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 LOS ANGELES The University of California , Los Angeles , has paid out more than

 $ 1 million in confidential settlements over four years to women who were raped

 , sexually harassed or faced gender discrimination at the school , according to

 documents released by the school . In one case , the school paid $ 300,000 to a

 female student who was raped by two men at Reiber Hall , a student dormitory , 

and in another it paid $ 330,000 to an employee who was allegedly raped , molest

ed and subjected to sexual abuse by a supervisor described by the employee 's at

torney as a figure of `` power and prestige within the university . '' More than

 1,600 pages of documents from four secret settlements were released last week u

nder a recent court order obtained by the Daily Bruin , the UCLA student newspap

er . The Bruin filed its lawsuit after Chancellor Charles E . Young mentioned th

e settlements in a 1992 news conference but refused to provide further details .

 Joe Mandel , UCLA 's vice chancellor for legal affairs , said Friday that unive

rsity officials consider any case of sexual misconduct or discrimination regrett

able , but he said the number and amounts of the confidential settlements were m

odest for a campus with 20,000 employees , 33,000 students and an annual budget 

of $ 1.5 billion . Mandel said the confidential settlements were intended to do 

the right thing for the victims while saving taxpayers money by avoiding the pot

ential expense of litigation . The attorney for one of the victims , however , s

aid UCLA 's response to her client 's sexual harassment allegations were pitiful

 and excruciatingly slow . Lisa Bloom , the attorney , also said it was the univ

ersity , not her client , who insisted the final 1993 settlement be confidential

 . The documents show that UCLA agreed to pay more than $ 163,000 to Bloom 's cl

ient , a former manager in the school 's Department of Business Enterprises who 

supervised a crew of 40 to 60 student employees . The woman complained that on h

er first day of work in 1988 , her boss came into the room and unzipped his pant

s to tuck his shirt in . She also complained that he made profane and sexual rem

arks , discussed his vasectomy and its subsequent reversal , and once declared t

hat he was going home to have `` industrial sex '' with his wife to conceive a c

hild . An internal university fact-finding report , dated July 1992 , upheld the

 woman 's complaints and confirmed that her supervisor 's behavior contributed t

o a department `` filled with sexual language , gestures , racial jokes , storie

s of rape and even an alleged suicide attempt . '' Mandel said the supervisor wa

s fired . In another case , UCLA agreed in May 1990 to pay $ 330,000 to a woman 

who accused a married faculty member of coercing her into having sexual contact 

as a condition of her employment . She said the faculty member raped her twice o

ne evening in his home , then continued to harass her on campus , making sexual 

remarks and locking her in his office to watch him masturbate . The woman eventu

ally suffered an emotional breakdown . Although the faculty member maintained th

at the sexual relationship was consensual , the university concluded that the wo

man was a victim of sexual harassment . Mandel said Friday that the faculty memb

er was suspended without pay in the wake of the allegations but gave no other de

tails . In a third case , UCLA paid $ 300,000 in 1990 to a female student who wa

s raped by two intruders in January 1987 in Reiber Hall . Her attorney , Daniel 

C. Cathcart , said Friday that the university agreed to the settlement after a c

ivil court jury deadlocked over charges that UCLA was negligent because it faile

d to provide security in the dorm . In the fourth case , UCLA paid $ 255,000 in 

1992 to a woman who said she was discriminated against on the job because of med

ical leave she took in the early 1980s due to complications from a pregnancy . T

he woman said she was harassed because she wanted to work a four-day schedule .

 MOSCOW The world 's leading industrial nations agreed Saturday to reschedule mu

ch of Russia 's debt for 1994 , giving the country 's troubled economy some badl

y needed breathing space . The agreement , reached after two days of negotiation

s in Paris , reflected the West 's desire to support Russian President Boris Yel

tsin and his economic reforms . It also reflected a degree of realism , since Ru

ssian officials have said they are unable to repay all of the Soviet debt now fa

lling due . Russia owes about $ 80 billion to foreign governments and banks , mo

st of that inherited from the Soviet Union , which collapsed in 1991 . According

 to initial reports , the agreement reached Saturday will save Russia about $ 7 

billion this year . Yeltsin and his government have promised to make good on the

 Soviet debt eventually , but they have asked for reschedulings to ease the curr

ent painful transition from socialism to a free market . Some Western economists

 have criticized Western governments and banks who come together in groups known

 respectively as the Paris Club and the London Club for not being more forthcomi

ng in rescheduling Russia 's debts at a time when Yeltsin is under strong politi

cal pressure at home . Despite all the talk about Western aid , the critics have

 said , Russia has had to pay more in interest on old debts than it has received

 in new aid . But Western officials and bankers have maintained that an orderly 

rescheduling of debt , rather than a write-off or default , is important in orde

r to maintain Russia 's credit-worthiness and allow it to continue borrowing on 

the international market . Russia 's acting finance minister , Sergei Dubinin , 

who led the negotiations in Paris , welcomed Saturday 's agreement but said Russ

ia would soon seek a longer-term , more comprehensive debt rescheduling . Saturd

ay 's agreement , Dubinin said , `` creates a very favorable external economic e

nvironment that will allow us to work within the country to get out of the crisi

s . '' But he added that he expects `` fairly difficult negotiations '' this fal

l on a longer-term rescheduling . The rescheduling reflects a vote of Western co

nfidence not only in Yeltsin but in Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and his e

