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U.S. ambassador
to France suffers
hemorrhage
The Washington Post
PARIS - Ambassador Pamela Harriman remained in seri-
ous condition yesterday after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
Harriman, 76, collapsed at an exclusive Paris health club
Monday evening and was taken by ambulance to the
American Hospital in Neuilly, on the western edge of Paris. A
statement issued by the U.S. Embassy gave no details of her
medical condition yesterday or any prognosis for her recov-
ery.
Cerebral hemorrhage is a frequently catastrophic event
caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. In large
hemorrhages, the leaked blood compresses brain tissue,
often compromising not only conscious functions, such as
thinking, but also unconscious ones, such as breathing. Up to
40 percent of hemorrhage victims who survive long enough
to be hospitalized die within a month. More than one-third of
those who live longer suffer permanent neurological dam-
age.
Historian Arthur Schlesinger said he spoke to Harriman a
few hours before her stroke and she seemed "cheery" and
"entirely herself;" The ambassador had just returned from a
weekend in England where she attended the christening of her
,great-grandchild, and Schlesinger said he had kidded
Harriman about being a great-grandmother.
President Clinton appointed Harriman to the Paris embassy
in 1993 after years of Democratic Party fund-raising. That
involvement in politics and public life followed the death in
1986 of her multimillionaire third husband, former U.S. ambas-
sador and New York Governor W. Averell Harriman.
It also marked her emergence as a public figure in her own
right after decades of celebrity during her marriages - to
Randolph Churchill, son of Britain's wartime prime minister,
and to Leland Hayward, the Hollywood producer - and her
love affairs with journalist Edward Murrow and European
business magnates Elie de Rothschild and Gianni Agnelli.
The titles of two recent Harriman biographies - "Life of
the Party," by Christopher Ogden, and "Reflected Glory," by
Sally Bedell Smith - suggest she had a lifelong reputation as
a glamorous appendage to famous men, a reputation she was
1 determinedto shake as a Democratic Party doyenne and then
as ambassador to France.
By most accounts, Harriman has been a popular and effec-
tive envoy, navigating the sometimes choppy waters of the
U.S.-French relationship with aplomb. Friends and associates
have noted her easy access to President Clinton and President
Jacques Chirac of France, and her conscientious attempts to
master her job.
The French seem to have admired Harriman's pluck, her
graciousness, her ease in speaking French and her knowl-
edge of France based on visits dating from the 1930s.
Harriman, born Pamela Digby in Farnborough, England,
became a naturalized U.S. citizen after her marriage to
Harriman.
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Officers testify about female military roles
WASHINGTON -Top Army officials appeared before Congress yesterday ahd
immediately found themselves defending not only their response to a widening sex
scandal but also their long-standing policy of expanding job opportunities for
female soldiers.
Democrats and Republicans expressed concerns about the perils implicit in the
current Army, where men and women train together and camp side-by-sid
remote operations.
"I have some fundamental concerns about throwing very young women in a
position with a drill sergeant," said Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa). "Are we really
going to get to the bottom in an environment where political correctness may be
driving this issue?"
And Sen. Daniel Coats (R-Ind), wondered why Army officials are surprised at
the scandal that broke at an Aberdeen Proving Ground school in November. Sot fr,
20 instructors have been suspended, and at least 56 women have complained of
sexual misconduct. The Army is also investigating scores of charges at other Army
posts.
None of the senators went so far yesterday as to suggest ending integrated trai
or barring women from certain jobs. But their comments contributed to a grow
debate about women's roles in the military, one consequence of the Army sex scandal.
AP PHOTO
Firefighters hose down the remains of a home in the northem Israeli community of Shaar Yeshuv after a
military helicopter crashed into it yesterday morning.
CRASH
Continued from Page 1.
Hours later, amid a light snowfall, workers in a
crane were still trying to fish out pieces of heli-
copter wreckage remaining inside the rubble of the
destroyed house. Soldiers searched the site looking
for more bodies and trying to dismantle the scat-
tered ammunition.
Convoys carried the dead to a nearby army base
for identification. Israel's Channel Two television
showed pictures of bodies being carried away from
the crash.
"This is a grave disaster, and a heavy heart goes
out to the families of the victims," Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. "The
entire nation cries today for the loss of our young
fighters."
Netanyahu called off a trip to meet with Jordan's
King Hussein, scheduled for today, after receiving
word of the crash. He has reportedly cleared his
scheduled for the next several days, which would
also postpone a planned meeting with Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat tomorrow.
