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Show Ematnon f6 urges kids to avoid drugs Fed likely to raise interest rates today Page D4 3 Page Entertain friends with festive meals B1 Coits hammer out blue-coll- ar victory Page CI Page D1 r Clinton inks Bumper crop comprehensive nuke ban treaty "This week, in this place, we take a giant step forward" in making the world a safer place, Clinton UNITED NATIONS Presisaid. ; dent Clinton today appealed to the With a blue U.N. flag at his world community to join together back, Clinton put his signature to the treaty in the in exhibiting Trusteeship "real zero toler- We're trying to rally Council Room. ance- - for nations But, in his that support ter- international General Assem-- ! bly speech,! toffickinand drus community to Clinton called dia-V Addressing the view critical the treaty "the N with Ge"traI of longest-fough- t, By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press Writer i few Ail the it if"--- ' our ' t that some countries that sponsor state terror ism has not moderat- ed their behavior." logue v.fey fonemurgyedCtthe ; hardest-soug- ht prize" toward world body to ', world peace. maintain mterna- Clinton also! finnal sanrtinns tr used the speech. isolate "rogue to take a slap at; states" like Iran, Mik-" mirvw Libya and Iraq. not ratifying a Wmte And, he said, ainton. the message to endorsed treaty Spokesman to curb drug traffickers the; and terrorists worldwide should be: "You have no place to spread of chemical weapons. "I deeply regret that the United run, you have no place to hide." Clinton addressed the world States Senate has not yet voted on body after becoming the first the chemical weapons convenworld leader to sign the historic tion," he said. "I will not let this die. And we will join the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty treaty ranks nations determined to pre- of all nuclear test banning (See CLINTON, Page A2) - Mri "-"- U,,Ji i e .i8 - 4.4.ir AP Photo Although Halloween is still more than a month away, farmer Wayne is already offering pumpkins for sale at a road- 100-pou- By SAID GHAZAU Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli police today after Israel secretly broke through the last stretch of a tunnel that runs along the Western the fault Wall and the Al Aqsa Mosque compound line of the Israeli-Ara- b conflict. The 500-yar- d tunnel, which connects Christian and Jewish religious sites, was completed after midnight Monday, the end of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kip-pu- r, Israel radio reported today. Palestinians have opposed the project for years because it runs under a Muslim mosque. When news of the midnight tunnel work spread, hundreds of Palestinians rallied at Temple Mount also called Al Aqsa, the third holiest site for Muslims. Officers on foot and in jeeps chased Palestinian as clashes erupted in several areas of east Jerusalem, including the Al Aqsa compound and the Salah Edin shopping street. Troops ringed Al Aqsa where hundreds of angry Palestinians gathered when word spread of the midnight tunnel breakthrough. Police deployed reinforcements throughout east Jerusalem. The work had been ordered personally by Israeli By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Writer A WASHINGTON California agribusiness firm was found guilty today of illegally lavishing gifts on former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and making campaign contributions to his brother. The jury found Growers of California guilty of eight out of nine counts of illegal gratuities, making illegal campaign contributions, disguising those contributions and wire fraud. It took the nine women and three men nine hours over two days to reach the verdict. It is the first guilty verdict in the first case to come to trial in the investigation by independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz. individuals No were charged, but the company faces fines and other penalties. identified Prosecutors President Senior Vice Richard Douglas, a longtime friend of Espy's, as the man who spent $14,287 of the companies money in little more than a year on himself, his girlfriend and Espy and Espy's girlfriend at expense. Prosecutors also said that Douglas arranged the illegal campaign gifts. The president of the company, Larry Busboom, testified for the government and was given immunity from prosecution. Other companies and individuals await trial on charges similar to those against Espy, a Clinton appointee who resigned in December 1994 amid the investigation,, stone-throwe- rs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert looked on as workers, guarded by police, broke through the last stretch of stone, about half a yard wide. An angry Yasser Arafat said today the tunnel work was a "crime against our religious and holy places and is completely against the peace process." Islamic