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10 JOURNAL-TRIBUNE, MarysvilU Ohio" Thursday, January 2, 1997 NATIONAL mrii''i Letter by GOP ethics members unusual, former ethics boss says ''l ill 1 A' proper legal advice on use-of tax-exempt contributions for possibly political purposes; and by providing inaccurate statements to the ethics committee about the role of his political organization, GOPAC, in the tax-exempt projects. In their letter, Goss and Schiff said, "We know of no reason now, nor do we foresee any indie normal course of events in the future, why Newt Gingrich would be ineligible to serve as speaker," ruling out a censure. Lotkin, who was the ethics committee's chief counsel while Dixon was chairman, said, "Historically, I am unaware of any instance, particularly in the case involving Speaker Wright, in which any member of the committee made any public statements regarding an evaluation of the evidence or a prediction of the possible outcome of the process." Lotkin said it was "more than curious" that Goss and Schiff communicated with DeLay, "because of De-Lay's status as Republican whip and one of the key defenders of the speaker." "It is reasonable to conclude that the communication represents a informed fellow Republicans by letter that they would vote Gingrich. The two men, who are the Republicans most familiar with the ethics investigation of Gingrich, wrote that they saw nothing in the evidence that would warrant a censure a punishment that would cost the GOP leader his high office under House Republican rules. The letter was distributed by House Majority Whip Tom Delay, who is part of a massive GOP leadership effort to save shore up support for Gin-grich among rank-and-file Republicans.

Also Tuesday, Rep. Bob Inglis, joined a group of at least 13 Republicans who expressed uncertainty about Gingrich's re-election. GOP Rep. Michael Forbes has said he opposes Gingrich, "The more troubling question is how the speaker came to mislead the committee about these allegations," Inglis said. "At this point I am seeking more information about that, and I'm looking forward to hearing more from Newt It's a troubling matter." Gingrich will address Inglis and his GOP colleagues Monday night at a caucus bf all House Republicans.

WASHINGTON (AP) A former Democratic chairman of the House ethics committee says he can't recall members of the ethics panel ever publicly opposing censure for a colleague before deliberating on a punishment, as two Republicans are doing with Speaker Newt Gingrich. "I'm unaware of a member of the ethics committee heretofore communicating to the leadership of either party their predisposition to vote a certain way on a sanction," Rep. Julian Dixon, who was the ethics committee chairman for six years starting in 1989, said in an interview Wednesday. "It's my recollection during my tenure that members were exceptionally cautious on making public utterances on issues pending before them," added Dixon, chaired the committee when it charged then-Speaker Jim Wright with ethical wrongdoing. His former chief counsel, Ralph Lotkin, agreed.

The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct the ethics committee will conduct a public hearing on sanctions as early as next week, but not before Tuesday's election for speaker. Gingrich admitted on Dec. 21 that he violated House rules. Ethics committee members Porter Goss, and Steve Schiff, Ml V7 -i ft -n7 Archivist Edeltraud Morgenroth is seen with Stasi files in the Stasi documentation department of the eastern German town of Erfurt A new book examining the recruitment of youths as Stasi informants in for mer East Germany says the young "unofficial collaborators" also suffered and continue to do so. The authors of "Damaged Souls," who drew their conclusions from Stasi files and interviews, estimate that 17,000 youths ages 14 to 25 had to spy for the Stasi.

AP l0) New book examines communist recruitment of teen informers at 17 for political activities he wanted to conceal from his mother. To keep his secret and resume his studies, he reported on friends and colleagues from 1981-85. "The burden of a schizophrenic, double existence brought me to the edge of what I could bear," Rudolph writes. "Simple interactions with other peoplebecame more and more difficult I broke up with my girlfriend and for a short time had a severe alcohol problem." Manfred, now 31, rarely leaves his small apartment and suffers from a range of phobias as a result of his spying for the Stasi. The book's authors, who include German historians and other theologians, hope it will encourage youths to come clean and move on emotionally.

