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I > PAGE3,PftES&.REPU&LICAN GENERAL NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,1995 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, NEWS IN BRIEF Saamut H«on«y Irish poet wins Nobel prize for literature BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Over three decades Seamus Heaney has built a reputa- tion as the English language's greatest living poet, reflecting the wild beauty of Ireland and the passionate contradictions of his native north. As he won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday, friends and fans celebrated a shaggy-locked \ted- dy bear\ who long ago rejected the tribal labels of Catholic and Protestant to explore the divided na- tional soul. \It's the kind of news that makes you want to jump in the air and cheer,\ said Frank Ormsby, a poet and editor of several anthologies of Northern Irish- poetry. Heaney's work has \the kind of depth and profundity that challenges aca- demics and critics. It's so rich and rewarding,\ Ormsby said. Widely regarded as the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, Heaney had been ranked a likely Nobel laureate for a decade. He is the first poet to win the prize since 1992. Israeli parliament ratifies agreement with PLO JERUSALEM (AP) - Accepting Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's plea to \give peace a chance,\ Israel's parliament voted early Friday to ratify an accord that grants the PLO control over West Bank cities and signals an end to 28 years of Israeli 1 occupation. The accord was approved 61-59 after a tumultuous 15-hour debate. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, speaking last, defended the agreement against charges that it gives away too much to the Palestinians and endangers the safety of Israelis. Earlier, more than 20,000 Israelis holding candles and chanting \Rabin is a traitor\ marched from downtown Jerusalem to parliament to protest the Israel-PLO agreement. The accord, sign- ed last week in Washington, calls for an Israeli troop withdrawal from Palestinian towns by the end of the year, the deployment of „ 12,000.jarjnaedJPalestvuan police in the West Bank, and Palestinian general elections £y spring. Rabin tbMtlie'p~alliamenOnaf \Blood-\ shed would continue unless Israel ended its rule over the Palesti- nians. Rabin acknowledged that the agreement involves risks, but said he can freeze the withdrawal at any moment if PLO chief Yasser Arafat does not live up to his commitments. \This government decid- ed to give peace a chance,\ he said. Child-care costs eyed WASHINGTON (AP) - Families with working mothers spent an average of $74 a week, or about 8 percent of their monthly in- come, to care for preschool children in 1993, the Cen- sus Bureau said Thursday. A total of 9.9 million children under age 5 were in need of child care in 1993 while their mothers were at work, according to a Census report, \What Does It Cost to Mind Our Preschoolers?\ The principal child care ar- rangements were family members, 41 percent; orga- nized child care facilities, 30 percent; family day care settings, 17 percent. Families with two or more preschool children paid $110 per week for child care, or about 11 per- cent of their monthly family income, the study found. Poor families paid a much larger portion of their incomes — about 18 per- cent — on such care in 1993. U.S. declares Bosnian truce ly JASMIN A KUZMANOVK Aisocloted Prest Writer ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Bosnia's combatants agreed on Thursday to a 60-day cease-fire and new talks on ending their 3 Ms years of carnage, taking one big step closer to a peace settle- ment that U.S. troops would help police. The accord on the cease-fire was reached during United States' strongest press yet for peace in Bosnia. In announcing the agreement, President Clinton in Washington acknowledged that unresolved problems re- mained before it takes effect Tuesday. \We need to be clear-eyed about this,\ he said. \It matters what the parties do, not just what they say.\ NATO planners said they would hasten work on a military force to help enforce an eventual peace arrangement. The United States would commit roughly 20,000 troops to such a force, but is saying they would not enter Bosnia until a final peace deal is Citing progress toward peace, the United Nations announced it could cut its troops in Bosnia by 9,000 troops, or one-third of its force in Bosnia. It was not known how long the withdrawals would take. Warring forces in Bosnia con- tinued to battle for strategic ter- ritory. But in contrast to countless failed truces, they seemed to want this cease-fire. The U.S. official who negoti- ated it, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, shed his normally cautious demeanor Thursday after shutting around the Balkans. \Today marks another impor- tant step forward, undeniably a big step forward,\ Holbrooke told reporters in Zagreb, the Croatian capital. \We're pleased with where we are.\ In the northern Serb strong- hold Banja Luka, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said he saw no reason to take back by force territory Serbs recently have lost. \We want peace, and we have to be practical,\ he said. Under the agreement, signed by Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Bosnian Serb leaders including Karadzic, peace talks will be held in the United States beginning Oct. 25, and later in Paris. The Muslim-led government army and rebel Serbs will bait all offensive actions, including mine-laying and sniping, at mid- night Tuesday (7:01 p.m. EDT Monday). But U.S. officials say that. deadline might have to be ex-. tended if utilities are not restored to Sarajevo by then — a key demand of the Bosnian gov- ernment. \ Facing a fourth winter of war with Serbs still surrounding their capital, Bosnian officials in- sisted on secure supplies of gas and electricity. Utility lines go through Serb territory and repeatedly have been cut to put pressure on Sarajevo. Pay-TV Simpson interview idea unpopular - LO& ANGELES4AP) -=_O.J.