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The Billings Gazette 2A Saturday, November 20, 1993 'cackwood might quit; new investigation starts v. Today's People cal future. An aide to a senator speaking on condition of annoy- mity confirmed the Dole-Packwood meeting at Dole's of--fice, but the aide did not know the outcome of the cussion. The Senate was prepared to file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Friday, seeking enforcement of its ethics committee's subpoena for Packwood's personal diaries.

AT. Senate lawyer went to the courthouse, but left without fil ing the papers. Meanwhile, The Oregonian in Portland reported Fn, day that there is a reference in Packwood's diaries to Mit subishi, a Japanese company accused of unfair trade; practices triggered the Senate's fight for his journal The newspaper said the Senate legal counsel is re-; viewing a transcript of subcommittee hearing on interna tional trade held Nov. 6, 1989, when Mitsubishi Electric Coi was accused of using Japanese patent laws to block U. competition.

Packwood asked questions in the hearing that amounted to a defense of Mitsubishi, The Oregonian A diary entry about the hearing may link a favor for a lobbyist who represents Mitsubishi Electric former Packwood aide Steven R. Saunders and a favor to Packwood, the newspaper said. I Saunders offered Packwood's wife, Georgie, a job after the couple separated in January 1990. According to a letter from the senator's divorce lawyer, Saunders was willing to hire Mrs. Packwood to buy American art that he would resell to Japanese clients, an arrangement that could earn her $15,000 to $20,000 per year.

Fitzpatrick's comments followed a report by a Port, land TV station that Packwood had resigned or was plan-; ning to resign. More than two dozen women former staffers, lobbyists and acquaintances have accused Packwood of making unwanted sexual advances. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Bob Packwood was said to be considering resigning Friday amid an ethics investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. The Justice Department began an Investigation into possible criminal misconduct by the Oregon Republican, Clinton administration sources said.

The sources, who requested anonymity, said the department is investigating whether Packwood acted on behalf of a Japanese company accused of unfair trade practices. The sources said the criminal investigation is not related to the sexual misconduct allegations. Attorney James Fitzpatrick told reporters that Pack-wood's resignation "is under consideration" but added, "I don't know when it will be resolved. "I don't think anyone is pressing anyone at this moment. This is a matter that is simply under consideration and no decision has been made," Fitzpatrick told a news conference.

The administration sources said the criminal investigation focuses on whether a lobbyist for Mitsubishi Electric Co. offered Packwood's wife a job in return for Pack-wood defending the company against unfair trade practice charges. Several senators said that Packwood had been on the verge of resigning, but changed his mind. "It may have been considered a couple of days back. He's not resigning tonight," Sen.

Thad Cochran, said after speaking with Packwood. Cochran said he heard "from another senator" that Packwood received a Justice Department subpoena. And Sens. Don Nickles, R-Okla. and Alan Simpson, said they also heard about the subpoena.

"It's tough, awful tough. Remember there's a very tortuured human being at the bottom of the pile," Simpson said. Packwood, met with Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole as speculation swirled about Packwood's politi- Associated Pr en Venezuelan businessman Thor Halvorssen, left, who has links to the CIA and DEA, is shown in custody last month. CIA winked at drug traffic in Venezuela Ginsburg, students reminisce NEW YORK Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought gales of laughter at her old law school Friday when she explained why she started using the term gender discrimination instead of sex discrimination. "I owe it all to my secretary at Columbia Law School, who said, 'I'm typing all these briefs and articles for you and the word sex, sex, sex is on every Ginsburg said.

"Don't you know that those nine men (on the Supreme Court) they hear that word, and their first association is not the way you want them to be thinking? Why don't you use the word gender. It is a grammatical term and it will ward off distracting Ginsburg spoke at a special panel in her honor, and later in the day received the law school's highest alumnai award. It was billed as a discussion of landmark sex discrimination cases but panelists spent most of the time reminiscing about Ginsburg's teaching days, when she was a pioneer in litigating women's rights cases. Rapper's rap sheet grows NEW YORK Tupac Shakur, a rapper known for crossing authorities on his records and on the street, was in police custody Friday, accused of holding down a woman while she was sodomized in a Manhattan hotel suite. Police arrested Shakur, 22, on the woman's complaint Thursday night, less than three weeks after he was accused of shooting two police officers in Atlanta.

