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IpIpnofMBg .WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s referral to Congress accuses President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice and provides a damaging por trayal of his contacts with Monica Lewinsky and Oval Office secretary Betty Currie, legal sources say. Starr’s report accuses Clinton of lying in portions of his Aug. 17 grand jury testimony as well as his Jan. 17 sworn testimony in the Paula Jones lawsuit, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity. The referral Starr sent on Wednesday lays out detailed evidence that prosecutors contend shows Clinton committed perjury, obstruc tion of justice, witness tampering and abuse of power, the sources said. “The report is a straight narra tive” and it alleges that “the president continued to lie and lie and lie,” one source said. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart declined comment Thursday except to refer to Clinton lawyer David Kendall’s statement Wednesday. Kendall said die report represents “only the prosecutors’ allegations” and “there is no basis for impeachment” The report, which lawmakers expect to make public Friday, will cite specific contacts the president had with Currie last December and January and with Lewinsky in July 1997 - both during critical periods in the Jones lawsuit - as evidence of efforts to thwart the litigation, the sources said. The report details what prosecutors assert was a pattern of lying by Clinton # . .. and an effort to sustain such lies by using government employees and resources after Starr’s criminal investi gation expanded to the Lewinsky mat ter in January. The evidence ranges from a false statement Clinton approved for his press secretary to put out on the morning the Lewinsky story broke Jan. 21 to the legal battles he allowed his aides to fight to block access to witnesses, the sources said. It will detail Clinton summoning Currie to the Oval Office the day after he gave his sworn deposition in the Jones case last January, testimony in which he denied sexual relations with Lewinsky and said she visited the White House frequently to see Currie. The White House originally dis missed the Currie meeting as an effort by the president to “refresh his recollection” about Lewinsky's visits. But now that the president has admit ted he did have a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, prosecutors portray the meeting as part of an effort to influence Currie as a potential wit ness, the sources said. Starr’s report also points to a nighttime Oval Office meeting on July 14, 1997, between Clinton and Lewinsky as an early event in a months-long pattern of trying to derail the Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, die sources said. The meeting occurred around the time there were growing signs that Jones’ lawyers were about to expand their case to other women, including former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey. Yeltsin nominates another candidate MOSCOW (AP) - Bowing to bitter opposition from parliament, President Boris Yeltsin nominated forma spy chiefYevgeny Primakov Thursday as prime minister to head emergency efforts to stem the coun try’is economic crisis. Yeltsin proposed Primakov, Russia's foreign minister, after his first choice, Vdc|$Clf&&)dpiiS^ asked not to be nominated for a third time. Leaders on all sides had warned of a political explosion if Yeltsin again chose Chernomyrdin. “In view of die repeated rejec tion of (Chernomyrdin)... I ask die State Duma to confirm die appoint ment of Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov as chairman of the govern ment,” Yeltsin said in a brief letter. Opposition and pro-government political leaders promptly welcomed Primakov’s nomination, predicting the Communist-dominated lower chamber of parliament, the Duma, , would approve lj£&& White Ho*i& as early as today. “I think he will get the Duma’s support. Common sense has pre vailed,” said Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who led the opposition to Chernomyrdin. Primakov is “known in the country and in the world and can carry out policies defending the interests of the nation.” Chernomyrdin, meanwhile, said lawmakers’ refusal to confirm him was part of a Communist plot to force Yeltsin to resign and seize power. “It’s a creeping coup.” In a televised ^address, ^ tom^ni^concessions, urgfcgMm The only opposition to Primakov came from nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky of the Liberal Democratic Party, who denounced Primakov as an American puppet As foreign minister, Primakov was widely seen as a nationalist, working to restore some of the inter national status Moscow lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He briefly was fust deputy direc tor of the KGB, the main Soviet security organization, and later KGB successor, Russia’s Fortign Intell^enceS<SvS^;<;:">^>’ In >\WngtohT^ut^,^to House press Secretary Mike McCurry said, “The United States government knows and respects Foreign Minister Primakov.... 