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After Christmas bargains Shoppers take advantage of slow season for merchants. Page 10 No longer their Buddy NFL Cardinals fire head coach after just 2 seasons. Page 14 \ The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 - No. 126- e Copyright 1996, PnM-RapuMicut Pittsburgh, NY 12901, Wednesday, December 27> 1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 24 Pages Serbs demand more time to withdraw ByLIAMMcDOWALL Associated Press Writer PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Meeting Bosnian Serbs on their own turf, NATO's com- mander rolled across front lines Tuesday to hear rebel leaders' approach to Sarajevo's crucial fate. The Serb demand: more time to hand over their districts of the capital to government foes. The Bosnian Serb leadership Chechen rebels, Russians at turning point By SERGEI SHARGORODSKY Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - After a new upsurge of violence in Chechnya, Russia and Chechen rebels have two choices to end .their year-old war: compromise on self-rule in- stead of. independence, or fight to the bitter, bloody end. Either option could mean still more months of bloodshed. The guerrillas have regrouped and appear : to be well-equipped for winter, and neither side appears willing to settle for anything but complete.victory. Prime Minister Viktor Cher- nomyrdin says there is no mili- tary solution to the conflict that began Dec. 11, 1994, when Rus- sian troops marched into Chechnya to crush its drive for independence. NEWS ANALYSIS Even as Russian.troops were trying to pound the rebels into submission in some of the heaviest fighting in months, Chernomyrdin insisted Monday that his government wants to make peace. The Kremlin signed an agree- ment Dec. 8 with the government installed by its troops in Chechnya, giving the republic expanded control over its inter- nal affairs and the right to open representative offices abroad. • But the rebels weren't involved in negotiating the agreement, and President Boris Yeltsin's government appears unwilling to resume negotiations that collaps- ed in October. Instead, Russia insisted on elections Dec. 17 to legitimize its handpicked leader for the republic, Doku Zavgayev, ignor- ing rebel demands for Russian troops to withdraw \before the vote. If talks with Russia resume, a key demand by the rebels is likely to be new elections. The rebels so far won't accept either Zavgayev's government or expanded self-rule under the con- trol ofMoscow. That has led to some of the Continued Pag« 12 cautioned U.S. Adm. Leighton Smith that his peace mission's success might hinge on such an extension. North of the capital, NATO continued the buildup that will place about 60,000 soldiers on the ground in Bosnia. A U.S. ar- mored unit crossed the Sava River border from Croatia into Bosnia in a cold rain and set up the first U.S. checkpoint. It met no resistance. Serb demands, made to Smith at a meeting at the Serb head- quarters in Pale, about nine miles southeast of Sarajevo, reflected unhappiness with the Dayton peace agreement. Nego- tiated on their behalf by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, it turns the Bosnian capital over to their foes. Serb criticism of the plan has focused on Sarajevo. Smith, in charge of the NATO bombing campaign earlier this year that helped force the peace deal, said he made no promises to the Serbs. He traveled across bitterly contested front lines from Sara- jevo to Pale with a minimum of fuss, accompanied by two ar- mored vehicles and about a dozen security officers. NATO jets, obscured by low clouds, roared overhead during his meetings. Momcilo Krajisnik, a senior Bosnian Serb official, accom- panied Smith out of the hotel . where the meeting was held, holding an umbrella to shield the American admiral from rain. Metal barriers manned by Bos- nian Serb soldiers kept Serb ci- vilians at a distance. The admiral met with Kra- jisnik, the speaker of the Bosnian Serb assembly, because NATO refuses \to deal with senior lead- ers Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Prioto/Sc'oit Hite Missy West of Fra;ijki|n; Academy passes off vihie basketball during the Huskies' 51 -2§ girls basketball victory bv^r; Rlattsbjurgh High. \Fue$tlayf fl night, in a game which marked the kickoff of the holiday tournament seasons See, photo, related stories, page 15. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted on war crimes charges. Bosnian Serb sources said Karadzic was in the area, but of- ficials appeared extremely un- comfortable and evasive when questioned over his whereabouts and future role. Krajisnik indicated many of the tens of thousands of people Continued Page 12 IsraeMf leave Hebron region Palestinians to control Gaza, West Bank ahead of schedule By NASSER SHOUKHI Associated Press Writer DAHARIYA, West Bank (AP) — Its troop pullback in the West Bank entering the final phase, Israel turned dozens of villages over to the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday in a smooth transfer of power. Departing Israeli troops received hot drinks and mementos of peace in return. *• By week's end, nearly all Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza will be under Yasser Arafat's control, ahead of plann- ed elections next month that will bring the Palestinians within reach of their decades-long quest for self-determination. In Dahariya, south of Hebron, delighted residents served coffee to the departing Israeli troops and gave them olive branches, belying the bitterness many feel after 28 years of Israeli occupa- tion. PLO police later arrived in buses, waving Kalashnikov rifles, Palestinian flags and pictures of Arafat. To the cheers of dancing villagers, they raised the once- banned Palestinian flag at the former Israeli military head- quarters in Dahariya. Inside, Mohammed Hassan, 35, stood outside a small room where he was interrogated for 11 days in 1988. \I never dreamed that one day Palestinians would be in control,\ said Hassan, who spent a total of 18 months in Israeli jails from 1988 to 1990 for belonging to Arafat's then-outlawed Fatah movement. \Now we can feel safe and secure.