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Show " - j The Daily HarakJ ; ; . Monday, April 8, 1StX , Trail Official: No ond - ff to siogo in sight The JORDAN, Mont. (AP) standoff between the FBI and Freemen entered its third week today, w ith a negotiator saving he believes the militants want to end the siege w ithout but may not do so anytime By BOB ANEZ Associated Press Writer Two peoHELENA, Mont. ple remember seeing Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in Northern California, and federal soon. cant be opti"Right now, mistic. It's so deep and complicated, it's hard to get a handle." state Rep. Joe Quilici, one of four legislators who have met with the group, told The Associated Press on Sunday. Quilici said he believes the Freemen want calmer negotiations and a non iolent end to the standoff. I 'Child-molestin- reportedly have dates when bombs were mailed from the investigators "him there on placed region. '"He looked like one of those bums w ho come in in the morning and have a sandw ich and cup of coffee and walk out." said Mike Singh, a Burger King manager in Sacramento. Calif. Frank Hensley. a desk clerk at the nearby Royal Hotel, told The Asstviated Press he saw Kaczynski in the neighborhood near the bus depot. He said Kaczynski stayed at the hotel two or three times over the past five years, usually in the late spring or summer. Hensley said. "If it wasn't for all this. I'd be expecting to see him about now." g demon' roloasod SAN ANTONIO "child-molestin- self-profess- A (AP) g demon" who threatened to kill his next victims was released from prison today after agreeing to w hat officials called "unprecedented" parole restrictions. Larry Don McQuay. who has asked to be castrated in hopes it would stop his urge to molest, was escorted this morning into a prison van outside a psychiatric prison in Rusk in Eat Texas. Tyler television station KETK reported. He was heading to San Antonio. 250 miles away, where he was to live in a halfway house. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Larry Todd, citing security precautions, refused to confirm that McQuay. 32. had left the Rusk prison. Poll: Dolo gaining on president WASHINGTON (AP) dent Clinton maintains a solid lead over Republican challenger Bob Dole in two national polls, but one survey found the gap has narrowed within the last month. A CBS News-NeYork Tines poll released Saturday night found that 49 percent of respondents would vote for Clinton if the election were held now. compared with 39 percent for Dole. Last month, a similar survey showed Clinton with a 53-3- 6 lead. However, a Time magazine-CNpoll released Saturday showed Clinton has increased his lead over Dole since last fall. If the election were held today. Clinton would receive 55 percent of the vine to Dole's 41 percent, that poll found. w A Hensley said, referring to Kaczynski's arrest last week. The last four bombs from the Unabomber were mailed from Northern California, including two postmarked in Sacramento. The New York Times, citing unidentified federal officials, reported Unlay that records from Sacramento hotels tie Kaczynski to the dates investigators believe that bombs and letters to news organizations were mailed. Investigators building a case against Kaczynski are searching I i mi AP Photo Tim Clavin of Helena. Mont., sneaks a peek the mailbox of suspected Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Sunday in Lincoln, Mont, Clavin was among dozens of people travel- - Family in Unabomber "There were similarities in ideology, phraseology and the spelling of certain words," Bisceglie said. That led Dav id to call By CAROLYN SKORNECK Associated Press Wnter A lawyer WASHINGTON used by the brother of Theodore Kaczy nski to contact the FBI said today that David Kaczynski's suspicions were first raised by accounts of locations where the l'nabomber struck or may have lived. "The coincidence of locations triggered the suspicions." Tony Bisceglie told a news conference, saying David Kaczv nski compared the I'nabomber's communications with writings that had been published or put in letters by Theodore Bisceglie about contacting the FBI. David, who has not seen Theodore in mx years, then com- ' pared postmarks on personal letters from him with locations associated with the Unabomber. "We could not find a postmark that would rule out his being the L'nabomber," Bisceglie said. "There was a nagging feeling that their brother Ted had some connections to those local ions, but it was dismissed." he said, j He said neither he nor David ing to the area to catch a glimpse of ty near Kaczynski s home. activi-int- o case anguished was aware of a $1 million reward when they contacted