Goldberg gets show LOS ANGELES (AI*) Actrcss-coma (1 tan Whoopi (ioldborg is going to pro duce und star in her own late-night talk show ‘'The Whoopi Goldberg Show" will regularly feature one guest per :t() minute Installment and will he dis tributed Internationally by Genesis Entertainment The syndicated show will premiere next fall Goldberg's production company. Whoop Inc , will begin making the show next summer "I'm thrilled to have this opportunity to pursue yet another lifelong dream, which is to talk to the most Im portant and interesting people In the world today, Goldlterg said In a statement Issued Sunday She has starred in such films as C.hnsl, for which she won an Oscar for best supporting actress Helms treated for cancer RALEIGH, N O (AI*) Sen Jesse Helms said Mon day he is being treated for prostate cancer His doctor said he is expected to recover The (id veur-old North Carolina Republican known lor Ins staunch conservatism said In’ is undergoing ra dliition treatment but has experienced no sldo-offeets and continues working in Washington. "It seems to me that my activity in the Senate for the past several weeks is indicative that my Senate work has not been inhibited in the slightest," Helms said in a letter released by Ins Raleigh office Prostate cancer can he cured if detected early enough Dr Roller! (!) krasner. in another letter Helms' of fice released, said early prostate cancer was detected in the senator in June and radiation therapy was be gun krasner said the senator is expected to make a "complete and uneventful" m overv Helms, elected last year to a fourth term, announc ed in July that he had been diagnosed with Paget's Dis ease. a lione disorder that causes weakened and de formed hones Ho said doctors blamed his limp on the disease and prescribed pills to fight it UPI wins concessions NKW YORK (AP) lhilled Press International won court permission Monday to stop paying severanc e to laid-off employees and to continue puv c uts it says it needs to stay in business U S Bankrupt! v Judge franc is Conrad also granted the company's request to user stringers or contract em ployees in place of the staffers it is laying off. The judge, however, refused to take away the right of senior employees to hump more junior workers from their jobs, as UPI hod asked. Under the contrac t, employees who had worked from one to 19 years received one week's pay per year when they were laid off. Employees who worked for 20 or more years received two weeks pay per year up to a maximum of 52 weeks pay. Kevin Keane, president of the Wire Service Guild, said, "The decision is had news for UI’I's employees who are forced to bear additional burdens and for Ul’I's clients who will receive a diminished, less pro fessional news report " Conrad gave the news service permission to stop paying severance and to use stringers until Nov 20. the date the c ompanv said it would have to close iT the concessions were not approved He said the emergen i v measures were pending further court action, which could include a UPI request to make them permanent. The judge also continued the 20 percent pay cut, to about $5(iH a week for top-level employees. Until Nov. 29. The Guild, which represents UPI' employees, had agreed to the wage cut previously but opposed the new measures. 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Tho Justice Department al ready has been strongly trili i i/ed lor not moving sooner on the rogue bank Other investigators said it was unfair to i ritici/e the Fed eral Reserve Board and Justice Department for waiting to freeze Pharaon's assets They say Ixith agencies are attempt ing to prosecute an enormously ( ontplex i use Virgil M at ti ngl y . genera I counsel lor the Federal Re serve said in an interview. "There was no undue delay here." The f ederal Reserve and Ins til e Department said last week they were seeking a S-l" million civil fine against Pharaon lie cause he at led as BCCI's set ret front man in the ll)H5 acquisi tion of a California bunk That lawsuit also sought to freeze tile Saudi's IJ S assets, estimut ASUO LEGAL SERVICES FREE LEGAL SERVICES Legal Services handles a wide range of legal problems from divorces to landlord tenant disputes There is never a consultation or settlement fee Legal Services staff members are experienced, gualified professionals Legal Services are FREE to U of O students through ASUO funds ALSO: The Office of Student Advocacy offers non legal services including, but not limited to ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATION DISPUTES Contact Legal Services, EMU, Room 334 (Third floor above the Fish Bowl). Or call 346-4273 to set up an appointment. ed at l(>iist S226 million in 1990. I’haraon, a Harvard-educated businessman, is accused in a separate administrative case with ucting as a front man for BCCI's clandestine acquisition of National Bank of Georgia. I’haraon is one of the most prominent Saudi investors in this country He was among the first Arabs to buy a U S bank, the Bank of Commonwealth in Detroit in 1975 He sold the bunk about 1 -years later In court papers, Thomas C. Baxter of the New York Federal Reserve said i’haraon sold bis HO percent interest in a small New York debt trading firm tor SI million in June shortly after the Fed triisl to subpoena him In July, 1’haraon's Georgia holding company. InlerKedec Inc , arranged the sale ol Amer ican Southern Insurance Corp for $33 million "I’haraon has every incentive to move those assets ill the United States offshore to pre vent their seizure or attach ment," the Fed lawsuit said Regulators said I’haraon could be in a financial squeeze because of pressure by BCCI's court-appointed receivers and shareholders on him to repay his loans from the bunk, esti mated at S2HH million Mattingly said the Federal Kesorv e didn't move on l’haruon sooner because it was unt lear whether the Juste e De partment would bring a crimi nal case against him. The crimi nal case would taken prece dence over a lawsuit. An aide to Sen John Kerry, D-Mass . who has fteen an out spoken critic of the government over its BCC1 investigation, said he didn't think the Federal Re serve was at fault in this in stance. Within the last year, I’haraon has been steadily selling his U S. holdings. In August 19‘iO, i’haraon and u purtner sold their interest in a large Dallus office complex, the Plaza of the Americas Inc. Though exact terms weren't revealed, the deal exceeded $100 million, said 'Tony Lan drum, senior vice president of the Prime Group, which man ages the downtown Dallas properly. Other deals included sale of his stake in International Sys tems Inc , an Alabama manu facturer of precast concrete buildings, for an undisclosed price. Sale of I’haraon's stake in a cable television firm in Mont gomery, Ala., is under way. "It sure looks like he's liqui dating in a hurry and trying to get the money out," said Blum. "His performance in that regard shouldn't he something of an enormous surprise He's proba bly strapped for cash." The chairman of IntorHodec, Pharaon's main U S. invest ment company, disagreed the company was selling off assets. "The only thing we’re selling now is American Southern (In surance Corp.)," InterKedei chairman Dooley Culbertson said in a statement "The dis cussions (for tiie American Southern sole) go bar k as far as October 1989 All of this began before any of the IlCC! things that are going on now. Every thing we have is for sale at the price Wo have no direction, no instruction, and no program to liquidate." Pharaon's whereabouts could not be determined and calls placed to tils New York attor ney, Richard Lawler, were not returned. InterKedei: has investments in more than 20 companies na tionwide, ranging from insur ance companies in New Y'ork to a 718-room hotel near Disney World in Florida to numerous property management compa nies, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. 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