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'60 Minutes' won't run tobacco interview
NEW YORK (AP) - Did CBS sim-
ply lose its nerve when it spiked a "60
Minutes" interview critical ofcigarette
makers? And, if so, did the news media
lose, too?
Acting on its lawyers' advice, CBS
pulled an interview with an unidenti-
fied tobacco industry insider who was
sharply critical of the industry. The
network substituted another report on
the industry.
The swap is "a victory not only for
the tobacco industry, but any industry
that could possibly find itself in a face-
down position with a news organiza-
tion," said Valerie Hyman, a faculty
member at Poynter Institute, a training
institute for journalists in St. Peters-
burg, Fla.
The "60 Minutes" move came just a
few months after Capital Cities/ABC
Inc. settled a $10 billion lawsuit brought
by the Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds
tobacco companies.
Under the August settlement, ABC
News apologized for charges it made
on 1994 broadcasts of the
newsmagazine show "Day One" that
the companies add additional nicotine
to cigarettes.
Opinion was divided yesterday at
CBS News, where "60 Minutes" was
preparing what the network described
as a substitute expose on the tobacco
industry for this Sunday's edition of the
show.
CBS News President Eric Ober called
the steps that led to a replacement story
"not uncommon" and said the resulting
piece was "a lot the same" as the origi-
nal.
But the producer of the story, Lowell
Bergman, said the decision was "not a
good one for the First Amendment."
CBS was concerned that the'official
in the first piece had signed a non-
disclosure contract with the Brown &
Williamson Tobacco Corp. Any role
played by CBS in inducing the official
to break that agreement might have
placed the network in jeopardy of a
lawsuit, the network said.
"The story we're doing grew out of
the possibility of there being litigation
if we did the original story," "60 Min-
utes" executive producer Don Hewitt
said.
"We said, 'Wait a minute, we've got
a better story going right here: the
lengths tobacco companies will go to
keep you from knowing what they
know. "'
The replacement report, which fo-
cuses primarily on Brown &
Williamson, includes an interview with
the unidentified official whose face can't
be seen and whose voice is disguised,
Hewitt said.
> ATIONALl REPORT
WThite House: Welfare plan hanns kids
WASH INGTON- The White House issued a report yesterday warning that the
Senate welfare reform plan would push 1.2 million more children into poverty,
though Clinton administration and congressional officials indicated the President
may yet sign that legislation or a similar version.
White House officials immediately used the report to try to pressure Congress
into moderating its welfare reform legislation, which is nearing final form in ajoint
House-Senate committee working to forge a compromise between the House and
Senate versions.
But Republicans and Democrats close to those negotiations, which are likely
to be completed today, said the White House's arguments will not be consid-
ered.
The White House released its report after congressional Democrats requested
information on the impact of the Senate welfare reform measure and Sen. Daniel
Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) accused the White House of concealing an earlier
assessment, reported in the Los Angeles Times two weeks ago.
The President has said he would veto the tougher House version of welfare
reform, which the White House study predicted would push 2.1 million more
children into poverty. But he has indicated willingness to accept the Senate
version.
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Man, detained after
bombing, sues govt.
OKLAHOMA CITY - A Jordanian
American man from Oklahoma City
sued the U.S. government yesterday,
complaining that he was photographed,
fingerprinted, strip-searched and hand-
cuffed over a three-day period in which
he was falsely accused in the bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Build-
ing in Oklahoma City.
Abraham Ahmad,represented by the
American Civil Liberties Union in New
York, broke down in tears as he an-
nounced the $1.9-million lawsuit at a
news conference near where the Murrah
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He was detained and released by fed-
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Virginia after the bombing. He was
stopped in Chicago on the day of the
blast while on his way to visit relatives
in Jordan. The government believed at
the time that the bombing might have
been the work of Middle East terrorists.
Ahmad faltered as he described how
his wife and two young daughters had
heard his name in national media re-
ports and how groups of angry Okla-
homaCity residents had spat andthrown
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creator calls it quits
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Calvin and
Hobbes, the terrible tyke and his side-
kick tiger, will be retired from the funny
pages Dec. 31.
In a letter to newspaper editors yes-
terday, cartoonist Bill Watterson said
the decision to end the strip was not a
recent or easy decision.
"I believe I've done what I can do
within the constraints of daily dead-
lines and small panels," Watterson said
in the letter. "I am eager to work at a
more thoughtful pace, with fewer artis-
tic compromises."
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ATHENS, Greece - An Ethiopian
passenger armed with a knife taken from
a food tray hijacked an Olympic Air-
ways jumbo jet shortly before it landed
yesterday, and held a flight attendant
captive before being overpowered by
police.
None of the 114 passengers and crew
aboard Olympic Flight 472 from
Melbourne, Australia, with stops in
Sydney and Bangkok, Thailand, was
hurt, police and airport officials said.
Police and control tower officials said
the man took a flight attendant hostage
about 30 minutes before the plane
landed. He asked for representatives of
the United Nations and the media.
"He grabbed me and said he wanted
to talk to the captain," said the flight
attendant, Sofia Mastelou, who had a
knife held up to her throat. "But ...
everything ended well. No one pan-
icked."
The plane was parked off the main
runway while the incident was played
out.
Police posing as journalists boarded
the plane to talk to the hijacker and
suddenly overpowered him about 90
minutes after the plane landed, said one
ofthe passengers, Gina Spiliotopoulou.
The captain, Michail Bousios, de-
clined comment except to say: "All's
well that end's well."
German police arrest
notorious neo-Nazi
HEIDELBERG, Germany
Germany's most notorious neo-Nazi
was arrested for inciting racial hatred in
a book that denies the Holocaust hap-
pened, police said yesterday.
Guenther Deckert, 55, was arrested
Wednesday and appeared before a mag-
istrate yesterday in Mannheim, polic.e
said.
The Mannheim prosecutor's office
said his book, "The Case of Guenther
Deckert," denies the Holocaust, xin
which 6 million Jews and hundreds.of
thousands of others perished, took
place.
Deckert, the former head of the Na-
tional Party of Germany, has already,
been convicted and sentenced to two
years in prison on similar charges in a
1991 incident, but he hasn't been given
a date to report to prison.
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