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-J- Sunday jjdW, VSrj FEBRUARY 7, 1999 Jwwi JtaiicTOef JUL NEWSSTAND PftlCE V.7L i Disabled Huskies IH Valentine clobber Cardinal Stanford loses 70-59, in big game C-i mm Warriors lose opener Heartbreak loss to Houston, 86-84 C-i Frazzled fliers Passenger backlash builds in unfriendly skies B- "For me, the best way to explain how I feel what happened was, you asked or encouraged me to lie, but no one discouraged me, Governor refuses mercy for killer Jaturun Siripongs scheduled for lethal injection on Tuesday 2 preview Love and pheromones Both sides duel over value of her taped testimony at Senate trial By R.W. Apple Jr. NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Moving ever closer to concluding William Jefferson Clinton's impeachment trial, House prosecutors and White House lawyers brought the face and voice of Monica Lewinsky to the Senate on Saturday with competing video presentations aimed at influencing senators judging the president's guilt or innocence. Her voice steady, her tone matter of fact, the 25-year-old former White House intern described the events that would later lead to the impeachment articles accusing Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice. "For me, the best way to explain how I feel what happened was, you know, no one asked or encouraged me to lie, but no one discouraged me, either," Lewinsky said on the tape, reading aloud from a previous grand jury statement as senators watched on four flat-screen, high-definition television sets strategically placed on the Senate floor.

To the House Republican prosecutors, Lewinsky's taped testimony helped establish "a broad tapestry of corruption" by the president. To the White House defense, prosecutors damaged their own case by using selective snippets of videotaped depositions. "They have distorted and they have created a profoundly er- See IMPEACH, A-10 examiner Visit examiner.com for video clips and transcripts of the Monica Lewinsky deposition. Examiner ft Chronicle INSIDE know, no one either." Monica Lewinsky been added: Monica, the perfect witness, in demure black. With a book yet to promote and television interviews yet to tape, Lewinsky did not lift the veil on all her secrets.

But what amounted to her first speaking role in President Clinton's impeachment trial allowed a national audience to see both the girl she was and the woman she has become. If she were a See LEWINSKY, A-10 S.F. 1 By Robert Salladay EXAMINER CAPITOL BUREAU SACRAMENTO Gov. Davis won't stop the execution of Jaturun "Jay" Siripongs, the Thai-born Buddhist convicted 16 years ago of double murder for strangling an Orange County shopkeeper and repeatedly stabbing her clerk. In thick black ink, Davis signed a 10-page decision Saturday to deny Siripongs clemency and clear another path for Tuesday's scheduled execution by lethal injection.

"Remorse." Buiiemeni, is not sufficient to satisfy a capital Siripongs sentence for double murder." Granted broad powers of mercy under the law, the new Democratic governor surprised few observers with his first clemency decision. A new streamlined federal appeals process is expected to give Davis a record number of clemency requests from the 517 convicted murderers already on death row. "Davis campaigned on the death penalty, and at the heart of the death penalty is politics," said Lance Lindsey, executive director of Northern California Death Penalty Focus. "It's just so sad that we don't respect the clemency process that we have set up." If his last-minute appeals are rejected over the next two days, Siripongs will become the sixth man See CLEMENCY, A-14 Many faces of Monica Lewinsky: Former intern was animated during taped AP PHOTO VIA TV testimony that was shown at the Senate impeachment trial on Saturday. On video: 'Articulate' young woman emerges By Melissa Healy LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON Bit by bit, piece by piece, Monica Lewinsky has emerged from under layers of mystery, the young woman at the center of a yearlong national spectacle.

On Saturday, using video Aba Gayle found a way to be able to forgive her daughter's murderer and now visits him in prison. EXAMINER CRAIQ LEE filled with so much hate. Then I felt like I knew what it was like to be a killer because I felt like I could be one." Now, two years later, she has realized there is no finality to the pain. "It doesn't bring closure. I hate that word.

They should've never See CLOSURE, A-12 vj the perfect witness INSIDE ROB MORSE: Depositions of the rich and famous A-2 VOTES: GOP osing battle on whether Clinton lied A-3 RESPONSE: headers say ii's ime to mcwe oi already A-10 tape of her deposition, lawyers on both sides of the impeachment divide drew away yet another veil. But what they revealed was perhaps no more telling than the disembodied voice, the naughty e-mails or the flirtatious smile in endless video loops seen before now. That flip of the hair in the Rose Garden, the rakish beret, the mob scenes of cameras crowding her entrance into the Mayflower Hotel to those images has now. Uosure is elusive ror tne gnevmg for th Hidden cameras raise concerns Some forgive the killers of loved ones By Julie Chao OF THE EXAMINER STAFF As use for video surveillance grows, so do privacy worries By Eric Brazil OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Pi-sr? Queen's If vigil for Jft Hussein Ik Jordan's Queen t4 jf Noor thanks i well-wishers k-f 4 outside the ny medical center in L''l I Amman where her husband, King Hussein, is lY on life support. Authority to lead the country has I been granted to his son, Crown I Prince Abdullah AP7 SANTIAGO LYON A-2 7 Arts Ideas D-5 Metro D-l Outdoors C-13 Business 1 Rob Mors A-2 Scoreboard C-14 Editorials Obituaries D-8 Sports I Lotto A-15 Opinions D-7 Weather D-2 134th Year, No.

6 t3 For years, Sandra Miller looked forward to witnessing the execution of the man who kidnapped her 15-year-old son from a bus stop and brutally murdered him. A few days before the big event, she told a newspaper "I expect to weep tears of joy at seeing him go and tears of sadness for my son. I absolutely want to finalize this pain." So, when the day came in February 1996 to watch William George Bonin the "Freeway Killer," convicted of murdering 14 young men die by lethal injection, Miller and other anguished parents were there at San Quentin. They had been anticipating the sweetness of that moment for 15 years. Afterward, they celebrated When fed up residents of "The Hilltop" approached the Tacoma, Police Department about installing video cameras in their crime-ridden neighborhood in 1992, "we resisted it," said Officer David Henry.

But neighborhood activists persevered: They won a $150,000 state grant, and pressured the Police Department into accepting it. Soon seven cameras were mounted in plain view on utility poles. "Almost immediately, calls from The Hilltop, where we had an outrageous homicide rate, went down by half," Henry said. Across America, in cities ranging from Pinole to New York, the idea of video camera surveillance of public streets and parks has taken hold. More than 50 city police departments operate such systems.

And though police in large Bay Area cities such as San See VIDEO, A-12 with champagne. But it wasn't quite sweet enough. Several parents said they wished they had been given front-row seats. They were disappointed his death seemed so peaceful. "I said to the warden, 'Could you give me his body so I could kill him Miller recalled in a recent phone interview from her home in Riverside County.

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