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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 7,1991
Anderson says his captors promise good news soon
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) an unusual videotaped interview, American Terry Anderson sounded sanguine about U.N.-led efforts to end the hostage stalemate and said his captors have promised “very good news” soon. The journalist, held by the proIranian Islamic Jihad for 61/2 years, urged that all sides step up cooperation to bring an end to the ordeal through a hostage-for-prisoner swap. THE 12-MINUTE video, during which Anderson answers an invisible questioner whose voice has been edited out, apparently seeks to apply greater pressure on Israel to release Arab prisoners. It was not known whether the videotape was made under duress, but the 43-year-old Anderson appeared calm and in better health than in previous photographs and tapes. The tape was delivered to CNN’s Damascus bureau Sunday night with a statement from Anderson’s Shiite Muslim captors that called the interview the latest step in a process begun with the August release of Briton John McCarthy. ANDERSON, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, spoke in a strong voice and laughed a few times. His hands remained palms-down on a table. He mentioned a variety of topics, including his joy after hearing a radio broadcast of the daughter he has never seen. The longest-held Western hostage, Anderson was kidnapped in Beirut on March 16, 1985. He said his living conditions have improved in the past two years and that two fellow hostages American Thomas Sutherland and Briton Terry Waite are in good health and spirits. HE URGED ALL parties to accelerate negotiations to free the nine Western hostages, saying the approximately 300 Arab prisoners
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Terry Anderson, the longestheld Western hostage, sounded healthy and happy in a surprise videotaped stateheld by Israel and its proxy militia in southern Lebanon deserve freedom as well. Israel has said it will not release more detainees until it receive a full accounting of five servicemen still missing in Lebanon. An Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman, Dan Naveh, was asked today for a reaction to the Anderson tape and said: “we have nothing new to say.” ISRAEL FREED 51 mainly
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ment released by IslamicJihad. That is the pro-Iranian group that has held Anderson for 6!4> years. (AP photo) Shiite prisoners and returned the bodies of nine guerrillas last month after obtaining proof one of its missing soldiers in Lebanon was dead and receiving the body of another. In exchange, 77-year-old British hostage Jack Mann was released on Sept 24. The Islamic Jihad statement said the tape was a way of “showing our hostages stating their opinions, which serves practical steps to bring an end to the hostage case.” “I’ve been told just a little while ago that we can expect some good news very soon,” Anderson said. “I was not told what that good news would be, simply that it would be good for the families, for our families and for the families of the Lebanese hostages.” HE THANKED U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who became intimately involved when McCarthy was released with a message for him, for his “skill in these very, very difficult negotiations.” “This is no longer the time for bargaining,” said Anderson. “This is no longer the time to get some small advantage out of each step ... Everyone on all sides simply must cooperate.” Anderson’s sister, Peggy Say, said from her home in Kentucky, “It certainly looked like he was encouraged that this was soon going to end.” CNN SAID THE tape was made Sunday in Beirut by a group identifying itself a Al-Mashrek, a Lebanese production company. The network said it did not pay for the tape or conduct the interview, but was allowed to submit questions.
