By The
Associated Press
Edited by Michelle Garner
Wednesday, January 24,1996 Page 2
Poll shows
Doleleading
in tight race
MANCHESTER, N.H. - A new
poll shows Sen. Bob Dole leading in a
relatively close race with multimil
lionaire publisher Steve Forbes in New
Hampshire with only a month to go
before the presidential primary.
The telephone poll of 525 likely
Republican voters was conducted Fri
day through Monday , and was released
today. It has a margin of error of plus
or minus 4 percentage points.
A similar American Research
Group poll conducted a week earlier
showed Dole at 34 percent and Forbes
at 21 percent.
Given the margins of error in the
polls, the standings of the two candi
dates might not have changed much in
the past week, but even Dole’s advis
ers concede the race has tightened in
New Hampshire.
In the latest survey, commentator ,
Pat Buchanan and Texas Sen. Phil
Gramm each had 10 percent support,
former Tennessee Gov. Lamar
Alexander had 5 percent, radio talk
show host Alan Keyes had 2 percent
and Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar had 1
percent. Nineteen percent were unde
cided.
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Subpoena sends strong message
WASHINGTON—In summon
ing Hillary Rodham Clinton before
a grand jury, prosecutors sent a
blunt message: Everybody, at ev
ery level, is to cooperate with our
investigation of Whitewater and
related matters.
“The legal and political issues,
for better or worse, are inextricably
intertwined,” one expert observer
said of the development.
Prosecutors will ask Mrs. Clinton
on Friday whether she or anyone
else inside the White House tried to
hide the records after they* were
subpoenaed by investigators two
years ago.
The documents, unexpectedly
discovered in the White House fam
ily residence, outline Mrs. Clinton’s
work for a failing Arkansas savings
and loan owned by the president’s
and her Whitewater business part
grand jury will consider possible
obstruction of justice charges
against somebody at some point,”
said Stephen Gillers, a New York
University law professor.
“Mrs. Clinton, along with oth
ers, may have information that may
illuminate whether those charges
should be brought and against
whom,” Gillers added.
Still, politics hovers over the
whole event.
Republicans suggest that the
mere fact that she had to be subpoe
naed shows the potentially serious
legal trouble the White House finds
itself in.
Mrs. Clinton is the first
president’s wife ever summoned
before a grand jury. And prosecu
“The legal and
political issues, for
better or worse, are
inextricably
intertwined. ”
IRA ROBBINS
American University law
professor
tors also subpoenaed Mrs. Clinton’s
Whitewater lawyer, David Kendall.
They want to question him on is
sues they feel fall outside the attor
ners.
“The only reason for Mrs.
Clinton’s appearance is that this
ney-client privilege.
Even the way Mrs. Clinton will
approach the U.S. District Court on
Friday for the grand jury appear
ance can send a political message.
She can greet the throng of re
porters and television cameras at
the front door in an attempt to dem
onstrate she has nothing to hide. Or
she can be whisked by car into an
underground garage and up to the
grand jury room, making no public
show.
“Maybe she is doing this to avoid
making a political issue out of it or
in fact try to get some political
mileage out of this for the presi
dent,” said Ira Robbins, an Ameri
can University law professor. “The
legal and political issues, for better
or worse, are inextricably inter
twined.”
Journalist: Serbs used
banned gas in attack r
LONDON — A British journalist
said Tuesday he believed Bosnian
Serbs used a banned chemical gas
against Muslim fighters at the climax
of their attack on the U.N. safe area of
Srebrenica last year.
Brian Johnson Thomas said five
witnesses to the attack who are now
refugees in Tuzla said the Muslims
became confused and disoriented af
ter the Serbs fired artillery shells with
gas warheads.
Thomas said chemical weapons
experts had confirmed that the wit
ness reports are consistent with the
use of BZ gas, which causes halluci
nations and is very similar to the drug
LSD.
The former Yugoslav army had a
lot of chemical weapons, from the
nerve gas sarin to BZ, which were left
behind when the country fell apart, he
said.
During five months in former Yu
goslavia last year researching a TV
documentary on chemical weapons,
Thomas said he saw BZ warheads
with Muslim forces outside Mostar
and with Serb troops outside Banja
Luka.
He said he obtained the Yugoslav
army’s manual for use of BZ as a
tactical weapon—which had pictures
identical to the BZ shells and gre
nades he had seen.
