Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, October 20, 1992, Page 6, Image 6

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pianists Victor Stemhardt
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Palmer, violist Leslie Strata,
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Accusations fly in Iraqi loan investigation
NATIONAL
r WASHINGTON (Al’l
Justice Deportment docu
ments released Monday
suggest that a deportment
■ lawyer expected the U S
" Attorney In Atlanta to
help manage u pol Ideally sensitive; hi mi even
after he hud withdrawn from il In avoid a
potential conflict
The documents, released hy Hep Henry
Gon/ule/, U-Toxas. chairman of the House
flanking Committee. dew rilx? as|wi is of the
investigation of tlleg.il loans by the Atlanta
brunch of the flam a Nu/.ionule del Lavoro to
Irai|
Thu U S Attorney in question, joe D
Whitley, who is a former deputy assistant at
torney general, said eight days after taking
office on June 1, loot), that he was removing
himself from supervision of the I use because
of a client he had had in private prac doe
7 didn’t have any
Involvement with the case
at all.’
Joe D Whitley,
Atlanta US attorney
Hut In it Sept, 21. WO, memo hi I on sod by
Gonzalez. Justice Dupurlmonl lawyer Motor
Clark wrote, "I thought that the (U S uttor
nayofhu;) was under control now that Joe
Whitley is in place "
Whitley stud in <i telephone interview thill
he has "no idea why (Chirk) would include
that in his memo. Imiciiusc I wasn't involved
in the case whatsoever '
Attorney General William fl.irr last week
named retired federal Judge I'roderh k D La
cey of New Jersey to examine the adminis
trillion s handling of (hr politically ohurged
COSO.
Harr car I u-r rejected u request from Demo
crals on tho House Judiciary Committee for u
court-appointed independent prosecutor to
probe the case. Democrats on the committee
renewed that request last week, and they
wen; joined Monday by all eight Democrats
on the Senate Judiciary Committee
Lod by Sen Joseph K Olden, D-Del . chair
man of the committee, the Senate Democrats
said they "believe it is impossible for the de
partment to review this mutter without per
sonal and political conflicts of interests.”
Barr bus 30 days to respond in writing to
each request
Democrats contend the administration
botched tho DNL Investigation to protect its
diplomatic relationship with Italy and shield
its flawed policy of support for Iraq prior to
the Persian Culf War
CIA ignored Cuban sources during
Kennedy’s 1962 missiles of October
LANCLLY. Vu (Al*) Thu
CIA hud 25 agents reporting
from Cuba during the lW(i2 mis
&iIo crisis thiii brought the
world to the brink of nudesir
wur Hut intelligence analysts
in Washington discounted their
reports of seeing whirl looked
like huge missile-like tulies. he
lieving the Soviet military
buildup in Cubit was purely de
fensive
"The record ol intelligence is
not unblemished in litis crisis.'
Deputy CIA Director Acini Wil
liam () Studeuiiin said Monthly
during an unprei edenled semi
nar at CIA headquarters, where
more than 100 sec ret docu
ments were made public and
key players in tin c lists shared
their memories
the compilation of docu
ments includes notes taken hy
the agent \ direc tor John
McCone during White House
crisis meetings estimates hy the
intelligence community, re
ports from Cuban agents, and
memoranda coded Ironlsirk
meaning they were based on in
formation from one of the most
valuable Soviet spies of the;
Cold War. ( ol Oleg lYnkoVsky
If the CIA could tin it over,
Sludeiii.in said U would pay
more attention to the inlor
munis reporting sigh lings of So
viet missiles in Culm, .md uon
ly/.e better how the Soviets
viewer! deployment of missiles
outside their borders
In bn I. the dor uinerits end
reminiscences highlight how
the Unitor! Slates nearly missed
the deployment of the SS-4
medium-range missiles in Cuba
until it was almost too late
As it was. the deployment
only became known when a U
2 spy plane photographed tin:
luuiu h pads on the weste.rn
thin! of Cuba on Oil 14 at
least one month after tile lost
batch got to the island
Warren t runk, then with tile
agency's foreign intelligence
branch, said much of the Cuban
agent reporting was colter ter! in
Miami at what became tin- iarg
esl ( 1A station in the world
The .100 memlier station. In
calod in what is now Miami's
zoo, collected reports from
some 2fi agents on the island,
interviewed Cuban refugees,
and talked to emigres In regular
correspondence with their fam
ilies
One report dot lasslhed Mon
day was made Sept 17, 1002
by a 47 year old Cuban de
scribed us n businessman will)
four years of schooling and of
average intelligence
The informanl described
driving out of Havana and ob
serving a convoy of lti trucks
and eight trailers, seven ol
which were carrying "what
looked like huge tubes extend
ing over the entire length of the
flatbed and completely covered
with canvas " The eighth was
carrying what looked like a ra
dar. he said
The CIA received hundreds il
not thousands ol such reports,
many of which its agents in Mi
ami deemed credible, said
Frank
Hut analysts in Washington
dismissed all hut a handful as
unreliable Several unahxls
said part of the problem was
that they could not understand
why the Soviets would want to
deploy medium-range missiles
in Cube
A landmark analysis on Sept
19. 1*102 also declassified
Monday said the Soviets
were onh deploying anti-air
craft missiles in Cuba to deter u
possible U S invasion effort in
the vs,ike of the botched tlav ol
Figs landing the year belnie
New judge
appointed
to riot case
LOS ANGiiLltS (Ai1) — A
judge who is u formor police
man unci prosc-culor was cho
sen Monday to preside at the?
racially charged trial of three
black men accused of beating
a while trucker during the
city's April riots
The selection of Superior
Court Judge John Ouderkirk,
who is white, ended nearly
two months of angry disputes
over the process of selecting
a judge; to hear the case.
Prosecutors removed the
first judge;, who was black,
and defense lawyers used a
joint challenge to remove u
while judge before drawing
Superior Court judge John
Reid, also white and known
as a tough, prosecution
minded judge1
An appeals court permitted
a defense! lawyer to use an
extra peremptory challenge
to remove! Relief from tin.- ease1
without stating .1 reason Ue
fense attorney James Cilltin
said outside court, "I may
have thought he hud .in un
conscious tiias against my cli
ent
io) challenges
For Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
Oct 18-24
1) Co to a party and don't drink alcoholic
beverages
2) Be the designated driver
3) Brag about a good time you had sober
4) Organize a non-alcoholic outing on the
weekend
5) Attend an alcohol awareness event
and learn more about alcohol abuse
If you are reluctant to accept one of the five challenges above,
ask yourself, "Could I have a problem with alcohol?"
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