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Show Friday, October 27, 1W5 THE DAILY HERALD. Provo. I tah - Undecided candidate calls on notables By JOHN KING AP Political Writer WASHINGTON 5 A AP Photo Retired Gen. Colin Powell gestures during an interview in Washington Monday. A spokesman said Powell has made calls to conservative notables, such as Jack Kemp and William Bennett, about entering the GOP presidential nomination race. While methodically assessing his presidential prospects, Colin Powell has been contacting several prominent conservatives, including Jack Kemp and cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder, Republican sources say. Others on Powell's call list this week included William Bennett like Kemp a former GOP Cabinet member said the sources, who spoke Wednesday night on condition they not be identified further. These conversations and Powell's comments in the final week of his book tour have convinced many Republicans that he will run, and the sources said Powell is enthusiastic when discussing the possibility. But no one could provide any evidence he has made a concrete decision or offered anyone a campaign role. Asked about the source accounts, Powell spokesman Bill Smullen said the retired general has made a series of calls as part of his deliberations, but declined dent or vice president." Kemp, during his tenure as a New York congressman, was a close Reagan ally and the fav orite of many economic conservatives for the 1996 GOP nomination. He decided not to run but his longtime ally, millionaire publisher Steve Forbes, is a candidate for the GOP nomination. Powell and Kemp spoke Tuesday, as did Powell and Bennett, according to the sources. Bennett served as the nation's drug czar and education secretary and now. with Kemp, heads Empower America, a conservative policy group. While stopping short of endorsing Powell. Bennett has spoken favorably about a Powell candidacy and has said support Another source, however, stressed that Powell made no offer to Lauder anc suggested the talks were more general. A woman answering the telephone at Lauder's office Wednesday night said he was not available and referred a reporter to Lauder aide Alan Roth, who did not immediately return a phone message. Lauder ran unsuccessful!) for New York mayor in 1989. More recently, he headed up a group that pushed through citv term limits in 1993. Powell and Lauder met during the Reagan administration, when Powell worked as a Pentagon and White House adviser and Lauder served in a Pentagoajob and later as ambassador to Austria. As Powell nears his decision, supporters around the country are stepping forward to counter the conservatives try ing to discourage Powell from the race. of abortion rights should not preclude abortion foes from supporting him. For those remarks. Bennett has been drawn into a bitter feud w ith several leading social conservatives who accuse him of abandoning principle. One of the GOP sources said Powell's late-nigTuesday conversation with Lauder as an effort front-runne- ' fund-raisin- Reagan administration alumni and allies in a way that could help him counter such criticism. Powell's D-- to determine whether Lauder would be interested in sen ing in a g top post if Powell did run. The source said Lauder told Powell he needed to make a decision soon because of the head stan of other candidates, and that the two men agreed to speak again. But as Powell considers a run. he appears to be reaching out to to name any of those consulted. "As of this day, the 25th of October, Colin Powell has not yet made a decision," Smullen said. Powell ended his nationwide book tour last week and has promised a decision in Nov ember, after what he said would be a period of "seclusion" to consult family, friends and advisers. As Powell ponders, many conservatives are mounting a concerted effort to convince him to stay on the sidelines, suggesting they will strongly oppose a Powell candidacy because of his support for abortion rights, gun control, affirmative action and other policies at odds with their agenda. 'T cannot find any reason why any conservative would want to sacrifice the work of decades on the altar of celebrity." said American Conservative Union president David Keene, a GOP consultant and ally of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the GOP presir. dential Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson sidestepped the question of whether he could support a Powell candidacy by saying he believed "the Republican Party, as it is currently constituted, is not going to pick a pro choice presi Paae ht Study underscores craftiness of AIDS virus By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer In a new sign NEW YORK of how slippery a foe the AIDS virus is, researchers reported Wednesday that it can infect key blood ceils even after it's trapped and chemically handcuffed by the body. that The result shows researchers must find ways to attack the trapped HIV, researcher Gregory Burton said. Scientists have long known that large populations of HIV become trapped by a weblike mesh in lym phoid tissues like the tonsils, cuffs, researchers from spleen and lymph nodes. Studies show that HIV infects blood cells in lymphoid tissues, but it hasn't been clear whether the trapped HIV was responsible. That's because the trapped viruses are "handcuffed." covered with antibodies and other immune system proteins that should prevent them from infecting cells. But the new study says they are infectious, and it blames the cells that form the weblike mesh. Somehow, these cells let trapped HIV continue to infect despite its hand- - Commonwealth Olympic security now joint effort FBI joins CIA to address safety of games By MARCY GORDON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The FBI and CIA are working together to deal with "substantial" threats to security at next summer's Olympic Games in Atlanta, top U.S. officials say. The FBI is taking the lead and is getting help from the CIA in assessing the potential threats from foreign terrorists. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick said at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "I am comfortable that we are on target for the substantial security challenges that we face there." she said in response to a question. Gorelick is the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, which has authority over the FBI. Jeffrey Smith, the CIA's general counsel, offered to brief committee members on "what we think the threats are" in a future closed session. V The CIA has experience in infiltrating terrorist groups outside the tJnited States, and is helping the FBI "in order to protect American 'citizens and American lives at the Atlanta 0!ympics,""Smith told Several reporters after the hearing. " The two agencies are "aggressively trying to take responsibility Jind get out in front" of the prob-JeSmith said. He declined to "comment on how the level of threat to the upcoming Olympics compared with that for previous the games but said. "Clearly, 'threat of domestic terrorism is 5 4 : 'greater, it's grown." ' In a related development 'Wednesday, ii is a court in Munich, Committee Chairman Richmond report in Wednesday's issue of the journal Nature. Burton, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, said current anti-HIdrugs may not work against the trapped virus because they are aimed at blocking reproduction, and HIV does not reproduce while trapped. "We go out and destroy the virus at other sites, but it remains sitting (while trapped) ... waiting to infect as soon as it gets an opportunity," he said. V J cells are called follicular dendritic cells. Their normal job is to trap and hold bits of foreign material, The That happened even when the levels of neutralizing antibodies were a million times greater than what is normally needed to block infection. Burton said. "You really wouldn't think it had any chance at all of being able to infect, and yet it clearly does." he said. It's not clear how dendritic cells permit HIV infection. But since their normal job is to show bits of germs to the immune system, they may expose the AIDS virus in a way that lets it infect nearby T cells. Burton said. One possibility for treatment web-maki- which serve to remind the disease-fightin- g immune system what eerms and other invaders look tike. The new work was done in mice and in test tubes. Researchers found that when HIV was handcuffed by neutralizing antibodies, it could still infect its key target. T cells of the immune system, but only if dendritic cells were present. might be to find wavs to keep HIV from sticking to dendritic cells, so that it could not longer get their help. Burton said. Dr. Ashley Haase of the University of Minnesota, who has studied the behavior of HIV in lymphoid tissue, said the ability of dendritic cells to make the trapped virus infectious is "quite extraord'-nary.- " The result shows you have "an enormous pot of infectious virus there" that will have to be eradicated by new drugs that can attack the trapped HIV. he said. The Dark j Arlen noted that some Specter, critics maintain the FBI and CIA have overlapping functions and have questioned whether the CIA should even exist in the wake of the Aldrich Ames spy scandal. "We have seen problems of lack of cooperation" between the CIA and domestic law enforcement agencies, said Specter, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. "If the mistakes are serious enough, deep-seate- d enough and uncorrected, then I think we have to look at" possible structural changes. Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, the committee's senior Democrat, chided the FBI for seeking to build a $37 million code encryption center that he said would duplicate facilities operated by the National Security Agency. McDonald's found negligent girl's parents NOBLES V I LLE. Ind. (AP) ;McDonald's Corp. and one ol its franchises have been found partly Responsible for an accident in which a Ronald McDonald clown statue toppled onto a little girl, 'severing ncr fingertip. and Cassidy ; McDonald's Restaurants should pay Elena "Montgomery $4I.4(X) in damages, 'a jury found Wednesday. The jury ' ruled out damages for 22 relatives of Israeli athletes and coaches killed in an attack by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The court said the relatives forfeited the right to pursue damages under a 1973 agreement they signed with Olympic authorities. Two Israelis were killed when the Black September Palestinian group attacked their housing area in the Olympic Village. Nine other Israelis, five of their captors and a police officer were killed when German police tried to free the Israelis. In the hearing. Gorelick and Smith pointed to the security work on the Olympics as an example of a new, more cooperative relationship between the domestic law enforcement agency and the foreign-oriented intelligence agency, the subject of the hearing. Other examples cited by the two officials were work on countering terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking. Germany, Virginia University in noted that the were for not responsible watching partly her closely enough. Elena and a friend were swinging from the statue at a Cassidy Restaurants playground in June 1992 when the clown tipped over. Elena lost the fleshy tip of the second finger on her left hand. LAST FOUR DAYSI Something weird is going on at Lagoon this October. From out of the blackness of night, something is twisting and mutating the 'Only Ore for Fun!' 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