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PAGE 2 PRESS-REPUBLICAN GENERAL NEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1995 NEWS IN BRIEF INTERNATIONAL Pipeline blast cuts natural gas to parts of Russia MOSCOW (AP) — An explosion on Russia's main natural gas pipeline to Georgia and Armenia has cut gas supplies to the southern nations, and news reports Sunday said Georgia suspected sabotage. Flaming gas consumed 250 yards of pipeline near Vladikavkaz, in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia, on Saturday, the Inter- fax news agency said. No casualties or injuries were reported. The Trans-Caucasus pipeline is often attacked near Georgia's border with Armenia. The attacks are usually blamed on ethnic Azerbaijanis trying to keep gas from Armenia. But Georgian officials said the blast could be tied to the long-running ethnic conflict between Ossetians- and Georgians. South Ossetia, which is in Georgia, wants to unite with neighboring North Ossetia in Russia. . Israel to issue stamp in slain prime minister's memory 'JERUSALEM (AP.) — Israel will issue a post-i 'age'stamp honoring slaifa Frime Minister Yitzhak! Rabin' one. maath'affer \-his assassination, the I Postal Authority said Sunday, ^he stamp, bear- ing the official photograph of Raisin, will be worth five shekels, the equivalent of $1.60. Communica- tions Minister Shulamit Aloni decided not to wait the customary full year from the time of death and instead issue the stamp 30 days after the assassination, the postal service said in a state-] ment. Rabin was shot on Nov. 4 by a Jewish ex-1^^^ tremist opposed to the government's peace efforts p« r4B with with the Palestinians. Rabin portrait 1 NATIONAL Passenger jet carrying 72 makes emergency landing WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) - An American Airlines jetliner carrying 72 passengers encountered severe turbulence on its ap- proach to an airport and made an emergency landing early Sunday. One person was injured during an evacuation using inflatable slides, said Mary Culver, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Ad- ministration in New England. The plane, an MD-80, sustained dam- age to its wings and landing gear during the landing at Bradley In- ternational Airport, its destination. The flight originated in Chicago. The pilot declared an emergency one mile before landing, Culver said. Wind gusts of 51 mph were reported in the area, and the plane may have encountered wind shear, a sudden shift in wind speed and direc- tion after a mass of cooled air rushes downward out of a thunderstorm. Some passengers said they heard an explosion shortly before landing and that the cabin began^Tilling with smoke. Shuttle blasts off on Russian mission CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shut- tle Atlantis punched through low clouds Sunday on its return mission to Russia's orbiting station, this time with a docking port and construction crew. NASA had feared bad weather at the shut- tle emergency landing strips across the Atlantic might delay the flight for the second day in a row, but skies cleared sufficiently at one of the touchdown sites in Spain. Launch managers decided the low clouds over the Kennedy Space Center were no obstruction. Atlantis rose from its seaside pad at 7:30 a.m., after the Russian space station Mir soared 245 miles above. The shuttle Space Shuttle Atlantis slipped into orbit eight minutes later. \We hope you have a good ride up to Mir,\ NASA test director Bill Dowdell told the astronauts just before liftoff. \Sorry we had to do this twice, but I think we're ready now and everything looks good,\ replied shuttle commander Kenneth Cameron. Kevorkian's suicide machine' used in recent death DETROIT (AP) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian supplied his \suicide machine\ for the first time in four years for the death of a California woman who had suffered from breast cancer, his attorney said Sun- day. Kevorkian has acknowledged attending 26 deaths since 1990, and is awaiting trial in two of those deaths. In two of the first three deaths, Kevorkian supplied an apparatus that allowed the patients to inject a sedative and a heart-stopping chemical into their own veins. Until Wednesday's death of Patricia Cashman, however, most people who died in Kevorkian's presence had breathed carbon monoxide. Kevorkian stopped supplying the so-called suicide machine after Michigan authorities lifted his medical license, blocking his access to sedatives. Kevorkian was able to supply the machine again this time because Cashman had saved up a quantity of the pain-killer Seconal, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said. Cashman, 58, of San Marcos, Calif., flipped a switch to allow the flow of Seconal into her veins, followed by the heart-stopping drug potassium chloride, he said. Veterans protest party where medal is given as gift PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A dozen 1 veterans protested outside the home of a couple who threw an elaborate military-style birthday party for their 6-year-old son and bought him a Purple Heart for $50. \It made me angry when I thought of my dad and everyone else who laid in the jungle or the snow, suffering, to get that medal,\ said Barry Willette, whose father received the Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge. Bill and Robin Lanting weren't around for the Veterans Day protest.\ Instead, Chris Noel, a former radio show host for the Armed Forces Network, intervened on their behalf. Her program \A Date With Chris\ cheered American troops in Vietnam. She said the Lantings were sorry and that their son, Chase, would never wear his medal. She said Mrs. Lanting admitted she made a mistake. Now, Noel said, the Lantings want to join forces with their critics to ban the sale of Purple Hearts and help a local shelter for homeless veter- ans. Both sides planned to meet today. The Oct. 22 party cost $6,000 and included National Guardsmen and military vehicles. Denver polar bears shipped to Sea World in Florida DENVER (AP) - Klondike and Snow, 1-year- old polar bears that had captivated Colorado i since their birth at the Denver Zoo, were shipped! off to Florida on Sunday after thousands lined upl to say goodbye. Zoo workers had fed the cubs by hand and played and swam with them for months after they were born Nov. 6, 1994. Klondike has grown to 300 pounds; Snow weighs 260. \They have taken over our lives, changed them forever,\ said Angela Baier, the zoo's marketing director. \Not a single department of the zoo was left un- touched by these guys.