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Show ..,. I nn1 Hubbell indicted on tax charges . THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • FRIDAY, MAY 1, 199~ U.S. DIGEST THE NATION WASHINGTON (AP) - Whitewater prosecutors independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Hubbell pleaded guilty, agreed to pay restititution and informed fom1 er Associate Attorney General cooperated with prosecutors. Webster Hubbell, who has already served a But his frequent memory lapses and the prison term for fraud, that he was to be indicted disclosure that some presidential supporters yesterday on a tax charge, The Associated Press some at the White House's urging - had paid has learned. Hubbell more than A grand jury $400,000 in working with consulting fees Whitewater after he was forced prosecutors in to resign as the No. Washington handed 3 Justice up an indictment to Department official U.S. Magistrate prompted a new Deborah Robinson, investigation. but the names and Prosecutors began charge-S were not immediately ~ to explore whether t the payments released. S amounted to "hush A source familiar ~ money" designed to with the indictment 8 discourage his said Hubbell was - ·-c..i, .... ~ , ~ cooperation. told before the action at the ~, ~ ~ Hubbell and the ..._--,-_:...:.,..~~"'!'-:-'... White House courthouse that he Form er Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell steadfastly deny was to be charged is sworn in on Capitol Hill prior to testifying before any impropriety. with impeding Hubbell's wife, collection of taxes in the Senate Whitewater Committee in chis file photo. connection wit h - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - -- -- - Suzy, and two of his friends, accountant, Mike Schaufele, and C harlie hundreds of thousands of dollars he received Owen, a Little Rock, Ark., tax attorney who is a from President Clinton's supporters in 1994 when he firs t came under criminal investigation. former law partner of Hubbel l, were expected to be charged. The charges would come 14 months after Hubbcll's problems began in 1993 when his Hubbell, a golfing buddy of the president and form er partners at the Rose Law Firm uncovered former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton, was released from prison after serving 21 months evidence he had stolen money from the Hrm and its clients. He resigned in March 1994 and on charges he defrauded the Arkansas law firm where he and the first lady used to work. Those pleaded guilry to tax evasion and mail fraud nine charges were also brought by Whitewater months later. PENTAGON AWARDS $1.6 BILLION CONTRACT ON MISSILE DEFENSE RESEARCH: The United States is making "great progress" towards solving the technological problems involved in producing a national missile defense system Defense Secretary William Cohen said yesterday. His comm;nts came as the Pentagon awarded a $1.6 billion research and development contract to Seattle's Boeing Co. to coordinate a limited missile-defense system. Boeing will be responsible for design, development, testing and integration of a variety of components for a national missile defense system. FORMER SENATOR TARGETED BY ROGUE IRS AGENT: Fonner Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and two other politicians were targeted with phony criminal allegations by a rogue Internal Revenue Service agent attempting to advance his career, a Senate panel was told yesterday. Joining Baker, who served as White House chief of i..Hillo- w - ar....d.. . --= staff for President Reagan, were two other Baker targets of the bogus investigation: David - - -- - Crockett, district attorney general in northeast Tennessee, and Rep. James H. Quillen, R-Tenn. Baker expressed "my profound appreciation" to IRS agents who sought to block the rogue agent's 1989 plot. SENATE REJECTS EFFORTS TO SLOW NATO ENLARGEMENT: The Senate rejected effons to block or slow the expansion of NATO into the former Soviet bloc yesterday, opening the way for expected ratification of the firs t enlargement of the Western alliance since the end of the Cold War. In advance of a final vote, President Clinton said the addition of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic would bring the world "closer than ever to realizing the dream of a generation: a Europe that is united, democratic and secure." Senate leaders hoped for a fina l ratification vote yesterday, but amendments were still pending in the a£ tcrnoon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 THEWORLDI- - Clinton urges huntan rights action WORLD DIGEST JEWISH STATE'S HALF-CENTURY JUBILEE MARKED : For Israel's people, yesterday marked a festive finale to celebrations, which began Wednesday, of 50 tumultuous years of statehood. For Palestinians, however, the occasion was a bitter reminder of their own lack of an independent state. Security was tight for the celebrations. Thousands of troops were deployed at sensitive sites, and snipers and bomb squads stood ready. As a precaution, Israel scaled off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, barring Palestinians from en tering Israel. DALAI LAMA SAYS DIALOGUE WITH CHINA BEST WAY TO PROMOTE TIBETAN AUTONOMY: The growing desperation of the Tibetan people could lead to violence, the Dalai Lama warned yesterday, urging China to enter into a dialogue over the autonomy of his Himalayan homeland. The Dalai Lama is the religious and spiritual leader for many of Tibet's six million Dalai Lama people. However, as a Buddhist said he could not support actions such as recent hunger strikes and the self immolation of a Tibetan activist, who died Wednesday in New Delhi. It was first act of its kind among the more than 100,000 Tibetans campaigning from exile in India to regain freedom. IRA'S REFUSAL TO DISARM PUTS WIDER NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT ON EDGE: The Irish Republican Army refused to disarm yesterday as part of the Belfast peace accord, infuriating Protestant leaders who vowed to exclude its allied Sinn Fein party from any new Northern Ireland administration. The IRA called the April 10 accord among the British and Irish governments and eight parties, including Sinn Fein, "significant." But the outlawed group rejected the section requiring Northern Ireland's rival paramilitary groups to "decommission" weaponry. BEIJING (AP) - President Clinton urged Clinton's appeal was contained in a message Chinese President Jiang Zemin yesterday to that Albright delivered to Jiang as they made move forward on human rights and religious preparations for Clinton's state visit in June. The Chinese leader, in a good mood, took Albright on freedom while curbing exports of weapons technology. Clinton also gave assurances his a tour of his 600-year-old compound and a long-term vision was one of "concrete lakeside pavilion where some of the summit will cooperation" between their two countries. be conducted. With hundreds of The thrust of Chinese still in Clinton's letter was prison - many a desire to build on under a repealed law the momentum banning toward better ties counterrevolutionary that were activity- and established when political expression Jiang visited still muffled, there Washington last are obstacles "to a .,, October. He told the fully comprehensive ~ Chinese leader he partnership/' ~ wanted "new steps" Secretary of State ~ taken to expand Madeleine Albright gcontacts between said at the end of ~ the two "'governments and two days of talks. Albright was i: their people. unable to persuade U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets with Among Clinton's China to sign an Chinese President [iang Zemin in the Zhongnanhai suggestions were international accord leaders' compound in Beijing yesterday. excha.nges of to curb export of scientists and missile technology nor reform its economy or education and health specialists. open its markets enough to qualify for But he did not gloss over "specific areas of membership in the World Trade Organization, a concern," according to James P. Rubin, the State senior U.S. official told The Associated Press. Department spokesman. Although Charlene Barshefsky, the United These included a n~ed to .c~nclude States trade negotiator will come to Beijing again arrangements for China to JOm the World Trade before President Clinton's summit meeting in Organization, the international rule-setting body June with Zemin, there is virtually no chance for ~rade, and to cope with ener~ and agreement can be reached by then on either environmental problems, the United States front. official said. .. .. . ......................................... ........... ..,., _ .... . , ......... . ····· ··· ·..... .· ,. • • • • • •• • • • • • .- . •,1 • ,1,1 ,1 I • # #.._ _ _. ..... - . , •• , , . .. .......... ,•..,•,.•.• o• .•."'•._••+•,.•,.. • •.,• . •., •,. •. •. • ._•.;*.r., ,.,.. •• ~~.• , ... "' •• ..-, <( |
