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] > x , ^ _____ J -*, K i > PAGE 2 PRESSREPUBLICAN GENERAL NEWS TUESDAY, NWEMBER7, I9»5' NEWS IN BRIEF INTERNATIONAL Elaction poitan coma down Shevardnadze claims big victory, faces daunting task TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Eduard Shevard- nadze put his main political struggle behind him Monday with results confirming he won a land- slide victory, in Georgia's first presidential elec- tion. He now faces the daunting task of bringing stability to this mountainous republic, which is threatened by war. and economic collapse. The 67-year-old former Soviet foreign minister, who • has led Georgia as chairman of parliament since 1992, claimed a victory margin of more than 4- to-1. The Central Election Commission said results from 69 of 75 electoral districts showed Shevardnadze capturing 75 percent of Sunday's vote. His main rival, Georgia's former Communist boss Dzhumber Paatiashvili, had just 17 percent. Shevardnadze quickly traveled to Israel to attend the funeral of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. However, a difficult task awaits his return. He will have to use his much-touted political talent to stave off op- position to his tough market reforms in parliament. Two Algerian suspects in French bombings charged PARIS (AP) — An Algerian suspected of coordinating a wave of terrorist attacks in France was charged Monday in a Paris bombing that injured 13 people. Anti-terrorist Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere charged Boualem Bensaid, 28, with attempted murder, destruction of property, violation of laws regulating explosives and association-with a terrorist organization. Bensaid faces the charges in connection with a bombing on a street near the Maison Blanche subway station Oct. 6 that injured 13 people. Sources close to the investigation said they expect Bensaid to be charged^ with some of the seven other bombings or attempted bombings, including the Oct. 17 bombing of a regional subway train near the Musee d'Orsay station in Paris that injured 28 passengers. A second Algerian, Omar Allaoui, was also charged Mon- day with attempted murder in the Musee d'Orsay attack. Mounties embarrassed by intrusion at Chretien home OTTAWA (AP) - Embarrassed officials of\ the Royal Canadian Mounted Police offered no explanation Monday for the security breakdown that allowed a knife-wielding intruder to reach the door to the prime minister's bedroom. Prime Minister Jean Chretien's wife, Aline, confronted the intruder early Sunday, shut and locked the door, and summoned police. Seven minutes elapsed before Mounties on guard duty at the house arrived in response to the call; \We expect immediate response,\ said RCMP Commissioner Phil Murray. \We did not get immediate response.\ NATIONAL Public TV, Reader's Digest to create products WASHINGTON (AP) - In its latest effort to reduce reliance on federal money, public television said Monday it would team with the publisher of Reader's Digest to develop family-oriented programs and spinoff products. Reader's Digest Association Inc. of Pleasantville, N.Y., is to invest up to $75 million over five years to develop TV pro- grams that would be distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service. Potentially lucrative home videos and CD-ROMs are expected to be spun off from the TV shows, and Reader's Digest Association would get an undisclosed percentage of gross revenues from the sale of those items, said company spokeswoman Lesta Cordil. The TV shows are expected to focus on children, family, lifestyle, entertainment and education — topics that traditionally have broad appeal to both PBS and Reader's Digest, the two groups said. Ginsburg rejects bid to keep Gambino out of prison WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court justice turned down an emergency request Monday aimed at keeping reputed mobster Thomas Gambino out of prison. Gambino, 65, has been ordered to surrender Dec. 4 to begin serving a five-year sentence on his 1993 conviction for racketeering, illegal gambling and loan-sharking. His attorney wanted to keep Gambino free until the full Supreme Court acted on a formal appeal of that conviction, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rejected the argument. The conviction stemmed from Gambino's control of a Connecticut gambling operation. His brother, Giuseppe, was acquitted of the same counts. The emergency request denied by Ginsburg argued that fed- eral prosecutors violated Gambino's right to a speedy trial and that the delay prejudiced his right to a fair trial. High court tokes up appeal in police search case WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to determine how difficult it should be for criminal defendants to win appeals aimed at barring use of evidence seized by police without a search warrant. The justices agreed to hear an appeal in a Wisconsin case by two men who say cocaine seized from their car should not have been allowed as evidence against them. Saul Ornelas and Ismael Ornelas-Ledesma were arrested at a Milwaukee motel on Dec. 11, 1992, after a sheriffs deputy spotted their car with a California license plate. A computer check showed it was registered to a known drug dealer. The two men came out of the motel and got into the car. Police said they got permission from the men to search the car. One officer said he noticed a loose door panel and removed it, finding a bag that contained cocaine. Bosnian Muslim leader optimistic on Croat talks WASHINGTON (AP) - A sign of tangible progress from the Bosnia peace talks emerged Monday as Bosnian President Ahja Izetbegovic predicted agreement on ground rules governing often prickly relations between Bosnian Muslims and Croats. Izetbegovic, reporting to his Cabinet from the talks in Dayton, Ohio, said that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman should be joining the talks in two or three days when an agreement is expected. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, meanwhile, said a working group in Dayton on Bosnian Muslim and Croat issues has produced an am- bitious draft, which \we hope will produce a quantum leap\ in coor- dination between the two groups. After periodic fighting during the early stages of the Bosnian war, the two groups, with strong U.S. en- couragement, have been allied in a tenuous federation. The United States sees the federation as a useful counterweight against the Bos- > nian Serbs. The map drawn up by mediators proposes that 51 percent of Bosnian territory go to Muslims and Croats and the rest to the Serbs. Four killed, one hurt in Boston restaurant shooting BOSTON (AP) - Two gunmen walked through a busy restaurant in the city's rough Charlestown section Monday and opened fire in front of a booth, killing four customers and critically woun- ding another. Two plainclothes police officers who happened to be eatingjunchjhere followed the suspects outside and arrested thenTuTtHe park- ing lot. Police gave no motive for the shooting in the working-class, mostly Irish neighborhood, which has long had a reputed \code of silence\ that has sunk many a murder investigation. Police Commissioner Paul Evans discounted speculation that,, it was an organized crime assassination. \If it was a hit, it was a very sloppy hit in broad daylight in a very crowded restaurant,\ said Evans. Witnesses said the men fired at least 13 shots inside the 99 Restau- rant & Pubs around lunchtime. A hush fell over the room when the shots rang out, then people started screaming and running for cover. \I heard, 'Pop, pop, pop.' I hit the deck,\ said Bill Sewall, 57. \I ran out the front door, and I'm still shaking.\ Wlfirof Victim comoltd Runoff likely in San Francisco mayor's race By MARK EVANS Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After weeks of community .'•;> forums, mudslinging and one i nude foray into'a shower wi radio DJs, Tuesday's m&yorafiw* race between Willie Browhi£| Frank Jordan and Roberta^ Aehtenberg is all but certain to*?; result in a runoff. . | Recent polls show all three ;' candidates with between 20 per-1 cent and 30 percent of the vote,/ with up to one-fifth of San Fran^ Cisco's electorate undecided, If no h« one gets more than 50 percent in the nonpartisan race, the top two : vote-getters will meet in a runoff in December. . \The race has been hotly con- tested and all campaigns have thrown a lot of punches,\ said John Whitehurst, a San Fran- cisco political consultant. \The electorate at this point is some- what numb.\ Elsewh-ere Tuesday, Mississippi and Kentucky, will pick governors, and voters will tions on topics ranging from le- galized gambling to gay rights. In San Francisco, the race has J^een,, chfracjterized ,!*& mudsl- '•*\g$frg: ;: 'a)i^^rie> v w^l^Ublici!zed t^ypj with two radio ; newspapers had a field h the stuntj, offering for theftiest caption for the i^^J>^kd AP Photo Mayor Frank Jordan greets passenger on a cable car. decide whether Virginia will become the first Southern state since Reconstruction with a Republican-controlled legislature. All* 9 4- A 11 c \*f\x\rk+ PQ11CAC Lt'HJj JUV-IW 11 LdUjvO The off-year election also in- cludes mayoral contests in such cities as Houston, Baltimore, Philadelphia,. Charleston, S.C, and Gary, Ind., and ballot ques- Paid Political Advertisement shower: scene Jordan, a former police chief, stunt as joking evidence he is \squeaky cleaiju\ It may be the most outrageous thing he has ever done in his ca- reer. Brown, the candidate with the longest record of public service — 30 years in the state Assembly, half of them as the powerful speaker — has proba- bly attracted the most mud; Paid Political Advertisement ByPAULRAEBURN AP Science Editor DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - The discoverer of a genetic trait link- ed to Alzheimer's says he has now figured out how it causes the disease — by weakening the mi- croscopic \plumbing\ that carries nutrients to brain cells and flushes out the waste. The new understanding offers numerous possibilities for the development of drugs that might not \cure\ the disease but could delay it for 20 years, meaning most people would not live long enough to get it, said Dr. Allen Roses, chairman of the neurology department at Duke University Medical Center. Speaking Monday at a meeting sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Roses also reported that people with the Alzheimer's gene are more likely than others to die after a head injury, because of the weakened condition of their neurons, or nerve cells. The gene produces a substance