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The Associated Press PORTLAND. Ore. Tonya Harding prepared Monday for her first questioning by the district attorney amid reports that her ex-husband was about to he arrested and that funds from the U.S. Figure Skating Association may have been used to finance the attack on Olympic skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. NBC News reported that authorities have bank and wire transfer records that could tie Jeff Gillooly to the three men already in custody in the alleged conspiracy. NBC said the records could confirm bodyguard Shawn Kckardt's claim that Gillooly financed the Jan. 8 attack in Detroit. NBC also confirmed a report in The Oregonian newspaper that investigators sus

pect Gillooly paid for the attack with some money donated by Harding's supporters to finance her skating. The money, the reports said, may have come from the USFSA and other benefactors, including New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Shane Minoaka Stant, the man accused of clubbing Kerrigan on the leg, has waived extradition from Phoenix and was scheduled to fly to Portland today under guard by sheriffs deputies, the Multnomah County Sheriffs Department said. Stant turned himself in last week after learning there was a warrant for his arrest in Oregon. Gillooly and Harding, who were divorced last year but have reconciled, have denied any wrongdoing.

Harding sneaked out of her house around midnight Sunday and practiced for the first time since winning the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. When I don't skate I feel lazy," Harding said. "It's just not me." Hours later, Kerrigan skated publicly for the first time since the Jan. 6 clubbing in Detroit. Kerrigan practiced for one hour at a rink in her hometown of Stoneham, Mass. She skated circles and spins, did small hops and executed a half-axel, smiling and waving her arms in triumph. She had no limp or visible effect of the injury to her right knee. "I was kind of stiff at first my knee, especially," Kerrigan said. "After I kept going, it loosened up more and more and I

felt better." Kerrigan would not comment on the legal aspects of her case. Harding was scheduled to meet w ith the Multnomah County district attorney's office, assistant district attorney Norm Frink said. He did not say when the meeting would take place. No meeting was set with Gillooly. Gillooly said through an attorney that Eckardt acted on his own in the attack and was not really Harding's bodyguard. But that statement was contradicted by a letter that surfaced Monday, purportedly written by Gillooly and bearing his letterhead. It said: "My wife, Tonya Harding Gillooly, is a world-class figure skater and therefore

subject to unusual risk. We have engaged the protection services of Shawn Eckardt on numerous occasions both nationally and abroad. He is a capable and effective presence. Shawn is concientious (sic) of his responsibilities and has never disappointed us. "I have every intention of utilizing his expertize (sic) in the future and cannot think of any individual that could surpass Mr. Eckardt's capabilities." Copies of the letter, attached to Eckardt's resume, were given to reporters by Keith Lowe, an independent security guard in Portland. Lowe said he wanted people to know more about Eckardt.

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Skinheads convicted in attack on athlete

The Associated Press SUHL, Germany Two neoNazis were convicted and sentenced to jail Monday for leading a beating attack on a U.S. luge racer after insulting his black teammate. The Oct. 29 attack on Duncan Kennedy, a part-time resident of Santa Cruz, in the nearby winter resort of Oberhof embarrassed Germany and outraged Americans. It was the first against an American in a wave of neo-Nazi violence that has swept Germany since unification in 1990. Tino Voelkel, 16, and Silvio Eschrich, 21, were found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm Monday after a one-day trial. Eschrich also was convicted of beating an Oberhof man an hour after the attack on Kennedy. The three-judge court sentenced Eschrich to two vears and

eight months in jail and Voelkel to one year. They could have received up to five years. Both have long records of other offenses, including assault and car theft, and have spent time in jail in the past year. Kennedy, who w:as not badly injured in the attack, identified the two defendants as among his attackers during 45 minutes of testimony in the small, packed courtroom. "Out of the people hitting me, I could only see two or three faces, and they were the faces I saw," Kennedy said of the two. Both defendants apologized to him in court. Eschrich admitted punching Kennedy, but Voelkel denied it. But chief judge Wolfgang FeldGerdes said Voelkel played a clear part in starting the attack, which took place outside a bar

U.S. luger Duncan Kennedy was beaten Oct. 29 in Germany.

where the lugers were spending the evening. In the bar, Voelkel had displayed his T-shirt with Nazi symbols to Kennedy's black teammate, Robert Pipkins. Team member Gordy Sheer, who is Jewish, and Pipkins then followed Voelkel to the bathroom and told him they found the shirt offensive. Some 15 minutes later, about a dozen other skinheads entered the bar, apparently after someone fetched them from a bar across the street. The gang then taunted Pipkins with a "monkey dance," said Prosecutor Peter Moekl.

