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Show Cm&igdoq Tbesday, September 24, 188 The Daily Herald eiport raises mesfrOEHS about Millarv's rale lira deal :r.Dsfc! 0 Perot filed suit, now complaint DALLAS (AP) Unable to get his message out the way he wants, Ross Perot is going to his lawyers to gain access to the debates and the airwaves. The Reform Party nominee filed a lawsuit Monday and plans to file a complaint today to force his way into the presidential face-off- s, onto prime-tim- e television and, in turn, into American voters' homes. Shutting him out, "will only deepen the nation's cynicism about government," the pugnacious Perot said in his lawsuit. Perot filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which barred him from the debates. He complained that he should be included or the forums canceled. By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Federal regulators are raising new questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton's role in a troubled real estate deal that provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to her law t ,'. 4 u - i - . v i. : f - v partner's . , ; - l L i ' . Jri ' tj ' Paratroopers miss their mark KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) It was a stunning entrance to the wrong event. Three Army paratroopers who planned on delivering the game ball for a high school football game Friday night landed on another high school field five miles away. Fans and players from River View and Granger high schools didn't know what to think as helicopters hovered and parachutists descended during warm-up- s. "Nobody knew what was going on. Someone even asked me if they were terrorists," said John Doran, River View's assistant principal. Meanwhile, players from and Pasco high schools stood in the end zones and fans scanned the sky for parachutists. Ken-newi- 33 Cubans land in Florida Border Patrol MIAMI (AP) are investigating whether agents any of 33 Cubans who landed in three separate groups in southern Florida were assisted by refugee smuggling rings. Three women and five men washed up behind the Miami Beach Days Inn Hotel early Monwooden boat. day in an They were in good condition and were greeted by several family members, officials said. The eight said they left the coastal town of Villa Clara in Cuba on Saturday. But U.S. Border Patrol Assistant Chief Keith Roberts expressed doubts. "There was no water on board and the people had no sunburns, no dehydration and they walked around minutes after landing," said Roberts. 1 ot AP Photo Scientist Gary Buckingham examines an Australian melaleuca weevil at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. The weevil is expected to help the state stop the spread of the melaleuca tree. Bug being readied to rescue Everglades heat, quickly becoming the most plentiful plant pest in the a slow-moviEverglades, MIAMI Tall, sheet of water stretching some trees brought from Australia 100 miles from Lake Okeeabout 100 years ago are choking out native vegetation in the chobee to Florida Bay. Federal officials, while waitEverglades and sucking up preing and hoping for an effective cious water. way to combat melaleucas, The melaleucas tree, howevhave been relying on hard labor visitors some have soon er, may from its homeland to contend to try to slow the trees' growth. Workers chop down the trees g with: two bugs that could help rescue the Ever- and coat the stumps with poison, or bore holes in the white glades. bark and inject chemicals, said left that warn Experts Burkett Neely, manager of the the melaleucas unchecked, National Wildlife Loxahatchee transform the could swampy heart of the sawgrass prairies Refugee in Palm Beach County. But the techniques are time into thick forests like the ones ineffective and consuming the of fringes already crowding three bloom because the trees the vast wetland. The Australian melaleuca times a year, releasing thousands weevil would chomp through the of seeds each time, Neely said. He is lobbying for the bug to soft, birchlike trees but wouldn't eat enough native vegetation to be released in his 146,000-acr- e cause a problem, said Gary preserve. "The weevils eat the fresh Buckingham, a research entomologist with the Department of sprouting blooms at each tip. They won't get rid of the older Agriculture in Gainesville. "The reason the plant has trees, but they'll keep them been so successful here is from producing new trees," because it has no natural eneNeely said. The South Florida Water mies," Buckingham said MonManagement District also is day. "We're hoping (the weevil) will slow the growth." eager to let loose the weevils The weevil, which has been and is lobbying the federal govtested since 1992, could be ernment to approve their release John released into the Everglades in a quickly, spokesman few months or in a year or two, Neuharth said. Four years ago, Buckingham depending on when sate and received shipments of weevils federal officials give the Buckingham said. Federal and began extensive tests on the g scientists also are testing another bug, a type of grayish-brow- n beetle that has a Australian insect, the sawfly. Melaleucas, which grow as snout. He found that the bugs, which tall as 50 feet, were introduced are under quarantine, are partial to southern Florida for decorative purposes and some farmers to young saplings and melaleuca planted them to block crops blooms. They may eat some native vegetation but not enough from wind. But the trees multiin to cause habitat loss, he found. subtropical plied rapidly