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Phony weight loss company ordered to pay restitution 1 SALEM — The Oregon attor ney general’s office is accus ing a New Jersey hypnosis service of making misleading claims by its weight loss seminars. Hardy Myers’ office on Tues day ordered the New Jersey com pany A. Goen Seminars Institute and its chief executive officer, Alex Goen, to comply with Ore gon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act. The company claimed that the “Goen Method” would enable people to lose “20-60 pounds in three months, up to 120 pounds in one year” and that Goen’s hyp nosis would make one-time group seminar attendees feel “full twice as fast on half the food.” It also claimed the seminar would “destroy attendees’ crav ings for fattening junk foods.” Consumer protectors said no evidence supports those claims. Under the terms of Tuesday’s assurance, Goen must give full re funds to hypnosis patients if they are requested within 90 days of the seminar. Goen also must pay $5,000 to the Department of Jus tice consumer education account. Schwarzenegger ends Planet Hollywood contract 2 ORLANDO, Fla. — Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he is ending his contract with Planet Hollywood International. As an investor, the actor was the public face of the troubled restaurant chain, along with fel low box-office heavyweights Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Sylvester Stallone. The actor said he has sold his interest in the company. “It was lots of fun and very challenging to come up with and develop the celebrity restaurant concept on an international lev el,” he said in a statement. “Of course, I am disappointed that the company did not continue with the success I had expected and hoped for.” The company last week emerged from federal bankruptcy court. The company closed nine poorly performing restaurants just before entering bankruptcy three months ago. CEO Robert Earl said last week he plans to announce a new set of celebrity investors who will ap peal to the youth market. Man convicted of murder captured on film 3 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A man who fatally shot his ex wife while a TV camera rolled was found guilty of murder. A jury took just more than an hour Tuesday to convict Emilio Nunez, 40, in the slaying of Mar itza Martin. Broward Circuit Judge Daniel Andrews sentenced Nunez to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years before he can be considered for parole. Nunez was given credit for the seven years he has already served while awaiting trial. A reporter for the Spanish-lan guage network Telemundo was interviewing Nunez in 1993 at the grave of his 15-year-old daughter, who had killed herself. Nunez’s ex-wife arrived unexpectedly, and he accused her of causing their daughter’s suicide by slap ping the girl because she was pregnant. Nunez then pulled a gun, shot Ms. Martin in the head and fired 11 more times as she lay on the ground. The reporter, Ingrid Cruz, and her cameraman ran for cover, but not before filming much of the shooting. The tape was shown in court. Defense attorney Reemberto Diaz told the jury that Nunez was angered by the reporter’s ques tions. The attorney said Cruz had asked questions designed to get an emotional response. Telemundo spokesman Ted Guefen countered last week: “It is irresponsible to suggest that Tele mundo or Ingrid Cruz are in any way responsible for this terrible tragedy.” Peru’s top drug trafficker caught, president says 4 LIMA, Peru — President Al berto Fujimori said Tuesday that police had captured the chief of Peru’s top drug cartel in the Amazon jungle. Adolfo Cachique was arrested early Tuesday in the central jun gle province of Contamana along the banks of the Ucayali River, 355 miles northeast of Lima. Fujimori described Cachique and his brothers as leading “the most important narcotics gang op erating in Peru” and said the al leged drug boss was a major sup plier of cocaine to the United States. Norwegian teen faces charges in DVD security case 5 OSLO, Norway — A 16-year old boy and his father on Tuesday faced charges and a bat tle with the U.S. film industry af ter the boy helped develop a com puter program for cracking DVD video security codes, then distrib uted it. Jon Johansen and his father, Per, were ch&ged with copyright violations after police seized com puters from their home and inter rogated the boy into the early hours of Tuesday morning. Nor wegian news reports said they were the first in the world to face criminal charges in such a DVD case. “The charges concern whether Johansen developed a cracker program that breaks the [DVD] copying code and distributed it on the Internet through his fa ther’s home page,” Inger Marie Sunde of the Norwegian police’s economic crime unit said. Johansen said he and friends made a program to crack the code on the discs so they could be copied to computers for viewing. He denied breaking any laws. The Associated Press BRING YOUR RESUME. IT’S YOUR TICKET TO SUCCESS! Bring your resume. At the one-day fair, you can land your first career job or find the right internship. More than 80 companies and public agencies will be at the fair to find good candidates for their job and internship openings. They want to talk to you. BE THERE! Come one! Come all to the BK SHOW! WINTER CAREER HUH: Jobs & Internships 11 A.Mb - 4 p.m. • EMU Ballroom OPENS TODAY! Great door prizes offered! 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