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Russian general says
Hiss never was spy
NEW YORK Alger Hiss, one of
the first targets of anti-Communist fer
vor at the start of the Cold War, said
Thursday he was grateful he was still
alive to proclaim vindication after 44
years.
In the sensational drama of 1948 that
' spotlighted the young Congressman
Richard M. Nixon, Hiss was accused of
being a Red spy by an admitted former
Communist, Whittaker Chambers.
Now, at a news conference, the frag
ile, patrician, 87-year-old Hiss watched
a videotape in which a Russian general
declared that Hiss never spied for the
Soviet Union.
Gen. Dmitri A. Volkogonov, keeper
of Russian military intelligence ar
chives, also said he found nothing in the
records that showed Chambers was a
Soviet espionage conduit
Hiss, who came under attack while
he was a 44-year-old former State De
partment lawyer, entered the news con
ference walking with a cane. He re
mained seated, and his head shook as he
answered questions in a quavery voice.
He said mere probably would remain
doubters "people who have invested
so much in a contrary point of view to
mine that I can hardly expect them to
change now."
It was too late for an espionage pros
ecution, but Hiss was charged with per
jury for denying the allegations. After
one hungjury, he was convicted in 1950
and jailed for 3 12 years. He has since
worked to clear his name.
Nixon staunchly backed Chambers,
and his political career took off.
The case turned on bizarre revela
tions, the most famous of which had
Chambers opening a pumpkin in which
he had hidden microfilm that he said
Hiss had given him. It was known ever
after as the "pumpkin papers."
Japan, U.S. pledge aid
to former Soviet states
TOKYO The United States and
Japan on Thursday each pledged $100
million in new food and medical aid to
help the strife-torn former Soviet states
survive the coming winter.
The U.S. donation would come from
a $ 1 00 million com purchase announced
Wednesday by the Agriculture Depart
ment, an attempt to boost the price of
com before the presidential election.
The pledges were made as officials
, from about 70 nations and IS interna
tional organizations opened a two-day -meeting
in Tokyo to consider how to
help the region. Acting Secretary of
State Lawrence Eagleburgerled the U.S.
delegation.
Japan officials put aside a territorial
dispute to offer the cash, noting that
shortages could lead to dangerous in
stability in the former Soviet nations.
They said the aid would mostly be in
food, medicine and other emergency
supplies.
Japan is demanding the return of a
group of small islands part of the
Kuril chain seized by Soviet troops
at the end of World War U. Tokyo has
said it will not provide large-scale aid to
Russia until the dispute is resolved and
the two countries sign a peace treaty.
But negotiations have made little
progress because leaders on both sides
face strong domestic opposition to con
cessions. In an attempt to accommodate
public opinion, most of Japan's hu
manitarian aid has been targeted at
Russia's Far East.
Leading U.N. diplomat
in Somalia steps down
MOGADISHU, Somalia Theout
spoken diplomat who coordinated U.N.
operations in starving Somalia quit tear
fully Thursday over what he called bit
ter experiences with the U.N. bureau
cracy. Mohamed Sahnoun's departure was
seen by many as a setback in the inter
national effort to alleviate suffering in
Somalia, where drought and clan war
fare threaten as many as 2 million lives.
"He has left a huge void," said CARE
USA President Philip Johnston.
At a news conference announcing
his resignation, Sahnoun acknowledged
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he might have stepped on some toes
when he criticized U.N. response to the
Somali catastrophe as slow and inad
equate. But, he said, "I did it with no inten
tion but to really make people aware of
the situation and to fulfill their duties."
As Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali's special envoy to So
malia, Sahnoun oversaw the relief ef
forts and peace talks. He recently was
negotiating with warlords over deploy
ing 3,500 U.N. peacekeepers to protect
aid shipments.
U.N. sources said Sahnoun felt the
time had come to quit bargaining with
the warlords and deploy the troops, but
that that sentiment was not shared at
U.N. headquarters. The sources spoke
on condition of anonymity.
By Sahnoun's estimate, 300,000 So
malians already have died from war and
hunger. The United Nations says
250,000 more could perish by Christ
mas unless aid reaches them.
Until his successors named, Sahnoun
said, the Somalia operation will be
headed by Brig. Gen. Imtiaz Shaheen,
the commander of a Pakistani peace
keeping battalion in Mogadishu.
Guerrillas bomb Israeli
allies in south Lebanon
TYRE, Lebanon Muslim guerril
las set off a bomb in south Lebanon
Thursday, security sources said, wound
ing four Israeli-backed militiamen in a
renewal of violence that has overshad
owed Arab-Israeli peace talks.
The sources said the wounded mili
tiamen belonged to the Israeli-allied
South Lebanon Army and that the road
side bomb was detonated in Aramta
near Jezzine, the largest Christian town
in south Lebanon.
The SLA, whose 3,000 militiamen
help patrol Israel's self-styled security
zone in south Lebanon, retaliated by
firing six howitzer shells on suspected
hideouts of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah
west of Aramta, said the sources, speak
ing on condition of anonymity.
Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party
of God, claimed on its al-Nour radio
station that its guerrillas detonated the
bomb as an Israeli army patrol passed
by. It gave no further details.
Hezbollah and Iran have vowed to
ruin the Arab-Israeli peace process
launched a year ago under the auspices
of the United States and Russia.
Hezbollah, which called all its 3,500
guerrillas to arms this week, also is bent
on removing Israel from the zone.
In Washington, Uri Lubrani, Israel's
chief negotiator with Lebanon at the
seventh round of Middle East peace
talks, has said Israeli reinforcements
along its northern border and in the
security zone will stay on.
German Parliament
moving across town
BONN, Germany Parliament is
moving on Friday into a new $ 1 67 mil
lion building of steel and glass, befit
ting a united Germany's new role as an
up-and-coming world power.
Across the street, a massive new of
fice complex for lawmakers is taking
shape just as if Bonn were still the
capital of Germany and would be for
years to come.
Despite the June 1991 vote to move
the capital of united Germany to Berlin,
Bonn is a builders' paradise. In the
government quarter along the Rhine
River, cranes are part of the skyline.
Architects and officials said it would
cost more to halt construction on all the
buildings under way at the time of the
vote than to complete them. The federal
and state government are hoping to lure
U.N. and European Community offices,
even the proposed European Central
Bank, to Bonn with the offer of abun
dant and new office space.
As the buildings go up, Germans
continue to protest the costs of what
they see as an unnecessary move to
Berlin at a time when the economy is
strained by the cost of unification.
One recent poll said as many as two
thirds of all Germans think the move to
Berlin cannot be financed now or that it
should be reconsidered. The move is
planned for some time between 1998
and 2020.
The Associated Press
SAT cheater gets six-month
By Leila Maybodi
Staff Writer
A 19-year-old student at Lynn Uni
versity in Boca Raton, Fla., was sen
tenced Friday to six months in prison
after it was revealed that he had paid a
friend $200 to take his college entrance
exams for him.
Judge Paul Weinstein found
Lawrence Adler guilty of perjury, sub
ornation of perjury and obstruction of
justice in the Montgomery County Cir
cuit Court in Maryland. Of the initial
18-month sentence, 12 months were
suspended.
Adler' s sentence will begin Dec. 26.
Adler also was placed on probation
for three years, given 1 00 hours of com
munity service and recommended to
undergo psychotherapy. However, no
fine was issued, said John Bell, Adler's
defense attorney.
Bell stated that he was asking for a
motion to reconsider the sentence and
to reduce and cancel the remaining six
months.
The perjury charges arose from a
Few parents support Bush school
By Julie Nations
Staff Writer
Despite the fact that school choice is
one of President Bush's key factors in
educational reform, a study by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching shows that few par
ents support the measure.
School choice would allow parents
to choose which public or private school
their children would attend. Under
Bush's plan, parents would be given
vouchers in proportion to the taxes they
pay. The vouchers, which would be
funded by taxes, then would be used by
parents to support their child's school.
The study was administered by the
Wirthlin Group, a research think tank,
as a nationwide telephone survey. The
group polled 1,013 parents of children
Festival offers
of Japan's traditions, art
By Chris Robertson
Staff Writer
Students interested in learning more
about Japanese culture and tradition
may attend the UNC Japan Club's 1 1th
annual Japanese Cultural Festival.
The festival will be held from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall of the
Student Union. Because admission is
free, anyone can stroll through and ex
perience a great variety of sights and
shows.
Atsuko Negishi, UNC Japan Club
president, said festival organizers hoped
to give students a chance to learn about
the Land of the Rising Sun.
"The festival is open to anyone in the
community or campus who wants to
attend," she said. "We're hoping to give
people an experience of the Japanese
culture."
Workshops for the festival will in
clude origami and brush writing. Stu
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lawsuit that Adler had brought against
the Educational Testing Service, which
is the administrator of the Scholastic
Aptitude Test.
Ray Nicosia, manager of media rela
tions for ETS, said that ETS had be
lieved Adler did not earn his SAT scores
properly. ETS's investigation found
"disparate handwriting."
"The handwriting on the SAT was
inconsistent with other samples of his
handwriting," Nicosia said.
Nicosia added that in questionable
cases students were given different op
tions, the most popular of which was a
free, confidential retest followed by an
"expedient scoring process." He also
said that such cases were rather rare.
"(The ETS has) 1.8 million students
take the SAT each year. We question
one-tenth of 1 percent of those cases.
That' s 1 ,800 cases," Nicosia said. "Sev
enty percent of those students clear their
scores, and 500 actual scores get can
celed." Adler chose to sue ETS for not re
leasing his suspicious scores instead of
accepting one of the options offered by
attending public schools.