"It cannot be disputed that they are people who have done wrong," Pahnke said. "But in any case, they should first be protected, and they should be viewed as victims." Banking I l1 Mil I .3. i 4. -t; further infusion of politics into what should be non-political peer review before the ethics committee," Lotkin said. on drugs FDA issues advisory BERLIN (AP) It was a tactic eerily reminiscent of Hitler's Third Reich: German youths used by the secret police to spy on their ejdasjbr a totalitarian regime.

hurling melee on downtown streets. A city bus was violently rocked. One young man was hit in the head by an object and a policeman suffered minor injuries when he was hit by a bottle. Officer Mike Partain said. Officers in riot gear dispersed the crowd by firing rubber pellets.

Order was restored about lj30.a.m. Wednes- day, officials saidrFour people werer Gingrich, acknowledged vi- olaung House rules by failing to seek concert, attended by about 10,000 people. Six people have been arrested for investigation of selling and distributing drugs. A 17-year-old boy who suffered a heart attack and an 18-year-old woman were upgraded from critical to stable condition today. Another boy remained in critical condition after being struck by a car during the melee that erupted when the concert was canceled.

Concertgoer Charlie Bambrook had to be treated for four hours after he drank an "fX" product and fell to the ground writhing in pain, vomiting. "Then they had an announcement: 'Do not take this fX, whatever it is, do not take the 18-year-old Bambrook told KCAL-TV on Wednesday. The rave, an advertised, all-night party known for loud, techno-music was shut down early, angering youths who paid about $25 to attend. The concert ended In a bottle- and stone- LOS ANGELES (AP) The gov- eminent warned consumers not to in gest synthetic designer drugs with names like "Cherry fX Bomb" that violently sickened dozens in a crowd of young partygoers at a New Year's Eve "rave" concert The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned people Wednesday not to consume colored.

liquid products named "Orange fX Rush," "Lemon fX Drop," and "Cherry fX Bomb." The liquids are stored in glass vials. "These products have been implicated in severe adverse reactions including dizziness, nausea, severe shortness of breath and respiratory arrests that affected approximately 50 people some of whom were hospitalized," said FDA spokesman Jim O'Hara in Washington, D.C. O'Hara said confiscated vials of the "fX" products will be tested by the FDA. The vials were handed out at the It happened in communist East Germany on a scale few imagined, according to a Lutheran clergyman who was targeted by youthful informers. "Perhaps we had a rough idea that something was going on.

But none of the dimensions," said the Rev. Rudi-Karl Pahnke. "We did not know that a 13-year-old could be cooperating." Pahnke co-authored a new book, "Damaged Souls," that examines how youths recruited by the East German secret police suffered psychological damage in betraying friends and mentors. The book, published in German, reveals a surprising number of young spies: An estimated 17,000 youths ages 14 to 25 were among the 174,000 "unofficial collaborators" of the Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi. Many turned to alcohol and drugs after East Germany collapsed in 1989-90.

Others have been unable to maintain personal relationships, or i I '1 1 if withdrawn out of guilt, )k' says. ii chief Erich Mielke first prop- recruiting spies under 25 in the fy 1960s to curb youthful "noncon formity" in the rigid communist system. Eventually youths under 18 were used to report on schoolmates and to infiltrate the punk rock, heavy metal and skinhead scenes. "The informers1 also reported pn their teachers and on church groups that adults couldn't easily infiltrate, the book says. When Pahnke looked into his own Stasi files in 1991, he was stunned to discover that half of the 18 informants spying on him were teen-agers he had counseled at his East Berlin church.

The Stasi files were opened to the general public in 1992. Since then, 1 .2 million Germans have applied to examine their files, and about 800,000 have done so. Ulrike Poppe, a former dissident, said the book is a reminder of the cruelty of the East German commun ist system. "I see a strong trend now, the growing idea among people from (East Germany) who want to believe that it -was a friendly country, bound by solidarity, and simply don't want to see how cold and brutal the methods of the dictatorship really were," she said. Cornelia Bull, a spokeswoman for the federal commission for Stasi archives, said the spying was similar to that done by the Nazis, who encouraged children to spy on their families.

But she said the comparison can be taken only so far unlike in the Nazi era, where being caught by the Gestapo usually meant a concentration camp or worse, those who didn't toe the line in East Germany were more likely to lose a job or promotion or be denied permission for a trip. "Damaged Souls" deals mainly with the psychological effects on the young spies. The authors interviewed young ex-spies and examined Stasi files. Full names of those interviewed aren't revealed because they were minors when they collaborated. Most often, Stasi agents targeted youths who got into trouble with the authorities, offering them a way out if they cooperated.

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