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...images came so rapidly that TV viewers scarcely had time to consider what they were about to witness. After CNN senior correspondent Christiane Amanpour warned that the following footage would be "very hard to watch," the TV camera cut to a home in Egypt's Sayedda Zeinab slum, where 10-year-old Nagla Hamza peered into the lens, her dark eyes excited and anxious. Cut to a crowded living room, where relatives smiled and ululated in celebration. As a voice-over explained that no sanitary precautions would be taken, no anesthetic applied, Nagla was tilted onto her back...
Nagla's outraged cry echoed high above the din of words spoken during the U.N. population conference that ended last week in Cairo. Female circumcision was part of an official agenda that included the subject of women's control over their sexual destinies, and CNN's shocking footage briefly dominated the dialogue among conference participants. It also left their Egyptian hosts angrily on the defensive...
Western delegates generally hailed the CNN footage as much needed publicity for a long-overlooked custom that is common in Egypt and other parts of Africa, though it has no roots in the Koran. But the Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving...
...just be questioning witnesses; Prosecutor Marcia Clark will become one herself during the O.J. Simpson trial, CNN is reporting. Clark and another member of the prosecution team will have to take the stand, possibly to dispel the notion that evidence was improperly collected...
...Quayle a contender for president? Earlier today, one of his "close associates" told CNN the former veep had all but announced for 1996. But Quayle, apparently unsure of potential GOP backing, promptly downgraded the alert to "thinking about it." Quayle's spokeswoman said he'd issue an official verdict after November's mid-term elections. BTW: A recent Harris poll of Republican and independent voters found Senate minority leader Bob Dole leads the undeclared pack with 17 percent support, followed by Quayle with 13 percent and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell with 12 percent...