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FIRST A-2 Friday, October 20. 1995 Green Bay Press-Gazette Nationworld Kirjiilirjlits: developments IP poaflmKses odd to flip Clinton backtracks on Houston remarks Paperworker David Rienow testified Mike Hirn left his work station in the shipping area at James River paper mill between 7:05 and 7:10 a.m. on the morning of Tom Monfils" disappearance. Hirn returned between 7:45 and 7:50 a.m., Rienow said. Hirn told him he spoke with Monfils, but Hirn gave no indication of being upset as he played cards with Rienow and talked of the incident, Rienow testified.

Rey Moore testified he thought Tom Monfils was wrong for telling police about Keith Kutska's plan to steal an extension cord from the mill. However, Moore said he was less angry at Monfils after learning that Kutska really did steal the extension cord. But Moore said Monfils should have gone through the union or at least mill management instead of going to police. Moore testified several times previously that he never knew Monfils. However, in making a statement to police Dec.

16, 1992, Moore allegedly said, "I heard the part (on the tape) when Tom Monfils refused to give his name, and I thought it was Monfils' style: chicken District Attorney John Zakowski asked him, "How could a.m. was in the booth with Kutska. Previous testimony showed the confrontation in the No. 7 control room happened about 7:20 a.m. Said he didn't see Piaskowski, Basten or Johnson in the No.

9 control booth. It was in the booth that Kutska played a tape for him and other workers of Monfils telling police that Kutska planned to steal an extension cord from the mill. al Committee. In addition, members of the House seeking Senate seats who voted for the "93 bill will be potential ad targets of the NRSC, including Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Bob Torricelli of New Jersey and Richard Durbin of Illinois. "We will ensure voters know their Democrat senator and Democrat Senate candidates raised taxes too much," said John Heubush of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

"This is a great issue for the GOP because voters always suspected it was true and now the president himself has confirmed it." "It is a smokescreen over what they are doing on Medicare today," said Democratic spokesman Tim Warner. "The fact that they are spewing this out today while (House Speaker) Newt Gingrich is pushing his $270 billion in Medicare cuts is just wrong." Publicly, other Democrats were trying to put on the best face, although some not so well as others. "I wonder if (Clinton) could be more specific as to which taxes he thought were too much," said Sen. Bill Bradley, voice dripping with sarcasm. Bradley is one of eight retiring Senate Democrats.

Jim Whitney, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said many of the closest House races next year will be in districts held by first-term Republicans, who must defend their votes on Medicare, school lunches and other federal programs. Steve Jarding, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said that so many of the party's candidates will be new faces, blurring their ties with Clinton. -I 3 President Clinton 'I shouldn't have said that' Hill saw it as a stunning admission and another sign the president's re-election strategy begins and ends with him. It further was enhanced by the revelation in Thursday's Washington Post that Clinton is being advised by presidential aide Richard Morris to embark on a "triangula-tion" strategy, one in which Clinton will try to separate himself from congressional Democrats and Republicans both. Meanwhile, Republicans gleefully said they were gathering footage from the Houston speech to run in ads against Democrats across the country.

In the Senate, possible advertising targets include Democratic Sens. Max Baucus of Montana, Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, Carl Levin of Michigan, John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Rockefeller of West Virginia, according to the National Republican Senatori mi in i Konfite trial at a glcncc Prosecutors say: On Nov. 10, 1932. Tom Monfils, a James River paper millworker, called Green Bay police to report that co-worker Keith Kutska planned to steal a miH extension cord. Kutska was suspended from work for five days after he refused to open his duffel bag for mill security guards alerted by police.

Kutska got an audio tape copy of the police tip, identified the caller as Monfils and repeatedly played the tape for others at the mill. Kutska and others confronted Monfils at work Nov. 21, 1992, and one or more of them beat Monfils. His body was found the next day in a paper pulp vat. Defendants: Keith Kutska, Dale Basten, Mike Him, Mike Johnson, Rey Moore and Mike Piaskowski.

Charge: First-degree intentional homicide. All six defendants are charged with being party to that crime, a provision covering those who aid and abet the commission of a crime or take part in a conspiracy to commit a crime. Penalty: Life imprisonment. Source: Brown County court documents From A-l Hirn unconsciousness and then dumped his weighted body into a pulp vat. Contradicted the state's position on the time of that confrontation in the No.

7 control room. Hirn said he went directly to the No. 9 control booth and by 7:18 105-foot of road, By Bob Minzesheimer Gannett News Service ALBANY. Ga. Supporters have slept in the 50-foot-tall Friendship Oak and been married under its 105-foot canopy.

