May 27 (AFP)

English Premiership side Arsenal on Friday shot down rumours they were about to sign Benfica's Ukrainian-born striker Sergei Yuran.

A spokeswoman said there was "no truth in the rumour."

Portuguese press reports claimed Yuran, who will play for Russia in next month's World Cup finals, was set to join Swedish midfielder Stefan Schwarz, signed from the Portuguese champions by the Gunners last week, at Highbury.

Benfica have not confirmed the transfer.

Yuran is currently in trouble at Benefica, after refusing to sit on the substitutes' bench during a Portuguese league match two weeks ago.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[92] = [ ["say"], "And they said Ballin, a Christian Democrat, resigned to avoid embarrassing outgoing premier Ruud Lubbers, who is bidding to replace Jacques Delors as European Commission president.", "

Dutch interior, justice ministers resign

THE HAGUE, May 27 (AFP)

The justice and interior ministers resigned Friday from the caretaker Dutch government after parliament voted a no confidence motion over their handling of a long-running police scandal linked to a drugs "sting" operation.

Interior Minister Ed van Thijn quit hours after the resignation of his cabinet colleague Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin, the government press office said.

Right and left wing deputies had joined Wednesday in passing a motion of no confidence in both men.

They were accused of failing to ensure the safety of police officers after their inter-regional unit probing organised crime was disbanded in 1993.

At the time van Thijn was not a minister but, as mayor of Amsterdam, was in charge of police in the capital.

Ballin was also blamed for the disappearance of 36 tonnes of soft drugs from a 40-tonne consignment imported as "bait" for underworld figures.

Political observers said the resignations could complicate attempts to form a new government as van Thijn was a leading figure in the Labour Party which came top in general elections earlier this month.

And they said Ballin, a Christian Democrat, resigned to avoid embarrassing outgoing premier Ruud Lubbers, who is bidding to replace Jacques Delors as European Commission president.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[93] = [ ["claim"], "A Portuguese television report claimed the Gunners were about to sign Russian international Yuran, who is in trouble at Benfica after refusing to sit on the substitutes' bench in a league match.", "

Arsenal double transfer poser

LONDON, May 27 (AFP)

European Cup Winners Cup holders Arsenal were at the centre of a double transfer riddle on Friday.

The English Premiership club have been linked with Benfica's Ukrainian-born striker Sergei Yuran and England Under-21 international Scott Minto, who is out of contract with London First Division club Charlton Athletic.

A Portuguese television report claimed the Gunners were about to sign Russian international Yuran, who is in trouble at Benfica after refusing to sit on the substitutes' bench in a league match.

But Arsenal managing director Ken Friar said: "There is no truth in the rumour that we are involved in contract negotiations with that particular player."

Highbury manager George Graham has already spent two million pounds on Benfica's Swedish international midfielder Stefan Schwarz.

Minto, 22, was reported to have signed for Chelsea in a 2.3 million deal, but he is now said to be having talks with Arsenal.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[94] = [ ["say"], "The foreign office here on Sunday said the expulsion of Maguire, who won the Nobel prize in 1976, and fellow Irish activist Tom Hyland, "was taken solely to prevent non-Filipinos from making use of Philippine soil to seek to undermine the territorial integrity of a friendly neighboring state."", "

reopens (MANILA)

The foreign office here on Sunday said the expulsion of Maguire, who won the Nobel prize in 1976, and fellow Irish activist Tom Hyland, "was taken solely to prevent non-Filipinos from making use of Philippine soil to seek to undermine the territorial integrity of a friendly neighboring state."

Hyland is the coordinator of the Dublin-based East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign, and Maguire is one of its patrons along with black South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, another Nobel Peace prize laureate.

Their expulsion did not reflect the Philippine view of its relationship with Ireland or "diminish respect" Manila has for their efforts in bringing peace to the Irish people, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement.

DFA said the two would have been welcome if they were here "to lend their wisdom in peacemaking" to help solve the Philippines' own conflicts, which include a communist insurgency and a Moslem rebellion.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[95] = [ ["say"], "They said Valentino Foti, whose arrest "came at about the same time as Friday's detention of Pineau-Valencienne," is the main stockholder of the Belgian real estate and financial company Patience et Beaujonc, a subsidiary of industrial giant Schneider SA.", "

Italian banker jailed in connection with Schneider case

BRUSSELS, May 30 (AFP)

An Italian banker has been jailed here in connection with the fraud case involving French industrialist Didier Pineau-Valencienne, prison officials said Monday.

They said Valentino Foti, whose arrest "came at about the same time as Friday's detention of Pineau-Valencienne," is the main stockholder of the Belgian real estate and financial company Patience et Beaujonc, a subsidiary of industrial giant Schneider SA.

Pineau-Valencienne is head of Schneider SA, which in October 1993 filed suit against six Belgian newspapers asking for more than 400 million francs (70 million dollars) in damages for articles alleging a link between the Swiss bank Fimo, headed by Foti, and money laundering of drug money.

The charges against Pineau-Valenciennne, specifically forgery, using false documents, fraud, false accounting and breach of confidence, are related to the money laundering allegations and, in particular, to two Schneider subsidiaries, Cofibel and Cofimines.

In November 1992, Schneider offered shares in the two subsidiaries for public sale. A dispute arose over the price at which the shares were offered on the open market.

Pineau-Valencienne was charged with fraud and held here at dawn Friday after being quizzed by investigators for more than 20 hours. He had travelled to the Belgian capital voluntarily to answer questions.

Under Belgian law he can be held for five days, until Wednesday, when he must appear before a judge.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[96] = [ ["say"], "Advocaat said Gullit, who has only just returned to international football after a self-imposed exile, did not give any reasons for his departure.", "

(adding extra detail) Gullit stunner as he quits Dutch World Cup bid

NOORDWIJK, Netherlands, May 30 (AFP)

Football star Ruud Gullit has walked out on the Dutch World Cup squad and will not play in the tournament, trainer Dick Advocaat announced here on Monday.

Advocaat said Gullit, who has only just returned to international football after a self-imposed exile, did not give any reasons for his departure.

The news is a major blow to Holland's hopes of shining in the world showpiece starting on June 17 -- and a major blow for the event itself, with the dreadlocked Gullit rated as one of the world's most charismatic characters.

Gullit had only just returned to the side after quitting Holland's qualifying campaign following a long-running row with Advocaat.

He buried the hatchet and returned to play in Friday's win over Scotland but was substituted at half-time and later criticised the Dutch game plan. Advocaat responded by saying he was in charge of the team and not Gullit.

The 31-year-old, who has won 64 international caps since his 1981 debut and scored 17 goals, orignally announced his retirement from the national team in 1992.

He then returned the following year, only to quit again after being substituted by Advocaat during the 2-2 draw with England at Wembley.

But the news that Advocaat would make way for Johan Cruyff during the United States finals made him change his mind -- only for Cruyff to fall out with the Dutch football federation and turn down the job, Advocaat agreeing to continue.

Gullit, who married his companion Christina Pensa earlier this month, had a fine season for Italian club Sampdoria last season, scoring 15 goals, and was re-signed by his former club AC Milan on a million-dollar contract.

European footballer of the year in 1987, he survived a series of career-threatening knee injuries to confirm his star status at AC Milan alongside Dutch teammates Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

He won an Italian league title with Milan in 1988 with the side, followed by successive European Cups in 1989 and 1990.

He also won the 1988 European championship with Holland.

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Libya hands over Aouzou Strip to Chad

NDJAMENA, May 30 (AFP)

The Chadian flag flew over the disputed Aouzou Strip, a tract of mineral-rich desert territory, Monday after Libya officially handed it back after 22 years of occupation and conflict, Chadian radio reported.

The handover took place at Aouzou, the town after which the territory of 114,000 square kilometres (45,600 square miles) in the far north of Chad on the Libyan border is named, the radio said.

The barren strip of land has been fought over several times by the two nations.

Libyan Justice Minister Mohammad Hijazi, Chadian Interior Minister Abderamane Izzo and an official of the United Nations observer team that monitored Libya's withdrawal made speeches before the Libyan flag was lowered for the last time.

The last Libyan troops then withdrew from the scene, the radio reported.

The return of the Aouzou Strip to Chad follows a February 3 ruling by the International Court of Justice in the Hague, upholding Ndjamena's claim to the area, which Libya had used in the past to back Chadian rebels and launch military incursions.

The two countries had agreed in 1989 that failing an agreement between them within a year on the territory, they would call on the court, the highest legal institution in the United Nations, for a settlement.

Libya had claimed the strip on the basis of agreements reached in the 1930s between colonial powers Italy, then led by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and France, in which the latter handed over the territory in exchange for an end to Italian claims to Tunisia.

After years of war following Libya's annexation of the strip in 1972, and the reconquering of most of Chad by troops loyal to then warlord Hissein Habre, the two sides finally agreed "peacefully to settle" the dispute in 1988 and began to normalise their relations.

Several sources say the territory, thought to be rich in uranium, oil and other minerals, was sold off by Chad's first president, Ngarta Tombalbaye, to Libyan leader Colonel Moamer Kadhafi, who then vowed never to renounce his claim to it.

But Tripoli's relations with Ndjamena continued to improve after Habre was overthrown late in 1990 by another Chadian warlord, his former advisor Idriss Deby, the current head of state.

Guests invited to Monday's ceremony by the Chadian government, notably French troops and representatives of relief agencies, were flown to Bardai, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Aouzou, aboard French military planes, diplomatic sources in Ndjamena said.

The Aouzou Strip is 1,000 kilometres (more than 600 miles) from Ndjamena, the roads are in bad shape, and much of Chad is prone to insecurity with the presence of armed bands.

France deployed a military air and ground force in Chad in 1986, known as Operation Epervier (Sparrowhawk), to put an end to Libyan military offensives. Three years earlier, Libya had begun to provide backing to Goukouni Oueddei, a former ally of Hissein Habre, who then fell out with him.

The force currently currently counts around 800 men.

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Tatars back "strong republics, strong centre" as Yeltsin visits

MOSCOW, May 30 (AFP)

Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived Monday in the central Russian republic of Tatarstan to assess the effect of a decentralisation accord struck in February.

Tatar President Mintimer Shaimiyev welcomed Yeltsin at the airport in Naberezhnye Chelny and immediately reaffirmed his support for the principle of "strong republics with a strong centre", referring to the republic's links with Moscow.

Yeltsin described the treaty as "very important for us and for me as president." He said the accord had allowed Tatarstan to take on as much responsibility as it could cope with.

"What is beyond its capabilities it has delegated that to the federal authorities," ITAR-TASS quoted him as saying.

Shaimiyev said the two leaders wanted to strengthen mutual trust to find "a joint solution to economic problems."

The Russian president hopes to apply a similar model of division of powers to Chechnya, the Caucasus republic which has declared independence from Moscow.

Yeltsin opened his visit with a tour of oil-rich Tatarstan's industrial region around Naberezhnyye Chelny accompanied by First Vice Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets and other ranking officials.

ITAR-TASS meanwhile quoted the Russian leader as saying he stood by remarks he made in 1991 saying Russian republics and regions should take as much sovereignty as they could stand, despite criticism of his position at the time.

"I endured it all and was right," he said.

A Chechen presidential spokesman meanwhile told AFP that Chechnya did not support the "Tatar variant" of relations with Moscow.

Movladi Udugov said President Dzhokhar Dudayev, who escaped an assassination attempt Friday, was "not ready to renounce independence" from Russia.

The authorities in Grozny on Monday accused the Russian secret services of staging a failed assassination bid against Dudayev.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[99] = [ ["say"], "Cemetery officials said however that Honecker, who died Sunday aged 81 after a long battle with liver cancer, would have to be cremated Tuesday because of the late hour.", "

(picture) Thousands of Chilean communists escort Honecker's casket

SANTIAGO, May 30 (AFP)

More than a thousand members of Chile's Communist Party escorted the casket of former East German leader Erich Honecker to the crematorium Sunday after a memorial led by his widow and daughter.

The simple grey casket draped with the flag of the defunct German Democratic Republic was taken from the chapel of the Chilean capital's General Cemetery to the crematorium.

Cemetery officials said however that Honecker, who died Sunday aged 81 after a long battle with liver cancer, would have to be cremated Tuesday because of the late hour.

Honecker's widow, Margot, and their only child, Sonja, led a memorial for scores of mourners earlier, but there was no religious ceremony and no burial in Chile for Honecker, who built the Berlin Wall and ruled East Germany with an iron fist for 18 years.

Honecker, exiled in Chile since January 14, 1993, wished to be buried with his parents in Nunkirchen, Sarre, but it was not known whether German authorities would allow it, spokesmen for the family said.

The German embassy in Santiago has made no comment since Honecker's death.

The Chilean government said the funeral in Santiago was private and that other than a police guard no officials would attend.

Anemic, emaciated, and weakened by heart and lung problems that accentuated in the final months, Honecker died in his bed at 7:00 a.m. Sunday in the modest brick home here where he has lived since arriving as an exile.

Renato Palma, one of the doctors who treated him, said Honecker's heart finally gave out after the natural progression of the liver cancer, "which he accepted and endured with great dignity, with bravery."

Honecker required blood transfusions and could only drink liquid or be fed intravenously, Palma said.

Her father was "lucid" when he died, Sonja Honecker said in brief statement to the press, accompanied by friends and members of the Chilean left.

Honecker had a "sweet" death, said Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean president Salvador Allende, who died in a 1973 military coup that toppled his socialist government.

After leading the German Democratic Republic since 1971, Honecker resigned in October 1989 shortly before the Berlin Wall collapsed and fled to Moscow in March 1991.

When the Russian government withdrew support for him, he took refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow to escape extradition to Germany. He was wanted in Berlin for the deaths of Germans killed trying to escape to the west. As many as 400 people were killed in escape attempts between 1961 and 1989.

But leaders of the Chilean left launched a campaign to obtain asylym for Honecker, saying they had a debt of gratitude to him.

More than 5,000 Chileans who fled the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet found refuge in East Germany.

Honecker was deported anyway and went on trial in Berlin. But in January 1993 he was freed "for humanitarian reasons" because of the advanced stage of his cancer and allowed to go to Chile, where his wife and daughter were living.

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Mountain safety authority says missing Norwegian acted irresponsibly

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, May 31 (AFP)

A safety official Tuesday slammed the behaviour of a Norwegian tourist who for the second time has sparked a major search and rescue operation by going missing in a rugged area in southwestern New Zealand.

A 30-person search and rescue squad was combing a 320-square-kilometre (128-square-mile) area of Fiordland for Rebecca Fuchs.

It was the second time Fuchs, who is in her 20s, had gone missing while hiking by herself in Fiordland. She was rescued by police last Easter after she was found disoriented and poorly equipped.

Mountain Safety Council assistant director Bob Badland said he could not understand why Fuchs would go back to the same area where she had been lost before.

He said he had no sympathy for Fuchs, who was travelling alone and reportedly poorly equipped for the rough Fiordland terrain.

"Travelling on your own in the back country -- not a lot of people do that other than hunters who are pretty experienced.

" I wouldn't go to Africa and go wandering around the back country in a pair of sandals. "

" She sounds like one of those people who are pretty irresponsible if she hasn't learned from her first experience, "Badland said." She is putting the people looking for her at risk as well. "

Badland said that if Fuchs had become lost because of her own actions, there was the question of cost to be addressed.

" There's a phenomenal network to set up in a search and rescue exercise, and if she's been irresponsible, who's going to pay for it?

"You and I are going to have to pay for it as taxpayers."

Invercargill police said earlier costs included paying 2500 NZ dollars (1,472 US dollars) per hour for an air force helicopter, as well as labour costs for a 30-member paid rescue squad and food, equipment and communication.

Searchers had found no sign of Fuchs as of Tuesday.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[101] = [ ["say"], "Randy Chan said that the visit was "a surprise" because Fay, who turned 19 Monday, did not know his friend would show up, adding"so it was a birthday present he hadn't expected.", "

Caned vandal has lost weight: mother

SINGAPORE, May 31 (AFP)

American teenager Michael Fay caned for vandalising cars has lost weight but is physically well and exercising in his prison cell, his mother said Tuesday.

"His physical condition seems good. He is exercising up to 300 sit-ups a day. He looks good, but has lost weight," said Randy Chan after visiting her son at Queenstown Remand Prison.

Chan was accompanied by her second husband Marco Chan and an unidentified teenage friend of Fay's.

Randy Chan said that the visit was "a surprise" because Fay, who turned 19 Monday, did not know his friend would show up, adding "so it was a birthday present he hadn't expected."

Fay was sentenced to six strokes of the rattan cane, four months in jail and fined for spray painting cars, pelting them with eggs and keeping stolen road signs and flags.

He was given four lashes earlier this month after the Singapore government reduced the sentence in response to public appeals by President Bill Clinton to waive the caning.

Chan said that Fay, from Kettering, Ohio, would leave for the United States almost immediately after his release from prison on June 21.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--text-level","Chan unlikely to report her son's age in the utterance.","Bad",[],""], [["Text","Bad","Since the utterance involves stuff about Fay's birthday, this information does not seem so unlikely."],["Text","Bad",""]] ]; corpus[102] = [ ["say"], "A spokesman at the Russian embassy here said he did not know whether Churkin, who arrived in Zagreb Monday, would meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.", "

Russian envoy heads to Belgrade in attempt to restart peace talks

ZAGREB, May 31 (AFP)

Russia's special envoy to ex-Yugoslavia Vitaly Churkin headed to Belgrade Tuesday in a new bid to restart peace talks prior to negotiations set to resume this week in Geneva, the Russian embassy here announced.

Churkin is expected to return to Zagreb later in the day to meet with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, presidential spokesperson Vesna Skare-Ozbolt said.

A spokesman at the Russian embassy here said he did not know whether Churkin, who arrived in Zagreb Monday, would meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

UN special envoy to ex-Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi last week called on Bosnia's three warring factions -- Moslems, Croats and Serbs -- to attend peace negotiations in Geneva on Thursday and Friday.

Churkin is expected to attend these talks along with his American counterpart Charles Redman and peace mediators Thorvald Stoltenberg, of the United Nations, and David Owen, of the European Union.

", "English Gigaword", ["Text","There isn't direct support for the Monday arrival, but the article describes both his travel to Belgrade Tuesday and his expected "return to Zagreb later in the day".","Good",["Other presupposition trigger"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Good","Also: the author is reporting from "ZAGREB, May 31 (AFP)"."]] ]; corpus[103] = [ ["say"], "It said that the home of UNITA spokesman Jorge Valentim, who is chief rebel negotiator at peace talks under way since November, was destroyed, but there was no damage to military targets.", "

Air raids kill 39 in Huambo: UNITA

LUANDA, May 31 (AFP)

Raids by the Angolan air force on the rebel UNITA stronghold city of Huambo have killed at least 39 civilians, left about 100 injured, and caused major damage, UNITA's Radio Vorgan reported Tuesday.

The government's planes dropped four napalm bombs in air strikes on the city in the central highlands on Monday, following attacks on Sunday, and also dropped charges containing unidentified chemical substances, the radio said.

The central hospital was short of medicines and equipment to treat the casualties, the radio added.

It said that the home of UNITA spokesman Jorge Valentim, who is chief rebel negotiator at peace talks under way since November, was destroyed, but there was no damage to military targets.

General Arlindo Chienda Pena, known as 'Ben Ben,' the chief of staff of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), called the raids "cowardly bombings" in a statement released on Monday.

The Angolan general staff meanwhile said government troops had seized two places in Cuanza-Sul province, Lussumbu and Chongola, from UNITA, as well as a village in the central Bie province, near the embattled town of Kuito. Some 10 UNITA soldiers were killed in the latter attack, it stated.

Radio Vorgan also said government planes had attacked UNITA-held Ndala and Tchaka-Sau in the eastern diamond-mining Lunda-Norte province, killing 23 people and wounding 47 others.

Angola plunged back into a post-independence civil war after UNITA lost UN-supervised general elections to the ruling, formerly Marxist People's Front for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in September 1992.

", "English Gigaword", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[104] = [ ["say"], "So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help to rescue their friends, and the Winkies said that they would be delighted to do all in their power for Dorothy, who had set them free from bondage.", "

13. The Rescue

The Cowardly Lion was much pleased to hear that the Wicked Witch had been melted by a bucket of water, and Dorothy at once unlocked the gate of his prison and set him free. They went in together to the castle, where Dorothy's first act was to call all the Winkies together and tell them that they were no longer slaves.

There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cruelty. They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time in feasting and dancing.

"If our friends, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, were only with us," said the Lion, "I should be quite happy."

"Don't you suppose we could rescue them?" asked the girl anxiously.

"We can try," answered the Lion.

So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help to rescue their friends, and the Winkies said that they would be delighted to do all in their power for Dorothy, who had set them free from bondage. So she chose a number of the Winkies who looked as if they knew the most, and they all started away. They traveled that day and part of the next until they came to the rocky plain where the Tin Woodman lay, all battered and bent. His axe was near him, but the blade was rusted and the handle broken off short.

", "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[105] = [ ["say"], "She said the first mate was on deck, in a terrible humor; and that Charlie Jones, who was at the wheel, had appealed to Burns not to leave him there-- that trouble was coming.", "

"If you did not hear it, you must have slept," the stewardess persisted obstinately. "The door into the main cabin was closed. Karen came down just after. She was frightened. She said the first mate was on deck, in a terrible humor; and that Charlie Jones, who was at the wheel, had appealed to Burns not to leave him there-- that trouble was coming. That must have been at half-past twelve. The bell struck as she put out the light. We both went to sleep then, until Mrs. Turner's ringing for Karen roused us."

