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Show Saturday, Otiober 19, THE DAILY HI KM I), 1V Proo, I tah Page A7 With help from O.J. lawyer, Lizzie Borden again acquitted By JAMES 0. CLIFFORD Associated Press Writer " 'j j AP Photo Diane Wick plays Lizzie Borden, the accused Victo- in a court of historical review in rian San Francisco Wednesday. Gerald Uelmen' right, formerly a member of O.J. Simpson's defense team, laughs as Wick tries on her gloves to show that they do, indeed, fit. Republicans consider a change in strategy By DAVID ESPO AP Political Writer ington." Other pollsters and Republicans involved in the campaign WASHINGTON With Bob this fall said the potential swing Dole running well behind in the in was even larger in support race for the White House, stratethe range of 15 percentage gists for GOP congressional canpoints. didates are pondering a risky Beyond gauges of appeal to voters: generic support, though, it's less Elect lawmakers who can keep clear whether the same swing President Clinton in check in a would occur in individual races. second term. "The question is will this "It's something that's seri- occur to the voters when they're ously being looked at," Republitheir ballots," said casting can pollster Glen Bolger said in Andrew Kohut, director of the a recent interview in comments Pew Research Center. "There's seconded by numerous other not much evidence in this councampaign consultants. try that we've had much strateA second consultant, speakgic voting." ing on condition of anonymity, The strategy carries risks, said he expected several GOP several consultants noted, incumbents and challengers to the including possibility that it make such an appeal, barring a could make Dole's candidacy late comeback by Dole. and thus hopeless, appear A third strategist suggested a depress turnout by Republican possible line for a Republican voters on Election Day the commercial that would remind the congressional very support voters that in the first two years candidates need. of his term, w hen Congress was But privately, one Democratic controlled by Democrats, Clinconsultant involved in numerous ton signed a tax increase and races said it represents a potentried to create a huge national tial threat to the party's candihealth care system. dates. "It is a viable strategy for By contrast, Republicans canthem because the truth is a didates could be expected to say nationalized election in the truest that in the last two years, when of the word is not good for sense government was divided. Consaid one. us," gress passed and Clinton signed With dozens of Republicans welfare reform and changes in in close races enough to tip immigration law, a measure to control of to the Congress make health care more available the GOP nationalDemocrats and billions of dollars in spend-l- i ly has been attacking senior lawcuts. makers of the other party as libPolling data suggest that votwho are out of step with the erals ers would be more likely to supnational mood. in candidates port Republican National The Republican general if they knew that the recentfor Committee, example, entire alternative would turn the distributed more than 70,000 ly Democthe over to government rats. Bolger said his surveys brochures saying that a change indicated the difference was in in Congress would turn control the range of 8 to 10 percentage over to "liberal left Democrats." It included photographs of 13 points because "people don't senior Democrats. y control of Wash want one-part- By MARCY GORDON Associated Press Writer A member WASHINGTON a relatively obscure panel that advises the nation's top trade negotiator is attracting special attention as the Nov. 5 elections near. Why? He heads the U.S. affiliate of an Indonesian business conglomerate at the center of a flap over political contributions to Democrats. Charles De Queljoe, a naturalized U.S. citizen who has lived recently in Indonesia, is the president of Lippo Securities, a Los Angeles-base- d affiliate of Lippo Group. The parent company, based in Hong Kong and Jakarta, Indonesia, is a financial and real estate conglomerate controlled by the whose members Riady family and associates have made heavy contributions to President Clinton's campaigns and the Democratic Party. De Queljoe and his wife. Susan, contributed $3,000 to Senate Democratic candidates in 1994 and gave more than S25.000 to Democrats in 1993-9according to Federal Election Commission records. The records list the De Queljoes as living in both Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, and Los Ange- of 4. les. Jay Ziegler. a spokesman for SH U.S. Trade Representative Char-len- e Barshefsky, rejected Republicans' suggestions that the Indonesian banking family may have been able to improperly influence U.S. policy. "There can be no question that James Dr. Robinson is candidates SALT LAKE CITY COPY than mat a C. 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Ziegler said tember of last year, according to a of a middle-incom- e Virginia subthat earlier this month, the United trade official who spoke on condiurb, gave $425,000 lo the DemocStates filed a complaint against tion of anonymity. rats, and that a network of individIndonesia with the World Trade The advisory panel includes uals and companies clustered Organization alleging unfair pracpeople from "a wide spectrum of around the Lippo conglomerate tices in automobile imports. contributed S200.000 to Clinton interests" drawn from corporaA confidential White House tions, labor unions, environmental and the Democrats since 1992. document, quoted in Thursday's editions of The New York Times, purports to show that the Clinton administration extracted promises from Indonesia to stop using the '96 Mazda Protege WORKSHOP Sponsored by TRVSTCOSSVL1 a Utah based consultant mats. for trustees of 1 is pleased to welcome The Pioneer Receiver (SX205) price has been lowered to $99.95 from our advertised price of $1 28.95 in the October 1 8th weekend ads. rjELECTRONICS the 1 PROVO DIALYSIS CENTER CORRECTION NOTICE HOW TO 1 of Panel member's influence under scrutiny In addition to IIIMAT SAN FRANCISCO Lizzie Borden was back on the witness stand, still wearing her Victorian outfit complete with a parasol and pearls and still claiming she did not hack her father and stepmother to death with an ax. More than 100 years after her acquittal. Borden was found innocent again, this time at the mock Court of Historical Review and with help from one of O.J. Simpson's lawyers. The couit, which uses volunteer lawyers and judges and hears about 10 cases a year, has decided such weighty issues as the birthplace of the martini (Martinez, Calif.) and the existence of Santa Claus (yes). But at this week's nonjury trial, defense lawyer Peter Keane reminded the court that it also had a serious calling. 4 "It would be wrong for us to change history," said Keane. an assistant public defender. Borden herself was the star w played by Municipal Court Judge Diane Wick looking as if she had just stepped out of the 890s in town, had many enemies, he said. As in the Simpson case, there killings, said :!ie worshiped her was no second suspect. But the father and loved her stepmother defense told the judge that Andrew Borden was heard arguing with a "just like a real mother." "I certainly did not," she said man in the house a few days before he was slain. when asked if she killed them. In a courtroom filled with Prosecutors Frank Russoniello. doens of spectators. Keane urged a former U.S. attorney, and Frank Municipal Court Judge George Winston insisted that only Borden Choppelas not to add to the had the opportunity and motive to unkindness Borden suffered after carry out the slayings. she was acquitted of the killings She was jealous of her stepthat took place in her home in Fall mother and wanted her father's River. Mass.. on Aug. 4. 892. $500,000 estate, an enormous sum Borden died in the same town in at a time w hen a loaf of bread sold 1927, an ostracized spinster tauntfor 5 cents, they said. ed by children: "Lizzie florden of Despite the recounting took an ax and gave her mother 40 details about the blood and blows whacks. When she saw what she the victims received far less had done, she gave her father 4 ." than that in the rhyme both Borden was a victim of media sides provided the levity that has hype and was "condemned by made the mock court famous. At one point, the defense asked rhyme," said Gerald Uelmen, who helped persuade a jury to acquit if Borden had been read her MiranSimpson in the 1994 slayings of da rights, a right to a lawyer his ex-- ife and her friend. extended decades after the killings. No murder weapon w as discov"Carmen Miranda wasn't even ered and although there was "a born." answered Russoniello, show er of blood not one drop w as drawing laughter with the referfound on Lizzie." Uelmen said. ence to the Latin American movie Father Andrew Borden, a banker star with the outlandish and the wealthiest landlord in a burgundy dress. 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