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Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daly Nebraskan by calng (402)472-2588. Subscriptions are $55 for one year. # Postmaster Send address changes to the Daiy Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St, Lincoln NE 68588-0448. PeriodicalIpostagepaid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRtGm 1998 THE DALY NEBRASKAN Sinn Fein relations 1.. p BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Setting aside years of mis trust and suspicion, the Protestant leader of Northern Ireland’s new proposed govern ment and his nemesis in the IRA allied Sinn Fein party talked in depth for the first time Thursday. _ ^^t^teader David Of the Sinn Fein,' met privately for 45 minutes to discuss Northern Ireland’s new govern ment, established in April’s his toric peace accord. The leaders came away from their encounter sounding hopeful that their fundamental differ ences could be narrowed. “We are now dealing with the crisis in the way it should be dealt with: by direct dialogue,” Adams said after meeting with Trimble, first minister of the new Northern Ireland Assembly. Trimble has refused to speak to Sinn Fein since he was elected in 19$5 to head the Ulster Unionists, Northern Ireland’s main Protestant party, because the Irish Republican Army had not disarmed. n_a. nr •_i_ i _ 11_l i_: ijui iiirnui^ lai&cu uiiciijr with Adams on Monday, when all party leaders who support the peace agreement met to discuss how Protestants and Catholics should jointly govern Northern Ireland. Trimble said he wasn’t seek ing to publicly shame the IRA Sinn Fein movement by demand ing disarmament, but that elimi nating private armies was an inevitable consequence of April’s agreement. Adams expects his party to hold positions in an administra tion that will oversee the Assembly. So far, the Assembly has approved only Trimble in the top post and moderate Catholic politician Seamus Mallon as his deputy. The 108-member Assembly is scheduled to recon vene next week to debate which parties should hold what posts and how many should be created. The accord specifies that the IRA should disarm under inter national supervision by mid 2000. Trimble insisted Thursday that most Protestant members of the Assembly would veto Sinn / can do business with. He’s a man , . ... business with. We had to find ways for him to help me and me to help him." Gerry Adams Sinn Fein leader Fein’s right to hold top posts if the IRA refused to start disarm ing. Considering their long track record of verbally sparring through the media, Thursday’s comments hy Trimble and Adams appeared surprisingly conciliato rv “He’s a man who I can do business with. He’s a man I have do business with,” Adams said. “We had to find, ways for him to help me and me to help him.” In one important pledge, Trimble said he expected Northern Ireland’s new adminis tration to meet formally with the Irish government by early October. Formal policy coordination between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic was an essential part of the agreement for Catholics who seek Ireland’s eventual unification. Also Thursday, Northern Ireland’s police commander announced that his forces would no longer require backup from British soldiers in Belfast, although the army will remain active in the most hard-line Catholic areas of rural Northern Ireland. Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan said his announcement would eventually affect troop strengths in Northern Ireland, which currently stand at about 17,000. I I I I Dow closes 249.48 lower, wipes out record gains NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrials fell as much as 345 points Thursday as the glimmer of hope that energized the stock market just days ago was swept away by another wave of anxiety over the crises in Washington and the global economy. Bargain hunters moved in just as the market neared the low point of last week’s plunge, providing a late bounce. The Dow Jones industrial average finished 249.48 points lower at 7,615.54, more than 1,700 points, or 18.4 percent, below the July 17 record of9337.97. :The drop, combined with Wednesday’s 155-point loss, more than wiped out the record 380 points that the Dow gained Tuesday amid hopes the Federal Reserve may inter vene in the battle against economic distress spreading around the w^rid. It was the fifth time in just 10 ses sions that the Dow has whipsawed more than300points in a day, includ ing the 512-phmge on Aug. 31. Kosovo refugees flee Serbs, leave 25 new ghost towns ISTINIC, Yugoslavia (AP) - About 25,000 people crowded into this village in southwestern Kosovo on Thursday, terrified they would be caught in a pincer strike by Serb troops and tanks blasting their tiny towns. Village elders said at least five people, including two infants, had died Wednesday of sickness or wounds suffered while fleeing. The refugees woe the latest vic tims of the crackdown on ethnic Albanians in die Serbian province. They fled on tractors and wagons heaped with belongings, clogging a dirt road Wednesday in a column 7 miles long, according to Western observers who visited the area. Fernando del Mundo, a U.N. refugee agency spokesman, said the situation threatens to create as many as 25 new ghost towns in Kosovo, where dozens of villages already have been charred and emptied in die face of shelling or clashes between Serb security forces and ethnic Albanian rebels. Study: College students’ binse drinking unchanged "^BOSTON (AP) - Mweftanhalf the nation’s college students who drank last year did so intending to get drunk, but the number of binge drinkers was virtually unchanged from four years ago, according to research released Thursday. The survey of 14,521 students by the Harvard School ofPuWic Health followed up on an analysis of 15,103 students in 1993. Both surveys queried students randomly at 130 colleges across the country. The report published in this month’s issue of the Journal of American College Health shows that more students who consumed alco hol did so to get drunk-39 percent in 1993 compared with 52 percent in 1997. The number of students who were drunk three or more times indie month prior to answering the survey jumped by 22 percent In both reports, fraternity and sorority members were the biggest alcohol guzzlers.
