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Show | | 3 Thursday, May 9, 1996 The Daily Herald Andrews declines | UPS considering Tony nomination human cargo | ATLANTA (AP) — United Par- | | | | | cel Service can already hear snickers abouttravelers buying package ewe and wrapping up vacation plans as the company considers Carrying people onits cargoplanes. By MICHAEL KUCHWARA AP Drama Writer The Atlanta-based package shipper may soon convert freighters into passenger charters ; on weekends — anideathat’s sure | to make UPSthe buttof jokes. } We'll probably hear the jokes | on Létterman,” said Ken Shapero, spokesman for UPS’ airline division. “It’s a tall order. . Nobody wantstofeel like they’re a box on an aitplane.” The UPS airline division expects to makeits proposal to top mahagementin a few weeks. The company sees paying passengers as a source of revenue because most ofits Boeing 727s aren't used on weekends. Julie Andrews, the 60-year-old star of the Broadway production of “Victor/Victoria,” rejects her best actress Tony nomination following the mati- 6-year-old faces beating charge nee performance of the show at the Marquis Th MARTINEZ,Calif. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy charged with attempted murder may soonleave Juvenile Hall if probationofficials can find a suitable home for him Juvenile referee Stephen East- on on Wednesday denied arequest by the boy’s lawyers to release him to his mother, but said he was considering moving the hoy to a foster" home away from his old 14,000 U.S. troops to provide security at Olympics Critics charge manpower, money wasted neighborhood. The kindergartner, the youngest By LAURA MYERS Associated Press Writer atterapted murder, is accused of breaKingintoan apartmentand beating amonth-old baby while stealing atnevele. Eight-year-old twins, who were with the boy during the attack. were charged with robbery WASHINGTON — The command post is set, base camps found, contingency plans made andportable latrines and showers ready. Let the Games begin At this summer's Olympics the 16.500 athletes will barely outnumber the 14,000 U.S. military Forbes took jibes in stride personnel, part of the Defense LOS ANGELES(AP) — Multimillionaire publisher Steve Forbes said he didn’t really mind when his presidential bid was the butt of talk show hosts’ jokes because it meant his campaign was making progress. “That's what I toid the kids. That was our spin. It showed we were going up in the polls,” Forbes said during an appearance Wednesday on NBC’s “Tonight Show.” Forbes, editor in chief of the business magazine that bears his family’s name, spent $30 million of his own money during hisfailed AP Photo atre in New York City Wednesday. Andrews withdrew her nomination to protest the fact that she is the only member ofthe cast of the hit production who was tapped for a Tony. NEW YORK — Julie Andrews has turned her back onthe 1996 Tony Awards, rejecting a nominat ion that still could win her a prize for her performance in the musical Victor/Victoria The rejection was the latest in a series of unscripted events that have cast a pall over Broadway's best season in morethan a decade Andrews. who starred as Broadway's original “My Fair Lady” and in “Camelot but has never wona Tony. told surprised theate goers Wednesday that she was declining a best-actress nomination because the show was not chosenin any other categories, including best musi cal art andfind that | can“T have searched my conscience and my and prefer to and instead with the not accept this nomination -gregiously overlooked,” she said in an emotion-packed speechafter curtain calls at the matinee performance Despite her announcement, she will remain onthe nominating bal lot, said Keith Sherman, a spokesman for the Tony Awards She's been nominated and the nomination will stand “he said Whether Andrews will appear on the nationally televised awards “We will see how things ceremony June 2 on CBS was nc x clear. unfold,” Shermansaid The actress. who was making er return to Broadway this season after a career in Hollywood, called her show “an extremely happy and which makes it especially sad that sa successful collaboration many of my colleagues h ave been ignored Department's $50 million plan to provide security at the international sporting event As critics see it, however, the Adanta Olympics will have too much of a military look as uni- formed troops do everything from help keep soccer fields green to chauffeuring athletes from 200 countries. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. said Wednesday that nonsecurity spending inthe planis a waste of tax dollars. Heespecially objected to buying U.S. troops Georgia commercial bus licenses and paying them to drive Olympic athletes. help keep soccer fields irngated with large bladders of water and operate barges in Savannah for yachtraces. It's just a rip-off. It's disgraceful.” McCain said. “The Atlanta Olympics is having a lot of problems financially and they're just trying to fill the gap by usi Department of Defense money.” But Defense Secretary William Perry defended the ¢ 1996 defense bill and in congressional sessions dating to 1994. He emphasized that a military presence will provide insuran ainst violence at the games. “T think it is appropriate for the Defense Department to provide that security support for the Olympics.” Perry said. “This is a big undertaking.” McCainsenta letter April 24 to John Hamre, the Defense Depart ment comptroller, objecting to some $4.2 million in spending. But the senator, who has long tnedto cut port from the defense budcon ressional battles in 1994 al 1995 to ensurethe gov ernmentis reimbursed for military Olympic costs if the Atlanta. gam makeaprofit Last month, McCain won a small victory when the Senate Armed Service Committee agreed to restrict the latest $12.2 million in Olympic military spending to security purposes. But he said there is no way the governmentwill be reimbursed for its expenses. The Defense Department said the Atlanta games could owe them upto $1 million, however. for sev eral very specific nonsecurity jobs. The military perhaps stu Vy the implication it's wasting resources, held a background briefing Wednesday on its Olympic efforts. The Defense Department is the lead security agency for the July 19 to Aug. 4 games. Its main role is to provide a high-profile uniform presence onroads andin fields. to discourage violence USS. troops, who will be visuall and electronically monitori y cles and packages, won't be 4 relying on about 50 local law enforcement agencies to use their weapons if necessary. The FBI is handling all potential terronstthreats, On the expected peak day of activity, July 27, nearly 1,000 mil itary bus and van drivers will be among 7,000 troops swarming the three-mile radius Olympic “ring of activities” and outlying events. All but 2,000 of the 14,000 per sonnel who will rotaie into the missionfor two-week stints will be reserve members of the National Guard POC ie amarees quest for the Republican nomina- tion. Whenhost Jay Leno mentioned his surprise that Forbes’ accepted the show's offer to pay his airfare to California, Forbes said that after spending $30 million on his campaign he takes “any freebie” he can. 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