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Macy's files for bankruptcy
R. H. Macy & Co. Inc. sought sanctuary in U.S. Bankruptcy Court yesterday, overwhelmed by debt and the recession.
Plagued by the same sluggish sales as other retailers, Macy's fought for two years to remain solvent. But yesterday it conceded defeat and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Chapter 11 allows a company to continue to operate while it reorganizes, without retribution from unpaid creditors.
The filing showed that Macy's had liabilities of $5.32 billion against assets of $4.94 billion as of Nov. 2.
Retailing analysts said Macy's would undergo a reorganization process, selling or closing underperforming stores. How that will affect Macy's 69,500 employees remains unclear.
Washington
Survey says drug use declining
Illegal drug use by high school and college students continued a decade-long decline in 1991, but overall use levels show "we've still got a way to go" in the fight against drugs, experts said yesterday.
An annual survey said 29 percent of high school seniors last year said they had used an illegal drug in the previous year, down from 33 percent of seniors in 1990. The percentages were the same for college students.
"We have continued to make steady progress in dissuading our young people from being involved with illicit drugs," said Lloyd Johnston, principal investigator of the study and a social psychologist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
Sao Paulo, Brazil Brazil party changes its name
In a sign of the times, Brazil's Communist Party has changed its name and dropped the hammer-and-sickle emblem.
Delegates to the party's 10th Congress voted Sunday to become the Popular Socialist Party, but there was no consensus on a new symbol to replace the scrapped emblem.
Party hard-liners protested, throwing eggs and stalking out of the meeting Saturday. They later announced a plan to found a new Communist Party.
The party - Brazil's oldest, founded in 1922 — was illegal for most of its existence, except for a brief period in the 1940s and again in 1985, when Brazil returned to civilian rule after a 21-year military dictatorship.
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Iraqi crowd roughs up inspection team
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS—With Iraqi police looking on passively, U.N. weapons inspectors were roughed up and menaced yesterday by a shouting crowd of Iraqi men, the United Nations said. It denounced the Baghdad government's "clear breach" of agreements covering the inspections.
Yesterday's was the latest in a series of ugly incidents involving the inspectors, whose work is being carried out under the terms of the Persian Gulf War cease-fire. There were no reports of injuries to the inspectors in yesterday's confrontation.
U. N. representative Francois Giuliani said the team's leader, U.S. Army Mjy Karen Jansen, and two colleagues were jostled, shouted at and pinned against the wall of the lobby while police looked on.
The crowd — about 40 Iraqi men — was described as being made up of demonstrators, but in Iraq.
protests often are orchestrated by the government. A U.N. official called the crowd a "hired mob."
Despite pleas for help from the police, the rest of the inspection team members were trapped inside a bus in front of the hotel for about 25 minutes before they decided to jump on the crowd into the hotel, he said.
Giuliani said police watched without intervening as the men shouted slogans and jumped up and down on the U.N. vehicles.
"The police, in response to questions why they did not do anything, said they 'were not allowed to,'" he said.
The 18-member chemical and biological weapons inspection team had just arrived in Baghdad from Bahrain, where the U.N. inspectors have headquarters.
"I understand it was an organized protest by a hired mob in which about 40 people were involved," said Roderick Morrison, a central commission regional officer in
I understand it was an organized protest by a hired mob in which about 40 people were involved."
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Alastair Livingston U.N. special commission regional officer in Pakistan
officer in Bahrain
Livingston said that there was some pushing and shoving when the team arrived but that he did not hear of any injuries.
The incident was reminiscent of
other confrontations involving U.N. inspectors.
In September, 44 U.N. nuclear weapons inspectors were held in a Baghdad parking lot by Iraqi guards for four days after the U.N. officials refused to relinquish documents on Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
Organized groups of demonstrators railed against the inspectors for days, until the Iraqi government gave in to international censure and allowed the inspectors to leave with the documents.
On June 28, Iraqi soldiers fire shots over the heads of U.N. inspectors trying to photograph a speeding convoy carrying crates of nuclear-related material, including electromagnetic separation equipment.
The U.N. Special Commission, which is charged with dismantling Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and bat
listic missiles, immediately lodged a protest with the Iraqi government concerning veyardday's incident.