called apolipoprotein E4, or apo E4, which shuttles cholesterol through the bloodstream. Roses's belief that apo E4 is critical in'Alzheimer's puts him at odds with some other leading authorities\.: •-- — \No one disputes that E4 is important. E4 is a risk factor, not the cause,\ said Dr. Dennis Selkoe, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School. Selkoe believes that E4 some- how changes the form of a substance called amyloid in the brain. The brains of Alzheimer's victims are laced with amyloid plaques, or deposits, that Selkoe and others believe are the central IP to purchase Federal Paper NEW YORK (AP) - Interna- tional Paper Co. moved Monday to solidify its status as the world's biggest paper products company with a deal to buy Fed- eral Paper Board Co. for $3.5 billion. International Paper said the agreement would make it more efficient, give it world-class mills in Riegelwood, N.C, and Augusta, Ga., a recycled paper- board plant in Connecticut and a paper mill in Scotland. Federal Paper also has about $950 million in debt that Inter- national Paper would assume. The deal is subject to approval by regulators and Federal Paper's shareholders. \This is a great deal for Feder- al shareholders,\ said Linda Lieberman, a managing partner at Bear Stearns & Co. \But it is hard to get excited about what this does for IP.\ The paper industry has been strong, although prices may have peaked. Companies have been seeking alliances to cut costs. Kimberly-Clark Corp. of Dallas agreed to buy Scott Paper Co. of Philadelphia in a $7.4 billion merger several months ago. The International Paper offer of $55 a share in cash and stock was 21 percent more than Feder- al Paper's closing price Friday. Federal Paper stock surged up $6.50 a share, or 14.3 percent, at ^5Ton~1;lie~New-YorlrStock Ex- change. International Paper was off $1, or 2.7 percent, at $36.12V2. Federal Paper shareholders will be given a choice on whether they want stock or cash. But In- ternational .Paper said it would pay no more than 49 percent in cash. • The companies said they are involved mjunly in complemen- tary rather than competing businesses. feature of Alzheimer's disease. Roses said he believes ..that amyloid is- ;ipin incidental conse^ quence of damage produced by apo E4, and that amyloid is not central to the disease itself. For years, apo E4 had been known to be linked to an increas- ed risk of heart disease. In 1993, Roses reported a link between apo E4 and Alzheimer's. About 2 percent of Americans have two copies of the apo E4 gene, giving them a 50 percent chance of getting Alzheimer's be- fore age 70. In contrast, for those with no copies of the apo E4 gene, the risk of developing the disease does not rise to 50 per- cent until after age 90. About one-third of Americans have one copy, which puts them at intermediate risk. An estimated 4 million Ameri- cans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and 100,000, die of it every year. It is the fourth leading cause of death in adults after heart disease, cancer and strokes. It usually strikes after age 65. The idea that apo E4 is related to Alzheimer's disease emerged from research on families with inherited forms of the disease, Roses said. Researchers were stymied by a pesky laboratory their«results. Out of frustration, they purified the contaminant and discovered that it was apo E. Subsequent research showed that of the various forms of apo E, apo E4 raised the risk of Alzheimer's disease, while apo E2 was protective. The most recent work shows that apo E helps stabilize and strengthen tiny structures called microtubules, which carry nutrients to the cells and dispose of waste. Apo E2 does the job well, but apo E4 does not. The weakened microtubules become less effi- cient carriers of nutrients and waste, and the brain cell begins to weaken, Roses said. Thank you\ so much for the oppdftUftifi % kHcfctt^ri ydip eioof iaHd be so cordially received. Ifs been an exciting and rewarding experience I will always cherish. I am convinced that the people of Plattsburgh are truly our greatest strength and the reason we should have confidence in our future. Working together we can solve our problems and suc- cessfully meet the challenges ahead. I believe Pittsburgh's best days are yet to come. Thank you again for Mark P. Dame Candidate for Mayor of Plattsburgh Paid for by the Committee To Elect Mark Dame Mayor Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening Saturday, Nov. 11 8 a.m. to Noon, FitzPatrick Cancer Center Eligible women will receive mammograms, clinical exams, breast self exam instruction and educational materials about breast and cervical cancer at no out-of-pocket expense. Eligibility Criteria: Asymptomatic women with no physician or who have not had a mammogram in the time frame below: Age 35-39: Never had a mammogram Age,4O-49: f No mammogram within the last two-years \Age^O plus: No mammogram within the last year Call 562-7713 For An Appointment and To Determine Eligibility Supported by Clinton County 5reast Health Partnership, CVPH Medical Center Foundation V & CVPH Medical Staff. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1' Siu ii Staff PLAtpMR KoufoiniclValis's ed with..,him an from time to tir day she saw no home. 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