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Tuesday, May 2, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Foster to define himself for Senate
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Buffeted for months by abortion foes and other critics, President Clinton's surgeon general nominee declared himself primed to "define who Henry Foster is" at a Senate hearing today. Administration officials conceded confirmation still looked difficult.
Brushing off questions about Foster's abortion record, Clinton called him a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor" yesterday. And the president added, "If we can't confirm Henry Foster to be the surgeon general of the United States, what kind of person can we confirm?"
But Senate Majority Leader Bob
Lote, who has said he might not call up the nomination for a vote even if it got out of committee, said the White House had caused whatever problems there were.
"This is not about abortion," Dole said. "This is about credibility. This is about telling the truth. This is about the White House leveling with the American people and not letting it drip, drip, drip out as the American people find out."
Foster smiled and joked at yesterday's Capitol Hill news conference, surrounded by teen-agers who are enrolled in his "I Have a Future" program in Tennessee and who rode a bus to Washington to show their support. He said he was ready
for the tough grilling he was likely to get today before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.
"Am I intimidated? No. And I'm not being dishonest, and I'm not being cocky," the 61-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist said. He said he looked forward to the hearing "because that is the place where I get the chance to define who Henry Foster is."
Ever since President Clinton put his name forward in February, Foster has been under attack from conservatives — primarily because he performed abortions and gave several different answers about how many.
Another juror leaves the O.J. Simpson trial
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson's judge failed yesterday to stop the continuing departure of jurors from the trial, releasing a 25-year-old Black flight attendant who once tearfully told him, "I can't take it anymore."
Judge Lance Ito tried to persuade Tracy Hampton to stay, reportedly dismissing three deputies who guard the jury in part because of her complaints. But Hampton appeared to grow unhappier by the day, sitting statue-still in the jury box, he eyes downcast.
She was replaced by a 28-year-old Hispanic woman who said on her jury questionnaire that Simpson was the only person with a visible motive for killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Hampton was the seventh juror dismissed, leaving just five alternates, with months of the trial left. The change shifted the ethnic configuration of the jury to seven Blacks, three whites and two lisi-
panics.
After the new juror was selected by lot and took her seat, testimony resumed with police chemist Gregory Matheson offering explanations of why only small amounts of blood spilled at Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium were tested by the police lab.
In conjunction with the testimony, prosecutor Hank Goldberg showed on a 7-foot courtroom screen one of the bloodiest photos seen during the trial. The defense said that the photo was overly gruesome, but It allowed it. The photo showed Nicole Brown Simpson's body huddled at the foot of
the steps leading into her condominium. There was a dark pool of blood around her head and bright red streams of blood flowing down the walkway.
Matheson said that it was clear that the blood was coming from Nicole Brown Simpson's body and that vast amounts of testing were not needed.
Ito, meanwhile, continued his attempt to move the trial along. He refused a prosecution request for a hearing about blood outside the jury's presence, and he reacted angrily when a cellular phone rang out.
It asked the phone's owner to hand it over. When nobody reacted, the angry Ito banned all pagers and phones from the courtroom and ordered that everyone be searched as they enter. During a break, Sports Illustrated reporter Shelly Smith said that she discovered it was her phone that went off and said she would confess to the judge.
"I feel like a criminal," she said.
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