father-in-la- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. concluded in a report that a real estate document drafted by Mrs. Clinton in 1986 was used by the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan to hide commissions it was paying to a prominent businessman, and mislead regulators. Mrs. Clinton was not accused of any wrongdoing in the FDIC inspector general's report But it raised new questions about the extent of her involvement in a controversial land deal in which the Arkansas S&L was involved. The Little Rock, Ark., businessman, Seth Ward, is the father-in-la- w of Webster Hubbell, the former associate attorney general who was Mrs. Cline ton's partner at the Rose Law Firm. The regulators said Mrs. Clinton drafted a May 1, 1986, real estate option that valued property owned by Ward at $400,000, more than double its appraised value. Ward later exchanged the land for ed one-tim- $3O0,CO6 in loan proceeds Madison Guaranty. In 198?, Ward sued Madison Guaranty to get more compensation, winning a jury verdict of $392,000. The FDIC called the option document "a critical issue" in the trial. The White House said the report, requested by Senate Republicans, was a political ploy orchestrated by Senate Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D' Amato, Whitewater Mrs. Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, said: "The May 1, 1986, option was never exercised, so it did not facilitate the payment of a single penny of commissions to Mr. Ward. ... The FDIC's report does not allege that Mrs. Clinton did anything wrong or had any knowledge of any illegal intention with respect to this option." The IG's report concluded that the way commissions were paid to Ward "evaded regulations designed to protect the safety and soundness of the institution and violated the integrity of its books and records." "Madison Guaranty also concealed the true nature of the payments to Ward from the bank examiners, and apparently conceived the May 1, 1986, option to further this purpose," the report said. ConfuPITTSBURGH (AP) sion over diplomatic procedure may have left an American aviator clinging to a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean as officials quibbled over whose job it was to rescue him. "In countless calls, we can't figure out where the ball was dropped," said Tony Fratto, a spokesman for Sen. Rick Santo-ru"Neither the Department of State nor the Department of Defense has been very responR-P- a. sive." 1 Diana to dine at White House In a WASHINGTON (AP) city where a blue or gray business suit passes for dressed up, Princess Diana is headlining a one-da- y fashion invasion designed to raise ' money for breast cancer research. The first event was scheduled at the White House, where Hillary Clinton was hosting a ; Rodham breakfast for Diana and 20 others. It ends tonight with a fea-- gala and celebrity auction from latest the glad rags turing Don-- ; I designers like Ralph Lauren, Oscar and na Karan, Calvin Klein ; dc la Renta. Many of those designers will ' attend the White House breakfast, like Isaac Mizrahi and others will be at the djnncr gala. 1 star-studd- says he believes Whitewater prosecutors may be out to get him and the first lady. Clinton was asked whether he agrees with Whitewater figure Susan McDougal that prosecutors are hunting for information to implicate the Clintons in wrongdoing regardless of whether the information is true. The president said he understood from statements by Mrs. McDougal's lawyer that prosecutors "wanted her to say something bad about us." Mrs. Do you believe Clinton lawyer? McDougal's was asked in a PBS interview Monday on PBS' 'NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." 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But under the new plan, GOP lawmakers will strip the provision from the broader bill and offer it up later as a separate piece of legislation. The provision opposed by civil rights activists as unfair to children had been pushed in particular by lawmakers from California; Republican Rep. Elton Gallegly, was the measure's spon WASHINGTON After a week of indecision, Republican lawmakers have decided to yank from a massive immigration bill a measure that would have allowed states to bar children from public schools. Congressional sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Monday that the item will be deleted from the bill today, allowing House and Senate lawmakers to iron out differences in their sepsor. arate versions of the bill. Some Republicans were also measure The public-schooto see Clinton veto the entire eager had been a political stumbling since it included many measure, block for weeks. President Clinton in both parties lawmakers items had threatened to veto the entire favor including nearly doubling bill if it included the education the number of Border Patrol offiprovision, while GOP lawmakers in the House had championed the cers and saving federal tax dollars initiative, complaining that states by cutting some services currently available to legal immigrants. with heavy immigrant populations Other GOP lawmakers said supsuch as Texas and California cannot afford to pay soaring education port for the measure would help a number of House Republicans costs. from California who are locked in Aides to GOP presidential nomraces. inee Bob Dole, meanwhile, had tight illegal-immigra- ls nt , maintenance. But it Handbook' available in both Associated Press Writer Clark Woodard's amphibious plane wen! down Sept. 6. about 300 miles from the Azores islands. 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