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Nixon's daughter denies book's charges
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Patricia
Nixon Cox, daughter of the late
President Richard M. Nixon, flat
ly denied a published allegation
that her father struck her moth
er.
She also cast doubt Monday
on the suggestion that Nixon
took a mood-altering drug with
out a prescription while in the
White House.
“Because I lived at home
with them and my sister, I can
state unconditionally that at no
time during 1962 or ever did my
father ever strike my mother or
did my mother ever have physi
cal signs or bruises of the type
claimed in this book," she told
The Associated Press.
Her late mother, Patricia
Nixon, “was my father’s
strongest supporter and really
believed in what he was trying to
accomplish," Cox said in the
interview.
Cox sought out the interview
to rebut allegations in “The
Arrogance of Power," a book by
BBC journalist Anthony
Summers that was published
Monday.
“My parents... are not able to
speak for themselves now,” she
said. “The allegations published
in this most recent book
describe things that never took
place."
The most specific of
Summers’ allegations was that
Nixon struck his wife either just
before or just after losing his
1962 bid to become governor of
California, when he angrily told
reporters, “You won’t have Dick
Nixon to kick around anymore.”
Summers writes that retired
Washington lawyer John Sears,
who worked in Nixon’s success
fill 1968 campaign for president,
told him that he had been told
“that Nixon had hit her (Pat
Nixon) in 1962 and that she had
threatened to leave him over it
The book also said that in
1968 Jack Dreyfus, founder of an
investment firm, gave Nixon
1,000 capsules of the mood
altering drug Dilantin, an anti
convulsant
used to count
er epileptic
seizures.
Dreyfus later
supplied
another 1,000,
it said.
Dreyfus
told The New
York Times he
gave Nixon the
"The allegations pub
lished in this most
recent book describe
things that never
took place."
Patrick Nixon Cos
Nixon's daughter
unless some
thing was very
serious, you
just avoided
medication.
He wanted to
always be
sharp and con
centrated”
Despite
annual physi
cal examina
drug when his
mood wasn't too good.” Dreyfus
claimed die drug deals effective
ly with fear, worry, guilty, anger,
rage, depression and other con
ditions.
“While I have no direct
knowledge of what, if any, med
ications my father may or may
not have taken throughout his
life, I did have personal and daily
contact with him,” Mrs. Cox said.
“What I do know is that his per
sonality and his mood did not
change. He was consistent.”
She doubted he took med
ication for mood swings,
because “my father believed
tions, whose
results were made public, she
said “there has never been any
suggestion of the type contained
in this book” that Nixon consult
ed New York psychotherapist
Arnold A. Hutschnecker by tele
phone while in die White House.
Whether or not her father
consulted Hutschnecker, such a
report “belongs to a darker age,”
Mrs. Cox said. “It is unworthy of
anyone to suggest that there is
something disgraceful about
anyone, including prominent
public figures, seeking the
advice of a trained medical pro
fessional for any reason.”
Presidential race
continues to be tight
TMPASfiflfiliTED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A1 Gore
and George W. Bush are
locked in a dead heat in two
new presidential polls, evi
dence that Gore is holding his
post-convention poll bounce
and could make it a close race
in the coming weeks.
The CNN-USA Today
Gallup poll of likely voters
showed Republican Bush at 46
percent, Democrat Gore at 45
percent, Green Party candi
date Ralph Nader at 3 percent
and Reform Party candidate
Pat Buchanan at 1 percent.
A poll by ICR of Media, Pa.,
Showed Gore at 44 percent
and Bush at 41 percent among
registered voters.
Bush led Gore by as much
as 18 points in polls before the
Democratic National
Convention in mid-August,
but Gore has closed the gap
and has even led slightly in
some polls.
Bush led among inde
pendents in the CNN-USA
Today-Gallup poll by 44 per
cent to 36 percent and they
were tied among independ
ents in the ICR poll In the ICR
poll, Gore led among women
by lb points, but trailed
among men by 5 points.
