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Clinton lashes out at Republicans
President BUI C Union lashed out
on Sunday al what he called an
outrageous Republican abuse o f
power and smear campaign against
his associates over the Whitewater
affair, saying their lives had been
“wrecked by pure, naked, raw poli
tics. ”
In an emotional attack on his Re
publican opponents, Clinton said not
a shred of evidence o f wrongdoing
had been found against him or First
Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the
Whitewater tangle o f financial deal
ings.
Clinton vowed to help pay the
legal bills of friends and associates
forced to defend themselves from
charges o f financial misdeeds.
“I think it is outrageous that these
middle class people have had their
lives wrecked by pure, naked raw
politics,” Clinton said in an inter
view with CNN television during a
stop in Kentucky on his four-day
campaigning train trip to the Demo
cratic convention in Chicago.
“I’m going to help pay their legal
bills ¡fit’s the last thing I ever do, and
I stay healthy,” Clinton said.
A number of associates of Clinton
when he was governor of Arkansas
and others who have worked with
him since he became president have
faced charges of impropriety linked
to Whitewater.
Clinton business partners James
and Susan McDougal and former
Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker
were convicted in May of fraud and
conspiracy charges.
Susan McDougal was sentenced
to two years in jail. Tucker resigned
and was put on probation and fined.
James McDougal will be sentenced
in November.
Two other Arkansas allies of the
Clintons have been acquitted of vio
lating banking laws to help Clinton’s
1990 campaign for re-election as state
governor, a case that touched several
otherClinton friends, includingclose
adviser Bruce Lindsey.
“Do I feel terrible about the com-
Perot gets OK to be
on Michigan ballot
pletely innocent middle class people
who have been wrecked financially
by this? I certainly do. I didn’t abuse
them and it’s high time that the peo
ple who did, take responsibility for
what they do,” Clinton said.
Without mentioning Whitewater
special prosecutor Kenneth Starr by
name, Clinton said there had been an
abuse of the law allowing a special
counsel to be appointed to investi
gate alleged wrongdoings in the ex
ecutive branch.
He criticized the aggressive ques
tioning of White House witnesses
during the investigation by Senate
Whitewater Committee Chairman
Alfonse D'Amato.
Two days after a poll showed
Ross Perot’s support faltering in
Michigan, the Texas billionaire’s
name was approved to appear on
the Michigan ballot as the Reform
Party candidate for president this
fall
The Michigan Bureau of Elec
tions board of directors formally
approved the party's certification,
according to Susan Esser, Reform
Party interim state chair.
That cleared the way for Perot's
name to appear on the presidential
ballot in November, said Esser, who
is also Michigan director for the
Perot presidential campaign. Mich
igan is the 44th state to give that
approval.
Higher black democratic turnout
A record number o f African-
American delegates will he at the
Democratic National Convention in
Chicago.
Beginning on August 26, the con
vention will host 1,027 African-
American delegates compared with
only 52 at the recent Republican
National Convention last week in
San Diego.
New York has the largest number
of African-American delegates with
89, followed by California with 82.
O f the total African-American dele
gate count 521, are female delegates.
At the 1992 Democratic Conven
tion, there were 922 African-Ameri
can delegates.
Having a significant role in the
convention will be Detroit Mayor
Dennis Archer, as co-chairman of
the Party's Platform Committee. Mrs.
Alma Brown, the widow of former
DNC Chair and U S. Commerce Sec
retary Ron Brown, will serve as hon
orary chair and make remarks on the
opening day of the convention. Fea
tured African-American program
participants include Rev. Jesse Jack-
son, Harvey Gantt, candidate for the
US Senate from North Carolina,
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes
Norton, Mayor Dennis Archer and
Senator Carol Mosely-Braun.
The Democratic National Com
mittee’s black Caucus has scheduled
daily workshops during the conven
tion week at the Hyatt Regency on
Wacker Drive, according to Texas
State Representative Al Edwards,
Caucus Chairman. These workshops
will cover Pol icy Wars ofCongress”
and “What’s at Stake in the Novem
ber Elections”, “Winning in Novem
ber.” “The African-American Fami-
ly,” “Affirmative Action,” Educa
tion Reform”, “Health Issues", and
"Economics”, “Jobs and Urban De
velopment.”
The DNC Black Caucus is also
sponsoring a Youth Town Hall Meet
ing at the Harold Washington Li
brary Center, 400 South State Street,
on Wednesday, August 28, from 3
pm to 6 pm. Congressional Black
Caucus members Maxine Waters (D-
CA) and Jesse Jackson, Jr., (D-IL)
are moderating this forum which is
designed to celebrate the power of
young adults throughout the country.
Florida's Hispanic
population tops 2 mill
More than two million H is
panics live in Florida and their
numbers were growing at a fast
er rate than the state's total po p
ulation, according to a U niver
sity o f F lo rid a study released
on Monday.
More than h alf o f F lo rid a’s
Hispanic population, about 1.1
million, live in M iam i’s Dade
County, the study found.
“ If past trends continue, Flor
ida’s Hispanic population will
grow well into the future at a
rate faster than the state’s total
population," said June Nogle, a
dem ographer with the universi
ty ’s Bureau o f Economic and
Business Research.