Israel now prepared to take 'risk' for peace, says official

Snow shuts down Ohio Valley

The Associated Press Up to 30 inches of snow piled up

on a layer of ice and brought parts of the Ohio Valley sliding to a halt Monday, with National Guardsmen mobilized and major highways shut down. Schools were closed from Missouri to Pennsylvania. "Nobody's moving," said Willie Duley, co-owner of a service station in Morgantown, W.Va. "It's pretty bad," A new blast of North Pole air was rushing in behind the snowstorm, and Devils Lake, N.D., had a mid-morning wind chill of 92 below zero. Without factoring in the wind, Garrison, Minn., was the Bosnian Serbs issue threat of all-out war The Associated Press BIJELJINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Serb leaders threatened Monday to unleash "all-out war" against the Muslim-led government if coming peace talks end without agreement. "This round of negotiations will mark a definite turning point," Radovan Karadzic, leader of the selfproclaimed Serb state in BosniaHerzegovina, told a Serb assembly. "If it becomes clear there will be no peace, we shall have to prepare for all-out war," said Karadzic, adding that the Serbs would launch an offensive to capture about 20 percent of the land now held by the government. The Bosnian Serbs have generally followed through on previous threats. ; The heavily armed Serbs currently hold 70 percent of Bosnia after 21 months of war, while the Muslim-led government holds about 15 percent and Croats hold the rest. ' Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic also claimed on Croatian television that "war will spread" if there is no agreement in talks that open Tuesday in Geneva. ; The comments came amid signs that the government army, long the underdog in the Bosnian civil war, is becoming a better match for its foes. The army reportedly fought off a fierce Serb onslaught at Olovo, northeast of Sarajevo. And it continues to score successes against Bosnian Croat forces in central Bosnia, where the two sides have fought for months over land unclaimed by the Serbs.

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coldest spot in the Lower 4fi states at 32 below zero, the National Weather Service said. At least 15 deaths were blamed on snow, ice and cold during the holiday weekend. Schools not already closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday were shut because of snow- and ice-covered roads in parts of Missouri, South Dakota Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, northern Georgia and Pennsylvania. Many businesses and some shopping malls also closed. By midday, lighter snow and freezing rain extended into New

England, causing numerous accidents. State government offices were ordered closed in 15 South Carolina counties and western Maryland because of ice-covered highways. The West Virginia Legislature cut back its Monday session and the Pennsylvania House canceled sessions for the week. Ohio Gov. George Voinovich, West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton and Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones declared emergencies to mobilize National Guard troops and equipment. It was the second such emergency in West Virginia in two weeks.

The Associated Press JERUSALEM Israel is strong enough to take a "calculated risk" for peace even if that means returning the Golan Heights to Syria the deputy defense minister said Monday. But Mordechai Gur said the government would hold a referendum on any extensive pullback from the Golan. He stressed that the price of a settlement with Syria was full withdrawal from the Golan. His statements appeared to reflect gradual Israeli acceptance that it was unrealistic to hope for a compromise that would leave at least part of the strategic plateau in Israeli hands. Arab governments, meanwhile, praised Syrian President Hafez Assad's conditional offer of peace with Israel, while Iran vowed td keep on fighting to annihilate the Jewish state. Foreign Minister Amr Moussa ol Egypt said he believed Sunday's summit in Geneva between Assad and President Clinton "will lead to breaking the logjam and moving the peace process forward." Newspapers around the Arab world portrayed the summit as "a peace challenge" for Israel. "If Israeli leaders have the bravery to respond to such peace efforts, then a new era of security, stability and normal peace relations among all will break out in the region," said Qatar's Al-Arab daily.

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'If the territorial price ... (is) the Golan Heights ... the government will bring the issue to a referendum.' Mordechai Gur, deputy defense minister

In Jerusalem, U.S. Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross separately briefed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Monday about the Geneva meeting. Peres said the summit created a more promising air in the Middle East peace talks and hinted Israel would have to weigh serious decisions about peace with Syria. Talks are to resume in Washington on Jan. 24, four months after getting hung up over whether Syria should say first what kind of peace it envisions or Israel should say first how far it would withdraw in the Golan. Ross told reporters Assad "broke some new ground .. by talking specifically and explicitly about the

strategic choice of peace with Israel." But neither Ross nor Peres would be specific about whether Assad had pledged the kind of peace Israel seeks: open borders, exchange of ambassadors, tourism and trade relations. There is strong opposition to a complete withdrawal from Golan by a generation of Israelis who grew up believing Assad was an implacable enemy and the heights a vital buffer to Syrian attack. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded Rabin call early elections before agreeing to give back the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967. Gur's pledge of a referendum came during a Parliament debate in which opposition lawmakers criticized Rabin for seeming to back down from campaign promises to stand firm concerning the Golan. The deputy defense minister said the price for peace was full withdrawal from the Golan, and seemed to indicate it was not out of the question. "We are a very strong country," he said. "We will provide a solution to the security of Israel ... On the basis of our strength, it is our duty to take the calculated risk." "If the territorial price to be claimed from us in the Golan Heights is significant, the government will bring the issue to a referendum," Gur said, adding he spoke for Rabin and the government.

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