Judge reverses
controversial
drug ruling
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal
judge who came under attack from the
White House on down for throwing
out a confession and 80 pounds of
cocaine and heroin reversed himself
Monday and reinstated the evidence.
U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr.
said additional testimony from police
and the defendant caused him to
switch his initial ruling.
The judge had ruled that police of
ficers violated the rights of Carol
Bayless of Detroit by pulling over her
car in New York City on April 21 be
cause four men around it hurried away
when they noticed police.
Police found the drugs in her trunk.
But Baer said in his original ruling that
the evidence was inadmissible because
it was only natural in that neighbor
hood for black men to fear police and
run away. ■*
Sen. Bob Dole had said the judge i
should be impeached, and House
Speaker Newt Gingrich had charged
that Baer’s rul ing was “the perfect rea
son why we are losing our civiliza
tion.” The White House called the
judge’s ruling “wrongheaded” and
threatened to ask him to quit. Clinton
appointed Baer in 1994.
In his reversal Monday, Baer apolo
gized for the inference in his original
mling that it is common to mn from
police in Manhattan’s gritty Washing
ton Heights section because of past
corruption.
“Unfortunately, the hyperbole ...
regretfully may have demeaned the
law-abiding men and women who
make Washington Heights their home
and the vast majority of the dedicated
men and women in blue who patrol
the streets of our great city,” he wrote.
The case now will be readied for
trial, although Bay less had indicated
that she may pursue a plea agreement.
She is charged with conspiracy to di s- ,
tribute cocaine and heroin and remains
jailed without bail.
Star Whitewater witness takes stand
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —
The prosecution’s chief witness tes
tified Monday that he and two
Whitewater defendants devised a
scheme to use his investment com
pany to enrich themselves and also
benefit “some members of the po
litical family” in Arkansas.
David Hale was a small-time in
vestment banker who claims Presi
dent Clinton pressured him to make
an illegal $300,000 loan to his
Whitewater business partners.
Clinton has denied the claim, call
ing it a “bunch of bull.”
Hale’s allegations are central to
the Whitewater trial. Gov. Jim Guy
Tucker and James and Susan
McDougal — Clinton’s former
Whitewater partners—are charged
with fraud and conspiracy in a 21 -
count indictment.
Hale testified that he. Tucker and
McDougal hatched the scheme in
October 1985 to use proceeds from
a bogus $825,000 land deal to in
fuse $500,000 into Hale’s small
business investment company. The
money would increase Hale’s lend
ing limit, enabling the firm to make
loans for McDougal and Tucker.
Hale said McDougal told him
that he and Tucker needed money.
“(McDougal) said, 'We’re going
to have to clean up some members
of the political family,’” Hale testi
fied.
McDougal did not identify any
one by name. Hale said. However,
he said he believed McDougal was
referring to then-Gov. Bill Clinton
“and maybe some of his aides, and
some of Jim’s associates, and Jim
Guy Tucker.”
Hale did not specify what “clean
up” meant, and Deputy Indepen
dent Counsel W. Hickman Ewing
Jr. refused to comment after court
on use of the phrase.
Ewing said Clinton was “periph
erally involved.” He said after court
that later testimony would show that
Clinton “was at a meeting where
some of these transactions were dis
cussed”
Under questioning from the de
fense, Hale acknowledged that
McDougal was good friends with
several well-connected political fig
ures in addition to Clinton, his aides
and Tucker.
Bill Watt, who did legal work for
Hale in the 1980s, testified last
week that Hale told him Clinton
was pressuring him to close the
$825,000 transaction. Watt quoted
Hale as saying in 1985: “I’ve been
to a meeting ... and Gov. Clinton
wants to get it done. He’s got to help
his friends.”
Robert Palmer, the appraiser on
the land deal, said Watt told him
then that it would be OK to file false
figures on the appraisal because
“this goes all the way to the top.”
At Hale’s sentencing last week,
prosecutors said Hale broke a “con
spiracy of silence” in the
Whitewater investigation.
Defense attorneys said Hale’s
time on the stand represented an
important week in the month-old
case. The charges against Tucker
and the McDougals were based
largely on Hale’s allegations.
When Hale starts testifying,
Tucker attorney W.H. “Buddy”
Sutton said, “You’ll see a man that
knows no human being in the world
that he wouldn’t betray for his own
interest.”
Defense attorneys said Hale
turned government witness to get a
reduced sentence after being caught
defrauding federal regulators.
Cancer vaccine ready soon for human testing
WASHINGTON (AP) —A vaccine
'rom genetically engineered cells
eradicates tumors in laboratory rats
md may be ready for testing on a vi
nous kind of human brain cancer by
his summer, researchers say.
Habib Fakhrai, a University of
California, Los Angeles, cancer sci
entist, said the vaccine has the effect
if removing a biological disguise from
eancer cells, thus turning them into
argets that are tracked down and
tilled by the body’s own immune sys
cm.
Fakhrai is the lead author of a study
hat will be publishedTucsday in Pro
eeedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
Cancers of the brain, breast, lung,
eolon and prostate all secrete a sub
stance called transforming growth fac
or-beta, orTGF-B, which suppresses
he immune system and protects the
;ancer, Fakhrai said.
“TFG-beta cloaks the cancer cells
so they arc not recognized by the im
“It may not be a cure, but it could be a significant
step forward for thesepatients. ”
CAROL KRUSE
Cancer researcher
mune system” said Fakhrai.
To alert the immune system to the
presence of cancer, the UCLA re
searchers developed a way to prevent
tumor cells from making TGF-B.
Using rats with brain cancer, the
scientists removed cancer cells and
purified the tumor DNA. They then
used this DNA to make a protein that
blocks the genetic process that leads
to secretion ofTGF-B.
“We actually created molecules
that attach to precursors ofTGF-B and
instructed them genetically to stop
working,” said Fakhrai.
The new molecules were then used
to inoculate a group of rats with can
cer. Another group of rats with cancer
received only placebo shots.
Among the rats receiving the anti
TGF-B vaccinations, 100 percent sur
vived for the 12 weeks of the experi
ment and the cancers were destroyed
by the animals’ immune system cells.
The control rats, which received only
the placebo, all died swiftly.
Fakhrai said the technique has been
approved for human experimentation
by a committee at the National Insti
tutes of Health and is now awaiting
action by the Food and Drug Admin
istration. Once approved, Fakhrai said
UCLA researchers plan to offer the
experimental therapy to patients with
glioblastoma, an invariably fatal brain
cancer.
“We hope to be using this vaccine
technology in humans by this sum
mer,” said Dr. Keith Black, a UCLA
neurosurgeon and a co-author of the
study.
Carol Kruse, a cancer researcher at
the University of Colorado Health
Center, said the UCLA cancer vaccine
was “impressive” and may offer real
hope for a cancer that now is always
lethal.
“This may prolong the lives of pa
tients with brain cancer,” she said. “It
may not be a cure, but it could be a
significant step forward for these pa
tients.”
Fakhrai said the anti-TGF-B pro
tein worked like a true vaccine in the
laboratory rats.
“All the rats survived with no evi
dence of further cancer,” he said.
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