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Ashcroft criticizes Clinton's pardon
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - John
Ashcroft used his first interview as
attorney general to take out after
Bill Clinton over the war on drugs
and his pardon of fugitive finan
cier Marc Rich.
In a television interview
Wednesday night, the new attor
ney general said his top three
goals were to increase gun prose
cutions, reinvigorate die war on
drugs and to stamp out racial dis
crimination.
But he also looked back at
some of former President
Clinton’s most controversial
moves, including his pardon of
Rich on his last day in office.
“A pardon should be reserved
for a situation where there is a
manifest sense of injustice,”
Ashcroft said Wednesday night on
CNN’s “Larry King Live” program.
“The American people are trou
bled whenever they think a par
don would be associated with
political support or financial sup
port”
Although expressing “sur
prise” with the pardon, Ashcroft
nevertheless said the Constitution
gives a president a “pretty unfet
tered right” to pardon anyone.
Clinton's pardon has been
criticized because Rich has stayed
in Switzerland rather than return
ing to face 51 counts of tax evasion
and fraud filed against him in
1983.
In addition, the pardon was
requested by his ex-wife, Denise,
who has given Democrats about
$1 million since 1993. Clinton has
denied any political or financial
motivation.
The new attorney general also
blamed Clinton in part for a rise in
marijuana use during the 1990s.
In the 1992 campaign, Clinton
said he once had smoked marijua
na, but didn’t inhale. He later told
an MTV town forum that if he had
to do it again, he would inhale “if I
could; I tried before.”
“I think that sends the wrong
signal,” Ashcroft said. “It’s so
important you have a president
who will speak forcefully against
drug use, rather than wink and
give die nod in some sense, saying
T didn't inhale, but I wish I had’”
Ashcroft said he and President
Bush want to “concentrate on
educating children away from
drugs.”
Listing his three top priorities,
Ashcroft said, “I want to stop gun
violence, to reinvigorate the war
on drugs, to end discrimination
wherever I find it”
He particularly mentioned
enforcing voting rights, fair hous
ing laws and putting a stop to
racial profiling by police.
“It’s wrong for police to stop
people based on race.”
After his civil rights record was
bitterly attacked during a stormy
Senate confirmation battle,
Ashcroft is inviting Justice
Department's civil rights division
officials to a brown bag lunch in
his private department dining
room next week, chief spokes
woman Mindy Tucker said. Civil
rights will be first, but he plans to
hold these lunches with each divi
sion.
With every news organization
clamoring to talk to him, Ashcroft
unveiled his priorities in an inter
view with King, known for polite
questioning rather than hostile
cross-examination.
Koreas hold talks to establish railroad
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, South Korea - Officials of North
and South Korea met in two separate talks on
Thursday, hoping to wrap up deals to build a
cross-border railway and ease the impover
ished North’s acute energy shortages.
The talks, one on the border and the other
on the North’s territory, came as the two once
hostile countries pledged to step up efforts to
promote reconciliation.
The meeting at the border village of
Panmunjom, which involved the militaries of
the two sides, sought agreement on safe
guards and other protective arrangements to
build a railway across their heavily armed bor
der.
The project, one of the most significant
symbols of thawing inter-Korea relations,
requires the militaries of both sides to clear
thousands of mines inside the 2 1/2 -mile
wide demilitarized zone that separates them.
Both Koreas already completed clearing
all mines outside a corridor of the buffer zone
where the railway and a parallel highway will
be built Mine-clearing inside the buffer zone
has yet to start
At four previous talks, the two Korean mil
itaries agreed to clear mines inside the demili
tarized zone but failed to resolve details aimed
at preventing disputes or accidental clashes,
Seoul officials said.
Before starting Thursday's meeting, South
Korean defense officials said they were hope
ful that a full agreement could be reached.
If reconnected, the railway will become
the first direct land transport link between the
two Koreas since their 1950-53 war, which
ended in an uneasy truce, not in a peace
treaty. It will connect Seoul and Pyongyang,
the two Korean capitals, and continue to
Shinuiju, a major city on the North’s border
with China.
In Pyongyang, the North's capital, officials
of both sides opened three days of talks on
measures to help ease North Korea's chronic
energy shortages.
In December, North Korea requested that
South Korea provide it 500,000 kilowatts of
electricity. South Korea insisted that it consid
er the request only after both sides conduct a
joint survey of the North's energy shortages.
At Thursday's meeting, South Korean offi
cials proposed that both sides jointly survey
the entire peninsula’s energy situation. South
Korean delegates specifically offered to visit
one hydraulic and two thermal North Korean
power plants during their stay in the North,
which ends Saturday, pool reports said.
