The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 5

GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1996 5-A Witness declares cover-up Whitewater trial testimony wends The Associated Press 1 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Seven years ago, before.he -Jk. became Arkansas governor, Jim Guy Tucker directed a small-time banker to conceal their financial dealings from the FBI, the government's chief witness in the Whitewater trial testified Thursday. On the witness stand for the fourth day, banker David Hale said that in 1989 Tucker told hun, "Be careful what.you say and tell them as little as you can." Hale said that when FBI agents interviewed him, he did as Tucker told him. If Hale had told the FBI details of federally backed loans he had made, "they would have locked up me and Jim Guy that day and sent the paddy wagon to get Jim McDoiigal," Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's former Whitewater business partner, Hale said.

McDougal and his ex-wife, Susan, are on trial with Tucker for allegedly misusing some $3 million in federally backed loans. The loans were from Hale's Small Business Administration- supported company, Capital Management Services, and from Madison Guaranty, the savings and loan at the center of the Whitewater affair. The McDougals owned Madison. Tucker's lawyer, W.H. "Buddy" Sutton, said the governor had nothing to hide regarding the loans and never told Hale what he should tell federal investigators.

Sutton said investigators have repeatedly found nothing wrong with the loans from Hale's company involving Tucker and Madison Guaranty. Sutton has said Hale is lying to lighten his own punishment for defrauding the government. 4 Freemen talking with negotiators The Associated Press 2 JORDAN, Mont. Sitting on folding chairs on a dirt road, the besieged Freemen met with negotiators Thursday for the first time in the 11-day standoff. Four Freemen met for about an hour and a half with four negotiators at the edge of the fugitives' compound.

One of the Freemen did most of the talking. Reporters were kept about a mile away, but the negotiations could be seen clearly through binoculars. When the meeting ended, the Freemen packed up the chairs and went back to the ranch house on the 960-acre farm. However tentative, it was the first sign of a break in the standoff that began with high tension March 25 when agents arrested two Freemen leaders. The Freemen are anti-government activists who refuse to recognize the government's authority.

They have their own laws and courts based on their interpretations of the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and other documents. GACVESTON MAINLAND (409)948-1796 MAINLAND DEFENSIVE DRIVING ELECT Freudenburg Mayor Pd.Pol Frcuitcnburg for Mayor, Leo Oils Zapp.Jr., Treasurer.910 2ls(. G.ilvcsion. rx 77550 Nation New York Publisher rejects Holocaust denial 3 NEW YORK A publisher has dropped plans to bring out a biography of Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, branding the book anti-Semitic.

St. Martin's Press "made a mistake, and there's no worse way to compound a mistake than by not admitting it and not correcting it if you can," said Thomas J. McCormack, chairman of the publishing house. "Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich," was written by David Irving, a British author who contends that Hitler did not know Jews were being exterminated and that" there's no proof gas chambers at Auschwitz were used to kill Jews. D.C.

Daylight-saving time to commence 4 WASHINGTON The tune it is a changin' once again. Sunday, in addition to being Easter, is the date America springs forward to daylight-saving time. For most of the nation, that means to set clocks ahead one hour before bed. The Associated Press Poll: Clinton holding lead The Associated Press 5 WASHINGTON President Clinton's lead over Bob Dole held steady through the Republican primary season, with voters overwhelmingly picking Clinton as the more likeable, compassionate and innovative candidate, according to a national poll released Thursday. The voter survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center also found a substantial independent streak: as many as one in five voters said they would vote for a third-party candidate in an election held today.

In such a three-way scenario, an unnamed hypothetical candidate would gamer more of the vote than the only likely real candidate, Ross Perot. In numbers unchanged from Pew's January survey, Clinton would win 53 percent to Dole's 41 percent in a head-to-head matchup. Add in a hypothetical third candidate and Clinton's lead improves slightly, to 15 points over Dole, with the independent candidate claiming 20 percent of the total vote. Perot would take only 16 percent in a three-way vote. Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew center, warned against reading too much into Clinton's steady lead over Dole, saying voters have not yet focused on Dole's strengths.

Indeed, where Dole is considered to have an edge in areas like "gets things done" and "honest and truthful" he scores only marginally higher than Clinton. IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DAUGHTER ROBIN ANN i May 22, 1972 April 5,1994 Though her smile is gone forever, and her hand we cannot touch: still we have so memories of the one we love so much. Her memoiy is our keepsake with which we'll never part. God has her in his keeping; We have her in our hearts. You left a beautiful memoiy and son-ow too great to be told; But we who loved and lost von.

Your memoiy will never grow old. The world changes year to year; and friends from day to day. But never will the young girl we loved, from memoiy fade My Love Always, Your Mother Dee, Family and Friends. Eugene Bryan Jenkins is survived by his wife, Jennifer Ann McMahan (Jenkins) and son, Anthony Earl Jenkins (Baby Huey). We love you with all of our hearts.

Love Jennifer Anthony Thanks for being such a great friend. We love and miss you very much." Love always, Melissa, Brandon, Richard Bill. St, Mary's Cathedral Basilica Easter Vigil Mass April 6, 1996 Celebrant: Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza The Most Rev. Joseph A.

Fiorenza, D.D., Bishop of the Galveston-Houston Diocese, will be the main celebrant at the Easter Vigil Mass at 7:00 p.m. on April 6th at the Cathedral. Most Rev. James A. Tamayo, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop, will be the celebrant at the Holy Thursday Mass which commemorates the Institution of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood.

Most Rev. Curtis J. Guillory, S.V.D., D.D., Auxiliary Bishop, will lead the service on Good Friday which commemorates the Passion Death of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE HOLY THURSDAY GOOD FRIDAY HOLY SATURDAY EASTER SUNDAY 2011 Church St.

April 4th April 5th April 6th April 7th 7:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

762-9611 ROONDTREE YORKE WRINKLE FREE SLACKS Wrinkle resistant, combed cotton slacks are a value in two easy care, comfortable styles YOUR CHOICE $28 These wrinkle resistant slacks come out of the dryer looking smooth and ready to wear. Plain front and pleated styles are available in khaki, navy, olive and oyster (bone). Pleated front is also available in pewter (grey) and saddle (brown). WAIST SIZES jfl 32 34 36 38 40 42 30 32 34 Dillard's SHOP DILLARD'S MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SUNDAY DILLARD'S AND ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WELCOME.