conomic team . To the surprise of some critics here and in the West , Chernomyrd

in has maintained a relatively tight budget policy , which has helped reduce Rus

sia 's monthly inflation rate from more than 20 percent last fall to less than 1

0 percent this spring . Many in the West feared that the triumph of communists a

nd nationalists in last December 's parliamentary election , followed by the res

ignations from the government of leading reformers Yegor Gaidar and Boris Fyodor

ov , would spell the end of Russia 's tight-money policy , its radical privatiza

tion program and perhaps its reforms altogether . But Chernomyrdin , Dubinin and

 their team have kept the reform program more or less on course , according to m

ost observers here . The International Monetary Fund responded earlier this year

 by agreeing to loan Russia another $ 1.5 billion , with a $ 4 billion credit po

ssible later this year . The agreement reached with the Paris Club Saturday is r

oughly similar to one negotiated last April , rescheduling payments coming due i

n 1992 and 1993 . According to officials in Paris , Russia owes the Paris Club g

overnments about $ 45 billion and London Club banks about $ 26 billion , with ot

her countries , such as South Korea , and banks claiming the rest . So far , som

e $ 22 billion of the $ 45 billion owed to the wealthiest nations has been resch

eduled , the officials told the Reuter news agency . The new schedule of repayme

nts is intended to give Russia as much leeway as possible during the next two or

 three years , assuming that the economy will gradually gather strength . Some p

ayments have been set back as many as 17 years , Dubinin said . But Russia is st

ill expected to have to pay back more than $ 4 billion this year in principal an

d interest , officials said .

 BEIJING Chinese authorities arrested a provincial labor organizer and a leading

 Shanghai dissident , part of an effort to ensure that Saturday 's fifth anniver

sary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown passed quietly . Zhang Lin , 31 , a pro-d

emocracy organizer , was arrested in Beijing and sent to a detention center in h

is native Anhui Province , his wife said by telephone . Zhang , a member of a re

cently formed independent labor organization , has been on the run for two month

s . The group models itself on Poland 's Solidarity and claims to have 300 membe

rs nationwide . Zhang suggested that dissidents were going to try to stage symbo

lic commemorative acts to mark the June 3-4 Chinese army crackdown on demonstrat

ors five years ago , in which hundreds , perhaps thousands , were killed . Publi

c security directives were sent out weeks ago and hundreds of police as well as 

office workers were mobilized to prevent even the smallest protest in Beijing 's

 Tiananmen Square or the sensitive university district . The hunger strike of Di

ng Zilin and Jiang Peikun , two People 's University professors whose 17-year-ol

d son was killed by Chinese soldiers , was the only known public protest on the 

anniversary . Zhang 's wife , Ji Xiao , said she received a police notice Thursd

ay saying Zhang had been turned over to authorities in their hometown of Bengbu 

, in central China 's Anhui Province . She was not told when he was arrested by 

Beijing authorities or what charges he may face . The couple 's home has been un

der heavy surveillance for two months . Zhang was nearly caught a few weeks ago 

when he returned home because his wife was about to have a baby , he said in an 

interview before his arrest . `` They said he had done a lot of bad things , '' 

said Ji , who had her baby on May 21 . Zhang , a nuclear physics graduate from p

restigious Qinghua University in Beijing , has been jailed five times . Five yea

rs ago , while thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators poured into Tiananmen Sq

uare , Zhang led local demonstrations and hunger strikes in Bengbu , an industri

al city of 700,000 . In Shanghai , dissident Bao Ge , one of the would-be founde

rs of a human rights group , was arrested late Friday night , according to news 

agency reports . Bao , a Christian , had planned to visit a Shanghai Protestant 

church today to pray for those killed in 1989 . Bao had sent an open letter to t

he government asking for a national human rights group to be set up , his sister

 Bao Yin was quoted by the Reuter news agency as saying . The purpose of the org

anization was to investigate issues such as the rights of peasants , free labor 

unions and freedom of religion . Shortly before midnight , about 10 plainclothes

men burst into his apartment and took him away .

