ROCHESTER P-BTT1 THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1997 50 CENTS NEWSSTAND 1 iff Tisie(S of ir a Seeking lawsuit protection, they propose a compensation fund and advertising cuts. dreds of billions of dollars to create a fund to cover settlements with states, private individuals and others suing cigarette companies. The industry also would accept unprecedented restrictions on the elimination of billboard advertising and an end to cigarette company sponsorship of sports events. While the negotiations, which began April 3, are historic, their outcome is far from certain. A main stickins Doint WIRE SERVICES protection against lawsuits.
tine in cigarettes to make them less addictive. The tobacco companies adamantly oppose such regulation for fear that once the'FDA gets the power to regulate tobacco, it will try to ban it. Other potential deal-breakers include: Pushing the agreement through Congress. The size of the damage fund from which smokers could seek payments. "The industry is in the low 2s (billions of dollars) and the plaintiffs are in the upper 3s.
There is no consensus on the money," said a source close to the negotiations, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Opposition from some TOBACCO, PAGE 9A With active encourage-The nation's two biggest to- ment from the White House, baceo companies are negotiat- RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. i Vv-wAdj i ana nuip morns nave Deen Doro Man ana Joe Uamel. or not the Food and Drug Ad-would compensate smokers negotiating a proposal that Advertising restrictions ministration will be able to and taxpayers in exchange for calls for companies to pay hun- under discussion also include regulate the amount of nico- THE ORDER OF BUSINESS WAS BASEBALL U-ii" i mmL. v- i it I it to 'rPsJ boro Man and Joe Camel.
Advertising restrictions under discussion also include or not the rood and Drug Ad ministration will be able to regulate the amount of nico- to slash, consolidate jobs to cut spending by $100 million The company will announce a major restructuring to buoy its sinking profits. tL Ties and suits got special treatment on a day set aside as lot to cheer about, too. lhey Idds refuse to board plane BV STAFF WRITER JANET LIVELY With profits sinking and competitors closing in, Bausch Lomb Inc. has spent the past l12 years cutting costs and reorganizing. Now the company hopes to finish the task.
A far-reaching restructuring plan expected to be announced along with first-quarter earnings next Wednesday will aim to slash corporate spending by $100 million through job cuts and consolidations. officials won't reveal specifics of the plan, though they say it is likely to involve cuts in human resources, accounting and other support departments. Local employment the 3,150 employees who work at downtown headquarters, frame center in Chili and optics center on Goodman Street already has been thinned by layoffs. founded in Rochester 147 years ago, has lost ground to competitors who have been innovating more quickly and Bausch Lomb sales Vision care Eyewear If NET SALES '94 tiLl 1 Induces goodwill impairment charge of Boor vm tt I '94 200 OPERATING EARNINGS 150 1 Fl $75 advertising and marketing including retiring the Marl the Businesspersons Special at thrashed byracuse 11-5. btories neys requested a stay from the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court that would have legally kept the children here.
The stay, in effect, would have reinstated the neglect petition dismissed last week by Family Court Judge Antho Protecting arm Nadine Flores Hector Flores, at the entry to lives in Livingston County and works at Chris' Service Station at 510 Dewey, came upon the shooting just as it was taking place. "The guy pumped eight shots," he said yesterday. "Six -f i I 1 in the negotiations is whether S1LUVN DOWU staff photographer Frontier Field yesterday. The on Pages 8B, 5D. ny J.
Sciolino. Appellate Judge Elizabeth VV. Pine, however, refused to grant the stay. The children and their father, Ahmad Rivazfar, declined comment yesterday on the advice of their attorneys. Sayeh and Arash's stepmother, however, offered a statement: "We gave them their plane tickets," said Tammy Rivazfar.
"We told them they had to go. My husband also wrote a letter asking them to go. "They said, 'We're not going. We're We said, "What else can we do?" Tammy Rivazfar also said that she and her husband refused to "physically" force Sayeh and Arash to get on the plane. The legal maneuvering continued last night as attorneys in both states discussed their options.
Includes reporting by The Pensacola News Journal. MAX SCHULTE staff photographer is sheltered by her father, his Dewey Avenue shop. went in. I went over to help the guy who was shot. We tried to hold him down, but he was so full of adrenaline, he tried to get up." DEWEY, PAGE 9A ii il Rasslin' WWF stars invade the War Memorial WEEKEND MAGAZINE Teen-ager in Internet case found safe in 111.
BY STAFF WRITERS ALAN MORRELL and JON HAND Ceara O'Connell has been found. The 14-year-old Brighton girl, who dis appeared in December, was found yesterday in Energy, 111., with the 22- year-old Air Force desert- Ceara er she appar ently befriended through the Internet. It was not clear where Ceara and Brooker Maltais had been for the past four months, family members said Ceara called her mother, Cheryl Kean, earlier yesterday. "They talked briefly," said Laura O'Connell, Ceara's aunt. "It was a short conversation, because they were both in tears." O'Connell said she was told that Ceara, a freshman at Rush-Henrietta High School, is safe and healthy.
The family offered few specifics, saying they were told by authorities not to discuss matters with the media. Maltais left his post at Of-futt Air Force Base near Omaha, about the time Ceara disappeared. Maltais is alleged to have met Ceara Dec. 19 at The Marketplace mall in Henrietta. The couple apparently began their cross-country trip from there.