-Simpson'sufirst big test of .his. mar-. ketability may be foundering: Some cable TV operators and viewers are rebelling at the idea of a pay-per-view interview with him. Major pay-TV distributor Request TV has refused to carry such a program, as has CNN, and others are retreating from the idea. \There's been an outpouring of calls from people who haven't heard we rejected it and who are imploring us not to do a (Simpson) pay-per-view event,\ Request President Hugh Panero said Thursday. Word that Simpson was seeking a multimillion-dollar pay-TV .deal began circulating shortly after his acquittal Tuesday on charges of murdering his ex- wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friendJRonald Goldman. Robert Kardashian, Simpson's friend and lawyer, told ABC on Tuesday that \O.J. has a lot to say.\ Asked if he would say it on pay-per-view TV, Kardashian replied: \Probably so.\ CNN, which said it would not carry a for-pay Simpson interview on journalistic grounds, has fielded objections. \Without specific research, the calls are overwhelmingly against,\ said CNN spokesman Steve Haworth in Atlanta. . Critics: Commerce secretary's son gets favoritism WASHINGTON (AP) - Over the past two years, a gas company controlled by a prominent Democratic couple from Oklahoma has placed Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown's son on its board, given him a 5 percent stake and provided him a $60,000 golf-club membership. 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The Phoenix Woodstoue Paid Political Advertisement Paid Political Advertisement Paid Political Advertisement Ronald Brown Researchers find an early sign of Alzheimer's WASHINGTON (AP) — Protein monitoring could be a tool for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and eventually a key to treat- ment for an estimated 4 million afflicted Americans, researchers say. \This might be the clue we need,\ Creighton Phelps, director of the government's Alzheimer's Disease Centers program, said of a study being published Friday in the Annals of Neurology. The study, led by the University of Pennsylvania's John Trojanowski, corroborates re- cent findings in Japan, Ge^mkny and Sweden that monitoring levels of the protein tau in cerebrS&pinal fluid can help confirm an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's in older patients with memory loss. Diagnoses generally are made by mental-ability tests and brain scans. But biochemical confirmation has not been possible except by autopsy. The new test, not yet available outside research labs, measures tau levels in the spinal fluid extracted from a puncture in the patient's Lower back. Tau, a protein common to all people, is found mutated in Alzheimer's patients and' is the building block of brain \tangles the twisted filaments inside the brain's nerve cells that are a sure sign of the disease. AARP opening presidential campaign-style offices DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The nation's largest lobby group for the elderly said Wednesday it is opening campaign-style offices in Iowa and other key presidential states to press Republican can- didates on Medicare spending and other issues. \We've got an oppor- tunity to help set national policy,\ said Jim Kelehan, an Iowa official of the American Association of Retired Persons. Topping the list of issues on which candidates will be pressed is an effort in the Republican-led Congress to trim $270 billion from growth in Medicare spending. While AARP has not launched an all-out lobbying offensive on Medicare, Kelehan and other AARP officials said the el- derly are getting increasingly nervous and will make it an issue GOP presidential candidates must face. Supreme Court to decide oil-male status of VMI WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will decide whether Virginia Military Institute can remain all-male. The court said Thursday it will study competing appeals — one by Virginia officials and one by the Clinton administration. A decision is expected by July. The administration says the only way to guarantee women equal treatment is to admit them to VMI. A separate \women's VMI\ begun this fall is as unlawful as segregated schools once created for blacks and whites, administration lawyers contend. Virginia argues that the state-supported military college must keep female students out to preserve its educational goals. Women can attend other public col- leges in Virginia, state officials note. Even if the women's VMI pro- gram were dropped, the state adds, VMI should be allowed to remain all-male. Poll: Opposition to GOP agenda on the rise WASHINGTON (AP) — „ Rising opposition to Republican policies among women and the elderly is the driving force behind President Clinton's improved political standing, according to a national poll released Thursday. Overtill t the survey showed 50 percent of Ameri- cans disapprove of the policies advocated by Republican congressional leaders, while 36 percent approve. This-increase was powered by a significant turn for the worse in how those over 65 years old viewed the GOP Congress: 57 percent disapproved in the survey taken by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press last weekend, up from 49 percent in August. 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