 CAMBRIDGE , England With the mournful , bagpiped notes of `` Amazing Grace '' e

choing across acres of simple graves , President Clinton Saturday continued his 

World War II journey of remembrance with a salute to the American airmen who `` 

completed their mission , whether they walk among us or lie among us today . '' 

Nostalgic remembrances the music of Glenn Miller and 1940s chocolates and gum fo

rmed part of the setting as solemn British and American veterans gathered in the

 U.S. . War Cemetery here beneath the skies where thousands of bombing raids aga

inst the Nazis were flown . One of those airmen , Lloyd Bentsen , now the secret

ary of the treasury , began flying combat missions in 1944 , eventually completi

ng 35 across Europe . It was , he said , a time of `` numbing fatigue . Faceless

 danger . Fiery death . These were an airman 's constant companions . In the fac

e of this , these men not only flew and fought , they soared and triumphed . Man

y never had the chance to walk the land their sacrifice helped liberate . '' The

se fallen airmen , Bentsen said , `` live on Saturday on the wings of our dreams

 dreams of freedom . Heroes every one . May they rest in peace . '' Part of a we

ek-long commemoration of World War II in Italy , France and England , Saturday w

as a day to look to the skies to honor American airmen , including the 57,000 wh

o died in the European theater . It was also a day of transatlantic friendship .

 British Prime Minister John Major , joining Clinton at the cemetery , recalled 

that for a period during the war , every 30th person in Britain was a member of 

the U.S. armed services . Fifty years ago this week , more than 1.5 million Amer

ican military personnel were serving in Britain . `` Those who came here from Am

erica were not , as we were , protecting their homes and families , '' Major sai

d , but were fighting to defend freedom and democracy , `` to help liberate the 

people of Europe from tyranny and to seek to build a better world . '' Clinton r

ecalled the infusion of Americans to the British countryside , where hundreds of

 Allied air bases sprang up and where almost 4,000 Americans are buried in the w

ar cemetery , each grave marked with a simple white cross or Star of David . On 

the cemetery 's Wall of the Missing , more than 5,000 other Americans lost in th

e war are remembered . One is Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. , brother of President J

ohn F. Kennedy ; another is Glenn Miller , whose `` Moonlight Serenade '' and ot

her tunes , played here by the U.S. . Air Force European Band , brought smiles t

o the faces of those who remembered first dancing to them more than five decades

 ago . In recalling the Allied air campaign in Europe , Clinton noted that by D-

Day , June 6 , 1944 , the Allies controlled the skies , helping them , after lon

g bloody months , to control the ground in time to win the war . In a traditiona

l salute at the ceremony 's conclusion , British and American jets performed a r

oaring fly-over in the missing-man formation in which one of their number abrupt

ly soars into the clouds and out of sight . At the end , planes returned , but t

his time they were planes of 50 years ago . The B-17 Flying Fortress , used for 

the first U.S. attack against Germany in 1943 , the P-51 Mustang fighter and the

 British Spitfire flew over the heads of airmen who once piloted them . The cere

mony blended into the opening of D-Day observances in Portsmouth , where Clinton

 and Major joined with 12 other heads of state in driving , bitterly cold rain t

o officially open the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Operation Overlor

d , the Allied invasion that began the liberation of Europe . It was from Portsm

outh on the British coast and other nearby ports that the massive invasion floti

lla of Allied ships was launched toward the beaches of France on June 5 , 1944 .

 Joining the United States and Britain in the operation were Australia , Belgium

 , Canada , Czechoslovakia , France , Greece , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Ne

w Zealand , Norway and Poland . Queen Elizabeth II , in a dinner this evening fo

r leaders of all of the nations that participated in the D-Day invasion , repeat

ed a portion of the address her father , King George VI , delivered to the Briti

sh people on June 6 , 1944 . In that speech , he asked the nation to face `` the

 supreme test '' in a `` fight not to survive but to win the final victory for t

he good cause . '' The queen called Overlord `` a mighty deed '' undertaken by n

ations coming together in a common cause . `` We are right to look back on it wi

th pride , '' she said , calling on the world leaders and veterans at the dinner

 to `` keep faith with those who landed on the beaches of Normandy . . . by cont

inuing vigilance in defense of peace and freedom . '' Clinton and First Lady Hil

lary Rodham Clinton were to spend the night on the Britannia , the British royal

 yacht . On Sunday , they are scheduled to participate in the Drumhead ceremony 

, in which an international flotilla will be sent off in commemoration of the tr

aditional British religious ceremony of `` the Forces Committed , '' the point a

t which troops cannot be pulled back from battle . The flotilla , with Clinton a

board the aircraft carrier USS George Washington , will cross the English Channe

l overnight to arrive at the French invasion beaches before dawn on June 6 , jus

t as the D-Day operation did .

