Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday August 12 2002 Nation In brief Q tODDii®® amr&Dnffax7 ir®D® Report says pilot refused to fjy senior ALEXANDRIA Va (AP) —A bioweapons expert under scrutiny for the anthrax attacks fiercely denied any involvement with the tainted letters and said Sunday he had cooperated with the investigation only to see his life and work destroyed through speculation and innu- Israeli official from Cincinnati CINCINNATI (AP) — A pilot for a Delta Air Lines subsidiary would not fly Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior from Cincinnati to Toronto because the pilot thought Melchior posed a security risk an Israeli radio station reported Sunday Melchior who was being escorted by State Department officials told Israel Radio that he waited on the plane Friday for more than an hour before the pilot evacuated it saying there was a security risk When Melchior disembarked he said he was told he was not allowed to get back on the plane The security officials and the company all put pressure on him and there were negotiations" Melchior told the station “But the pilot iit sovereign on his aircraft and he is empowered to make such a decision and he did it in spite of all the pressure from the company and security officials" He said he flew out later He has since on another Delta plane about a half-horeturned to Israel The lsraeli embassy in Washington has taken the matter up with the Stale Department Melchior said This is the third time an Israeli official has been pulled from a flight because of a pilot's sense of a security risk the radio station reported The others reportedly were Alon Pinkas the Israeli consul general in New York and a bodyguard of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres “This singling out of Israeli and removing them from a plane in such a manner diplomats' and the very fact that we are Israelis (is deemed) to pose a security risk is intolerable" Melchior said endo Dr Steven JHatfill said he understood that his expertise in germ warfare would force him to answer questions about last fall's attacks but said he had never worked with anthrax and there was not a “shred of evidence" he was involved “I am a loyal American and I love my country" Hatfill told reporters outside his lawyer's office “I have had nothing to do in any way shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters" Hatfill who had an American flag pin affixed to his lapel said he had cooperated fully with authorities only to have ur what lie called defamatory information about him leaked to reporters He said he understood that authorities and the media had to consider his potential involvement afire the letters killed five and sickened more than a dozen people “This does not however give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process” he said Lawyers group may endorse cloning ' Law enforcement officials have described Hatfill 48 as “person of interest" not a suspect and that he is one of about 30 people being examined On Sunday a law enforcement official close to the case said the scientist has not “received any more attention than any other person of interest in the investiga‘ WASHINGTON ( AP) — The nation's largest lawyers’ group will decide this week whether to endorse cloning to advance human health while condemning government intervention that would make criminals of scientists who pursue medical cloning research A proposal before the American Bar Association would put thq 408 organization on record for the first time aboufcloning arid at odds with the Bush administration The ABA’s governing body is to vote Monday or Tuesday on what scientists call therapeutic cloning or the engineering of human embryos for the medically precious stem cells they contain Stem cells might then develop into replacement tissue and organs for patients with incurable diseases Cloning one's own cells could overcome the body’s tendency to reject transplanted tissue researchers hope Therapeutic cloning not yet tried in humans assumes that the created embryo will be destroyed It is not intended to make a baby and the proposed ABA position implicitly opposes cloning for reproductive purposes supporters said 000-lawy- er Dem party chief favors Gore Alexandria WASHINGTON (AP) — A1 Gore deserves the chance to run again for the White House after his disputed loss to George W Bush in 2000 the Democratic Party chairman said Sunday “He was robbed and that’s a fact” Terry McAuliffe said The former vice president has said that he will decide by year’s end whether to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2004 The parties’ political focus now is on the Nov S election which will determine control of Congress By the next morning McAuliffe said “I do believe that the presidential campaign will get off and everybody will be out there t think there’s going to be six re seyen people running for president which I like" He said on ABC’s “This Week" that Gore “deserves to run 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MWtaaMHwrl wwwJkhanrlacom uni mmumM Im iwufaUuii iwiipwi- - rin DM JK Harris A Company- - Logan (475 Offices Nationwide) 'Jt biological warfare program and repository for the Ames strain of anthrax that was used in the attacks But he said he had not been inoculated since 1999 and had been susceptible to anthrax since 2000 “I am appalled at the terrible acts of biological terrorism” Hatfill said “But I am just as appalled that my experience knowledge dedication and service relative to defending Americans against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the ' anthrax killer” AGENTS A TAX PROFESSIONALS tatfli far ftmin an Uw Ddfar - WHtfan GumtfM EX-IR-S MmI Mi Via defense contractor Hatfill took no questions after his statement His lawyer declined to answer questions about Hatfill’s past Hatfill emphasized that his background is in the study of viral diseases such as Ebola not bacterial diseases such as anthrax He said he was routinely vaccinated against anthrax because of his work at the US Army Medical Research Institute at Fort Detrick Md once home to the US Hatfill’s name is the only to have emerged publicly in the investigation Since then several questions have surfaced about Hatfill including what appear to be exaggerations cm his resume lus involvement fighting for white rule in n J the former Rhodesia and whether he lost his security clearance while working for a tion” VETERAN re-ru- AP photo Hatfill a bioweapons expert under scrutiny for the anthrax attacks reacts as he defends himself during a news conference outside his lawyer's office on Sunday in Dr Steven Pfafaurt) CaHloday lonManhal LmOSar 755-217- 7 A J J S S S JA Martha SteWart may be subpoenaed A A WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawmaker leading the House investigation into ImClone stock sales said Sunday that Martha Stewart probably will be subpoenaed on her possible involvement in an insider trading scandal “We can’t sweep something like this under the nig because - Maidia Stewart is a celebrity and so I think that we’re probably going to have to subpoena her” said Rep Janies D Greenwood chairman of the House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee Committee investigators have been trying to resolve discrepancies between Stewart's account of the sale of nearly 4000 shares of ImClone a day before the stock' plunged and those of lire Merrill Lynch broker and his ( A JA A J J J ¥ since changed his story ''I r‘ A WSDDow Park 500 West 700 South J J J J J A A J J S S J JA A A J A J A J JA pm A J w J A A A A A A A A' A i J J A 'J A S"- J A i J A A A JA- ' J Grand jury impaneled in Kmart probe ii”' a: TROY Mich '(AP) — The US Attorney’s Office has impah-eJe- d 'A J a federal grand jury in Dfctroit as part of its probe into A been 20 have tubpoenas bankrupt Kmart Corp and more than other documents accord- ‘ issued for witnesses bulk records and A v ing to h published report Investigators want to unravel the facts behind the bankruptcy J A and determine if former chief executive Chuck Conaway former president Mark Schwartz or other former executives will face charges in connection with Kmart’s downfall Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan 22 after disap- J stock price A pointing holiday sales and a faU in the company’s --A J S ' -' f r f — V V' r ’C ' J assistant v : jj A ed Stewart’s friend former ImClone CEO Samuel Waksal was arrested in June on charges he secretly advised family members to sell their ImCone stock on December 27 after learning that his AP eouftCE&YWwocomiComnxxSly systems reAMOOMcmeM biotech company’s highly promoted cancer drug had been Administration and Food the Drug rejected by Steward maintains she simply had an order to sell her stock when it went below $60 But doubt has been cast on that ass4r- two because die apd her Meprill Lynch broker Peter Bacanovic differ on when thedrierwks placed Bacanbvic’s assistant Douglas FaneuiL originally said there was suijh an order but has ' J ' LOGAN miss sat tictisTisa iNSwaipsr J A A": J J-'- i I v |