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Show i Page A6 THK DAILY HERALD. Provo. Utah, Tuesday, October 3. 1W5 he bad and the ugly: zoom in on Gingrich By JiLL LAWRENCE Associated Press Wnter WASHINGTON His gums aren't so weird, says the New Republic. His book doesn't cut it, us the Standard, His lesbian sister is the smart one. says George. He thinks his wife is beautiful, says Ladies Home journal. He's a consummate con man. says The New Yorker. Only so many magazine covers and pages can be devoted to Colin Powell. Luckily. Newt Gingrich is tiiere to pick up the slack. The House speaker is getting even more than his usual lion's share of attention iately in a wild variety of periodicals. Apparently. Newt sells. Last month's Vanity Fair featuring Gail Sheehy's psychological dig sold near!) 3! percent more newsstand copies than the September 1994 issue. To be sure, the magazine also included pieces on Michael Jackson. Barbra Streisand and Sandra Bullock. But the juicy Gingrich profile generated "an incredible amount of attention," said spokeswoman Anina Mahoney. "We must have gotten over 20 broadcast mentions alone." The New Yorker that went on sale today screams "Newt" in letters larger than the magazine's name. In a damning profile, staff writer Connie Bruck labels Gingrich's approach to politics "Romrne! at Esalen" the tactics of the Nazi general w ith the feel coodism of California hot tub 26-pa- culture. She traces his single-minde- d rise to power, his focus on "marketing" and image, and his yen to abolish the congressional committee system. What she can't get over is his audacity. Gingrich once railed at Democrats for missing a vote he himself had missed, in her account. He has from calculated every move seeking a teaching post at obscure West Georgia College because he thought he could beat the local congressman, all the way to engineering last fall's electoral sweep interviewer but told a he never starts a day by "calculating what ought to do." Few Americans haven't heard of Gingrich. The problem is that 54 percent in one many people have unfavorable recent poll impressions of him. Next month. Gingrich and his wife score a modest public-relatiocoup in what LHJ editor 1 Myrna Blyth calls a 'really sweet" piece by longtime Gingrich pal Arianna Huffington. The magazine's 17 million female readers will learn that the speaker loves nature, he reads while his wife shops, and he helps her decide what to buy. "T always know what looks right on her." he says with typical assurance. For her part, Marianne Gingrich denies her husband is a womanizer (as Sheehy implied) and says they haven't ruled out having a child. Gingrich is found chatting with John Perry Barlow, a "Republi France vows to continue testing can. Deadhead and cyberspace pioneer." in George. John F. Kennedy Jr.'s glossy new take on politics. Barlow concludes that "half of Gingrich is as scary a caricature as I could imagine." but the whole is "at least a reason to reserve judgment." The magazine also profiles Heather Higgins. Gingrich's "high-tonpolicy diva." and Gingrich, his lesbian sister. Can-da- e ce Her IQ. the author says, is higher than his. in Other sides of Gingrich are fact virtually every side scrutinized in the debut issue of the c,andard. Its writers come mostly to admire: his "bold" attempt at congressional government, his "permanent offense" strategy, his Medicare strategy, his fancy footwork on welfare reform. Theorist David Frum. however, calls the achievements of the GOP Congress "incomplete and disturbingly fragile" so far. And Charles Krauthammer finds that Gingrich's conservative vision in his book "To Renew America" "doesn't hold up." The magazine also illuminates the speaker's hard-lin- e managerial techniques (he calls one of his committee chairmen a liar and shouts at another not to threaten him). Still, 'tis probably better to be known and skewered than never to be known at all. Ask former House Speaker Tom Foley, who said recently that people have trouble identifying him and sometimes think he is a senator. Calm returns to Nobel panel after 1994 flap For OSLO. Norway (APj decades, the Nobel Peace Prize selection committee has followed three commandments: Be secretive. Never disagree publicly. When in doubt, see Commandment One. Last year, the committee was shocked by sins against all three. Winners' names were leaked. Then moments after the winners were announced, a member publicly denounced the five-memb- er choice of PLO leader Yasser Arafat and quit the committee. After the most public flap in its history, the Norwegian Nobel Institute in downtown Oslo has restored secrecy ahead of its 95-ye- ar Oct. 3 announcement of this year's peace prize recipient. "That the committee was split w as. of course, regrettable." chairman Francis Sejersted said in an think this was an unfortunate but isolated incident." last year's Days before announcement, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten stated flatly, w ithout citing a source, that the winners would be Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for the Israel-PLpeace accord. In past years newspapers had offered speculation at most. Within minutes of the actual prize announcement, which also included Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, committee member Kare Kristiansen called his own news conference. four years into a Kristiansen term on the selection panel condemned Arafat as a "terrorist" and quit in protest, turning the occasion of the prestigious award into a platform for name-callininterview. "T before, including the flap in 1973 over the choice