“This may result in dem ands
for social services that are d if
ferent than in the past. For ex
ample, bilingual education, es
Scientist develops no calorie fat substitute
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A pam T anner
.4 C.S. government researcher
has developed a fa t substitute he
says can he used to eliminate up to
half the fa t and calories in cheese
and brownies and make hamburg
ers juicier and healthier.
This is really a new-generation,
no-calorie, no-fat substitute,” said
George Inglett, the Department of
Agriculture researcher who devel
oped the substitute, Z-Trim.
If it lives up to its billing, Z-Trim
will reduce both fat and calories in
popular foods and add fiber, which is
important to a healthy diet.
Many fat substitutes currently on
the market are high in calories.
Inglett has experimented with Z-
Trim in normally high-fat foods such
as chocolate, cheese, brownies and
hamburgers, leaving some of the
foods’ fat intact to enhance flavor.
“It tastes just like the original —
you can’t tell the difference,” he said
in an interview from his office at a
research center in Peoria, Illinois.
Z-Trim is made by grinding oat
hulls or other agricultural byproducts
in an alkaline solution. Impurities
are washed out and the result can be
dried to a white powder. When water
is added, it cooks into a slurry and
cools into a fatlike gel.
Brownies made with a 50 percent
mixture of fat and Z-Trim — thus
containing substantially fewer calo
ries than normal and less fat
were
judged as tasty as full-fat brownies by
a panel of25 people in his laboratory,
Inglett said. He said Z-Trim could also
replace up to halfthe fat in chocolate,
one of the most challenging areas of
fat-free research because scientists have
so far been unable to keep the texture
and taste chocolate lovers demand.
Lean hamburgers become more ten
der and juicier, Inglett said.
Plot to bomb 12 jets real
G ail A phleson ,
L aw C orrespondent
A plot by three militant Muslims to
bomb 12 U.S. passenger jets last year
was very real and the defendants had
the know-how and will to carry it out,
a federal prosecutor said Monday.
In closing arguments at the trial of
the three accused plotters. Assistant
U.S. Attorney Dietrich Snell told a
Manhattan federal jury that if a fire
had not broken out in the Philippine
apartment being used to make the
bombs, the scheme would have been
executed.
“The defendants’ plan was very
real. They had the material, they had
the knowhow and they had the deter
mination to carry out the plan with
deadly precision,” he said.
The three have been on trial since
May for their alleged plan to destroy
the planes within a 48-hour period
last year and kill about 4,000 passen
gers as they returned to the United
States from the Far East.
The government’s presentation of
evidence entered a crucial phase last
month at about the same time as the
fatal TWA explosion over Long Is
land, New York.
All 230 passengers and crew on
board were killed.
Reports speculating that the de
fendants might have some connec
tion to the explosion caused U.S.
District Judge Kevin Duffy to ques
tion jurors as to whether their judge
ment had been affected by the disas
ter.
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The government’s evidence in
cluded a laptop computer seized from
a Manila apartment shared by two of
the defendants that held files calling
the scheme “Bojinka.”
It contained flight schedules and
code names for the defendants who
would carry out the bombings aboard
Delta, Northwest and United planes
bound for the United States from the
Far East.
The schedules were for flights
with stopovers before they reached
the United States.
A letter in the computer said the
purpose of the attacks was to punish
the United States for its support of
Israel.
Snell said the word “Bojinka”
should have become part of the ju
rors’ vocabulary, “synonymous with
one of the most hideous crimes ...
ever conceived.”
The alleged ringleader of the air
line bombing scheme is Ramzi
Ahmed Yousef, who will be tried
again this year on charges that he
masterminded the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing that killed six peo
ple and injured more than 1,000.
“He was the architect o f the whole
scheme. He was the chief recruiter,”
Snell said.
Yousef is also charged with plac
ing a bomb on a Philippine Airlines
flight from Manila toTokyo Dec. 11,
1994, as a trial run.
The bomb exploded under the seat
o f a Japanese passenger, killing him
and injuring 10 other people.
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Last month, the party turned in
almost 60,000 petition signatures,
nearly double the 30,891 needed to
be certified, Esser said in a statement
Perot’s Michigan support ap
peared to be falling among voters.
A poll by EPIC/MRI of Lansing
published Aug. 24 in the Detroit
Free Press showed Perot receiving
nine percent of the vote, down from
19 percent from a survey in July.
Republican presidential contend
er Bob Dole picked up much of
what Perot lost, capturing 35 per
cent, with President Clinton receiv
ing 46 percent. In the previous poll,
Clinton had support from 48 per
cent compared to 29 percent for
Dole.
T he T imes
T hey A re
A C hangin ’.
V
pecially with H ispanics being
younger and more likely to have
children in school than some
other groups,” she said
Florida had a population of
14.1 m illion in 1995, 14 per
cent o f which was H ispanic. In
1990, the state’s Hispanic pop
ulation was 12 percent.
The vast m ajority o f H ispan
ics living in the state were un
der age 65 and alm ost one-third
were under 20, the study found.
"Because the Hispanic popula
tion is much younger than the rest
of the state, this creates a strong
supply of young people to fill jobs
that otherwise might go unfilled,”
Nogle said. "That is good news for
Florida, which, because of its large
number o f retirees, is traditionally
thought to be fairly elderly com
pared to other states.”
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