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News in Brief
Wednesday September 10, 1997
NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS, THE NATION AND THE WORLD
STATE
Least respected meat turns into tasty treat
HUTCHINSON — Spam is an inexpensive luncheon meat that—even its makers admit—gets no respect.
But the judges had no difficulty Monday in finding some tasty Spam dishes at the Kansas State Fair.
Linda Gronewaller, of rural Hutchinson, won first prize with her Savory Spam Torte — but admitted she has not tried it herself.
"We're not real big Spam fans," she said. "The only time we eat Spam is when we go camping."
Gronewaller said she got the idea for the torte, layered with cheese, spinach and red peppers, from chef Julia Child and then made it with Spam instead of ham.
She won $100 for her effort, and her recipe will be entered in the national Spam cook-off. The winner of that event will get a $2,500 shopping spree at the Mall of America in Minnesota and the chance to be remembered as the king or queen of Spam.
"Spam is the Rodney Dangerfield of canned meat," said Bryan Rebel, a Spam representative from Kansas City, Kan. "It doesn't get any respect."
John Frye of Wichita took second place with his Spam-stuffed zucchini, a taste treat that he served to judges on a platter covered with brown sugar, spicy dipping cups and a small smokehouse that puffed wisps of smoke into the air.
"I grew up on Spam," Frye said. "My mom used to make Spam burgers, Spam loaf and pineapple Spam."
Betty Krehbiel of Pretty Prairie took third place with her Spam quesadillas with black-bean salsa.
The most unusual entry might have been Kay Neff's cold Spam Jell-O. Dave Neff said his wife made it on hot summer days when the family wanted something that was cool and nutritious and had meat in it.
"It's got Spam, peas, black olives, celery, chopped-up boiled eggs, Jell-O and mayonnaise in it," Neff said.
NATIONAL
Former chairman denies memory of calls to CIA
WASHINGTON — Confronted with memos indicating he twice contacted the CIA on behalf of a fugitive businessman, former Democratic chairman Donald L. Fowler insisted yesterday he had no memory of making such calls for the man, who was a major party donor.
Later, Democrats produced a statement from the CIA official — identified only as
"Bob" — saying he had been operating undercover and Fowler may not have known he was with the spy agency.
Fowler appeared before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, knowing he would be grilled by Republicans about Democratic fund-raising abuses during last year's presidential campaign.
The Republicans questioned him closely about his intervention with officials on behalf of a number of Democratic donors
— including Indian tribes opposing a rival tribe's casino — but saved their major attack for the help given to businessman Roger Tamraz. He is a fugitive from a decade-old embezzlement charge in Lebanon who nonetheless was a frequent White House visitor in 1995 and 1996.
Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., the committee chairman, showed Fowler two 1995 CIA memos describing calls from Fowler on behalf of Tamraz, who wanted help in stiffing opposition to a pipeline project in the Middle East. Fowler had testified he could not recall contacting the CIA and told Thompson just before the documents were introduced: "If somebody has some proof I would be happy to refresh my memory."
After he was shown the first CIA document, Fowler said "I understand the implications ... but it does not refresh my memory."
Later, the Democrats produced the Senate deposition of the CIA official — who said he didn't know whether Fowler knew he was talking to a spy agency employee.
At Tamraz's suggestion, the official said, he called Fowler, who returned his messages.
"I was under... cover," said the official, identified only as Bob. "I can't say for certain he knew who he was talking to because CIA was never mentioned."
According to contribution records, Tamraz contributed at least $300,000 to the Democratic National Committee or state Democratic campaigns during the 1996 election cycle. Republicans pointed out the first Fowler call to the CIA came a day after Tamraz donated $75,000 to Virginia Democrats.
Israel asks Palestinians to meet further demands
JERUSALEM — On the eve of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's attempt to rescue Mideast peace, Israel raised the stakes yesterday with new security demands it says Palestinians must fulfill before they will be given any more West Bank land.
Palestinians, in turn, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to blackmail them.
"Our only hope is that the United States will realize that this is ... an evil attempt to torpedo the peace process," said Marwan Kanafani, a representative of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
The new demands were contained in a four-page list Israeli officials said would be given to Albright. In addition to crushing Islamic militant groups, Israel said the Palestinians must reduce the size of their police force, dismiss their police chief and agree to Israeli and U.S. monitoring to ensure compliance.
Netanyahu complained yesterday that Arafat's recent efforts to fight Islamic militants — including the arrests of 35 activists on Monday — were symbolic at best and aimed at appeasing Albright.
toring to ensure compliance.
"We demand consistency in the treatment of the terrorist infrastructure as an essential condition for the continuation of the peace process."
Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee.
Albright: To receives a list of Israel's new demands
"Unless Arafat stops violating his commitment, and starts fulfilling it — to fight the infrastructure of the terrorist organizations, to jail their leaders, to confiscate their weapons, to stop incitement towards terrorism, to stop embracing the leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization — unless he does all that we won't have much progress with the peace process," he said.
Netanyahu blamed Arafat for not preventing suicide bombings by Islamic militants in Jerusalem on July 30 and last Thursday. The bombings killed 20 Israelis and five assailants.
