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policy toward Iraq, accusing the panel's chairman of endangering national security. The chairman of the House Banking Committee, Texas Democrat Henry Gonzalez, responded by accusing the administration of trying to obstruct Congress. The dueling May 15 letters si MM PEROT BUSH BY DOUQLAS JEHL LOS ANGELES TIMES SOUTH BEND, Ind. In a sign of new-found unease at an undeclared challenge, President Bush has questioned the campaign tactics employed by Texas billionaire Ross Perot and suggested that his likely rival remains an engima. "If 'Ross Perot decides to run, then Ross Perot will have to do what everybody else does: Get the issues out there, talk about it," Bush said.

"And 111 be doing the same thing and let the American people decide." Until now, Bush had refrained from criticism of both Perot and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. In his latest remarks, published in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, Bush insisted that he had no intention of speaking ill of his rivals so early in the campaign. But presidential aides conceded that his comments went far beyond between Gonzalez and Attorney General William P. Barr were the latest skirmish in the administration's fight with the feisty law ELIZABETH COURTNEYTh Sun Gaffer Cart Pepper holds a reflector to put more light on the faces of airport rescuefirefighter Ronald Jones (left) and Barkley Regional Airport Manager Richard Roof as they re-create a scene for 'Unsolved Mysteries' in which they find John Doe's body.

Mystery work TV crew meticulous in show on John Doe anything he has said before about his rivals, adding that the interview appeared to reflect his discomfort with what he regarded as a baffling and ugly campaign. Bush's comments toward Perot, in particular, bore unmistakable barbs as he wondered aloud whether the Texas billionaire had offered solutions to what Perot has termed the nation's biggest problems. And Bush used icy language See ADDRESS2A maker seeking to expose what he I Mm. 'VI calls the "flawed I BARR and tragic to the war with policy" that led Months spent planning show U.S., Russia keep spies hard at work BY ROBIN DIVINE SUN STAFF WRITER John Joseph came from riot-torn Los Angeles to the rolling hills of western Kentucky and was amazed at what he found here. Joseph is director of a crew from "Unsolved Mysteries," in Paducah last week to film a segment about John Doe, the unidentified man who fell to his death when he apparently tried to See PLAN2A BY ROBIN DIVINE SUN STAFF WRITER Life around the McCracken sheriffs office is, getting back to normal.

The crew from the television series "Unsolved Mysteries" is gone and employees are getting back to routine duties. The crew came to town Monday evening to spend three days filming a segment about Paducah's "John Doe" the young man who plunged to his death Sept. 30 after he apparently tried to hitch a ride on a Memphis-bound commuter plane leaving Barkley Regional Airport. Tuesday morning, they moved everything out of Sheriff Howard Walker's office except the desk and a chair. They moved in camera and lighting equipment and filmed interviews with principal investigators in the case.

The crew was meticulous about the case's details and the quality of their product. "If any noise came up outside, they'd stop" filming, Walker said. Director John Joseph asked Walker questions, gently leading the interview. "They'd ask us a question basically trying to get their plot," Walker said. "They wanted us to talk to them rather than have questions and answers." Joseph asked about the response from the community after John Doe's death, particularly about Iraq.

Barr told Gonzalez that his recent statements in Congress based in part on thousands of classified documents he'd requested from the administration "raised serious He said further documents would be withheld unless Gonzalez promised to keep them secret. "Public disclosure of classified information harms the national security," Barr wrote. Copies of the letters were obtained Sunday by The Associated Press. In his same-day response, Gonzalez said the administration had been "reluctant" to cooperate since his committee began investigating the extent of U.S. aid to Iraq in the 1980s.

"Now your letter suggests that the Bush administration plans to move from foot dragging to outright obstruction," Gonzalez wrote. He said the documents he'd made public this year to buttress a series of floor statements all dealt with SeelRAQ2A Lukin to discuss it with Yevgeny Primakov, the head of the Russian intelligence service that took over the espionage functions of the now-defunct Soviet KGB. But don't expect American and Russian spooks to join hands and agree anytime soon on the kind of spying they will and wont do in each other's country. Suspicion runs too deep particularly on the American side. Gates and other U.S.

officials say; that covert Russian intelligence' gathering in the United States has! SeeSHES3A: BY JOHN M. BRODER LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON At a recent white-tie dinner in Washington, Russian Ambassador Vladimir Lukin found himself seated across from CIA Director Robert M. Gates. The envoy from the former "evil empire" turned amiably to his dinner companion and said, "So when are we going to get together and make some new rules for spying on each other?" Gates, who built a career around distrust of the Soviet Union and all it stood for, expressed guarded interest in the idea. He encouraged the funeral service held for the unknown man.

