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HIGH LOW f(frn r-JJT L-JLfi i LJtli -4 Weather details, 10A 3 ties Finance, Page id ocKey MONTGOMERY ADEMIM FEBRUARY 14, 1994 Incorporating The Alabama Journal FINAL EDITION 35 Whitewater made money before Clintons sold their share relationship with Whitewater Development Corp. in December 1992, one of their lawyers told The Associated Press. In May 1992, Whitewater paid off its remaining loans, enabling it to begin making a little money. Since then, those proceeds which total less than $200 a month have gone to the Clintons' former business partner, James McDougal. The Clintons have said they invested and lost nearly $69,000 during their years as co-owners of Whitewater.

They formed the venture in 1978 with Mr. McDougal and his then-wife, Susan, to build a bustling vacation and retirement community on the banks of the White River in northern Arkansas' Ozark Mountains. The venture is now a focus of a federal investigation into a failed Arkansas savings and loan owned by Mr. McDougal and other business dealings with ties to the Clintons. The Clintons sold their half of Whitewater to Mr.

McDougal in December 1992 for $1,000. They have said they never made any money on their investment. During most of the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater, revenues from the venture went to pay off principal and interest on the original $203,000 mortgage the two couples used to buy the property. But after that loan was finally paid off in 1992, Mr. McDougal said the Clintons could have begun sharing in the small proceeds.

Instead, they agreed to let Mr. McDougal who had been felled by a stroke and depression and saw his financial empire collapse keep the money they could have taken to cut their losses. "For a few months, I suppose, they could have been (receiving income) if we'd had an agreement on what they had Please turn to CLINTON, 7A By Dan Sewell ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The money-losing Arkansas real estate venture that has entangled the first family in a federal investigation began generating a small income months before President and Mrs. Clinton sold their interest.

-The Clintons decided not to take any bf ihe money before ending their 14-year imm irfos Goo cm MORRIS DEES and the SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (mm Ed aw mm Ll vL il Li ilsy Wwflfl nrn7 Opportunist or crusader? Exclusion zone Buying time? The Bosnian government expressed concern that the Serbs were just buying time NATO has given Serbs until Feb. 20 to move their heavy weapons 13 miles from central Sarajevo, or place them under U.N. control. Otherwise they will be subject to air strikes. The Bosnian government must also place its artillery under U.N.

control. 13 mile exclusion zone ir Palo i i At Konjicf By Dan Morse ADVERTISER STAFF WRITER Actor Corbin Bernsen's fake accent doesn't carry the richness of Morris Dees' Southern voice. And Mr. Bernsen's soft gut belies the athletic frame of his character. But overall, it's an amazing match.

Mr. Bernsen portrays the crusading Alabama lawyer in the 1991 NBC movie "Line of Fire: the Morris Dees Story." Near the end of the film, the hero delivers his closing argument against the United Klans of America. He walks up to jurors, calmly tells them not to punish Klan members just because they're Klan members. He turns around and starts walking toward the Klansmen's defense table. "They.

They put a rope around Michael Donald's neck. They treated him to an awful death on a dirt road in Baldwin County so they could get their message out!" he yells, slamming his hand onto the Klansmen's courtroom table. Yes, this is television. It's television that Mr. Dees' helped rewrite and approve.

And it's the exact image Mr. Dees has cultivated among the more 5 miles -T sS-r-i, Foca. Skm 'r CROATIA By Robert H. Reld ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Serbs besieging Sarajevo resumed turning in their big guns on Sunday after the United Nations accepted a compromise plan. The Muslim-dominated Bosnian government expressed concern that the Serbs were just buying time to prevent NATO airstrikes that could begin Feb.

2 1 if the guns ringing Sarajevo are not pulled back. Bosnian leaders also called for U.N. action against Serb attacks on another besieged Muslim enclave, Bihac in northwestern Bosnia, one of six U.N. -designated "safe areas." The United Nations reported intense fighting over the weekend between Serbs and Bosnian army troops around Bihac. "They (the Serbs) currently want to take it over, to run over Bihac," Bosnian Prime Minister Maris Silajdzic told CNN.

"And we hope that the United Nations will act as quickly as they did in Sarajevo after the massacre in Sarajevo," he said, referring to the Feb. 5 shelling of the city's market that killed 68 people. In Sarajevo, the weapons compromise allows Serbs to turn in BOSNIA and if HERZEGOVINA Ta(serbia ZepaN Sarajevo GorazdeVf r-v Mostar Mostar msm I Montenegro 50 miffls Adnuttc vnf SO km Sea than 300,000 donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights charity he runs in downtown Montgomery. The film portrays Mr. Dees as a fearless crusader who uses the courtroom to do what the FBI and no one else can stop hate groups.

