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(AP eral appeals court yest versed a jury verdict that ABC committed fraud in camera expose of unsani tions at Food Lion’s supe The 4th U.S. Circuit C peals, with a 2-1 ruling, t $315,000 judgment agains a 1992 “Prime Time Live Two ABC reporters u sumes to get jobs at a store, then secretly videotaped ployees for a story on f dling practices that acc grocery chain of selling xi cheese and rotting meat. The report alleged Fj employees ground out-g along with new be rank meat-to remqy redated proSucts no their expiration date. The jury that found of fraud under state law tie Bir NEWS IN BRIEF C in fraud case Student threats Columbine atW he supermarket chain $5.5 million y punitive damages, but that was to $315,000 by a federal judge. Food Lion was also awarded $1,402 in compensatory damages by the court for the cost of hiring the two ABC employees. ABC intended to benefit the consuming public by letting it know about Food Lion’s food- ^■jfiandling practices.” — Judge M. Blaine Michael 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals .^Th^^award stunned some be- ause it*appeared to open a new ne of legal attack against the news media and hidden-camera journal ism that did not center on the ve racity of the story. The appeals court disagreed with the jury’s finding that ABC en gaged in a business deception in vi olation of the North Carolina Un fair and Deceptive Thade Practices Act (UTPA). “However, the deception did not harm the consuming public,” the opinion by Judge M. Blaine Michael read. “Presumably, ABC intended to benefit the consuming public by let ting it know about Food Lion’s food handling practices. "Moreover, ABC was not com peting with Food Lion, and it did not have any actual or potential business relationship with the gro cery chain,” so the law could not be used in this case, Michael wrote. A spokesperson for ABC News did not immediately return a tele phone call for comment. GOLDEN. Colo. (iP; Columbine High Scte: has been arrested foul threatening to “finishtie the two teen-age gunmen ried out the bloodbath The 17-year-old whose name was wrtht,': cause he is a juvenile,i* rested and jailed Tuesu charges of inciting(jestr, life or property. A student reportect teen-ager had remarked:!<i| would "finish the job stra Eric Harris and Dylan fen Sheriff John P Stone said. .s O’Connor reti after hospital sti eet Barak, Arafat President? leaders to conclude terms of agreement eree- WASHINGTON (APJEPResuming Middle East diplomacy, President*Clinton wilPmeet next month in Norway with Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to spur^ilks on an overall settlement. The aim is to conclude an < ment on the future of Jerus Palestinian statehood aspire and several other thorny issu next September — four month fore Clinton leaves office. “There is no greater priority for this president,” Sandy Berger, his assistant for na tional security, said yesterday in announcing Clinton would meet separately and*then together with Barak and Arafat on Nov. 2 in Oslo.*# Clinton has suffered a number of foreign policy set backs of late. Among then)%ve^ the Senate’s rejection b s b CLINTON of a treaty to ban nuclear-weapons tests and passage of a foreign-aid bill that sharply cut several overseas programs. He vetoed \t this week and denounced con servative Republicans who engineered his defeats as “new isolationists.” The three leaders will be in Norway to commemo rate the 1993 Oslo accords, which put Israel and the Palestinians on the negotiating track. Berger said talks between the two sides had reached "a moment of truth,” and while he seemed cautiously optimistic they would reach a settlement, Berger pointed out the clock is ticking. One marker is the pledge Barak and Arafat took to complete the framework of an accord by February. Clinton is planning to spend only a day or two in Oslo, which contrasts with the nine mostly sleepless nights he needed last October to hammer out a West Bank accord between then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Arafat in Maryland. NEW YORK (AP)- John J. O’Connor returnee yesterday after being k ized for two days withsa fects from radiation treat'’? The spiritual leader o' York's 2.2 million Car missed Mass at St. Par Cathedral the last two days. His spokespersor- Zwilling. said he did when O'Connor wouldrei his public schedule. Whei indy I\ want Jmemb cerned i I” 1 jin ■ins the I This |full-ti [eragir ssing |eting: He tt ids la: rsity i cond, ■ His a ,6 yar en fot In 15 e star tainst I 13 pa mchdo i North School suspends for spiking wait all tout MONROE. Mich. (AP)-Ej teen middle schoolfootbas K)4, di ers got sick after two tear^rst tint allegedly spiked theirwate 1 ties with the chemicalcontan in instant ice packs. Two of the students * ig. her Cancer pr^alent in A-bomb participants drank the water during pal Oct. 12 were hospitalized,) nieric none were seriously hurt.W 301. 'It suffered headaches, sW lose s pain, vomiting and bu"! their throats. WASHINGTON (AP) —Soldiers exposed to radiation during atomic tests in Nevada in the 1950s have had higher-than-normal death-«tes for leukemia and for prosjfcfbWnd nasal cancer, a new study44%i». The increased death nasal and prostate cancefl^md hot been reported before, but the holi er leukemia rates have beer#d*ind in other studies, accordi«s^tJlhe report from the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. "These leukemia findings do not resolve the debate over whether participation is associ ated with leukemia mortality,” study director Susan Thaul said. “However, the set of leukemia findings is consistent with the results of other studies of mili tary participants in nuclear tests and is broadly consistent with a hypothesis that these are radia tion effects.” Comparing a group of service men who took part in the tests in Nevada and the Pacific with sim ilar service members who did not participate, the analysis found no difference between the two groups in overall death rates or in total deaths from cancer. Motorists killed log-truck decide ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP Forty-two logs fell off a tin truck, crushing two wome’ death as they waited in acj a traffic light. 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