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Tuesday, September 28, 1993
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AUSTIN, Texas
U.S. senator is indicted on charges of misconduct during state-level tenure
Just 10 weeks after her election to the U.S. Senate, Kay Bailey Hutchison was indicted yesterday on charges of misconduct during her 2 I/2-year tenure as state treasurer.
Hutchison, a republican, was accused of using her treasurer office for personal use and destroying records as part of a cover up.
She denied the charges, calling them the product of a politically motivated investigation by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a democrat.
Hutchison, 50, defeated appointed democrat Sen. Bob Krueger in a June 5 special election for U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentens's former seat. The victory made her Texas 'first woman senator in history.
Days later, a grand jury began looking into misconduct allegations.
The indictments accuse her of using state employees, facilities, equipment and supplies for "her personal benefit" and of destroying computer records from the treasury.
Also indicted were Michael Barron, former deputy state treasurer, and David Criss, the agency's planning director.
Texas GOP executive director Karen Hughes called the charges politically motivated.
Barron was charged with official misconduct, tampering with governmental records and tampering with physical evidence. Criss was charred with official misconduct.
Hutchison is allowed to remain in the Senate while she fights the charges.
"Iam sickened but frankly not surprised that a grand jury made up of democrat primary voters is trying to win through the judicial process what they were unable to win in the last election," she said. "This is a new low for partisan double standards in state government."
Earle's office raided the treasury June 10 and issued more than a dozen subpoenas for current and former agency workers.
LOS ANGELES
Officers out on bail in King case
U. S. District Judge John G. Davies gave Powell and Koon about two weeks to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting Oct. 12 as the new date for them to start serving their 2/12-year sentences.
Police officer Laurence Powell had already spent his first night in prison for the Rodney King beating and Sgt. Stacey Koon was just surrendering when a judge suddenly allowed them to go free yesterday.
Both men had faced a deadline of noon yesterday for checking into the Dublin Federal Prison Camp, a converted military barracks without bars or fences 40 miles east of San Francisco.
Powell, described by his lawyer as terrified, surrendered
at the prison Sunday afternoon; Koon arrived at around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, around the time Davies issued his ruling, and hadn't been processed yet.
Koon, Powell and two other white policemen were charged in the March 1991 beating of King, an African-American motorist stopped after a chase.
TBILISI, Georgia
Shevardnadze flees besieged province BELISIT, Georgia
Abkhazian separatists captured Sukhumi, the Georgian government's last stronghold in the prosperous Abkhazian province on the Black Sea, yesterday and forced Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze to flee the devastated city he had vowed to defend.
Shevardnadze blamed Russia for the defeat.
Abkhazian forces fought their way to the center of the city and after 12 days of bitter combat raised their flag over City Hall, Shevardnadze said in a message to his office in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. The victory gave the separatists virtually complete control of the region.
More than 3,000 people have been killed and 100,000 made homeless during the yearlong war, one of the fiercest ethnic conflicts to rise among the ruins of the Soviet Union.
"Georgia lost an unequal battle," he said. "We could have saved Sukhumi yesterday, but only Russia could do this, and we sent an appeal to Moscow for such help."
Andrei Soloviev, a 38-year-old Russian freelance photographer on assignment for The Associated Press, was killed by a sniper during yesterday's attack, Abkhazian officials said.
MIAMI
10th tourist murdered in Florida
Just as travel agents from Germany were getting a VIP tour to persuade them to keep sending tourists to Florida, another out-of-state visitor was shot to death on a Miami highway.
The seemingly senseless killing unleashed a new flurry of negative publicity about crime against visitors in a state with a $31 billion-a-year tourist industry.
Miguel A. Sanchez, 40, of New York City, was shot Sunday night.
A motorist pulled alongside his cousin's car and fired a single shot, hitting Sanchez in the head.
No arrests were made, he said.
"At this point we really do not have a motive," said Metro-Dade police representative Ralph Fernandez.
Sanchez was the 10th tourist murdered in Florida in the past year.
The shooting couldn't have come at a worse time, said Aldo Rinaldi, president of Sun Tours Inc., which helped bring 22,000 Germans to Florida last year.
Rinaldi had 15 German travel agents in Key West on Monday as part of a campaign to calm European tourists frightened away by the violence.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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