The California rapper, who co-starred with Janet Jackson in the movie "Poetic Justice," was charged with forcible sodomy and unlawful imprisonment, but had not been arraigned by Friday afternoon. Police did not identify the 20-year-old woman who accused Shakur. She told investigators that the trouble began at about 11 p.m. in a suite in midtown's Parker Meridien Hotel said Officer Rosa Atamyildiz, a police spokeswoman. Koppel dealing with ABC NEW YORK "Nightline" anchorman Ted Koppel put a new wrinkle in contract negotiations with ABC: He doesn't want one, according to a published Eireott (Sift Foreign aid agency will trim missions Ideas ffoi1 Cyclists Esrom mSSjflKESHOP (WOUND T-shirts $1 9.95 the hippest new graphics want to be able to move when I want, where I want, how I want," Koppel, whose contract expires in two weeks, told the Detroit Free Press.

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policies in Afghanistan when Soviet troops were based there. The United States cut aid to Pakistan several years ago after officials concluded it violated a law barring aid to countries attempting to develop a nuclear capability. He said Zaire was being eliminated because of its undemocratic government. Zaire, once a Cold War ally of the United States, has become progressively poorer under the 28-year dictatorial rule of President Mobutu Sese Seko despite more than $1 billion in U.S. assistance.

Development assistance to Zaire was eliminated in 1991, but the AID mission there has remained open. For foreign policy reasons, Atwood declined to identify the remaining countries in the same category as Zaire. But other officials listed them as Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Togo, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Barends $20.95 WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. foreign aid agency, declaring itself spread too thin, said Friday it is phasing out 21 missions serving 35 countries and territories as part of an ambitious reform program.

Seven of the targeted countries are wasting U.S. taxpayers' money because they are run by dictatorial governments, officials said. Twenty-six others are considered to be too prosperous to warrant continued U.S. assistance at least at the same levels. The remaining two will lose their bilateral aid programs, but the Agency for International Development will maintain a presence in them through regional programs.

The cutbacks are part of a long-range overhaul that eventually will reduce the number of recipient countries from 108 to about 50. "We were just spread too thin," said J. Brian Atwood, administrator of AID. "We were an agency on the road to mediocrity or worse." The announcement does not mean the countries and territories on the list will be cut off from all U.S. assistance.

As an example, officials said humanitarian assistance to some countries, channeled through charitable groups, may continue. The cutbacks will be spread out over three years and will save AID $26 million out of its total $500 million in operational costs. Almost 1,100 jobs are being eliminated, including those of 185 Americans. The actual total cuts in direct aid to the affected countries have not Every Mountain Biker wants 'em! Pumps from $11.95 Don't let them get stuck with a flat tire. Helmets from $24.95 Keep them safe at great prices! Black Bum Mountain Racks $37.50 U.S.

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The family announced through a spokesman that they are not considering the purchase of another residence in the area at this time. The Mediterranean-style mansion at 1095 N. Ocean Blvd. was built 70 years ago by famed architect Addison Mizner. It was purchased in 1933 by Joseph P.

Kennedy, John, Robert and Ted Kennedy's father. "The Kennedy family has always enjoyed going to Palm Beach," said Bryan R. Dunn, a Kennedy family spokesman in New York. "They have a rich and long tradition of going down there. But it makes sense to sell the property now." Old habit hard to break ANN ARBOR, Mich.

Sally Jessy Raphael's act didn't play well with a judge presiding over an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the talk show host. After Raphael asked several questions of lawyers from the witness stand, Circuit Judge Melinda Morris said: "Put yourself in the position of people you ask questions of on a show. Wait until you are asked. Otherwise we'll be here tomorrow and the next day. "The next time, I will take action." In her testimony Thursday, Raphael said she had nothing to do with a decision to air a secretly recorded conversation on her show.

Raphael and others are being sued by Dorothy Dickerson, who belongs to the Church of Scientology. MIAMI (AP) The plot elements are all there: spies, lies, drugs and potentially compromising sexual liaisons. In a mess just starting to surface, CIA and U.S. drug enforcement operations in Venezuela were found to have been infiltrated by a drug-trafficking general and a well-to-do businessman later jailed on terrorism charges. One CIA agent was forced to resign, a second was disciplined and the careers of two Drug Enforcement Administration officers effectively died in the fallout.

An internal investigation grew more complicated with the discovery that the male CIA agent and the two Venezuelan men had sexual relationships with the two female DEA agents. The House intelligence committee was briefed earlier this month on the security lapses, and a grand jury in Miami is looking into cocaine trafficking that apparently took place under the noses of the CIA and the DEA. Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Operations Committee now looking into whether the U.S. drug czar's office should continue, called for a full examination of the scandal.