the FBI. "Money was absolutely not involved." the lawyer said. Bisceglie said today that the has gone through "a great deal of anguish" over the decision to report Theodore Kaczynski. But the lawyer also said that no member of the family had asked federal authorities for assurances they would not seek the death penalty for the former mathematics profesKaczynski family sor. "I have never seen so many unnamed federal officials in my life." Bisceglie said. "I did see a report that suggested that I proposed as a condition of disclosure" that there be no death the country for ev idence that the penalty. reclusive fomxr math professor left his shack near the Continental Divide to mail or leave bombs in other states. Agents searching the Montana cabin, investigators have found evidence directly linking him to- one of the bombings, the Los Angeles Times reported, quoting "That discussion did not take place." the lawyer said. "I think tliere is a concern for Ted's welfare, as expressed by the family. But I neither dcnunJcd nor was rebuffed on that issue and I think you understand that that is something that we would have no control over under any event " Asked whether the family had tar-pap- sources who would not provide, any specifics. FBI spokesman George Grotz said investigators defused a live bomb that was found in the cabin, where they also finind bomb-makin- g chemicals and components, and notes on makins bombs. any idea w hy Thetxlore Kacy nski had retreated from society. Bisceglie said. "I don't know. They don't know. And we may never know." N Report: McVeigh wants to testify NEW YORK (AP) Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh says he's been falsely labeled a "gun freak" and "loner." and wants to testify "so jurors know me and not what they've read." Time magazine reported. "People have to realize that 90 percent of the case that people think they have, it has all been through leaks." le McVeigh was quoted as saying in the magazine's April 15 issue. "due on newsstands today. "I think you would be surprised how much those leaks are bogus. Especially through eyewitnesses." he said. The interview with McVeigh took place in a federal pnvwi in Oklahoma last month just before he and fellow suspect Terry Nichols were transferred to Colorado. Rostonkowski to doal got 17-mon-th WASHINGTON (AP) For- mer Rep. Dan Rostenkowski has agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges in return for a recommendation from prosecutors for a prison term and $100,000 fine, a source close to the case said today. Rostenkowski could be in court as early as this week to enter the plea to charges that effectively ended his political career, said the source, who requested anonymity. No hearing has been scheduled. Rostenkowski. 68. a Chicago Democrat, lost his bid for to a 19th term in November 1994 after he was charged Five months earlier with 17 felony counts. He allegedly plundered nearly $700,000 from the government and had ghost employees kick back paychecks to his office. th i New details obtained on Clinton By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Before their work was halted five weeks ago. Senate investigators gathered evidence about the ties between Gov. Bill Clinton and an investment banker lobbying for suie business a topic that has long caused the president political problems. Before its authority expired Feb. 29. the Senate Whitewater Committee was looking into a 1985 meeting at whLh the banker. Dan Lasater. made a blunt pitch to Clinton for state bond contracts. The panel was examining internal memos from the governor's office showing that Clinton and his aides kept a close eye on Lasater's efforts to win state work. Documents from the governor's office include a letter by Lasater to Clinton asking tor monthly meetings and advance notice of opportunities to bid' on state bond business. Lasater wrote the letter weeks before it was disclosed in federal court that he had helped then-Arkans- off a drug debt for Clinton's younger ! brother. Roger. A few months later. Clinton and his aides monitored Lasater's pnigrey in securing a piece of the state bond business to finance a proposed S30 million state police communications system. The data assembled by Senate investigators could provide a new avenue for Whitewater hearings once they resume. Democrats and Republicans hav e not agreed how to extend the investigation. pay Lasater contributed to Clinton's gubernatorial campaigns and hired Roger Clinton. Lasater and Roger Clinton became the focus of a drug investigation, and both pleaded guilty to cocaine charges and went to prison. The state contracts, the drugs and the ties to Roger Clinton have long made Lasater a political