They've decorated it with Christmas lights and a U.S. flag and celebrated its history as part of an Army campground during the Spanish-American War. Now it's at the center of the hottest battle in all of Dougherty County: State officials say the giant oak, which sits in the middle of a busy three-way intersection and has asphalt up to its trunk, is in the way of a $2.8 million project to widen Philema Road and ease traffic jams that can back up more than half a mile. Thursday, five lawyers (two for the tree, three against it) continued the 3-year-old battle, arguing all day in court over the tree's historic significance and whether it's a traffic hazard and should be razed to widen the road. Federal Judge W.

Louis Sands, calling it "an important matter," continued a temporary restraining order that protects the tree, which some say is 300 years old. He'll rule, perhaps next week, on whether the tree, or rather its supporters, are entitled to a full hearing. That's a temporary victory for local tree service owner David Kdwards 37, who has battled federal, state and local officials. "It's not just a tree," he says. "It's a oak's in middle and controversy Officer acquitted of sex harassment you have known it was part of Monfils style if you didn't know him?" But Moore denied making the statement.

Moore said he nearly confessed to murdering Monfils because police put so much pressure on him. Sgt. Randy Winkler kept pressuring him and claimed to have tapes of Kutska naming Moore as a participant in Monfils' beating. "The more I denied it, the more he argued, until finally 1 said. 'OK, whatever you write down, I'll sign Moore said.

Winkler presented him with a written confession, told him to read it and said. "Is it true?" Moore said no, and Winkler told him, "Then don't sign it." Moore said he knew Keith Kutska since about 1990-91. He said he first became aware of Kutska when Kutska won a United Way promotion drawing of a free trip but declined it, saying that's not why he donated to United Way. In discussing what union sanctions were possible against Monfils, Kutska wanted to know whether he could get the money if Monfils were fined, Moore testified. "I said no, it would go to the union," Moore said.

Said he accompanied Piaskowski, Kutska and Moore in a walk back to the No. 7 control booth to look for Monfils. Those three each testified they were the only ones who left No. 9's control booth and headed for No. 7 at that time.

Moore testified just hours before Hirn that he never had walked down one of the aisles along the paper machines with Hirn. seven or eight accidents a year at the intersection. City and county statistics show only 66 accidents in the last 14 years fewer than five accidents a year. The intersection isn't ranked among the county's 10 most dangerous. State officials had an alternative to save the tree, but when they asked the county to pay the extra $300,000 to reroute the road, the county commission unanimously rejected it.

Edwards contends the state's alternative "was ridiculously expensive," and that he found a road designer in Jacksonville, who has an idea for a roundabout to save both the tree and money. "But it's a power play," he says. The legal wrangling Thursday-focused on whether state and federal officials followed their own rules designed to protect natural and historic landmarks. James Thomason, a Federal Highway Administration lawyer, said "popularity and sentimentality" shouldn't be a "substitute for legal standing and engineering judgment." Gail D'Abino, a historian with Georgia's Department of Transportation, said the tree "has historic value." But that doesn't mean "it's historic as defined by federal laws." In an emotional closing, Edwards' lawyer, W.T. Gamble, urged the judge to think about the tree, asking, "What will we tell our children?" Student Discounts Rent for 12 Mo.

with Option to Purchase 496-3710 500 S. Military GrMn Bay III II III II II By Chuck Raasch Gannett New Service) WASHINGTON It was hard to decide what was louder Thursday the whirr of Republican fax machines churning out President Clinton's confession he had raised taxes too much in 1993, or Clinton's scrambling to take back his words. Either way, it muffled potent Democratic criticism of the Republican Medicare overhaul plan being passed by the House. Clinton told wealthy Democrat contributors Tuesday night in Houston that his 1993 budget deal ended up with "a little more tax and a little less spending cut than we wanted" and that he agreed with critics he had raised taxes too much. He blamed Republicans for not negotiating with him, forcing him to deal with fellow Democrats, who then got him to go along with too big a tax hike.

But after a bipartisan backlash, Clinton told reporters Thursday he didn't really mean to back off the '93 deal, which reduced the deficit by more than $500 billion over four years. And, he said, the $258 billion in new taxes in the deal really were good for the country, after all. He vowed he still appreciated all the Democrats who cast tough votes for him. "If I said anything which implies that I think that we didn't do what we should have done given the choices we faced at the time, I shouldn't have said that," Clinton told reporters at a White House news conference. "My mother once said I should never give a talk after 7 o'clock at night, especially if I'm tired, and she sure turned out to be right, is all I can say." Whether Clinton misspoke or not, some Democrats on Capitol NATO chief Claes says he's quitting BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -NATO chief Willy Claes resigned today, a day after the Belgian parliament voted to have him stand trial on corruption charges.

