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Monday, February 1, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Mecham decides not to step down Arizona governor will fight recall
The Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Declaring "I have broken no laws," Gov. Evan Mecham said Saturday that he would not resign but instead would run in a recall election to keep his job.
In a letter unsealed Saturday night by the secretary of state, Mecham said, "I was legally elected by the people of Arizona to the office of governor, and I intend to fulfill my responsibility as governor of the state until those same people vote to remove me from office."
The governor delivered the letter to Secretary of State Rose Mofford Friday evening, but it was marked that it not be opened until 6 p.m. Saturday.
Mofford told reporters that today she would officially schedule a recall
election for May 17.
Meanwhile, the Republican governor on Saturday accused a state police lieutenant of perjuring himself in testimony before the House select committee that is considering whether to impeach Mecham. Mecham plans to testify before the panel today.
Mecham also faces a March 9 criminal trial on charges of fraud, perjury and filing false documents in concealing a $350,000 campaign loan.
In the recall election, Mecham will take on all comers, who would have to gather 3,336 petition signatures to qualify for the ballot. Democrat Carolyn Warner, who lost to Mecham in a three-way race in November 1986, has already announced plans to run.
Reagan still watching Meese
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan will keep close tabs on the investigation into Attorney General Edwin Meese's role in an Iraqi oil pipeline project, by seeking Meese's resignation now would be tantamount to "pitching people to the lions without proof," a top White House official said yesterday.
"The president . . . has said he continues to have full confidence in his attorney general," White House chief of staff Howard H. Baker said.
"I see no reason on earth for the president to take any action unless and until it's made to appear that Mr. Meese has done something wrong," Baker said.
Meese has been one of Reagan's closest associates since he was governor of California. Meese's attorney, James Rocap, has said Meese had only a limited involvement with the project and has not broken the law.
the attorney general played "an important and sustained role" in the $1 billion Iraqi pipeline project, which never came to fruition.
Baker's comments came amid a report yesterday in the New York Times that White House officials had been told by the independent counsel probing the matter that
A close friend of Meese, E. Robert Wallach, had a financial interest in the Iraqi project and he
sent the attorney general a memo citing a plan to pay off a top Israeli official in return for a guarantee that Israel would not bomb the pipeline, sources close to the investigation have confirmed. The sources spoke on condition of not being identified.
Israeli leader denies charges
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Foreign Minister Shimon Peres denied that he was offered a bribe by a close friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese and said that he "would have thrown the aide out the window" if he had been, a newspaper reported yesterday.
a bribe was behind Israel's decision to spare a proposed Iraqi pipeline from Israel's bombs.
The daily Maravir quoted Peter as also having said in an interview that it was "just nastiness" to say
Swiss Jewish businessman Bruce Rappaport said yesterday that he acted as a middleman between Israel and Iraq concerning the pipeline that was never built.
pipeline, said he received a letter from Israeli officials says Israel would not attack a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline.
Rappaport, a friend of Peres who formed a partnership with Bechtel Group Inc. to build the
Rappaport said no bribe was involved in obtaining the letter.
The pipeline was to have run from Iraq through Jordan and then along the border with Israel inside Jordanian territory to the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
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