Gulianni said the incident represented "a clear breach by Iraq of various special arrangements, undertakings and U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning the immunities, privileges, safety and access of U.N. inspection teams."
Under various Security Council resolutions adopted since the end of the gulf war last year, Iqbal is bound to cooperate with the U.N. weapons inspectors and protect them while they are on their rounds.
This month marked the first anniversary of the start of the 43-day gulf war, in which Iraq was driven out of Kuwait, the emirate it seized the previous August.
Observing the anniversary, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told his 17 million people that Iraq had won a moral victory despite being trounced by the U.S.-led coalition.
Arkansas woman stands by Clinton allegations
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — An Arkansas woman said yesterday that she had a 12-year affair with Democratic presidential contender Bill Clinton and that he was "absolutely lying" when he denied the affair. Clinton said, "She didn't tell the truth."
Gennifer Flowers, whose truthfulness has been questioned on several points related to her story, said at a news conference that the Arkansas governor told her that he loved her. Flowers released audio tape that she said captured Clinton talking to her about the likelihood of reporters inquiring about their relationship.
The voice urges a denial, then says, "They can't run a story like this unless somebody said, 'Yeah. I did it with him.'"
The authenticity of the tapes has not been independently verified.
Flowers, who first told her story in a paid interview with the Star tabloid, said at the news conference. "The truth is I loved him. I tell me to deny it." He is absolutely lying."
Clinton, his candidacy jeopardized by the ongoing controversy, told reporters that Flowers, an Arkansas state employee, had "changed her position for money . . . as far as
I'm concerned, it's a closed matter. He referred reporters to an interview he and his wife granted to CBS's "60 Minutes" that was aired Sunday night.
Clinton has acknowledged talking with Flowers on the phone after she called to express her distress at being named in news reports alleging that they had laid an affair
Clinton's wife, Hillary, said at a campaign appearance yesterday in South Dakota, "We've said all that we have to say. We've ourd ourselves as best we can. We leave it at that."
Whatever the truth, Flowers' appearance marked an escalation in the campaign controversy that has thrust Clinton into an unwanted spotlight at precisely the time his candidacy appeared to be taking flight.
The 45-year-old Arkansas governor generally is acknowledged to be the front-runner for his party's nomination. He has shown promise, but there are things he will have to do, where the first primary will be Feb. 18.
The news conference also marked a continuation of the debate about the role of the media and how questions of marital fidelity should play in a campaign.
"Enough is enough," Democratic National Committee Chairman Ronald Brown said in
statement. "We should pull the plug on trash journalism and titillation television."
The news conference itself bordered on rowdy. Several reporters asked questions about Clinton's sexual practices, which Flowers did not answer.
The portion of the tape she played contained explicit references by Flowers to sexual practices, as well.
Flowers' attorney, Blake Hendrix, said the next issue of the Star would contain additional details of the alleged relationship between the two.
Flowers began her appearance by simply stating, "Yes, I was Bill Clinton's lover for 12
She added that she had lied about the relationship for the past two years to protect Clin-
Flowers said that local Republicans in Arkansas had approached her six months ago todivulge the details of her story but that she refused.
"No one in this office has any involvement whatsoever," said Richard Bearden, a former professor of education.
It was not the only part of Flowers' story that has been challenged.
- Flowers told the Star that she met Clinton
at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock in 1979 or 1980. The hotel did not open until November 1982.
■ Flowers said she performed on the "Hee Haw" television show for two seasons beginning in 1979. A representative for the show's production company said Flowers never appeared.
Flowers said she received an associate nursing degree from the University of Arkansas School of Nursing in Little Rock and had attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. School officials said they had no records to support such claims.
Clinton and his wife appeared on "60 Minutes" in hopes of putting an end to questions about their marriage.
In the interview, the governor denounced Flowers' allegations as false but acknowledged "wrongdoing" in his marriage. He declined to say whether he had ever been unfaithful to his wife.
Rumors about Flowers first surfaced in 1990 after a fired Arkansas state employee, Larry Nichols, said Flowers and four other women had had affairs with Clinton. Nichols filed a wrongful dismissal suit, but he announced during the weekend that he was dropping the suit.
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