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Spokane, Wash, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Thursday, July 6, 1995 Page A3 The Nation Expert: Carpet fibers on glove, cap match Campaign, uh, book tour begins Gingrich launches trip to sou to Renew America Memo to Christians: Be reatiy to abandon GOP unlikely that anti-abortion stalwarts Patrick J. Buchanan, Alan Keyes or Robert Dornan will become the Republican nominee. The other Republican candidates all have a pro-abortion voting record, he claims. In the memo last month to James C. Dobson Jr.

of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Phillips asks Dobsons help in getting the U.S. Taxpayers Party on the ballot in all 50 states. More than anyone else in America today, Phillips writes to Dobson, you have the power to make this happen. If I may presume to say so, I believe you also have the duty. Dobson, head of an influential Christian ministry, hosts radio programs carried on more than 2,000 stations and publishes 11 magazines on family issues.

Washington Post WASHINGTON In a confidential memo, Howard Phillips of the U.S. Taxpayers Party is urging conservative Christian leaders to be prepared to abandon the Republican Party if it compromises on the abortion issue and back a solidly anti-abortion candidate on a third-party ticket. The memo is a sign that even though Republican candidates like Sen. Robert K. Dole, and Sen.

Phil Gramm, R-Texas, have recently sounded themes appealing to religious conservatives, some in that constituency fear those candidates would betray them if elected president. Pro-family conservatives need a political insurance policy, Phillips writes, because it is dered an objection. But Deedrick did manage to say that two rose-beige-colored fibers; one, invisible to the unaided eye, that he picked off the cap contain-' ing hairs similar to Simpsons, the, other found in the paper evidence bag containing the right-hand glove resembled nothing he had seen in 17 years spent peering into labo-. ratory microscopes. Deedrick said he had used a polarizing microscope, a fluorescent microscope, a scanning electronic microscope and a compari-' son microscope to inspect the fibers.

What he saw and what he showed the jurors were shafts, enlarged many times, that feature three-pronged, propeller-like He described them as three-lobe nylon fibers with knobs at the end of each lobe, and likened their ap-' pearance to a childs set of jacks. Id not seen it before, he testi-' fied. Nor, he said, did he see it subsequently when shown fibers taken from the white Bronco belonging to Simpsons friend A.C. Cowlings. That carpeting, he noted, was blue.

i But ruling keeps specialist from discussing details New York Times LOS ANGELES Carpet fibers found on the bloody leather glove picked up behind O.J. Simpsons house and on a knit cap found at the crime scene match the extremely unusual fibers lifted off the floor of Simpsons Ford Bronco, a prosecution expert testified Wednesday. Because of a ruling last week by Judge Lance Ito, the witness, Douglas Dcedrick, a specialist from the FBIs division on hair and trace evidence, was not permitted to say just how distinctive the fibers were: that they appeared in only a limited number of Broncos made in late 1993 and 1994. Those Broncos included Simpsons, which prosecutors say he drove to the scene of the murders with which he is charged and then back home. Whenever Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark steered Deedrick near the distinctiveness of the Bronco carpet, Simpsons lawyer-for-the-day, F.

Lee Bailey, thun Associated Press WASHINGTON Newt Gingrich, calling himself his partys emotional leader, embarked Wednesday on a national book tour that coincides with the runup to the presidential primary season. Its all pure luck, he said of the timing. The House speaker is taking advantage of it both to sell books and introduce himself to potential voters in friendly book-and-author settings. I think it will help people understand me better, Gingrich said of his book, To Renew America in an interview with The Associated Press. The book summarizes what he thinks ails the country and how he would fix it.

A packed schedule of interviews, radio shows, speeches and book signings Wednesday through Friday in Washington and New York is a prelude to a 25-city August tour. His stated objective is to sell as many books as possible. But Gingrich acknowledges there may be spinoff benefits as well. Gingrich has been flirting with the idea of running for president ever since the Republican landslide last November and his elevation in January to the speakership. He said recently he would not make a final decision until Dec.

15, the deadline to file for the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary. If you are speaker of the House and you have Gingrich summed up his relations with the current GOP presidential field this way: Im very close to (Texas Sen.) Phil Gramm psychologically. Im very close to Dole functionally because were the two leaders of the House and Senate. Ive known Lamar (Alexander, former education secretary) for years. Ive known (California Gov.

Pete) Wilson for years. I used to do (Pat) Buchanans show on radio when he would take leave and (California Rep. Bob) Dornan and I are friends. nationwide name ID, theres no practical reason to say no, I wont run at this point, Gingrich said in the interview. Things change.

Gingrich, said that doesnt mean he presumes Senate Majority Leader Bob Doles front-running campaign will collapse. I am emotionally the leader of the party, Gingrich said. But he said many of his most enthusiastic supporters, at least right now, want him to continue as speaker and finish the business of the Republican revolution. Hot Air Balloon Rides SUMMER SPECIAL 00 Simplifying tax laws goal of hearings iSfi Tztf Gift Certificates ijj j( Reg. $85 M.

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