Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:11:15 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;NATION \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Inouye welcomes probe of harassment charges LOS ANGELES - Sen. Daniel Inouye yesterday said he would welcome a Senate investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed or abused women. "I thought that the age of guilt by innuendo and guilt by anonymous allegations was past history but that's apparently still alive," the Hawaii Democrat said during a break in a Senate committee hearing on Indian religious freedoms. The charges by the nine anonymous women follow public accusations against Mr. Inouye last month by his former barber, who said the Democrat sexually assaulted her 17 years ago. Mr. Inouye also denied that allegation. "I think that they wanted to have this matter investigated by the Ethics Committee of the U.S. Senate. I welcome that," he said. A decision by the committee would have to await the convening of the next Congress. S=NEW STORY Pryor undergoes bypass surgery Sen. David Pryor, Arkansas Democrat, underwent triple heart-bypass surgery at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock yesterday and was in critical but stable condition. "I think it went very well - very nicely," James Harrell, chief of the hospital's cardiovascular surgery service, said. Mr. Pryor, 58, who had a heart attack last year, was expected to remain in the hospital for about a week. He was re-elected Tuesday as secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference, the third highest post in his party's Senate leadership. He is expected to be a close congressional ally of President-elect Bill Clinton. S=NEW STORY Judge holds men linked to IRA NEW YORK - A federal magistrate yesterday ordered four men who were arrested on charges they sent 2,900 detonators to the Irish Republican Army be held without bail until he decides if they should be tried in Arizona. U.S. Magistrate Theodore Katz set a bond hearing for Tuesday. The men, arrested here Wednesday, are also accused of trying to buy a Stinger surface-to-air missile from undercover agents in West Palm Beach, Fla. The detonators, bought in Arizona, shipped by bus to New York and then to Toronto, were then mailed to Ireland and allegedly used by the IRA to set off bombs from January 1991 until June 1992. The men face a variety of weapons charges as a result of an Arizona indictment handed up in August. S=NEW STORY Lawyer reveals doubts in 'Ivan' case NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A former Justice Department lawyer testified yesterday he tried to warn his superiors there were doubts about whether the man they accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" really was the one-time Nazi death camp guard. George Parker, a former trial attorney in the department, said the way the case of former Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk was handled was one of the reasons he eventually quit his job at the Justice Department. Mr. Parker made the comments in testimony before a federal court that is investigating whether Demjanjuk's 1986 deportation was valid and whether the government had information in its files that would have shed light on the mistaken identity question at the time of his trial. Demjanjuk, 72, faces the gallows in Israel following a 1988 trial there in which he was convicted of being "Ivan," a guard at Treblinka who gassed thousands of Jews. S=NEW STORY Florida police arrest teen in sniper attack JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police investigating a string of rock-throwing and sniper attacks along one of the busiest gateways for tourists visiting Florida yesterday arrested a third teen-ager in a motorist's wounding. Investigators were looking into the possibility the attacks were part of a gang initiation rite. Investigators said there could be more arrests in the nine-month rash of attacks on the 20-mile beltway around Jacksonville. As many as 150 National Guardsmen kept up patrols with camouflaged vehicles and helicopters. Two boys, ages 16 and 17, were arrested earlier this week and charged with attempted murder for allegedly firing from a moving car into the car of Debra Lewis on July 29. The bullet hit her ear and lodged in her jaw. Jason Dixon, 19, was arrested yesterday and accused of stealing a car later used by the other two youths charged in the shooting, said Jacksonville sheriff's Sgt. Gus Carlson. S=NEW STORY Eye ulcers more likely with disposable lenses CHICAGO - People who wear disposable contact lenses are more likely to develop eye ulcers than wearers of nondisposable soft lenses, a Johns Hopkins University study found. Compared with users of daily-wear soft lenses, the most common type worn in the United States, disposable soft lens users had a 14-times greater risk of developing a type of eye ulcer called ulcerative keratitis. Wearers do not properly take care of disposables and do not pay attention to recommended limits on wearing times, the researchers said. S=NEW STORY Safe sex ignored by many Americans Americans are not practicing "safe sex," leaving millions at risk of infection by the AIDS virus, according to authors of the largest national sexual survey in 44 years. Based on 10,000 phone interviews, the survey published today in the journal Science says heterosexuals are not taking seriously the risk of AIDS and that the vast majority with multiple partners are engaging in sexual intercourse without condoms. Joseph Catania, a University of California at San Francisco researcher, said "it is just a matter of time before it [AIDS] will spread widely into the heterosexual community." S=NEW STORY FBI probes monitoring in Clinton files case The FBI is investigating whether the State Department illegally monitored a department official's phone calls concerning searches of President-elect Bill Clinton's passport files, FBI sources confirmed yesterday. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the investigation focused on the department's operations center and its monitoring of calls between former Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Tamposi and other officials. It was the latest development in the complex case that began in the last days of the 1992 presidential campaign when it was disclosed that officials had searched the passport files of Mr. Clinton, his mother and Ross Perot. Mrs. Tamposi, who says she was responding to Freedom of Information Act requests, was dismissed Tuesday for her involvement in the passport records searches. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM