Monday, November 2, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Nation/World
Clinton attorney might testify
The Supreme Court will make a decision about privileged talks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - For nine months President Clinton has thwarted prosecutor Kenneth Starr's efforts to question Clinton's closest alide about their confidential talks on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Now the courts and Congress may force the issue.
The Supreme Court could decide as early as today whether to hear Clinton's claim that attorney-client privilege protects his discussions with deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, which an appeals court has rejected.
Republican impeachment investigators are talking about adopting a rule making clear that they don't honor claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege to shield presidential aides from testifying.
Many of the questions that have gone unanswered relate to whether Clinton tried to obstruct justice or tamper with
witnesses for either Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit or Starr's investigation. The president has denied telling anyone to lie.
Lindsey says Lewinsky's connection to the Paula Jones case first came to his attention Dec. 6.
During breaks in Clinton's Jan. 17 deposition for the Jones suit, the president told Lindsey that the lawyers were pepping him with questions about his relationship with Lewinsky.
That evening, Lindsey met with Clinton in the Oval Office. Also that evening, Clinton contacted presidential secretary Betty Currie and instructed her to come to the White House the next day.
Starr's impeachment report alleges that Clinton was attempting to influence Currie's testimony.
Starr's investigators tried unsuccessfully to question Lindsey about Currie
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and Lindsay's conversations with Clinton on Jan.17.
"At any of these meetings that occurred that day Did Betty Currie's name come un?" a prosecutor asked Lindsev.
"Again, I don't believe I can respond to that ... because of the presidential communication privilege; the deliberative process privilege, officially; and the attorney-client work product doctrine, both personally and officially," Lindsey said before the grand jury.
While pursuing attorney-client privilege, Clinton dropped the claim of executive, or presidential communication, privilege for Lindsey.
"The president repeatedly and unlawfully invoked the executive privilege to conceal evidence of his personal misconduct from the grand jury," Starr's report concluded. The White House said Clinton was seeking to safeguard all presidents' needs for confidential advice.
Hamas threatens violence against Arafat, Israel
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — The military arm of the radical Islamic group Hamas made an unprecedented threat yesterday against Yasser Arafat, demanding that the Palestinian leader halt a crackdown against it or face violent vengeance.
The threat, in a leaflet sent in a fax to news organizations, cast a pall on this week's efforts to begin implementing the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, but as of yesterday, both sides still were pledging to move ahead as scheduled.
Akratas security forces have rounded up more than 100 Hamas activists, detained some of its top political leaders and put its allied, charismatic founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, under house arrest.
That crackdown — and the Hamas demand to halt it — marked a smashup of the uneasy peace that had prevailed between Arafat and Hamas during the past 14 months, ever since Yassin was released from Israeli prison and returned to his faithful following in the Gaza Strip.
Until now, in deference to Arafat's enduring role as a symbol of Palestinian unity, Hamas had stopped short of direct threats against him. But the leaflet specifically accused the Palestinian leader of treason by moving against Hamas.
It called for an immediate end to the crackdown in order to spare Palestinians the horrors of civil war.
With so many Hamas officials in jail, few were available to vouch for the leaflet's authenticity, and none wanted to do so publicly. But its language, style and phrasing were
markedly similar to past communications from Hamas' military wing.
One Palestinian government official — Imad Falouj, the communications minister and a former Hamas member — said he doubted the threats were real.
Arafat: Security forces are cracking down on Hamas.
Falouji has been trying to act as a mediator between Arafat and Yassin.
Paiestinian security officials took the warnings seriously and issued some of their own in response.
"We have only one authority in this land, which is the Palestinian Authority," said Palestinian police commander Ghazil Jabali. "We are going to take all measures to control the situation."
The leaflet denounced the house arrest of Yassin and warned Palestinian security forces against pursuing Mohammed Deif, a top leader of Hamas' military wing whose arrest has been demanded by Israel.
Under the accord, Palestinians are to undertake a series of security-related measures in exchange for another 13.1 percent of the West Bank by Israel.
Strong steps by Arafat against Islamic militants are a key provision of the Washington pact.
The Palestinian side said it would deliver a promised security document to the United States today, and the Israeli Cabinet is to begin discussing the accord tomorrow and vote then or Wednesday.
Discovery crew releases satellite without Glenn
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts set loose a sun-gazing satellite yesterday for two days of scientific flight, accomplish what another crew failed to do last year.
Two tense minutes passed before the crew radioed down the good news: The Spartan satellite was free of Discovery and twirling exactly as planned.
"Spartan is in the maneuver," said Discovery's commander, Curtis Brown Jr.
John Glenn did not have an active role in the Spartan release; the schedule had him wrapping up a workout on the stationary cycle at that time.
NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin praised the 77-year old senator's performance aboard Discovery and insisted once again that the first American to orbit the Earth was back in space not for publicity purposes but for valuable geriatric research.
"America owed him a second flight," he said. Goldin promised to send more seniors into space if the research warranted it.
Goldin said he had asked physicians in the aging community to evaluate Glenn's flight to see whether there are differences between Glenn and space travelers in their 40s, 50s and early 60s.
"Within a year or two, we expect to get results, and if they recommend that it's scientifically meritorious to send aging people into space, we're going to do it." he said.
Goldin said he had been contacted by older Americans in the past week who wanted to go into space.
kinds in the past week who wanted to go into space.
The astronaut overseeing the research aboard Discovery, Stephen Robinson, used Discovery's 50-foot robot arm to drop Spartan overboard, with help from Scott Parazynski on the computers. The 3,000-pound satellite did a pirouette as it and Discovery soared in formation 340 miles above Baja California — an indication that everything was working. The commander then slowly backed the shuttleaway.
They'll retrieve the satellite tomorrow after it has collected images of the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona and the charged particles streaming from the sun out into space.
The $11 million satellite was supposed to conduct these observations last November. The astronauts on that mission failed to send a crucial command to Spartan before releasing it. When they tried to latch back onto it with the shuttle robot arm, they sent the craft into a wild tumble. Two astronauts then had to go out on a risky space walk to catch it.
To make sure that didn't happen again, NASA improved the computer software used to operate Spartan, arranged better views of the satellite release for the astronauts and spent more time training them for the job.
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