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Thursday, September 30, 1993
GENERATIONAL POLITICS:
Do you find it ironic that so few people stayed after Woodstock to pick up the trash?
Do you suspect that the American Dream is over?
Are you already bored with these subjects and wishing you had a beer?
Find out what may define a generation that hates to be called a generation, and what the future could hold for you.
Meet Neil Howe co-author of 13thGEN
Random House Publishing
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Commerce secretary investigated
Brown tells Clinton charges are untrue
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton defended Commerce Secretary Ron Brown yesterday against accusations that Brown was paid to lift the trade embargo against Vietnam as two House Republicans demanded appointment of a special prosecutor.
toward lifting of the U.S. trade embargo against that nation.
The FBI and a federal grand jury in Miami are investigating the allegations by a Vietnamese businessman that Brown accepted $700,000 from the Vietnamese government to work
Clinton defended his commerce secretary as Brown was sitting a few feet away during a White House announcement of a new strategy to increase American exports.
"He's told me that he hasn't done anything wrong. He's done just about everything right as commerce secretary. I think he's done a great job, and I have no reason not to believe him," Clinton said.
The president entered the room with Brown at his side and made a point of praising his performance as commerce secretary during prepared remarks.
But Republican Reps. Dana Rohrabacher of California and Dan Burton of Indiana, in brief speeches on the House floor, called for appointment of a special prosecutor.
"If they (the Clinton administration) try to whitewash this thing the way they whitewashed the Travelgate affair, then the American people will be justifiably outraged," Robrabacher told The Associated Press, referring to the recent episode involving the administration's handling of allegations of financial mismanagement in the White House travel office.
He said the Brown matter must be "investigated and examined in a very professional way."
Cuban prisoners remain confined
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — About 2,600 Cubans held in federal prison spent a second day yesterday confined to their cells to avert violence after they were told many of them would be returned to Cuba.
list to be repatriated unless they successfully appeal, he said.
The Cuban prisoners were placed in special security status before dawn Tuesday when they learned about plans to repatriate 1,567 of the inmates.
Among those in the lockdown were Cubans who arrived in the 1980 Mariel boatlift and subsequently were convicted in the United States of serious crimes such as murder, rape, violent assaults and drug trafficking. They must complete their sentences before being returned to Cuba.
The lockdowns affected all but about 340 of the 2,940 Cuban nationals in federal prisons nationwide, Bureau of Prisons representative Greg Bogdan said yesterday. Only those in maximum- and medium-security prisons were put in the special detention, and they included the 1,567 on the
"There's no plan to release the Mariel Cubans from the secure setting that they're in right now," Boadan said.
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The rest are being returned gradually to the general prison populations, he said.
In Miami, the Task Force of Cuban Civil Organizations issued a statement saying it was "alarmed at the announcement and actions taken ... involving Cuban nationals and immigration detainees."
The group called the issuance of the new list of 1,567 to be repatriated "ill-advised, violative of due process, discriminatory" and "ominous."
The preventive strategy — taking the prisoners to separate, secure areas or simply locking them in their cells apparently had the desired effect.
Justice Department representative John Russell said there were no disturbances at any of the three dozen federal prisons that house Cuban nationals.
Radar use in train crash questioned
The Associated Press
MOBILE, Ala. - Investigators want to know whether a toowbat's radar was turned on the night one of its barges apparently struck the fog-bound train trestle where 47 people aboard the Sunset Limited limped to their death.
The radar had a range of 24 miles and presumably could have alerted the towboat crew members that they were approaching the bridge, despite fog so thick that Coast Guard rescuers could not see the front of their own boat.
The radar was in operating condition when checked by a National Transportation Safety Board investigator after the Sept. 22 crash, agency representative Ted Lopatkiewicz said Tuesday.
the towboat may have struck the railroad bridge, leading to the train wreck.
But lawyers for the four men aboard the towboat have not allowed the safety board to interview them.
Because they cannot talk to the crew members, investigators also have not determined who was at the wheel the night of the wreck in Big Bayou Canot.
Russell Gober, chief investigator with the safety board on the accident, said the vessel's owner, Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., had reported having two licensed pilots on the towboat that night.
Investigators say one of the six barges being pushed by
Lawyers refused to identify the pilots or their two crewmates. However, news organizations have identified the pilots as Andrew Stabler of Atmore, Ala., and Willie C. Odom of Grand Bay, Ala. Both are 46.
Safety board officials have said it could take a year to complete their report on the accident, the deadliest crash in Amtrak history.
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