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Show I 'l'HE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOlJTH!RN UTAH 'ONIVERSITY • PRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1998 U.S. DIGEST JUDGE BARS NAVY FROM OUSTING ALLEGED HOMOSEXUAL: In the first such ruling, a federal judge has said that the Navy violated the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, ruling that it wrongly dismissed a sailor for homosexuality based on an anonymous online message. U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin's ruling made permanent a _.....::1.___o.....1 preliminary injunction he issued, barring the Another Tim Navy from ousting Sr. Chief Petty Off. Timothy McVeigh R. McVeigh for alleged homosexuality. BOMBING AT ALABAMA ABORTION CLINIC KILLS GUARD, CRITICALLY INJURES NURSE: A powerful bomb exploded at an abortion clinic yesterday morning in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty police officer and critically injuring a nurse. It was the nation's first fatal bombing at an abortion clinic. The blast came just a week after the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade legalizing abortion. Investigators said that a number of witnesses were being questioned but that there were no immediate suspects. BABBITT SAYS POLITICS PLAYED NO PART IN INDIAN GAMBLING CASINO: Angrily defending his integrity, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt yesterday told Congress politics played no part in the decision to reject a proposed Indian gambling casino in Wisconsin. The decision by his subordinates to deny Wisconsin Chippewa permission to build the casino "was the right decision, it was made Bruce in the right way, it was made for the right Babbitt reason." Still, Babbitt faced tough questions about why he told a lobbyist for the tribes that Ickes had asked him to make a decision on the matter. . - THE NATION ,~- -- -- 11n1 Immunity talks with Lewinsky • at an impasse WASHINGTON (AP) - Monica Lewinsky's attorney signaled an impasse yesterday in the high-stakes pursuit of her cooperation in the investigation of a~ alleged presidential affair and coverup. A judge m Arkansas blocked the sensational accusations from President Clinton's sexual harassment trial. In a victory for a beleaguered White House, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that waiting for evidence in the Lewinsky affair would not be worth a delay in the Paula Jones civil trial slated for May because it is " not essential to the core issues in this case.11 "This weighing process compels the conclusion that evidence concerning Monica Lewinsky should be excluded from the trial of this matter," the judge wrote in Little Rock, Ark. Mrs. Jones' attorneys - hoping to prove a pattern of improper sexual behavior by Clinton - promised an immediate appeal. If the ruling stands, they would not be allowed to question Clinton about Ms. Lewinsky during the trial. In Washington, legal maneuvering proceeded in Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr's criminal investigation. Attorney William Ginsburg, who represents Ms. Lewinsky, met face-to-face with Starr's staff for less than 45 minutes, and emerged expressing frustration with negotiations designed to secure her testimony in exchange from immunity from prosecution. William Ginsburg, attorney for Monica Lewinsky, enters his car, yesterday, on his way to meet with Kenneth Starr. A document made public yesterday by a federal court underscored the jeopardy Ms. Lewinsky faces without immunity. It showed prosecutors are considering charging the former White House intern with lying in her sworn affidavit in the Jones case - when she denied she had an affair with Clinton - and with encouraging a friend to lie under oath. The document makes no mention of allegations that Clinton, too, lied in his testimony and encouraged Lewinsky to do the same. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 THEWORLD WORLD DIGE·S T France considers force as last resort JUDGE ORDERS EXECUTION OF 26 TAMILS CONVICTED IN GANDHI SLAYING: Declaring that PARIS (AP)-France appeared to ease its As Albright began her tour, in Washington opposition to the use of force against Iraq. "I President Clinton spoke by telephone with must say at this stage that all options remain Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien about open, 11 the French foreign minister said yesterday Iraq's resistance to U.N. weapons inspections. after meeting with Secretary of State Madeleine They agreed that Saddam's "flouting of those (U.N.) resolutions is not acceptable," White Albright. Agreeing with House spokesman Albright that the situation is Mike McCurry said. grave, French Foreign Minister Ata ceremony at Hubert Vedrine Washington's appealed to Fort McNair, Saddam to open Clinton said: suspected " We know that weapons sites to Saddam has unconditional U.N . inspection "' used weapons before time runs ~ of mass gdestruction out. Both Albright § before. We are and Ved.rine said ~ determined to at a news ~ deny~the conference they l:l capacity to use were eager to i:: weapons of obtain results of French Foreign Minister Hubert Ved.rine, right, greets U.S. mass a Russian Secretary of State Madeline Albright upon her arrival at the destruction Paris' Quai d'Orsay, yesterday. diplomatic again." "France and mission to Russia have been reluctant to use force, Baghdad. " We don't know exactly what Foreign preferring that all avenues of diplomacy be used Minister (Yevgeny) Primakov is bringing," Albright said. She is due to see him today in to overcome Iraq's resistance to inspection of sites that U.N. and U.S. officials believe my Madrid, Spain. A senior U.S. official said Albright was conceal biological and other dangerous weapons. encouraged by what Vedrine told her at the "We discussed all the options," Albright said. "I French Foreign Ministry. The official said explained we've all but exhausted the diplomatic Albright hoped the Russian position "would options, and the time is fast approaching for make clear to Hussein that we are united." fundamental decisions." he wanted to send a message to would-be terrorists, a judge ordered 26 Tamils convicted in the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to be executed. The death sentence is rarely handed out in India, but Judge V. Navaneetham said Wednesday that the "diabolical plot" to assassinate Gandhi justified his sentence No execution date was set. Lawyers for the defendants said they would appeal. SCANDAL HIGHLIGHTS BUSINESSBUREAUCRAT COLLUSION IN JAPAN: Another top Japanese Finance Ministry official resigned yesterday, the latest casualty in an influence-peddling scandal involving lavish dinners and sex parties that has underlined the collision between business and government in Japan. A day earlier, the scandal forced the finance minister to quit Ryut~ro and a ministry official scheduled to be Hashimoto questioned by prosecutors hanged himself. Finance Vice Minister Takeshi Komura stepped down yesterday, telling reporters " the responsibility is all mine." Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto apologized in Parliament, saying his government would investigate the scandal. EUROPEANS TRYING AROUND-THE-WORLD BALLOON TRIP SPRING A LEAK: A small leak was causing problems yesterday in the rear hatch of the orang~ capsule housing the three pilots of a European te~m that 1s attempting to circle the globe in a balloon. Men~_ng t~e leak would involve one crew member - probably Bnt1sh flight engineer Andy Elson - having to climb down the outside of the capsule, the control center said. It was expected to reach Greece by today and Israel on Saturday. |