", "The After House, by Mary Roberts Rinehart", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[106] = [ ["say"], "Henry says this is often done, by Spies, who raise a Mast out of the chimney by night.", "

I then told him what I knew about William, but he only said:

"Well, the only thing that matters is the Password, and that cannot be stolen. As for William, I have had his record looked up by the Police, and it is fine. Now go to bed, and send in the Spy. I want a Scotch and Soda."

APRIL 20TH. Henry and I have searched the Garage, but there is no Wireless, unless in a Chimney. Henry says this is often done, by Spies, who raise a Mast out of the chimney by night.

To night I shall watch the Chimney, as there is an ark light near it, so that it is as bright as Day.

The cook has given notice, as she and William cannot get along, and as he can only make to salids and those not cared for by the other servants.

", "Bab: A Sub-Deb, by Mary Roberts Rinehart", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[107] = [ ["hope"], "I hope I have a better taste than to think of Mr. Frank Churchill, who is like nobody by his side.", "

"I should not have thought it possible," she began, "that you could have misunderstood me! I know we agreed never to name him-- but considering how infinitely superior he is to every body else, I should not have thought it possible that I could be supposed to mean any other person. Mr. Frank Churchill, indeed! I do not know who would ever look at him in the company of the other. I hope I have a better taste than to think of Mr. Frank Churchill, who is like nobody by his side. And that you should have been so mistaken, is amazing!--I am sure, but for believing that you entirely approved and meant to encourage me in my attachment, I should have considered it at first too great a presumption almost, to dare to think of him. At first, if you had not told me that more wonderful things had happened; that there had been matches of greater disparity (those were your very words);-- I should not have dared to give way to--I should not have thought it possible--But if _you_, who had been always acquainted with him--"

", "Emma, by Jane Austen", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[108] = [ ["say"], "Emma hung about him affectionately, and smiled, and said it must be so; and that he must not class her with Isabella and Mrs. Weston, whose marriages taking them from Hartfield, had, indeed, made a melancholy change: but she was not going from Hartfield; she should be always there; she was introducing no change in their numbers or their comforts but for the better; and she was very sure that he would be a great deal the happier for having Mr. Knightley always at hand, when he were once got used to the idea.", "

Poor man!--it was at first a considerable shock to him, and he tried earnestly to dissuade her from it. She was reminded, more than once, of having always said she would never marry, and assured that it would be a great deal better for her to remain single; and told of poor Isabella, and poor Miss Taylor.--But it would not do. Emma hung about him affectionately, and smiled, and said it must be so; and that he must not class her with Isabella and Mrs. Weston, whose marriages taking them from Hartfield, had, indeed, made a melancholy change: but she was not going from Hartfield; she should be always there; she was introducing no change in their numbers or their comforts but for the better; and she was very sure that he would be a great deal the happier for having Mr. Knightley always at hand, when he were once got used to the idea.--Did he not love Mr. Knightley very much?-- He would not deny that he did, she was sure.--Whom did he ever want to consult on business but Mr. Knightley?--Who was so useful to him, who so ready to write his letters, who so glad to assist him?-- Who so cheerful, so attentive, so attached to him?--Would not he like to have him always on the spot?--Yes. That was all very true. Mr. Knightley could not be there too often; he should be glad to see him every day;--but they did see him every day as it was.--Why could not they go on as they had done?

", "Emma, by Jane Austen", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[109] = [ ["think"], "Indeed I think it quite melancholy to have such excellent people as Dr and Mrs Shirley, who have been doing good all their lives, wearing out their last days in a place like Uppercross, where, excepting our family, they seem shut out from all the world.", "

"Oh! yes,--I am quite convinced that, with very few exceptions, the sea-air always does good. There can be no doubt of its having been of the greatest service to Dr Shirley, after his illness, last spring twelve-month. He declares himself, that coming to Lyme for a month, did him more good than all the medicine he took; and, that being by the sea, always makes him feel young again. Now, I cannot help thinking it a pity that he does not live entirely by the sea. I do think he had better leave Uppercross entirely, and fix at Lyme. Do not you, Anne? Do not you agree with me, that it is the best thing he could do, both for himself and Mrs Shirley? She has cousins here, you know, and many acquaintance, which would make it cheerful for her, and I am sure she would be glad to get to a place where she could have medical attendance at hand, in case of his having another seizure. Indeed I think it quite melancholy to have such excellent people as Dr and Mrs Shirley, who have been doing good all their lives, wearing out their last days in a place like Uppercross, where, excepting our family, they seem shut out from all the world. I wish his friends would propose it to him. I really think they ought. And, as to procuring a dispensation, there could be no difficulty at his time of life, and with his character. My only doubt is, whether anything could persuade him to leave his parish. He is so very strict and scrupulous in his notions; over-scrupulous I must say. Do not you think, Anne, it is being over-scrupulous? Do not you think it is quite a mistaken point of conscience, when a clergyman sacrifices his health for the sake of duties, which may be just as well performed by another person? And at Lyme too, only seventeen miles off, he would be near enough to hear, if people thought there was anything to complain of."

", "Persuasion, by Jane Austen", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[110] = [ ["remark"], " "There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamp-post and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words," Oh Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth.", "

I dropped into the office to ask if Mr. Jaggers had come in yet, and I found he had not, and I strolled out again. This time, I made the tour of Little Britain, and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting about for Mr. Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they talked together, one of whom said to the other when they first passed me, that "Jaggers would do it if it was to be done." There was a knot of three men and two women standing at a corner, and one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted her by saying, as she pulled her own shawl over her shoulders, "Jaggers is for him, 'Melia, and what more could you have?" There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamp-post and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words, "Oh Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!" These testimonies to the popularity of my guardian made a deep impression on me, and I admired and wondered more than ever.

", "Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[111] = [ ["find out","mention"], "I found out within a few hours, and may mention at once, that Mrs. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives - I forget whose, if I ever knew - the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's - and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact.", "

I found out within a few hours, and may mention at once, that Mrs. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives - I forget whose, if I ever knew - the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's - and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact. I believe he had been knighted himself for storming the English grammar at the point of the pen, in a desperate address engrossed on vellum, on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of some building or other, and for handing some Royal Personage either the trowel or the mortar. Be that as it may, he had directed Mrs. Pocket to be brought up from her cradle as one who in the nature of things must marry a title, and who was to be guarded from the acquisition of plebeian domestic knowledge.

", "Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[112] = [ ["ascertain"], "I have ascertained that anyone in the household, with the exception of Mrs. Cavendish, who was playing tennis with you, could have personated Mr. Inglethorp on Monday evening.", "

"Now, Poirot," I remarked resignedly, "perhaps you will tell me what all this is about?"

"Well, mon ami, a good deal you can guess for yourself. Of course you realize that, now Mr. Inglethorp is out of it, the whole position is greatly changed. We are face to face with an entirely new problem. We know now that there is one person who did not buy the poison. We have cleared away the manufactured clues. Now for the real ones. I have ascertained that anyone in the household, with the exception of Mrs. Cavendish, who was playing tennis with you, could have personated Mr. Inglethorp on Monday evening. In the same way, we have his statement that he put the coffee down in the hall. No one took much notice of that at the inquest--but now it has a very different significance. We must find out who did take that coffee to Mrs. Inglethorp eventually, or who passed through the hall whilst it was standing there. From your account, there are only two people whom we can positively say did not go near the coffee--Mrs. Cavendish, and Mademoiselle Cynthia."

", "The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[113] = [ ["hope"], "He ventured to hope that nothing he had said would lead to the estrangement of Kate and Madeline, who had formed an attachment for each other, any interruption of which would, he knew, be attended with great pain to them, and, most of all, with remorse and pain to him, as its unhappy cause.", "

Upon this head, Nicholas requested permission to add a few words. He ventured to hope that nothing he had said would lead to the estrangement of Kate and Madeline, who had formed an attachment for each other, any interruption of which would, he knew, be attended with great pain to them, and, most of all, with remorse and pain to him, as its unhappy cause. When these things were all forgotten, he hoped that Frank and he might still be warm friends, and that no word or thought of his humble home, or of her who was well contented to remain there and share his quiet fortunes, would ever again disturb the harmony between them. He recounted, as nearly as he could, what had passed between himself and Kate that morning: speaking of her with such warmth of pride and affection, and dwelling so cheerfully upon the confidence they had of overcoming any selfish regrets and living contented and happy in each other's love, that few could have heard him unmoved. More moved himself than he had been yet, he expressed in a few hurried words--as expressive, perhaps, as the most eloquent phrases--his devotion to the brothers, and his hope that he might live and die in their service.

", "Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[114] = [ ["say"], "Mr. Rapanelli recently has said the government of President Carlos Menem, who took office July 8, feels a significant reduction of principal and interest is the only way the debt problem may be solved.", "The U.S. , claiming some success in its trade diplomacy , removed South Korea , Taiwan and Saudi Arabia from a list of countries it is closely watching for allegedly failing to honor U.S. patents , copyrights and other intellectual-property rights . However , five other countries -- China , Thailand , India , Brazil and Mexico -- will remain on that so-called priority watch list as a result of an interim review , U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills announced . Under the new U.S. trade law , those countries could face accelerated unfair-trade investigations and stiff trade sanctions if they do n't improve their protection of intellectual property by next spring . Mrs. Hills said many of the 25 countries that she placed under varying degrees of scrutiny have made `` genuine progress '' on this touchy issue . She said there is `` growing realization '' around the world that denial of intellectual-property rights harms all trading nations , and particularly the `` creativity and inventiveness of an -LCB- offending -RCB- country 's own citizens . '' U.S. trade negotiators argue that countries with inadequate protections for intellectual-property rights could be hurting themselves by discouraging their own scientists and authors and by deterring U.S. high-technology firms from investing or marketing their best products there . Mrs. Hills lauded South Korea for creating an intellectual-property task force and special enforcement teams of police officers and prosecutors trained to pursue movie and book pirates . Seoul also has instituted effective search-and-seizure procedures to aid these teams , she said . Taiwan has improved its standing with the U.S. by initialing a bilateral copyright agreement , amending its trademark law and introducing legislation to protect foreign movie producers from unauthorized showings of their films . That measure could compel Taipei 's growing number of small video-viewing parlors to pay movie producers for showing their films . Saudi Arabia , for its part , has vowed to enact a copyright law compatible with international standards and to apply the law to computer software as well as to literary works , Mrs. Hills said . These three countries are n't completely off the hook , though . They will remain on a lower-priority list that includes 17 other countries . Those countries -- including Japan , Italy , Canada , Greece and Spain -- are still of some concern to the U.S. but are deemed to pose less-serious problems for American patent and copyright owners than those on the `` priority '' list . Gary Hoffman , a Washington lawyer specializing in intellectual-property cases , said the threat of U.S. retaliation , combined with a growing recognition that protecting intellectual property is in a country 's own interest , prompted the improvements made by South Korea , Taiwan and Saudi Arabia . `` What this tells us is that U.S. trade law is working , '' he said . He said Mexico could be one of the next countries to be removed from the priority list because of its efforts to craft a new patent law . Mrs. Hills said that the U.S. is still concerned about `` disturbing developments in Turkey and continuing slow progress in Malaysia . '' She did n't elaborate , although earlier U.S. trade reports have complained of videocassette piracy in Malaysia and disregard for U.S. pharmaceutical patents in Turkey . The 1988 trade act requires Mrs. Hills to issue another review of the performance of these countries by April 30 . So far , Mrs. Hills has n't deemed any cases bad enough to merit an accelerated investigation under the so-called special 301 provision of the act . Argentina said it will ask creditor banks to halve its foreign debt of $ 64 billion -- the third-highest in the developing world . The declaration by Economy Minister Nestor Rapanelli is believed to be the first time such an action has been called for by an Argentine official of such stature . The Latin American nation has paid very little on its debt since early last year . `` Argentina aspires to reach a reduction of 50 % in the value of its external debt , '' Mr. Rapanelli said through his spokesman , Miguel Alurralde . Mr. Rapanelli met in August with U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary David Mulford . Argentine negotiator Carlos Carballo was in Washington and New York this week to meet with banks . Mr. Rapanelli recently has said the government of President Carlos Menem , who took office July 8 , feels a significant reduction of principal and interest is the only way the debt problem may be solved . But he has not said before that the country wants half the debt forgiven .", "Penn Treebank", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[115] = [ ["say"], "The company said he will succeed John M Henske, who is also chairman.", "

26-FEB-1987 17:06:06.68

OLIN CORP <OLM> TO ELECT NEW CEO IN APRIL

STAMFORD, Conn., Feb 26 -

Olin Corp said its board will elect in April John Johnstone Jr as its chief executive officer.

The company said he will succeed John M Henske, who is also chairman. It said Johnstone, 54, is now president and chief operating officer.

Henske, 53, has served as CEO since 1978 and chairman since 1980. He will continue as chairman until his retirement in June 1988. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["Text","Two sentences later we learn that Henske "has served as CEO since 1978 and chairman since 1980".","Good",["Separate assertion(s)"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Bad","The information about Henske's position as chairman could have also been part of the company's announcement."]] ]; corpus[116] = [ ["say"], "A military spokesman later said the Iraqi Third Army Corps, whose troops fought off the Iranians, had a new commander, revealing for the first time that the previous general had been replaced.", "

1-MAR-1987 07:05:40.66

IRAQ SAYS IT REPELS IRANIAN ATTACK

BAGHDAD, March 1 -

Iraq said its troops repelled an overnight attack by three divisions of Iranian Revolutionary Guards near Basra in southern Iraq.

A military communique said the Iranians in a "perfidious" attack rushed forward positions last night and this morning.

A military spokesman later said the Iraqi Third Army Corps, whose troops fought off the Iranians, had a new commander, revealing for the first time that the previous general had been replaced. He said Lieutenant General Dhiya'uldin Jamal, former commander of the Fifth Army Corps, also positioned in the Basra area, had replaced Major General Tala' Khalil al-Douri. REUTER

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[117] = [ ["say"], "The company said Falk, who will remain on the board, has agreed to sell no more than 75,000 of his remaining shares in the next year without company consent.", "

2-MAR-1987 08:43:41.94

DH TECHNOLOGY <DHTK> CHAIRMAN SELLS SHARES

SAN DIEGO, March 2 -

DH Technology Inc said it has repurchased 500,000 of its shares from cofounder Helmut Falk at 4.25 dlrs each and Falks has sold another 500,000 shares to venture capital firm TA Associates at the same price.

The company said Falk has resigned as chairman of DHL and now owns 213,567 shares. It said TA now owns 928,0000 shares.

The company said Falk, who will remain on the board, has agreed to sell no more than 75,000 of his remaining shares in the next year without company consent. It said president and chief executive officer William H. Gibb has assumed the added post of chairman. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--embedded","It seems clear that information about Falk is coming form the subject, the company.","Bad",[],""], [["Embedded","Bad","This argument is not precise; in what way does it "seem clear", and how is this supported in the text?"],["Embedded","Bad",""]] ]; corpus[118] = [ ["say"], "The company said they replace Paul Wells and Douglas MacGarvey, who also resigned in December.", "

2-MAR-1987 10:54:08.40

REGENCY CRUISES INC <SHIP> ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN

NEW YORK, March 2 -

Regency Cruises Inc said its board elected William Schanz as its chairman and chief executive officer. He replaces Anastasios Kyriakides, who resigned in December.

Schantz has served as president, treasurer, and a director since its inception in 1984.

The company also elected three directors. They are Paul Hermann, John Clive Bayley and Costas Galetakis. The company said they replace Paul Wells and Douglas MacGarvey, who also resigned in December. One new director's post has been added, Regency said. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[119] = [ ["say"], "It said the remaining nine pct will be held by Milex shareholder Norman Monson, who will become chief executive officer of the combined companies.", "

2-MAR-1987 17:58:34.09

MICROBIO <MRC> PLANS ACQUISITION, FINANCING

BOUNTIFUL, Utah, March 2 -

Microbiological Research Corp said it entered into a letter of intent for a proposed business combination with privately owned <DataGene Scientific Laboratories Inc>, and <Milex Corp> a newly formed company, through a stock swap.

It also said it received 100,000 dlrs from the sale of a convertible note to Ventana Growth Fund as part of an overall 1,100,000 equity financing plan with Ventana. Under that plan, a minimum of 400,000 dlrs and a maximum of one mln dlrs of additional new capital is to be provided to fund the combined operations of the three companies.

Microbiological also said that if the maximum additional capital is raised, it will own about 49 pct of 4,550,00 shares of common outstanding in the new combined company, DataGene holders will own 29 pct, and Ventana and others will own 13 pct.

It said the remaining nine pct will be held by Milex shareholder Norman Monson, who will become chief executive officer of the combined companies. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--embedded","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[120] = [ ["say"], "The statement said Cossiga had asked Craxi, who has been prime minister for a post-war record of three-and-a-half years, to continue to handle current government business.", "

3-MAR-1987 12:48:58.53

ITALIAN GOVERNMENT RESIGNS

ROME, March 3 -

Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and his five-party coalition government have resigned, officials said.

A statement from the Quirinal presidential palace said head of state Francesco Cossiga had reserved his decision on whether to accept the resignation, normal procedure when a government stands down.

The statement said Cossiga had asked Craxi, who has been prime minister for a post-war record of three-and-a-half years, to continue to handle current government business. REUTER

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[121] = [ ["say"], "Moody's said this reflected the strengthening of terms in a revised net worth agreement between GEMICO and its immediate parent, General Electric Credit Corp, whose long-term unsecured debt is also a top-flight Aaa.", "

4-MAR-1987 10:39:30.49

MOODY'S UPGRADES GE <GE> MORTGAGE INSURANCE UNIT

NEW YORK, March 4 -

Moody's Investors Service Inc said it upgraded to Aaa from Aa-1 the insurance rating of General Electric Mortgage Insurance Co of Ohio, a unit of General Electric Co.

Moody's said this reflected the strengthening of terms in a revised net worth agreement between GEMICO and its immediate parent, General Electric Credit Corp, whose long-term unsecured debt is also a top-flight Aaa.

However, the rating agency said the agreement does not benefit other GEMICO affiliates in California, Florida and North Carolina. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[122] = [ ["say"], "The spokesman said Paemen will continue as chief spokesman until the retirement on May 1 of Paul Luyten, who is now in charge of EC departments handling negotiations in the world trade body GATT, the OECD and other forums.", "

EC APPOINTS NEW TRADE CHIEF

BRUSSELS, March 4 -

The European Community Commission today appointed its chief spokesman, Hugo Paemen, as its top official in charge of multilateral trade negotiations, a Commission spokesman said.

Paemen, a Belgian official who had previously been chief aide to former External Affairs Commissioner Etienne Davignon, has been in his post since January 1985.

The spokesman said Paemen will continue as chief spokesman until the retirement on May 1 of Paul Luyten, who is now in charge of EC departments handling negotiations in the world trade body GATT, the OECD and other forums. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[123] = [ ["say"], "Craxi's Socialist Party has said it will not serve under Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti, who has been prime minister five times previously and whom the majority Christian Democratic Party has said it wants to take on the job again.", "

4-MAR-1987 21:59:28.87

ITALIAN PRESIDENT FACES PROBLEMS CHOOSING LEADER

ROME, March 5 -

President Francesco Cossiga meets political leaders to discuss how to form a new government following the resignation of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi.

Craxi's Socialist Party has said it will not serve under Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti, who has been prime minister five times previously and whom the majority Christian Democratic Party has said it wants to take on the job again.

The Socialist Party, the second biggest in the outgoing five-party coalition, said it would accept only Ciriaco De Mita, Christian Democratic Party secretary, or the party's president, Arnaldo Forlani, for the job of prime minister.

Political sources said talks are likely to be difficult and could take several days due to rivalry between the two leading parties. In Craxi's 3-1/2 years as prime minister, the Christian Democrats have become increasingly irritated at being denied the prime minister's job. The sources said early general elections are likely unless agreement can be reached.

Cossiga is due to meet former presidents before holding talks with party leaders, including the opposition Communists and the junior coalition members -- Republicans, Liberals and Social Democrats. After the consultations, Cossiga will name a prime minister-designate who will try to form a government. REUTER

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5-MAR-1987 14:20:53.45

WORLD BANK HEAD SAYS BRAZIL MORATORIUM TEMPORARY

WASHINGTON, March 5 -

World Bank president Barber Conable said he believed that Brazil would come up with a medium term economic plan and that the current debt moritorium would be temporary.

Speaking briefly to reporters following an address before the Export-Import Bank, Conable said that the bank had been urging the Brazilian government to come up with a specific plan designed to work the country out of its present economic difficulty.

"Brazil would like to come up with such a plan," he said, adding: "the moritorium is likely to be a temporary affair."

During his formal remarks, Conable made it clear that he believed Brazil must take some specific internal action.

He said "they have everyone's attention but it must be followed by a construtive plan."

He said that he expected Brazilian Finance Minister Dilson Funaro, who he met with last week to discuss the Brazilian debt suspension action, to return for further discussion but did not currently have a specific meeting arranged.

Conable also told the gathering of mostly commericial bankers that in order for the Baker debt initiative to work all parties to the program must be on board. Reuter

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5-MAR-1987 15:50:19.90

NORTHGATE <NGX> NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

TORONTO, March 5 -

Northgate Exploration Ltd said it appointed John Kearney as president of the company, effective immediately.

