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Show Wednesday, December 1, 1993 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page A8 worn on va rsn subsidy disput County rejects tax breaks for Apple over gays policy By SCOTT ROTHSCHILD Associated Press Writer AUSTIN, Texas County commissioners rejected tax breaks for Apple Computer Inc., losing 700 local jobs, because the company grants health benefits to domestic partners of both heterosexual and homosexual employees. Williamson County commissioners voted 2 Tuesday to reject the tax abatements, saying Apple is wrong to support same-se- x partners. "I just believe if you got moral convictions there's a time to exercise them or do away with the convictions you got," Commissioner Jerry Mehevec 3-- Gov. Ann Richards called the vote "a local decision and we must respect it." Meanwhile, she said, she has talked with Apple about other Tsxas sites. The liamson County, just north of Austin. Now, "it is unlikely we will locate in Williamson County," Apple spokeswoman Lisa Byrne said. Rights Lobby of Texas denounced the decision. "I believe it is a shame to stunt needed economic growth due to ihis type of bigotry," said the group's director, Dianne Hardy-Garci- a. The, decision works against efforts by Texas economic development officials to recruit businesses from Northern California's Silicon Valley, where Apple is based. said. Apple had sought $750,000 in tax abatements over seven years for its proposed $80 million facility in southern Wil- Lesbian-Ga- y of "I don't agree same-se- x but government needs to stay out of business. Families need jobs," said Charlie Culpepper, the mayor of Round Rock, the largest town in Williamson County. Apple is the world's second-largemaker of personal comst puters with expected revenue of nearly $8 billion in fiscal 1993. Study reports high-fa- t diets increase risks of lung cancer By PAUL RECER AP Science Writer - WASHINGTON High-fdiets increase the risk of lung cancer, even for nonsmokers, according to a National Cancer Institute study published today. An NCI study of nonsmoking women in Missouri found that those whose diets had 15 percent or more saturated fat were about six times more likely to develop lung cancer than those whose diets had 10 percent of less of the at fat. "We found that as you increase the amount of saturated fat, you increase the amount of lung cancer," Michael C.R. Alavanja, an NCI researcher, said Tuesday. A report on the study was published in the Journal of the tional Cancer Institute. Earlier studies have linked diets with cancers of the high-fat As the BRUSSELS, Belgium Dec. 15 deadline closes in, the European Community and the United States intensified efforts today to settle a stubborn dispute over farm subsidies and save world trade talks from collapse. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other senior American officials converged on the community for barsessions that could decide gaining the fate of the global trade effort. colon , prostate and breast. High-f- at diets also are thought to increase the risk of heart disease. Alavanja said his research compared the diets of 429 nonsmoking women who had lung cancer with the diets of 1,021 nonsmoking women who did not have lung cancer. The women all lived in the same part of the country, Missouri, were of about the same age and represented "a typical American female popula- "There's no question of renegoit," he told reporters. "We've said that all along." "We all realize there is very little time left," said Sir Leon Brit-tathe EC trade chief, as he met tiating n, U.S. Trade Representative French President Francois Mitterrand today reaffirmed his readiness to work out a deal with Wash- Mick- ey Kantor for the start of two days of negotiations. "There are a lot of issues to be resolved." The with the idea marriages, ambitious attempt to overhaul the world trading system, but has been stalled for nearly three years by the bitter farm fight. The Clinton administration signaled Tuesday that it might be willing to compromise with France, which has refused to accept hefty cuts in government payments to its 1 million farmers. But Kantor, arriving this morning at Brussels' Zaventem airport, said the United States would not reopen an agreement reached last year with the EC to cut subsidized farm exports. By SALLY JACOBSEN Associated Press Writer of negotiations ington. 'Efforts are still needed to Uruguay Round 116-nati- reach a compromise," Mitterrand said after meeting with German Fiji joined is the most GATT last week LaRouche to be paroled years every four PerWASHINGTON (AP) sistent presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, imprisoned nearly Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn. "We are ready to undertake these efforts." However, he cautioned that a deal must be reached "without the feeling that one country or another is being treated like a victim. France sometimes has this feeling." Mitterrand was alluding to past French accusations that the United States has demanded too much in the farm dispute while conceding too little. Kohl, Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur finished two days of talks today, but refused to reveal what kind of bargain might be possible. An easing of Washington's hard-lin- e position could help clear the way to conclude the negotiations by a Dec. 15 deadline set by the General Agreement on Tarif fs and Trade. GATT, based in Geneva, is sponsoring the round. A successful outcome would re mail fraud charges and one count of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by deliberately defaulting on more than $30 million in loans from supporters of his presidential campaign. When he was sentenced on Jan. 27, 1989, LaRouche told the judge 11 five years for raising campaign -- 15-ye- ar that he was the victim of a government campaign to "eliminate me from the pol itical scene . " He ran his 1992 campaign from his prison cell, and the Supreme Court on Monday let him collect 2002. Before leaving Washington, Kantor expressed hope that he and ' Brittan, his EC counterpart, could or an accora agree on the outline covering agriculture and other sues in two days of talks. r . is-- "" The goal is to settle the remaining differences between the United States and the EC and take the deal to Geneva as a basis of negotiations other nations with the Z in the round. participating Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy arranged hastily scheduled discussions with the EC's Rene Steichen. -- 100-pI- Ifffi- - hiiit- -- -- .. ,., ,. -- J iMfc assage Tfiera in beginning 1976. He was convicted in 1988 on funds illegally, will be freed from federal custody next month, the U.S. Parole Commission says. The 71 year-old political extreof mist will have served one-thir- d his sentence for mail fraud and conspiracy when he leaves the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., on Jan. 26. The parole commission's decision, announced Tuesday, follows a Sept. 29 hearing. Under the terms of his parole, LaRouche will be under the supervision of a federal probation officer until Jan. 26, 2004, when his original sentence would have ex- r.Hi-- ' W.,.minfitH.i...n,.i,ii,,r.,,,tf,l.i.-- duce tariffs and other obstacles to trade in more than a dozen areas, fi- including agriculture, textiles, i r . i i anu nanciai services nwiiuidciuicu goods. 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