In its list of demands, Israel said Arafat must reduce his police force from the 35,000 officers he recruited to the 24,000 permitted by the peace agreement, and fire officers who have been involved in attacks on Israeliis.
Sinn Fein abandons guns to participate in talks
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Sinn Fein, the IRA ally that once embraced both the gun and the ballot box as agents of change, formally renounced violence yesterday and took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
Five party leaders of Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestant majority stayed away, underlining their skepticism of Sinn Fein's sincerity and of a process they think weaken Northern Ireland's union with Britain.
The chairman of the talks, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, welcomed Sinn Fein's arrival and urged the Protestants not to boycott the negotiations.
"This is the first time in the modern history of Northern Ireland that there has been in place at the same time both negotiations and a cease-fire," Mitchell said, referring to the Irish Republican Army's decision to stop its campaign against British rule 52 days ago.
"I believe that's a significant step forward, although I acknowledge that the dif
It is the first time since Northern Ireland was created in 1920 that the governments of Britain and the Irish Republic have jointly invited IRA supporters to join other parties to discuss the state's future. Sinn Fein was barred from talks in June 1966 because of IRA violence.
ficult steps remain to be taken," he said.
Simn Fein's president, Gerry Adams, led his delegation into Stormont castle at midday and pledged acceptance of a sixpoint renunciation of violence known as the "Mitchell Principles."
Accepting those principles — among them to seek disarmament of the IRA and pro-British paramilitary groups during negotiations — was a prerequisite for all parties in the talks.
NATO forces avert clash between Serbian factions
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — NATO forces ended a dangerous standoff between rival Serb camps yesterday, disarming dozens of security men loyal to war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, then escorting them from a hotel surrounded by their foes.
Police loyal to Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavski blocked access to the Hotel Bosna in the center of Banja Luka early yesterday, cutting telephones, power and water. Momcilo Krajisnik, Karadzic's top aide, and several of his chief aides were trapped inside.
They had arrived Monday in Banja Luka, Plavic's stronghold, for a rally that NATO officials said was designed to mask an attempt to overthrow Plavic by bringing in heavily armed special police and thousands of Karadzic supporters.
Only a few hundred Karadzic supporters made it into Banja Luka, due to a blockade of their buses Monday by NATO forces and Plavis police.
However, at least five people were injured in overnight violence, including a pro-Plavskic policeman who suffered a serious gunshot wound. police said.
Trying to avoid more violence, peace force officials negotiated yesterday with Krajinik's security men and Plavski's police to release him and others from the hotel.
At mid-afternoon, NATO troops escorted dozens of Krajisnik's security detail through a hostile crowd of thousands who chanted "Thieves! Thieves!" Plavic has accused Karzadiz, the Bosnian Serbs' wartime leader, of getting rich through black-market deals.
Sixty-two men were taken to a NATO base, where they were being checked to determine if they are among those indicted for war crimes by the U.N. tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, said U.S. envoy Jacques Klein.
Compusrve sells out, rival America Online benefits
WASHINGTON — CompuServe is being sold to telecommunications provider
WorldCom Inc. in a $1.2 billion deal that will strengthen rival America Online's hand in the computer online business.
WorldCom, based in Jackson, Miss., said today it has agreed to buy CompuServe from H&R Block Inc., which owns 80 percent of the online service, for stock worth about $1.2 billion.
It then plans to trade CompuServe's content and its 2.6 million consumer subscribers along with $175 million to AOL, which already has about 9 million subscribers.
In exchange, WorldCom will get AOL's ANS Communications division, which provides Internet access mainly for large business customers. It will also get a five-year contract to service AOL's network customers.
The deal makes the fourth-biggest long-distance service provider a powerful player in the online world while giving America Online a longer lead in the business of consumer online service.
"We are excited about the prospect of forming this strategic relationship with AOL, the leading on-line service provider," Bernard J. Ebbers, president and CEO of WorldCom, said in a statement.
WorldCom owns UUNet Technologies Inc., one of the largest Internet service providers.
The deal would have to be approved by government antitrust regulators. If approved, AOL's biggest competitor would be Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Network.
CompuServe has been on the market for
coughly a year by H&R Block.
A plan to make CompuServe a separate stock company owned by H&R Block shareholders, a realignment planned for late last year, was withdrawn after Internet stocks in general declined.
WorldCom's $1.2 billion offer for CompuServe amounts to about $13 a share. CompuServe stock closed Friday at $13.50 per share.
CompuServe pioneered the online business in the 1980s, but it was overtaken by America Online in the 1980s.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Bell radar detector and other items were stolen between 1 and 11 a.m. Aug. 26 from the 2400 block of Harvard, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $444.
A KU student's car's front quarter panel was damaged between 6 p.m. Saturday and 1:45 p.m. Sunday in the 300 block of West 16th Street. The damage was valued at $200.
A KU student's Sony cellular phone was stolen between noon and 1 p.m. Aug. 16, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $170.
A KU student's black Case Logic compact disc holder containing 56 compact discs and other items was stolen between 10 a.m. and 12:35 p.m. Monday from the 1100 block of Indiana, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1450.
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