A company spokesman said Patrick Hughes, who previously was both president and chairman, will continue as chairman and chief executive officer.

Kearney had been executive vice-president of Northgate. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[126] = [ ["say"], "Bond traders said the Japanese, who purchased a record 9.5 billion dlrs of Canadian bonds last year, have adapted to the changes by buying longer term provincial issues and shifting to the medium term issues offered by Ottawa.", "

6-MAR-1987 15:25:21.22

CANADA'S MOVE TO SHORTEN DEBT TERMS AIDS MARKET

By Russell Blinch, Reuters

OTTAWA, March 6 -

The government's move to pare its huge financing costs by shortening debt maturities has left more room for other borrowers and sparked a lively market for treasury bills, senior market analysts said.

The Bank of Canada, Ottawa's fiscal agent in the marketplace, revealed this week that sharply reduced borrowing needs has allowed the shift toward shorter bond terms and heavier emphasis on the weekly treasury bill auction, issued in terms of up to one year.

"The aggressive use of the treasury bill program has meant that the government is now able to maintain lower cash balances and lower financing costs," the Bank of Canada said in its 1986 annual report released this week.

The government has said its budget deficit financing requirements will fall to 24 billion dlrs in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1987, from 30 billion dlrs the prior year. Projected fiscal 1988 requirements are 21.3 billion dlrs.

The bank said that of last year's 19 new government bond issues, nearly two-thirds were for maturities of less than 10 years. Greater use was also made of bond auctions to market new issues with terms in the two- to five-year range.

Meanwhile, treasury bills outstanding at year end totalled nearly 70 billion dlrs, an increase of 10.3 billion dlrs over the year and 20 billion dlrs since 1984.

Although the amount of money saved from moving away from the long bonds was not disclosed, bond experts believe it was considerable because of the much lower interest premiums paid on short term debt.

But market watchers were unsure what affect the move will have on Japanese investors--who have been snapping up Canadian bonds at a record clip--because of their traditional preference for long term financings.

Bond traders said the Japanese, who purchased a record 9.5 billion dlrs of Canadian bonds last year, have adapted to the changes by buying longer term provincial issues and shifting to the medium term issues offered by Ottawa.

"Their (Japanese) buying over the course of the last six months has been very much concentrated in the medium term maturities," noted one Canadian bond trader who asked not to be identified.

Yet there was some concern a shortage could eventually develop for bonds that mature in 10 or more years.

Said David Gluskin, vice-president of Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Inc, "When interest rates finally seem to have stopped going down, there is going to be a flood of people trying to lock in the long end and not everyone will be able to get in the door."

But bonds analysts said at the moment with interest rates trending down, investors appear to welcome the change, especially the greater treasury bill financing.

"The wholesale market in treasury bills is very active," said Michael Berry, vice-president of the securities firm, Walwyn Stodgell Cohran Murray Ltd.

The change also improves receptivity in the market for other borrowers, including provincial governments, the big utilities and corporations.

"There doesn't seem to any lack of bonds in the longer end now, that also may be the result that any percieved shortage has probably been taken up by provincial funding activities," commented Berry. Reuter

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9-MAR-1987 03:02:49.30

PAPER SAYS INDICTMENTS IN IRAN CASE EXPECTED

NEW YORK, March 9 -

The special prosecutor in the Iran arms scandal is expected to bring indictments that could include felony charges against senior Reagan administration officials, the New York Times reported.

It quoted law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation as saying special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who is investigating the scandal, was focusing on three areas.

The paper identified these as conspiracy to defraud the government, obstructing justice and making false statements to the government. It said the prosecutor had not ruled out any suspects, including current and former government officials.

But the paper said Walsh, in his investigation of the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of funds to the U.S.-backed contra rebels in Nicaragua, was running short of time. This was because Congress has begun granting immunity to key figures in the affair to speed up congressional investigations.

The paper quoted one official as saying that, while obstruction of justice was usually hard to prove, evidence of a cover-up "may have been comically obvious here." REUTER

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9-MAR-1987 10:47:44.80

PAPER SAYS POINDEXTER MAY LINK REAGAN TO FUNDS

WASHINGTON, March 9 -

President Reagan's denial that he knew proceeds from Iran arms sales were diverted to Nicaraguan contra rebels might be challenged by his former national security adviser, according to the Washington Post.

The paper said yesterday that John Poindexter, who resigned last November when the illegal transfer of up to 20 mln dlrs was disclosed, was ready to break the silence he has so far maintained over the affair.

The Post said he might tell a special Senate committee investigating the Iran scandal that he told Reagan twice in 1986 that money from Iran sales was being used for aid to the contras.

It said the panel was considering granting Poindexter immunity from prosecution over the fund diversion, which was illegal under a Congressional ban in force at the time against aid for the contras.

Poindexter has so far invoked the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution which protects people from giving evidence which could be self-incriminating.

Reagan has said he authorized the sale of arms to Iran in the hope of establishing links with Iranian moderates, but has denied knowing that proceeds were ending up in Nicaraguan rebel hands.

A White House spokesman had no comment on the Post story, but David Abshire, who is coordinating White House handling of the affair, said Reagan would never approve any illegal action.

Abshire, on the CBS television show "Face the Nation," did not comment directly on the Post story, but said: "He (Reagan) is deeply honest, he is deeply dedicated, he tells the truth and when he says he has no knowledge, he has no knowledge."

The Post quoted a source close to Reagan as saying the White House expected Poindexter "will say he had direction and authority, directly or indirectly," from the president for the diversion of funds.

The paper said the former security adviser's testimony could damage the president's claim he was unaware of the funds diversion.

It quoted a legal source as saying Poindexter and his lawyers planned to contend that twice in 1986 he told Reagan that the arms sales were generating money for the "contras."

The paper quoted the source as saying Poindexter did not tell Reagan there was an illegal diversion of funds, but that help for the contras was "an ancillary benefit" of the sales.

The Post's sources also said the Senate committee could grant immunity from prosecution this month to Oliver North, who was fired from the National Security Council on the same day that Poindexter resigned. Reuter

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9-MAR-1987 10:47:44.80

PAPER SAYS POINDEXTER MAY LINK REAGAN TO FUNDS

WASHINGTON, March 9 -

President Reagan's denial that he knew proceeds from Iran arms sales were diverted to Nicaraguan contra rebels might be challenged by his former national security adviser, according to the Washington Post.

The paper said yesterday that John Poindexter, who resigned last November when the illegal transfer of up to 20 mln dlrs was disclosed, was ready to break the silence he has so far maintained over the affair.

The Post said he might tell a special Senate committee investigating the Iran scandal that he told Reagan twice in 1986 that money from Iran sales was being used for aid to the contras.

It said the panel was considering granting Poindexter immunity from prosecution over the fund diversion, which was illegal under a Congressional ban in force at the time against aid for the contras.

Poindexter has so far invoked the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution which protects people from giving evidence which could be self-incriminating.

Reagan has said he authorized the sale of arms to Iran in the hope of establishing links with Iranian moderates, but has denied knowing that proceeds were ending up in Nicaraguan rebel hands.

A White House spokesman had no comment on the Post story, but David Abshire, who is coordinating White House handling of the affair, said Reagan would never approve any illegal action.

Abshire, on the CBS television show "Face the Nation," did not comment directly on the Post story, but said: "He (Reagan) is deeply honest, he is deeply dedicated, he tells the truth and when he says he has no knowledge, he has no knowledge."

The Post quoted a source close to Reagan as saying the White House expected Poindexter "will say he had direction and authority, directly or indirectly," from the president for the diversion of funds.

The paper said the former security adviser's testimony could damage the president's claim he was unaware of the funds diversion.

It quoted a legal source as saying Poindexter and his lawyers planned to contend that twice in 1986 he told Reagan that the arms sales were generating money for the "contras."

The paper quoted the source as saying Poindexter did not tell Reagan there was an illegal diversion of funds, but that help for the contras was "an ancillary benefit" of the sales.

The Post's sources also said the Senate committee could grant immunity from prosecution this month to Oliver North, who was fired from the National Security Council on the same day that Poindexter resigned. Reuter

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9-MAR-1987 12:55:04.84

FED WATCHERS SEE U.S. ECONOMIC, INFLATION UPTURN

NEW YORK, March 9 -

This year will see a pickup in U.S. economic growth and inflation, the Shadow Open Market Committee said in its semi-annual policy statement.

The SOMC, a group of basically "monetarist" private economists, said that "economic growth will accelerate in 1987 in response to powerful stimulative actions by the Federal Reserve."

The group said the Fed's actions have been excessive. As a result, it said that "inflation and ultimately another recession now loom on the horizon."

The SOMC said that central bank policies that rely on progressively larger swings in monetary expansion will not lead to sustainable economic growth and stable prices.

The group made no specific nominal forecasts of economic or inflation growth in its policy statement. However, the Committee at its Sunday policy-making meeting said it was basically in accord with projections by Jerry Jordan, who is a member of the SOMC and economist at First Interestate Bancorp.

Jordan expects real GNP growth to be about one percentage point higher than in the past two years. He expects consumer prices to rise about 4-1/2 pct this year.

The SOMC said in recent months rapid money growth has been a principal cause of the devaluation. To avoid another costly inflation and disinflation, the SOMC urged the Fed to "abandon its inflationary policy and set the growth rate of the monetary base on the path toward sustained lower inflation."

The Fed in February said it would no longer target the narrow M-1 money supply because the link between M-1 and economic growth has been largely severed.

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[131] = [ ["say"], "The company said Marshall, who had been executive vice president of New York toy company Playtime, will have responsibility for the distribution of toys and Bushnell will concentrate on research and development and licensing.", "

11-MAR-1987 08:18:18.32

AXLON <AXLN> NAMES CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., March 11 -

Axlon Inc said Austin C. Marshall has been named president and co-chief executive officer, sharing power in the latter post with founder and chairman Nolan K. Bushnell.

The company said Marshall, who had been executive vice president of New York toy company Playtime, will have responsibility for the distribution of toys and Bushnell will concentrate on research and development and licensing. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[132] = [ ["say"], "Johnson and Johnson said it is operating under a licensing agreement with Tate and Lyle, whose collaborative research with scientists at Queen Elizabeth College in London led to the discovery of Sucralose in 1976.", "

11-MAR-1987 09:34:17.32

AGENCY TO REVIEW JOHNSON AND JOHNSON SWEETENER

NEW BRUNSWICK, March 11 -

Johnson and Johnson said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has notified the company its food additive petition for a high-intensity sweetener has been formally accepted and now will be reviewed by the agency.

The company said the product, with the generic name of sucralose, is made from sugar and tastes like sugar, but is about 600 times sweeter.

It yields no calories and does not promote tooth decay.

Johnson and Johnson said the sweetner is being jointly developed with Tate and Lyle PLC <TATL>.

Tate and Lyle is seeking approval in Canada, the United Kingdom and other European countries, Johnson and Johnson said. The company noted its petition covering the product and its safety evaluation were submitted to the FDA last month.

While awaiting FDA approval, the company said, it is proceeding with plans for commercialization through its McNeil Specialty Products Co subsidiary.

Johnson and Johnson said it is operating under a licensing agreement with Tate and Lyle, whose collaborative research with scientists at Queen Elizabeth College in London led to the discovery of Sucralose in 1976.

Patents and licensing agreements control the use of sucralose through the year 2001, Johnson and Johnson said.

Sucralose is a chlorinated derivative of ordinary sugar. The carbon-chloride bonds in sucralose are stable and are not broken during digestion or metabolism.

Sucralose is essentially not metabollized by the body. The chlorine content enhances sweetness without providing calories. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[133] = [ ["say"], "Heinz Co said its board of directors has elected Anthony O'Reilly chairman of the board, succeeding Henry Heinz II, who died on February 23.", "

11-MAR-1987 14:12:02.20

H.J. HEINZ <HNZ> ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN

PITTSBURGH, March 11 -

H.J. Heinz Co said its board of directors has elected Anthony O'Reilly chairman of the board, succeeding Henry Heinz II, who died on February 23.

Heinz said O'Reilly will retain his present titles of president and chief executive officer. Reuter

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12-MAR-1987 16:42:02.75

BOLIVIA TO OFFER TO BUY BACK BANK DEBT

By Paul Iredale, Reuters

LA PAZ, March 12 -

Bolivia is to make a formal offer during the next few months to buy back its 900 mln dlrs debt from commercial banks at a discount of up to 90 pct, central bank president Jier Nogales said. Nogales told Reuters in an interview the steering committee of Bolivia's creditor banks had agreed to consider the offer at a meeting in New York last month. He said the offer would be based on the value of Bolivian paper on the international secondary debt market, where it now trades at between 10 and 15 pct of its face value.

Nogales said Bolivia will make a single offer to buy back its commercial debt and banks who accepted would be paid the discounted rate in full.

Banks which declined the offer would be repaid over 20 to 30 years at interest rates below those fixed in the international markets, he added.

Bolivia has frozen payments on medium and long term loans to commercial banks since March, 1984, and Nogales said there would be no money available to restart traditional debt servicing to them for some time. Several Latin American countries have initiated schemes to cancel foreign debt by equity swaps or third party buy-backs, but Bolivia would be the first country in the region to make a formal offer to buy back all its commercial bank debt at discounted rates.

Nogales said practical and strategic considerations would determine the exact timing of the offer but it would be made in the next few months. He said Bolivia would not bargain with creditor banks over the price to paid for the debt paper they hold, and would make a single non-negotiable offer.

He said Bolivia could not even pay interest to friendly creditor countries, let alone commercial banks. The only traditional way forward was to capitalise interest, which would mean greater bank exposure in Bolivia and greater loss provisions, he added.

"We are confident that the banks are going to be reasonable," Nogales said. "Now they can resolve their problems for once and for all."

"The most conservative ones who want a little more will wait a year, but I don't know if the window of opportunity will be open all the time," he added.

Discussing the status of other parts of Bolivia's four billion dlr foreign debt, 2.5 billion of which is owed to governments and the rest to international agencies, Nogales said negotiators had achieved considerable success in recent discussions with the Paris Club. He said Paris Club creditors had agreed to reschedule Bolivian debt over 10 years with five to six years grace, while accepting that interest would not be paid until 1989. Interest rates were being discussed on a bilateral basis under Paris Club rules, he added. He said some Paris Club members had agreed to disregard penalty interest payments and negotiations were continuing with Argentina and Brazil, who hold 700 mln dlrs of Bolivian debt.

He said Bolivia was continuing to service loans from international agencies, and it expected to receive up to 400 mln dlrs in disbursements this year.

The capital flow for loans and their servicing had changed from a negative balance of 250 mln dlrs in 1985 to a net inflow of 130 mln dlrs last year, he added.

Nogales said that Bolivia's net international reserves now stood at around 250 mln dlrs, compared to one mln dlrs in disposable funds when the government of Victor Paz Estenssoro took office in August, 1985.

Nogales said inflation, which soared to over 20,000 pct a year in the government's first month in office, was now down to 10 pct on an annualised basis from the last six months, and the plan was that it should continue at this level.

He said the government was also expecting at least three pct growth in gdp this year after several years of negative rates. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[135] = [ ["say"], "He said he and Economy Minister Juan Sourrouille had discussed Argentina's loan request with World Bank Vice-President David Knox, who is currently in Buenos Aires.", "

13-MAR-1987 15:53:40.40

ARGENTINE DEBT TALKS DIFFICULT - CENTRAL BANK

BUENOS AIRES, March 13 -

Central Bank President Jose Luis Machinea said negotiations with creditor banks on Argentina's 30 billion dlr private sector foreign debt were difficult.

"There is considerable divergence with the banks. We must try to get them to lower the spreads," Machinea told Reuter.

He said negotiations with the steering committee for the country's creditor banks in New York would not end next week.

Machinea leaves for New York tomorrow with Treasury Secretary Mario Brodersohn to complete Argentina's team at negotiations with the steering committee for a 2.15 biilion dlr loan to see the country through 1987.

Machinea said Argentina had World Bank support. He said he and Economy Minister Juan Sourrouille had discussed Argentina's loan request with World Bank Vice-President David Knox, who is currently in Buenos Aires.

Argentina is aiming at four pct growth in 1987 and has said this target is not negotiable. It has indicated that it would not put payment of interest due on its foreign debt ahead of its growth target if the loan was not granted.

The United States and 12 other industrial nations granted Argentina a 500 mln dlr bridge which was received this week.

Talks on the 2.15 billion dlr lona began in January. Reuter

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13-MAR-1987 16:05:38.71

TEXAS AIR <TEX> NAMES BRITT AIRWAYS PRESIDENT

HOUSTON, March 13 -

Texas Air Corp said it named Norman McInnis as president of its Britt Airways unit, succeeding Bill Britt, who retired March one.

McInnis, former president of Royale Airlines, most recently was a consultant to the commuter airline industry. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[137] = [ ["say"], "Texas Air said the settlement has other terms relating to employee shareholdrs of Continental, who will receive options from Texas Air.", "

16-MAR-1987 10:34:00.97

CONTINENTAL AIR HOLDERS TO GET FURTHER PAYMENT

HOUSTON, March 16 -

Texas Air Corp said under a settlement of class action litigation with <Mutual Shares Corp>, former minority shareholders of Continental Airlines Inc will receive an additional 3.75 dlrs per share.

In February, Texas Air acquired the minority interest in Continental that it did not already own for 16.50 dlrs per share. Mutual had challenged the adequacy of the price.

Texas Air said any former Continental holder who has sought appraisal rights under Delaware law may continue to seek the appraisal remedy in Delaware Chancery Court or accept the settlement and drop the appraisal process.

Texas Air said the settlement has other terms relating to employee shareholdrs of Continental, who will receive options from Texas Air. It did not give details.

The company said the settlement is subject to approval by the Delaware Chancery Court, which is expected to take about 60 days. Reuter

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16-MAR-1987 14:14:03.21

SEC OKAYS BOESKY FIRMS' MOVE TO PROTECT FUNDS

WASHINGTON, March 16 -

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a request by two firms controlled by inside trader Ivan Boesky that allows them to take steps to protect hundreds of millions of dollars from potential claimants.

The SEC granted requests made by Seemala Partners L.P. and IFB Managing Partnership L.P., to withdraw as registered brokers, effective March 12.

With the action, the partnerships are no longer subject to the SEC's net capital rules requiring them to remain solvent as brokerage firms. Seemala argued the move would be necessary if noteholders of Ivan Boesky and Co L.P. are to be repaid.

In asking the SEC to speed its withdrawal as a registered broker, Seemala said it wold repay to Boesky and Co, which is also controlled by the former Wall Street arbitrageur, 660 mln dlrs in subordinated debt, plus accrued interest.

IFB Managing Partners, which was also given approval to withdraw as a broker, has no significant assets, the SEC said.

Once it is repaid, Boesky and Co will pay 200 mln dlrs in senior participating notes and 440 mln dlrs in subordinated participating notes of Hudson Funding Corp to certain noteholders, Seemala told the SEC.

Under the planned repayment scheme, Seemala told the SEC the noteholders would forgo claims of prepayment penalties and some additional interest amounting to more than 100 mln dlrs.

The plan would be in the public interest, Seemala argued, since the noteholders, many of which are savings and loan institutions and insurance companies, would receive repayment of the principal on their notes.

Seemala also argued that the plan would help the limited partners of Boesky and Co, who were not charged in the Boesky insider trading scandal, by protecting its remaining equity from the noteholders' claims.

Unless the Boesky firms are allowed to complete the repayment plan, Seemala said Boesky and Co noteholders would seek total claims of 116.8 mln dlrs, plus 9.2 mln dlrs to 10.6 mln dlrs a month in addition, in addition to other claims.

Such claims could wipe out Boesky and Co's assets before other creditors can establish their claims, Seemala said.

The only opposition to Seemala's Feb 12 request to withdraw as a broker came from Berger and Montague P.C., counsel for the plaintiffs in a class action suit against Seemala and other defendants. The suit involves charges stemming from Boesky's insider trading in the stock of several major companies.

Berger and Montague told the SEC it opposes the Seemala proposal because it would allow Boesky and Co noteholders to settle their claims ahead of the plaintiffs in the class action and because Seemala did not disclose the total amount of claims against it and what percentage defrauded investors would get.

Seemala has said that its repayment scheme would leave a pool of about 278 mln dlrs free of claims from Boesky and Co noteholders which could satisfy other claimants.

The pool would be in addition to funds placed in escrow under insider trading settlement agreements, including 11.4 mln dlrs from Dennis Levine and 50 mln dlrs from Boesky.

In approving the request, the SEC barred Seemala and Boesky and Co from making any distributions to its limited partners for one year and required limited partners who receive distributions to agree to make themselves liabile up to a point in any case filed the partnerships.

The SEC also required Seemala and Boesky and Co to get confirmation of their assets from a nationally recognized accounting firm.

The agency said Boesky and Co and existing and potential claimants against it have similar interests in eliminating major creditors and preserving assets for future claims. Reuter

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16-MAR-1987 16:05:15.90

DNA MEDICAL <DNAM> SIGNS PACT FOR STOCK SALE

SALT LAKE CITY, March 16 -

DNA Medical Inc said Walter G. Mize had bought about 9,400,000 shares, or about 33 pct of DNA's outstanding stock, for 100,000 dlrs cash.

