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THE TENNESSEAH MotttUy, Ptombf 18 197 3A WORLD Brad Mi out You Ab BradSchmitt Officials wary of Iran's call for talk i appearance and recordings of her songs provided mood music. I Carter wanted the real singer-actress, but "when she read the script, she decided she'd rather act than sing, so now I'm bringing her Xfr Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON U.S. officials reacted with caution and suspicion yesterday after Iran's new president made an astonishing proposal for dialogue with the country that the Middle East nation once regularly dubbed "the Great Satan." CHER back," he said in the Dec. 20 issue of TV Guide. Band leads protest over sweatshops Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and other anti-sweatshop protesters targeting clothing maker Guess? were arrested in Santa Monica, for blocking the entrance to a At a news conference in Tehran yesterday, President Mohammed Khatami voiced his hope for a "thoughtful dialogue" with the "great American people." Ego, fighting were downfall of Buffalo Club So why did Buffalo Club split? A little ego, a little fighting with the group's label, Rising Tide Records, group member Charlie Kelley said Saturday.

Kelley confirmed that when drummer John Dittrich, originally from Restless Heart, said he would play a Restless Heart reunion tour next year, it caused friction with Rising Tide's chief, Ken Levitan. "John butted heads pretty severely, with Ken," Kelley said. After John left, Charlie and lead singer Ron Hemby were going to stay together as a duo. But that didnt work because Ron wanted to stay lead singer and Charlie wanted a true duo, Charlie said. "Ron kind of coveted his turf," Charlie said.

Ron couldnt be reached for comment. What's next? Ron and Charlie will pursue solo careers. There are only eight shopping days left until Hanukkah, so you know where lam at the mall! Here is the rest of the day's news from wire services. It's pricey, but will it rake in the bucks? Titanic director James Cameron is trying to shrug off the upcoming disaster epic's $200 million price tag. "What can I say?" Cameron said in The Washington Post yesterday.

"It cost a lot." Nonchalant or not, Cameron is realistic about the pressure the film is under to be a true box office blockbuster. AP PHOTOS A Congolese Tutsi girl who survived Thursday's attack by Hutu rebels at Mudende refugee camp passes the day in the transit center in Nkamira, Rwanda U.S. envoy visits scene of Rwandan Tutsi massacre mall. I I Thirty-three people were taken into custody and given misdemeanor citations Saturday after leaving an ap- 300 slain while Albright in nation 1 IV ,1 4s But Sandy KHATAMI Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, responded coolly. "We need to judge Iran by what it does, not by what it says," he said.

Nevertheless, there was no disputing the potentially historic nature of the conciliatory gesture toward the United States, which continues to regard Iran as a terrorist state. At his news conference, Khatami breached a sacred taboo by proposing fresh dialogue. "I declare my respects to the great people of the United States," he said. He hoped that in the near future "we could get closer to peace, security and tranquility." Sources close to the presidency said he would deliver a televised message to the American people in the new year. Asked if the dialogue would extend to the U.S.

government Khatami said: "The U.S. government is, after all, the U.S. government It has been elected by the American people and we respect that" Berger reiterated the White House's long-standing caution toward possible Iranian olive branches. He contrasted Khatami's remarks with the militant anti-American speech of the Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He said that Iran remained "a principal sponsor of terrorism," a manufacturer of weapons of mass si By DIANNA CAHM Associated Press MUDENDE, Rwanda The top U.S.

war crimes envoy inspected the bloodied, burned camp where Hutu rebels last week slaughtered at least 300 Tutsi refugees, gathering information yesterday for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Albright had been in Rwanda the day the attack occurred, giving extra prominence to what was only the latest bloodshed in Rwanda's growing Hutu insurgency. Envoy David Scheffer, who was with Albright when she visited Rwanda Thursday, said she found out about the massacre after her departure for neighboring Congo. Rwandan government officials say at least 302 people were killed and more than 230 wounded Wednesday night and early Thursday when Hutu rebels raided the camp in northwestern Gisenyi state near the Congolese border, slaughtering their victims with machetes, guns and grenades. Saturday, the Rwandan military had said 272 people died. There was no explanation given for the higher figure yesterday.

International human rights monitors and survivors say more than 1,000 refugees may have been killed. "What we need to do is find out all the facts and then draw the appropriate conclusions and deter mine what the next steps might be to assist in preventing these incidents from occurring in the future," Scheffer said. At Nkamira transit center, where most of the remaining 17,000 camp residents took refuge after the attack, Scheffer said several survivors told him as many as 1,500 people were killed. It was not clear how the refugees assessed the figures, and why they conflicted with those provided by the Rwandan military and government Survivors also said the killings went on for about four hours. But Col.

