European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 6, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 top Wright aide once jailed for beating slashing woman Washington not the political struggle of House speaker Jimwright. A Texas. Took a bitter twist thursday when the criminal record of one of his closest aides was resurrected by a newspaper and then pounced on by the Republican congressional Campaign committee. The aide John p. Mack attacked woman in 1973. Pounding her Skull with a Hammer and slashing her. She is Pamela Small then 20 years old. It happened in a Home furnishing store in a Virginia suburb where Mack then 19. Was the night manager. Small had come in to buy some furnishings for her first apartment. She followed him into a Back room to look for window blinds. He attacked her. Then he bundled her into her car drove around and then left her in the car. Mack served two years in a Virginia jail after which he was released in a work program on the Promise of a Job in Wright s office. Wright s daughter Kay was married to Mack s brother. Mack began As a file clerk and Rose As Wright Rose in the ranks to speaker. Mack now manages action on the House floor for Swright. The article Tell f ing of Mack s at a Lack on Small was i thursday s Section of Washington in style the Post. It Longwill included interview Small who the Post said has of never before Mack talked about the attack for the  she was interviewed in 1987 by Wright s Hometown paper. The fort Worth Star Telegram which published her comments but not her name. The Post said she incl agreed to the using of her name so Long As where she worked and lived were kept vague. In both articles she expressed anger Over Mack s prominence. I equate John with Ted Bundy she told the Texas paper referring to the serial killer. That Man tried to kill me. It still gives me Goose  the i Osl article landed like a bomb in a capital shaken by the ethics inquiry into Wright s dealings. Many speculated about the timing. This Story has been present before said mouse majority Leader Thomas s. Foley. A Wash. The Republican congressional Campaign committee issued a press release saying according to the Post Mack is speaker Wright s right hand Man. According to court records that right hand in 1973 grabbed a Hammer and slammed it into his victim s Skull " both Wright and Mack declined to comment. Meln Small speaker s financial Deal detailed Jinn Wright new York a House speaker Jim Wright a Texas borrowed $ 100,000 to invest in a Texas nursing Home company in 1983, and lost the Money when the company was liquidated in bankruptcy proceedings two years later according to pub shed reports. Before the company failed Wright received dividends on his investment in Jewell enterprises inc., although other investors received none according to reports in the Boston Globe and the new York times. Wright s financial disclosure statements list investment income from Jewell enterprises of Between $5,001 and $15,000 in 1983. But Wil Liam Oldaker Wright s attorney said Wright also received $17.000 around the beginning of 1985, the times said in its Friday editions. Only one other investor a Friend of Wright s who recommended the invest ment to him. Received payments from the company the times said citing interviews with 20 of the 27 other investors. The Globe reported on tuesday that Wright borrowed All the Money for his Purchase of $100,000 Worth of Stock in Jewell enterprises and used the Stock As collateral for the loan. . Jewell president of Jewell enterprises was also a director at the Bank that Lent Wright the Money the Globe said. Jewell s bankruptcy made the Stock worthless but the loan still had to be repaid. Wright also had to repay $13.500 of the dividends he had received the reports said. Wright finished paying off the loan last june using some of his $340.000 profit from a later Gas Well Deal the Globe reported. The mouse ethics com Mittee is looking into the circumstances of the Well venture. The speaker is defending himself against charges he broke House rules 69 times in the last 10 years. The ethics panel is expected to hold a hearing on the charges later this month. Bush denies offering Aid to Honduras Over contras president Bush accompanied by Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney at a while House press conference denies offering Honduras a secret Deal. By the Baltimore Sun Washington president Bush adamantly denied thursday that while vice president he had promised the presi Dent of Honduras increased Aid in return for helping the nicaraguan contras at a time when Congress had barred the administration from assisting the rebels. The allegation that s been made on me was that 1 went to Honduras and talked to president Suazo about some quid pro  Bush said thursday at a news conference. I can now state Mcclar am Civ without any fear of contradiction that there was  there had been speculation that Bush could have made the plan Clear to presi Dent Robert Suazo Cordova without stat ing it in Blunt terms. But Bush ruled that out also. The word of the president of the United states. George Bush is there was no quid pro quo he said firmly. The records of the meeting demonstrate that there was no quid pro quo. No implication no quid pro quo direct or indirect during the visit to Honduras in March 19x5. Everybody that attended the meeting save there was no quid pro quo. And for those who suggest there was. The onus is on them to prove it the president said. Hush went even further later when he said that aside from the question of his own meeting with Suazo As far As i know there was also no govern Rnell to govern Cal arrangement at the time. Disclosure of the meeting with honduran president Roberto Suazo Cordova came during the criminal trial of formic National Security aide Oliver North. Sever Al documents released during the trial suggested that the Reagan administration planned to use . Aid As a lever to get help for the contras from Honduras where Many rebel base Camps were located. One document used the words quid pro quo in discussing Aid to Honduras and another outlined a plan to use a special emissary to Suazo to explain the . Linkage. When Bush met with the honduran president he told Suazo that president Reagan had ordered the release of . Economic Aid that had been held up and that shipment of some Materiel would be seeded up. Several top White House aides said in recent Days that Bush had told them that his meeting with Suazo was not part of any quid pro quo plan but Bush him self had refused to comment while the trial was going on. Word of an imminent North verdict came just As the president and visiting Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney began a joint press conference on the White House South Lawn. When asked Bush said he said he May or May not answer other questions about his role in the affair but that he considered the ones about Honduras answered