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6 Wednesday, February 15,1995 Helms Announces Reduced Foreign Aid Plan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ;; WASHINGTON, D.C. Calling for ; radical change in the execution of Ameri i<£n foreign policy, Sen. Jesse Helms de clared Tuesday his streamlining plan would |ao forward despite the opposition of the | Clinton administration. ; * “The way it is now structured it is a mess,” Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus. “No person is in charge,” he told Secre tary of State Warren Christopher. At a committee hearing, the North Caro lina Republican also challenged the administration’s $13.2 billion foreign aid ;Sudget. . “We’ve got to draw a line in the sand,” Helms said, referring to taking a stand against Russia for helping Iran to rebuild a nuclear power plant near the Persian Gulf. Helms told reporters after a committee hearing that the $269 million the adminis tration was requesting to help Russia dis mantle long-range nuclear weapons and promote economic and political reform shouldbereconsideredbecauseofthismove to help the Iranians. “All of it, and start over again,” Helms said. Christopher agreed, saying agreeably Judge Hands Down Decision on Microsoft Policy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ; WASHINGTON, D.C. A federal judge rejected the Justice Department’s proposed antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp.. saying it fails to break the software giant’s monopoly or correct its “anticompetitive practices.” ■ In a 45-page ruling issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin said he was unable to find—as required by law that the proposed settlement was in the public interest. “Microsoft has a monopoly on the mar ket for personal computer operating sys tems,” Sporkin declared, noting that the company’s share of the market is consis tently above 70 percent. The decree, he said, applies only to future licensing practices by Microsoft. The government, he added, failed to show how that would “remedy the unfair advantage Microsoft gained through its anticompetitive practices. “Simply telling a defendant to go forth and sin no more does little or nothing to address the unfair advantage it has already gained,” Sporkin wrote. “The decree is too little, too late.” Neither Microsoft nor the Justice De partment had any immediate comment. “ Attorney General Janet Reno said she intended to read the decision before com menting. 1 J ' Microsoft’s stock fell 12 l/2t061.871/ 2’ Tuesday in NASDAQ trading, which Was over before the ruling was announced. Where Musical Worlds Collide ■” If 1 * tit 'll i t' * Contains all new recordings from: Ice Cube Tori Amos Mista G-rimm Rage Against The Machine Me*Shell NdegeOcello Out Kas t Liz Phair Eve’s Plum The Brand Hew Heavies Raphael Saadiq (of Tony! Toni! Tone!) Zhane' Stanley Clarke v - li ® !*[ epic records group t ,, u . iOUNnT „, ON SALE at Monster Records 512.99 CD Only Offer Expires 2/28/95 that Moscow had not provided a “satisfac tory response” to his own expressions of concern. Christopher also said that he would reconsider the decision if more facts about the matter came to light. Christopher’s two-hour appearance be fore the committee was characterized by Helms’ criticism both of the way Ameri can foreign policy was handled. Helms also criticized the budget expen diture request. In an opinion piece published Tuesday by The Washington Post, Helms sought to bolster his contention that Vice President A1 Gore’s “reinventinggovemment” cam paign was “mostly talk.” Thesenatorispromotingaplanto scuttle the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Agency for International Development. The plan also changes the Foreign Com mercial and Foreign Agricultural services. They would be combined with the State Department. Christopher had initially considered abolishing die two agencies. On Tuesday Christopher endorsed Gore’s decision to keep them in operation because of the great cost to replace them with anything comparable. Sporkin’s refusal to approve the decree was highly unusual. But he has grumbled publicly for several months about the narrowness of the government’s case. The proposed settlement, which was reached July 15, would have forced Microsoft to change the way it sells or licenses operating software to personal computer makers. The company has enormous influence in the computer industry. Microsoft’s MS DOS, including Windows, which trans lates MS-DOS commands to graphic sig nals, is the operating software for an over whelming majority of the world’s 150 mil lion computers. The settlement focused on prohibiting Microsoft from engaging in certain licens ing procedures that the government ar gued gave the company an unfair advan tage in selling