Air Force Lt. Chris Karnes, an Offutt spokesman, said Maltais and Ceara were found about 5:40 p.m. Maltais was arrested without incident and FOUND PAGE 2A SHOWERS A 43 28 Weather 8A ENVIRONMENT Menacing: Tiny water-borne organism is killing fish. Are humans at risk? 8A TOWNS VILLAGES Beanie craze: Three McDonald's restaurants in Livingston County use Teenie Beanies to aid ailing boy. 3B BUSINESS 8B CLASSIFIED 7D COMICS 5C CROSSWORD 5C DEATHS 4B EDITORIALS 10A HOROSCOPE 2C UA 1C 2A 10 3B 4C 8A LETTERS LIVING NY LOTTERY SPORTS SUBURBS TELEVISION WEATHER Copyright 1997 c5 oanneii i Rochester Newspapers rive cm Sections cm (O r- Sunrise Kca wings gave the suits a Rivazfar BY STAI'K WRITER SUSAN McNAMARA By defying a Florida judge's order to visit their mother yesterday in Pensacola, two Greece teens might be forced to go live with her as soon as next week.
Sayeh Rivazfar, 17, and her brother Arash, 13, were ex pected to leave on a morning flight and arrive in Pensacola by midaflernoon. A psychologist was to meet the teens at the airport and mediate their first meeting in more than two years with their mother, Patricia Pafford. But the children never left their home and Pafford's Florida attorney filed an emergency motion asking for immediate transfer of cus tody. If granted, the children might be ordered to move to Pensacola immediately "and it will be enforced," said Crystal Collins Spencer, Pafford's attorney. A heanng on the motion is lj Jf i JOSEPH BROWN 111 Gannett News Service Disappointed mom Pat Pafford displays banner she'd prepared for her two children at Pensacola airport.
to '95 96 pi beating on price. Shareholders' patience has been tested by weak profits and bad news. The stock has traded in a range between $35 and $45 for much of the last three years. Focusing and streamlining the famously decentralized, organization are among the greatest challenges for new Chief Executive Officer William Carpenter. The restructuring plan is his chance to prove that he has the strategy and the leadership to turn around the company.
Carpenter, who was not available for an interview, has promised analysts that the recovery will start this year. Yet the company's hiring of international consultants Coopers Lybrand earlier this year has raised concerns about whether Carpenter can deliver on his promise. The consultants' cost-cutting study is being used to develop the PAGE 6A and earnings Pharmaceuticals Health care million. YVONNE LIN staff artist Netanyahu appointed a previous attorney general who would reduce pending charges against a political ally. Investigators also reportedly recommended indicting three members of Netanyahu's inner circle, including his top aide, his justice minister and a key political ally.
Yaakov Weinroth, the prime minister's attorney, said he intended to show prosecutors that the police recommendation was "baseless." The attorney also said that prosecutors told him the recommendation to indict Netanyahu was made with reservations by police about the strength of the evidence on which it was based. Officially, an indictment would not force Netanyahu to step down. Politically, however, judging by the gleeful reaction from the opposition parties, it might prove difficult for him to do otherwise if charges are brought against him. 'A lot of scary things going on here' Netanyahu might face police charge of fraud scheduled for Monday morning in Escambia County, Circuit Court. "I am very, very disappointed," Pafford said.
"I truly thought they would come this time." In an llth-hour move yesterday, Monroe County attor the violence and Dewey Avenue. It got even scarier Tuesday morning when a man was shot and seriously wounded outside the One Drop Deli at 534 Dewey, a block away from Kid's World. Two months ago, the owner of the One Drop was shot and killed outside the store, which is at the corner of Dewey enue and Locust Street. The victim in Tuesday's shooting is Sheldon A. Maring, 188MohawkSt.Theson-in-law of Rochester Mayor William A.
Johnson Jr. remained in guarded condition at Rochester General Hospital last night. Alexeev Parker, 24, of 26 Lakeview Park was arrested soon after the shooting and charged with first-degree assault. He is being held in the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $100,000 cash or $200,000 bond. Dave Jessmer 41, who i if Neighbors shudder at drug traffic rising along BY SENIOR EDITOR JIM MEMMOTT The bars on the window at Kid's World on Dewey Avenue are new, installed after a break-in a INSIDE: couple of months ago.
The door is backed by a criss-crossed SHOOTING TIED TO DRUG THEFT. metal gate. All this iron security con trasts with the racks of infants' clothes on sale at the store, but the precautions are understandable, "I feel fear when I'm here," said Hector Flores, who owns the store at 575 Dewey with his girlfriend. Prudence DiS- tefano. "I feel fear when I leave my girlfriend in the store to go to Wegmans.
It scares me the environment, the people. There's a lot of scary things go ing on here. I. OS ANGELES TIMES JERUSALEM Israeli police have recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-INSIDE: vahu for MORE DETAILS. fraud and 12A breach of trust in an influence-peddling scandal that could threaten the stability of his 10-month -old government.
The news sent a shock wave through Israeli political circles yesterday. Analysts said it seemed likely to distract key government leaders from other critical issues, including the faltering Mideast peace process. Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein and State Attorney Edna Arbel were expected to decide by the beginning of the Passover holiday Monday whether to pursue indictments in the affair, which stems from allegations that.