Under an agreement with Mize, DNA said he will also become chairman, and may, at his option, expand the board to provide him equal representation with the current board.

DNA also said it will submit a proposal at its annual meeting for it to acquire three companies owned by Mize, <Heritage Lite Meat Corp>, <National Lean Beef Corp> and <Heritage Cattle <Corp>. DNA said the total value of the transactions is 700,000 dlrs.

DNA said that when the transactions are approved by its shareholders, it will issue additional shares of its common so that Mize will own 80 pct of its issued and outstanding stock.

DNA said Mize will replace its current chairman, Donald Holbrook, who will remain on the board.

The company also said it will continue in the medical development business as "long as it is deemed to be advantageous." Reuter

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16-MAR-1987 19:07:56.38

AERO SERVICES <AEROE> IN PACT FOR NOMINATIONS

TETERBORO, N.J., March 16 -

Aero Services International Inc said it signed an agreement with Dibo Attar, who controls about 39 pct of its common stock, under which three nominees to Aero's board have been selected by Attar.

In addition to Attar, the nominees are Stephen L. Peistner, chairman and chief executive officer of <McCrory Corp> and James N.C. Moffat III, vice president and secretary of <Eastover Corp>. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[141] = [ ["say"], "Royal Resources Corp said it exercised an option to buy all of the common stock of Montagu Mining Investments Inc, whose primary asset is a ten pct interest in Hog Ranch gold mine in Washoe County, Nevada.", "

17-MAR-1987 10:57:14.60

ROYAL RESOURCES <RRCO> TO BUY GOLD MINE STAKE

DENVER, COLO., March 17 -

Royal Resources Corp said it exercised an option to buy all of the common stock of Montagu Mining Investments Inc, whose primary asset is a ten pct interest in Hog Ranch gold mine in Washoe County, Nevada.

Royal said it paid 3.6 mln dlrs in cash plus 200,000 shares of Royal Resources common stock for the interest.

Montagu Mining is a subsidiary of London-based Samuel Montagu Ltd.

Hog Ranch is a joint venture gold mine which has been in operation since March 1986 and is currently producing gold at a rate of more than 50,000 ounces a year, it said. Reuter

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17-MAR-1987 13:15:45.10

WORKERS STRIKE AT SOUTHWEST FOREST <SWF> MILL

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 17 -

Southwest Forest Industries Inc said 344 members of the United Paperworkers International Union went out on strike at the company's Snowflake, Ariz., paper mill, temporarily halting operations at the newsprint and linerboard facility.

The mill, which employs 525 people, has an annual capacity of 282,000 tons of newsprint and 159,000 tons of linerboard, the company said.

Southwest Forest also said it is continuing to negotiate with the Internatinal Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, whose 65 members are honoring the paperworkers' picket lines.

The company said it intends to resume mill operations as quickly as possible using salaried employees, union workers who elect to work, contractors and newly hired replacements for the striking workers. Reuter

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18-MAR-1987 09:55:53.70

MORGAN GRENFELL SAYS 1986 PROFITS HIT BY GUINNESS

LONDON, March 18 -

<Morgan Grenfell Group Plc> said its 1986 pre-tax profits were lower than forecast because of depreciation in the value of its Guinness Plc <GUIN.L> shares and because of securities trading losses in the U.S.

Morgan chairman Lord Catto said the losses on the group's seven mln Guinness shares in addition to a 3.5 mln dlr loss on its risk arbitrage operation in New York depressed profits some eight mln stg to 82.2 mln.

He also told a news conference Morgan had received informal approaches about a takeover of the group but was not interested. No formal offers had been made, but Catto would not elaborate.

Morgan Grenfell acted as merchant banker to Guinness during the brewing company's successful bid for Distillers Co Plc <DIST.L> in the first half of last year.

The U.K. Government launched an investigation into the affairs of Guinness last December. Public concern has focused on the way Guinness may have breached U.K. Company law and the Takeover Code by prompting others to support its share price during the bid.

Morgan chief executive Christopher Reeves, head of corporate finance Graham Walsh and senior corporate finance director Roger Seelig all resigned in January over the Guinness affair.

Another senior Morgan Grenfell executive, Geoffrey Collier, resigned late last year on allegations of trading on insider information. He currently faces criminal charges.

Lord Catto said the second half of 1986 had been "one of the most traumatic in our history," but that clients and staff had been supportive.

"I certainly look on the future in a positive way. We have the worst behind us and have swept nothing under the carpet."

Profits for the year, up 19.4 pct from 1985 pre-tax profits of 68.8 mln stg, were mainly due to a high contribution from corporate finance activities and progress in asset management.

Finance Director David Ewart told the news conference the performance of the group so far in 1987 was "within reasonable touch of the budget."

Lord Catto also said the group was actively seeking a new chief executive to replace Sir Peter Carey, who is acting as interim director after Reeves' resignation, and hopes to have a new chief executive within a few months.

He also said Reeves and Walsh had been paid a total of 562,000 stg in compensation following their resignations, but declined to say how much each man got. Negotiations were going on to determine an amount of compensation for Seelig, he said.

Morgan Grenfell shares stood at a late 366p, 9p down on yesterday's 375p. REUTER...

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18-MAR-1987 12:20:15.12

FRANCE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO BOOST EMPLOYMENT

PARIS, March 18 -

The government announced a three billion franc program to combat long-term unemployment amid speculation among political and economic analysts that it is positioning itself for a period of economic reflation.

The package presented to the cabinet of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac by Social Affairs and Labour Minister Philippe Seguin today is to be financed out of a 7.5 billion franc contingency fund announced on February 25.

Finance Minister Edouard Balladur previously ruled out a reflationary program.

Long-term unemployment, defined as being out of work for more than one year, affects about 830,000 people or one third of French unemployed, government figures show.

The main measures of the employment program give employers financial incentives to offer short-term work contracts of at least two years and stress retraining to help the long-term unemployed return to the labour market.

Training subsidies and exemptions from social security contributions are the main incentives for employers.

"Companies tell us that we have to give them a strong incentive to take on people who have fallen out of the labour market and that's why the proposals...Are costly," an aide to Seguin said.

The analysts said speculation the government is considering a reflationary program was sparked by Chirac spokesman Denis Baudouin, who said yesterday that ministers were generally agreed on the desirability of relaunching the economy.

He appeared to contradict statements by Balladur ruling out economic stimulation despite the government's revision of its 1987 growth forecast to about 2.0 pct from 2.8.

Finance ministry officials later clarified Baudouin's remarks, saying there was no question of any move to stimulate the economy through a boost to consumer spending although government policy allowed for increased industrial investment from the proceeds of France's five-year privatisation plan.

The 1987 budget allowed for 30 billion francs in revenue from privatisation, to be split between repaying national debt and providing state enterprises with fresh capital.

Some political analysts said Baudouin's comments possibly reflect widening differences within the RPR-UDF coalition on social issues ahead of next year's presidential elections. Divisions began to show last December, when a wave of strikes led by transport workers paralysed the country and drove the government into a new mood of conciliation with labour. Officials said that after the success of the privatisation of Cie de Saint Gobain <SGEP.PA> and Cie Financiere de Paribas <PARI.PA> the government had decided to speed up its five-year privatisation program with the aim of completing a third of it this year, ahead of the presidential elections expected in 1988.

The accelerated program could provide additional unbudgeted revenue to boost industrial and research investment and spending on infrastructure such as the national motorway network. The government also today revived a proposal, blocked last year by Socialist president Francois Mitterrand, to encourage more flexible working hours, which it says will boost jobs by improving the competitiveness of French industry.

The proposals allowing night-shift work by women and variations in the standard 39-hour working week are to be put to parliament as a self-contained draft bill after being vetoed for procedural reasons by Mitterrand and later the Council of State. REUTER

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19-MAR-1987 10:59:26.80

N.C. FEDERAL SAVINGS <NCFS> ELECTS OFFICERS

CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 19 -

North Carolina Savings and Loan Association elected J. Graham Harwood its chairman, and R. Martin Hall its president and chief operating officer.

The company said the chairman's post has been vacant two and a half years.

It also said Harwood, who was president, would retain his chief executive officer's position. Reuter

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19-MAR-1987 11:12:34.09

APPLIED DNA SYSTEMS <ADNA> NAMES NEW OFFICERS

NEW YORK, March 19 -

Applied DNA Systems Inc said Kenneth Blackman was named vice president and chief operating officer, and its chairman, Donald Bachmann, was named to the additional post of chief executive officer.

The company said the company position of president will be left vacant with the retirement of Maurice Sussman, who was also the chief executive officer.

The company said the chief operating officer's post is newly created.

Blackman was executive vice president and chief operating officer with <BW Biotec Inc.> Reuter

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19-MAR-1987 11:38:39.11

SEC DETAILS CHARGES AGAINST JEFFERIES

WASHINGTON, March 19 -

Federal regulators said Boyd Jefferies, who resigned as head of his Los Angeles brokerage firm, took part in schemes to manipulate the price of a stock and in a stock "parking" plot with inside trader Ivan Boesky.

In a civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court in New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Jefferies agreed with an unidentified person to have his firm buy up a large chunk of stock being issued in a public offering.

Under the agreement, the firm, Jefferies and Co, drove the price of the stock up by one-eighth point by buying four blocks of the stock at or near the close of trading, the SEC said.

Jefferies and Co's purchases of the unidentified stock accounted for 66 pct of the total trading volume of the stock on that day and were aimed at manipulation, the SEC said.

The complaint did not identify the company whose stock was being traded, but said that the Jefferies and Co purchases took place sometime last year when another unidentified company, which owned a controlling interest in the company, sold several million shares of the stock in a secondary public offering.

The stock purchases were made on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific Stock Exchange, the SEC said.

The person who made the alleged stock manipulation agreement with Jefferies was also not identified.

But the person was later billed by Jefferies and Co in a phony invoice marked for investment banking services for the exact amount the firm lost on the deal when it later sold the stock on the open market, the SEC said.

The payment, the amount of which was also not revealed in the complaint, was made later by another unidentified person after Jefferies sent a second invoice for a lesser amount, the SEC said. The firm recorded the payment as "other income," it said.

William McLucas, associate director of enforcement at the SEC, declined to say why the agency decided against revealing the identities of other persons and companies involved in the stock manipulation scheme.

"We just made a determination that this was the way to go at this time," McLucas told Reuters.

The complaint went into far greater detail in its charges that Jefferies agreed with Boesky to "park" stock at each other's firms. Parking, or warehousing, stock, refers to deals where stock is held by one person or firm under an arrangement where it is actually under the control of someone else.

Under the agreement between Jefferies and Boesky, Jefferies and Co would hold stock owned by Seemala Corp, one of Boesky's brokerage firms, for 31 days, after which Seemala would "buy" the stock back, the SEC said.

Seemala realized all gains and sustained all losses on the stock held by Jefferies and Co during the period, agreed to compensate Jefferies and Co for carrying the stock and to pay more than twice Jefferies and Co's usual commission, it said.

Seemala then agreed to hold stock owned by Jefferies and Co for a month under terms about the same as the deal in which Seemala agreed to park its stock at Jefferies and Co, it said.

The agreement, which violated several securities laws, allowed Seemala to create a false appearance that no longer held the stock and could meet the SEC's net capital requirements, the SEC said.

Jefferies wanted Seemala to hold some of its stock, the SEC said, so that Jefferies and Co could meet its net capital needs, the agency said.

On March 12, 1985, Seemala "sold" Jefferies 810,000 shares oc Cooper Laboratories Inc for 11.7 mln dlrs, 600,000 shares of Southland Financial Corp for 17.3 mln dlrs and 500,000 shares of G.D. Searle and Co for 27.1 mln dlrs, it said.

On March 20, Jefferies and Co "sold" Seemala 185,500 shares of American Broadcasting Co for 19.6 mln dlrs, 210,000 shares of Ideal Basic Industries Inc for 2.9 mln dlrs, 300,000 shares of ITT Corp for 9.8 mln dlrs, 105,000 shares of Phillips Petroleum Co for 4.0 mln dlrs, 70,000 shares of Pioneer Corp for 2.1 mln dlrs and 300,000 shares of Texas Oil and Gas Corp for 5.3 mln dlrs, the SEC said.

The value of Seemala's stock at the time of the transfers was 56 mln dlrs, while Jefferies and Co's stock was worth 43 mln dlrs at the time, the SEC said.

Within a month, Seemala and Jefferies and Co unwound most of the stock transfers with each others firms, the SEC said.

But a major hitch developed in the deal when the price of Searle stock, which Jefferies and Co was holding for Seemala, dipped sharply, it said.

On March 26 Seemala "bought" back its Searle stock for 23.4 mln dlrs, resulting in a 3.6 mln dlr loss for Jefferies and Co, the SEC said. Seemala then allowed Jefferies and Co to "buy" back some it the stock Seemala was holding for it at a 647,812 dlr gain and Boesky's firms later paid the Jefferies firm three mln dlrs, which it called "fees," it said.

Among the violations Jefferies committed in the schemes, were net capital, record keeping, public disclosure and margin requirements, the SEC said.

Under the settlement of the civil SEC's charges, which was announced simultaneously with the filing of the complaint, Jefferies and his firm did not have to admit or deny guilt.

But they agreed to a court order barring them from further securities law violations.

Jefferies also agreed to get out of the securities business for at least five years. Reuter

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19-MAR-1987 12:38:03.38

NEWCOR <NEW> NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN

TROY, MICH., March 19 -

Newcor Inc said its board elected William Mitchell as chairman succeeding Frank Gofrank, who is retiring as chairman but remains a director.

In other action, Newcor's board approved payment of a regular quarterly dividend of eight cts on May one, record April 15. Reuter

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19-MAR-1987 15:19:45.00

NORTH AMERICAN PHILIPS <NPH> UNIT NAMES EXECUTIVE

NEW YORK, March 19 -

North American Philips Corp said Lyman Beggs has been named president of its Consumer Products Divisions.

The company said Beggs, formerly executive vice president of Tambrands Inc <TMB>, succeeds Richard Kress, who retired.

The company said approximately 58 pct of the common stock of North American Philips is owned by N.V. Philips of the Netherlands. Reuter

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19-MAR-1987 16:03:15.57

MEXICO TO SIGN LOAN AMID CALLS FOR CHANGE

By Alan Wheatley, Reuters

NEW YORK, March 19 -

Mexico's 7.7 billion dlr loan package will be signed in New York tomorrow amid increasing calls from both creditors and debtors for a streamlining of the tortuous process of raising such jumbo loans, bankers said.

Pressure for change has mounted because the Mexican deal has been even more difficult to syndicate than bankers feared.

Several tentative signing dates had to be scrapped and even now, five months after the loan was agreed with a 13-bank advisory committee on October 16, dozens of Mexico's some 400 creditor banks worldwide are still refusing to participate.

The resistance to the deal must be seen alongside the fact that it is the largest loan for a Latin American debtor since the region's debt crisis flared up in 1983. Mexico will also sign agreements to reschedule 52.3 billion dlrs of debt.

Moreover, as the first major package built on U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker's strategy of offering loans to countries willing to implement market-oriented, pro-growth policies, intense market scrutiny was only to be expected.

Still, the split within the banks' ranks came as a shock. "This is not an unsuccessful operation, but we've had more bickering than ever," one senior banker commented.

Officers at small banks that have sold, swapped or or written down their Mexican loans say they see no reason why they should throw good money after bad.

Major lenders counter that small banks must share the responsibility of making new loans and cannot expect to keep receiving interest on old debt unless they join in new ones.

Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary David Mulford said recently the reluctance of small banks at one point endangered the entire Mexican package. Things have improved, but money center bankers are determined to keep hounding recalcitrant banks even once the 7.7 billion dlr target has been reached.

The loan presently is about 98.5 pct committed. "People who are outside shouldn't think they've been saved once we get over 7.7 (billion dlrs)," one warned.

But rounding up "free-rider" banks entails such a huge drain on management resources that more and more bankers are acknowledging that the syndicates may have to shrink.

One idea is to levy new loan contributions on the basis of current exposure instead of outstandings at an earlier "base" date - August 1982 in the case of Mexico. Another streamlining idea is to allow small banks to escape by swapping their loans for "exit bonds" that a debtor would issue at a discount.

Argentina has pressed for this solution, so far to no avail, arguing that the smallest 120 of its 360 bank creditors account for just one pct of its foreign bank debt and that the next 120 banks account only for a further six pct.

Central bank president Jose Luis Machinea said Argentina may not receive the 2.15 billion dlrs in bank loans it is seeking until September, which would be a year after negotiations began with the International Monetary Fund.

The protracted negotiations have damaged the confidence of investors in Argentina, forcing up interest rates and spurring capital flight, he said.

"We have to introduce some common sense into the discussion," Machinea said this week in Cambridge, Mass.

He was echoed by Mexico's deputy planning minister, Pedro Aspe Armella, who said the delay in signing his country's loan has made it difficult to map economic policy with any certainty. "It's a sad affair," he told the Cambridge meeting.

Bankers said Mexico became so frustrated with the delay in the loan that it suspended its debt-equity swap program last month to put pressure on the banks. Other strains have intensified between U.S. and non-U.S. banks, partly because U.S. regulations and accounting rules discourage writedowns.

Critics say this prompts U.S. banks to focus too much on ensuring steady interest payments from debtors in the short term, possibly to the detriment of longer-term solutions.

Because more than half of the banks baulking at the Mexican deal are American, some foreign bankers think other U.S. banks should make up the difference.

This issue of "national share" was defused on the Mexican committee but bankers say it will probably recur in talks with Argentina and Brazil, whose finance minister Dilson Funaro has already suggested separate negotiations with regional committees of creditors.

Streamlining of the new-money process is running parallel with efforts to develop a broader "menu" of alternatives to new loans, such as trade credits or debt-equity conversions.

"We must face the fact that greater flexibility in devising new money packages may, in effect, be essential to future bank syndications," Mulford said last week. He told the banks to stop complaining that there is no leeway in current procedures and to come up with ideas. Some steps have already been taken - interest payments for Chile have been stretched out and banks are debating whether to accept partial interest payments from the Philippines in paper instead of cash.

Because the banks want to isolate hard-line Brazil by clinching a deal with Argentina as soon as practicable, bankers said the Argentine package is likely to be along the established lines of the Baker Plan.

But some bankers are speculating that the Brazilian deal, when it comes, will be radically different.

As such, the loan for Mexico could go down in the history books as the biggest but also the last jumbo. "I'm convinced it'll be the last one in this form," one banker said. Reuter

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20-MAR-1987 13:47:34.39

MAJOR TIN CENTERS PARALYSED BOLIVIA UNION SAYS

LA PAZ, March 20 -

A strike by 9,000 miners employed by the state corporation Comibol has paralysed tin production in the major centers of Huanuni, Corocoro, Siglo, Catavi and Colquiri, the Conflicts Secretary of the Bolivian Miners Federation, Cristobal Aranibar, told Reuters. The strike began at midnight to press demands for higher wages and more funds for the nationalised mining industry. The miners federation left the door open to negotiations with the government but "only if the authorities show their intention to find solution to our demands", Aranibar said.

The government of president Victor Paz Estenssoro, faced with mounting social unrest against its economic policies, has said the miners strike was part of a campaign to discredit it during the visit of West German president, Richard von Weizsaecker, who arrives today for a four-day official visit.

The government froze salaries as part of its efforts to pull Bolivia out of a deep economic crisis. According to central bank forecasts inflation will reach an annual 10 pct rate versus up to 20,000 pct in 1985. In addition to the miners' strike, about 1,000 railway factory workers of the bolivian labour organization (COB) began a second day of a hunger strike in the country's main cities to press for substantial wage increases, a union leader said. Reuter

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23-MAR-1987 13:37:51.61

TEXACO <TX> SAYS IT HAS EVIDENCE OF JUDGE'S BIAS

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 23 -

Texaco Inc said it has filed a motion with the Texas Court of Appeals to supplement the court record with new evidence it has just received of alleged bias by Judge Anthony J.P. Farris against Texaco and its chief trial lawyer in its litigation with Pennzoil Co <PZL>.

The company contended that the alleged bias provides clear grounds for a new trial. It said the motion was filed in connection with its appeal of the Pennzoil judgment pending in that court.

Texaco said the motion introduces two letters written by Farris, who has since died, to two Houston lawyers in late 1984, after he had been assigned the case but before the trial began.

The company alleged that Farris harbored personal animosity against Texaco and its chief trial lawyer, Richard B. Miller, due to an earlier motion to have Farris disqualified from the case. The motion was filed due to Farris' acceptance of a 10,000 dlr campaign contribution from Pennzoil's chief trial lawyer, Joseph P. Jamail, shortly after the case was assigned to him, Texaco said.

In February the Texas Appellate Court refused to grant Texaco a new trial, finding no evidence that Farris was biased.

Texaco said it is preparing its application for a rehearing on the merits of its case before the Texas Appelate Court, and the application will be filed on March 30.

The company said it will ask the court to reconsider its decision on the issue of due process in light of the Farris letters.

In the suit, Pennzoil has been awarded about 10.53 billion dlrs in damages from Texaco in connection with Pennzoil's proposed merger with Getty Oil Co, which was later taken over by Texaco. Texaco is appealing the ruling.

