The State from Columbia, South Carolina • 1

COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROUNA a A JANUARY 14 1999 'V Not bad tad damp Showwalater warm doudy High 66 low 52 PLEASE SEE PAGE A2 NO 14 108TH YEAR 4 SECTIONS 50 PAGES oissswestme FINAL 4KNICHT RlPOEftl Carolina Largest Clinton trial Lewinsky rejects interview by House prosecution team By KEN FIREMAN Nnwdqy WAIHMGTON An event no living American has ever witnessed and few believed they ever would begins to unfold today when the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton opens in earnest The substantive phase of the trial the second in the history and the first in 131 years will begin shortly after 1 pm when 13 House members acting as prosecutors start laying out the case against Clinton to the 100 senators serving as a jury Those opening arguments will kick off an unprecedented and unpredictable two weeks during which Clinton will go before a joint session of HtMLIlINLK-MLMWIUtelrtkVIAifc Gov Dm and Rachel Hodges foreground danco to at the Inaugural Ball on Wednesday night near Gov Bob and Batt Pariar--- SAYING THE STATE MUST LEARN lessons of Democrat James Hoyis -Hodges took the oath of office as South 114th governor Wednesday and promised to lead the state on a to into the 21st century Three flags whipped in a dear blue sky above the renovated State House as the 42-year-old former corporate lawyer and state lawmaker said true economic prosperity was impossible without equal opportunity for all The first Democratic governor in 12 years said the key to South dreams lay in improving the schools Thu swearing-in was the centerpiece of a day of solemn prayer ceremony and celebration Congress to deliver his State of the Union address even as lawmakers approach crucial decisions that will shape the direction of the trial and determine his political fete House prosecutors said Monica Lewinsky had recently rejected their request for a voluntary interview Judiciary Committee Republicans said they had sought permission earlier in the week to talk with the woman at the center of the sex-and-cover-up scandal Her attorneys "declined to make her said a committee spokesman Paul McNulty Legal sources who spoke on condition of anonymity disclosed that a similar request was made to at least one other potential witness Kathleen Willey McNulty declined to confirm the approach to Willey although legal sources said two members of the committee Reps Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas had recently met with her and her attorney She alleged Clinton made an uninvited sexual pass in the White House but the incident is not cited in either of the two articles of impeachment approved by the House In the run-up to his Tuesday PLEASE SEE TRIAL PAGE AS The plans Calendar of Senate impeachment triaL Today: House fHes rebuttal brief 10 am House presentation not to exceed 24 hours begins at 1 pm Friday: House presentation continues 1 pm Saturday: House presentation continues 10 an Sunday: No session Monday: No session (Martin Luther King Jr's birthday) Tuesday: President's presentation not to exceed 24 hours begns at 1 pm Wednesday: presentation continues 1 pm Thursday: President's presentation continues Ian 22: Senate question parties Not to exceed 16 hours 1 pm Ian 23: Senate questioning continues Ian 24: No session Ian 25: Senate considers motions to dismiss or motions for subpoenas of witnesses Jan 26-31: Possible days for discovery or for closing arguments depending on votes on motions THE INAUGURAL Four-page pull-out inside this section 1 The inaugural address 2 Inaugural talk 3 Historic day in photos 4 UNUtSlkUUHtSIAE Rachai Hodgos holds a family Biblo on Wednesday at Ibn Hodgaa la sworn In by Chief lustice Ernest A Finney jr outside the State House In downtown Columbia Jordan: Tve had a great By MARK LeBIEN and ELLEN ALMER Chicago Tribunt SS2 Cousin admits family SEsr beat girl 6 to death Wednesday to aiding and abetting homicide by child abuse in the death By RICK BRUNDRETT with his 1 1 -year-old brother and their of his 6-year-oid cousin staff Writer mother Pamela Smith beating her Charnel) Smith Presecu- with an electrical extension cord at tors dropped a charge of A 13-year-old admitted Wednesday their Arborgate Court home sflid 5th first-degee lynching that he and his younger brother took Circuit Assistant Solicitor David Pas- Chameil was beaten turns whipping 6-year-old Chamell coe Smith is aunt to death in October after Smith with an electrical cord and The older boy is 5 feet 5 inches tall getting off at the wrong slamming her to the floor during her and weighs 190 pounds his brother is school bus stop and fetal beating the same height and weighs about 130 refusing to tel adults The mother Pamela Smith pounds according to police reports near the bus stop where helped them beat Chamell and told "This is the most uncivilized act she lived them to "crack her as Smith ever Pascoe told Family Pamela Smith 34 watched them slam the 48-pound girl Court Judge Wright Turbeville Pas-) who had custody of on the floor a prosecutor said in Rich- coe know the duration of the Chameil feces a murder land County Family Court beating or how many times Chamell charge in the case Her The 13-year-old pleaded guilty to had been struck sons 13 and were participating in the attack on Chamell As part of a plea bargain the boy both charged with partic- at Pamela Harbison-area pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting ipating in Chameil's home in October homicide by child abuse Prosecutors beating death After stripping off clothes the 13-year-old took turns PLEASE SEE COUSIN PAGE A7 1 Chicago "I am here to announce my retirement from the game of With those words Michael Jordan did what Chicago and much of the world have been anticipating for hours days even months The greatest player in basketball a global sports superstar whose face and No 23 are famous from the neighborhoods of Chicago to the rural provinces of China is stepping down Speaking in front of hundreds of reporters at the United Center Jordan 33 said retiring after 13 seasons six NBA championships 10 scoring titles five Most Valuable Player awards and a career that makes his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame a no-brainer had a great said Jordan whose wife Juanita was at his side as he sat at the microphone addressing the massed reporters and TV cameras "I say enough for the people supported Jordan was asked if this truly is the end of his PLEASE SEE JORDAN PAGE A7 I HE PHLS6 Michael and Juanita Jordan dtecuas hit retirement life change at all I see Michael doing more JUANITA JORDAN (J -T CA NA 'W ms re a 21 MOVIES D2 WHKe Loo Staggers Kingstnee -Robort Stuart Columbia Pearl Sweat Summerville Dessie Taylor Peak Ida Mao Walker Columbia George Washington Kingstree Isaac Washington Georgetown Beulah WiKams Cordova Romonica Wise Prosperity Jotinnia Mao Wooiard Ruby Rodney Ouzts Newbeny Georgo Poppar Sr Columbia Joeilo Pony Columbia Monte Pony Gneenvliie Anglo Hast Timmonsviile Juanita Roaley West Columbia George Rivers 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