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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 20, 1990 the stars Ano stripes Pago 5 guilty Washington apr the Senate ethics committee unanimously recommended wednesday that the full Senate denounce Republican sen. Dave Durenberger of Minnesota for a unequivocally unethical financial conduct. The panel also proposed he make restitution of up to $124,050 for exceeding Senate limits in speaking fees. The committees report should go to the Senate in seven to 10 Days. The committee said Durenberger should reimburse the Senate $29,050 plus interest and give charities $95,000 for exceeding speaking fee limits by $124,050 in 1985 and 1986. The panels most serious recommendation could have been expulsion a a penalty usually reserved for serious criminal violations. The committee said Durenberger had a knowingly and willingly violated Federal civil Law plus Senate rules and cited As a a reprehensible Durenberger a behaviour on virtually every allegation of Finan Minn senator a conduct Cial misconduct that was part of the panels investigation. The panel referred its findings without making any recommendations to Senate republicans who could strip Durenberger of any positions of party responsibility. The findings also will go to Federal agencies including the Justice department and the Federal election commission. Durenberger said that a of All the thousands of words that have been written or spoken during 23 months of investigation news coverage and commentary Only three Are appropriate today i am  he said he has no intention of resigning his seat commenting Quot i intend to spend the next four years being the Best senator i  he said his outstanding or unfilled Legal fees total $377,000 and he has already paid $211,934 for previous Legal costs. The senator said he has raised $ 121,337 so far for his Legal expenses. The committee passed a Resolution saying that Durenberger 55, a senator since 1978, should be a denounced by the United states  the committee criticized Durenberger so clearly and unequivocally Unetha car conduct in connection with his a arrangement with Piranha press in which Durenberger contended he made speeches to promote two books that he said were not subject to the Senate a limits on Honor aria. A a failure to report the receipt of travel expenses in connection with his Book promotion appearances and dual purpose trips to the Boston area. A real estate dealings involving his Minneapolis condominium so he could continue to receive questionable reimbursements from the Senate for his stays there a pattern of discussing the condominium with the trustee of his Blind Trust. A repeated acceptance of free limousine service. A conversion of a Campaign contribution to personal use. Sen. Dave Durenberger Washington eluded its drug and apr the prosecution con f Case against mayor Marion. Acquitting Barry on 4 counts eluded its drug and penury Case against mayor Marie Bany on wednesday and the judge rejected most the defense a motions for acquittal of the 14 charges. . District court judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was to Rule thursday on whether to acquit the mayor on three Misdemeanour cocaine Possession charges a including the one arising from an Fri sting operation at a local hotel a and a Misdemeanour cocaine conspiracy charge. Barrys attorney r. Kenneth Mundy argued that witnesses who testified on those charges could not confirm the dates on which the alleged crimes took place. Prosecutors said the witnesses estimated closely enough. In concluding their Case prosecutors questioned a no spent months compiling records of City detective barrys Telephone logs. The detective James Pawlik testified that More than 2,000 Calls were placed from barrys car phone Over a four year period to Homes or businesses of friends who Nave admitted or been accused of drug involvement with Barry. The list covered Calls to 10 people who have testified to supplying drugs to Barry using drugs with him or seeing him use them James Pawlik said. Prosecutors in the month Long trial have portrayed the mayor As a regular drug user who lied to cover up illegal activity. Mundy who has promised a lots of surprises from witnesses he plans to Call attempted to put the Calls into context by getting Pawlik to testify that Barry made at least 20,000 car Telephone Calls during the period. Pawlik also testified that the records do not make Clear that it was Barry who actually placed the Calls or Sands of time mayor Marion Barry smiles during break in trial in cases when Calls were placed to a business whether Barry was speaking. The detective said the records did not include Calls made from barrys Home. And there were also four months in 1986 for which the Telephone company could not produce records for barrys car Telephone. Pawlik told the court that Barry made 358 Calls to former Model rash cd Moore 573 to former Girlfriend Theresa Southerland and 508 to another woman Bettye Smith. Moore who cooperated with the Jan. 18 Fri sting operation that led to barrys arrest has testified that she used drugs with him More than 100 times. Southerland testified she used drugs repeatedly with Barry and Smith made similar statements tuesday. The Telephone records also show that Parry made 243 Calls to restaurateur Hassan Mohammadi and 148 Calls to local attorney Lloyd Moore. Mohammadi testified that he and Barry used cocaine marijuana and opium and Moore outlined a history of cocaine use with Barry. Pawlik also said Barry made several Calls to the hotel room of Charles Lewis in december 1988. Lewis testified that he and the mayor smoked crack cocaine repeatedly that month. Barry 54, has pleaded innocent to 10 Misdemeanour counts of cocaine Possession one Misdemeanour charge of conspiracy and three felony counts of lying to a grand jury about his alleged drug use. The judge refused to dismiss three perjury charges and eight of the Possession charges. He said he would deliberate on charges involving the testimony of Bettye Smith and Doris Crenshaw. The judge also reserved judgment on Mundyk a request that the Possession charge resulting from the sting operation be dropped because of illegal  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. \. July 20, 1950 a president Truman asked Congress for $10 billion for an increased flow of men and materials to the korean fighting front and to Block armed aggression elsewhere in the world.30 years ago today. July 20, 1960 a Ralph Bunche the . Representative in the Congo announced that agreement had been reached with belgian officials for the withdrawal of their troops within three Days.20 years ago today. July 20, 1970 ran engine room fire gutted the norwegian cruise ship Fulvia 132 Miles North of the Canary islands forcing 717 passengers and Crew members to abandon ship.10 years ago today. July 20, 1980 a soviet president Leonid Brezhnev officially opened the Boycott stricken Moscow olympics but two american sports fans stole the limelight by unfurling an american Flag in Lenin stadium. American psychiatry Leader Karl Menninger Dies at 96 by the los Angeles times or. Karl Augustus Menninger the last living Pioneer of american psychiatry who radically transformed the nations views on the mentally ill died wednesday of abdominal cancer. The cot under of the famed Menninger clinic in Topeka kan., died at Stormont Vail regional medical Center in Topeka where his cancer was diagnosed june 12. He was 96. Pat Norris a clinical director of the biofeedback and psychophysiology Center at the Menninger clinic said he was a sending messages and signals to people during his final night and asked her to sing to him. The often outspoken didactic doctor once called the nation s a greatest living psychiatrist Quot by the american psychiatric association had battled Back from a brain tumor and a stroke to remain Active As chairman of the Board of his foundation. His 15th Book a the selected correspondence of Karl a. Menninger 19191945,�?� was published in 1988. He went to his office daily meeting with students having lunch with friends receiving guests and sometimes fretting about his place in history. A Small town boy who came Home from Harvard to Start what would eventually become a leading psychiatric Center a Cdr. Karl Quot was a Prairie Renaissance Man who was equally at ease with Sigmund Freud Albert Schweitzer the wheal Farmers of Eastern Kansas and the mentally ill  
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