\ North of Hebron, in the village of Halhoul, two soldiers in a jeep gave white-and-red carnations to Palestinians waiting outside the base being evacuated. After the Israelis left it was a free-for-all, with villagers grabbing every- thing from barbed wire to old lamps. In all, Israel pulled out of 10 villages where it had troops sta- tioned and handed over another 50 smaller villages near Hebron and Ramallah where the army had no permanent presence, said Shlomo Dror, spokesman of Israel's outgoing West Bank mili- tary government. As part of the Israel-PLO autonomy accords, the PLO al- ready controls six West Bank cities as well as most of the Gaza Strip, which it took over in May 1994. On Tuesday, the Israeli army banned Israelis from the West Bank- town of Ramallah. a step taken before previous withdrawals. Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said the town of 30,000 would be trans- ferred to PLO control on Wed- nesday. In the eighth and last town, Hebron, troops are to redeploy by the end of March. Soldiers will leave most of the city but stay in downtown areas to protect 450 Jewish settlers living there. In the urban areas, where about 400,000 of the West Bank's 1.2 million Arab residents live,, Palestinian police are in full con- trol. The cities make up about 7 percent of the,West Bank, a ter- ritory roughly, the size of Dela- ware. Tuesday's pullback virtually completes Israel's departure from more than 400 West, Hank villages in the rural region is defined as \Area B,\ where Palestinians run their day-to-day lives, including security. Area B covers almost a third of the West Bank. ' • ; •.\. - .•••'!• • ' ,' ' • •• . Study: weiglt lo£s and exercise work better together By BRENDA C. COLEMAN AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) - The best exercise for your heart is pushing yourself away from the table, a new study sug- gests. Losing weight by itself works better-than aerobic exer- cise by itself in reducing the risk of heart disease, a study of fat men found. The message, though, is to do both, researchers say. \We feel that exercise is beneficial, but particularly if you're overweight, you need to exercise in conjunction with weight loss,\ said the lead researcher, Dr. Leslie I. Katzel of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Katzel and his colleagues studied 111 men, ages 46 to 80, who were sedentary and obese — that is, 20 percent to 60 percent overweight — but were otherwise healthy. The men were divided into groups: one pursued weight loss without exercise; the second exercised without trying to lose weight; and the third neither exer- cised nor dieted. Researchers were surprised to find that weight loss clearly produced more benefits than exercise alone: •• Levels of \good\ cholesterol improved 13 percent in the weight-loss group, vs. virtually no change in the ex- ercise group. • Blood pressure dropped 8 percent in the weight-loss group, compared with a 2 percent to 3 percent drop among exercisers. • Blood sugar, a yardstick for diabetes, dropped 9 per- cent amorig the weight-loss group, vs. no change among exercisers. WEATHER Cloudy and cold with a good chance of light snow. High around 30. Nor- thwest wind 5 to 15 mph. INDEX Bridge 21 Horoscope 19 Business News 10 Ann Landers, 19 Classified 20-24 Seniors ; 6,7 Comics 19 Public Record 18 Editorial 4 Sports 14-17 Entertainment 8' Weather....; 9 N.Y.Lottery:24-6. WinFour': 9-3-9-3. Tali*5: 1-12-26-37-39. Pik 10: ^t228345S Pick 10 >^4't5-24-28-34^M5^9-Sr>S)-«3-6WS<7-7 New England: Tick 3': 8-3-4. Pick 4': 6-3-8-4. Tri-State Ca«h: 5-9-11-29-31 and Jack. York City mayor searches for kinder, gentler cabbies By LARRY MeSHANE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - It's a typical New York street scene: A kamikaze cab, ignoring traffic and pedestrians, swerves across four lanes to pick up a jaywalking rider. Not so fast, says Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who wants to ease the chronic congestion on city streets and make them a more genteel place. He has proposed a daytime ban on hailing cabs in the heart of Manhattan, with people instead lining up at taxi stands. Good, luck, Rudy. The mayor's proposal was pawned Tuesday by the Folks it will af- fect ntost: drivers and their fares. \This law cannot work,\ declared cabbie Asif. Chaudray. \Most people want, \Right here! Right now!' If you go 5 feet further, they get crazy, they get mad.\ That's right, said rider Eric Jones of Manhattan, who was waiting patiently for a cab outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal — not that he had to. \If I want a cab, I'm just going to get one,\ said Jones, 29. \And most likely, he'll pick me up. That's just how it works. People in New York don't wait in line.\ Under Giuliani's proposal — the latest in his \quality of life\ campaign that has cracked down on panhandlers and public drinkers alike — taxi stands would operate weekdays between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. from 30th to 60th streets. Riders could be dumped up to 100 feet from their destinations. Rebellious cabbies would, pay fines of up to $55. In Manhattan, stepping into oncoming traffic to hail a cab is a tradition dating to the turn of the century. It worked in the days of the hbrse and buggy, and it's still working now. . AP Photo A tax,! dispatcher directs customers to a waiting cab at Port Authority. . The mayor's vision: New Yorkers politely lining up to wait for cabs. Taxis, in turn, thoughtfully queuing up for passengers. Yeah, right. \New York wouldn't feel like New York if you couldn't hail a cab,\ said Aliona Ru, 34, who moved to Manhattan four years ago. \It's more than a New York tradition. It's a symbol of Manhattan.\
