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Russ- ii President Boris Yeltsin called in Moscow for rtherU.S. concessions and said, “I don’t want urn to the Cold War.” The points Clinton took up with Foreign Min- ;erYevgeny Primakov included assurances that expanded NATO would pose no threat to cow and promises of a greater voice for Rus- ain the economic conferences of the world’s iven leading industrialized democracies. While Russia cannot stop the alliance from viting former Soviet allies this summer to join, Yeltsin and Primakov signaled they re opposed in principle. “We can’t move ly further,” Yeltsin said in Moscow. And emerging from an hour-long session with linton, hobbled by a knee injury, in a White sitting room, Primakov said: “Russia will change its position on NATO.” The differences will carry over to Clinton’s immit with Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland, on idj hursday and, White House press secretary Mike IcCurry said, “There are likely to continue to be isagreements after the summit.” Primakov planned to fly home Monday night ndto report to Yeltsin, who told American, Russ- pii in and Finnish television networks in Moscow: >th ained ouse: “I don’t want a return to the Cold War, and nei ther do our people, but to avoid that there must be equal conditions. I’m for a multi-polar world, not one in which the United States will com mand everyone else.” Urging Clinton to make concessions, Yeltsin said: “Our diplomats have made enough con cessions to the United States. We can’t move any further. Nowit’s the U.S. turn to move in order to preserve our partnership.” Despite the rhetoric, the two sides are working on a new relationship between Moscow and NATO, one that McCurry said would be made politically but not legally binding. If a charter can be complet ed, that probably would be done at a gathering of Clinton and European leaders in Eu rope, probably in the Netherlands in late May. Primakov said Russia would not drop its in sistence that the charter have “a binding charac ter,” but that Russia understood NATO was a real force and would like to have a normal relation ship with the alliance. Talking to reporters in the White House drive way, Primakov said it was “a great honor” to be received by Clinton during his convalescence from knee surgery and while he was not disposed to receive foreign visitors. During their talks in the Yellow Room in the second-floor residential quarters, Clinton and Primako sat in armchairs. The president’s knee Clinton was in a brace, the result of a wrenching accident and surgery last Friday. He moved his leg back and forth gingerly a few times. Among the concessions on the agenda for Clin ton’s talk with Primakov were the charter to give Russia more participation in NATO proceedings, joint peacekeeping operations like the one in Bosnia and promises that NATO would not deploy Western troops in substantial numbers on the soil of new members for the foreseeable future. Last week, Yeltsin said Clinton had told him on the telephone that “the U.S. is interested in compromise and so am I.” NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana, the chief negotiator for the West, is working on a text and his made several trips to Moscow for Krem lin conference. Primakov, meanwhile, met with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Satur day, Sunday and before the foreign minister called at the White House. He met with Defense Secretary William Cohen on Sunday. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns called the Albright-Primakov sessions "intensive, cooperative and, in some case, productive.” He acknowledged “we are working on some language” to formalize new Russian ties to NATO, although the administration has flatly rejected Russia’s demand for a legally binding document. Clinton’s knee injury, surgery and post-oper ation pain caused him to delay the start of the two-day meeting with Yeltsin in Helsinki from Wednesday to Thursday. Ironically, the summit was shifted to Finland from the United States to accommodate Yeltsin, who had heart surgery in November and pneumonia in January. 268'1328 Hours: Mon &. Thurs 11-8 T'W-F 11-7 & Sat 10-6 Come hy for all your • Ring Dance • Boot Dance • After 5 attire • Graduation •Graduation Announcements With this Ad receive | 20% OFF any purchase from stock | Hey guys, don't forget your tuxedo! I Guys $10 OFF Tux Rental ox said. "Ck trme—i ow I am vife Claire i 1, Knoxsaidl iis work inti his biggest* ast Noveratif exas Techffi bus. Knox at) cfbecomiif ikes even® NN opens first news bureau in Cuba +Some reporters question whether it will be successful since Castro main tains stiict control of the media. NEWYORK (AP) — Its cameras canning the sunny Havana skyline md the brilliant blue harbor, CNN - #n Monday became the first U.S. news organization in 27 years to hbrni, s 0 pen a bureau in Cuba. Correspondent Lucia Newman’s Jli a Iauiy “ first report, on the impact of Amer- y w 0 1 rcanrestrictions designed to put an t economic squeeze on Cuba, was broadcast Monday afternoon. CNN was one of several news or ganizations, including The Associat- edPress, to receive a license from the —s\ Page 3 nes to breal reated whet arsagoisfe ue solo prf nuch talent s to be was!