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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Harding denies knowledge of attack
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — Her hands trembling and her voice strained, Tonya Harding admitted yesterday that she failed to come forward with what she learned after the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, but pleaded not to be denied "my last chance" at an Olympic gold medal.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said it was "deeply concerned" about Harding's admission. The committee and the U.S. Figure Skating Association have said Harding could be removed from the team if she is linked to the attack.
"I had no prior knowledge of the planned assault on Nancy Kerrigan," Harding said. "I am responsible, however, for falling to report things I
learned about the assault when I returned home from nationals.
"Many of you will be unable to forgive me for that. It will be difficult for me to forgive myself."
Her statement came as her ex-husband, Jeb Gillooil, spoke to investigators for the second consecutive day in what a source said was an attempt to cut a deal in exchange for implicating Harding in the Jan. 6 attack.
Harvey Schiller, executive director of the USOC, issued a statement saying the organization "is deeply concerned with statements made today by Tonya Harding relative to her stated knowledge of the attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the national championships."
The figure skating association said Harding would be on the list of official
entries in the Lillehammer Games submitted to the USOC, but the association has appointed a hearing panel to investigate, a first step in the process that could lead to her removal from the team.
The USOC noted that the women's figure skating roster can be changed as late as Feb. 21.
Schiller said Harding's name would be on the U.S. roster submitted to international Olympic officials Jan. 31, but added that the USOC "is prepared under constitutional procedures, to initiate any action deemed appropriate relative to the conduct of any athlete entered in the Games."
Harding made her statement at a downtown athletic club after a 30-minute workout at a suburban shopping mall rink, where she fell during
one of her trademark triple-axels and held her lower back in pain.
Wearing the red, white and blue warmup suit from the 1991 world championships, she stood on a stool in order to see over the battery of microphones, and her hands, holding her statement, shook noticeably as she faced some 20 television cameras and dozens of reporters.
Harding seemed to come close to crying as she reached the end of her brief statement.
"I have devoted my entire life to one objective: winning the Olympic Gold Medal for my country," she said. "This is my last chance. I ask only for your understanding and the opportunity to represent my country with the best figure skating performance of my life."
JERUSALEM
Israel has reached an agreement with the Clinton administration to purchase 20 F-15I fighter-bombers, one of the United States' most sophisticated weapons.
U.S. agrees to sell 20 fighter-bombers to Israeli defense
The sale, announced yesterday, would be the first transfer of such high-tech equipment to another country. The Israeli defense ministry said the purchases would "strengthen Israel's qualitative edge."
The value of the contract with McDonnell-Douglas Corp., based in St. Louis, was estimated at $2 billion, U.S. officials said.
The contract includes an option for Israel to purchase five more F-15Is at a later date, but the exact timetable wasn't immediately known.
THE NEWS in brief
Israel has 51 older-model F-15s, but the newest planes would enable Israel to reach distant potential adversaries such as Iran, Iraq and Libya.
Israel television said the F-151 was a specialized long-range version of the F-15E that will be sold only to Israel. Pentagon representative Kathleen deLaski said the aircraft "will be uniquely tailored to meet Israel's requirements."
"It carries a large amount of armaments for long ranges in any weather or lighting conditions and has an excellent air fighting capacity," he said.
"It's a plane that is especially capable of carrying out long-range attack missions," Israel Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Herzl Bodinger told Israel television.
Bodinger said the fighters were due to arrive in Israel in late 1997.
McDonnell-Douglas officials did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment, but Rep. Jim Talent, R-Mo., said he was "ecstatic" that the contract had been approved.
News of the sale comes two months after outgoing Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had all but agreed on a deal for the long-range fighter-bomber.
WASHINGTON
Resignations cause disturbance
Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann, a veteran of four administrations, and who served as right-hand man to Janet Reno, resigned unexpectedly yesterday — a move they both attributed to differences in management style and chemistry.
A special assistant to Reno, Lula Rodriguez, who is under Justice Department investigation over alleged vote fraud in a Miami-area election also resigned, spreading turmoil to the top of a third key Cabinet department.
The sudden moves at Justice followed recent high-level changes at the Defense Department, where the secretary resigned and his proposed replacement withdrew recently, and the State Department, where the No.2 man last year.
There has been speculation that Reno herself has fallen from favor in the White House, which President Clinton denied as recently as last week.
Reno is the first attorney general in recent memory to operate without a chief of staff. Instead, she relied heavily on Heymann, who served at Justice in the Johnson administration, worked for the Watergate special prosecutor during the Nixon administration and ran Justice's criminal division during the Carter administration.
Heymann's departure brought an instant Republican attack on Reno. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., told reporters, "The Justice Department ... is being run by someone who could qualify for the original amateur hour and who has been less than what this nation should be demanding as an attorney general."
teno and Heymann sat side-by-side to announce his departure at her regularly weekly news conference.
"We don't have any great policy differences," Heymann insisted. "There is no precipitating case or event. The fact of the matter is our chemistry isn't good."
Adepartment official, demanding anonymity, said Heymann likes to work intensively on long, major studies and has done a number of those, but at the cost of deferring things Reno needed action more quickly.
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Heymann said he would stay until a successor was chosen or until he became an ineffective "lame duck." In any event, he said he expected to be back at Harvard by summer.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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