of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho of North Vietnam. Committee members opposed to the selection remained silent for two months, then resigned quietly after the awards ceremony. "My leaving was not a protest against the peace prize or the peace process. My protest was against a man with a record like Arafat's getting the prize." said Kristiansen. a longtime supporter of Israel. "I don't regret for a moment that I left." Members don't mind controversy, as long as it does not touch the committee's workings. "Conflict and debate about the rather than the commitprizes can actually have a positive tee affect ... because it draws attention to the prize." Sejersted said. In 993. South Africa's Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk won the prize even though factional violence was still marring their campaign. The 1990 award to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for his drive came just before a bloody crackdown in Lithuania. Last year's protests and even ridicule over the prize were little different. But committee members claim to be unscathed. "All is well with the committee," said Gunnar Staalsett, a Lutheran theologian who replaced Kristiansen. Staalsett also served a 1991-9- 3 term. It is impossible for the public to know what mood permeates the Nobel Institute, where the committee meets up to eight times to 117 of review nominations them this year. No notes leave the room. No one comments on discussions. Candidates' names are kept secret. The committee refuses comment on past w inners. The reason for secrecy? "Nobel said so," noted id PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) Emboldened by lukewarm reaction to its second nuclear test in the South Pacific, France reaffirmed its commitment Monday to press ahead with more underground blasts. The environmental group Greenpeace called Sunday's test beneath Fangataufa Atoll in French Polynesia "an enormous affront." Australia and New Zealand lodged formal protests w ith the French government, and New Zealand again called in the French ambassador there. But the United States and oth- er key allies merely expressed "regret" at the test, and Britain and Germany reacted w ith indifference. "I haven't heard any demands I've only heard regrets," Foreign Minist:r Herve de Charette of France said at a meeting of European foreign ministers in Luxembourg. With no immediate political fallout at risk. Premier Alain Juppe said Monday that France will conduct up to six more tests and "be among the first" to sign a global test ban treaty next year. President Jacques Chirac of France has promised to sign the treaty after the tests, which he contends are safe and necessary to check France's nuclear arsenal and develop computerized simulation tests. The test Sunday was more than five times stronger than the first one, the French Defense Ministry said Monday. The ministry, in a terse statement, said only that the blast was "less than 10 kilotons." New Zealand seismologists estimated the blast was about 100 kilotons and produced a shock wave equal to a 5.9 magnitude earthquake. The Sept. 5 test on nearby Mururoa Atoll measured less than 20 kilotons. slightly larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The tests are conducted about a half-mil- e m s. fa fit if II tS t'v - - ", AP Photo South Korean environmental activists lie on the pavement during an nuclear protest in front of the French embassy in Seoul, Korea, on Monday. The French vow to press on with nuclear tests. anti-Frenc- h the nations of the South Pacific have reacted angrily to the tests, moratowhich break a three-yea- r rium. The world's other nuclear powers, except China, have not tested nuclear arms since 1992. "It is a wrong call for France politically and it is irresponsible said New environmentally." Zealand's prime minister. Jim Bolder. below ground. The latest blast was widely believed to be a test of the TN-7- 5 warhead for France's new submarine-launched nuclear missile. The Foreign Ministry repeated on Monday that France might shorten the series of tests, to end by June, if it gets enough information from the first few blasts. But environmental groups and now-planne- Kenyan dissident convicted, sentenced to prison NAKURU. Kenya (AP) After a trial, a judge on Monday convicted a prominent dissident of attempted robbery and sentenced him to four years in prison and six lashes with a cane. Koigi wa Wamwere was convicted in connection with what the government said was an attack on a police station in 1993. The Londohuman rights group n-based Amnesty International has said the charges were fabricated and the evidence was questionable. Chief Magistrate William Tuiy-o- t reduced the charges against Wamwere from attempted robbery with violence, which carries a mandatory death sentence, to attempted robbery. Wamwere. a former member of parliament, says he is being persecuted for his political beliefs. He had been imprisoned four times earlier and held for long periods without trial. Tw o Wamwere's brother. Charles Kuria Wamwere. and a former army captain. G.G. Njuguna Ngengi. also were found guilty of attempted robbery and sentenced to four years in prison six lashes with Wamwere's brother-in-la- and a cane. James Ndumo Maigua, was acquitted. Koigi wa Wamwere recently allied himself with Safina, the opposition group formed by paleontologist Richard Leakey. The government has delayed registering the group as a political party. President Daniel arap Moi and members of his ruling Kenya Africa National Union party have called Leakey, who is white, a and a racist. 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