Qmton encouraged night stays
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the
worrisome days after the Democrats’
1994 election losses, President Qinton
scrawled his personal approval on a
plan to invite big party donors into the
White House and suggested some be
given overnight stays “right away.”
For the first time, internal White
House memos released Tuesday placed
Qinton at the front-end planning of a
Democratic fund-raising blitz that
landed some major donors a night in
the Lincoln Bedroom and eventually
ensnared the party in controversy.
The White House also released the
identities of938 overnight guests dur
ing Clinton’s first term, ranging from
entertainer Barbra Streisand and evan
gelist Billy Graham to six-figure do
nors and obscure family friends.
“Ready to start overnights right
away,” the president wrote in a Janu
ary 1995 note that specified he be
given the names of the party’s $50,000
and $100,000-plus supporters.
Clinton also sanctioned a top cam
paign fund-raiser’s memo suggesting
three ways to energize big supporters,
including holding coffees or lunches
at the White House. “Yes, pursue all 3
and promptly,” Clinton penned.
'Hie aide’s memo identified “our
top 10 supporters” — four of whom
eventually spent the night at the White
House. Among them was Ohio finan
cier Carl Lindner, a major donor to
both parties.
Hours before the release of the pa
pers, Clinton acknowledged he en
couraged the overnight stays but in
sisted most of the guests were personal
friends.
“I didn’t have any strangers here.
The Lincoln Bedroom was never
sold,” Clinton told reporters.
Republicans, who are gearing up
investigations on Capitol Hill,
pounced on the latest revelations.
“It’s certainly an unseemly thing,”
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
said, renewing his call for an indepen
dent counsel. The JusticeDepartment
has resisted such an appointment thus
far.
Former Bush White House coun
sel C. Boyden Gray said that under
his boss such open connection of
White House visits with fund-raising
interests was “the kind of thing we
took great pains to avoid ”
First lady calls for arts funding
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary
Rodham Clinton endorsed a call for
the president to lead a “Millennium
Initiative” that would bring citizens,
government and business together for
promotion of America's arts and hu
manities.
“As we prepare for a new century
and, yes, a new millennium,” she said
Tuesday, “the arts and humanities are
more essential then ever to the endur
ance of our democratic values of tol
erance, pluralism and freedom at a
time when so much else is happening
to change the way we work and live.”
The first lady urged using the
Internet to give isolated children in
rural areas and inner cities the chance
to “take a virtual tour of our finest
museums and libraries.”
“The arts and humanities can of
u
The arts and humanities can offer
children safe and productive alternatives
to crime, violence, gangs and drugs ..."
Hillary Rodham Clinton
fer children safe and productive alter
natives to crime, violence, gangs and
drugs, transporting them beyond the
bounds of their difficult circum
stances,” she said.
A committee report proposed an
appropriation by 2000 of $2 per citi
zen to support the national endow
merits for the arts and humanities and
for libraries and museums. That would
mean about $550 million instead of
this year’s $385 million.
Housd Republican leaders have
said they want to end all spending this
year on the National Endowment for
the Arts.
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Da Pont guilty but mentally ill in wrestler’s death
MEDIA, Pa.—A jury decided Tuesday that multimillionaire John
■' E. du Pont was a murderer but spared him a life in prison, agreeing
that mental illness played a role in his fatal shooting of an Olympic
wrestler.
Du Pont was convicted of third-degree murder but also found men
tally ill in the Jan. 26, 1996, shooting of David Schultz. The verdict
means the chemical fortune heir will likely spend time in a mental
hospital and go to prison, only if he is deemed cured.
Third-degree murder, or murder without premeditation, carries a
maximum penalty of 20 to 40 years in prison, but du Pont could be free
on parole after as little as five years.
Campus crime below national levels
WASHINGTON — Sixty-five students out of every 100,000 were
victims of murder, tape, robbery or aggravated assaults in 1994, a gov
ernment survey of university and college campuses says.
The Education Department report today also found that 257 stu
dents out of every 100,000 were victims of burglary and vehicle theft.
The report is the first of its kind ty the department, which was
unable to say whether campus crime is on the rise. The report was
required by the 1990 Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act,
prompted by public concern ova* campus safety.
The Justice Department has reported that in the nation as a whole
there were 716 violent crimes and 4,656 property crimes for every
100,000 residents in 1994.
Crime rates were higher at institutions with on-campus housing,
the Education Department said. There were 113 violent crimes per
100,000 students at institutions with campus housing, compared with
29 for those without.
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Internet leaders see threat in state, local taxes
WASHINGTON—lb hear Internet and technology executives talk,
new state and local taxes rank up there with computer viruses and 14- ]
year-old hackers as a threat to the global computer future.
“It defeats the purpose of seamless interstate commerce,” argues
Scott Cooper, technology director at the American Electronics Asso
ciation. A proliferation of state and local taxes will “degrade and de
mean the technology,” he adds.
The Ginton administration opposes federal taxation of the Internet,
where business dealings could rise to as much as $150 billion in the
next few years by some estimates. So the battleground is shifting to the
state and local level, and the industry is working hard to halt piece
meal taxation.
Women's Studies International Colloquium Series
Rashmi Bhatnagar, Assistant Professor of English
A Personal Journey:
Female Infanticide and the Women's Movement
in the '70s and '80s in Modern India
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Senators debate snake bounty
WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Clinton wants Congress to spend $1
million to help attack brown tree
snakes in Guam and keep them from
spreading to Hawaii and the continen
tal United States.
Alaska Sen. Frank Murkowski has
another idea—a $ 1 bounty per snake.
“If you paid kids $1 a snake,
wouldn’t it do some good?”
Murkowski asked Tuesday during a
Senate budget hearing.
“No,” answered Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbitt. He said the $1 million
is needed to pay for new research to
combat the millions of non-poisonous
snakes overrunning Guam and other
parts of the Pacific.
“How do you know?” Murkowski
countered.
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“If I was out there with $1 bills and
a 12-year-old kid, I think I’d get some
snakes,” the Republican senator con
tinued.
“I’ll go out with my pile of dollar
bills and you come out with your sci
entists and we’ll see who gets more
snakes,” Murkowski told Babbitt.
Babbitt replied, “You’ll get a lot
of snakes, but you wouldn’t solve the
problem.”
Murkowski, chairman of the Sen
ate Energy and Natural Resources
MotHaniy/DN
Committee, brought the matter up in
accusing the Clinton administration
of misguided spending priorities at the
Interior Department.
Babbitt said one of the brown tree
snakes recently was found at Hono
lulu International Airport in Hawaii.
Seven have been found in Hawaii since
1981.
“The brown tree snake is a major
disaster looming across the Pacific,
pointed at Hawaii and perhaps the
southern United States,” Babbitt said.
Population counts of the snake
have risen as high as 2,000 to 3,000
snakes per acre in Guam, he said.
“The entire island has been over
run,” Babbit said. “Plant species are \
going extinct. They are everywhere,
shorting out power lines, coming in
through plumbing systems. It’s a
mess.”
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