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the two suspects said. But an affidavit
filed with a search warrant said the men
were trying to arrange a laboratory test
of the substance and that one of them
last year laid out a plan to attack New
York City subways.
Flores said the suspects were "trying
to maybe be copycats of what happened
in Japan," a reference to a 1995 nerve
gas attack on a Tokyo subway that
killed 12 people. But he added that they
talked about "different cities" rather
than about a concrete plan.
Bobby Siller, special agent in charge

of the Las Vegas FBI office, said tests
are underway to conclusively identify
the agent allegedly found in the sus-
pects' possession. But Siller said, "It
was suspected that these individuals
were in possession of a dangerous bio-
logical chemical, anthrax."
Authorities said the suspects were
arrested at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday out-
side a medical center in suburban
Henderson after agents received a tip
that two men were headed toward the
center with anthrax, apparently hoping
to have it tested. A helicopter with fed-
eral agents aboard followed the sus-
pects' car to the medical center and
when it arrived, other agents seized the


two men and a container holding the
suspected anthrax.
According to the federal affidavit
under which the suspects were held,
Harris and Leavitt told a third person,
who was not identified, that they would
pay him $20 million to supply the
equipment to test the biological agent.
The informant was to be paid $2 mil-
lion initially and another $18 million
later, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit said the informant
declared one of the men told him he had
"military grade anthrax" in flight bags
in the trunk of the Mercedes. The infor-
mant said he saw eight to 10 bags
marked "biological" in the trunk.
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U.N. chief
tomeet
with Iraqi1
leaders
The Wshington Post
BAGHDAD, Iraq - After consulta-
tions with the French yesterday, United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
is to arrive in Baghdad today to meet
Iraqi leaders for what might be the last
chance to negotiate Iraq out of the cross-
hairs of a U.S.-British strike force poised
in the Persian Gulf.
If Annan, who plans to spend the
weekend in the Iraqi capital, cannot
persuade President Saddam Hussein to
back away from his resistance to U.N.
weapons inspectors, it seems likely that
his visit merely will be the prelude to a
deadly hail of missiles and bombs.
But U.S. officials, perhaps stung by
the televised verbal brawl Wednesday
at a public meeting in Columbus, Ohio,
over possible military action against
Iraq, expressed more hope than in
recent days for a diplomatic resolution
to the inspections stalemate.
In Paris, French President Jacques
Chirac, whose government has resisted
the prospect of U.S.-led airstrikes to force
Iraqi compliance with an international
disarmament regimen, urged Hussein to
heed Annan's message of peace.
"I call upon Iraq to accept the pro-
posals of the secretary-general of the
United Nations because these are the
proposals of the whole international
community. ... I hope that wisdom and
reason will prevail," Chirac said.
Annan, who has characterized his
mission as "the last hope before war,"
said: "I hope to be in a position to con-
vince Saddam Hussein to accept cer-
tain proposals which I will put to him
to avoid a military strike.
"I have everything I need" in terms
of negotiating authority from the U.N.
Security Council, Annan said after
meeting with Chirac for 45 minutes. "I
think we can get an accord the Security
Council can accept with no problem."
Largely at the insistence of the
Clinton administration, Annan is
believed to be carrying what is close to
a take-it-or-leave-it offer: Iraq must
adhere to the terms of the Persian Gulf
1991 cease-fire and cooperate fully
with the U.N. weapons inspectors. That
means no sites, including eight "presi-
dential" compounds at the center of the
current crisis, are off limits.

