Show w - -- & 3tf The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday November 9 1995 — Page 5 Show cancels tobacco program Senate slates hearing on abortion procedure WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators opposed to certain late-terabortions agreed to allow Senate hearings on the medical technique they cull disgusting saying the public will sec why it should be banned senators said testimony from medical experts more likely would reveal that such decisions should he left to a woman and her doctor In a AP photo a process before it was ready for airing For editorial and jcgal reasons some Howard Richmond 17 surveys his camera angle while photographing a homework assignment from a road overrun by the Snoqualmie River during flooding Wednesday outside Fall City Wash Heavy rains and melting snow caused the closure of roads throughout the area but few major problems Washington floods changes were made during that process” CBS News spokes- woman Sandy Gcnclius said The CBS bosses said they feared they might be held legally responsible because the executive had signed an agreement with his former company Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp not to disclose internal company information the Times said ' “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace who reported the story said the recent settlement of a $15 billion lawsuit brought by the Philip Morris Companies against ABC News has altered the way CBS lawyers looked at the 60 Minutes interview the paper reported “The ABC lawsuit did not chill us as journalists from doing the story” Wallace told the Times ation programs that would let farmers drain small wetland ‘areas including nearly 2 million acres on the northern Plains The bill also would reduce penalties for farmers who violate conservation requirements and it attempts to weaken the Natural Resources Conservation Service pby reorganizing the chain of in the Agriculture Depart com-fma- nd imcnl this legislation is assist farmers by to designed lessening rules and regulations at the same time Congress is reducing commodity payments I think that's only fair" said the panel s vole Wednesday the hearings were necessary But Hatch and the bill's chief sponsor Sen Boh Smith voted to send it to committee on H large ‘ the advice of Majority Leader Bob Dole after two days Cutler denies Whitewater wrongdoing WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler said today that criticism of his role in a Whitewater-relate- d ethics probe is “utterly groundless” In prepared testimony to the Senate White-watCommittee Cutler said there was no misuse of sensitive investigative material from the ethics probe and that the White House did not use the material to brief aides before they testified to Congress “I'm aware that certain concerns have been voiced about the conduct” of the investigation Cutler’s statement said “These concerns are utterly groundless “We did not ‘cover up' any fact concerning any person" said Cutler “llicre is no factual basis for any insinuation to the contrary” Cutler said that he and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bcnlscn agreed before the ethics probe even began that the White House would have access to the sworn testimony of witnesses who were interviewed “In my June 30 press briefing I made the fact of this While cooperation fully public” Cutler said “If Secretary it Bcntscn and I were secret was certainly inept on our part to tell the world what we were planning to do” Cutler said White cooperation “made all the practical sense in the world to me then and it still does today” On Wednesday the Treasury team chief in the ethics probe James ('ottos spelled out for the committee the potential problem of distributing sworn testimony: “other witnesses being able to read and tailor to change their recollections” The While House denies any tailoring of testimony and Democrats on the Senate Whitewater Committee say there is no evidence of it House-Treasu- er chairman Rep Wayne Allard M 4 T hu bulanced-budgi- ji lo plan mov- ing through Congress woultfcul farm subsidies by $134 billion over the next seven years Environmentalists and Clinton administration ry But Republicans point to the fact that in at ho excuse FOB ABUSE Cal Far Fne Confidential h$ nth domestic violence officials denounced the conservation bill saying it would devastate waterfowl populations and roll back a decade's worth environmental protections gains on farm lands The bill would exempt wetlands smaller than an acre from the Swampbuslcr law which bars farmers from getting federal crop subsidies if they drain wetlands Allard had earlier backed off trying to rewrite the wetlands regulations saying that would complicate passage of the legislation However committee members insisted on adding provisions ry House-Treasu- Panel approves overhaul of THiBI'S if farm conservation programs !!!! WASHINGTON (AP) — With fafmcnj braced to take a big cut in government crop subsidies a House panel is moving to loosen conservation restrictions that protect wetlands and otherwise limit growers’ use of their land A House Agriculture subcommittee on Wednesday approved a major overhaul of farm conserv- 90-- 7 Senate gave its Judiciary Committee 19 days to hold hearings The first will be Nov 17 said Sen Orrin Hatch the committee's chairman Hatch and many of his Republican colleagues are seeking the ban on what they call “partial birth abortion” and didn't feel ah one went through ‘ support for hearings among both Republicans and Democrats for hearings The House had one day of hearings before it passed the bill last week Sen Arlcn Specter of Pennsylvania an abortion rights advocate who is competing with Dole for the Republican presidential nomination led the drive for committee review The overwhelming vote is no indication of how the bill will fare once it gets back to the full Senate where vivid descriptions of the abortion procedure made many senators uncomfortable Since the procedure is done in the late second trimester or the third trimester the fetus can be Abortion-right- s NEW YORK (AP) — CBS lawyers told 60 Minutes not to air an interview With a former tobacco company executive who criticized the industry the network said In its place the news show has Substituted a report examining how cigarette makers try to pro vent information from getting out ' “Like most news reports this Wednesday CBS' concern over the original interview wasn’t the threat of a libel suit according to network executives The New York Times reported today of debate showed considerable m least one instance a summary of a Treasury Department witness's testimony was sent by fax by a Cutler aide to a lawyer for Lisa Caputo the first lady's spokeswoman Caputo was never called to testify but Republican senators suggested that if the testimony was shared with Caputo 's lawyer it could have happened in other instances as well The White House says it didn't Cutler and another of his aides special counsel to the president Jane Sherburne arc likely to be questioned about the matter at today's Whitewater hearing So far the committee has focused on how Treasury Department lawyer Francinc Kcrncr passed sworn testimony and other information in the probe up the line to her superiors inside the Treasury Department One deposition that Kcrner provided was that of her own boss Jean Hanson one of those under investigation Give US Savings Bonds Get them at your bank and be sure to ask for a Formerly United Service Co Factory authorised most maker WE’VE MOVED N 753-370- 0 dbsas1® A public amnice of tea nawepaper mmw rlotivated Disciplined IS -- mr Kara a fefra without nUiaf that ia a etaaaroom Fur wit 2) yens Newport IMwnty a tadur in dictancr taming ha hrlprd butane and pnitewarul mm and women earn their BACHELOR MASTER AND DOCTORAL dygm at a fraction of the uf traditional education If ytwYv wiling to wiui we iv willing to Mp you adivw ytur dnvmx! 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