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Show ~~ THE NATION iu:r:•; ; 1 ~J'~~r,.~:'1 I!, ' U.S. DIGEST CIA WANTS TO KEEP RIGHT TO ASK JOURNALISTS TO SPY: In rare cases involving "very unique and special threats" to U.S. security, the CIA must retain the authorit y to t ry and recruit journalists for spy missions, the agency's director said yesterday. News media executives vehemently opposed CIA Director John Deutch's view, and senators pressed him to spell out when and how he'd use the authority. With trademark secrecy, Deutch did not say in congressional testimony whether the agency has recently approached American journalists or let its agents pose as reporters for U.S. news organizations. CLINTON TO RENOMINATE GREENSPAN TO FED RESERVE: President Clinton said yesterday he will renominate Alan Greenspan for a third four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a move likely to win a favorable response from financial markets. Clinton also chose White House budget director Alice Rivlin and St. Louis economist Laurence Meyer for two vacancies on the Fed. Rivlin will be nominated for the Fed's Alan No. 2 position, vacated in January when Greenspan Vice Chairman Alan Blinder resigned to - - - - - ~ - - return to Princeton University. FDA APPROVES MACillNE TO FILTER CHOLESTEROL FROM BLOOD: A machine that cleans artery-clogging cholesterol out of people by filtering all the blood in their bodies was approved by the Food and Drug Administration yestersday. T he Liposorber is only for people with severely high cholesterol who aren' t helped by a low-fat diet or medicine, the FDA warned. This condition, called severe hypercholesterolemia, affects about 4,000 Americans. t ; , ' •, • .!'!11/t.--._#"< , • • ~ A >~~·:a...W-.Jf,J".,.-f"":Jil(..,.~l,..._ .. ,.~.\~,~-.e, 11<,• ,' l ,, # ~ "• ~ • • • ' , I'\.,' .l ') l ' I, I'} . • · ~ , ~ :....... r, • ,._~ • ~ 1 .' " ' , , ~ ' J ! 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From Mexico to Japan, people worried "a comrade and brother-in-arms." aloud what Buchanan's protectionist and Zhirinovsky, who has made no secret of his isolationist policies might mean for the rest of own anti-Semitism and disdain for foreigners, the world - even if he doesn't wm the GOP said Buchanan's "slogans are close and nomination or get elected president. understandable to us. Especially your words, In Israel, concern focused on Buchanan's 'America for Americans.'" perceived anti-Semitism and on his influence But through most of the world, the reaction to on the eventual Republican Party platform. In Buchanan's win in the United States' first 1996 primary was one of fear. Turkey, where the anti-Western, pro-Islamic Welfare party won general elections on Dec. 24, In Mexico, a frequent target of Buchanan's the newspaper Hurriyet wrote that " a fascist speeches, many were afraid that his success bomb" had fallen on the American election would feed racial hostility in the United States. scene. Buchanan has said he would use troops and Not all was negative abroad for Buchanan, build walls along the Mexican border to stop who disclaims any notions that he is racist or illegal immigration. anti-Semitic. Russian ultranationalist Vladimir "His attitude should worry every person who Zhirinovsky, a candidate in June presidential has analyzed his actions and statements," said elections, congratulated Buchanan yesterday as Mexican congressman Carlos Reta Martinez. ---------------11 THE WORLD Iii--WORLD DIGEST HEAVILY GUARDED SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK CHILDREN KNOCK DOWN A VESTIGE OF APARTHEID: In a scene reminiscent of U.S. desegregation battles, 16 black children protected by a police cordon walked through the gates of a formerly all-white school yesterday and into Srmth African history. But the school was practically empty. Only 20 of its almost 700 white students showed up. Glowering white parents watched the black students enter, and some vowed to establish a separate school, rather than have their children mix with blacks. ~llll!iiEfJ IMF CIIlEF APPROVES HUGE LOAN TO RUSSIA: Russia and the head of the International Monetary Fund reached a deal yesterday for a loan of more than $10 billion, the fund's second-largest ever, to back up free-market reforms. IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus stressed that the plan was ,,,.;;:':M's; .F,/11.• designed to help Russians who have been suffering in the post-Communist economic transition. He expressed hope that Russia would concentrate on "protecting the most vulnerable groups against the unavoidable Michel costs of the transition and making sure the Camdessus - - - - - - growth ... contributes to reducing poverty." FARRAKHAN CALLS FOR MUSLIM 'SUPERPOWER': Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan pleaded for Islamic unity yesterday, ending a tour that included meetings with Saddam Hussein and Moarnmar Gadhafi and provoked U.S. government condemnation. " If we Muslims can come together all over the world we could become the superpower of the 21st century. And that is the fear in the West," he told a gathering of about 100 students in Kuala Lumpur. I Serbs flee Sarajevo in • panic ...~ ~ ri VOGOSCA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - " I don' t know where I'm going," Nebojsa Acimovic said from the ~ window of his old truck packed with ~ furniture, trunks and relatives, joining i:: the stream of embittered Serb refugees A long file of Bosnian-Serb cars, tractors and trucks fleeing Sarajevo's suburbs yesterday. " Where this sad column stops is my loaded with furniture and personnal belongs are shown leaving the Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca, next home." Wednesday. Yesterday was the last day before the Muslim-led government begins to negotiating table. take control of five Sarajevo suburbs - and, Thousands of Serbs headed out of those in the minds of many Serbs, the last day suburbs yesterday, abandoning their homes in before the enemy would come to inflict chaos and panic. revenge for four years of war. Some slogged on foot along mud-and-snow The grim flight was another mournful covered roads in freezing temperatures, their chapter in Bosnia's tragedy - a war whose belongings on their backs. Others jammed sole aim was to take a country where Serbs, onto anything that would move - trucks, Muslims and Croats coexisted for centuries buses, tractors, horse-drawn carts - splashing and carve out ethnically homogeneous and sliding in long columns that fanned out regions. from Vogosca, the first district the Serbs will This time, it was the Serbs on the move, lose today, and from four other areas. forced out because of the policies of their A German shepherd, led by a young boy, leaders, who oversaw the brutal purge of began to stumble on a snow-covered road. Muslims and Croats from much of eastern "Make it for just a bit longer," the boy and northern Bosnia, only to lose five Serbpleaded, running his hand over the dog's head. held districts around Sarajevo at the |