He wanted to know "what the feeling of the public was," Walker said. "I think the most amazing thing to them was the response of the public. They said, 'This is probably one of the most caring towns we've ever been See MYSTERY2A interest in convicted killer raises race issue think the press should show more diligence where the prisoner is not so attractive, white, or palatable Robert Snyder man's case, makes some effort to oppose every scheduled execution in the country, she said. So does Amnesty International. "I suppose Roger Coleman looks sort of all-American.

You see Roger Coleman can go on the 'Today' show and talk, and then you see when Dalton Prejean went on the 'Today' show with dreadlocks down to his shoulders and wasn't very articulate," Rutter said. Prejean was executed in Louisiana in 1990 for the murder of a police officer. Said Time spokesman Robert Pondiscio: "We're not doing this story for its own sake, but because it raises the larger issue about standards of proof in capital cases. Is this guy guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? "Speaking as a media observer it is a See RACE2A other men committed the crime. Coleman was on the cover of Time magazine and appeared on national and international television.

His story has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. A growing network of capital punishment opponents, including Amnesty International, has joined his Washington legal team in calling for a new trial. Snyder recently completed a fellowship at the Freedom Forum for Media Studies at Columbia University on how the press covers crime and criminals. "I think the press should show more diligence in covering capital punishment cases where the prisoner about to be executed is not so attractive, white, or palatable to a wide audience," he said. Pamela Rutter, program coordinator for BY ANNE GEARAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RICHMOND, Va.

An international effort to spare a prisoner condemned to die may have as much to do with his being white and articulate as it does with his claim of innocence, some observers said. "The more articulate the defendant, the more skilled at relating to the media, the more likely that person is to get widespread coverage and generate support for their claim of innocence," said former newspaper crime reporter Robert Snyder. Roger Keith Coleman is scheduled to die in the electric chair Wednesday for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law in a southwestern Virginia coal mining town. Coleman, 33, has consistently maintained his innocence, He and his lawyers said they nave new evidence that one or possibly two the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty in Washington, said: "There is something to the fact that you can look at a Grson and say, 'He looks like us, he doesn't )k like a The coalition, which is involved in Cole ROGER KEITH COLEMAN Scheduled to die Wednesday Grimes: Scams offer something, give nothing Hotel's hospitality changes with history Grimes said. "Sometime later he decided to check on Grimes said.

"The office was closed up and (the company was) out of circulation. "They probably incorporated somewhere else if they ever were incorporated." The check was cashed, the company's bank account was closed, and the man never received anything for his money, Grimes said. Someone probably "deposited his check and drew everything out and then took off," Grimes said. Often times, Grimes says, scam artists solicit SeeSCAMS2A $5 on the Kentucky Lottery." "The chances of you getting anything are almost nil," Grimes said. "Just consider it a contribution." A man recently told Grimes he fell for an offer he received in the mail from a company called Centron Corp.

of Tulsa, Okla. The letter, marked "not a contest or sweepstakes," informed the man he was a "guaranteed winner" of one of four prizes, ranging from a pickup truck to a $750 cashier's check. The letter instructed the man to call for more details or the offer would expire in 24 hours. He called, was told to send $398 before Centron could hand over the prize, and he did, BY KEVIN SIMPSON SUN STAFF WRITER Chances are you should be skeptical if you receive one of those something for nothing offers in the mail, says McCracken County Attorney Fred Grimes. It's easy for scam artists to set up quick hits through the mail, sending out a large number of offers in a short period of time.

The method lends plenty of time for hasty retreats before authorities can track them down, Grimes said. Bank accounts often are filed under a false name, making those responsible difficult to find. Grimes compared the odds of receiving an apparent sure thing through the mail to "betting reopened to about 20 guests Friday, mostly friends and relatives of the management. They fished, ate home-cooked meals, slept next to old-fashioned wash basins and enjoyed a bar with a working nickelodeon at the getaway spot near the Canadian See HOTEL2A ASSOCIATED PRESS VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK, Minn. The Kettle Falls Hotel has reopened to provide hospitality for weary travelers.

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