Claes, 56, announced his decision at a news conference at NATO headquarters. Claes has always maintained his innocence in the bribery scandal which relates to two defense contracts that he awarded to foreign firms in the late 1980s when he was Belgian economics minister. He had faced overwhelming pressure to resign to spare NATO the ordeal of having its top official under indictment. Still, his departure comes at a sensitive time for the 46-year-old alliance. NATO is trying to organize a army to police a peace accord in Bosnia and officials are pondering how to grant membership to some of their former enemies in Eastern Europe.

The corruption allegations had surfaced before Claes was appointed NATO chief 13 months ago, and for months he said he had no intention of stepping down. Last week, however, he said he would quit if Belgium's parliament lifted his immunity in connection with the kickback scandal at home. On Thursday, lawmakers did just that, voting 97-52 with one abstention. 15th Anniversary Sale 30 OFF ALLDiamond Jewelry 4 example: Diamond Pendant weight: ,15 Was: $299 Specially Priced at $2 JO Dm 1 mtts As nmxayearam ruts Oct REISER'S DIAMOND VAULT 220 N. Adam Street Green Br, VI 54)01 -Phone (414) 432-4441 open to PRINTING EACH WASHINGTON (AP) The highest-ranking naval officer to face court martial since World War II has been acquitted on all counts in a sexual harassment case.

A jury of six male and two female senior naval officers on Thursday acquitted Capt. Everett Greene, former head of the Navy's equal-opportunity office, which is responsible for handling sexual harassment complaints. Greene, 47, is a Naval Academy graduate and SEAL commando leader now stationed in San Diego. He had refused to accept the Navy's offer of a "nonjudicial" disciplinary procedure because he said he wanted a public trial. In a written statement after the verdict, Greene said he looked forward to returning to his post in San Diego, where he is commander of Special Boat Squadron One.

"I always wanted the opportunity to present the facts to clear my name," he said. "I would say some good came out of it," Greene said today on ABC's Good Morning America. "The Navy takes all allegations seriously regardless of the seniority of the accuser." Greene remains in position for promotion to rear admiral, but the Senate Greene 'Good came out of it' Armed Services Committee must approve it first. The committee had been awaiting the outcome of the court martial before acting. Greene's accuser, Lt.

Mary Felix, worked in the Equal Opportunity Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel in 1993. She counseled callers to a sexual harassment hot line that was set up as a response to the 1991 Tail-hook convention scandal. Greene was her boss. The charges against Greene were fraternization, sexual harassment and conduct unbecoming an officer for writing suggestive cards and poems to Felix and giving her small gifts. 435 E.

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There seems to be no documented evidence of that. But "even if true, the tree didn't do anything," says Albert Taylor, a retired mechanic, who is also black. "1 pass it every time I go fishing, and it's a lovely tree." But Sally Garner says that "a lot of the tree huggers don't have to drive that road." Others say the debate is a symbol of a bigger issue. People are rallying because "they're sick and tired of feeling that they are not being heard by the people they elected," says Claude Williams. In court Thursday, Frank Jenner, the city arborist of nearby Valdosta, testified that the tree is healthy and at least 240 years old.

But state officials cite a report from the Georgia Forestry Department that says the tree is dying and may be only 100 years old. They also say there have been girls' disorder resulted from flawed genes that failed to produce adenosine deaminase, or ADA, an enzyme essential for the proper number of disease-fighting white blood cells. The girls, then 4 and 9 years old, were brought to the NIH, where researchers received permission to use them as subjects in a pioneering gene therapy program. Gene therapy started in September 1990 for one patient and in January 1991 for the other. Both patients continue to receive doses of artificial ADA enzyme, a conventional therapy for the disease.

The doses, however, have been reduced by half. Blaese, lead author of the study and a researcher at NIH's National Center of Human Genome Research, said it is unknown whether the girls still need ADA enzyme injections, but he's taking no chances. dy tij mutiuonD vim mmm commercial and Styles In-Stock A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Main office: 435-441 William T. Nusbaum president and publisher Claude J. Warder editor Gene therapy test working for two girls Michael Prazma director Douglas C.

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