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Show s 'v. Page A2 THl 1U1LV HKKU.l). Prmo. Hah.M.inla. March 17, !W egisfries protect ing. By HELEN O'NEILL Associated Press Writer Bob Olivieri has snatched occasional glimpses of his son in the nine years since his wile. Carol, surrendered their batty for adoption. But he'v given up am hope of raising the bin himself. "I'm just waiting lor the proper time.' the New 'York City police officer says with bitter certainty his son will eventually come searching for him. "I wonder how he'll lee! when he learns the truth, that his parents are married and live a short distance aw ay, that they fought all the way in the courts for him. that he has a younger sister who didn't get a childhood with her brother." Olivieri's crime was failing to sign up with New York stale's registry of putative lathers. Among other things, it gives unmarried men who believe they've lathered a child a chance to declare paternity before the child is adopted. for two years. Olivieri had no idea he'd fathered a child. He found out after reconciling with and marrying the mother, but the child had King since gone to adoptive parents. The courts rejected Olivieri's paternity pleas. More and more states are embracing the idea of paternity registries setting deadlines by winch fathers must register and rejecting theii claims once the time limit expires. Generally, the registration window opens the day following .conception and closes about a month after the baby is born. The registries are a direct court fights response to drawn-ou- t and images of sobbing children being wrenched from the only homes they know and handed to their biological parstrangers ents. Illinois created its registry after the traumatic return of 'Baby Richard" to his birth parents. Otakar and Daniela Kirchner. in W5. The birth mother gave the boy up for adoption w hen he was 4 days old. believing Kirchner had abandoned her. He was told the baby had died but learned the truth two months later and began a four-yecourt battle to regain his son. Two years before, an Iowa Supreme Court ruling forced Jan and Roberta DeBoer to surrender their 3 12 - ear-ol- d daughter. Jessica, to her biological parents. Clara Clausen had put the infant up for adoption and deliberately ar Major calls for election LONDON (APi Prime John Major today called a national election lor May 1. and said: "I think we'll "The idea is to protect children from these protracted court battles." said Mary Kennedy, chief administrative law judge for Illinois" Department of .Children and Family Services. "It's a last ditch protection tor the father who has done nothing else." Kennedy said 270 men had registered since W4 and that the registry had turned up 16 potential "'matches" when children were being considered for adoption. But some advocacy groups for fathers say the rush to create registries is nothing more than a superficial fix for a problem that has no easy solutions. "Registries are .a scam." says NationJon Ryan of Florida-base- d al Organization for Birth Fathers and Adoption Reform. "They are 1 fl I I " I a Vx 'T'7 1:1 1 I Britain's Prime Minister John Major points to a journalist ence at London s Downing street today. some Bishops, also expressed ; about prospects in the Senate. "We do anticipate that we will have a veto-promajority in the House, but we don't know in the Senate." she said. "The Senate is always harder." A reason for some doubt is that this is a new Congress. The House gained a lew abortion rights supporters in the -- .November election, while the Scutate registered a smi'll increase in its ranks, both sides say This is not an issue in the House, though, where there are votes to spare in any new test ; -- anti-aborti- n - "Some of this elected members, some of whom didn't take real clear positions" during the election, said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee. Another factor: The Republican-controlled Congress lias had trouble overriding Clinton. He has vetoed 14 bills since the GOP takeover in January IVC5. but Congress has prevailed just once in seven override attempts. Republicans had planned to push the bill again. But a new sense of urgency arose last month alter abortion rights advocate Ron Fitzsimnions said he had lied about the liming and the reasons women have partial birth abortions. 1 iisiinir.oiis. executive director of the National Coalition ol Abortion Providers in Alexandria. Va.. newly ABORTION: ' uncertainty ed into the dank holds of ships and spirited away to servitude in North and Sou'di America. "While it evokes bitter memories of the honor of the slave trade, it also bears witness to the strength and resilience of the human spirit." Mrs. Clinton sa'L "America has been enriched by the talents of so many people who traced their origins to this region." Later today. Mrs. Clinton, accompanied by daughter Chelsea. 