A Texaco spokeswoman said the company had known of the letters for some time but were unable to release them until now due to understandings of confidentiality with the attorneys from which they were secured. Reuter

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23-MAR-1987 14:19:17.97

TECHNOLOGY/ATT'S <T> EFFORTS TO SELL COMPUTERS

By Catherine Arnst, Reuters

BOSTON, March 23 -

American Telephone and Telegraph Co is another illustration of a maxim already learned by several other huge corporations - that success in one segment of the electronics industry is very difficult to translate into success selling computers.

ATT is learning the hard way that all the resources and technological advances in the world can not make up for weak marketing and sluggish responses to one of the most rapidly changing and competitive industries.

Consequently, ATT will try again this week to convince the world that it is serious about computers, after four years in the business, by announcing a set of new products and showcasing its latest computer chief, Vittorio Cassoni, formerly of ATT's Italian affiliate Ing. C. Olivetti and Co.

Industry consultants said ATT will announce a faster addition to its 3B line of minicomputers, improved connectivity products, a new version of its Unix software operating system and assortered peripheral equipment, including a laser printer.

The announcements, however, hold "minimal significance" for both ATT and the industry, said Forrester Research consultant John McCarthy. "They are just never going to be a significant player in this market as long as computers play a subjagated role to the (telephone) network," he said.

ATT, the world's largest company before its breakup in 1984 and still the pre-eminent phone company in the United States, has only been able to carve out a fractional share of the computer industry.

Last year was particularly disastrous for the company's data systems division, which posted a pre-tax operating loss for the year of 1.2 billion dlrs (ATT as a whole reported a 1986 profit of 139 mln, after a 1.7 billion dlr charge against earnings, down from 1.56 billion dlrs the prior year).

Morale is down throughout the company after ATT reduced its work force by 32,000 people last year, leaving a work force of 290,000, but analysts say the situation in the computer division is particularly bad, especially since the computer merged its computer and network sales forces.

Meanwhile, the company's most successful product, the 6300 personal computer, ran out of steam in the last three months of the year after gaining some five pct of the market.

"ATT seemed to lose their focus with the 6300," said consultant Norman DeWitt, president of Dataquest Inc. "There were no major product enhancements last year and a perception developed in the marketplace that the product was tired."

Meanwhile, the 6300 had to face increasingly aggressive competition from smaller companies that undercut ATT on price and offered more technologically advanced machines. "I would have to say that, after a fast start, ATT just lost momentum on the pc side," said DeWitt.

The 3B line of minicomputers has never found great acceptance in the market and ATT's Unix operating system, though loved by scientists and engineers, has yet to put a serious dent in the much more widely used systems adopted by industry giant International Business Machines Corp <IBM>.

By last fall, ATT executives found themselves trying to defuse widespread speculation that ATT was going to abandon or sell off the computer division and the company turned over all responsibility for personal computers to Olivetti, in which its owns a 23.5 pct stake.

But analysts said the company's image was dealt another blow last week when ATT senior vice president James Edwards, who preceded Cassoni as head of the computer division, announced he was leaving to become president of TelWatch Inc, a small developer of systems to manage networks.

Several other executives have also left in recent months, including John Walsh, head of the 3B minicomputer line. And, although the 43-year old Cassoni has considerable experience running Olivetti's successful computer operations, analysts expressed concern about his approach to ATT's business.

Cassoni has said he wants to acheive recognizable success in both within ATT and in the marketplace within two years and it is widely assumed that he will rapidly abandon any product that does not meet those profitability goals. The problem with such a strategy, analysts said, is that it may not give certain products enough time to become established and customers may be reluctant to buy a product that could be discontinued in a year or two.

ATT chairman James Olson took a slightly more conservative view of the computer division recently. He lauded Cassoni's two year goal but said he expects the data systems division to turn around within five years.

Olson denied the perception that ATT was retreating "to the womb, going back to our old business" of long distance telephone systems at the expense of the computer division. Reuter

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23-MAR-1987 16:17:13.90

IBM <IBM> REBOUND SEEN BY BERNSTEIN ANALYST

NEW YORK, March 23 -

International Business Machines Corp, hit by a two-year earnings slump, should begin a come-back by the end of 1987 and post strong growth in 1988, analyst Rick Martin of Sanford C. Bernstein Co Inc said.

"There will be increasing momentum in earnings, albeit not until later this year," Martin said at a technology conference sponsored by the investment firm.

Martin said the coming rebound reflects new product introductions in the mid-range area, rather than any drastic improvement in economic growth or U.S. capital spending.

IBM, whose stock hit a 52-week low of 115-3/4 dlrs in mid-January, has come back lately. IBM was trading up 7/8 at 149-1/2 dlrs.

Analysts, computer industry executives, and the company itself, have highlighted the external economic factors hampering IBM's growth.

But Martin said the product cycle was key to understanding the rise and fall of IBM and other computer companies, and pointed to Digital Equipment Corp <DEC> to support his view. "By replacing the product line, earnings have soared," he said of DEC's line of VAX computers.

In contrast to DEC, IBM faultered with an incompatible mid-range product line. A new computer code-named "Fort Knox" was supposed to tie together a number of IBM's mid-range systems, but the product never got off the ground, he said.

Instead, aspects of the computer were integrated into the IBM 9370 machine introduced last year, and other aspects should be unwrapped by 1988, Martin said. "The major story will be a rebound in its mid-range business."

He said sales of IBM's mid-range computers fell about 13 pct in 1986. But the new products will lead to 5.8 pct growth in mid-range computers this year and 30.7 pct growth in 1988.

High-end computers, primarily the Sierra line, are coming to the end of their product life cycle. Although growing 22.5 pct in the midst of IBM's sharply lower 1986 year, growth will drop to 1.5 pct in 1987 and 1.9 pct in 1988, he said.

By 1988, overall revenue growth should rise to about 16 pct, against 5.8 pct growth in 1987 and 2.4 pct in 1986, Martin said. Last year, IBM earned 4.8 billion dlrs on revenues of 51.3 billion dlrs.

Investors asked what this all meant to DEC, whose earnings and stock have been propelled by a strong slew of product introductions in the mid-range area.

In response, Martin said he did not view IBM as a threat to DEC, nor DEC as a threat to IBM, because both companies were catering largely to existing customer bases, rather than stealing market share from one another. Reuter

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24-MAR-1987 10:37:56.90

U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY OPTIMISTIC ON INCENTIVES

HOUSTON, March 24 -

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary John Herrington said he was "optimistic" about the chances of providing a more generous depletion allowance for oil and gas producers, but added that the plan faces strong opposition from some members of the Reagan administration.

Herrington, speaking to Houston oil executives at a breakfast meeting, said administration debate over his plan for a 27.5 pct annual depletion allowance was "heavy and strong" largely because of some fears that the U.S. oil industry could eventually become as dependent on federal subsidies as the agriculture industry.

Herrington's proposed tax incentives for the oil industry were issued last week after the Department of Energy released a comprehensive report finding U.S. national security could be jeopardized by rising oil imports.

In response to a question from Mitchell Energy and Development Corp <MND> chairman, George Mitchell, Herrington said the report did not definitively rule out an oil import tarrif. "We intend to keep that debate open," Herrington said.

However, following his speech, Herrington told Reuters that the new report shows an oil import fee "is not economical."

Herrington said, for example, a 10 dlr per barrel tariff on oil imports would cause the nation's gross national product to drop by as much as 32 billion dlrs.

Herrington also said he believed President Reagan, who requested the comprehensive national security study, was committed to some action to help the ailing U.S. oil industry.

"I'm quite confident he understands the problems and is prepared to do something about it," Herrington said. Reuter

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24-MAR-1987 10:42:01.79

PHILIPPINE CENTRAL BANKER FACES CORRUPTION CHARGES

By Chaitanya Kalbag, Reuters

MANILA, March 24 -

A government-appointed special prosecutor has ordered the filing of corruption charges over the closure of a private bank against Philippine central bank governor Jose Fernandez, who said he would contest the charges.

Ombudsman Raul Gonzalez told Reuters there was evidence to indicate that Fernandez had misused his office in ordering the closure of <Pacific Banking Corp> in July, 1985.

He said the charges against Fernandez would be filed "within the week" in a special court for corruption cases, adding that a defendant could appeal against a ruling in the Supreme Court.

Fernandez is in New York for talks with the Philippines' creditor banks on rescheduling about 9.4 billion dlrs of the country's foreign debt.

A central bank statement quoted Fernandez as saying Pacific Bank's closure and sale were in accordance with law.

"Fernandez said that some points may have been missed in the appreciation of the case for which reason he will be filing a motion for reconsideration of the (Ombudsman's) resolution," the statement said.

Central bank sources said the statement was drafted after Fernandez and senior deputy governor Gabriel Singson, who is in Manila, conferred on the telephone.

Gonzalez said his office ordered the charges filed after hearing submissions by Fernandez and plaintiff Paula Paug, the president of Pacific Bank's Employees Union.

In her complaint, Paug said Fernandez had acted arbitrarily in ordering the closure of Pacific Bank and placing it under receivership without giving the bank the right to appeal, throwing hundreds of employees out of work.

Paug also said Fernandez had not withdrawn his stockholding in Far East Bank and Trust Company, which took over Pacific Bank's assets, when he became central bank governor in January, 1984. Fernandez founded Far East in 1960.

She alleged Fernandez had misused his position by appointing two Far East bank executives to central bank consultancies, giving them access to Pacific Bank records. She also disputed Fernandez' interpretation of Pacific's accounts from January 1980 to May 1985, claiming the bank had made a profit, not a loss.

The central bank statement quoted Fernandez as stressing that Pacific Bank was "repeatedly given notice of the continuing losses of the bank and the immediate need of putting up additional capital to eliminate insolvency."

It said the central bank tried to assist in a bid by Bank of Hawaii and Philippine sugar trader Antonio Chan to purchase Pacific Bank, but the negotiations collapsed "because of certain legal impediments."

The statement said the central bank invited several banks to submit offers for Pacific, and the sale to Far East was approved by the Monetary Board and not by Fernandez alone.

Fernandez was also quoted in the statement as saying he had divested himself of all interests in Far East Bank when he became central bank governor. A Far East Bank spokesman declined comment on the charges against Fernandez.

In a footnote to a 12-page resolution recommending prosecution against Fernandez, Gonzalez said prima facie evidence of misuse of power also existed against all the then members of the country's Monetary Board, as well as the Far East executives, and ordered their investigation.

He said Fernandez's action fitted in with the political climate during former President Ferdinand Marcos's final years.

"(The) prevailing mood of the day for those in high offices was either to imitate the penchant of then President Marcos and his wife, to run roughshod over the human rights of citizens ... Or to follow blindly or with canine devotion any instructions from above," Gonzalez wrote.

Gonzalez, named to his post 11 months ago, said his office had received more than 4,000 complaints of misuse of power. He said among those facing prosecution were five provincial governors appointed by President Corazon Aquino. REUTER

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24-MAR-1987 13:52:39.88

DEROSE <DRI> CHAIRMAN STEPS DOWN

TAMPA, Fla., March 24 -

DeRose Industries Inc said Robert A. DeRose has retired as chairman and chief executive officer but will remain on the board through 1987 in an advisory capacity.

It said president and chief operating officer Victor A. DeRose, his son, has been named chairman and CEO.

The company said director Tom Johnson, who is also president of High Chaparral Inc, has been named president and chief operating officer. Reuter

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HEALTH RESEARCH FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 24 -

<Health Research and Management Group> said it has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy law.

The company said it filed the petitions to reorganize debt and eliminate contingent liabilities it incurred while attempting to expand nationally.

Health Research also said it owes about 750,000 dlrs of its 1.1 mln dlrs in debt to <MedPro Group Inc>, a former jont venture partner.

The company added it has asked the Minnesota Department of Commerce to suspend trading of its common stock pending dissemination of current financial information.

Also, the company said George Frisch has been elected chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer, replacing Daniel Zismer, who resigned as chairman of the board and O. Frederick Kiel, who resigned as president and chief executive officer. Reuter

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24-MAR-1987 17:29:06.75

MOBIL <MOB> UNIT NAMES GROUP PRESIDENT

CHICAGO, March 24 -

Montomgery Ward and Co, a subsidiary of Mobil Corp, said it named John Weil as president of its Apparel Group, replacing Richard Bourret, who has resigned.

It said Weil has been a consultant to the company since 1986. Reuter

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26-MAR-1987 05:39:20.94

PHILIPPINES TO PUT 100 STATE FIRMS UP FOR SALE

By Chaitanya Kalbag, Reuters

MANILA, March 26 -

The head of a Philippine panel charged with selling the non-performing assets of government financial institutions said some 100 state-owned companies would also be put up for privatisation.

But David SyCip, chief executive trustee of the Asset Privatisation Trust (APT), told a meeting of financial executives the APT has not yet received a list of the firms.

"I believe lead investor groups, people who see long-term potential, are willing to buy such companies in full and do a hands-on job of running them," SyCip said.

SyCip said open bidding would be used to sell all assets handled by the APT. He said bidding would be either open-priced, if there were enough serious contenders, or the APT would set a target price for acquisition. He added that the target price did not constitute a rigid floor.

"What we consider an acceptable price is a price at which an investor will earn an adequate return," he said.

SyCip said the bulk of the APT's current work relates to the non-performing assets of the state-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and the Philippine National Bank (PNB). The APT was set up in January.

SyCip said about 75 pct of the 400-odd assets that the DBP and the PNB are handing over to the APT are still in the form of financial assets.

"In some cases financial assets have been converted into physical assets by foreclosures. They are fairly cut and dried because we are dealing with mostly whole production facilities like textile or food-processing plants," he said.

"Financial assets are more complicated. The only recourse is to foreclose, gain titles, and try to sell the asset, but the laws here tend to favour the debtors," he added.

SyCip said although the APT is protected from prosecution by its charter, many debtors are tying up the panel with litigation.

"If you see some of the situations we have to work our way through you will see that our symbol, a Gordian knot, is an apt illustration," he said.

SyCip said the PNB has not succeeded in foreclosing on 16 of the 17 sugar factories it wants to sell because of the high costs involved. "When you do your arithmetic you realise that if you did foreclose your recovery would be only a fraction of the asset's book exposure," he said.

SyCip said the APT was not worried about whether associates of former President Ferdinand Marcos, who originally owned many of the bankrupt companies, would buy them back through the privatisation scheme.

"We just look at the bottom line, which is to monetise these assets to the maximum degree possible," he said. "We are selling for cash, it is not our concern where it comes from."

He said he had told cabinet ministers sceptical about the identities of buyers that "Marcos cronies" could easily put up legitimate fronts if they were specifically barred from bidding for assets on the block.

"I told them if I am paid 20 mln pesos in 100-peso bills, all with identical serial numbers and they look like genuine legal currency, then I would accept them'," SyCip said.

He said some participants in the government's debt-equity swap scheme were interested in buying non-performing assets with the pesos they receive from such deals. The problem is government regulations slow down approval of debt-equity plans and the APT normally demands full payment within 15 days.

"The Central Bank and Monetary Board could also look at investment funds earmarked for non-performing asset purchases," he said. "It would greatly facilitate matters."

SyCip said last month the APT hoped to recover about 24 billion pesos of the assets' total worth of 108 billion.

President Corazon Aquino announced earlier this month that proceeds from the sale of APT-controlled assets would be used to finance the government's land reform program, which aims to distribute about 9.7 mln hectares of land to poor peasants.

Asked why the APT did not favour Filipino buyers, SyCip said: "How much money has the country to lose because of this 'Filipinos first' slogan? How many people have become millionaires and then forgotten the Philippines and put their money in the United States or Australia?" REUTER

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26-MAR-1987 11:39:07.56

BALLY <BLY> NAMES NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

CHICAGO, March 26 -

Bally Manufacturing Corp said it has elected Paul Johnson a vice president and named him chief financial officer, replacing Donald Romans, who took early retirement.

Bally also said it has appointed Jerry Blumenshine, formerly a vice president, treasurer to fill the position left vacant by Johnson. Reuter

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26-MAR-1987 14:54:19.03

USX <X> SAYS TALKS ENDED WITH BRITISH PETROLEUM

HOUSTON, March 26 -

USX Corp chairman David Roderick said the company had ended talks with British Petroleum Co Plc <BP> about the possible sale of some energy assets and said USX has no immediate restructuring plans for its oil businesses.

"We have terminated our discussions," Roderick told Reuters after a speech to the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association here. He said USX was not conducting talks with any other possible buyer of its energy assets.

Earlier today, BP said it planned to offer 70 dlrs per share for the Standard Oil Co's <SRD> publicly held stock.

USX said in December the company had held formal discussions with BP about the potential sale of some of its overseas oil assets and USX had received expressions of interest from a half dozen other oil companies.

Roderick, in response to a question, said USX had no immediate plans to restructure its Marathon Oil Co, or Texas Oil and Gas Corp. He said USX also did not plan to sell any of its 49 pct interest in the giant Yates Field in west Texas.

"We want to maintain our production in the Yates Field during these difficult times," Roderick added.

In response to a question, Roderick also said he did not know whether Australian investor Robert Holmes a Court was accumulating USX stock. In recent days, traders have suggested Holmes a Court was buying additional shares.

Roderick said Carl Ichan, who terminated an eight billion dlr hostile takeover plan for USX in January, continued to hold a sizable interest in the company. "Mr. Ichan still apparently has 11.4 pct. He hasn't bought any more stock or sold any," Roderick said. "He's a very satisfied shareholder right now. I talk with him monthly."

In his speech, Roderick predicted the fall in the value of the dollar would set the stage for the U.S. to solve its trade deficit problem which totaled 170 billion dlrs in 1986.

"I expect by the early 1990s the U.S. will be running a net trade surplus," Roderick said. "I think the worst is over and we can look forward to stability and upward movement ahead."

However, the USX chairman warned that European trading partners may resist the turn in the U.S. trade deficit. "Some economic discomfort must be transferred from the United States to our friends, trading partners and allies." Reuter

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26-MAR-1987 16:19:07.96

AMERITECH <AIT> UNIT NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

TROY, Mich., March 26 -

Ameritech Publishing, a unit of Ameritech, the midwest-based telephone services company, said it has named Barry Allen president effective April.

Ameritech Publishing said Allen will succeed Leo Egan, who will become chairman and chief executive officer until he retires on June 1. Reuter

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27-MAR-1987 07:27:59.04

NAKASONE HARD-PRESSED TO SOOTHE U.S ANGER ON TRADE

By Rich Miller, Reuters

TOKYO, March 27 -

Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone will visit Washington next month in a bid to defuse mounting U.S. Anger over Japanese trade policies, but Western diplomats said they believed his chances of success were slim.

Boxed in by powerful political pressure groups and widespread opposition to his tax reform plans, Nakasone will be hard-pressed to come up with anything new to tell U.S. President Ronald Reagan and key U.S. Congressmen, they said.

News of the week-long visit starting April 29 coincided with news that Japan recorded a 8.14 billion dlr trade surplus last month, more than 70 pct higher than a year earlier.

It also came one day after the Reagan Administration's Economic Policy Council decided to take retaliatory action against Japan for its alleged failure to live up to a joint trade agreement on computer microchips.

Nakasone wants to go armed with two separate packages - one designed to pep up Japan's sagging economy and imports in the short-term, the other to redirect the country in the medium term away from its over-dependence on exports for growth.

But government officials said political infighting could rob both packages of much of their punch and might even prevent one from seeing the light of day.

Nakasone has insisted that the government would not draw up a package of short-term economic measures until after its 1987/88 budget passed parliament because he feared that would amount to a tacit admission that the budget was inadequate.

But his hopes for quick passage of the budget in time for his trip have been shattered by a parliamentary boycott by opposition parties protesting over the sales tax plan.

Faced with the possibility that he might have to go to the U.S. Virtually empty-handed, Nakasone today ordered his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to come up with its own measures.

He can then tell Reagan the LDP package will form the basis of the government's plans, without losing face in parliament over the budget, political analysts said.

Officials working on the government's short-term economic package said it would probably include interest rate cuts on loans by government corporations, deregulation, measures to pass on some of the benefits of the strong yen to consumers in the form of lower prices, and accelerated public investment.

They said a record portion of state investment planned for the entire 1987/88 fiscal year will take place in the first half, probably over 80 pct.

Diplomats said that was unlikely to be enough to satisfy Reagan, who is under pressure from the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress to take greater action to cut the huge American trade deficit.

To complement the short-term measures, Nakasone is also likely to present Reagan with details of Japan's longer-term economic plans.

A high-ranking advisory body headed by former Bank of Japan governor Haruo Maekawa is expected to come up with a final report outlining concrete steps to redirect the economy days before Nakasone is scheduled to leave for Washington.

Its recommendations are designed as a follow-up to Maekawa's report last year on economic restructuring and are likely to cover such potentially politically explosive areas as agricultural reform and land policy, officials said.

While wanting to make the report as explicit and detailed as possible, they said the political realities might force them to water down some of the committee's recommendations.

A subcommittee is considering what the Japanese economy might look like in the medium to longer term after it undergoes massive restructuring, officials said. The subcommittee projects that the current account surplus will fall to less than two pct of Japan's total output, or gross national product, around 1993 or 1995. Last year the surplus, which measures trade in goods and services, amounted to over four pct of gnp.

The subcommittee also projects annual economic growth for Japan of nearly four pct over that period and a very gradual appreciation of the yen, to about 130 to the dollar by around 1993, from 150 now. REUTER

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27-MAR-1987 11:52:59.48E F

SOUTHAM TO SELL 49 PCT INTEREST IN BRANDON SUN

TORONTO, March 27 -

<Southam Inc> said it agreed to sell its 49 pct interest in Sun Publishing Co Ltd, which publishes The Brandon Sun, to majority shareholder publisher Lewis D. Whitehead.