According to the study, 70 percent of
the parents with children attending pub
lic schools who were surveyed would
not want to send their child to a different
school. Twenty-eight percent were in
favor of sending their child to a differ
ent school. Two percent were unde
cided. Thirteen states currently have choice
among schools, but only 2 percent of
parents in these states have opted to
send their children to different schools.
Other states, such as Colorado, are
considering implementing this plan.
Next week, Colorado voters will deter
mine if their state will be the first to give
parents public funds to pay for the pri
vate or parochial school of their choice.
"The president feels it is very impor
tant to put the choice of schools in the
atmosDhere
dents and community members may
leam how to twist and fold paper into
swans, miniature tea cups or any num
ber of other unique items.
Brush writing involves learning how
to use a wide-tip brush to write in the
Japanese style.
A number of Japanese foods also will
be served, such as rice balls and yakitori
chicken sauteed in soy sauce and
served on a stick. Japanese cuisine and
desserts will be served throughout the
afternoon.
A tea ceremony will be conducted as
part of the festival.
A number of demonstrations also
will be performed at the festival, in
cluding a martial arts exposition and
bingata, or cloth dying.
Howard Kazan of Raleigh will dis
play Japanese bonsai trees that have
been miniaturized through care and
training as well as a demonstration on
the artof Japanese flower arrangements.
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the testing service, Nicosia said.
"We said 'prove to us you earned
your scores,' but he sued us instead,"
Nicosia said.
It is also a rare occurrence for a
student to bring suit against the testing
service, Nicosia said.
ETS sent its attorney to the first-year
student at the University of Virginia
who had been paid to take the test for
Adler, Nicosia said.
"He confessed that Adler had paid
him $200 to take the SAT," he said.
Adler's friend received a score of
660 on the verbal section of the SAT
and a 750 on the math section, corre
sponding to the 97th and 99th percen
tiles respectively.
During the trial, Adler committed
perjury when he testified that he had
taken the SAT himself.
The judge ruled in favor of ETS, and
the testing service also won another suit
for $5,000 that it had filed for partial
court costs.
Bell said Adler's defense included
testimony from a clinical psychologist
that Adler had been traumatized at age
hands of parents instead of the govern
ment," said Darcey Campbell, assistant
press secretary for the Bush campaign.
Campbell said vouchers also could
be used by parents who did not want to
send their children to a different school.
"They can still invest $1,000 in the
school their child is presently attending.
The president feels this puts the power
in the hands of the people," she said.
Democratic presidential candidate
Bill Clinton does not think the govern
.rnent should fund private or parochial
schools, said Ethan Zindler, assistant
press secretary for Clinton's campaign.
Zindler said Clinton thought this sys
tem would separate children of differ
ent races and economic classes.
"A lot of middle-class kids will get a
voucher worth a couple thousand dol
lars and go to private schools, and poorer
Decisions
issues discussed in the class.
The passfail option contributes to a
laid-back atmosphere that makes people
more willing to voice opinions, Bolon
said. "You're not doing it for a grade.
You're just doing it to share your own
point of view."
The class is not limited to enrolled
students, Ulin said. Town residents and
students not enrolled in the class are
welcomed to attend the lectures.
Town residents broaden the range of
viewpoints in the discussions, Stevenson
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8 by his father's suicide and by "two
episodes of child abuse."
"A coach and an attorney sexually
abused him," Bell said. Because of these
traumatic experiences, Bell said, Adler
"developed ... proclivities that made it
more likely for him to do something
like this.
"The psychologist testified that he
needed psychotherapy and shouldn't be
incarcerated but be given mental treat
ment instead," he said.
Bell also tried to prove that this was
a special case and that Adler was a first
offender who had had "an unusual up
bringing; actually no upbringing."
"He was a business whiz kid and a
young entrepreneur, and his experience
with adults had been negative," Bell
added. "Because of the adults and busi
nessmen he'd been with, he'd been used
to paying off other people and hiring
lawyers."
Adler is still in Maryland tending to
the legalities of the case and could not
be reached for comment.
Lynn University officials had no com
ment. choice plan
kids will lose some of the funding for
their schools," he said. "A lot of times,
it' s white kids that go to private schools."
Clinton has proposed an alternative,
Zindler said. The Arkansas governor
would allow parents to choose from
among public schools, he said.
Independent presidential candidate
Ross Perot favors school choice, but
does not advocate the voucher system,
said Dee Hanley, media spokeswoman
for the Perot campaign.
"Perot wants to start by giving middle
class and poor parents the choice to
send their children to the same schools
wealthy parents do," Hanley said.
Hanley said Perot wanted to test a
pilot program in a select number of
states. "He would look at the costs and
benefits and then implement the plan
across the country," she said.
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said. "You could be discussing the fu
ture of Russia with someone who was
around when the Cold War began."
UNC's program is the largest in the
nation, and the only one to combine
students and townspeople, he said.
Ulin believes the course should be
mandatory. "If the University thinks
that no student should leave here with
out being able to swim, then I think it is
just as important that no student should
leave here without an understanding of
America's place in the world."
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