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Judge throws out Otey’s civil rights lawsuit By The Associated Press A federal judge oh Monday dis missed the only legal proceeding be tween death row inmate Harold LaMont Otey and Nebraska’s electric chair. U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom, who is in Phoenix, ordered the dis missal in a fax sent to the court after 5 p.m. Monday. “At this point in lime... this brings r us one notch closer (to the execution),” Assistant Attorney General J. Kirk Brown said. Shawn Renner, one ofOtcy’s attor neys, declined to comment. Otey is scheduled to die Sept. 2 for the 1977 rape and murder of Jane McManus of Omaha. Otey came with in six hours of being executed in July 1991. No one has been executed in Nebraska since Charles Starkweather died in the electric chair 35 years ago. Brown said he expected Otey’s at torneys to appeal the dismissal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A panel of the court previously denied a review of the case. The civil rights lawsuit alleged that Otey was treated unfairly during a 1991 clemency hearing before the State Board of Pardons, of which Gov. Ben Nelson and Attorney General Don Stenberg are members. Nelson has given a deposition to attorneys for Otey in exchange for a promise that his comments be sealed, Brown said. “The governor wanted to be as forth coming as he could with his answers but he was very strong in his assertion to protect his claim of executive priv ilege,” Brown said Monday. Nelson gave the deposition on Sat urday at the Millard Airport in Omaha on his way out of town. Brown said. An arrangement was made with Otey’s attorneys that “the deposition would be taken with a continuing ob jection to any questions that would involve his executive privilege and that it would be sealed if it was ever • admitted in court,” Brown said. n ' , The deposition was related toOtey’s dismissed civil rights lawsuit. The law suit was the only active litigation filed by Otey, Brown said. News... in a Minute Results opposed MEXICO CITY — Ernesto Zedillo, rolling up a command ing presidential election victory, insisted Mexico passed the test of democracy and vowed Mon day to stick to the free-market course set by his predecessor. _ The opposition immediately accused Zedillo of fraud, sum moning 20,000 protesters to Mexico City’s vast central square. They chanted slogans againstZcdillo’s victory in Mex ico’s most closely watched elec tion ever. Drug reappears Thalidomide, a powerful tran quilizer that seemed convenient to curb morning sickness in preg nant women, was effective and potent alright. But never safe. The reaction to the horrors of thalidomide prodded the Con gress to pass some of the most stringent drug safety laws in the world. But now scientists arc discov ering the old bugbear is useful in a number of stubborn diseases for which there are few effective remedies: leprosy, lupus, rheu matoid arthritis. And it helps control one’s immune system which tends to reject foreign tis sue when it is transplanted into host. Researchers at Rockefeller University are planning to test it on tuberculosis and AIDS. Russian mistrust MOSCOW—A small hard line group accused the United States on Monday of plotting to use joint peacekeepingexcrciscs as a First step toward the eventual occupation of Russia. The “so-called peacekeepers, who are in fact gendarmes'’ plan reconnaissance of the Russian army’s capacity, as well as of local air Fields and defenses, said Gen. Yuri Yefremov, a leader of the Liberal Patriotic Revival Party, which he claimed had 12,000 members. Some 250 U.S. Army troops will join an equal number of Russian soldiers in Totskoyc. about 700 miles southeast of Moscow, for the exercises Sept. 2-10. 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