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.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
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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.”
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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
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In >\WngtohT^ut^,^to
House press Secretary Mike
McCurry said, “The United States
government knows and respects
Foreign Minister Primakov.... We
would expect to have a good and
close working relationship with
Prime Minister Primakov.”
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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.
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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
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can do business
with. He’s a man
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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.
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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.
