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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday, February10, 2002 é A3 Senators to Grill Lay, But Will He Talk? Post-TraumaPatriotism Enr Former S on boss has not i all; ; $500 million in debt off Enron's balance companyofficials. Skilling said he knew few details of the complex web of partnerships that brought theenergytradingcompanytoruin,andhe insisted he was never warned of problems with the arrangements. He resigned in Houston-based “Thereality is that negaPRESS ing is always But when it’s distasteful. WASHINGTON — If you doneright, it can be veryef fective.” said Democratic of $125,000: become $10.5 million in ment zi thought nlaaesteerd lessThe thanformer three years. ‘i Enron executive who ran tism sweeping the nation would provide a break from Pollster and strategist Mark Mellman. the partnerships, Andrew Fastow, collected at least $30 million for his efforts. He and Kopper cited their constitutional protection againstself-incrimination and de negative° campaigning, think : alee ae ae even if some do it with Amer. The kind of advertisingf “ultimately, as alwa ici Market and what works,” patrio fe : Whether they manage to crack Kenneth August Enron’s clined to answer questions at Thursday's ican flags and anthems said Mark McKinnon, who Lay’ssilence remains to be seen Lay, Enron’s former chairman and a troubles became public. Lay, whoresigned Jan. 23, wasthemost dramatic hearing — as did two current Enronexecutives. Democrats are airinganad in North Carolina seeking to Was Bush’s top ad-maker in the 2000 campaign. friend and political backer of President Bush, could testify at a Senate hearing Tuesday, a weekafter he pulled out of two powerful symbol of the failed company, which was ranked as the nation’s seventh largest before it crumbled. He has yet to But the hours of testimony heard and the mountains of documents perused by lawmakers in recent weeks pointed them 5 = k sinkees ueee roh and indirectly question. But there are risks to attack ads that playoff of Sept. 11. “Voters are smart. I think scheduled Capitol Hill appearances. Two committees have issued subpoenas compelling Lay to come. So far, he has not before — — THE ASSOCIATED Michael Kopper, for one, saw an invest- ron’s chief executiveofficer, and other top D PRESS ES BY TOM RAUM _rities regulators. Theyalso provided stunning windfalls to some Enron executives. week from Jeffrey Skilling, who was En- WASHINGTON — The man whosat atop Enron’s “house of cards” is to be grilled this week by lawmakers who say they havestrong evidence of illegal activity surrounding the company’s collapse. Doesn’t Stop Attack Ads sheet and hidden from investors and secu- A House investigative subcommittee heard hours of conflicting testimony last BY MARCY GORDON . Wars”), Raptor and Big Doe — kept some But little in the Enronaffair has been un- folding according to custom. said he will invoke Fifth : a _ THE 2ASSOC tion customarilytell Congress in advance. speak publicly about the calamity. Minutes of Enron board meetings from late 1997 to mid-2000 show that Lay and to disquieting conclusions. “There is strong evidence of more than just negligence, more than just scamming oy : sa Bosrpe Sa bee Republicans retaliated given Congress notice of any plans to in- other directors had detailed information aboutthe partnerships. The nearly 4,000 partnerships — with ties fraud here,” said Rep. Billy Tauzin, RLa., chairman of the House Energy and of children waving flags a ea ereeeae eS aH Amendmentrighi against self-incrimina- names like Jedi and Chewco (from “Star Commerce Committee. President Bush for “bringin ging defense and homelandse- vokehis right not to answer questions. Witnesses who invoke their Fifth or deception — there's evidence of securi- with a commercial with im- = = of Haat ‘Sent. ttt Will be rejected,”said McKin- | . Maryland Teen Tells Police Vampires Gave Him Permission to Kill ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ° ° es to kill his own daughter—Hul- after Clara Schwartz allegedly LEESBURG, Va. — Police said a teen-ager with a history of mental illness confessed to the sword slaying of a promi- bert’sfriend—bylacinglemons with sulfuric acid and poisoning her pork chops. Hulbert * said stabbed Schwartz with a 27inch sword at the scientist's rural farmhouse, he drank his statement. frenzy.” ustogether[while] somepoli. ticians are trying to tear us curity issues. “What you'll aa open a to apart.” copythe gameplan of "conservative groups are who has the 8 percent ap proval ratings Democrats spending hundreds of thou- after he claimed her father wanted to make “sure she did not come back” from a family trip, ac- 10n. whoalso has worked for Democrats. He predicted a raft of positive ads emphasiz- sands of dollars in South Da- | kota on ads vilifying Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, and the Democrat isn't the guy aS well as Republicans, McKinnonsaid. _ Bush’s war-driven poll numbers are giving Demo- Hulbert, who has been diag- cording to Hulbert’s Dec. 12 victim's bloodand went “‘intoa | even up for re-election this rats pause, for sure. And Re- nentscientist, saying fantasy nosed as schizophrenic and creatures gave him permission treated in psychiatric hospi- “That was all I could take,” Along with Hulbert, Clara to kill the man in order to protect a friend. tals, said he was angered by 19year-old Clara Jane Schwartz’s he wrote. Theteen-ager said vampires Schwartz, Michael Pfohl,21, and Katherine Inglis, 19, are await- year. | “Deep publicans are making the in the American character, there is honor, and it is stronger than cynicism,” Most ofit. Democrats plan to use EnTon as an issue where possi- “T have always told Clara Sabba and Nicodemus then charges. The four havetold po- ingtrialon first-degree murder Bush declared in his State of ble. Butthat route is complithe Union address. But down cated because many DemoiT Hulbert, 18, of Millersville,Md., that I would protect her,” Hul- gave him permission for the lice they shared a devotion to in said he believed biophysicist bert wrote. Authorities made public Fri- day a statement in which Kyle Robert Schwartz, 57, was trying accounts ofher father’s abuse. Hesaidthe final straw came and creatures named Ordog, the trenches, political rats also have ties to the Dec. 8, 2001, slaying to protect fantasy realms dominated by strategists are mining the Collapsed Houston-based en- his “closest, most dear friend.” vampires and witchcraft. cynicism. ergy giant. VALENTINE’S GIFTSFOR HIM & HER ROMANCE ~*~ FOR HIM $PC. 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