"It would be no surprise if the CIA once again were doing business with the bad guys," Conyers said. "If it's true that the CIA condoned and knew about drug dealing, but did nothing about it in order to keep sources for other purposes, it shows why drugs continue to flow into our neighborhoods." CIA agent Mark McFarland resigned in 1991 after admitting he had permitted Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila Venezuela's top anti-narcotics officer to abuse his position to smuggle cocaine to the United States, according to federal intelligence and law enforcement sources who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The station chief in Caracas was also disciplined. The CIA would not release his name and will say publicly only that the agency took appropriate action.

"In 1991, we had concerns about a Venezuelan National Guard officer and about illegal shipments of drugs into the United States," said Kent Harrington, CIA public affairs director. "We found a problem, we investigated it, and we fixed it." He said the CIA had found several instances of "poor judgment" but no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by its officers. There have been no allegations that McFarland took money from Guillen or participated in the trafficking. The CIA has turned over the results of its investigation to the Justice Department. John Russell, a department spokesman, said Thursday he could not comment on CIA referrals.

The U.S. attorney's office in Miami is investigating Guillen and other Venezuelan officers for alleged cocaine trafficking, according to a law enforcement source. The source said the grand jury subpoenaed Guillen to testify last week, but he failed to appear. Guillen was appointed Venezuela's top anti-drug crusader in 1987. Working with the CIA and DEA, he intercepted and confiscated drug shipments but not all of them, according to a subsequent DEA-CIA investigation.

"Guillen worked for Venezuelan drug organizations, and he worked for Colombian drug organizations," the source said. "He would stop some shipments, and others he would let through." In late 1990, Venezuelan police tipped the DEA that Guillen's men were guarding a cocaine shipment instead of seizing it. The DEA investigated and informed the CIA. When CIA investigators approached McFarland, he initially denied any knowledge of Guillen's trafficking, intelligence and law enforcement sources said. But McFarland eventually admitted that he had tolerated the cocaine deals to keep information channels with Guillen open, the sources confirmed.

McFarland resigned. Around the same time, the DEA's diplomatic attache and its investigative agent left Venezuela. Their superiors had learned that Thor Halvorssen, a Guillen associate with his own links to the CIA, was using information from DEA drug cases to smear political and business rivals. Halvorssen is now in a Venezuelan jail accused of participating in a string of car-bombings and letter-bombings in Caracas in July and August. Prosecutors there say Halvorssen and associates intended to profit by destabilizing Venezuela's financial markets.

Halvorssen, a Venezuelan businessman of Norwegian descent, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and rose to serve as president of Venezuela's government telephone monopoly and the country's biggest charity. In the mid-1980s, Halvorssen cooperated with the CIA, the source said, reporting to then-division chief director Dewey Clarridge. He was used to funnel money to Nicaraguan Contra leader Eden Pastora, the source said. In 1989, then-President Carlos Andres Perez appointed Halvorssen to be Venezuela's "anti-drug ambassador," sending letters of introduction to U.S. drug czar William Bennett and others.

Using his appointment as "special commissioner of the presidency for international narcotic affairs," Halvorssen began working closely with the DEA in Caracas. "Thor penetrated the DEA office, controlling five different informants," the source said. "He would brief them and tell them what to say all of it false. Then Guillen would back it up." Miami DEA spokesman Jim Shedd refused to discuss details but confirmed that his agency had problems with Halvorssen in Caracas. The two DEA officials attache Anabell Grimm and agent Hilda Sema apparently had no knowledge of Guillen's and Halvorssen's illegal activities, the source said.

But the internal investigations of the infiltration were complicated by the romantic relationships between the women and McFarland, Halvorssen and Guillen. Both McFarland and Halvorssen had slept with one of the women, and the other woman had a relationship at least with Guillen, the federal sources said. That raised the CIA's concern that McFarland could have been Bull PfJ Tough! GBS) Iff 1( Stuart "F5 itCu Ruben, MJ). BullhldeS lri announces the closure of his i mi'e i practice, ft AUS effective 12193. oOOTEKr Izzzp 245-6858 SO Mon-Sat 1820 1st Ave Billings on Qt 245-4827 1-600745-4827 1139lortn7t mi THE JSSmBIKESHOP 11 ONtiRAND 1934 Grand 652-1202 THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON 01988 FarWorts.lncDm byUmvtfal Press SynAwfcl About your paperA General information (406) 657-1200 3 HOTE A DIVISION OF LEE ENTERPRISES SPORTS- MANAGEMENT Publisher The Billings Gazette Is published daily.

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