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Show { THE NATION __U.S. DIGEST Kaczynski pleads guilty to being the Unabomber White House intern. A federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., postponed a deposition that had been scheduled today for Monica Lewinsky to testify in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton. The development allows the young woman to delay a decision on whether to stand by her earlier assertion in an affidavit that she did not have an Calif. (AP) — In a deal that averted the spectacle of the government pushing t0 execute a mentally ill man, Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty to being the Unabomber yesterday in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. Kaczynski sat unflinching as a prosecutor recited in minute detail the horror of his 18-year reign of terror — bombs that killed three men and injured 29, including one who had his arm blown off. In a calm and forthright voice, Kaczynski confirmed he had written in his journal: “I would do it all over again.” The 55-year-old mathematics professor turned woodland hermit entered the last-minute plea on the day a jury was to be sworn in and opening statements were to begin. The agreement avoids the possibility of his execution, Had the jury convicted Kaczynski, he affair, take the Fifth Amendment or change her story. HE ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, CLINTON PROMISES ANSWERS; FBI CONTACTS to MORE INTERNS: President Clinton sought yesterday a with affair an had he ions calm the firestorm over allegat = ) '\\ . A Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski is escorted into federal court in Helena, Mont., in this file could have faced death by injection. He will be formally sentenced on May 15. Afterward, David Kaczynski — who had first alerted the FBI that his brother could be the photo. seeking to execute him — appeared visibly relieved. “We feel it is the appropriate, just and civilized resolution to this tragedy, in light of Ted’s diagnosed mental illness,” he said. David sat in the front row of the courtroom, been estranged from his family for 12 years, never acknowledged their presence.” Unabomber, then criticized the government for tears streaming down his face, as he heard how a man’s heart was pierced by the shrapnel from one of his brother’s bombs. The defendant, who has Outside court, Connie Murray issued a statement supporting the plea agreement. “He will never, ever kill again,” she said. Kaczynski wrote. “I would do it all over again.” MICROSOFT SETTLES PART OF CASE WITH GOVERNMENT, AVOIDING CONTEMPT CASE: Seeking to avoid contempt of court charges, Microsoft Corp. agreed Thursday to let computer makers temporarily offer its latest version of Windows 95 without easy access to ol its Internet Explorer software. By entering into the settlement with the Justice Robert Herbold Department, Microsoft avoided the possibility of being hit with a $1 million-a-day fine by Herbold, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Robert court, the if anticipated the settlement would have “very, very little, any at all” financial impact on the company. CLINTON TRYING TO SET UP ARAFATtrying to NETANYAHU MEETING: President Clinton is er Minist Prime Israeli en set up a U.S.-run meeting betwe to Arafat Yasser leader inian Palest and yahu Benjamin Netan sources revive Middle East peace talks, U.S. and Palestinian said yesterday. Under the proposal, Secretary of State and Madeleine Albright would mediate between Netanyahu to hoping , Europe in Arafat at a still to be determined site closz a deal based on a large Israeli pullback on the West ~ Bank. THE WORLD Pope denounces Cuban abortion 1T SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Pope John Paul denounced Cuba’s much-used policy of abortion on demand today and urged the government to end its monopoly on education and allow Catholic schools again in Cuba. Taking his mission to the communist country’s provinces, the pontiff criticized societies “where there is even an acceptance of ... young people engage in “promiscuous behavior on.” aborti to se recour easy and Cuba is the only Latin American country with legal abortion on demand. But the government has been trying to discourage the widespread use of abortion as a form of contraception, saying it should be only a last resort for problem pregnancies. The abortion rate has been has high as one per every live birth. Today, abortion, which is always, in addition to being an abominable the government claims the rate 2 has been crime, a senseless impoverishment of the person and of society itself.” Tens of thousands of Cubans packed a sports field in Santa Clara, 160 miles east of Havana, for the first Mass of John Paul’s five- % reduced t0 0.5 rfl._, or 0.6 i oY el i — i altar in Santa Pope John Paul II waves as he arrives to the day. Clara, Cuba to offer his first mass in Cuba, yester day visit. Under sunny skies, the crowds cheered wildly as the pontiff entered in his glass-enclosed popemobile and ascended to a thatch-roofed altar platform. At one point, they sang a song of welcome to the “messenger of truth and hope.” And in the homily of his open-air Mass, John Paul got quickly to his message, delivered in clear, understandable Spanish, deploring that too many < abortions per ¥ live birth. % When he first Emet the pope in late 1996 in Rome, President Fidel Castro told rize autho laws y, countr _reporters, “In our It is abortion, although we do not like abortion. ble.” desira or not healthy or advisable Castro’s government shut down Cuba’s Catholic schools in the early 1960s, and the church since then has sought to regain its role as a educator. The pope took this issue on directly, declaring that the government does not have ““the right to take the place of parents.” WORLD DIGEST m— ALGERIA TO EXPAND MILITIAS, GIVES FIRST yDEATH TOLL IN INSURGENCY: Algeria’s militar 6a ng defeati was it backed government insistedyesterday to plans ced announ also but ency insurg year-old Muslim ds of boost local militias after massacres that killed hundre the gave also a Ouyahi people. Prime Minister Ahmed 26,536 dead, government’s first death toll in the insurgency: over 21,000 injured. Ouyahia said the surge in violence over anger ts’ militan m Musli from ed recent months stemm the idated consol which ns, electio 1997 in fraud alleged general. power of President Liamine Zeroual, a retired CLINTON AFFAIR REPORT GRABS WORLD HEADLINES; STIRS FEAR OF FALL: President Clinton’s new trouble with women grabbed attention around the world yesterday, evoking deep fears that the world’s most powerful politician may fall. Israel’s Channel 2 TV broadcast Clinton’s denial about having an affair with a former Bill Clinton White House intern. Elsewhere, the media focused on the grave implications if the a charge sticks that Clinton had an affair with Monic sex “17 it. about lie to r-old Lewinsky and told the 24-yea Mirror n's Londo said n,” Clinto y destro may tapes that newspaper WAR NATO TROOPS DETAIN BOSNIAN SERB detained day yester forces led CRIMES SUSPECT: NATOprison Serb n Bosnia ous notori a of nder comma the alleged war crimes camp who is wanted for genocide by the U.N. after nt tribunal. Goran Jelisic was detained without incide a in spotted on the streets of his hometown of Bijejin being a NATO northeastern Bosnia, said Maj. Louis Garneau, U.N. the by ed indict been has 29, Jelisic, spokesman. lands. Nether Hague, The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in |