In the two-way matchup
in the CNN-USA Today
Gallup poll, Bush had 49 per
cent and Gore had 47 percent
The CNN-USA Today
Gallup poll of664 likely voters
was taken Friday through
Sunday.
The ICR poll of 784 regis
tered voters was taken
Thursday through Sunday.
Both polls had error margins
of 4 percentage points.
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Dr. Robert Butler, a visiting English professor from Alcorn State
University, will discuss his impressions upon arriving at UNL from a
Historically Black College/University.
“Out from the Cocoon:
An Exchange Faculty’s First Impressions ”
3:30 P.M.
Thursday, August 31
Nebraska Union Auditorium
SCHOLARSHIP IN SOCIETY, sponsored by the Graduate Studies
Office, celebrates its second year and aspires to make students more
aware of the varied career opportunities open upon receiving graduate
education. For more information, log on to the Graduate Studies web
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472-5062. Dr. Butler’s presentation is co-sponsored by the English
Department
Peru overturns sentence
of American; new trial set
■ Four yean have passed since
the woman was found guilty of
planning a rebel attack.
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LIMA, Peru — More than
four years after hooded military
judges convicted American Lori
Berenson of planning a rebel
attack, Peru’s military over
turned her life sentence and
cleared the way for a new, civil
ian trial, officials said Monday.
The 30-year-old New York
native was found guilty of trea
son by the secret tribunal in
January 19% for allegedly help
ing the Tupac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement plan
an attack on Peru’s Congress. The
attack was foiled by Peruvian
authorities.
The tribunal released a state
ment saying that Berenson’s sen
tence was overturned on Aug. 18,
and her case was passed to a
civilian court on Thursday.
First public word of the deci
sion came earlier in the day in a
statement from Berenson’s
defense attorney, Grimaldo
Achahui, on Radioprogramas,
Peru’s leading station. He said
she would remain imprisoned
pending the new trial
“We have fought to the last
moment so that she would be
judged in.a civilian court where
she will avail of due process with
all guarantees of a right to a
defense,” Achahui said.
Berenson’s case has been a
sore point in U.S. relations with
Peru. Washington has repeatedly
pressed for a new trial saying the
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secret nature of the court violat
ed her rights.
The U.S. government also
has criticized as too harsh the liv
ing conditions she has reported
ly been held under in Peruvian •
prisons.
The decision came despite
the insistence by President
Alberto Fujimori that Berenson,
a former Massachusetts Institute
of Technology student, is a ter
rorist and will remain in prison.
There was no immediate
comment by Fujimori's adminis
tration about die move. After die
announcement, he canceled a
scheduled news conference.
Though Berenson has main
tained her innocence, Peruvians
caught in the crossfire of rebel
violence during tbe 1980s and
early 1990s have a difficult time
sympathizing with her.
She has been vilified by gov
ernment officials and die media
for ha alleged involvement with
the rebels — a violent leftist
group best known for its invasion
of the Japanese ambassador's
residence in Lima in December
1996.
The rebels held 72 hostages
for four months before Fujimori
ordered a bold rescue that saved
all but one of die hostages. AU of
the guerrillas were killed.
Before her conviction,
Berenson was presented to the
news media in a wild spectacle
during which she angrily
screamed support for Peru’s
poor and shouted: “There are no
criminal terrorists in the MKIA,”
referring to the rebel group. “It is
a revolutionary movement."
The statement was consid
ered by most Peruvians to be an
admission of guilt Berenson and
her supporters have maintained .
that she was not allowed to pres
ent evidence at her trial or to
question prosecution witnesses.
The government maintains
that secret military proceedings
with hooded judges were neces
sary during Peru’s bloody battle
with leftist rebels because civil
ian courts were releasing too
many suspects and judges feared
reprisals. The practice was abol
ished in late 1997. *
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