its computer operating sys tems and other software to companies that make computer terminals and other hard ware. The agreement was reached after four years of investigation, first by the Federal Trade Commission, which was unable to act, and then by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. But Sporkin wrote that it “does not constitute an effective antitrust remedy.” Antitrust settlements are subject to judi cial review under a law known as the Tunney Act. Sporkin cited 4 reasons for his decision: STATE & NATIONAL thoroughly with [he decision, told Chris topher“wewillpro- ceed. It will be good U.S. Sen. JESSE for the country and HELMS, R-N.C., wants good for the Ameri- to change the Clinton can taxpayers.” administration's foreign He said the plan policy spending had the support of proposals. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas and House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia. On foreign aid, Christopher said the administration proposed to keep spending at current levels and at only 1.3 percent of the government’s budget. “It’s the rock-bottom minimum needed to defend U. S. interests, ” Christopher said. Challenging Christopher’s figures, Helms said the administration proposed to spend about $785 million more than Con gress approved last year. “Given the mountain of debt piled on “Microsoft has a monopoly on the market for personal computer operating systems. ~. Simply telling a defendant to go forth and sin no more does little or nothing to address the unfair advantages it has already gained. ” STANLEY SPORKIN U.S District judge —The government declined to supply sufficient information about the agreement. —The scope of the settlement was too narrow. —ThegovemmentandMicrosoft “have been unable and unwilling to adequately address certain anticompetitive practices” that the company had vowed to continue using. —The settlement had inadequate mechanisms to ensure the company would comply with its provisions. He set a hearing for March 16 for further proceedings in the case. In a hearing last month, Sporkin ques tioned Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman, the government’s top antitrust enforcer, on why the Justice Department hadn’t brought a broader case. the shoulders of the American taxpayer— and the unmistakable message sent to Washington by the voters on Nov. 8 I expected some meaningful spending cuts, ” Helms said. A senior Republican, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, appeared to dis agree with the chairman. “It isn’t easy selling foreign aid," she told Christopher. “On the whole, I think we got a good bargain.” On another subject, Christopher said North Korea must accept two South Ko rean-designed reactors as part of a deal to stop its suspicious nuclear program. “We are just going to have to stick to our position,” he said. He also rejected a North Korean request for SSOO million to $1 billion in additional equipment. Also, Christopher urged President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia to reconsider his decision to oust U.N. peacekeepers at the end of March. Christopher said the situation was dan gerous in the former Yugoslav republic, where ethnic Serbs are demanding an inde pendent state, and Tudjman may have “unrealistic expectations” about the Croatian army’s capabilities. She responded that the government had brought the case it could prove in court and argued that Sporkin lacked the legal au thority to order her to bring the charges she did not think the government could prove satisfactorily. “The court finds the decree on its face to be too narrow,” Sporkin ruled. In his ruling Tuesday, the judge com plained that the government had not told him what it proposed to do about issues that he had raised that were outside the scope of the settlement. “Is the investigation to continue?” Sporkin asked. If not, he said, he wanted to know why it was being closed. He noted that the decree applied to the licensing of several existing Microsoft op erating systems including “MS-DOS and Windows and its predecessor and succes sor products.” But, Sporkin said the litigants in the suit had not addressed concerns about all of Microsoft’s systems, except the few di rectly addressed in the decree. “Neither party has even addressed the court’s concern that the decree be expanded to cover all of Microsoft's commercially marketed operating systems. “The decree must anticipate covering operating systems developed for new mi croprocessors,” the judge said. He explained that during the next seven years that the decree would be in effect, the computer and software industry would likely undergo “wholesale changes.” ‘Forrest Gump’ Cleans Up On Academy Nominations THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Warner