Kayumba Nyamwasa, commander of military operations in Rwanda's strife-wracked northwest, said the attack on the refugee camp and a nearby jail lasted less than one hour before the rebels fled, mostly across the border into Congo. Kayumba said the attack overwhelmed the soldiers on guard, but military reinforcements arrived within a half hour. "I am very sure that most of the people you see wouldn't have survived otherwise!" Kayumba told Scheffer during a walk through the charred remains of huts that had been set on fire and bloodstained rooms where the refugees had slept "If reinforcements hadnt come in, we would have had more casual- "There is every reason to be worried," Cameron said. The three-hour-14-min-ute film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet WINSLET Congolese Tutsi refugee children pass the day at the Nkamira camp. ties and more dead." Most of the Tutsi refugees came from the Masisi region in eastern Congo, fleeing attacks by.

Rwandan Hutu rebels who are using the region as their base for an insurgency against the Tutsi-led government in Rwanda. The rebels are former members of the Rwandan Hutu army and militias that carried out a 1994 genocide in Rwanda of at least a half million minority Tutsis and Hums opposed to the extremist government Attacks targeting Rwanda's Tutsi-dominated army and Tutsi civilians have escalated in recent months. destruction and an intended saboteur of the Middle East peace process. The United States stood by its economic embargo against Iran. The test for any change of policy would be whether conciliatory words "translate into restrictions in the behavior of Iran externally, which is a threat to the region and a threat to opens Friday.

Its length means fewer daily screenings, complicating its break-even earnings goal of $400 million, a figure it must reach because studios and movie theaters split ticket sales. Bailey tells grads: Stick to straight path Lawyer F. Lee Bailey has defended people in court ranging from Patty Hearst to OJ. Simpson, and he admits some of his clients weren't angels. MORELLO proved demonstration site to block doors into the Santa Monica Place mall.

The protest, attended by 200-300 people, was over the apparel maker's alleged use of sweatshop labor and union-busting actions. Last month, the National Labor Relations Board issued a formal complaint. Help from Morello and Rage Against the Machine led to the demonstration's success, said Hillary Horn, spokeswoman for the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. "Guess has been trying to market their clothes to the same type of people who listen to their music," Horn said. Giuliani makes magazine's year Mayoral tweaking turned to hero worship at New York magazine, which went from lampooning Rudy Giuliani to naming him its man of the year.

"Who else presided over a city in which crime is at its lowest level in 30 years?" the magazine said in a double issue that hits newsstands today. The magazine, which was hauled into court a few weeks ago by Giuliani over ads plastered on buses that used his name, continued to kid around with the newly re-elected mayor. "Who else, when pondering a leap to a national stage, decided to do so in drag? Who else might have had this magazine pulled from the newsstands had we bestowed this honor on someone else? Just kidding. Just kidding," the magazine said. Giuliani complained about ads for the magazine with the phrase, "Possibly the only good thing in New York Rudy hasn't taken credit for." A judicial panel ruled the ads could be put on the buses, but the fight returns to court today.

Morsel Elton John will be knighted next month by Queen Elizabeth, the New York Post reported yesterday. "I'm thrilled. This is a great honor," the 50-year-old songwriter told the paper. The queen is honoring him for his charity fund raising. Send me some news.

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At one school last week, elderly volunteers who turned up for duty were chased away by teachers. or questionable behavior." The silver-haired vigilantes, who are to be paid just under $6 a day, will be expected to present themselves in pairs outside schools at the beginning and end of classes. Their tasks also include keeping an eye out for muggers, pickpockets and drug pushers as well as acting as crossing guards. One of took up position outside kindergartens and primary and secondary schools, sporting armbands proclaiming them to be "nonni civici" "civic grandfathers." Mario Melluso, head of one of the organizations involved, said: "The volunteers have precise instructions to notify the police or those of us at the organization of any strange Scripps Howard News Service ROME The Naples City Council has decided to pay old men to hang around outside school gates. And the aim is to ward off pedophiles.

A granddads' army of 500 retirees has been formed with the help of voluntary organizations in the city. Last week, its first recruits Without naming names, Bailey told midyear graduates at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant that defense lawyers often find them- BAILEY View And Share Holiday Photos With Family And selves in ethical quandaries. "I have defended a lot of people in my life, and many were bad people who trampled on the rights of others or tried to take a shortcut to riches," he said Saturday. "Sometimes in life, someone may offer you an opportunity to knowingly take a shortcut, perhaps at the expense of others. Dont do it.

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