clergy ordered Jerusalem merchants to close their shops in protest for four hours Wednesday. For 12 years, Israel has been working to complete the tunnel connecting the Western Wall Judaism's holiest site with the Via Dolorosa, where Jesus was said to have walked before his crucifixion. The tunnel would be a tourist attraction, leading visitors through a passage of religious and historic sites, including a Hasmonean water system carved in the 2nd century B.C. and a Herodian street. Tourism Ministry officials estimated the new exit will allow them to increase then number of visitors from 70,000 to 400,000 a year. Earlier today, hundreds of Palestinians marched through the Old City's cobblestone alleys to the tunnel's new exit, which leads into the Via Dolorosa, or Way of Sorrows. if , m I l " AP Photo Israel! soldiers warily patrol the streets within the Old City of Jerusalem as sporadic protests erupted today after the completion of a controversial tunnel under the mosque, one of the holiest : of Muslim shrines. sa (See TUNNEL, Page A2) Danish enclave 'living hippie museum' Find it Arts two-year-o- ld By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press Writer C6 D4 E4 E3 E9 C3 C6 B2 E2 Business Classified Ads Comics Crossword Lifestyle Movies Obituaries Opinions Sports COPENHAGEN, Denmark It started as a stunt in 1971, when a counterculture newspaper that needed an outrageous story for its front page staged an "invasion" of an abandoned army base. Journalist Jakob Ludvigsen and five pals with air rifles and a picnic basket entered the base near downtown Copenhagen on Sept. 26, declared it a "free state," took some photos and went home. Ludvigsen's paper ran the paper, urging young people to squat the Sailor Alley Barracks. After the hippies took it over, they dubbed the barracks Chris-tiani- a. Dl C6 A6 Television World Weather Tonight partly cloudy. Lows in low 40s. Wednes- day partly cloudy and cooler with a slight chance of showers or thunderstorms. Breezy north winds. Highs in the Chance of rain 20 percent on Wednesday. See Page A7. Today, some 25 years later, even the founders can't remember why they chose that name. - But some of them are still there, in the leafy homesteading enclave near the moat of Copenhagen's ancient fortifications. "Sometimes it feels like living in a hippie museum," resident Hulda Mader said. men, Despite the pony-taile- d d women, and wild mid-60- s. d. , Air Quality Today's air quality was not available as of press bare-foote- time. (See ESPY, Page A2) i I Christiania isn't preserved in amber. The buildings are brightly painted, but not psychedelic. Public nudity isn't as popular as it once was. And residents anxious to appease authorities who repeatedly threaten to shut it down pay taxes. Nor does it allow just anyone to live there anymore. Since 1979, the community has kept out hardened criminals, but swears by a lax policy on marijuana. Today, 760 "adults, 250 children, some 150 dogs and 14 horses live at Christiania. To preserve the enclave's green spaces and relaxed atmosphere, no more new housing is allowed. A dozen brick buildings stand amid homes in odd experimental designs. A former administration building houses a combined concert hall and restaurant There are 70 businesses, including cafes and bars. n But the community's business is on the badly paved but aptly named Pusher Street. "Hey, want some Moroccan, dude?" a young man shouts. vegetation, flower-pow-er . 84-ac- re best-know- Hashish and marijuana are a mainstay of the Christiania economy, despite police raids as frequent as twice a month. Copenhagen Criminal Commissioner Jan Richman Olsen estimated that hashish sales bring the community about $1 million every year. How much of that goes into Christiania's Common Treasury isn't clear either. The treasury collects residents' rents and fixed around $152 amounts from the businesses. The community uses the money to pay utilities, value-adde- d tax and a $750,000 annual rent to the Defense Ministry for using the land. nonetheless Christiania adheres to many of its ideals of alternative living including making community decisions by consensus at "general meetings" that can be as infuriating as egalitarian. So exasperating were the meetings that even the community's founder, Ludvigsen, couldn't stand to live there. He left after three months and now runs an advertising agency. "Every single item on the MHtr Hill AP agenda was discussed for hours during the general meetings," Ludvigsen remembers. "Everyone had his or her say. Even the dogs took part." "Christiania is a miracle," said Leonard, a man with shoulder-length white hair who declined to give his last name. "Look at how everything i " L rd pump-Wooda- Protests erupt as tunnel under mosque finished Jury says company pandered to Espy ' side stand in New Milford, Conn. 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