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Goldman offers to give up
damages If 0 J. confesses
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)—
O.J. Simpson rejected a challenge
from Fred Goldman on Wednesday
that would have allowed the football
great to avoid millions in damages if
he signed a confession admitting he
is a killer.
“No matter how much money I am
offered, I would never confess to a
crime which I did not commit,”
Simpson said through attorney Phillip
Baker.
Goldman earlier told The Associ
ated Press in a telephone interview:
“I don’t want to play games. But if he
wanted to sign a confession with all
the details of his crime and broadcast
it all over the country and publish it
all over the nation, I would drop the
judgment.”
The aggrieved father, who never
accepted Simpson’s murder acquittal
and doggedly pursued him to civil
court, added: “All I ever wanted is jus
tice. It’s never been an issue about
money.”
Goldman had acknowledged that
the chance of Simpson taking him up
on the offer was slim to none.
“Easy to say, easy to do, never go
ing to happen,” Goldman predicted
when he first revealed the offer Tues
day on the Dallas-based Salem Radio
Network. “This person hasn’t owned
responsibility for any of his actions
through his lifetime.”
Alan Dershowitz, who was on
Simpson’s defense team at his crimi
nal trial, said he was not surprised the
offer was rejected. “He will go to his
grave maintaining his innocence ada
mantly.”
Simpson swore on the witness
stand it was “absolutely untrue” that
he slashed Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman to death on June 12,
1994.
A civil jury that didn’t believe him
found him liable for the deaths and
socked him with compensatory and
punitive damages totaling $33.5 mil
lion — more than double what even
his accusers predicted he could ever
pay.
Goldman stands to collect at least
half of $8.5 million in compensatory
damages and $12.5 million in puni
tive damages. He has to split both with
his ex-wife, Sharon Rufo.
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No matter how much money I am
offered, I would never confess to a crime
which I did not commit.”
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Speaker: Dr Paul Maier
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Western Michigan University
The Veritas Forum
Tonight at 7:00pm
Centennial Room, City Campus Union
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North Korean official defects
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)—A close con
fidant of North Korean leader Kim Jong II de
fected to South Korea today, becoming the high
est-ranking North Korean official ever to seek
asylum in Seoul.
Hwang Jang Yop, a member of the Central
Committee of North Korea’s ruling Workers’
Party, defected at the South Korean Embassy
in Beijing, according to South Korea’s foreign
ministry.
He could be an invaluable source of infor
mation about the workings of North Korea’s
secretive communist government, which rules
one of the world’s most closed societies.
Hwang, 72, defected at around 10 a.m. with
an aide, Kim Duk Hung, president of a North
Korean trading company, according to South
Korean Ambassador Chung Jong-wook in
Beijing.
Chung would not characterize China’s re
action to Hwang’s defection, saying “it is a very
sensitive issue.”
The Korean Peninsula was divided half a
century ago into the communist North and the
capitalist South. China once was the North’s
closest ally, but relations have cooled since
Beijing opened up its economy and established
ties with the South.
Hwang left Tokyo’s Narita Airport on Tues
day for Beijing. His reported defection comes
four days before the Noth Korean leader’s 55th
birthday on Sunday.
One South Korean official said on condi
tion of anonymity that Hwang’s defection could
be an indication of a power struggle in the
North’s hierarchy.
About 180 Noth Koreans have defected to
South Korea in the past three years, including
30 so far this year.
South Korea called an emergency Cabinet
meeting to discuss ways of bringing the two.
officials to Seoul. The men were on their way
home via Beijing after attending a North Ko
rean-sponsored international seminar in Japan.
A relative of late North Korean President
Kim II Sung, Hwang graduated from North
Korea’s elite Kim II Sung University and Mos
cow University in the late 1950s.
As a key member of the North’s ruling party,
he serves as chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the North’s parliament, the Su
preme Peoples Assembly.
He is known to be a key theoretician behind
jucheism, North Korea’s ideology of self-reli
ance.
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