In real life the image is not so clear. Some who've worked with Mr. Dees call him phony, the "television evangelist" of civil i Major events in Dees' life4A Dees clashes with civil rights leaders4A Dees in his own words5A Dees prone to 'lapse into hyper- bole'6A AP their heavy weapons at U.N.-monitored Serb bases, rather than at Sarajevo airport as originally planned, said Maj. Jose Laban- Please turn to SERBS, 7A MARK MILLERSTAFF Morris Dees, 57, Is a giant success story self-made millionaire, fundraiser for presidential candidates, famous civil rights lawyer. Morris Dees trades cookbook for law book Underdog skis to American gold rights who misleads donors into thinking the center desperately needs their money.

Others acknowledge his long list of accomplishments but call him vindictive and two-faced, a man obsessed with grooming his image. "The South is a complex place," Mr. Dees wrote in 1989. "And I admit indeed, I hope that I am a complex fellow." Morris Dees also is a giant success story a self-made millionaire by the age of 29, a chief fundraiser for four presidential candidates, a nationally recognized civil rights lawyer. Raised on a small cotton farm east of Montgomery in the 1940s, he went on to earn degrees at the University of Alabama.

He then pursued the direct-mail trade, in which he wrote compelling, often emotional letters targeting people on select mailing lists. In the 1960s he made millions selling cook books, tractor cushions and other items through only water fountains. There really was no questioning this way of life, segregation. Alabama still was almost 20 years away from any real challenge to the system. It was into this world that Morris Dees Jr.

was born Dec. 16, 1936. Known early on as "Bubba," young Morris seems to have been a go-getter almost from birth, full of intense curiosity. Those traits, plus ingenuity and a capacity for hard work, enabled him to find a way Please turn to TRADES, 6A By Dan Morse ADVERTISER STAFF WRITER The Great Depression was on in the poor state of Alabama. Just east of Montgomery, a plantation overseer named Morris Dees Sr.

supervised a group of 50 to 75 field hands. Like blacks everywhere in the South, the field hands didn't make much money. Blacks couldn't go to school with whites. Couldn't eat in white restaurants. Couldn't drink from white- the mail.

ter Games. Mr. Moe, 23, raced down the Kvitfjell course in 1 minute, 45.75 seconds Sunday, beating World Cup leader Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway by a mere .04 seconds and dealing the host nation's fans a huge heartbreak. "I just wanted to see him in the Olympics," said the elder Moe, whose trip was delayed by snow in New York and Olympian traffic jams in Norway. "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew he could do it," he said.

"He's Please turn to GOLD, 7A By Mike Clark ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER L1LLEHAMMER, Norway These Moe men sure cut it close. Tom Moe, a steelworker from Alaska, traveled 46 hours to Norway to watch his son, Tommy, ski in the Olympics. He made it with two minutes to spare. Then, by just four-hundredths of a second, the closest margin ever for an Olympic Alpine race, Tommy made all his dad's travails worthwhile, winning the gold medal in men's downhill skiing on the second day of the Win Those skills attracted the attention of presidential candidates. He's served as finance director or fund-raising director for George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Edward Kennedy and Gary Hart.

Please turn to CRUSADER, 4A Hyena eyes part of ancient love ritual DAILY PLANET: Summary of today's newspaper. See 2A. Jackson 7 a.m today to 7 a.m. Tuesday put a stop to it. Today, during Lenten celebrations in Italy and Greece, young men still chase young women while brandishing whips made of plastic.

"They probably do it for fun rather than because they now the meaning of it from antiquity," Dr. Phinney said. Ancient Romans also believed in the romantic potency of eating hippopotamus snout and hyena eyes, although food scientist Richard Mudgett said he isn't sure why. Please turn to RITUAL, 7 A fectioners Association, but giving chocolates and sending cards are only two techniques from centuries of romantic traditions. The ancient Romans held fertility festivals, in which women dressed as wolves and waited to be whipped by men wearing loincloths.

"The men were young and handsome," said University of Massachusetts classics professor Edward Phinney. "The women would go out of their way to be whipped. It was a very cheerful event." The Romans held their Lupercalia festival every February until 495 A.D., when a pope i By Anne Thompson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BOSTON Dim light, soft music, the fragrance of roses and the lascivious lure of hyena eyes? Or try snaring your Valentine's Day sweetheart by sleeping (presumably alone) with an orange under your armpit. Americans are expected to spend about $655 million on candy to mark Valentine's' Day this year, according to the National Con CLASSIFIED 7C.6D LOCAL NEWS IB COFFEE BREAK 4C MOVIES 2C COMICS 5C OBITUARIES 4B CROSSWORD AC PICK OF PACK 2D EDITORIAL 8-9A SPORTS 10 LIFE 1C TV LOG 3C WEATHER 10A We recycle paper and use soy-based inks. A Multimedia Newspaper It 1 994 The Advertiser Co.

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