17. planned to visi1. the Saam Njaay village and the Martin Luther King School for Girls. She also will meet vith Senegalese will turn on the V1 --.- -. . . St . Isd'" v f I 3? i President Abdou Diouf bfl tfore departing for South Africa. The first lady is in Africa aoii a k mission to expresl ithe United States' interest in All lea's human capital. During her 'stay, she will highlight efforts under way here to promote education and health care for women and girls, as well as look into the horrors of genocide and rape as a w ar crime. Mrs. Clinton began her trip a day later than planned in order to spend more time with President Clinton, who is recovering from knee surgery. two-wee- now says the procedure is done mostly in the middle of pregnancy and only occasionally to spare a woman's life or her health. He had said earlier that the procedure was rarely used and most often to save the life of the mother. The House bill by Rep. Charles would ban the proCanady. cedure, and threaten doctors with lines and prison terms of up to two years for performing it. Abortion rights advocates contend the measure is unconstitutional because it targets a specific procedure, makes no exception for health reasons and undermines the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. The bill includes a exception. But Clinton, who supports abortion rights, insists on a health provision, too. ld HATCH: (Continued from Page Al) staffers under fire for not passing on to superiors information from a FBI briefing would both admit under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee "that they weren't told not to send this up; they just didn't send it up. And I think the reason they didn't is because (senior officials) already knew. ... The administration knew that these attempts were being made and that's what makes it M -- mind-boggling- ." Hatch did not say exactly who in the administration knew or exactly what they might have known President Clinton has denied knowledge ol the Chinese plan but said: "There are just too many things going on here that indicate this may reach the highest levels of the White House and the Democratic "National Committee." "I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show," White House press secretary 'Mike McCurry said of Hatch's .comments. "If he i., certain of that, his information is contrary to what has been communicated to me and contrary to what I've briefed you." Meanwhile, Hatch's counterpart in the House. Judiciary Committee said Chairman Henry Hyde. L he was having staffers look into impeachment laws. Rep. Bob Barr, wrote Hyde last week asking him to consider an inquiry into impeachment charges against Clinton because of "an alarming abuse of the political process." 'That is a drastic, draconian remedy" that shouldn't be undertaken without .clear evidence of wrongdoing. Hyde said on "Fox "News Sunday." but "we'll be ready when the time comes." lawmakers are Republican pressing Reno to invoke the independent .counsel statute that kicks in when high-lev.executive branch officials are suspected of ISRAEL: (Continued from Pane All lence by try ing to arrange a meeting this week between Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. ! The United States reportedly ''has pressed Israel to make good will gestures to the Palestinians J Israel agreed today to grant landing rights to Arafat's aircraft at The airfield agreement was reached at a meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Yithak Mordechai and Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath, the first high-lev- el nieetni'- -' since the Palestinians suspended contacts last week over tin. east Jerusalem construction project. "Our presence here means that we have not abandoned the peace process and we aa trying to stop the project of Jabal Abu Ghneim through political means." Shaath told reporters, using the Arabic name for the area slated for construction. Palestinians lear the Jewish neighborhood, known in Hebrew as Har Homa. will make it irfTCas- - fund-raisin- said Sen. Arlen Specter, Reno, as the ultimate head of the FBI which is investigating possible China connections to illegal may know more than she is the public and as such may telling have a conflict of interest. "I think at some point there is a dereliction of dutv." he said on ABCs "This fund-raisin- Week" The FBI last week denied White House assertions that agents who briefed two "National Security Council staffers on China's apparent attempt to buy influence with American politicians told the staffers not to give the information