issue during Clinton's campaigns for gov ernor and president. Lasater. who has been questioned by Senate investigators, participated in 15 state contracts but say s that, overall, the business wasn't profitable. In a recent interview with The Asstviated Press. Lasater said he vmght a private meeting with Clinton in 1983 or 1984 because other bond houses had been getting favorable treatment from state agencies and he wanted the governor "to level the plavine field." "We tried to make as much hay as we could with Clinton and tried to get as much business as we could, but it never worked." Lasater said. He said he told Clinton. "Look, we are the capitalized firm in the city (Little Rock) and we're not doing any of (his business, and I think we are entitled to some of it." According to Lasater. "Clinton vaid that he'd look into it. He made no commitments at all and it didn't help us any at all." Internal memos from the governor's office reveal new information about the state police communications contract. Days after the state police commission second-large- st Playboy founder feeling young at 70 By JEFF WILSON Associated Press Wnter ties to banker I i awarded the work to Lasater and two other bond houses, a stale lawmaker suggested the project might be better financed through other means. That prompted Clinton's chief of taff. Betsey Wright, to alert the executive vice president of Lasater's company. Miclucl Drake, according to a memo reviewed by the AP. The memo said Wright urged the firm to jump into the fray to keep the project on track. "I have suggested" that executives at the firm "get" an Arkansas state police commissioner to contact the lawmaker. Wright wrote Clinton on May 13. 1985. Wright said Clinton's office never favored Lasater and never had monthly meetings with his firm, but did direct agencies to invite more bond houses to bid on state business to increase competition. The former chief of staff said she contacted Drake in order to get the slate police communications quickly. , , built system T HIOfT library. LOS ANGELES Wearing black satin pajamas and a red smoking jacket. Hugh Hefner strolled past a child's toy and a picture of his wife in the nude before sitting down in the Plavhoy mansion to talk about old age. The homebody hedonist turns 70 Tuesday. "I've had a third act." Hefner said. "F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives and I've got Act 3 here and I'm very fortunate for it. I feel wonderful." With two young sons at his feet and his wife by his side. Hefner looks more like a man in his 40s: tanned, slightly graying, a lively gait and glistening eyes that telegraph. "I've seen it all." Seventy is the reality, but Hefner tkesnt see himself approaching the end of his extraordinary life: "My mother's 100. We have very good genes." His birthday will be a subdued affair, "a little cadre of friends and family." he said. "It will be about the number of my birthday, about 70." Visitors arriving at the lush Holmby Hills estate pull up to an imposing iron gate and speak to an unseen security man whose voice booms from a hole in a boulder. A farewell kiss for his wife of seven years, 1989 Play mate of the Year Kimberley Conrad, was the only interruption during a recent interview in the mansion ld Outside on the banks of the fabled grotto, sure rounded by a menagerie of peacocks and exotic birds. TV cameras shiH an episode of "Murder One." Fantasy once came to life in thai pxl. The flamboyant symbol of sexual indulgence has toned down his act. Wild parties have Keen replaced by kids roaming the grounds, their toys scattered about and giant, highway-styl- e signs warning guesls. "Children at play. And his ideal evening ihese days? "The weekends are spent with friends and family, having a buffet, good conversation and watching a classic film." Hefner said. It was Hefner who fired the first shots of the sexual revolution in 1953 with Playboy magazine, featuring a nude Marilyn Monroe. There were parallels in their lives and she. too. would have been 70 this year. "In both cases, the dreams were fed in our childhood by movies. I think sen and nudity had a similar kind of liberating meaning for both of us." said Hefner, who has purchased a cry pt for himself and Kimberley adjacent to Monroe's. Hefner is now focused on the next century, particularly electronic communication. Driving Hefner these days is the Internet. "We're extremely popular on the Internet and are going to be launching a pay site next spring or early summer." he said. free-rang- A- T- Hugh Hafnar rataaaa m red satin pajamas with tha Rret ccyy si Ptsy nwgann m ma notmoy nuts satata in Las Antslsa wf rscantfy. Hahv ae turns 70 ysars otd luaaday. |