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Show __ TheSaltLake TribuneNATION/WORLD Friday,August18,1995_ Ad: Mental Block Linked To Fuhrman Testimony By Linda Deutsch Ex-Wife: Cochran THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Det. Mark Fuhrmanused a racial epithet ina macho” bid to impress a screenwriter, but “a mental block” led him to testify that he had noi uttered the wordin the past decade, a spokesman said Thursday. AnthonyPellicano, a private investigator hired by Was a ‘Nightmare’ USA TODAY WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Sitting in her modest but immaculate whitecarpeted home, Barbara Cochran Berryis nervous. She has good reason. This is the first interview about Life After Johnnie Cochran: Why I Left the Sweetest-Talking, Most Successful Black Lawyer in L.A. The book, out today, details 17 years of marriage to the 0.J. Simpson lawyer and describes emotional and physical abuse and philandering. Berry writes cf filing restraining orders against Cochranin 1967 and 1977 that cite pushings, slappings, beatings and harassment “He may be onthe dream [defense] team, but he’s a nightmare as a husband,” Fuhrman, called a news conference to give e former detect ide of an lating contro’ y that has threatened the O.J. Simpson trial’s conclusion. While Pellicano was conducting damagecontro! for Fuhrman, the Simpson defense was in court working out details of how the 12 hours of tapes of the Fuhrmanin- terviews will be handled. They also presented testimony to oceupyjurors, who were kept unaware of the explosive happenings outside their presence. Despite the detective’s use of the word “nigger,” Pellicano and Fuhrman’s attorney Robert Tourtelot, insisted that Fuhrman is not aracist and did not commit perjury on the witness stand. “Did you ever hear the term ‘mental block?’ ” Pellicano asked as he discussed Fuhrman’s testimony. “I mean, when someone asks you a question like that, sometimes you don’t — you block out everything except what you Berry think you hear. That's what hap- pened.” He was referring to this exchange between Fuhrmanandattorney F. Lee Bailey: “And you say under oath that youhave not addressed any black person as a ‘nigger’ or spoken aboutblack people as ‘niggers’ in the past 10 years, Detective Fuhrman?” Bailey asked Fuhrman, who found the bloody glove on Simpson’s property. “That's what I'm saying, sir,” Fuhrmanreplied. Pellicano insisted that Fuhrman used the word and made other racial comments as part of an effort at “making himself look macho” to the North Carolina scriptwriter. Pellicano said Fuhrman forgot about the tapes when he wastestifying in March. Pellicano recounted Fuhrman’s involvement with screenwriting professor Laura Hart McKinny, which beganin 1985, saying it was “a very, very bad timein hislife. He wasupset with his job, he was upset with the LAPD, he was upset with his boss, he was upset with a lot of things.” In court, jurors hearda finger- says. She believes Cechran and Simpson are “the same person. Both have a need to control, manipulate andusetheir status aad wealth to gain favors, they have similar thoughts and deeds.” On Thursday, Cochranreleased a statement through his lawyer, Larry Feldman, calling the book “a complete fabrication regarding myrelationship with my exwife. I have never struck her or any other woman.” He hasinstructed Feldman to file a defamation lay uit Trash-Can Bomb Wounds 17 Neat Arc de Triomphe ‘THE ASSCCIATED PRESS PARIS — A bomb stuffed with nails and chunks of metal exploded Thursdayin a trash can near the Are de Triomphe, wounding 17 people in a blast authorities said resembled a subway bombing last monthlinked to Muslim extremists. The explosion raised fears of a bombing waveat the height of the tourist season. Authorities closed subway lines and searched for more explosives. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police detained two people in a gray Mercedes with Iranian diplomatic plates near the blast site, French news media reported. The Iranian Embassy denied involvement and condemnedthe attack. More than 100 police blocked off the area, a busytouristsite, after the blast blew out windows in nearby buildings on Avenue Friedland, a biock away from the famed ChampsElysees. A Danish boutique was converted into a temporary hospital, where paramedics tended to the wounded, many with cuts and bruises. “This is my sixth visit to Paris, but I won't come back again,” said Jan Dewit, a Dutch tourist A fire spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the bomb as a butane canister with nails and hex nuts — much like the one that exploded in a Paris subway station July 25, killing seven people That bombing, France’s worst terrorist at- Mattress Pad . Bed Frame FREE DELIVERY porting Algeria’s military- backed govern- ment. Red and white police tape kept crowds from the Arc de Triompheblastsite, just outside a subway entrance, and traffi aroundthe huge while monument was cut off. Dozensof police cars and fire trucks withlights flashingfilled the streets, though the Champs-Elysees remained packedwith tourists. Prime Minister Alain Juppe visited the site and urged Parisians not to “lose our sangfroid.” FREE You Buy The Set . Free Interest Bie store Details 90 days O.A.C. against Berry. print expert testify that Simpson’s prints were not found at the crimescene, but nine unidentified fingerprints were. The defense also fought to stop a plannednighttime jury tour of the crime scene and Simpson's estate Sunday, arguing it was too costly, unnecessary and misleading because the moonlight was different the night of the killings thanit will be Sunday. Prosecutors argued it was essential for jurors to see the scene at the time of night the murders were committed. Judge Lance Ito said he was inclined to allowthe visit, though he would return to the scene one more time before makinga final decision. tack in neariy a decade, was blamed on Mus lim extremists seeking to overthrow the govermment in the former French colony of Algeria, and impose Islamic law. 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