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Show Al18 TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Friday, January5, 1996 MemoRaises Travelgate Questions WASHINGTON — A newly produced White House memo written two years ago drew congressional accusations ofa coverup Thursday and prompted the Whitewater prosecutor to criti- ze the Clinton administration. ? memo identifies Hillary Rod- as the key figure in the mass firings at the White Housetravel office — an assertion she has denied Whitewater prosecutor Ken- neth Starr expressed concern about the White House’s failure to turn over the draft memo — which the W) hite Housesays it dis( files of presidential Thomassonlast Friday. For nearly two years Whitewater prosecutors have been investigating the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, whose name is mentioned repeatedly in the memo. Written by Thomasson’s boss. then-White Housedirectorofadministration David Watkins, the memo says that “we knewthat there wouldbe hell to pay” unless travel-office employees were dis. missed “in conformity with the First Lady's wishes.” The memo contradicts information the White House provided General Accounting Office saying that Mrs. Clinton “had no role inmie decision to terminate S. a up,” Rep. William Clinger R-Pa., said head of the House Government Reform Oversight Committee. He said that while no crime was committed, there seems to bea convenient lapse of memory” by Mrs. Clinton and White Houseaides. In announcing that the committee will hold. new hearings on the travel-office episode, Clinger said the panel will send written questions tothefirst lady, will subpoena documents in the custody of Hollywood producer Harry Tho- mason and Watkins and summon Watkins for ques ioning Ma McLarty, a senioradviser to Clinton and White Housechief of staff at the time of the traveloffice said “the first lady wai and concerned about the reports of financial mismanagement and possible miscon- duct in the White House elof- fice, as was I. She expressedtome her view that those reports re saa U.S. Official: Haiti Hindered Probe quired prompt attentior not. however, direct me to terminate anyone Watkins’ memo said Mrs. Clin- ton pushed for the firings after meeting with Hollywood produc- er Thomason, co-owner of anaviation consulting firm that could have benefited from a revamping of the travel office. Thomasson, the presidential aide, searchedtheFoster's office the night ofhis death looking, she said, for a suicide note. She said she did not find one and that she took nothing from the office — but her entry into Foster's office led to her questioning at Senate Whitewater Committee hearings last summer. The Whitewater committee chairma’ Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, said he ma question Watkins further because of the “troubling new evidence in his memo tice in Haiti, including th e FBI inPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s governmenthinderedan FBI probeinto theslayings of as many as 20 people, most of themAristide opponents. according to a US. official There was no suggestion Aristide condoned the killings, but Haitian authorities denied FBI requests for interviews with offi- cials believed to haveinformation about them. the official said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity An attorneyfor Haiti's government insisted Thursday that Hai- tian authorities had cooperated with the FBI In Washington, the House In- ternational Relations Committee held a hearing Thursday on jus- vestigation. The com mittee’s chairman, Rep. Benjamin Gilman R-N y., said FBI investigators told members of Congres: s there is evidencelinkinglast year’s killing of ultranationalist politician Mir. eille DurocherBertin to the uurders of several other Ari: stite Opponents. The U.S. official said Wednesdaythat the FBI report revealed the same weapon wasust ed in the March 28killing of Bertin and the Oct. 3 slaying of Brig. Gen. Henri N lax Mayard, an official of the former military regime. The official declined t ‘0 speculate on any other connection between the two killings. But such a finding could support th e theory that the victims weretar; geted by the sameassassin orassassins. 10 Alabama Judges Change Over to GOP THE ASS' IATED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Republicans staged their first victory party of 1996 Wednesday as 10 judges an- nounced they were abandoning the Demoeratie Party to become Republicans More than 100 GOP loyalists withstood bone-chilling cold to stand in front of the courthouseas Gov. 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