Terms were not disclosed.

Southam said the proposed sale resulted from an offer made by Whitehead, whose family has had majority control of the newspaper since 1905.

The Brandon Sun has daily circulation of 19,100. Reuter

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30-MAR-1987 08:56:14.67

MAGMA POWER <MGMA> NAMES NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE

SAN DIEGO, March 30 -

Magma Power Co said director Arnold L. Johnson has been named president and chief executive officer.

He succeeds Andrew W. Hoch, who moved to chairman in February following the resignation of B.C. McCabe Sr.

The company said Johnson has also been named president and chief executive officer of Magma Energy Inc <MAGE>, which Magma Power controls, succeeding Hoch, who becomes Magma Energy chairman as well. McCabe, whom Hoch also succeeds there, has been named chairman emeritus. Reuter

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30-MAR-1987 14:08:05.98

SAN/BAR <SBAR> APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT

IRVINE, Calif., March 30 -

San/Bar Corp said it appointed Charles von Urff as president, chief operating officer and a director of the company to succeed Robert Johnson, who retired last year.

Prior to joining San/Bar von Urff had been president and chief executive of Microelectric Packaging Inc, the company also said. Reuter

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30-MAR-1987 14:35:33.56

SONY INCREASING PRODUCTION ABROAD

BONN, March 30 -

Sony Corp <SNE.T> will increase production abroad to overcome falling profits caused by the yen's rise against the dollar, managing board chairman Akio Morita told the West German newspaper Die Welt.

He was quoted as saying that Sony, whose latest profit figures had been affected strongly by dollar fluctuations, would increase production in the U.S. And Europe.

Several production facilities were being built, he added. "At the same time we are also investing capital in order to modernise our locations and raise our productivity."

Morita said that to overcome the same currency problems, Japan needs to restructure its economy in order to live less from exports and more from domestic demand.

He said U.S. And European companies had made the mistake of not investing enough in the future, which was why they had lost their lead in consumer electronics.

"They may spend a lot of money on research and development," he said. "But planning and marketing are very important sectors in developing a marketable product."

"If they don't spend money on these, they can't build up new business lines."

Speaking of difficulties foreign firms experience in penetrating the Japanese market, Morita said "Naturally, I have to admit that there are still many obstacles in Japan."

On the other hand, many foreign firms were too interested in short-term success, he said.

"If, therefore, a company comes to Japan and wants to make a profit at once on this market, it is not so simple."

"These people then complain, while the successful firms keep their mouths shut," Morita said. Reuter

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31-MAR-1987 11:50:11.46

CONGRESS VIDEO <CVGI> RESTRUCTURES MANAGEMENT

NEW YORK, March 31 -

Congress Video Group Inc said Lawrence Kieves has been appointed president and chief executive officer, replacing Morton Fry, who has left the company.

Kieves was formerly chief financial officer and senior vice president, the company said. Reuter

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31-MAR-1987 12:34:24.77

AMERICAN <AMR> SETS SCHEDULE FOR AIRCAL MERGER

DALLAS, March 31 -

AMR Corp's American Airlines unit said it plans to complete the integration of AirCal into its operations within four to five months.

American's merger with AirCal, announced last November, received final approval from the Department of Transportation yesterday.

American said Richard D. Pearson, coordinator of the airline's merger activities, will become chairman and chief executive officer of AirCal during the period up to completion of the merger.

American said Pearson succeeds William Lyon, who has been elected to AMR's board.

It added that David A. Banmiller will continue as AirCal's president and chief operating officer. Reuter

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1-APR-1987 08:06:48.55

U.S. CREDIT MARKET OUTLOOK - PRIME RATE

NEW YORK, April 1 -

The prospect that other banks will follow industry leaders Citibank and Chase Manhattan in raising their prime rate is likely to cast a pall over the credit markets today, economists said.

Bond prices had been making a smart recovery from two days of heavy selling when Citibank surprised the market by announcing a quarter-point increase in its prime rate to 7-3/4 pct. Chase Manhattan quickly followed.

Prices quickly fell by a full point, even though the dollar - the market's overriding concern of late - rose sharply on the news.

Citibank cited the higher cost of money, especially in the Euromarket, as the reason for raising its prime rate.

Part of this rise in market rates has been caused by fears of a tighter Federal Reserve policy to defend the dollar, but economists said it is too early to tell whether the Fed, whose policy-making federal open market committee, FOMC, meets this week, is already tightening its grip on credit.

"The Fed seems to have been a bit slow in meeting the banking system's reserve needs this statement period, but I wouldn't conclude anything until I've seen the Fed data," said Jeffrey Leeds of Chemical Bank. REUTER^M

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3-APR-1987 11:38:08.84

DATAFLEX <DFLX> NAMES PRESIDENT

EDISON, N.J., April 3 -

Dataflex Corp said it named Richard Rose president, succeeding Jeffrey Lamm, who continues as chairman and chief executive officer.

Rose has been executive vice president of the desktop computer marketing company since joining it in 1984. Reuter

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3-APR-1987 11:57:16.66

WARBURG PINCUS DECLINES TO UP SYMBION <SYMB> BID

WASHINGTON, April 3 -

Warburg, Pincus Capital Co L.P., an investment partnership, said it told representatives of Symbion Inc it would not increase the 3.50-dlr-per-share cash price it has offered for the company.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Warburg Pincus said one of its top executives, Rodman Moorhead, who is also a Symbion director, met April 1 with Symbion's financial advisor, L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin Inc.

In a discussion of the offer, Warburg Pincus said Moorhead told the meeting there are no plans to raise the 3.50 dlr bid.

Moorhead told the Rothschild officials that Warburg Pincus considers the offered price to be a fair one, Warburg Pincus said.

Last Month Warburg Pincus launched a tender offer to buy up to 2.5 mln Symbion common shares. Reuter

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3-APR-1987 12:21:13.54

ALLTEL <AT> CHAIRMAN TO RECOMMEND PRESIDENT

HUDSON, Ohio, April 3 -

ALLTEL Corp chairman and chief executive officer Weldon Case said he will recommend Joe Ford, who now is president, be elected chief executive officer of the company, also.

Case, who said he will remain as chairman, said he will recommend the election to the board on April 22.

Ford was named president and chief operating officer in 1983 when ALLTEL was formed, Case said. Reuter

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5-APR-1987 01:24:59.91

MANILA MEETING WITH DONORS ON LAND REFORM RESET

MANILA, April 5 -

Philippine officials will meet major aid donors in May to discuss a 500 mln dlr funding for an extensive land reform program, Finance Minister Jaime Ongpin said.

He told a news conference he had planned to sit down with a consultative group of major donors led by the World Bank late this month in Tokyo but said the documentation of the project would not be ready until the end of this month.

"The World Bank has recommended that we meet some time in the second half of May because it is pointless to have that meeting unless the participants have had adequate time to review the documentation," he said.

Government officials said the progam, estimated to cost 36 billion pesos, aims to distribute 9.7 mln hectares of land, including some 50,000 hectares seized from former associates of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos.

The new plan will include not only rice and corn land but also sugar and coconut plantations. It is expected to benefit about three mln impoverished peasants.

Ongpin said earlier there was strong interest in the program from donors but said given the substantial financial requirements of the plan, the government could not rely on only one source but on a combination of sources.

President Corazon Aquino approved last month the use of an estimated 20 billion pesos from the proceeds of the sale of certain non-performing assets to private companies.

Ongpin said he has asked Aquino to consider two other sources, namely the proceeds from the sale of government corporations which are to be privatised and proceeds from the liquidation of seized Marcos-related assets.

He also said he would recommend public hearings before such a big project was legislated.

"If we get a good reception in the public hearings, perhaps then the President might feel persuaded that it is not necessary to wait for the Congress," he said.

Aquino had said she would prefer that legislation for the program be approved by a two-house Congress, whose members will be elected on May 11.

But her advisers are trying to persuade her to implement the program before the Congress convenes in July. REUTER

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7-APR-1987 08:11:55.55

VW CURRENCY DEPARTMENT FORMER HEAD ARRESTED

BRUNSWICK, West Germany, April 7 -

The former chief of foreign exchange at Volkswagen AG <VOWG.F> has been arrested in connection with a scandal which may have cost the car maker a quarter of a billion dlrs, the chief state prosecutor Carl Hermann Retemeyer said.

He told Reuters that Burkhard "Bobby" Junger was arrested yesterday for suspected embezzlement.

"There is reason to believe that Junger could have evaded justice, and investigating magistrates therefore asked for his arrest," Retemeyer said.

VW fired Junger in March, after news emerged of the suspected foreign exchange swindle. In January the board gave him leave of absence. Six other people have been suspended.

VW said last month computer programs were erased and documents faked in the possible fraud, in which it believes transactions meant to protect it against foreign currency losses were not completed.

Retemeyer said "We are still investigating a larger circle of people, among them Frankfurt currency dealers"

He would not comment whether other arrests could be expected.

The possible fraud resulted in a major management shake-up with the resignation of Rolf Selowsky, management board member in charge of finance, who assumed managerial responsibility for the affair.

Retemeyer said last month he wanted to question Frankfurt-based money broker Joachim Schmidt, who may be able to give more details. REUTER

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7-APR-1987 11:26:26.25

FEDERAL RESOURCES <FDRC> NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

NEW YORK, April 7 -

Federal Resources Corp said it has named John Kotts president and chief operating officer, replacing Paul Hannesson, who remains chairman and chief executive officer. Reuter

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7-APR-1987 12:10:39.71

MANHATTAN NATIONAL <MLC> NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN

NEW YORK, April 7 -

The board of directors of Manhattan National Corp said it has named Charles Hinckley chairman and chief executive officer of the life insurance holding company, replacing Wilmot Wheeler Jr, who returns to his former position of vice chairman.

Hinckley is also president and chief executive officer of <Union Central Life Insurance Co>, a mutual insurer that on March 31 acquired 3.6 mln shares of Manhattan National's common stock for 43.2 mln dlrs, or 12 dlrs a share, a spokesman for Manhattan National said.

The spokesman said the purchase, coupled with the 900,096 Manhattan National shares Union Central already owned, brought Union Central's Manhattan National stake up to 52.2 pct of the outstanding common shares.

Manhattan National said it also named five others from Union Central to its board of directors.

The spokesman said Union Central now holds seven of Manhattan National's thirteen seats on the board of directors.

The company also said it named Paul Aniskovich Jr president and chief executive officer of its Manhattan Life Insurance Co and Manhattan National Life Insurance Co units.

Aniskovich, who fills a vacancy at the units, formerly was executive vice president of Union Central Life. Reuter

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8-APR-1987 09:34:58.43

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT MINISTERS RESIGN

ROME, April 8 -

Italy's majority Christian Democrats have handed in their resignation from the five-party government in which they are senior partners, Deputy Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani said.

Forlani, president of the party, said he had handed a letter of resignation by the Christian Democrats, who make up more than half the 30 member cabinet, to the office of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi.

Political sources said the withdrawal of the Christian Democrats meant the coalition -- which also includes Republicans, Social Democrats and Liberals as well as the Socialists -- had collapsed. Reuter

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8-APR-1987 11:51:17.60

BRAZIL GRAIN HARVEST FACES STORAGE PROBLEMS

SAO PAULO, April 8 -

Storage problems with Brazil's record grain crop are likely to result in losses of about five mln tonnes, an Agriculture Ministry spokesman said.

Ministry spokesman Leonardo Brito, speaking from Brasilia, told Reuters he believed that about five mln tonnes of this year's estimated crop of 65 mln tonnes would be lost.

He said part of this would be the normal loss inevitable in harvesting, but that most of it would stem from storage problems.

Brazil has a storage capacity of 66 mln tonnes, theoretically sufficient for the crop.

But Brito said that the storage capacity was badly distributed. The states of Sao Paulo, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul had between them 70 pct of the nation's capacity, but were responsible for only 50 to 60 pct of production.

The biggest problems are concentrated in the Centre-West growing regions, where rising production has outpaced storage capacity.

Brito said the Centre-West, whose crops include soya and maize, had between 30 and 40 pct of the nation's grains production but only 20 pct of its storage space.

In addition to the poor distribution of storage units, there is the problem that too much of the capacity is geared to storing grain in sacks, while not enough is suitable for storing loose grain, Brito said.

Finally, there is a shortage of lorries to transport the crops.

The sheer scale of the task in transporting the record crop has been evident from television reports, which have shown enormous queues of lorries waiting outside granaries. Reuter

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9-APR-1987 13:43:03.75

SEC TO HOLD HEARING AGAINST BROKER

NEW YORK, April 9 -

The Securities and Exchange Commission said it will hold a public hearing against Martin Saposnick, who was a co-underwriter of a 1983 public offering of North Atlantic Airlines Inc.

The SEC claims that Saposnick, chairman of Marsan Securities Co Inc, knew the offering prspectus failed to adequately disclose the company's delinquent federal and state taxes and its inability to pay debts when due.

No specific date was set. The SEC said the hearing will determine whether Saposnick misrepresented compliance with NASDAQ and if so, will determine remedial action. Reuter

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9-APR-1987 14:09:16.23

WALL STREET STOCKS/UAL INC <UAL>

New York, April 9 -

Takeover speculation continues to fuel heavy trading in UAL Inc, traders said.

UAL rose 1-5/8 to 73-5/8 on volume of more than two mln shares, after trading with little upward movement earlier in the session.

Traders said rumors, which began yesterday, added to speculation that the company would be the target of a takeover.

They said it was believed Coniston Partners and the Pritzker family of Chicago were buying the stock.

Coniston declined comment and the Pritzkers had no comment.

Traders said there was speculation a bidder might appear, and also that real estate developer Donald Trump, who holds a stake in UAL, might participate in a takeover bid. UAL pilots said they would be willing to pay 4.5 billion dlrs, which includes debt, for the company's United Airlines unit. Reuter

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9-APR-1987 16:28:13.98

LIBERTY FINANCIAL GROUP <LFG> PRESIDENT RESIGNS

HORSHAM, Pa., April 9 -

Liberty Financial Group Charles D. Cheleden, chairman and chief executive officer, said Harold Kline has resigned his position as president of the group and its subsidiary, Liberty Savings Bank, effective May One.

Cheleden said he will assume the offices previously held by Kline, who will continue to serve on the board of the Liberty Financal Group and Liberty Savings Bank. Reuter

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13-APR-1987 14:10:34.65

(CORRECTED)-CRAZY EDDIE <CRZY> EXECUTIVE OFF BOARD

EDISON, N.J., April 13 -

Crazy Eddie Inc said executive vice president Sam Antar, who turns 66 soon, has resigned from its board and has been replaced by William H. Saltzman, vice president and general counsel of Sun/DIC Acquisition Corp.

The company said Antar remains an executive vice president.

Corrects to delete references to Antar being chief financial officer and a member of the Office of the President. Reuter

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13-APR-1987 15:43:13.88

MORTON THIOKOL <MTI> WANTS PAPERS MADE PUBLIC

WASHINGTON, April 13 -

Lawyers for Morton Thiokol Inc asked a federal judge to unseal all papers filed in court here in connection with a lawsuit against it by a former employee.

U.S. District Judge Harold Greene held a hearing this morning on the company's request but took no immediate action, according to a clerk.

The company's motion was opposed by lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice.

The lawsuit filed by the former employee, engineer Roger Boisjoly, alleged criminal responsibility by Thiokol in the deaths of the seven Challenger astronauts in January 1986.

Justice Department sources told Reuters earlier this month that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a criminal investigation of Thiokol, which made the booster rocket blamed for the loss of the Challenger space shuttle.

The sources said the probe stemmed from the suit by Boisjoly, who is now on medical disability.

Boisjoly is seeking damages from the company for allegedly defaming his professional reputation by transferring him to a less important job after he testified to a presidential commission about the Challenger explosion. Reuter

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17-APR-1987 13:09:34.17

CALNY <CLNY.O> NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 17 -

Calny Inc said M. Hal Taylor has been named poresident and chief operating officer, succeeding Marvin Hart, who had been serving as president on an interim basis and remains chairman and chief executive.

The company said Taylor, who joined the company in January, has also been named to the board. Reuter

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17-APR-1987 15:22:40.82

WHITE HOUSE SAYS U.S. MONETARY POLICY CORRECT

SANTA BARBARA, Calif, April 17 -

The White House, distancing itself from remarks by the administration's budget chief, said the Federal Reserve's current course of monetary policy was appropriate.

"The administration feels that the current course of monetary policy is appropriate," White House spokesman Marlin Fitwater said.

Fitzwater said the administration did not endorse remarks by White House budget chief James Miller, who said he was concerned the Federal Reserve might overreact to the decline in the value of the U.S. dollar by raising interest rates. More

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27-APR-1987 06:39:34.03

NAKASONE HOPES U.S. VISIT WILL HELP END TRADE ROW

TOKYO, April 27 -

Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said he hopes his visit to Washington later this week will help resolve Japan's severe trade problems with the United States.

Nakasone leaves on his sixth official visit to the United States on Wednesday, only weeks after President Reagan imposed punitive tariffs of 300 mln dlrs a year on Japanese electronic goods for alleged violation of a semiconductor pact.

Japan also faces more possible sanctions amid calls in the U.S. Congress for further action to help improve trade imbalances.

Japan's trade surplus with the United States reached a record 58.6 billion dlrs in 1986.

Nakasone told reporters that special envoy Shintaro Abe, who has just returned from Washington, told him protectionist sentiment in the United States is severe.

"We are well aware of a movement in the United States to enact legislation," Nakasone said.

He said friends at home and abroad have advised him not to go to the United States but it is now more important than ever that he express Japan's view and carefully listens to the views of the United States.

"My visit to the United States at this time will be the most important visit of all," Nakasone said.

While in Washington, he said he hopes to have candid and frank discussions with President Reagan and Congressionl leaders. He said he plans to discuss exchange rate stability, economic cooperation to developing countries and U.S.-Soviet disarmament and arms control.

On the recently imposed trade sactions, Nakasone said he would present evidence that Japanese semiconductor imports are increasing and that Japan is monitoring exports to third countries.

"We have full confidence we can present clear evidence," he said. "(Therefore), we will request that the sanctions be lifted at the earliest possible time."

On the trade imbalance, Nakasone said Japan has already taken action. The volume of exports to the United States has been cut, while U.S. Imports have increased.

But Japanese imports from Europe and other Asian nations have recently surged, those from the United States remain weak, indicating a lack of U.S. Competitiveness, he said.

Nakasone said Japan will continue to strive to improve the trade imbalance but the United States will have to become more competitive and improve its huge budget deficit.

He said he will also discuss the forthcoming Venice summit of the seven major industrial nations in June.

"We can further enhance the efforts for improving peace, disarmament and the world economies as a whole through solidarity," Nakasone said. REUTER

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1-JUN-1987 14:22:43.92

SYNERCOM <SYNR.O> NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

HOUSTON, June 1 -

Synercom Technology Inc said it has named Robert Forsyth president.

The company said Forsyth is taking over the position from Thomas Moore, who remains chairman and chief executive officer. Reuter

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1-JUN-1987 17:13:31.62

ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING TOPS CRAZY EDDIE OFFER

By Michael Connor, Reuters

NEW YORK, June 1 -

A quickly growing Texas-based distributor of electronics products offered 240 mln dlrs for Crazy Eddie Inc <crzy>, the leading New York City electronics retailer, or one dlr per share more than its founder has bid.

The 8-dlr-a-share offer by Entertainment Marketing Inc <em> for Crazy Eddie comes less than two weeks after founder Eddie Antar and a firm controlled by the Belzbergs of Canada announced a bid to take the 32-store Crazy Eddie chain private.

Analysts said Entertainment Marketing, whose revenues and profits quadrupled in 1986, may be looking to break into the highly competitive New York City retail market for consumer electronics, the nation's biggest, at a time the fortunes of electronics retailers have sagged.

The analysts questioned whether Houston-based Entertainment Marketing, founded by a former electronics retailer but whose present buinesses are primarily as wholesale distributors, had the management expertise for retailing or was merely trying to drive up the price of the Crazy Eddie shares it already owns.

"I have mixed feelings," said analyst Dennis Telzrow of Eppler, Geurin and Turner, a Dallas brokerage. "On the one hand it's probably a cheap price. On the other hand, does Entertainment Marketing have the management talent to run it and will the Crazy Eddie people leave?"

"It's a risky strategy for Entertainment Marketing," said analyst Eliot Laurence of Wessels Arnold and Henderson, a Minneapolis brokerage. "Electronics retailing is very management concentrated; they'd want to keep Crazy Eddie's management in place."

Laurence said that, since Entertainment Marketing already owns 4.3 percent of Crazy Eddie's 31.3 million shares, it may be trying to get the Antar-Belzberg group to increase its 7-dlr-a-share offer.

Shares of Crazy Eddie, which have jumped from the high 4-dlr range to above 7 dlrs since the Antar-Belzberg bid was announced May 20, rose another 50 cents Monday to 8.375 a share in over-the- counter trading.

Antar, the reclusive founder of the chain in the New York City, Philadelphia and Connecticut areas, said last month that his group controlled 14 percent of Crazy Eddie's shares.

A Crazy Eddie spokesman said the company's board has taken no decision on the Antar-Belzberg offer, worth some 187 mln dlrs since they own more shares than Entertainment Marketing. He would not comment on the new offer.

Entertainment Marketing sells computer products such as disk drives and other, often discounted electronics goods to retailers, primarily in the southwest, and directly to consumers by cable television.

In fiscal 1986, ending last January, its revenues rose to 87.9 mln dlrs from 21.3 mln dlrs the previous year. Net profit went to 3.2 mln dlrs from 750,000 dlrs in 1985.

Entertainment Marketing, whose chief executive officer, Elias Zinn, once ran an electronics retailing business, said in a statement it had committed 50 mln dlrs toward the purchase of Crazy Eddie and had retained Dean Witter Reynolds Inc to assist in financing the balance.

Analyst Telzerow estimated that the company would have to borrow about 100 mln dlrs to complete the proposed buyout since Crazy Eddie has cash and other assets worth about the same amount.

Shares of Entertainment Marketing were up 12.5 cents Monday to 9.50. Reuter

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2-JUN-1987 10:44:13.90

ONE OF TWO SARA LEE <SLE> STRIKES SETTLED

DEERFIELD, ILL., June 2 -

Sara Lee Corp said 500 workers at its Kitchens of Sara Lee bakery operation in Deerfield, Ill., have returned to work this week after ratifying a contract.

A company spokesman said members of Local Two of the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers, who had walked out May 10, reached "mutually agreeable terms" in a new two-year contract.

Meanwhile, about 100 Teamster drivers and warehouse employees, whose contract expired May 16, remained out, the company said. No new talks were scheduled, Sara Lee said.

Details of the new contract were not immediately available, but a company spokesman said it "maintained benefits and called for no sacrifices from current employees."

Union sources reported that the contract freezes wages and introduces a sharply lower starting rate for new hires. They said it also gives Sara Lee concessions on a workplace issue involving excused absences. Reuter

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2-JUN-1987 11:25:21.16

PERRY DRUG STORES <PDS> NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

PONTIAC, Mich., June 2 -

Perry Drug Stores Inc said it has elected David Schwartz as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately.

Perry said Schwartz, who will also serve on the board, replaced Donald Fox, who resigned January 12.

Previously, Schwartz was vice president of drug and general merchandise for Kroger Co <KR>, Perry said. Reuter

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2-JUN-1987 11:46:57.81

LUKMAN SEES STABLE OIL PRICE FOR NEXT COUPLE YEARS

STOCKHOLM, June 2 -

The current crude oil price of between 18 and 20 dlrs a barrel will remain stable over the next couple of years, rising only one to two dlrs a barrel per annum to keep up with inflation, OPEC President Rilwanu Lukman said.

Lukman, who was speaking during talks with Swedish trade officials, said the stable price depended upon output restraint by both OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers, Swedish government officials said.

They said Lukman, who is also Nigerian oil minister, made the remarks whilst talking about the connection between Third World debt and industrialised nations.

Crude oil output controls did not necessarily mean higher energy bills for the world's industrial nations, Lukman said.

Although very low oil prices, such as those seen around the beginning of the year, may appear beneficial for the industrial countries that depend on imported energy, they would only lead to wastage and overdependence on the fuel in the long term, he said.

This in turn would bring a swing back to extremely high prices, he added.

Sweden, heavily dependent on imported oil, suffered a major crisis in the mid-1970s, when oil prices spiralled. REUTER

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2-JUN-1987 12:28:13.27

ITALIAN ECONOMISTS REGRET VOLCKER DECISION

ROME, June 2 -

Leading Italian economists said they regretted Paul Volcker's decision not to serve another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

Luigi Spaventa, Professor of Economics at Rome University, told Reuters he thought the decision was a great loss to the world's financial markets.

"He (Volcker) was an element of reliability and stability around world financial markets, a man of great experience, balance and equilibrium," Spaventa said.

Spaventa said it was difficult to gauge immediately what Volcker's decision might mean for the dollar, but he noted that the markets seemed to like Volcker. Mario Monti, Director of the Institute of Economics at Milan's Bocconi University, told Reuters that "whoever succeeds Volcker would face a formidable task because no central banker has ever given such credibility to monetary policy and fighting inflation."

Monti said Alan Greenspan, who has been nominated to take over from Volcker, was likely to pursue "a rigorous monetary policy to demonstrate to the markets that there will be no loss of credibility."

Officials at the Bank of Italy and the Italian Treasury had no comment on Volcker's decision. REUTER

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18-JUN-1987 08:59:19.40

BUDGET PACT CUTS U.S. FARM FUNDS 1.25 BILLION DLRS

WASHINGTON, June 18 -

U.S. House and Senate budget negotiators agreed as part of an overall budget accord reached yesterday, to cut 1.25 billion dlrs from fiscal 1988 spending on agricultural programs, Congressional sources told Reuters.

The agreed cut in farm programs is a compromise between 1.4 billion sought by the Senate and one billion by the House.

The negotiators also agreed to cut 1.6 billion from the farm budget in fiscal 1989 and 2.45 billion in 1990, for a total of 5.3 billion in saving over three years, sources said.

The agreement presents the House and Senate Agriculture committees with difficult choices on how to make changes in agriculture programs that achieve the budget savings targets without jeopardizing popular support payments, senior Congressional aides told Reuters.

Some farm state lawmakers already are manuevering to find the budget savings.

Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., Chairman of the House grains subcommittee, has introduced a bill which would freeze wheat and corn loan rates for the 1988 crop at the current 2.28 dlrs and 1.92 dlrs respectively, saying it would save 500 mln dlrs.

House Agriculture Committee chairman Kika De la Garza has said the committee will consider the Glickman proposal.

But Congressional sources said the proposal is unlikely to be approved because of opposition from Republican lawmakers and a strong stance by Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, who said freezing loan rates would send the wrong signal to other major grain export competitors and would not achieve the budget savings Glickman claims.

Another area where Glickman and other have said budget savings might be made is to increase acreage reduction program, ARP, levels for wheat and corn.

However, on this issue also Lyng has taken a strong stand within the Reagan administration, arguing that the 1988 crop wheat acreage reduction should be left at 27.5 pct and not 30 pct as sought by the Office of Management and Budget, OMB. Most commodity lobbyists expect Lyng to prevail.

Congressional sources said the only way to achieve significant budget cuts through ARP increases would be to boost the 1988 corn ARP. But one informed Congressional source said singling-out corn for an ARP increase would would be seen as unfair to one commodity.

Congressional sources said the areas where Congress is most likely to eventually look for budget savings are some tightening of the payment limitation rules, and possible adoption of a 0/92 program for the 1988 crops of major grains.

Those changes would achieve a portion of the 1.25 billion but not enough, they said.

Ultimately, Congressional sources said the agriculture committees may be forced to apply an across-the-board cut on all Commodity Credit Corp. payments to farmers, including price support loans and deficiency payments, similar to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget cut applied in fiscal 1986.

This idea has been suggested by the American Farm Bureau Federation, AFBF, as the fairest approach for all commodities. Reuter

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18-JUN-1987 18:14:59.23

WHITE HOUSE STAFFER CONSIDERED TO HEAD CFTC

WASHINGTON, June 18 -

A White House associate personnel director, Mark Sullivan, emerged as a possible candidate to replace Susan Phillips as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Commodity industry and government sources said Sullivan, who is not well known to the commodities industry, has emerged this week as a surprise candidate for the post.

Sullivan, an attorney, has been in charge of Reagan administration personnel appointments in the legal and financial affairs areas since July, 1986.

Phillips resigned last month to assume the post of vice president of finance at the University of Iowa.

Following Phillips' resignation CFTC commissioner Kalo Hineman, a Kansas farmer, or commissioner Robert Davis were considered the strongest candidates to head the agency, at least temporarily.

However, industry sources said the strong speculation about Sullivan suggests he now is the leading candidate.

Sullivan's name has also been floated recently for other Reagan administration financial regulatory positions. He was rumored in April to be under consideration for a position on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates Savings and Loan Associations. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[197] = [ ["say"], "The company said Jim Stevens, who is also a Coca-Cola Enterprises vice president and president of its Mid-Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Co affiliate, will succeed Ulrich.", "

19-JUN-1987 14:21:57.84

COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES <CCE> UNIT HEAD QUITS

ATLANTA, June 19 -

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc said Don Ulrich will be resigning as president of its Northeast Group to pursue other business interests.

The company said Jim Stevens, who is also a Coca-Cola Enterprises vice president and president of its Mid-Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Co affiliate, will succeed Ulrich. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[198] = [ ["say"], "It said Sargent, who was senior vice president, has also been named to the board.", "

19-JUN-1987 14:48:50.99

BRAINTREE SAVINGS <BTSB.O> NAMES NEW CEO

BRAINTREE, Mass., June 19 -

Braintree Savings Bank said Winthrop Sargent IV has been named president and chief executive officer, succeeding Lindsay L. Tait, who remains chairman.

It said Sargent, who was senior vice president, has also been named to the board. It said Tait intends to retire in about four years. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[199] = [ ["say"], "The network, formerly a joint venture between Time, Gulf and Western Inc and MCA Inc <MCA>, said that Gulf and Western and MCA, who each previously held a one-third interest, now will jointly own USA Network on a 50/50 basis.", "

19-JUN-1987 15:17:15.65

GULF AND WESTERN <GW> UPS INTEREST IN NETWORK

NEW YORK, June 19 -

USA Network, today said it has acquired Time Inc's <TL> one-third interest in the network.

The network, formerly a joint venture between Time, Gulf and Western Inc and MCA Inc <MCA>, said that Gulf and Western and MCA, who each previously held a one-third interest, now will jointly own USA Network on a 50/50 basis.

Terms were not disclosed, USA Network said.

USA Network is an advertiser-supported, entertainment basic cable network, reaching 39 mln homes on 8,500 cable systems. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[200] = [ ["say"], "L> PLC said it appointed David Drake chief executive replacing David Lewis, who will remain as vice-chairman, effective June 30.", "

19-JUN-1987 16:04:38.50

LLOYDS BANK CANADA NAMES NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE

TORONTO, June 19 -

Lloyds Bank Canada, a unit of Lloyds Bank <LLOY.L> PLC said it appointed David Drake chief executive replacing David Lewis, who will remain as vice-chairman, effective June 30.

The bank said that former president David Rattee resigned to pursue other interests.

Drake, 45, has served with Lloyds Bank since 1958, and is currently the bank's regional director in Birmingham, England.

Lewis was chief executive of the old Continental Bank of Canada, which sold 90 pct of its assets to Lloyds Bank last November. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[201] = [ ["say"], "Monetary sources said Alfonsin and Camdessus, who had not met before, mostly discussed Argentina's political and economic situation.", "

19-JUN-1987 17:16:08.97

ARGENTINA'S ALFONSIN MEETS IMF CHIEF CAMDESSUS

PHILADELPHIA, June 19 -

Argentine President Raul Alfonsin met for more than an hour with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Michel Camdessus, and Argentine economy minister Juan Sourrouille said the two men discussed Argentina's economy and its commercial bank financing package.

Sourrouille told reporters that 91.5 pct of the 1.95 billion dlr loan, which forms the core of the package, has been subscribed.

Citibank, the chairman of Argentina's bank advisory committee, said yesterday that subscriptions totalled about 91 pct.

The IMF has said that a "critical mass" of bank commitments is needed before it will start disbursing the 1.83 billion dlr standby loan that it has approved in principle for Argentina.

Asked what the IMF has stipulated as a critical mass, Sourrouille said, "That has not been defined but anywhere over 90 pct we are doing fine."

Although most of the money has been subscribed, officials noted that about a third of Argentina's 350 creditor banks hold 93 pct of its debt. They are worried that it might take a long time to persuade the other banks to join the deal.

Monetary sources said Alfonsin and Camdessus, who had not met before, mostly discussed Argentina's political and economic situation. Alfonsin, who is beginning a four-day private visit to the U.S., was in Philadelphia to speak to the private World Affairs Council, a non-partisan body dedicated to increasing public awareness of international affairs.

In his speech, Alfonsin said economic integration is the only way for Latin America to overcome its current crisis.

"This (economic integration) is probably the most audacious challenge facing Latin America this century, perhaps the most audacious of our history," he said. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[202] = [ ["say"], "The sources had said possible candidates for the governor's job include Prince Abdul Aziz Ibn Salman Ibn Abdul Aziz, who earlier ran a research center at Saudi Arabia's University of Petroleum and Minerals, and former Deputy Planning Minister Faisal Beshir.", "

29-JUN-1987 03:52:34.97

SAUDI OIL COMPANY GETS NEW ACTING GOVERNOR

RIYADH, June 29 -

The acting governor of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, Petromin, Jamal Hassan Jawa, has retired at his own request, oil industry sources said.

They said Ali Ibrahim Rubaishi, head of organisation planning in Petromin, would take over as acting governor.

Jawa held the post since his predecessor, Abdul-Hadi Taher, left in a major oil industry shake up last December.

The sources said Rubaishi had not been expected to hold the post permanently.

The government removed Taher and Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani from their posts late last year in a move which industry sources said was aimed at coming to grips with a buyers' oil market.

The two men had run the Saudi oil industry for more than 20 years. Industry sources said that despite huge resources, Saudi Arabia had been unable to mould an oil marketing strategy tuned to the competitive realities of the 1980s glut.

Hisham Nazer, who replaced Yamani, successfully led an OPEC-engineered return to fixed oil prices of 18 dlrs a barrel last December.

Nazer is believed to be reviewing Saudi oil operations which could lead to a thorough overhaul in the way Saudi Arabia does business, the sources said.

The sources had said possible candidates for the governor's job include Prince Abdul Aziz Ibn Salman Ibn Abdul Aziz, who earlier ran a research center at Saudi Arabia's University of Petroleum and Minerals, and former Deputy Planning Minister Faisal Beshir. They also list Abdulla Bakr, President of the University of Petroleum and Minerals, economist Ali Jonahi, Ahmed Shinawi, and Zuheir Masoud, director of Jeddah Islamic Port. REUTER

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[203] = [ ["say"], "It said Oteiba, who had just attended the OPEC ministerial meeting in Vienna, would stay for several days but gave no details.", "

29-JUN-1987 03:53:33.44

UAE OIL MINISTER OTEIBA VISITS EGYPT - AGENCY

CAIRO, June 29 -

UAE Oil Minister Mana Said al-Oteiba arrived in Alexandria last night for a visit to Egypt, the national Middle East News Agency (MENA) said.

It said Oteiba, who had just attended the OPEC ministerial meeting in Vienna, would stay for several days but gave no details.

Non-OPEC Egypt has pledged to restrain output to support OPEC's moves to boost oil prices. Oil Minister Abdel Hadi Kandeel last week said Egypt plans to leave its oil production of 870,000 barrels per day unchanged for the next five years. Egypt is able to produce up to one mln bpd. REUTER

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[204] = [ ["say"], "It said that Westinghouse replaces Rockwell International and UNC Nuclear Inc, who have been criticized by the state of Washington, the federal government and environmentalists for failing to correct safety problems at Hanford.", "

29-JUN-1987 13:34:36.60

WESTINGHOUSE <WX> TAKES OVER NUCLEAR PLANT

HANFORD, Wash, June 29 -

Westinghouse Electric Corp took over operations of several facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash, the DOE said.

It said that Westinghouse replaces Rockwell International and UNC Nuclear Inc, who have been criticized by the state of Washington, the federal government and environmentalists for failing to correct safety problems at Hanford.

Westinghouse signed a four billion dlr contract three weeks ago to operate Hanford for the next five years, DOE said.

The contract provides the company and annual profit between 1.4 mln and 14.6 mln dlrs, depending on the quality of its performance, the DOE said. "Our first objective is to be safe," soid William Jacobi, Westinghouse general manager at Hanford, adding, "If we can make that (safety) a priority we can have the production we need."

Westinghouse's chief mission at Hanford is to produce plutonium, supervise research for the Strategic Defense Inititive, SDI, and the cleanup of military nuclear waste stored in tanks at the site since the 1940's, company and DOE officials said. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[205] = [ ["say"], "The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp said it named John Bond chief executive officer Americas, succeeding Angus Petrie, who is retiring.", "

29-JUN-1987 16:32:35.35

HONK KONG AND SHANGHAI <HKS> NAMES AMERICAS CEO

NEW YORK, June 29 -

The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp said it named John Bond chief executive officer Americas, succeeding Angus Petrie, who is retiring.

Bond will have responsibility for the bank's operations in the United States, Canada and Latin America, the company said. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[206] = [ ["say"], "It said Swaminathan, who has headed IRRI since 1982, will concentrate on environmental and agricultural issues.", "

20-OCT-1987 05:46:18.76

RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE NAMES NEW HEAD

MANILA, Oct 20 -

The Manila-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said West German agricultural scientist Klaus Lampe will take over as its director-general in early 1988, succeeding M.S. Swaminathan.

An IRRI statement said Lampe, 56, is currently senior adviser to the German Agency for Technical Cooperation at Eschborn and was a former head of the agriculture section of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation.

It said Swaminathan, who has headed IRRI since 1982, will concentrate on environmental and agricultural issues. REUTER

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[207] = [ ["say"], "Economists said foreign countries should be patient with Takeshita, who is widely known as an ultra-cautious politician.", "

TAKESHITA FACES TOUGH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT JOB

By Tsukasa Maekawa

TOKYO, Oct 20 -

Former Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, chosen on Monday to be Japan's next prime minister, will face a tough test in managing Japan's economy from the very start of his two-year term, economists and businessmen said.

Takeshita told a news conference on Tuesday that he would do his best to continue the domestic reforms and external policies of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

However, leading Japanese businessmen called on Takeshita to outdo Nakasone by showing stronger leadership.

"Takeshita should not merely follow the Nakasone policies but should cope with mounting economic issues with a new vision and policies," Takashi Ishihara, chairman of the Japan Committee for Economic Development, said in a statement.

Economists generally agreed that there will be no major changes in Japan's economic policies under a new leader.

However, expectations are high among major industries for new initiatives by Takeshita for immediate and effective measures to solve economic problems such as trade friction with the U.S., Administrative and tax reforms, and soaring land prices.

Eishiro Saito, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren), urged Takeshita to succeed in unifying the ruling Liberal Democratic Party as soon as possible to tackle difficult tasks.

Regarding foreign economic polices, Yoshitoki Chino, chairman of the Japan Securities Dealers Association, said Takeshita should come up with economic measures well before economic issues develop into problems.

Behind those calls on Takeshita for prompt action are doubts about his capability in handling international issues due to his lack of experience in diplomacy, economists said. Economists said foreign countries should be patient with Takeshita, who is widely known as an ultra-cautious politician.

Takeshita has repeatedly said, "There should be consensus before taking action."

Takeshita has so far failed to unveil specific measures to reduce Japan's huge trade surplus, economists said.

He has said Japan will continue to stimulate the economy and to open the market wider to foreign products. REUTER

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[208] = [ ["say"], "Honeywell Inc said its board of directors elected its president, Dr James Renier, 57, as chief executive officer to succeed Edson Spencer, who will continue as chairman of the board.", "

20-OCT-1987 11:47:33.08

HONEYWELL <HON> ELECTS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 20 -

Honeywell Inc said its board of directors elected its president, Dr James Renier, 57, as chief executive officer to succeed Edson Spencer, who will continue as chairman of the board. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[209] = [ ["say"], "They said Prince Abdullah, who is deputy prime minister of Saudi Arabia and commander of the kingdom's national guard, was "very supportive" of the U.", "

19-OCT-1987 18:09:40.83

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE MEETS WITH US VICE PRES BUSH

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 -

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz met for an hour with Vice President George Bush on Monday after U.S. naval forces destroyed one Iranian oil platform in the Gulf and raided another.

Asked at the start of the meeting how he felt about the attack, the Crown Prince, who is here on an official visit, replied, "I believe what the United States has done is their responsibility as a superpower."

His remark appeared to be an implicit endorsement of the U.S. action, which the Pentagon said came in retaliation for last Friday's Iranian missile attack on a U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tanker.

Administration officials said Bush had assured the Crown Prince the United States would "stay the course" in the Gulf.

They said Prince Abdullah, who is deputy prime minister of Saudi Arabia and commander of the kingdom's national guard, was "very supportive" of the U.S. role in the strategic waterway.

Before meeting with Bush, the Crown Prince paid a brief courtesy call on President Reagan.

During his stay in Washington, he was also scheduled to meet with Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and leaders of the House and Senate foreign policy committees. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[210] = [ ["say"], "Whirlpool Corp said it named David Whitwam to the additional position of chairman, effective December One, replacing Jack Sparks, who retires November 30.", "

19-OCT-1987 15:01:06.27

WHIRLPOOL <WHR> NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN

BENTON HARBOR, MICH., Oct 19 -

Whirlpool Corp said it named David Whitwam to the additional position of chairman, effective December One, replacing Jack Sparks, who retires November 30.

It said Whitwam was elected president and chief executive officer effective July One.

Sparks will continue to serve on Whirlpool's board of directors as chairman of the finance committee. Reuter

", "Reuters-21578 text categorization test collection, distribution 1.0", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[211] = [ ["say"], "Police say Graber, who worked as a bodybuilder, is in the U.S. illegally because his visa has expired.", "(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CHARLES FELDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): While Kobe Bryant awaits trial on charges of raping a 19-year-old employee of a Colorado hotel, Patrick Graber sits in an L.A. County jail cell, accused of offering to kill the young woman in exchange for $3 million. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department says Graber sent a letter to Bryant offering to solve Bryant's problem by making his accuser disappear. He claimed, say police, to have ties to the Russian mob. Officials doubt that, but say Graber does have a record in his native country. SHERIFF LEE BACA, LOS ANGELES: We have found out that in Switzerland he has been arrested for fraud. So we're dealing with a person who apparently is a proven con artist.

