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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Saturday, December5, 1998 A3 HouseDrafts Three Articles of Impeachment Capital Hill Shooter Found White Housesays ‘let’s talk’ alternatives, evenleaves the door open tofining Clinton $300,000 CHICAGO TRIBUNE stem from efforts by the presidentto conceal WASHINGTON Asstaff lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee prepared three his relationship with Lewinsky. The abuse-of-power charge “relates to the articles of impeachment against President president lying to his staff,” encouraging Clinton on Friday, the White House said it was “them to lie to the country, his own lies to the “aggressivelylistening” to any member of Congress who wanted to talk about censuring the presidentrather than impeaching him The White House also left the door opentoa fine for the president, perhapsin the amount country, using the mechanisms of the White House to perpetrate those lies,” the source said. The lawyers might also claim that the presi- “It is our viewthat the proceedingsto date have been inadequate and incompletein their exploration of certain important issuesrelating to the proposed impeachment ofPresident William Jefferson Clinton,” they stated. “We feel it is essential to the president's defense that we be able to call our own witnesses and dent abused his powers whenhe asserted what present our own arguments to address these important questions. of $300,000, for his behavior during andafter theycall “specious” legal privileges to mis- were beginning to concede, however, that a ter to the committee late Friday saying it lead investigators. The White House counsel's office sent a let- and now, in the 11th hour, it is obvious they vote by the House Judiciary Committee ap- wished to call panels of witnesses before the that they are in trouble. So the White House his affair with Monica Lewinsky Someof the president’s senior strategists provingatleast onearticle of impeachment was a near certaintyand that impeachment by the full House wasa realpossibility. According to a Republican committee source, staff lawyersare drawing up three articles of impeachmentto present to members earlynext week: perjury or lying underoath obstructionof justice, and abuse of power The lawyers have not decided whether to labelthe first article perjury becauseit carries a higher burden of proof from a legal standpointthan the more vague“lying under oath.” The obstruction-of-justice count would committee and that it may take as long as three or four days to makeits case against impeachment The committee had intended to hear from ‘Theyhave had two months to make adefense have countedvotes onthe floor and they see strategy, contrary to what theysaid last week is delay, delay, delay.” Clinton has admitted to misleading people abouthis relationship with Lewinsky and to has plannedonvoting onarticles of impeach- Charles Ruff, couns 1 to thepresident, and Gregory Craig, special counsel, said they in tended to call witnesses to testify on standards sponseslast weekto the 81 questions posed to him by the Judiciary Committee mayha did not anticipate witnesses. The committee mentnolater than Dec. 12 for prosecution; perjury; obstruction of jus- tice and abuse of power; and prosecutorial misconduct and the Bill Bradley Ready to Run For President impact of tainted evi- SomeWhite House strategists now concede that Clinton's highly limited and legalistic re. hardenedthe attitudes of some Republican moderates who might have been willing to vote for censureinstead of impeachment THEASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — As statesbe: gin deciding how to spendthefi tlement, NEWARK, N.J. — Former Sen. Bill Bradley Fridaysteppedto the Manystate officials agree and would derail me” from running. Bradley, the former New York New claring that “on a basiclevel, politics is broken.” On Friday he said he wants to harness the energy and compassion of the American people to solve problems such as poverty andhealth care “Tm running because I want to help unleash the enormous poten- tial of the American people,” Bradleysaid. “Though there are some cynics whosay that having a largevisionfor the country is un- fit for trial, a federal judgesaid Johnson, chief psychiatrist at a Scholar whostudiedpolities, philosophyand economics. Vice President Al Gore heads thefield of likely Democratic candidates for the nomination in 2000. Said Bradley in making his announcement: ‘This is not about Vice President Gore and me. This is abouttelling the country whatI believe.” Somein Congress want to keep never stand trial for the July 24 shooting deaths of the two Capitol guards. Prosecutors must choose at somepoint whether to continue pressing for a trial. Weston has entered no plea, and he does not need to do so until the issue of dress his mental statusat the time of the shootings. Johnson concluded Weston might become mentally fit for trial if hospitalized and treated and recommended Weston committed to a mental hospital for long-term treatment secret that they planned to pursue an insanity defense if the case Weston was shot several times by police after he allegedly barged past a metal detector and reaches trial. Weston was diag nosed years ago as a paranoid schizophrenic, and his family has said he suffered from powerful delusions that thefederal govern. openedfireonofficers. Oneleg is still immobilized in a cast, and two large pins protrude from one arm. QD, CPV | YourWish Lists ith Deseret Boo suits were to reclaim Medicaid spending on sick smokers. 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John Engler. ‘The iro- Carolina, evaluated Weston for several weeks this fall to see that will disburse the moneydur- the Clinton administration from butting into the battles. And states insist that if the federal government wants to dictate federal prison hospital in North The doctor recommended Rus- and the 46others signed a separate $206billion deal last month tends the federal government has a right to some of the money “It’s going to be a real food fightin every state,” said Bill Novelli of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. said during abrief hearing Friday sell E. Weston Jr. be hospitalized indefinitely, meaning he might Four states reached indepen- gun: In New Hampshire and for schools; in New York, Minnesota and Massachusetts, the cryis for tax cuts. And in Los Angeles, the mayor is eyeing sidewalks. rendering him mentally incapable inside the Capitol is mentally un dent deals with thetobacco industry worth a total of $40billion ing 25 years beginning in 2000 Maryland, leaders want money realistic, I don't agree with them I think you haveto live in the spirit that nothing is impossible.” Bradley, 55, gained the national spotlight as a basketball star in the 1960s and 1970s at Princeton, then with the Knicksin the NBA. 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