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Forbes tabs entertainment
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NEW YORK (AP) Bill Gates, the thirtysomething whiz who formed the world’s biggest maker of computer software, is closing the gap on the richest person in America, 77-year-old entertainment mogul John Werner Kluge. Kluge and Gates ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, the magazine said Sunday. The list appears in the Oct. 21 issue. KLUGE, A German immigrant who founded Metromedia Co., is worth an estimated 55.9 billion, up S3OO million from last year, the magazine said. He has ranked first for three years in a row. William Henry Gates 111, 35, the Harvard dropout who in 1975 formed Microsoft, has a net worth of about $4.8 billion, most of it from stock in the company, Forbes said. Last year, he ranked 16th with $2.5 billion. The net worth of the top 400 hit S2BB billion the highest ever recorded by Forbes despite a recession that the selfproclaimed “capitalist tool” says hurt billionaires as well as bluecollar workers. THE RECESSION did make ex-moguls of some, mostly in real estate, where values have dropped and vacancies skyrocketed. But a record 71 billionaires populate the list, up from 66 last year and 13 in the magazine’s first ranking, in 1982. Forty-seven names were dropped this year. Six died, including Sen. John Heinz 111, who
New teachers think outside problems overwhelm students
NEW YORK (AP) An overwhelming majority of first-year teachers think their students are too weighed down with outside problems to do well in school, a survey found. A majority felt that even the best teachers would find it tough to teach effectively more than two-thirds of their pupils, according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. survey of beginning public school teachers. The findings were released Sunday. THE TEACHERS were questioned in July and August of 1990 before the start of their first school year, and a second time last spring. Seventy-five percent initially agreed that “many children come to school with so many problems that it’s very difficult for them to be good students.” After a year in class, 89 percent held that view. The survey of 1,007 teachers cast fresh doubt on the likelihood of reaching six educational goals agreed upon two years ago by President Bush and the nation’s governors. The first aims at ensuring that all children arrive at school “ready to learn.” THE TELEPHONE survey,
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MICHAEL MILKEN Earns 30-cents an hour was killed in a plane crash, and CBS tycoon William S. Paley. Fifty-eight of the 400 are women. The list’s average age is 64. Only one truly household name left the list: chicken man Frank Perdue. But Forbes said he slipped because the magazine had overestimated his wealth. AT NOS. 3-7 on the list are Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Moore Walton and his family. Walton divided his wealth equally among himself and his four children. Each is estimated to be worth 54.4 billion. Warren Buffett, the Nebraska investor who was tapped to clean up scandal-tainted Salomon Inc., ranked eighth. His estimated stock-market fortune
Court gets desegregation case
WASHINGTON (AP) A tangled school desegregation dispute from DeKalb County, Ga., could lead to an enormously important Supreme Court decision, telling school districts nationwide how much racial integration is enough. IN A CASE being argued today, the court may provide new guidelines for hundreds of school districts, like DeKalb County’s, still under a federal judge’s desegregation orders. Two key questions face the justices: • What must previously segregated school districts do to
conducted by Louis Harris and Associates, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The sample was drawn from a list of 1990 teacher college graduates compiled by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Looking back on their first year, 46 percent said they could have used help from an experienced teacher, and 51 percent favored smaller classes and better school supplies. “NEW TEACHERS are not getting the help they need,” said Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. “New teachers want feedback from someone who knows the ropes.” Among other findings:
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grew to $4.2 billion from $3.3 billion. Next are industrialist Henry Lea Hillman, $3.3 billion; and Amway Corp. partners Richard Marvin DeVos and Jay Van Andel, $2.9 billion each. MICHAEL MILKEN is “making about 30 cents an hour at prison labor,” but the junk bond financier is still worth more than S7OO million, Forbes said. He was No. 107. The real-estate departures include New York’s Peter Kalikow, who filed for 11 bankruptcy protection; Boston’s Harold Brown, who restructured debt after a Chapter 11 filing; and New York’s Mortimer Zuckerman. Forbes bases the rankings on inheritances, stock ownership, and “conservative” estimates for private companies. THE MAGAZINE also reserves a separate, unranked category for family fortunes that are divided so widely no individual qualifies for the 400. Among the biggest names: Bacardi, Busch, Kennedy and Pulitzer. The richest’s total wealth an average $720 million per person is enough to erase the 1991 federal deficit and still have enough for the $6.4 billion in extra unemployment benefits President Bush plans to veto. “The rich aren’t saints. Not all of them are nice people,” Forbes said. “But it just isn’t true that they get rich at the expense of other people; when they don’t prosper, neither do the rest.”
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• Both before and after their first year, some 98 percent stressed the importance of working well with parents. But seven out of ten complained that many parents treat schools and teachers as “adversaries.” • Before their first teaching experience, 98 percent said they ex r pected their principal to “create an environment which will help my students learn.” After a year of teaching, 87 percent said their principal actually did so. • Sixty percent initially agreed that teachers are respected. Fiftyseven percent felt that way after a year’s experience. • Fewer supported the idea of national teacher testing after a year of experience: 57 percent versus 66 percent.
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