- same alba® Clinton administration last month to operate permanently in Cuba. So far CNN is the only organiza tion to get permission from the Cuban government to open a bu reau. The AP which was expelled from the island in 1969, is continu ing discussions with the Cubans. Cuba has frequently granted American reporters visas to visit the island, usually for about a week. The Cuban government has as sured CNN it would not censor its reports, Newman said. Her initial story reported that the economic restrictions were hurting more than the Cuban government has admit ted and less than some Americans had hoped. The London-born Newman is a veteran Latin American reporter with previous CNN assignments in Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua and Pana ma. She has also reported for CNN from Cuba on a temporary visa. Living in Cuba should enable her to give CNN viewers a better sense of what it is like for residents of the country, Newman said in a tele phone interview. “It’s the last com munist country in this hemisphere and it still has an enigma about it.” Lucia Newman CNN correspondent “It is definitely the most exciting country for any journalist covering Latin America to cover,” she said. “It’s the last communist country in this hemisphere and it still has an enigma about it. “What I most want to do is to show Cuba for what it is — a coun try that has a lot of things to it be sides the Cold War with the United States and beyond Fidel Castro,” she said. For example, she wants to exam ine the country’s housing shortage and the effect it has on Cuba’s high divorce rate. Newman groaned when asked about the living situation for her husband, a free-lance journalist, and two daughters. They are still in a hotel room. A five-person crew is stationed with her at the bureau in the Ha vana Libre Hotel, formerly the Hilton. Newman is busy trying to furnish the office in a city where supplies are short; she is using a hotel coffee table until a desk can be delivered. “Even the best-laid plans are dif ficult to execute here,” she said. Defense says Beckwith denied speedy trial JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Prosecutors stalled or three decades, until a new social climate jave them a better chance of victory, before etrying Byron De La Beckwith in the slaying of Ti® 'JAACP activist Medgar Evers, defense lawyers irgued Monday. Beckwith’s lawyers made that argument be- ore the Mississippi Supreme Court in asking hat his conviction be overturned. Beckwith, a 76-year-old white supremacist, was onvicted in 1994 of murdering the civil rights eaderin 1963. Beckwith is serving a life sentence. IWo all-white, all-male juries deadlocked at his irst two trials in 1964. Evers, the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was shot in his driveway by a sniper. Beckwith insisted he was 90 miles away at the time. The effort to bring Beckwith to justice was de scribed in a recent movie, Ghosts of Mississippi. The defense said Beckwith was denied a speedy trial twice: between 1964 and 1969, when prosecutors decided against a third trial, and between 1969 and 1990, when Beckwith was re-indicted. During both periods, witnesses died, others’ memories dimmed and evidence disappeared, said defense lawyer Merrida Coxwell Jr. “It is very difficult to show what had occurred between 1964 and 1969,” Coxwell said. “It is the same to go back after 30 years. And that is not the fault of Mr. Beckwith.” Prosecutor Pat Flynn said the state re opened the case because of new evidence, not because Mississippi had become less tolerant of racism. “If that was so, they could have tried in 1975, 1980 or whenever,” she said. In terms of dead witnesses or lost evidence, she said, both sides were equally harmed. The court did not indicate when it might rule. BODY Dano&uj&ar StKce 7982 846-3565 Open Mon. - Sat. 10 am - 6pm 700 University Dr. E. #107 Appaf'&T?Sc Skoeg *Close-outs on selected dancewear & shoes. All sales final. No refunds. *Dance Class Information Available The Village (Behind Golden Corral) EXECUTIVE STAFF APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE !! The Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference 98 is looking for bright, motivated, professional individuals wanting to help plan the biggest student-run conference in the southwest! Director and Asst. Director positions are available. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! EVERYONE WELCOME TO APPLY. Applications can be picked up in MSC137 and are due on Wednesday. March 19 by 5 p.m. If you have any questions, call 694-0161. me can ere- -^ENDING imes ig together) 1 of wastin| iCt. fan to i a previous > should saw i to Laid ontinued from Page 1 “If the director of public infor- nation is having lunch with seme me discussing a press release, veil, the state does not pay for hat, so it comes out of this ac- ount,” he said. r iNCE une Exam, ch 22nd. >AY! Student activities have benefit ed as well, Taylor said. “This money has helped stu dents,” he said. “The Aggie Band was given $100,000 for their band trips and about $56,000 went to support the University art collec tion and exhibit.” Taylor said commencement and KAMU Radio also are allotted money. 'ARADE Continued from Page 1 The moment of silence came at oon, as the New York Shield-Pipe hum Corps drew abreast of the re- iewing stand. “It took us back 150 years to that iwful time in Ireland when one and thalf million people died of starva- ion unnecessarily,” parade chair- nan John Dunleavy said. It was the famine, from 1845 to 850, that touched off the great vave of Irish immigration to the United States. Earlier, at a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal John O’Connor said that to ignore “Black ’47,” the middle and most severe year of the famine, “is to be condemned to re live it in one way or another.” O’Connor also praised former parade chairman Frank Bierne, who died late last year. Bierne led the successful court fight to bar the gay group on the grounds that the parade is a private religious observance and that ho mosexuality conflicts with teach ings of the Roman Catholic Church. teachers t-taking leed. core! ESI VN an.com rd "Kaplan' page: n.com Call!!! Big Eiient Siud&nt participation -forrhs Ore due -tonorrom, . i n MarcK J.9 call 845-9618 Tuesday & Wednesday, April 1 & 2, 1997 COLLEGE STATION HILTON BALLROOM GRAND BALLROOM - 6:15 P.M. All May and August ’97 graduating seniors and graduate students* are invited Complimentary tickets may be picked up in the MSC Hallway, March 18, 19 & 20 (9a.m. - 3 p.m.) TICKETS GIVEN ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS Student I.D. Required to Pick Up Tickets Compliments of The Association of Former Students ^Graduate students who are not already a member may attend either night.