Arafat and Hussein both conveyed their condo-
lences to Netanyahu.
Vitamin D may stop
cancer cell growth
WASH INGTON - Researchers
searching for a pill to prevent cancer
have found an exotic form of vitamin D
that blocks formation of breast tumors
in laboratory cell cultures.
Scientists at the University of
Illinois, Chicago, synthesized a new
form of vitamin D and found that it was
able to protect mouse breast tissue from
cancer-causing chemicals.
Rajendra Mehta of the University of
Illinois, Chicago, said some other
forms of vitamin D have been shown to
combat cancer, but only at doses that
are toxic to cells. Vitamin D-5, the
compound made by his lab, blocks can-
cer formation at high concentrations
without damaging the cells.
But Mehta cautioned that the
research is still at an early stage.
"The toxicity studies are very pre-
liminary; he said. "When we test it in
the whole animals, it may turn out to be
toxic. We don't know yet."
Mehta said a standard lab test used to
screen compounds for anti-cancer action
showed that vitamin D-5 linked with
cells in the culture and prevented them
from making changes that often lead to
cancer. Cell cultures not protected by D-
5 did develop precancer lesions When
exposed to the chemicals, he said.
The compound is now being t d
on living laboratory animals and Mehta
said early results are promising.
Scientists find gene
linked to Alzheimer's
Evidence of a gene that increases
the risk of Alzheimer's for people
beyond age 75 was reported yester-
day by a North Carolina resewh
team.
Dr. Allen Roses, of Duke
University, said his team is now trying
to isolate the gene. He reported on-his
findings at a meeting on Alzheimer's
disease mechanisms in Durango,
Colo.
Once isolated, the mutant gene will
be the second gene known to increase
the risk for the brain disorder.
CLINTON
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just a teaser for the dollar-and-cents budget that
Clinton will submit tomorrow.
That budget will urge $50 billion in education
tax breaks, scholarships, grants and loan cuts. They
are part of $100 billion in middle-class tax cuts
over five years - to be offset by $80 billion in tax
increases on corporations and airline travelers.
For the moment, at least, Republicans and
Democrats alike are stressing bipartisanship and
cooperation, although neither side pretends there
won't be legislative fights.
Still, there is a sharp contrast to the spirit of bit-
terness and distrust that reigned a year ago when
budget battles forced two government shutdowns
that outraged Americans and tarred the GOP's
image.
The White House said Clinton, accepting an
invitation from Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
and Gingrich, would go to Capitol Hill next
Tuesday to discuss the legislative agenda.
Still to come, though, are ethics and legal inves-
tigations that could continue to cloud Clintons
administration. The president's vulnerability is
shared by Gingrich's own ethics problems, and
some analysts believe that may prompt both sides
to be more conciliatory.
Clinton's speech and spending proposals were
recycled from earlier budgets and from his cam-
paign.
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Milosevic offers
election concessions
BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA -
President Slobodan Milosevic
announced yesterday he is willing to
reinstate opposition victories in
Belgrade and 13 other Yugoslav cities
that have been the subject of daily
protest marches since the disputed Nov.
17 municipal elections.
The decision constituted at least
the promise of putting into effect the
significant victory for the opposi-
tion coalition, known in English as
Together, after 11 weeks of
stonewalling by Milosevic and his
government. But Together's wary
leaders, leery of the president's
record of manipulation, delaying
tactics and deviousness, reacted
skeptically to his gesture and staged
their 77th straight day of street
protests.
Milosevic "finally accepted what he
should have two months ago,"
Democratic Party leader Zoran
Djindjic told reporters. "This is just a
first step, but it is not enough."
Djindjic declared the demonstra-
tions will continue nonetheless and
repeated the coalition's standard
demands for the state to relinquis ' s
virtual monopoly on radio and teo1 -
sion and punish those responsiblefor
beating and jailing opposition deri n-
strators.
Hong Kong's future
leader faces critics
HONG KONG -The man who will
lead Hong Kong after it reverts to
Chinese rule presided over his t
Cabinet meeting yesterday, while down-
stairs dozens of democracy crusaders
chanted slogans and waved a banner.
Rather than ignore the demonstra-
tors, Tung Chee-hwa walked out to
them, shook their hands and talked.
Since his appointment in December,
the 59-year-old shipping tycoon has
developed a public persona that is some-
what disciplinarian, but also affable with
a willingness to talk with critics.
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