THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Suspected spy set
in nuclear secrets
By Richard Benke
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. After nine
months in solitary confinement, Wen Ho
Lee struck a deal to get out of jail a free
man yesterday as federal prosecutors all
but abandoned their tattered case against
the former Los Alamos nuclear scientist.
Once vilified as a suspected spy but never
charged with espionage, Lee agreed to
plead guilty before U.S. District Judge
James Parker to only one of 59 counts
accusing him of violating national security.
His sentence: the nine months already
served. In exchange for his freedom, Lee
agreed to explain what he knows about
seven computer tapes he was accused of
downloading. Lee whose defense con
tended he was targeted only because he is
ethnic Chinese has insisted the tapes
were destroyed at the lab. His willingness to
explain in more detail what happened was
the turning point in plea discussions.
The three-year case began as an offshoot
of a Chinese espionage case and led to
accusations that Lee had downloaded the
"crown jewels" of U.S. nuclear weaponry
and might be poised to hand them over to a
foreign power. The government has since
backed down from nearly all those charges.
Government sources said Lee agreed to
plead guilty to one count of unlawful gather-
`Cats' says final goodbye to Broadway
By Michael Kuchwara
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK Cats, Broadway's longest
running show, has become as much a
"Memory" as the song that was its most per
sistent refrain.
After a nearly 18-year run, the extremely
popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
closed with a roar Sunday at the Winter Gar
den Theater before an invited audience of
friends and fans.
They cheered, screamed and even cried
during an emotional, confetti-strewn final
performance number 7,485 that was
interrupted by several standing ovations.
"Tonight is the last night of Cats first life
on Broadway," Lloyd Webber said after the
exuberant cast and orchestra players took
their bows.
"So I wouldn't get too excited. I don't quite
know what the fuss is about."
Among the people called on stage by
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory is the
former employer of Wen Ho Lee.
ing of national defense information, aid fed
eral investigators over the next six months
and drop claims that prosecutors went after
him because he is Chinese-American. Lee
is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in
Taiwan.
"He deserves a national apology," said
John Vance, a safety engineer at Los Alam
os National Laboratory. "The president of
the United States should call him in and
apologize on national television for the dam
age that's done."
Lloyd Webber were director Trevor Nunn,
choreographer Gillian Lynne and producer
Cameron Mackintosh.
As they waved goodbye, a shower of yel
low, white and silver confetti filled the the
ater, covering the cast and still-applauding
theatergoers.
Cats was based on Old Possum's Book of
Practical Cats, a collection of poems by T.S.
Eliot.
The St. Louis-born poet was praised by
Nunn as "the greatest English and Ameri
can poet of the 20th century and who was my
unwitting collaborator in writing the words
for 'Memory' probably unwillingly, if he
had known."
The poems by Eliot, who died in 1965, also
provided the lyrics for the other numbers in
Cats.
Now for the first time since 1982, the Win
ter Garden, one of the few Broadway the
aters actually on Broadway, will be dark
However, there will be still be one more
free
case
Andrew Lloyd Webber speaks on stage
following Cats' final performance.
Cats related event held in the Garden
Next Saturday, props, costumes and other
mementos from the musical will be put on
sale in a giant theatrical garage sale. It will
be a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS.
NATIONAL
`West Wing' sets Emmy record
NBC's drama won nine
Emmys and nearly shut
out HBO's The Sopranos.
By David Bauder
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LOS ANGELES Once again, crime did
n't pay.
Weeks before the election of a new U.S.
president, the Emmy Awards elbowed aside
the mob-focused The Sopranos to shower
honors on the White House drama The West
Wing.
NBC's freshman series won a record-set
ting nine Emmys on Sunday, including best
drama. Only James Gandolfini's best acting
trophy prevented a shutout for The Sopra
nos after 18 nominations.
"I wish we had done a little better," Gan
dolfini said after the show. It was the second
straight year The Sopranos met mostly with
Emmy disappointment.
He suggested the surreal drama may be a
little too dark and violent for many Emmy
voters. Some of Hollywood's old guard also
may be reluctant to vote for a cable show
instead of one on the broadcast networks, he
said.
West Wing is an uplifting look at political
life not weighed down with cynicism. Its
characters try to do the right thing, even if
they don't always succeed. Real Washington
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leaders are constantly thanking producers
for their portrayal.
"By and large in movies and television
shows, the country's leaders are portrayed
as either dolts or Machiavellian," series cre
ator Aaron Sorkin said. "Here, they are nei
ther. They're very bright, committed and
energetic people."
Sorkin won an Emmy for his writing;
Thomas Schlamme for directing. Richard
Station spacewalk goes smoothly
By Marcia Dunn
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Spacewalk
ers sped through six hours of work outside
the international space station yesterday,
hooking up cables, installing a navigation
tool and dislodging a jammed piece of
equipment.
The astronauts and cosmonauts next
turned their attention to the inside of the
space station.
"Basically, it's a cabin we have that we're
trying to get some furniture into and get it
ready to move into," said mission opera
tions director Milt Heflin.
The crew of space shuttle Atlantis
planned to enter the space station late yes
terday.
It was expected to take a few hours for
the seven men to make their way through
the 140-foot-long complex and all 12 hatch
es.
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Schiff, who plays the grim aide Toby Ziegler,
and Allison Janney, who plays the White
House's tough press secretary, won support
ing actor awards. The show won four other
technical awards.
Asked whether The West Wing educates
viewers about politics, Sorkin replied:
'We're not asking anyone to eat their veg
etables." Martin Sheen, President Josiah
Bartlet in The West Wing, was dead-on walk
ing into the Emmys with his prediction that
Gandolfini would beat him for best actor, Imit
his show would win best series.
"James was selected MVP, but we won
the game," Sheen said. "That's the most
important thkig."
Emmy voters showed their sentimental
sides Sunday. Michael J. Fox won best actor
in a comedy for his final performance in
Spin City before retiring because of Parkin
son's disease. Jack Lemmon won best actor
in a miniseries or movie for Oprah Winfrey
Presents: Tuesdays With Morrie.
Both veteran actors drew standing ova
tions. Will & Grace was selected best come
dy, boosting the show as it moves to Thurs
day nights. Its supporting actors, Sean
Hayes and Megan Mu!laity, each won their
first Emmys. For the third year in a row,
David Letterman's Late Show won the
award for best variety series. It came during
a year Letterman had to take a break for a
quintuple bypass operation in January.
"Dave, if you're watching at home, it looks
like the fake heart surgery paid off," said the
show's executive producer, Rob Burnett.
size it was the last time astronauts visited in
May. Zvezda, the Russia-made control mod
ule, was added in late July. With only four
days inside the station before Atlantis
undocks this weekend, the astronauts and
cosmonauts had to work fast. One of their
first chores was to unload 1,300 pounds of
gear from a Russian cargo ship that arrived
in August
NASA was cheered by the success of yes
terday morning's spacewalk by Edward Lu
and Yuri Malenchenko.
About 20 spacewalks are planned outside
the station over the next year and a half
alone.
By contrast, yesterday's outing was only
the 50th in almost 20 years of space shuttle
flight
"We're going to really start getting into
the assembly of the space station in very
short order here, and I feel like this space
walk set the tone for what's about to come,"
said Mike Hess, the lead spacewalk officer
inside Mission Control.
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