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Show DIGEST CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO HIRE INVESTIGATOR INTO MAYOR'S GIFTS: Salt Lake Mayor Deedee Corradini, is the target of a n ew investigation into $201,000 in personal gifts she received from well-heeled business and labor donors. But a tide of public outrage since Corradini's gift disclosures last month prompted the city council on Tuesday night to vote to hire an outside investigator to determine possible conflict of interest Deedee violations. " I' m astonished at the audacity," Corradini said Dceda Seed, one of two first-year council members who pushed fo r the probe. " I think the mayor exercised exquisitely bad judgment." ARMY LOOKING INTO CONTRACT WITH INCINERATOR OPERATOR: Army investigators are looking into concerns about the way a contract was set up to operate the $400 million chemical arms incinerator in Utah's west descret. A letter from Dianne R. Nielson, director of the Utah D epartment of Environmental Qua lity, confirms the investigation. The investigation stems from allegations by the plant's former manager, Gary Millar. On Nov. 9, a few weeks after he was dism issed, Millar wrote.a stinging, 12-page memo saying he was fired because he tried to improve safety. CALIFORNIA CAMPUS DRUG STING TAINTED BY ALLEGED OFFICER MISCONDUCT: Prosecutors dropped drug charges toda y agai nst IO California State University at C hico students, sayi ng an undercover officer who lived among them tainted his investigation by providing alcohol to minors and having a romance with a woman student. " You cannot enforce the law hy breaking the law," Butte County District Attorney Mike Ram sey Ramsey said during a news conference. The 23 -yea r-old officer was not identified. The officer li ved in a campus dorm in a "sting" investigation that led to the students' arrests on marijuana charges last month. The drug sweep prompted angry protests from dorm residents. 16 ABOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT REPORTED INJURED BY TURBULENCE: An American Airlines jetliner ra n into severe turbulence over Co lorado yesterda y, inju rin g at least 16 people, including a?month -old baby, officials said. Fourteen passengers and two crew members aboard Flight 135 1 from Da llas- Fort Worth to Sa lt Lake -Cit y were injured, said John Hotard, spokesman for the a irl ine in Fort Worth, T exas. Richey sa id the crew di scussed landing at Colorado Springs, but the two women most serious ly injured, iwantcd to continue to Sa lt Lake City. One wo man 's head was bleeding badly, but a doctor on board was able to staunch the bleedi ng, he said. The plane landed at 11 : 15 a. m . MST , five minutes ahead of schedul e. ISRAELIS PREPARE TO CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: Ushering in the Hanukkah holiday, Israe li s lit th e first of eight candles today to com memorate a victory over the Syrians two millennia ago. At the Western Wal l, Judaism's holiest shrine, hundreds of people watched as the first torch was lit on a 6-foot-high menorah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acco mpan ied by hi s wife Sarah, and their t wo preschool sons, Ya ir and Avner - lit a candle in a ceremony at the Israel Museum . The prime minister held Avner, 2, as he sang a prayer over a brass menorah . BOUTROS-GHALI SUSPENDS CANDIDACY, SEARCH FOR U.N. CHIEF SHIFTS TO AFRICA: The search fo r a new U .N. secretary-general shifts today to a French -African summit after Boutros Boutros-Ghali sus pended his candidacy in the face of unrelenting U.S. opposition. BoutrosGhali said Wednesday he was suspending his candidacy fo r a second term, although the Egyptian remains an official candidate for reBoutros election. Supporters were urging him to stay Boutros-Ghali in the race. Albright named new Secretary of State WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton yesterday na!Tied U.N. ambassador Madeleine Albright to be the first female secretary of state and retiring Republican Sen. William Cohen as defense secretary, laying the foundation for national security policy in his second term. He asserted his new advisers would "rise above partisanship" to meet the challenges of a dangerous time. "They have the experience, the judgment, the vision to meet the heavy responsibility and the high privilege of leadership. " Clinton also named Anthony Lake, his national security adviser, to be the new CIA director. Sandy Berger, Lake's deputy, will m ove up to take his boss' former spot. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Defense Secretary William Perry and CIA director John Dcutch are resigning. All three were in the Oval Office for Clinton's announcement. Clinton praised them as "bright, forceful, strong-minded individuals," and said his new team was made up of people with "remarkable qualities." Though the appointments of Lake and Berger amount to a second-term reshuffling, the nominations of Albright and Cohen are trailblazing. Albright, whose famil y fled the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia when she was a child, would be the first woman to hold America's senior diplomatic post. The selection of Cohen, the retiring Maine lawmaker, is in keeping with Clinton's promise to include Republicans in his administration . Clinton praised Albright's "steely determination to advance our interest s around the world." Albright said, "We have had a skilled and successful foreign policy tea m." She said she was pleased that Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Madeleine Albright Talbott would be staying on. To Christopher, she said, " I hope my heels will fill your shoes." Cohen said Clinton's " willingness to reach across the aisle" sent "a very strong signal to the people of this country that he is committed to the bipartisan approach." Asked about Cohen's reputation as an independent, Clinton said, "A man with a creative, independent, inquiring mind is just what is needed for this team." The lawmaker called his appointment "a very bold and exciting move." Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of Clinton 's foreign policy, welcomed the appointments and predicted the nominees would win confirmation. Helms called Albright " a tough and courageous lady." He expressed hope that Clinton and Congress " will avoid the highly partisan showdowns that frustrated so many Americans during Mr. Clinton's first term. There's got to be some give and take." Suu Kyi defies house arrest RANGOON, Burma (AP) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi broke three days of governmen t-imposed house confinement yesterday, attending a friend's wedding at a C hinese restaurant, peopl e at the wedding said. The Nobel Peace laureate left he r lakeside compound, which has been scaled off by roadblocks since Tuesday, for about half an hour, they said. Suu Kyi to ld the British Broadcasting Corp. on Wednesday that she had been " illegally confined" after a protest by 1,000 students critical of the government. It was the biggest de monstrat ion s in ce the pro-dem ocracy uprising of 1988, which the army violently suppressed. Earlie r yesterday, workers e rected barriers on the road leading to the Rangoon headquarters of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, where she had been expected to meet supporters to mark the anniversary of a student rebellion against British rule in I 920. The governm ent increasingly has cracked down on Suu Kyi and her party in recent months. Roadblocks have gone up and down around her home, preventing the weekend rallies she used to hold before thousands of supporters - nearly the only contact with large numbers of people she had been allowed .. This week, intelligence authorit ies reportedl y warned Suu Kyi that h er safety could not be guaranteed if she left her home - an ominous sign following a N ov. 9 attack on her car by a mob allegedly organized by the government . The New York-based Human Rights Watch/ Asia, in a statement received in Bangkok, Thailand, likened her confinement thi s week to " house arrest." Suu Kyi has denied any direct link to the studen t demonstration other than a shared opposition to injustice. In Hong Kong, Winston Lord, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told a news conference that the students had a right to demonstrate. "We think in any society, c itizens should have right to peacefull y demonstrate and express the ir views," Lord said. " That's what they've been doing." The students' grievances stemmed mostl y from the beating of three engineering students by police in October. But unlike a mialler protest six weeks ago, some demonstrators bore banners demanding freedom and human rights - causes espoused by Suu Kyi and viewed as treasonous by the council of generals that runs this Southeast .Asian cQuntry. |