\ The bears left on a chartered plane for Sea World in Orlando, Fla., where the Wild Arctic exhibit awaits them. It's a Klondlk* ond Snow bigger and more high-tech home than they had at the Denver Zoo. \We are going to miss them, but they have a nice facility down there, a good behavioral enrichment program,\ said Cindy Bickel, zoo nursery keeper. Man showing gun to friend shoots himself in genitals BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - An 18-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the genitals when he tried to show his girlfriend the sawed-off shotgun in his pants. Kevin Hall was treated at a hospital Friday for a cut to his penis and powder burns on the inside of his thigh. Police then arrested him on several charges, including posses- sion of a sawed-off shotgun. Police were called to the scene after someone reported a shooting on a street corner. When they arrived, they found Hall lying on the ground clutching his groin. His pants, which had a large hole, were still smoking. Hall told police he was the victim of a drive-by shooting. But his girlfriend said Hall was showing her the gun he had in his pants when the weapon went off. The gun was found in some nearby bushes, police said. Hall also was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment and illegal discharge of a firearm. He was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond. White House lawyer had them for 5 to 6 days By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Early in the Whitewater affair, a White House lawyer obtained confiden- tial documents from a key facet of the investigation, hastily returning them after the Justice Department launched a probe to determine how presidential aides used the material. For five or six days in mid- November 1993, then-Associate White House Counsel Neil Eg- gleston had a report that detailed a series of defaulted federally backed loans by David Hale, a Little Rock judge who was emerging as a central figure in Whitewatejr. The report by the Small Business Administration trig- gered a criminal investigation of Hale, who was indicted just two months before the White House obtained the information from the SBA, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. At the time, Hale was al- leging publicly that he had been pressured in 1986 by Clinton, then the Arkansas governor, to make an improper SBA- guaranteed loan of $300,000 to the Clintons' Whitewater part- ners. The loan, which was never repaid, is at the heart of Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr's criminal investigation. Hale has since pleaded guilty to federal charges, and is Starr's most important cooperating witness. A White House source said Sunday that Eggleston's boss, counsel Bernard Nussbaum, started Eggleston down the road to getting the documents, telling his aide to \look into\ the fact that the SBA was preparing a report on Hale's company for the chairman of a House committee.' Nussbaum's instructions to his- aide were \not specific,\ said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. Eggleston's actions mark the third known time the White House has obtained confidential information from an ongoing in- vestigation of Whitewater. Last year,. senators broadly criticized the White House for ob- taining confidential information in 1993 from a savings and loan criminal investigation of the Clintons' Whitewater business partners. And just last week, the Senate Whitewater Committee criticized the White House for obtaining sensitive depositions from a Treasury Department ethics pro- be into Whitewater. Eggleston is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Whitewater Committee about getting the documents from the. SBA and what he did while he had them. Also scheduled to testify are deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey and former associate White House counsel William Kennedy. When he returned the report to the SBA on Nov. 21, 1993, Eg- gleston said he had copied an at- tachment to the report detailing Hale's various loans, but insisted he had \shredded\ the copy. \Mr. Eggleston also said that AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK November 12-18,1995 GOOD SCHOOLS ARE A GREAT INVESTMENT Sponsored By Peru Association of Teachers WITH ! CCMMONICATKM EVERYTHING'S FREE* ATT Bag Phone w/Battery Kit and Magnetic Mount Antenna or The New Motorola Teletac Hand Held Portable CELLULARONE AUTHORIZED AGENT WELLS Communication 561-6266 827-2346 D= Saving with Confidence... that's the Adirondack Spirit Certificate of Deposit Annual Percentage Yield 6-month 5.43% 12-month 5.54% 18-month 5.59% 24-month 5.64% 36-month 5.64% 48-month 5.80% 60-month 5.85% APY effective 11/11/95-11/17/95 SubrtiMiil penalty for ciHy withdnwtloftuntxlepcuitm. JlOOOmiamum WUKC me»mAPY. Imciun U (Kid/compounded moniUy. Annul penenUfo mt i and yields are nibjeo to cl»n»o. 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Eggleston \re- quested a copy of the full report\ that had been \delivered to Mr. LaFalce,\ states an FBI sum- mary of how the White House ob- tained and returned the Hale documents. \This is a classic case of no harm, no foul play,\ White House spokesman Mark Fabiani said Sunday. \The Department of Justice investigation of the SBA matter was pursued vigorously and successfully and the docu- ment, which had already been turned over to Congress, was returned as soon as the Justice Department objections were made known.\ When Eggleston asked for the report, SBA General Counsel John Spatilla contacted Marty Teckler, the agency's ethics counsel, \on the propriety of this request and was advised that there was no ethical problem in delivering this report to the White House,\ the FBI summary said. According to the FBI sum- mary, when the SBA notified Justice Department lawyer Allen Carver on Nov. 18 about giving Eggleston the documents, \Mr. Carver requested\ that SBA lawyer Mark Stephens \retrieve the report given to the White House and all copies and notes made from this report. \Mr. Stephens advised he would do this and would turn the information over to the FBI when he obtained it,\ the FBI wrote. ' Eggleston balked at returning the documents on Nov. 19, telling Stephens that the White House had a right to the material in order \to track what was being discussed in Congress,\ the FBI summary said. The next day, a Saturday, Carver called the FBI and said the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann, \con- curred with the need to interview . . . White House officials\ about the matter, the summary states. 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