Bros, didn’t want it. Paramount Pictures spent more than three years twiddling its thumbs. Oscarvotersshowednohesitancy, however. “Forrest Gump” was it. TomHanks’improbablemarch through history collected 13 Academy Awardnomi nations Tuesday the most for a single film since 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of Vir ginia Woolf?” and one shy of “All About Eve’s” record 14 in 1950. Voters also embraced independent Miramax Films, giving it a leading 22 nominations —as many as major studios Disney, Columbia and Universal com bined. “The studio movies are formulaic,” said Harvey Weinstein, Miramax’s co-chair man. “It’s really, really exciting. The revo lution has begun.” In another surprising decision, “Hoop Dreams” wasn’t nominated in the docu mentary feature category, despite some of the year’s best reviews. “Forrest Gump” earned nominations for best picture, best actor for Hanks, best director for Robert Zemeckis and best sup porting actor for Gary Sinise—after gath ering dust for more than 5 years at Warner Bros, and spinning in movie purgatory for 3 years at Paramount. But it came up blank in the best support ing actress category, where co-stars Sally Field and Robin Wright were contenders. The next-closest films “Pulp Fic tion,” "Bullets Over Broadway” and “The Shawshank Redemption” had seven nominations apiece. “Forrest Gump” was topped only by “The Lion King” as 1994’s highest-gross ing release with more than S3OO million in domestic ticket sales. “It’s a textbook example of how word AIDS FROM PAGE 1 STDs is self-defeating because it adds to the stigma associated with having AIDS,” Fumey said. “The things we have to gain in the fight against AIDS by reporting this informa tion to the state far outweigh the loss of a few people who refuse to be tested because they don’t want the state to know.” Last week’s 6-5 vote to end anonymous testing suiprised some of the commission members as well as the AIDS activists who were strongly in favor of extending anony mous testing. Doug Ferguson, chairman of the Or ange County Lesbian and Gay Associa tion, said he thought the commission was “shooting itself in the foot.” “It’s going to result in less people being tested, because people who think they might be HIV positive do not want people in the state government to know that they are evenbeingtested, and they especially don’t want the state to know if they test posi tive,” Ferguson said. “With state officials like Jesse Helms who have run on platforms which advo HENDERSON J 08 Henderson, St —CTnrrr— 0 'M Chapel Hill 942-8440 BAR & GRI^L Lunch Specials every q^ 1 day. Giant selection burgers sandwiches, Wmiabc TODAY AT CAROLINA Women’s Basketball vs. Clemson 7:OOPM AT CARMICHAEL AUDITORIUM Students & faculty admitted Jaaoaa L FREEw/IP! 1 IfllOKKl BE A SWEETHEART t Donate Lifesaving Plasma! Earn s4o* this week as anew donor *Based on two visits M-F Please Present Ad When Donating SERA-TEC BIOLOGICALS 10914 E. 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His last Os car nomination was for “Saturday Night Fever” —l7 years ago. “I never dreamed it would take so long to get another one,” Travolta said. “I’m so delighted that I was able to be part of the game again.” Travolta will face Hanks, Morgan Free man from “The Shawshank Redemption, ” Nigel Hawthorne in “The Madness ofKing George” and previous winner Paul Newman for “Nobody’s Fool.” The best actress nominations included a performance from a movie made in 1991 Jessica Lange in “Blue Sky.” Also nominated for best actress were Jodie Foster for “Nell,” Miranda Richardson for “Tom & Viv,” Winona Ryder for “Little Women” and Susan Sarandon for “The Client.” cated quarantining those who have AIDS, it’s no wonder that people feel they can’t trust the government with private informa tion like this.” Marks Lane, an affiliate of the AIDS Community Residence Association, said the new rule might prevent people from going to be tested. “It’s very difficult for a person who has or may have HIV to actually go have him self tested because of the terrible fear in volved. I mean, these people are afraid for their lives,” Lane said. He said he thought it was unfair for them to have to face the additional fear that this information would be made available to the state government because of the threat the leakage of that information pre sented to their lifestyles. “It’s a question of whether a person i§ entitled to the right to privacy regarding this health information,” he said. Fumey said that although lists of posi tive testers existed, access to them was restricted and it was a misdemeanor for anyone who had access to the citizen’s health information to give that informa tion to anyone who was not properly au thorized.
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