 VIENNA , Austria Hungary 's Socialist Party named its chairman , Gyula Horn , S

aturday to be the country 's next prime minister , bringing to the forefront of 

Hungarian politics a man who is still trying to live down his past as a hard-lin

e Communist . The Socialists , who won an absolute majority in last month 's ele

ctions for Parliament , had held off naming an official candidate for this centr

al post because of Horn 's controversial history and uncertainty over its impact

 on finding a coalition partner . At one point , leaders of the Alliance of Free

 Democrats said they would not join a government led by Horn because of his past

 . They questioned whether he was fit to preside over ceremonies scheduled for O

ctober to commemorate the failed 1956 uprising against the Soviet-backed Communi

st regime . The Socialists also voted today to open negotiations to form a coali

tion with the Free Democrats , who had the second-highest vote total in the elec

tions . If the Free Democrats refuse , the Socialists have the votes to form a g

overnment on their own , but a coalition partner would broaden their support in 

the difficult economic times expected . During the 1956 revolution Horn , now 61

 , belonged to several secret police units that were instrumental in restoring a

 Communist regime after the Soviet invasion that crushed the revolt . But three 

decades later , he was part of the reformist wing of the Hungarian Socialist Wor

kers Party that handed over power peacefully after the first democratic election

s in 1990 . Horn thus projects contradictory images out of different chapters of

 his 40-year political history-one as a dedicated communist and the other as a n

onideological , pragmatic reformer . Though he says his conscience is clear and 

he `` never mistreated or abused anybody , '' he still seems extremely ill at ea

se with his 1956 role whenever reporters ask him about it . He has been known to

 end interviews when the question is raised . He told a local newspaper recently

 that he was ready to go to the Koztemeto Cemetery in Budapest , where many of t

he leaders of the 1956 revolt were buried after being executed , to `` ask for f

orgiveness from the nation . '' Apparently , it is an act he has yet to perform 

. Trained as an economist , Horn was educated partly in the Soviet Union , where

 he attended the School of Public Accounting in Rostov for four years . After wo

rking in the Finance Ministry , he became a diplomat and rose to foreign ministe

r . His father , also a dedicated communist , took part in a 1919 communist revo

lt led by Bela Kun and was killed by the Nazis in 1941 . During the campaign , l

eaders of the ruling Hungarian Democratic Forum sought to discredit Horn by comp

aring him to former Austrian president Kurt Waldheim , whose World War II servic

e as a German army officer in the Balkans was exposed after his term as U.N. sec

retary general . Unlike Waldheim , however , Horn has not tried to conceal his r

ole in the 1956 revolution , although whether he has told the whole truth is not

 totally clear . In his autobiography , `` Stakes , '' Horn wrote about his acti

vities starting on Oct. 30 , 1956 , seven days after the initial democratic upri

sing in Budapest , when he said he was called up to serve in the National Guard 

patrolling the streets . One of his duties , he wrote , was saving pro-Soviet se

cret police agents from the fury of the crowds . On Dec. 12 , about six weeks af

ter Soviet forces had moved in to crush the revolution , Horn said he was called

 in by the Communist Party and `` asked to serve '' in a special police unit , t

he Janos Hunyadi Brigade named after a 16th-century Hungarian patriot who fought

 against Turkish invaders . The brigade 's job , according to Horn , was `` to s

ecure the legal order in the country , '' first by guarding strategic points in 

the city and then by `` helping to restore public security . '' Horn 's critics 

say his brigade also helped hunt down and arrest democratic activists . On Dec. 

15 , his brother Geza , who was trying to organize the Communist Party in the Bu

dapest suburb of Sashalom , was caught by a crowd of revolutionaries , taken to 

a park and lynched after his body was mutilated . In January 1957 , Horn joined 

another police unit , the R Group , for six months . This unit also was apparent

ly involved in tracking down and arresting revolutionaries . Horn wrote that he 

once intervened to stop a detainee from being beaten and was denounced as `` a t

raitor '' for this by his colleagues . But his reputation apparently remained in

tact . According to a recommendation written by his superiors at the Finance Min

istry in 1957 , Horn was a `` very well-trained comrade '' and a `` firm working

-class fighter . '' He had helped establish the party cell at the ministry and `

` stood firmly on the side of the party and working class during the counterrevo

lution , '' as the Communists called the 1956 uprising . Horn sought to recast h

is image in the late 1980s , when he took the side of Communist Party reformers 

who put an end to Janos Kadar 's 30-year rule and held free elections that broug

ht the anti-communist Democratic Forum to power . Horn 's great moment of fame c

ame as foreign minister on the night of Aug. 22 , 1989 , when , after consulting

 Moscow , he cast aside a treaty with East Germany and opened Hungary 's border 

with Austria . This act allowed tens of thousands of East German refugees to fle

e to the West a fatal blow to the communist system in Eastern Europe .

 The world should never forget what happened five years ago in Tiananmen Square 

. The searing image of a lone , unarmed Chinese demonstrator facing down tanks i