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Show A4 TheSalt LakeTribune UTAH/WORLD Wednesday, December 2, 1998 House Committee Expands Impeachment Probe Auditors: Dole, Clinton Should Repay Funds Democrats chastise GOPfor move, approved by party-line vote, to include fund-raising documents ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Just weeks before their self-imposed impeachment deadline. Republicans on the House Judiciary Com- mittee approved subpoenas Tuesdayseeking fund-raising evidence against President Clinton, But several said they didn’t expect the move to alter the course or timing of their inquiry Democrats from House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt on down ridiculed the move, approved on a 20-15 party-line vote, as an attempt to appease the president's most conservative critics, After the vote, Republican committee lawyers wentto courtfor a second time in an effort to persuade a federal judge to seek internal Justice Department memos in which top law-enforcement officials laid out fund-raising evidence against Clinton in arguing for the appointment of a special prosecutor. U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson on Friday had issueda sealed ruling that the committee had not demonstrated a sufficient need for the memos, which include secret grand-jury material. Committee Republicans believe the subpoena will strengthen their argument, said panel spokesman Paul MeNulty. The committee also subpoenaed material from independent counsel Kenneth Starr on John Huang, a former Democratic fundraiser whose ex-employer paid money to presidential friend Webster Hubbell. Starr is investigating whether that payment and other consulting fees represented “hush money” to keep Hubbell quiet about any wrongdoingby the president. With the committee set to debate articles Rep. George Gekas, a Republican committee member from Pennsylvania, said there wasn’t enough time for campaign fund raising to have an impacton the inqui- ry this year. “T don't wantit to end this year,” Gekas said, but he admitted that he hadn't found other GOP members who sharedhis view. Incoming Speaker Bob Livingston has said he wants the inquiry to endthis year. Meanwhile, Gephardtsaid that ‘‘chaosis reigning” in the impeachment inquiry and suggested that outgoing Speaker Newt hartsaid, “This latest move by the committee presents a whole new area We really have no idea what their intention is. Lockhart all but ruled out any chance million in federal fundsthat went man Henry Hyde's invitation to testify to the panel. “You know, anyone who watched the proceedings over the last few hours would understand why the president saying both illegally benefited from issue ads run bytheir political parties. The repayments from candi- that Clinton would accept committee chair- of the United States has no businessin that have made clear they were prepared to support impeachment, a number of GOP lawmakershavesaid they would not vote for anyarticles on the floor — and have room,” Lockhart said. While Republicans on the committee Hutchinson, R-Ark., said, ‘The extraordi- that unless he assumescontrol,‘this investigation will needlessly plague the next Congress.” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a member of the commitiee, said the expansion repre- reason to do it.” WASHINGTON — Government auditors recommended The minority leader also wrote Gingrich of impeachment next week, Rep. Asa sents ‘desperate face-saving” by commit- proposed censureinstead. tions of those who have died from Also, the Utah office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Ur- ed with HIV. Despite the problem's enormi- ban Developmentannouncedthat condoms and staged concerts $368,000 in federal moneywill come to the state to pay for hous- Tuesdayto drawattention to the need for halting the spread of AIDS, which will kill millions of ing and supportservices for lowincome people with HIV/AIDS. peoplethis year alone Underscoring the sometimes The funds are part of $220 mil- lion in grants announced by Vice festive events on World AIDS Day wasa chilling fact: Although pow- President Al Gore on Tuesday. The state Department of Health says that more than 1,505 Utahns have been diagnosed with HIV. erful new medicines are helping rich countries win the battle against AIDS, the disease has reached epidemic proportions on continents where people can’t af- The department estimates 2,000 Cross, 28 young people ages13 to 19 havetested positive for the vi- infected worldwide with HIV, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa. In Asia and the Pacific, rus this year. In other AIDS Day events: In India, where as many as 5 million people are HIV positive 700,000 people contract HIV eyery year. In sub-Saharan Africa, the 1998 hundreds of schoolchildren death toll from AIDS is expected marched beside prostitutes in New Delhi, waving banners de- to reach 2 million, and 1.7 million claring “Together Against AIDS.” more people in the region will become infected with HIVthis year. “In the case of HIV/AIDS, the difference in wealth becomeslit- Wlsraeli and Palestinian wo- menhandedout condomsand red ribbons to passengers departing Israel’s international airport in Tel Aviv. In Ivory Coast, thousands of children wearing T-shirts with anti-AIDS slogans and bouncing erally a matteroflife and death,” said Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. From bars in Hong Kong to parks in South Africa, activists People pinned red ribbonson la- inflated condomslike beach balls marched through the streets of Abidjan. fight against AIDS. activists gave out coasters with preached the need for safe sex pels to express solidarity in the @In Moscow, a contraceptive company’s employeessheathed in red, yellow or green “condom suits” handed out condoms in Pushkin Square. @iIn Pretoria, South Africa, clowns painted red AIDS ribbons on people’s faces as drum majors entertained a crowd Underneath it all was a lifeand-death message: Practice safe sex or face the consequences. “Come and witness the reality of AIDS. See the devastation in our community. See the fresh graves,” South African President Nelson Mandela told hundredsof people in a village in KwaZulu- Lawyers for Clinton and Dole said the recommendations were excessive, and the advertisements The FEC staff auditors said they concluded that Clinton and Dole illegally coordinated supposedly independent ads run by national committees during the 1996 campaign. They said Dole exceeded the primary spendinglimit by $9 million, and should repay $2.9 mil- lion based on the formula. The auditors said Dole should cessive spending and other problems in the general election. lion South Africans are infected. This year an estimated 168,000 have died from AIDS. The vast majority of those in- fected in Africa and other developing regions cannot afford the drugs that are prolonging life for AIDS patients in the West. In Washington, President Clin- ton announced $10 million in emergency grants to help children orphaned by AIDS in poorer nations, but much more assistance will be needed to help turn the tide. repay an additional $14.8 million for exwhereboth candidates received a total of $61.8 million in public funds and agreed to spend noth- ing more. Dole’s lawyersaid it was unfair to count the Democratic Party ads against Clinton's primary spend- ing limits where the payback is smaller, yet count mostof the Re- publican Partyads against Dole’s general election limit that requires dollar-to-dollar payback. Lyn Utrecht, a Clinton campaign lawyer, and Democratic Party counsel Joseph Sandler said in a joint statement that the FEC recommendation was based on “a faulty and incorrect legal analysis.” The FEC auditors backed up their recommendationsby citing three ads paid for by the Demo- cratic National Committee that wereidentical to those aired by the Clinton campaign. 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According to the Greater Salt Lake Chapter of the American Red ford the drugs About 33.4 million people are repay $7 million and Republican the Democratic and Republican Natal province, where an estimated 25 percent of adults are infect- the disease JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- ca — Activists across the globe marchedin streets, handed out Tuesday that President Clinton at issue were legal. Hyde, R-Ill., said he still hoped to wrap up the inquiry by the endof the month. World AIDS Day Highlights Disparities in Infection Rate Between Rich, Poor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS White House press secretary Joe Lock- Gingrich or Livingston — who takes over next month — “needs to be given the re- sponsibility, needs to take” control. nary oddsarethat this will not impact our timetable. It would bedifficult to reconsti- tute this inquiry without somesignificant tee Republicans “to show the right wing they tried in every way to win’ impeachmentin the House. 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