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: Sat, 14 Nov 92 16:22:11 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;NATION \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY FEC OKs loan request by Clinton campaign The Federal Election Commission yesterday gave permission to President-elect Bill Clinton's campaign to borrow money from the campaign's legal fund to pay bills. The campaign sought permission late last month to borrow $1 million after Election Day from its legal compliance fund to help pay bills until the Secret Service reimburses the campaign for $1.2 million. The Bush campaign sought to exploit the request, suggesting Mr. Clinton had run out of money in the last week of the campaign because he had mismanaged the $55.2 million in tax money he was legally limited to spending. The Bush campaign accused the Democrats of trying to use the loan as a means to exceed the spending limit. S=NEW STORY Judge bars evidence in King beating case LOS ANGELES - In a double blow to prosecutors, a federal judge barred evidence about alleged racist statements and past use of force from the civil rights trial of four police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King. Federal prosecutors hoped to use the "Gorillas in the Mist" comment made by Officer Laurence Powell on a police computer shortly before the March 1991 beating. Officer Powell referred to the movie while discussing an incident involving a black family. U.S. District Judge John G. Davies ruled Thursday that the transmission was "clearly a statement with race and racist content" but was not relevant to the federal case. The four white officers face trial Feb. 2 on federal charges that they violated King's civil rights by beating him at the end of a car chase. A witness videotaped the beating of King, who is black. S=NEW STORY Senators urge U.N. to embargo Libyan oil Ten senators yesterday urged the United Nations to embargo Libyan oil in an effort to force extradition of two Libyans indicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The senators sent a letter to President Bush asking him to press the U.N. Security Council for the embargo when that body reviews existing economic sanctions against Libya next month. "The current sanctions against Libya have been too mild to be effective," said the letter, originated by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat. Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, killing 270 persons from 21 countries, including 189 Americans. S=NEW STORY Kissinger apology ends legal struggle A former national security aide has ended nearly 20 years of legal struggle by accepting an apology from Henry Kissinger for consenting to a wiretap on the aide's telephone. The former secretary of state repeated in the letter to Morton H. Halperin, now a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, that "nothing that came to my attention from the surveillance or otherwise cast doubt on your integrity or your loyalty to the country." Mr. Halperin said yesterday he considers the apology adequate. He said it establishes the principle that any government official who consents to wiretaps "is violating the Constitution and clearly subject to legal action." The case dates to May 1969, when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover fingered Mr. Halperin as the possible source of a leak to the New York Times about the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia. S=NEW STORY 8 killed as Guard plane crashes into mountain JUNEAU, Alaska - The commander of Alaska's Army National Guard was among eight men killed when a National Guard plane crashed into a mountain during a storm, officials said. There were no survivors in Thursday's crash of the C-12F twin-engine plane, officials said. The plane, en route from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, was attempting an instrument-aided landing Thursday morning when it lost contact with the tower, Petty Officer Erik Lott said. Low clouds and rain mixed with snow were reported at the time. S=NEW STORY Allen cooperating with Connecticut police NEW YORK - Film director Woody Allen is cooperating with Connecticut authorities investigating charges that he sexually abused his 7-year-old adopted daughter, a television station reported. Mr. Allen will meet next week with a Yale team of sexual-abuse experts examining the girl, Dylan, and will turn over psychiatric reports, WNYW reported Thursday. Mia Farrow, who broke up with the director after he became involved with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, has accused Mr. Allen of molesting Dylan. S=NEW STORY Grand jury indicts 14 in prison sex scandal MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - A grand jury yesterday indicted 14 former Georgia prison employees in a sex scandal that includes allegations of rape and sexual assault of female inmates. Two of the 14, including a former deputy warden, were charged with rape. Others were charged with sexual assault against a person in custody, aggravated sodomy or sodomy. Four of those charged are women. The indictments resulted from an eight-month state investigation of allegations by more than 100 female inmates at Georgia prisons. S=NEW STORY Lawyer testifies before Silverado jury DENVER - A federal grand jury heard a Connecticut lawyer's arguments that President Bush's son Neil should face criminal charges for violating banking laws while on the board of the collapsed Silverado Banking Savings and Loan. "Everyone was extremely courteous," lawyer Frank Mandanici said Thursday after his 90-minute appearance before the jury. "They asked a lot of common-sense questions, like the media would." Mr. Mandanici tried to persuade the jury to sign a 12-count criminal indictment against the younger Mr. Bush. The jury did not sign the indictment by the conclusion of its work Thursday. S=NEW STORY Hubble sights knots in distant galaxy The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a chain of luminous knots at the heart of a distant, ancient galaxy, NASA said yesterday. The knots might be clusters composed of about 10 billion stars each, or they might be clouds of gas or dust caught in the "searchlight" beam of energy emanating from a giant black hole at the galaxy's core, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. NASA said Hubble's photographs of the galaxy, known as 4C 41.17, reveal detail 10 times better than photographs taken with ground-based telescopes. S=NEW STORY Clinton search ordered by higher official NEW YORK - The State Department functionary dismissed by President Bush this week for authorizing a search of Bill Clinton's passport files says the action was approved by a high-ranking department official, the New York Times reported. In today's editions, the newspaper said Elizabeth Tamposi told investigators that Undersecretary of State for Management John Rogers, a top political appointee, authorized the search. Mrs. Tamposi, the assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, was identified by the Bush administration as the person responsible for the search, which embarrassed the White House and the administration as the campaign came to a climax late last month. But the dismissed aide, who was interviewed by auditors working for Sherman Funk, inspector general of the State Deptartment, said the search was begun without consulting her by one of her assistants who was acting director of the passport office. S=NEW STORY First arrest made under carjacking law PHILADELPHIA - The FBI made its first arrests yesterday under a new federal law aimed at discouraging the rapidly spreading crime of carjacking. The FBI said in a statement that it had arrested two Philadelphia men - Craig Paul Watson, 23, and William Shaw, 21 - for stealing a 1992 BMW luxury car at gunpoint from a couple in a restaurant parking lot. The two were being held pending arraignment. U.S. Attorney Michael Baylson said the arrests were believed to be the first under the Federal Anti-Car Theft Act of 1992, which went into effect Oct. 25. The law imposes strict penalties for carjacking - 15 years in prison if there are no injuries, 25 if someone is injured and lifetime imprisonment if a fatality is involved. 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