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Show ‘The SaltLake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursday, February1, 1996 Whitewater: Clinton Aide Testifies . & Under Pressure? White Houseofficials did not pressure the FBIto investigate the travel-office employeesfired in 1993 by the Clinton administration, a Justice Department review says. Republicans have contended there was such pressure. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON —A senior adviser to President Clinton twice questioned a White House aide about a conversation between Clinton and his Whitewater partner a decade ago, the aide testified Wednesday. As Senate Whitewater Committee Republicans tried to showthat Clinton had knowledge of a sham real-estate deal, White House aide Bob Nashtestified about a five- to 10-minute conversation in 1986 between Clinton and James McDougal, owner of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Nashsaid Clinton, who was governorof Arkansasat the time, and McDougal engaged in “pleasantries’ at McDougal’s office trailer at Castle Grande, a real-estate development that failed at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $4 million. As the Whitewater affair was erupting in 1993, Nashsaid he got a phonecall from presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey asking about the trailer meeting. Two months AS The Last Cuban Refugees Leave Guantanamo Bay THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Thelast Cubans held in refugee campsleft here Wednesday, kissing and waving plastic American flags before boardinga jetflying them to Florida — and freedom. A crowd of about 50 soldiers. civilians and reporters watched as the last group of 127 refugeesleft among the refugees produced riots, lawsuits, violence and 60suicide attempts, but the frustration also producedart, poetry, friend behind the makeshift canvas and wood campsthat once held 50,000 Cubans and Haitians. The refugees had been picked upin rafts and small boats while trying to flee to the UnitedStates. The final refugee to board the bans from the camps marks an end to the military operation that That was when 21,000 Haitians thousands of Cubans, fleeing Fi- plane, Margarita Uria Sanchez, and 29,000 Cubanswereliving in held up a poster that read “End of the 94-96 exodus.’ The departure of the last Cu- tent cities strewn across the 40- del Castro, and Haitians, fleeing the military dictatorship that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, headed for Florida cost the United States more than $250 million and occupied the lives of 8,400 military personnel riages. The huge task of building up the base became necessary in the summer of 1994 after tens of at its peak, the fall of 1994 square-mile camp. As months| passed, ships and at least three mar- tensions ago, after Lindsey was by Senateinvestigators, he talked to Nashagain, asking whether he recalled the conversation the two had in 1993. Nash said he assumed Lindsey contacted him because of the controversy. The committee released a handwritten note by Lindsey from 1993 showinghe was gatheringinformation about Whitewater. It referred to Nash’s witnessing the Clinton-McDougal meeting and then-Associate Atty. Gen. Webster Hubbell being given Whitewater-related recordsafter the 1992 campaign. Democrats said the ClintonMcDougal meeting and Lindsey's two contacts with Nash prove nothing. But Republicans argued that the Clinton White House was worried about the 1986 ClintonMcDougal meeting. Both Parties See Good In Oregon Senate Upset THE WASHINGTON POST PORTLAND, Ore. — Demoeratic leaders Wednesday were quick to proclaim Democrat Ron Wyden’selection to the U.S. Senate a bellwether rejection of the conservative Republican agenda, butofficials here said localissues were iust as important in Wyden’s razor-thin victory. Even Wyden, who defeated conservative Republican Gordon Smith to becomethefirst Oregon Democratin three decadesto win a Senate seat, acknowledged at a tiews conference Wednesday that “this was about Oregon values more than anythingelse.” However, he said, his victory “certainly ought to be a wake-up call te Republicans onissues such as the environment, a woman’s right to choose and putting some balance in the balanced budget.” Wyden,a liberal Democrat who has been in the House since 1980, won with 568,335 votes, or 47.6 percent, to 551,103 votes, or 47.1 percent for Smith, who is the presidentof the Oregonstate senate. Wyden appears to have run especially ene in the Portland suburbs and‘among women voters and independents. Wydenwill take over the Senate seat vacated last year by former Sen. Bob Packwood, R, a moderate, who resigned over sex- ual-harassment charges. Republicans had predicted before the election that Smith, who was generally thought to have run a good campaign while Wyden made someblunders, would win the seat by as much as percent. Putting as good a face on a defeat as possible, Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barboursaid the closeness of the Oregonelection should signal President Clinton that he ‘will not be able to take any state for granted in November. He'll have to fight hard for electoral votes even in states as’ traditionally Democratic as Oregon.” Barbour called Wyden’s slim victory “testimony to the strerigth of the Republican reform agenda [Smith] offered to the voters.” Democratic National Chairman Don Fowler said Oregon voters were “rewarding Democrats for standing firm to protect Medicare, Medicaid, education and the environment from extreme, unnecessary and dangerous Republican cuts.” Sen. Christopher Dodd, DConn., DNC general chairman, and Nebraska Sen. 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