The reports did not say how North Korea
responded to the South's suggestion.
According to South Korean figures, North
Korea has dozens of power plants capable of
generating 7.3 million kilowatts of electricity
but can produce only 2 million kilowatts
because of outdated facilities and fuel short
ages.
South Korea has the capacity to produce
43 million kilowatts of power but does not
have enough reserves to help North Korea,
officials said.
Relations between the twp Koreas
improved significantly following a historic
summit of their leaders in June, when the^
agreed to work together for reconciliation.
The Korean peninsula was partitioned
into the communist North and pro-Western
South in 1945.
Top teacher
gives advice
BY MARC SALEME
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln was graced by a visit this
week from the national teacher
of the year, Marilyn Jachetti
Whirry.
Whirry, who teaches English
to high school and college stu
dents, came to Nebraska as part
of her tour, which has so far
included the United States,
Japan and Canada.
After speaking to two assem
blies at Lincoln High School, she
came to UNL.
Although her job is to stand
in front of a class of high school
ers, Whirry said she wasn't used
to the attention of hundreds of
students on her alone.
"It was interesting - speak
ing to a room full of high school
students," she said.
Tuesday she held an infor
mal discussion with professors
from the English department,
she said, and answered ques
tions about teaching writing
and literature.
Wednesday, Whirry spoke to
the students at the Teachers
College about excellence in
teaching - a topic her recent
award affirmed her expertise in.
“I spoke about what makes a
great teacher - the difference
between a good teacher and a
mediocre one,” she said.
Since winning the national
teacher of the year award,
Whirry has taken a sabbatical
from her teaching position in
California and is touring and
giving lectures wherever she is
summoned.
She has been on the road
since May and has spoken at 71
different locations, including 26
universities. She’s even gone
overseas to the Universities of
Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan.
Japan was the only stop that
required a translator, she said.
The school at which she
teaches is paying her teacher’s
salary during her time out and
about, and whoever wants her
to come and speak will pay for
travel expenses.
"I just do what I'm told,”
Whirry said.
Next, she’ll be off to Georgia,
Texas and Louisiana. And in a
few weeks, she’ll go to Ontario,
Canada.
Whirry is a teacher of
English at Mira Costa High
School and at Loyola University
in Los Angeles. She was first
nominated to be considered for
teacher of the^ear for the
school district, and she won for
the state of California.
“Then I sent my resumes
and essays to Washington, and I
made it as one of four finalists,”
she said.
Soon after, the vote was in to
make her the national teacher of
the year.
Whirry said she's happy she
was able to visit UNL
“I was very impressed with the
quality of professors and even the
students here,” she said.
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Law & Order
Man arrested for rape
already had warrant
Lincoln police arrested
Tyrone Hall, 23, on Tuesday for
first-degree sexual assault.
Hall is accused of raping an
unconscious 23-year-old
woman three times early
Monday morning at the
woman's home. Police say the
incident may be considered
date rape because the two had
met at a bar earlier in the
evening.
A friend of the woman was
present in the house where the
incident occurred. She
observed Hall and the woman
having sex in three separate
rooms before realizing the
woman was unconscious.
After the friend discovered
the woman was unconscious,
she ordered Hall to leave and
took the woman to the hospital.
Hall also had an outstanding
county bench warrant for his
arrest.
Fire in basement leads to
arrestfor meth lab
Lincoln police arrested a
man Tuesday suspected of
building a methamphetamine
lab in his parents' basement.
Benjamin A. Schwab, 21,
was arrested for manufacturing
a controlled substance. Police
say the meth lab in the base
ment his parents’ 4833 S. 66th St.
home caught fire Jan. 7. Firemen
said they found several compo
nents commonly used in meth
production, as well as what they
suspected to be actual metham
phetamine in various stages of
production.
Schwab suffered burns on
the tops of his feet and was
taken to the hospital. While
Schwab was hospitalized, police
made contact with him and
found 60 tablets of pseu
doephedrine, ' commonly
known as Sudafed, which is
used in meth production.
In Schwab’s father's pickup
police found two garbage bags
and a propane tank with corrod
ed brass fittings - objects used
in meth production. The bags
contained Sudafed containers
and seven cans of ether-based
starting fluid, both of which are
common meth ingredients.
Police said the cans were
punctured on the bottom so the
product could be obtained in a
liquid form.
Marvin Schwab, Schwab's
father, said his son gave him the
items to dispose of. He said he
didn't know what the propane
tank or the contents of the bags
were for.
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