to others Clinton has said he was told nothing of China's alleged plan last year to funnel some S2 million in .campaign .contributions through intermediaries to key members ol Congress. Asked whether White House officials knew the Chinese were going to try to use front groups to forward the money. Hatch replied. "You bet they knew ."The Democratic "National Committee is under fire for accepting or soliciting millions of dollars in .contributions from foreign nationals, mainly Asians. Besides demanding an independent counsel. Republicans have launched investigations in both the House and Senate. Democrats, saying the Republi-xan- s are off on a political witch hunt, xontend the emphasis should instead be: on passing .campaign finance legislation to rein in out-o- f xontrol fund raising by both parties. Democratic "National Chairman Roy Romer. on "Fox "News xhallenged his Republican, .counterpart Jim "Nicholson to agree' to stop all 'soft money" xontribu-tionthe largelv unregulated funds that go to the political partiesjt ratner than .candidates. -- --Sunday." s. 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AP pnoio ld 15 A Orem man was and struck htm from behind, killed Friday night when he was according to a report by Utah hit by a van on Interstate 15 just Highway Patrol trooper Charlie .south of Nephi. Wilson. Russell DeGroff was standing Police are investigating the "well off" to the sideof the emer- .incident, which occurred at about gency lane talking to some friends 5:15 p.m. No one else was injured as a when a southbound van, driven by Carmine Leone of result of the xollision, Wilson Salt Lake City, veered off the road reported. el I as he afewers questions during a new First lady begins tour of Africa ; , j in power for IS years, is far behind a revitalized Labor party in opinion polls. DAKAR. Senegal (APi "Hillary Rodham Clinton began a "visit to Africa today by pausing at a place that symbolizes America's first relationship with this conti-- ; nent: an embarkation point for Africans sent into slavery. Upon arriv ing from Washington before dawn today, the LVS first lady said she chose Senegal as her first stop to "underscore the strong bonds of history and culture that link our two nations." In observance t.f that link, she .planned to tour an 1Mb. century .slave house on Cioree Island, "where men and women were herd f - 1 win." Major's Conservative party, The announcement signaled k the start of a campaign which is likely to include the first broadcast debates between leaders of the major parties. Despite presiding over a growing economy., the government has suffered from rancorous divisions over huropean policy, a ban on beef exports because of mad cow disease, and public concerns about crime, education and health care. The government's majority in the House of Commons, w hich was 21 alter the election in 1W2. has evaporated and the government's live-yea- r term ends on Mav 22 anvwav s rights." t- J-- ld a way for the highly lucrative adoption business to-- shut the door on fathers very fast Ryan, who spent years searching for his daughter after she was placed for adoption at birth, says adoptions should not be legalized until fathers are found. Until then, he says, children should be placed in foster care. But that 's just w hat the government is trying to stop. In his "Adoption 20U2" campaign. President Clinton seeks to double the rate of adoptions in five years, saying "no child should languish forever in foster care when loving families are out there." Adoption lawyers say the only "sate" adoption is one in which both parents sign away their rights. But because some women won't identify the fathers and some men are impossible to locate, they disagree on the registries' effectiveness. "Registries are a great idea that will really help promote good secure adoptions." said Samuel Totaro. president of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. "The problem is. most of the lower courts have not looked at them as a legal means to end the father year. li ; ( Minister options named the wrong man as fJSJ'.r on documents. When she changed her mind and told her Dan Schmidt, he was the laiher, Schmidt immediately sought custody. Court battles in 'Nlajigan and Iowa raged more thia.two years. in 'Minnesota. Lawmakers Montana and Texas are ciBtiiler-iu- g registries: Missouri. Alabama and Ohio set up their registries this fl If I Orem man frit, killed on NEWS We welcome news bps. To report a tip or M n you nave a comment or Question regard v mg a news article. ca: - 2 Kirk DEPARTMENT HEADS Parkinson Pubtisne' Me Patrick Mike StansheW dreg Worn Larry Hatch onan ireoaskis Steve Steele j ... 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