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Lowry investigation brings questions OLYMPIA, Wash (AP) Probes of sexual-harassment allegation* against Gov. Mike I.owrv expose a sti< king point in statu ethics law Who appoints the investigator and how can the person's indepen dence be assured’ Two of I.owrv s top m houw legal advisers have appointed an out side attorney they know, at no charge, to look into allegations that the governor repeatedly sexually harassed his former deputy press six rotary. Susanna Albright Is that arm's length enough? Shawn Newman, on Olympia lawyer who handles sex harassment cases and is president of the citizen watt hdog group Cl PAN says nothing less than a completely independent probe will do. "Anything internal and the people will always believe it will be tainted.'* he said in an interview Sunday "And it always serves the interests of the person who is under investigation It needs to he total ly independent." Larry Finegold, a criminal defense attorney who has taken Albright's , tse says that at the very least, the investigator's name should be made public He smd the investigator's anonymity reduces the like lih.. the! W itneeses or othet potential vii tims will come forward, miu e they won’t know whom to contact "The best way to keep the investigation in the dark is to keep the investigator tn the dark," Finegold told The Seattle Times Attorney Oneral (Pristine Urvgoirv said Sunday her offi< v will not investigate unless Albright files a lawsuit against the governor The attorney general’* office is legal adviser, and potential defender, of the governor and might have a [x»n eived conflict of interest tti inves tigating him. she said She conceded that the governor's office appointment of outside counsel won’t assure some citizens, either But she said it’s the advice her office gave Uiwry. baaed on current pcdii v Albright, o former journalist and a puhlu ist for the Senate llemoc rats, joined Lowry's stuff in mid-1993 She sav s she left her S-tH.fMH) a vear job in November because of very clear and persistent unact eptahUi behavior bv the governor toward me " She has not filed a formal complaint or lawsuit, making it doubly inappropriate for the attorney general to be involved at this point. Gregoire said The governor flatly denies any impropriety I vs as stunned when I learned of tins This is an excellent employ is- very professional, done a fine Job.” Lowry told Seattle s k!N(. I’V on Sunday ’I never did anything inappropriate l.owrv said he supports the naming of an outside investigator, whom his offit e dec lines to identify other than to say she is a Seat tle attorney who has exponent v in harassment t uses Intel demonstrates new range ot home computers HIILSBORU, Ore (AIM Pushing the design of personal computers forward, Intel Corp on Monday will show industry executives ways to move more audio, video and communication fuiu tions to the main i trc uitry of a mac hlne. The company, maker of the microprocessors that run most PCs, hopes the work will elimi nate much of the need for act es sory circuit boards that can only lie adder! when the computer is taken apart. lie time, the results should tar smaller and faster PCs. Intel fears the variety of tech nical designs for accessories pre vents most people from using the computer for anything besides writing reports or crunching numbers And gutting customers to use the computer for things like telephoning or video is key to sustaining demand for the machines and Intel's chips At research labs on several sub urban campuses west of Poriland. Intel engineers are trying to give the PC more of the integrated qualities of a stereo or TV "We've hit a barrier as an industry." said Craig Kinnie. director of the Architecture Development Lab, one of the company' s four research amis "If you're going to make media and communications work on the IX We needed (1) take I next sli!|> Ann lysis said the development is also important Inn a use it will bring IBM t ompatible IH s clos er to th(> sound and video quali ty and ease Apple Computer lm: has achieved by controlling all the hardware accessories for its Macintosh machino* "What Intel saw was they wem going tu not have as much demand for those kinds of capa bilities in a market that didn't have some uniformity." said Mark Spot kor, researt h dirts tor at the Gartner Group, a let hnol ogy consulting firm in Stamford. 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