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The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Congress: Battle for Control Analysts say key races will be deciding factor for party dominance BY JON FRANDSEN and JOHN MACHACEK nor defense lawyers had seen the interview before. Ruling that exculpatory evidence was wrongfully suppressed, a judge freed Tyson in May 1998 and Du val last April. While prosecutors decided not to retry Tyson the city gave her $1.2 million in compensation they went after Duval again. While Tyson had ste: ad her innocence, Duval had twice wi& i Seea aes ete. hind bars again. eeeg a apse dhepene Nessim fat sultant who left his Rochester hotel the night of May 24, 1973, apparently to look for a prostitute. Police beime fsmotive was robbery. the absence of physical evidence, Duval and tyson were convicted of second-degree murder on the basis of confessions they insist were beaten out of them by a rogue detective, William Mahoney, and on the testimony of two teen-age runaways, Wayne Wright and Jon Jackson. House contin brink,” said Charles Cook, a While most observers see a GOPloss ofone ortwo seats in the Senate, it appears unlikely that Democrats could net the six they antes need control. And those further with Sen. ies Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., deciding to retire, thus setting up a competi- tive race there. centrist suburban voters who likely will be pivotal in the elections. Democrats, analysts said, must not look like obstructionists jority shrink in the past two elec- must not make it easy for Republicans to recycle the tax-and-spend liberals tag of past years. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Moreover the openseat situation hurts Republicans, who have But in the House, Republicans have seen their once-decisive ma- tions to a meager222-212, with one independent whogenerally votes Democratic. 22 retirements to six for Democrats. Onefactor in that was Mi- actly what Republicans will try to do: “The American people have a nority Leader Richard Gephardt choice of voting for a Congress of Missouri, who will become speaker if Democrats win a ma- and a party with new ideas and new energy, or going =Eoa Congress ofold ideas . jority in November and whospent much of 1999 persuading many Democrats to forgo retirement. bigger government.” But in all likelihood, the real working hard to break the waveof GOPretirements, pressuring spending, of huge public =of ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS N.Y. — Since being freed last his conviction overturned for a 1973 murder is tem- swing races, and it— be nuclear war in those races,” said Marshall Wittmann of the conservative Heritage Foundation. Democrats had once dreamed ofpulling offthe ultimate political R-ILL, madeit clear thatthatis ex- Freed Inmate to Be Retried for Same Crime beauty salon. “Tt’s not a job,” said Duval, 47. “It's just someSear aa ee But the joy of being on the outside after having ‘chances ofhang- ing so extreme that they unnerve Sunday, January 23, 2000 Nervous Republicans are now In 1997, Wright recanted his account, saying Ma- Washington, D.C., political honey had terrorized him into lying. Prosecutors then came upon a buried synopsis ofa police inter- Should the race take on a na- Duval or Tysonwith the victim. Neither prosecutors view with Jackson in which healso denied seeing saying “We're trying to get you out Johnny, just hold on?” Prosecutor Howard Relin has no doubt Duval took part in the slaying. Unlike the Tyson case, two detec tives who interviewed Duval are still aliveto testify The chief detective, investigated at least 10 times for allegedly abusing suspects, resigned in 1980 after fabricating evidence in an unrelated case. He died in 1981. Under his sentence, Duval had to serve a mini. mum of25 years.If convicted again of second-degree murder, he would be returned to prison. He could someday be granted parole or spend the rest of his life in prison. Two weeks ago, Duvalsaid prosecu tors offered him the assurance that he would remain free if he pleaded guilty and, in effect, gave up any chance of compensation. “T would ratherdie in prison an old man,” Duval said defiantly, adding that “no amount of mony could give mie whatthey took from me. agenda — improving education, protecting patients’ rights, strengthening Social Security and adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare — is likely to play all across the country,” said John Del Cecato, spokesman for the Demo- cratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “They become more important in open seat races because you don’t have a well- known incumbentin either party whois able to run more on their name recognition than the issues.” But Heritage’s Wittmann said Republicans are trying to ward off Democratic attacks on key issues suchas health care, education and mi jum wage with their own initiatives on those issues. Re- publicans also hope to score strong legislative achievements that they can sell back home. Republicans say they won't repeattheir 1998 mistakeof trying to nationalize the House campaign. Serb Refugees Long to Return Home Prizren shared a modest Christmas Eve dinner on Jan. 6 and Manylivingin shelters six monthsafter fleeing Kosovo,reprisals thoughtof all theylost. As Orthodox Christians, Serbs celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Day 13 days later than otherChristians. “Our only wish for this new millennium is — we want to return to our homes,” said another refugee, Srdjan,30. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VRANJE, Yugoslavia — More than six monthsafter the Kosovo war, some 180 Serb refugees cele- brated Christmasin a collective shelter hoping for their widely promised return home. There seems to be some progress — buses and trains now promises. goslav security forces pulled out from the province. country isolated and in ruins. “They’re providing us with state-run newspapers, and we several freezers. baniansin Kosovo. Still, a lotof the reconstruction by ethnic Most sought shelter in Serbia, where authorities dispersed them throughout the country, providing them with little more than slav presidentfor the 10 years of after Yu- Insteadof well-furnished hous- his crackdown on separatist Al- Albanians. NATO-led peacekeeping troops es, now they have no more than a few mattresses, someplastic bags crammed with belongings and dent Slobodan Milosevic to end prisal attacks “We don’t trust anyone, ei cially Milosevic,” Srdjan said. entered Kosovoin June bridges and overpasses leveled by a 78-day NATO bombing campaign that forced Yugoslav Presi- incestarting in June,afraid of re- Srdjan said he and about 180 others left all behind when crawl across reconstructed Most of Kosovo’s 200,000 Serbs fled the Albanian-majority prov- “We all eat and sleep here,” Srdjan said. ManySerbs blame the Yugo- Balkan wars that haveleft the Sal Authorities say they cannot support the refugees any better because of international trade sanctions. 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