“I think the reason the Serbs used it
(in Srebrenica) was that the Muslims
‘BZ really blows your
mind out. ... It gave the
Serbs a qu icker, easier
win ivith less casualties
themselves. ”
BRIAN JOHNSON THOMAS
British journalist
were very well dug in, well motivated
and resisting strongly,” Thomas said
in an interview after the BBC World
Service broke the story.
“BZ really blows your mind out....
It gave the Serbs a quicker, easier win
with less casualties themselves,” he
said.
Srebrenica, one of six U.N.-desig
nated Musi im safe areas, was attacked
in early July and overrun by the Serbs
on July 11. Of 40,000 inhabitants,
about 8,000 remain missing.
The United States has accused
Bosnian Serbs of massacring up to
2,700 of the missing residents. Other
estimates put the death toll at 4,000,
which would make it Europe’s largest
civilian massacre since the Holocaust.
Thomas said he would be prepared
to present his findings to the U.N.
commission investigating war crimes
in former Yugoslavia.
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Law prevents gay couples
from getting home loans
RICHMOND, Va. — Applicants
for low-income home loans must be
related by blood, adoption or mar
riage under new state regulations that
effectively bar gay couples from pool
ing their incomes to get a loan.
The Virginia Housing Develop
ment Authority’s 6-2 vote reverses a
policy it adopted in June 1994 to al
low unrelated people to combine their
incomes when applying for the loans.
“We feel like the new regulation
will encourage the traditional fam
ily,” Chairman Michael G. Miller said.
Gov. George F. Allen, a conserva
tive Republican, requested the change
last year. The new regulations take
effect Feb. 5.
Gay-rights advocates were out
raged.
“It doesn’t make any attempt to
hide its anti-gay motive,” said David
Smith, a spokesman for The Human
Rights Campaign Fund, a national gay
rights group.
The decision also created sharp
dissent among the commission itself.
“This change grants loans to con
victed ax murders who are married—
while denying Mother Teresa and an
unrelated sister a loan,” said commis
sion member Albert C. Eisenberg.
The regulations said the authority
could consider exceptions, but did not
specify how. Kent Willis, director of
the Virginia chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union, indicateda court
challenge is inevitable.
“This is the kind of blatantly dis
criminatory decision that prods courts
to make hard decisions,” he said. “Not
only are they willing to create a policy
that discriminates against gays and
lesbians, they are willingto take along
elderly couples, disabled people and
others who want to pool their re
sources.”
At a public hearing on the change
Friday, 18 people protested the change
and only two supported it.
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Alzheimer’s patient kept from Kevorkian
PETOSKEY, Mich. — A man trying to keep his Alzheimer’s
stricken father away from Dr. Jack Kevorkian won custody of the ailing
69-year-old in a court battle against his own mother.
Probate Judge Fred Mulhauser ruled in favor of Chip Klooster, who
feared his mother and siblings were arranging for his father, Gerald
Klooster, to kill himself.
Gerald Klooster sat quietly through the hearing and showed no
reaction. He has been described as mentally incompetent, but his
attorney, Scott Eckhold, said the man has some sense that the family is
fighting over him.
Kevorkian’s lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, said last week that Kevorkian
had talked to the Kloosters but would not have gotten involved in their
case.
Cupid statue may be a Michelangelo
NEW YORK — A little-noticed statue of Cupid in the lobby of a
ouildingacross the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art may be
a priceless masterpiece: a missing Michelangelo.
The 3-foot statue of a naked, curly-headed boy with a blissful
expression and a quiver of arrows strapped to his back has been sitting
in plain view since the building was completed in 1908.
But it is only in the past three months that art historian Kathleen Weil
Garris Brandt has been sure that the sculpture is a Michelangelo.
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
said there were no other sculptures by Michelangelo in America.
Pregnant 10-year-old, lover run away
HOUSTON—A 22-year-old man was charged Tuesday with sexu
ally assaulting his 9-year-old girlfriend. The girl, now 10 and 8 1/2
months pregnant, has run away from a youth shelter.
Cindy Garcia gave social workers the slip Sunday, and police were
appealing for help in finding her. They said she probably will have to
give birth by Caesarean section.
The girl’s lover, Pedro Sotelo, a Mexican national, also was missing
Tuesday. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of aggravated sexual
assault.
County social workers discovered Cindy’s pregnancy Jan. 12 when
she posed as a 14-year-old seeking welfare benefits for herself and her
unborn child.
“She’s a pretty smart little girl,” police Officer Frank Elizondo said.
“She gave me a false name and date of birth.”
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