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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday. March 29. 1994
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Clinton aide receives support despite Whitewater complaint
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House signaled strong support yesterday for presidential aide George Stephanopoulos, whose complaints about a federal regulator heightened the Whitewater controversy.
"He's in good shape," President Clinton said, giving a thumbs-up sign on his jog in Coronado, Calif.
It was the president's first statement on Stephanopoulos' behalf since weekend news reports linked the adviser to telephone calls to Treasury Department officials challenging the government's hiring of a former Republican prosecutor, Jay Stephens, for the Whitewater investigation.
The revelations raised questions about whether the White House tried to influence the investigation, although Stephens was not removed from the case. The stories prompted suggestions that Stephanopoulos' job might be in inearndy.
Not so, aides said privately and publicly yesterday.
"Support for him is 100 percent." White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty said in a telephone interview. "I strongly support him. It really upset me last night when I heard reports that he was getting less than full support. It's not true."
Stephanpoulos, one of Clinton's closest advisers, and another senior aide, Harold Ickes, placed a conference call Feb. 25 to Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Altman.
RTC sources said. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two expressed outrage over the decision of the Resolution Trust Corporation to retain former GOP prosecutor Stephens.
Stephens, who sharply criticized the Clinton administration after being fired as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia last March, was hired to handle possible civil suits growing out of the failure of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. The Arkansas thrift was owned by James McDougal, coowner in the Clintons' Whitewater land venture.
The Washington Post and Time magazine reported that Stephanopoulos or Ickes asked Altman, the acting head of the RTC, "Can anything be done about it? Is it final?"
Stephanopoulos also talked to Joshua Steiner, the Treasury Department chief of staff, about Stephens' hiring.
Stephanopoulos told Time he merely asked how Stephens came to be hired.
McLarty said yesterday he wished the calls had not been made "because they can be misconstrued," but he said Stephanopoulos did nothing more than express anger.
In a show of support, several White House staff members, including at least one senior adviser, took Stephanopoulos to lunch yesterday at a trendy restaurant near the White House.
Zulu march leads to fight in South Africa
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Black factional fighting spread to the heart of South Africa's main city for the first time yesterday when a march by Zulu nationalists set off gunbattles, stabbing and beatings that killed at least 31 people.
Gunfire echoed off skyscrapers and shattered windows around a park near city hall where thousands of Zulus carrying spears rallied to protest the all-race election next month. Several blocks away, guards from the rival African National Congress fired on more Zulus outside the ANC offices.
Leaders of the ANC and the Zuludominated Inkatha Freedom Party accused each other of starting the violence.
People sprawled in the dirt and under cars, cowered behind pillars and trampled each other trying to escape the shooting. Blood stained streets and sidewalks in at least three areas. Hospitals reported more than 200 wounded.
Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel declared central Johannesburg and 10 surrounding districts "unrest areas," giving police wide powers to control political gatherings and quell unrest.
Late yesterday, leaders of the main political parties were trying to arrange a summit between President F.W. de Klerk, ANC leader Nelson Mandela, Zulu King Goodwill
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Zwelithini and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. They were expected to meet later this week to confront the worsening crisis over Zulu demands for autonomy after the April 26-28 election.
The ANC is expected to win the vote easily, which the Zulus say will lead to the demise of the Zulu culture under ANC domination. The ANC rejects Zulu demands for a separate homeland, saying the country's racial and ethnic groups must learn to live together after generations of segregation under apartheid.
Yesterday's march was intended as a show of force by Zulu nationalists, whose ethnic group is the largest in South Africa.
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