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GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1996 Dvth 5-A Gingrich Gingrich: Contempt charge possible The Associated Press 1 MARIETTA, Ga. The White House must turn over 2,000 pages of travel office files or the House will declare it in contempt of Congress next week, Speaker Newt Gingrich said Saturday. "The biggest issue we have next week with them is simple," Gingrich told a news conference. "These people cannot continue to stonewall, obstruct, delay and lie and they need to turn over those 2,000 pages by next Wednesday," he said. The White House has claimed executive privilege over the papers, which have been subpoenaed by a House committee.

The committee is investigating the firing of seven travel office employees early in the Clinton administration and how the administration reacted to earlier inquiries into those dismissals. The White House turned over 1,000 documents last month shortly before a scheduled House vote on a contempt of Congress resolution. Protesters rowdy at KKK rally The Associated Press 2 ANN ARBOR, Mich. Police sprayed tear gas into the crowd during a Ku Klux Klan rally Saturday after a few counter-demonstrators hurled rocks at officers and rushed the door of a police station. At least five of the 1,000 anti- Klan demonstrators were arrested on charges including assault.

No Klan members were arrested. One woman suffered a minor head injury, a man broke his leg and 30 officers were treated for chemical irritation, said Police Chief Carl Ent, who defended using tear gas. "The actions by the police were just, in response to the actions by the crowd," he said. "No actions were taken until the crowd began pelting officers with rocks, bricks, sticks and bottles." The melee started about an hour after 15 Klan members began the noon rally at police headquarters, where Ent said they were allowed to assemble for their own safety. The police complex was surrounded by an 8-foot chain-link fence.

During the rally, Klan members, some wearing their traditional white robes and hats, chanted "White Power!" When Klan speakers used racial epithets, several anti- Klan demonstrators rushed the fence and began shouting obscenities at officers who stood between the Klan and the protesters. Within moments, rocks were flying. Minutes later, a crowd rushed a heavily guarded side door of the police station. An alarm sounded, police officers put on gas masks and began lobbing tear gas canisters at the crowd. "All I was doing was peacefully threw tear gas at us for no reason," Donna Burnside, 21, said sobbing.

About 200 city, state and county police were assigned to patrol the rally. Nation California Panhandlers beg off meal vouchers 3 LOS ANGELES Have a meal on us, say cardboard "coins" that invite panhandlers to the Los Angeles Mission. No thanks, say many beggars. "Personally, I'd rather have a 50-cent piece. No joke," said Holmon Kobert- son.

"Money's for when you're hungry right now. A button is for doing it later," said Gary Walker. The mission, which serves about 2,000 free meals a day, began distributing the tokens this month to merchant groups, downtown businesses and city officials. The tokens read "good for one meal and more," and explain where to get them and how to sign up for other relief programs. Mission officials say a survey shows that 94 percent of Los Angeles County residents have been panhandled.

Street people just aren't impressed by the program. "Til tell you the truth: Real money is better," said Jamil- lah'Kariem, fingering one of the tokens. Louisiana Grandson charged in shooting death 4 MINDEN A Webster Parish grand jury has indicted a 15-year-old boy on a charge of second- degree homicide in the shooting of his grandmother. Immediately after the release of Friday's indict- ment, prosecutors obtained a court order to transfer Grant A. Bailey Jr.

of Leton to the Webster Parish Jail in Minden, Assistant District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said. The district attorney's office gave notice early last week of its intent to prosecute Bailey as an adult. Authorities had been holding Bailey in the Northwest Louisiana Juvenile Detention Center in Coushatta since the body of Merrell Modisette, 52, was found June 11 in her home. The boy lived with Modisette. A motive in the shooting was not released.

Ohio Houston mayor to chair coalition 5 CLEVELAND Houston Mayor Bob Lanier has accepted an offer to become chairman of the Rebuild America Coalition, an organization of private and public sector groups that works to improve the nation's infrastructure. The appointment was' announced Saturday during the 64th annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Cleveland, "A city's when strengthened and enhanced, can provide families with an improved quality of life and give all citizens an equal opportunity for success," Lanier said. The seven-year-old Washington-based organization sponsors and promotes educational programs designed to increase public awareness of the importance of infrastructure, with particular emphasis on urban areas. The Associated Press Vacci al Herpes The Univers! CENT: (409) 7 FREE.

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"Its'horrible for thekids." Joseph Moniz, 73, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1985 stabbing. He would still be behind bars except for a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling that so far has permitted Moniz and 14 other men convicted of second-degree murder to walk free. At the core of the matter is the definition of second-degree murder in Nebraska's criminal codes. In 1979, the Legislature revised it from murder committed "purposely and maliciously, but without deliberation and premeditation" to murder committed "intentionally but without premeditation," The intent was to distinguish the charge from firstxiegree murder and make it easier to win convictions, said Roland Luedtke, then chairman of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee. In January 1994, the state Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors in second-degree murder cases must prove defendants exhibited "malice" and judges must include that word in jury instruc-, tions.

Without proving malice, the court said, the who kill in the line of duty could be charged with second-degree murder. In several later cases, three judges dissented from the original holding. In one of them, the three dissenters bluntly called the four-judge majority's position "absurd," and judicial "jabberwocky." Luedtke agreed, asserting that malice is obviously implied if a killing is mtentional. The court ruHng, and a subsequent clarification that said "malice" must also appear in second- degree charges, opened the door to potential appeals of 130 convictions decided since the code change in 1979. So far, 53 inmates have appealed; 41 were resentenced, including the 15 who were freed, and 12 cases are pending.

The Legislature-cannot reverse the court decision, said John Lindsay, current chairman of the Judiciary Committee. "We can say we really meant it," Lindsay said, "but they'll just respond, really meant it, Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg failed to gain an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has urged prosecutors to treat appeals harshly and, when possible, to file new first-degree murder charges. 4428 HON.

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