AFtouND THE NATION,

Big Three increase minority business
WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration and the Big Three automakers
signed an agreement yesterday that will send nearly $3 billion more in business
annually to minority-owned auto supply companies by the year 2001.
"Making this commitment is not only the right thing to do for the Big Three, it's
also smart business," Vice President Al Gore said at a White House ceremony. "It
will mean more orders for minority-owned and disadvantaged businesses, more
jobs ... the kinds of changes that transform the lives of families and communiti4
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. agreed to increase
their purchases from minority suppliers to $8.8 billion a year. They currently pur.
chase $5.9 billion in products from minority suppliers.
The contracts will increase gradually over three years to 5 percent of the domes.
tic automakers' total purchasing from 4.2 percent.
As suppliers have consolidated and become bigger in the auto market, the trend
among automakers has been to buy from fewer suppliers that can deliver a pack-
age of products.
Under the agreement, the Big Three will encourage their large prime sup-
pliers to subcontract to minority firms. The agreement helps the minority
businesses because they are usually too small to sell directly to the B*
Three.

-1' .

Scientists discover
hunger hormone
BOSTON - Scientists believe they
have found the brain's hunger hor-
mone, the stuff that triggers the over-
whelming urge to say, "Another helping
of mashed potatoes, please. And lots of
gravy!"
The discovery is likely to start a
stampede of research intended to find
medicines that can rein in this sub-
stance and help people say no to food.
The researchers were led by Dr.
Masashi Yanagisawa of Howard Hughes
Medical Institute at the University of
Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
They are reporting the finding in today's
issue of the journal Cell.
The scientists called their discovery
"orexin," a play on "orexis" the Greek
word for hunger.
"We believe that orexin is one of the
important pathways in the regulation of
hunger," said Yanagisawa.
The researchers found that two vari-
eties of orexin are made by nerve cells
in the lateral hypothalamus, a part of

the brain already known to play a tot
in appetite.
"It's an absolutely beautiful piece o
work," said Dr. Jeffrey Friedman o
Rockefeller University, "a very thor
ough and technically elegant set o1
studies that identify two new players it
the system that controls weight."
Government backs
new antibiotic
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Doctor
may soon have a long-needed-ney
weapon against the growing threat 'a
drug-resistant germs: Governmen
advisers recommended approval yester-
day of Synercid, the first alternative in3(
years to the antibiotic of last resort. 4
The recommendation comes at a criti-
cal time, just months after doctors dis,
covered that strains of the common staph
germ are developing resistance to tha
"silver bullet" antibiotic, vancomycin.
The French-developed Synercid is '
new type of antibiotic that appears 't
work by dealing bacteria a one-twr
punch.


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Philanthropic rich
give to quell rioters
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A trio of
Indonesia's richest tycoons gave to
the poor yesterday, hoping to pla-
cate rioters who have targeted fel-
low ethnic Chinese and blamed
them for soaring inflation and
unemployment.
Unrest caused by rising food prices
flared again when mobs attacked
Chinese-owned shops and homes in a
town 1,120 miles northeast of Jakarta.
Piles of tires were set afire, sending palls
of black smoke over the town of Kendari
on Sulawesi island.
Riots began one month ago when
mobs suffering under the worst eco-
nomic crisis in three decades vented
their outrage on a scapegoat used in
the past: Chinese merchants.
Sweeping austerity measures under a
$40 billion International Monetary
Fund bailout have exacerbated the
economic despair.
Prices of staple foods have sky-
rocketed since the plunge in the
value of the currency, the rupiah, and

those are what the Chinese tycoons
started handing out first. Truckloads
of rice, noodles and cooking oil were
sent to hard-hit city slums and rural
villages.
"The donation is an effort to help @
people to get their daily needs," said
Liem Sioe Liong, Indonesia's No. I iodi
vidual taxpayer.
N. Korea requests
talks with S. Korea
TOKYO - North Korea made a
remarkable offer of political dialo
to South Korea yesterday, sending
ters across the fortified border offering
dialogue between political parties and
civic groups in each country.
It marked the brightest glimmer of
peace in years across the divided penin-
sula because it appears to be a concrete
follow-up to statements by a senior
North Korean official Wednesday night
as well as a response to conciliatory
gestures from Seoul, diplomats and
analysts said.
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