FELDMAN: Bryant's security people contacted law enforcement and a sting operation was set up. When Graber showed up at this supermarket parking lot Thursday to allegedly pick up his money, he found some 35 law enforcement officers waiting for him.

(on camera): Police say Graber, who worked as a bodybuilder, is in the U.S. illegally because his visa has expired. He will be arraigned Monday. And, while police think Graber probably acted alone, they continue to look for other possible suspects in this alleged plot. Charles Feldman, CNN, Los Angeles. (END VIDEOTAPE)", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[212] = [ ["believe"], "quot;We cannot believe that Paul, who was entrusted with so much, could abuse his position in such a cold and overt betrayal.", "O'BRIEN: In Britain, the princes have had enough. The two sons of Princess Diana, William and Harry, released a scathing statement today, denouncing their mother's one-time confidant. They call former royal butler Paul Burrell's new book about the princess a quote, "cold and overt betrayal." Gavin Morris has details now from London.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) GAVIN MORRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Princess Diana's butler had vowed to her sons he would always be faithful. PAUL BURRELL, FORMER ROYAL BUTLER: I want to shake William firmly by the hand one day and say, I will never betray you or your mother.

MORRIS: But betray he has, according to Prince William. Princess Diana's rock, now a royal rat.

In a tell-all book, serialized in a British tabloid, Paul Burrell has revealed dozens of Diana's private letters. Her relations with other senior royals, her love affairs, her fears she was going to be killed. Now from an outraged Prince William, a statement, also on behalf of his brother. "We cannot believe that Paul, who was entrusted with so much, could abuse his position in such a cold and overt betrayal. It would mortify our mother if she were alive today." Royal watchers say such a public rebuke from heirs to the throne is stunning. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's absolutely unprecedented. And it makes it absolutely clear to the world, as well as to Burrell, that they want him to keep his trap shut.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[213] = [ ["say"], "You might even say Freud gave us Woody Allen, who highlighted neuroses in his films.", "COOPER (voice-over): Today's therapy is part of American culture. You see it in movies and on TV. BILLY CRYSTAL, ACTOR, "ANALYZE THIS": Have you been under a lot of stress lately? ROBERT DE NIRO, ACTOR, "ANALYZE THIS": Like to see your best friend murdered? CRYSTAL: That would qualify.

DE NIRO: Yes, I've got a lot of stress.

COOPER: But long before there was Frasier there was Freud. The father of psychoanalysis gave us the talking cure, tracing adult psychological problems to repressed childhood experiences, particularly sexual desires. You might even say Freud gave us Woody Allen, who highlighted neuroses in his films.

WOODY ALLEN, ACTOR, "BANANAS": I was a nervous child. I was a bed wetter when I was younger. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself. COOPER: Freud had apostles who rejected his emphasis on sex as the basis for neuroses. They formed their own schools of analytic thought.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["Text","The interview then provides examples of neurotic characters in Woody Allen films. Since the embedding predicate is "You might even say", which is very hedged, the only interpretation is at text-level.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)"],""], [["Text","Good",""],["Text","Good","I assume that by 'text-level' here one means COOPER, not the writer of the script. In a sense it's embedded."]] ]; corpus[214] = [ ["say"], "We've always said that even with Osama bin Laden, who we would all like to see brought to justice, that that will not be the end of al Qaeda.", "MALVEAUX: Administration officials say it is much too early to know. But if Ayman al-Zawahiri was captured on the eve of the one- year anniversary of the U.S. war with Iraq, it would be a tremendous coup.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can't underestimate the importance of his operation or the role he plays in the operation when you start to characterize the level of fish -- some people like to call them big fish -- he's definitely a whale.

MALVEAUX: But White House officials were also very careful to play down expectations.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: It would, of course, be a major step forward in the war on terrorism because he's obviously an extremely important figure. But I think we have to be careful not to assume that getting one al Qaeda leader is going to break up the organization.

MALVEAUX: That's the position officials have used to minimize the significance of Osama bin Laden's unknown whereabouts.

RICE: We've always said that even with Osama bin Laden, who we would all like to see brought to justice, that that will not be the end of al Qaeda. They have local leadership. They have other national leadership.

(END VIDEOTAPE) MALVEAUX: Now, the White House is trying to avoid the worst possible scenario, that is expectations of a big catch and then a possible letdown -- Anderson.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--text-level","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[215] = [ ["say"], "The magazine says Ben Affleck, who himself came close to being husband No.", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She seems to have a propensity for changing husbands.

MOOS: J.Lo. and Marc Anthony once sung a duet called "Don't Love Me." He was dying and already British bookmakers are predicting the death of their marriage, giving odds of three to one that they will be over before the year is.

WARREN LUSH, SPOKESMAN, LADBROKES: Quite pessimistic about the chances. We think that J.Lo. in many ways could be the new Liz Taylor.

MOOS: Liz Taylor with her eight marriages. Two of them to Richard Burton who actually played Mark Anthony in "Cleopatra." The Roman Mark Anthony knelt, the singer Marc Anthony stayed on his feet, promoting his new CD but when asked about his marriage on "The View"...

MARC ANTHONY, SINGER: I have nothing to say about anything. My life is my life.

MOOS: Matt Lauer noticed his ring on "The Today Show." If it hadn't been from "US Weekly's" shot from a helicopter we'd have no proof the wedding happened. The magazine says Ben Affleck, who himself came close to being husband No. 3, gave two thumbs up when told of the marriage. Now there are reports that J.Lo. is already pregnant.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'll find out in about nine months, won't we?

MOOS: On Regis and Kelly.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[216] = [ ["think"], "I think Ambassador Bremer, who you worked for once asked them to do a study about a year or so ago in Iraq.", "(END VIDEOTAPE) KING: Old charges, the White House says, but some Democrats say there are answered questions. And they go as much to the president's credibility now, then as to his conduct some 30 years ago. So, while the White House says this is all old news, Anderson, they also expect more charges and more allegations in the days to come.

COOPER: All right. John king, thanks for that.

While the debate about an old war lingers, we want to focus on the war at hand. A new study, by the Center for Strategic and International Studies released today, has some pretty alarming findings. In areas of security, healthcare, education and economic opportunities, the study found that not only were things getting worse in Iraq, but they're not only getting worse, but part of the problem was the very fact that Americans were there at all. We want to talk more about Iraq and the campaign. We are joined in Washington by Kerry's foreign policy adviser, Jamie Rubin, and a former coalition spokesman Dan Senor who is supporting the Bush campaign. Gentlemen, thanks for being with us. Dan, let me start off with you, CSIS, the group which wrote this report, which I assume you think is legitimate. I think Ambassador Bremer, who you worked for once asked them to do a study about a year or so ago in Iraq. Their report today is pretty alarming. They say that in all key areas they studied, they said the situation in Iraq is going backwards. Does President Bush actually believe the policy is working? DAN SENOR, FRM. COALITION SPOKESMAN: Well, I can tell you what I know from the ground there. There are certainly areas that are problem attic and we certainly are having some tough days, and we'll have tough days ahead, but if you look at the undercurrents and the macrotrends, rather than the minute-to-minute developments that tend to furnish the daily headlines, things are moving forward. When you think about the part of the world where countries and governments harbor terrorists. Where there's no democracy to be found.

COOPER: That's not what this report is saying, they're not looking at macrotrends. They're interviewing hundreds of Iraqis, their looking at hundreds of press reports, and they're saying it's not moving forward.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--text-level","The appositive content is not hedged with "think". In addition, the addressee does not challenge the appositive content, just the main clause content.","Good",[],""], [["Text","Bad","addressee doesn't challenge appositive content, I think. Also, first argument relies on intuition."],["Text","Bad","The addressee doesn't challenge the main clause content, which would be: "I think Ambassador Bremer ... asked them to do a study about a year or so ago in Iraq.""]] ]; corpus[217] = [ ["believe"], "Because I agree strongly with your -- I believe it was Janey, who was just on your show -- there was still a lot of speculation in this case, and I think there was a lot of questions that were left unanswered.", "Now, there have been a few of the local papers that came out right away. I think you saw the headlines in the David Mattingly piece, but this just came out from "The San Francisco Examiner." Also, big headlines, of course. Big news here, and, of course, big news across the country -- Anderson. COOPER: Rusty Dornin, live from inside the courtroom. Thanks, Rusty, appreciate it.

Three jurors were dismissed from the Scott Peterson case before the verdict was reached today, two in the past week alone. Back in June, Justin Falconer, the original juror number five, became the first to go. He joins me from Kansas City with his view on the case. Justin, good to see you again. Now, just days ago you told me you still would not have convicted Scott Peterson. What do you think this jury saw that you didn't? JUSTIN FALCONER, DISMISSED JUROR: Well, they obviously saw four months of testimony that I didn't get to see, and whatever happened in that four months put them over the top.

I said -- I think it's going to be very interesting when those jurors come out and they start talking to see what it was exactly that put them over the top. Because I agree strongly with your -- I believe it was Janey, who was just on your show -- there was still a lot of speculation in this case, and I think there was a lot of questions that were left unanswered. However, those questions were apparently answered for that jury, and they all came back unanimous for first degree. You know, it shocks me, but, you know, I expected a verdict today, and it came. COOPER: Justin, you were there when Mark Geragos said that he would find -- that the jury would find Scott Peterson, he would prove Scott Peterson was stone cold innocent.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--text-level","Lexical argument: The appositive content seems not to be part of what the subject "believes".","Bad",["Other"],""], [["Text","Bad","why not?"],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[218] = [ ["say"], "Witnesses say Wilson, who was licensed to carry a gun, sprinted down the street.", "By all accounts, the death toll would be greater, but one man without a badge grabbed a gun and ran into the crossfire. Scott Lieberman now owns an indoor shooting range Mark started and is one of many praising his bravery. SCOTT LIEBERMAN, LOCK AND LOAD SHOOTING RANGE: People always talk about the fact that there is, you know, this -- the Texas myth, you know, there are Texas legends. I think in Mark Wilson's final act, we serve, you know, the birth of yet another Texas legend.

CALLEBS (on camera): For nearly nine years, this was Mark Wilson's home. Friends said he liked to think of the town square down there as his front yard. On February 24, he had just finished lunch, when he popped back into his apartment for a quick moment, when the shooting started. He ran into the bedroom, grabbed his .45, left the gun case on the nightstand, and ran downstairs so quickly, he left the front door open. (voice-over): Witnesses say Wilson, who was licensed to carry a gun, sprinted down the street. He was able to shoot the gunman several times, but David Arroyo, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was unfazed. Arroyo turned, killed Wilson, then sped away. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God! The other one is running away. They killed him.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[219] = [ ["say"], "Now, police say Frank, who was working as painter at Letterman's ranch, intended to seek a $5 million ransom.", "MARK MCGWIRE, FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER: Asking me or any other player to answer questions about who took steroids in front of television cameras will not solve the problem. If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed. If he answers yes, he risks public scorn and endless government investigations.

(END VIDEO CLIP) HILL: And a little later, we'll hear from the anguished father who took those baseball stars on.

A carjacking and a 73-mile chase. Here, you're looking at the pictures -- David Letterman, though. So we will tell you about David Letterman, how about that? This is actually a pretty scary story, a kidnapping plot here. Authorities in Montana arrested a man accused of plotting to kidnap David Letterman's young son and nanny from his home. Kelly Frank is being held on a felony charge of solicitation. The police were tipped off by a man who said he was approached by Frank about the alleged plot. Now, police say Frank, who was working as painter at Letterman's ranch, intended to seek a $5 million ransom. A little scary there. And back to that carjacking story. Get this, a carjacking and a 73-mile chase ended with an arrest on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway. Police say a man approached -- get this -- a Department of Corrections van and ordered an officer and five inmates out onto the side of the highway. A high-speed chase ensued, but ended when a flat tire sent the van off the road and rolling down a hill. Police wrestled the man to the ground. The good news here, no one was hurt. But, you know, if you're going to carjack, why do you go for the Department of Corrections van, Heidi? COLLINS: Another excellent example of those stupid criminals.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[220] = [ ["ask"], "A couple of day after the arrest of the minor suspect, the parents asked friends of Joran, who was interrogated by the police, what he told them, and what he told to the police.", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just like most of the guys that go there, local guys. It's not just him. It's almost every local guy that goes there, or any other -- not just Carlos 'n Charlie's, any other bar where there are tourists, they just, you know, have fun with tourists sometimes, you know, even something more. Depends. Up to you.

SANCHEZ: And he says, it depends on the person you're with. Workers, including those serving drinks at Carlos 'n Charlie's the night the young Alabama girl disappeared, tell us they saw Natalee with Joran, that she was drinking heavily, that she was dancing on tables with friends. It's behavior, though, that is not unusual at a night club known for tall drinks, Jell-O shots and conga lines, where free tequila is offered for the asking.

Tourists seem to be drawn to the booze and wild parties found at Aruban nightclubs. In fact, party busses pick many of them up from area hotels on what amounts to a cocktail party on wheels, like this one, known by locals as the Banana Bus. The driver tells us his last stop of the evening is always Carlos 'n Charlie's. Exactly what happened though on that Monday morning May 30, when Natalee, Joran and two other young men left Carlos 'n Charlie's is still not known. But authorities are now explaining, extensively, how the Van Der Sloots may have interfered, by reaching out to potential witnesses. JANSSEN: A couple of day after the arrest of the minor suspect, the parents asked friends of Joran, who was interrogated by the police, what he told them, and what he told to the police.

SANCHEZ: In an unusual bit of detail from Aruban authorities, they got even more specific.

JANSSEN: They were speaking about the situation, that if you don't have a body, there is no case.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["Text","The appositive content asserts the existence of an interrogation. The interview goes on to describe what the police learned during the interrogation of Joran.","Good",["Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Text","Good","also note that the appositive modifies the NP complement of the attitude predicate, which is not really in the relevant environment to be embedded"],["Text","Good",""]] ]; corpus[221] = [ ["say"], "Still, Democrats said they want Roberts, who could be a pivotal vote on key social issues, to answer tough questions about his views.", "(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ED HENRY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Top Republicans believe the president hit a home run with John Roberts, who won cautious praise from the Senate Judiciary chairman, who's considered more moderate than the nominee. SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA), JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: It would be hard to find someone with better credentials than Judge Roberts. When you ask a question about whether it's a safe nomination, I don't know that anything in Washington, D.C., is safe if it's a nomination. But it -- when you review his -- his resume, not many around -- I don't know that there's one in the Senate that can match it.

HENRY: Top Democrats who voted against Roberts for a lower court nomination seemed to be keeping their powder dry.

SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: But with some nominees you might have said well, there's a darn good shot that's going to be a consensus nominee. With others you'd say there's a darn good shot that's not going to be a consensus nominee. He's in the middle.

HENRY: Still, Democrats said they want Roberts, who could be a pivotal vote on key social issues, to answer tough questions about his views. SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Someone confirmed today can be expected to serve on the court until the year 2030 or later.

HENRY: But leading conservatives believe Roberts will win easy confirmation.

SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R), ALABAMA: He was one of the most fabulous witnesses we've ever seen before the Judiciary Committee. He's argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. Virtually no lawyer in America -- only a handful would ever have argued that many.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[222] = [ ["say"], "Classmates say Klebold and Harris, who brought terror to Littleton, Colorado, in 1998, and Jeff Weise, the Red Lake, Minnesota, teen, who killed nine people and wounded seven before fatally shooting himself, all wore dark trench coats and were fans of Marilyn Manson.", "DAN KINDLON, AUTHOR, "RAISING CAIN": We allow boys to be angry and aggressive, but we don't allow them to express fear and sadness and other more vulnerable emotions. So, hence, when they -- when they get rejected or they get disappointed, they have a harder time dealing with that. And it often comes out in anger. COLLINS: Most of the shooters, like you see in this video of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris from Columbine High School, had a fascination with firearms or violent video games.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dog, I heard you got some beef with me.

COLLINS: And while there were signs or warnings about their intentions, they were not taken seriously at the time.

RANDY BROWN, FATHER OF COLUMBINE STUDENT: The sheriff's department didn't respond to our reported threats by Eric Harris against our son for 13 months. Columbine would not have happened if they had investigated that to begin with.

COLLINS: Classmates say Klebold and Harris, who brought terror to Littleton, Colorado, in 1998, and Jeff Weise, the Red Lake, Minnesota, teen, who killed nine people and wounded seven before fatally shooting himself, all wore dark trench coats and were fans of Marilyn Manson.

Kip Kinkel, who killed two students in Springfield, Oregon, was a fan of Manson's music as well. According to the FBI, all of the shooters may have felt the desire to defend narcissistic views of themselves and had very low self-esteem. COLLINS: Luke Woodham killed two students in Pearl, Mississippi.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["Text","For the first appositive, the next two paragraphs provide details on what Klebold and Harris did in Littleton.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)"],""], [["Text","Good","If the argument is true, it's good. I don;t seem to have access to the next two paragraphs, only one."],["Text","Good","In addition: (1) unlikely what the classmates had said, and (2) COLLINS talks about "Eric Harris from Columbine High School" in the first paragraph."]] ]; corpus[223] = [ ["say"], "San Francisco's District Attorney Kamala Harris says Turner, who is facing 131 charges, is the one who is responsible and deserves to be punished.", "ROWLANDS: Turner was able to stay in business for years in part because his name was on that federal list of doctors. Green card applications were approved for many people that saw Turner because he was on that list.

No one from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would talk to us on camera about how or if they update their list. A statement released to CNN said in part, quote, "We were not advised when Stephen Turner surrendered his license." (On camera): But a spokesperson from the California Medical Board says they did update a national database when Turner lost his license. Whether or not anyone from Immigration checked that database, is unclear. (Voice-over): San Francisco's District Attorney Kamala Harris says Turner, who is facing 131 charges, is the one who is responsible and deserves to be punished. HARRIS: The conduct that this defendant committed is really extremely egregious and deserves serious consequences.

TURNER: This is the worst thing that ever happened. And I'm really truly sorry. I want to apologize to each and every one. And I just feel awful. I just feel very, very bad about all of this.

ROWLANDS: Meanwhile, there are more than 1,000 people out there who think they've been vaccinated and tested by a real doctor.

Ted Rowlands, CNN, San Francisco.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["No evidence--unclear","","",[],""], [] ]; corpus[224] = [ ["say"], "Investigators say Jack Hollywood, who was arrested last year on drug charges, was a suspected drug dealer who may have been helping his son.", "THOMAS: It seemed like every time we got to where he was, he was gone again. And we just missed him on several occasions in several states. In fact, out of the country as well. ROWLANDS: As for the others, Jesse Rugge was convicted of kidnapping, William Skidmore pleaded guilty to kidnapping and robbery. Graham Pressley, the 17-year-old, was convicted of second-degree murder, and triggerman Ryan Hoyt was sentenced to death for first- degree murder and kidnapping.

Despite an international manhunt, there was still no sign of Jesse James Hollywood. KATZ: The prosecutors believe that that was the hand of his father. That was Jack Hollywood keeping Jesse under the radar.

ROWLANDS: Jack Hollywood was also in that little league photo. He was the coach standing in the back row. Investigators say Jack Hollywood, who was arrested last year on drug charges, was a suspected drug dealer who may have been helping his son.

THOMAS: We always felt that the father was involved in providing information and providing money and hiding his son from the authorities.

Hollywood is currently in our custody and will stand trial for his role in the kidnapping and murder of Nicholas Markowitz. ROWLANDS: Last year, after more than four years on the run, Jesse James Hollywood was arrested in Brazil.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hollywood was found to be in possession of false identification documents and in violation of immigration laws. He was detained by the federal police and deported as an illegal alien.", "Anderson Cooper 360", ["Text","A later utterance by the same reporter: "Last year, after more than four years on the run, Jesse James Hollywood was arrested in Brazil." This pragmatically presupposes an earlier arrest, as reported in the appositive.","Good",["Separate assertion(s)","Pragmatic presupposition"],""], [["Text","Bad","Really? why does this pragmatically presuppose anything?"],["Text","Bad","The sentence in the argument does not presuppose an earlier arrest. It also does not mention the father (as in the appositive), but the son."]] ]; corpus[225] = [ ["say"], "Perino says Rove, who declined our request for an interview, doesn't spend a lot of time, quote, "on the couch thinking about his personal role in these situations.", "ROVE: GOP to lead on national security (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

TODD: Now, in the wreckage of a Democratic route, Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino tells CNN there is no tension between Rove and President Bush. She says this comment the day after was a full-hearted joke.

BUSH: I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was.

TODD: Perino says Rove, who declined our request for an interview, doesn't spend a lot of time, quote, "on the couch thinking about his personal role in these situations." But others, even on the conservative side, have had it with the image of Karl Rove as political genius.

ANDREW SULLIVAN, AUTHOR, "THE CONSERVATIVE SOUL": He didn't get a majority of the popular vote in 2000. He squeezed a 51 percent victory in 2004. He's been teetering on the brink ever since. And the base strategy now shows him not to be a genius, but to be a real failure.