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Lacking information, committee approves course TON (AP) The House nihii x i mn mil tee. in giving Rep Newt Gingrich R-Ca . approval in 1993 to teach his i o I lego course, act U A S 111 N {. (•<1 on an incomplete description of how the i ourse would bo financed and pro moted. documents indicate. The documents are important Iks atise the speaker plans to go on the offensive this week, releasing the ethics commit tee letter that < onditionally approved the Civ dedm hide finaui ing Mid tflM blng ol the course, Renewing American Givi lization." The Aug. 9. 1993, committee letter, obtained by The Associated Press, was carefully ami narrowly crofted to approve only the tax-deductible adui ational m tiv itv described to tin* committee by f .mgrii h. who was then Repuhlii an whip Informa tion on Gingrich’s contacts with the othi< s committee came from congressional sources who declined to !*• identified pub licly. Gingrich desc ribed the < ourse in letters he sent the committee May 12 and July 21. 1993. also obtained by the Associated Press Thus** letters did not mention the i entral role in promoting and financing the course by Gingrich'* political com mittee GOP AC In the letters Gingrich promised there would l*> no mass mailings, although dcx untents show GQPAC did sut h mailings Gingrit h wrote that the course would be non-partisan and not attm k President Clin ton Y<-t GOP AG documents dev ntied the course s goal as res noting 200.000 con servative activists and in some cases bit terly denouncing Clinton i’he GOP AC effort was under way for more than two months Indore Gingrich sought approval for the 1 nurse Gingrit b. who began tern lung the course in late t'et.l. gave his last lecture at Reinhardt Qjl lege in Waiesk.i (Mi . on Saturday He smd he has 20 hours of let turns on videotape that can lie distributed to teat h others about his philosophy of government The ethic* committee t aught up with the (A )PAC role when the t nurse was dial lenged as a partisan activity not eligi bio for tax-dodm lible finam ing in a t ompiaint filed in September 190-i Kor intr Democratii Rep Bon }anm of Goor gia. who filed the complaint, provided dozens of GOPAC documents Two months later. Jones lost his bid to unseat Gingrich from his suburban Atlanta dis I r it t On 0»1 it. l'f'H. thmi i ommitUi’< hair man Ri>t) lames McDermott. IVWash and the ranking Republican former Rep Fred Grandv of Iowa wrote Gingrich about his omissions They -.aid the docu ments supplied l>v Jones "reflect the involvement of GOI‘A( and GOPAC employees in developing and raising hind* for the course GOf’AC's role in seeking funding for the course was not divt losed to the committee in vour letters The committee then cited some two dozen of the GOt’At' dm uments. all writ ten tie fore the panel approved the i otirse several dated before Gingrich initially contacted the committee for approval The t ommittes* leaders also said the dm uments raise questions us to w hether the course was evi iusivelv edut ational lit nature, or partisan political activity intended to benefit Republican t andi dates.” Gingrich spokesman Tony Hlankley said Sunday that the GOPAC role was not rel evant Ns ,iuse the course itself vs is non (vartisan * "The .Vrw Fork (jims r«s eiitly i ittsl a< a demit s who charm ten zed the class as not partisan.” Hlankley said "Anybody who sees .ill JO hours of Iho ( l.iss would have lo agriw w ith that proposition." If the class is non-partisan, though ide ologu al, all of the references (lo l.()I’A( i ah’ irrelev ant to tin* point Now t w as mak ing to tho committee that the class w ill not f>o a partisan at tivitv " Blankley said Gingrich's pronuso not to <lo mass mailings referred only to taxpay er-financed mailings, not to mailings paid from private ftintfs And he added that (an grtch's pledge not to attack (Hinton meant he would not do so in the class a promise the speaker has kept In the committee's 1‘tO.t approval letter, M< IVrmott and (dandy wrote Gingrich that sint e he said he would not he com pensated. he did not need i ommittee approval to teat h Gmgrii h s request to present course material in floor sjeas lies was viewed as well within your ofTit i.il prerogatives Hie t ommittee also approved soliciting tav dedui tilde donations, provided the fund raising followed tax law who h allows use of tax deductible donations for edm ation. hut not lor partisan a< livitv T he fund raising approval also had these conditions that nooffii nil resources are used, no official eiidorseinent is implied, and no direi t personal benefit results " Monterey peninsula flooded by storms SAN FRANCISCO (AIM — Floods washed out all roads into the Monterey Peninsula on Sun day as waterlogged California struggled to recover from storms that battered two-thirds of the state. At least eight people died in five days of flooding, and five more are missing after driving into a rain swollen creek when an Interstate 5 bridge collapsed in t antral California. Sunday was rain-free for most of California. The National Weather Service said showers were expected again Monday, but not the downpours of last week. In Monterey County, thou sands of people left their homes overnight as the Satinas and Pajaro rivers inundated some of the nation's richest farmlands, the site of (oho Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath The flooding cut off the com munities around Monterey, about 100 miles south of San Francisco. "At this point all roads .ire dosed the Monterey Peninsu la is literally isolated," said county emerge nr v Officer A1 Friedrich California Highway Patrol officials said roads may remain closed until Monday Many people were rousted from their homes early Sunday os flood wafers rushed into low lying riverside communities overnight "Polic e went down the streets with their sirens telling people to please leave." Friedrich said "It's a scary thing to hear in the dark." In the farming town of Pujaro, residents were in shcx k "People walked in here in tears They looked like they were caught completely off guard." said Salvation Army Maj. Joan Sunders We saw people walk in here with no shoes, no socks or with water lines up to their thighs." From the Oregon state line down to Mexico, rain, wind and snow wreaked havoc across 40 of California's 58 counties "It's the most widespread geo graphic storm in California in this c entury." said James Hailey of the state-federal Flood Opera tions Center in Sacramento. The storms may also he the most expensive in California history, he added, costing up to $2 billion in a state already bur dened with January's Pacific storms, as well as a series of earthquakes, fires and mud slides In Coalings, about 50 miles west of Fresno, teams were back at the sc ene of a fatal 1-5 road bridge c ollapse on California's main north south freeway. Teens shoot woman in head, steal vehicle M()NT( LAIR, N.J. (AP) Two teenagers shot a 6*1 • year-old woman in the head as she was pulling her car into Iter driveway, left her on the ground and took off with the vehicle, police said Saturday They were captured hours later. The woman, Shelia Gillespie, was in a coma Saturday, authori ties said. A police officer saw her 19!K) Honda Accord several hours after it was taken from her West Caldwell home on Friday night As the vehicle left a gas station with two youths inside, the offit er followed. Another picked up the pursuit as the car sped through Mountclair before jumping a curb and hitting a hedge, said Polh e Chief Thomas J. Russo. After the crash, the youths fled on foot Karl E. Bethel. 19. was found hiding under a backyard deck. Rus so said. A 17-year-old, who was not identified because of his age. was arrested later at his home AmeriCorp CHANGE YOUR LIFE. CHANGE YOUR COUNTRY. WHAT IS AMERICORPS* NCCC? 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