UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. March 17. 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
BOSTON
Police say murder rumors false; Foster suicide case closed
The police chief who investigated the death of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster has turned his report over to the special counsel investigating Whitewater and said, from his standpoint, the case is closed.
The death of Foster, whose body was found last July in a park in northern Virginia, was "clearly a suicide." U.S. Park Police Chief Robert Langton told the Boston Globe on Tuesday.
"This case is closed," Langston said after handing over his report along with boxes of forensic evidence and interviews Tuesday to special counsel Robert Fiske Jr., who is reexamining Foster's death as part of the probe into President Clinton's investment in the Whitewater Development Corp.
Langston said his report should end rumors that Foster was murdered or that his body was tampered with after his death.
"We're anxious for them to put this to rest," Langston said. "It's been unfair for the politicians and the media to put the family through this. If Whitewater is the issue, then let Whitewater be the issue. But the suicide has never been the issue."
But one of Fiske's top aides told the New York Post that the question of Foster's death is still open.
"We have not come to any conclusions," Roderic Lanker, the attorney Fiske assigned to review Foster's death, said Tuesday. Whether or not it was suicide is "one of the things we are looking at."
WASHINGTON
Democrat requests hearing
Yesterday, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski became the second prominent House committee chair to declare Whitewater hearings may be necessary, but Speaker Thomas Foley refused to budge from his opposition.
"I think the congressional hearings are going to be inevitable," Rostenkowski, the House Ways and Means chair said, even though "the American people are tired of all this."
Foley even warned lawmakers to be careful about holding hearings on White House interference in the case — even though special counsel Robert Fiske Jr. said he wouldn't object to such an inquiry when he finishes that phase in several weeks.
The latest crack in Democratic solidarity against hearings had no effect on Foley. He told reporters that Congress should "accede to the request of the special counsel to postpone any hearings until he has completed his investigation."
Foley said that Fiske expressed concern that hearings "directed toward the White House meetings" with regulators could become "a method of backing into the fundamental questions involved in Whitewater issues in Arkansas."
On Tuesday, Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., said hearings might be the best way to get the facts out "quickly and completely."
Known for his bipartisanship, Hamilton is chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was co-chair of the House-Senate Iran-Contra Committee.
Foley said Democratic lawmakers "are free to say what they think" about the need for hearings into the President's Whitewater real estate investment.
Guinier hopes book helps image
WASHINGTON
The law professor once courted and spurned by President Clinton for a top federal job is back in the capital spotlight. This time Lani Guinier is determined to explain who she really is.
For instance, she is a woman with a sense of humor. When conservative commentator Ben Wattenberg asked her to autograph her new book, she playfully signed with the title he gave her in the harsh days of last spring: "The czarina of czeparatism."
Back then Guinier was Clinton's nominee to head the Justice Department's civil rights division. Within weeks she'd become the first of his circle to see her reputation in ruins.
For five excruciating weeks, conservatives and then moderates and finally even some liberals attacked Guinier's ideas and urged Clinton to cut his old friend loose.
Guisier hovered silently at the edges of the debate, more of an intellectual abstraction at that point than a human being. She had been told to wait: She would explain to Americans who she was and what she thought at her Senate confirmation hearing.
The chance never came. Now she's mounting a belated self-defense with "The Tyranny of the Majority," a book of her legal writings and a tour to promote it.
"I'm willing to risk the personal criticism," she said. "There are few names left for anybody to call me."
The name that stuck was "quota queen," the creation of a Wall Street Journal headline writer. It was a beacon amid Guinier's own murky legalese in that she seemed to suggest African Americans need to be represented by African Americans, and majorities should not always rule.
BOSTON
Gavs allowed; parade canceled
Sponsors canceled this year's St. Patrick's Day parade because a U.S. Supreme Court justice cleared the way yesterday for a gay group to participate.
Without comment, Justice David Souter denied an emergency request for intervention from the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, the parade's sponsor.
"This year's parade, with my client's traditional values, has been utterly destroyed," said Chester Darling, the group's attorney.
Darling said he would appeal Souter's decision to the full U.S. Supreme Court, but the appeal will be too late to save Sunday's parade.
"It is gratifying to know bigotry is against the law in this country," said David O'Connor, spokesman for the Gay, Lesbian Irish Bisexual Group. "The sooner the veterans realize that, the sooner we can have a parade we can all enjoy."
Darling argued that the veterans group had a First Amendment right to decide who was to march in the 90-year parade, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that parades are public events covered by a state law barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
In 1992 and 1993, gays and lesbians marched in the Boston parade under court order. In a similar case involving the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade, a federal judge ruled last year that the Ancient Order of Hibernians didn't have to include a group of marchers whose beliefs conflicted with its own.
ATHENS, Greece Bombings cause slight damage
Two time bombs exploded yesterday outside buildings housing a research center for the European Union and the French Institute in central Athens. They caused slight damage, but no injuries.
The bombs exploded within four minutes of each other, police said.
Once said they were alerted about 20 minutes before the explosions by an anonymous caller claiming to represent the Revolutionary Popular Struggle, or ELA, terrorist group. The warning, made to an Athens newspaper, allowed police to make sure the buildings were vacant.
The left-wing extremist group has claimed dozens of bombings since the mid-1970s. It has recently targeted government buildings and tax offices to protest government economic policies.
ELA also has targeted cultural centers such as the French Institute. The group has not explained why cultural institutes were attacked.
There have been no injuries in the bombings.
DURBAN, South Africa
DURBAN, South Africa Elections could fuel unrest
Nelson Mandela urged his supporters in violence-torn Natal Province yesterday not to be afraid to vote in the nation's all-race elections.
Natal is considered the stronghold of the rival Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, which has refused to register for the April 26-28 vote and has called on its supporters to boycott the election.
Violent clashes between Inkatha and supporters of Mandela's African National Congress have left hundreds dead in recent months, and there are fears the Inkatha boycott will fuel unrest.
Mandela told his supporters that efforts to curb political intimidation will be stepped up in the run to voting. "There will be sufficient protection for each and every one of you," he said.
The 10 tribal homelands created under apartheid will lose their self-governing status after the vote and be reincorporated into South Africa.
With recent bloodshed in the Black homeland of Bophutihatswana fresh in his mind, Mandela is hoping talks can avert similar unrest in the Zulu homeland of KwaZulu, which is in Natal Province.
Like Bophuthatswana, KwaZulu's leaders oppose the idea of living under an ANC government — the likely scenario after the elections.
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