European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sit the so up Pes vol. 50, no. 183 sunday october 13,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces 500 d 8693 a Thomas returns to testify labels Hill s charges trash from wire reports Washington fighting to Salvage his supreme court nomination Clarence Thomas disputed Point by Point Anita Hills graphic account of sexual harassment and denounced renewed Senate hearings As a a High tech Lynching for uppity  Thomas testimony Friday night capped an unprecedented Senate committee session in which Hill provided lurid details of what she said were Thomas unwanted advances. They included talk of pornographic movies and sex with animals bragging of his sexual prowess boasting of the size of his Penis and pressuring her to Date him. A they were very ugly very dirty and they were disgusting a she said. Thomas who had been her Boss at the department of education and later at the equal employment Opportunity commission boiled Over with outrage in Thomas Wright Doggett a second appearance before the committee. He called her charges a sleaze. Dirt. Trash which you be siphoned out of the  a this has devastated me a Thomas said. A a it a untrue. Its  the committee was to resume questioning Thomas on saturday. Meanwhile a former Law school classmate of Thomas and acquaintance of Hill said in an affidavit made Public Friday that Hill demonstrated an a ability to fabricate the idea that someone was interested in her when in fact no such interest  John n. Doggett Iii an International management consultant in Austin Texas said in the document that during a 7v year period that he lived in Washington Thomas never mentioned a any personal interest in Anita Hill or any other woman. In fact he never talked about sex or pornographic  a Anita Hill on the other hand made it very Clear that she wanted to get to know me on a social and personal level and acted in a Way that is in my opinion totally at Odds with her claims that she was the victim of sexual harassment a he said. Angela Wright who spoke against Thomas on thursday and claims he had made unwelcome advances toward her waited outside the hearing room Friday but was not called to testify. She was expected to testify before the pane1 saturday. Thomas a conservative Black judge was appointed by president Bush. He see Thomas on Page 2 nationwide audience riveted by testimony from wire reports did he lie or did she lie and does it really matter americans watched and debated Friday As judge Clarence Thomas and Law professor Anita Hill offered their testimony a and their reputations a to the Senate judiciary committee in a nationally televised hearing. For hours much of the nation set transfixed in front of television sets watching and listening As Hill told the senators Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked for him and Thomas said he had not. The allegations were detailed live from Senate hearings Friday on All three major networks pcs and can. Many viewers called to protest the pre Empting of soap operas. Others complained about graphic language. Lbs also said Many viewers called the network to declare themselves either for Thomas or Hill. A to say its High drama is really in fact an incredible understatement a this makes the movies look trivial a correspondent Nina Totenberg told Public television viewers. Lbs Abc and Abc preempted their game shows soap operas and interview shows for the live coverage but were Able to slip in a few commercials during the few Breaks in the proceedings that began at 10 . But they did no to Cut away for ads during Thomas opening statement or Hills lengthy at times dramatic testimony. It was one of those extraordinary events that combined Public policy and private lives the National interest and prurient interests. And it Drew people to their television sets in offices schools see riveted on Page 2 onto a lbs offered viewers the american league playoff game in Toronto with updates of the drama associated with Clarence Thomas Senate  reassured after chernobyl Plant catches fire Moscow apr fire destroyed part of the roof of the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant Friday night but the soviet government assured a nervous Public saturday that no one was injured and no radiation leaked from the site of the 1986 disaster. The Blaze in a Turbine room at the ukrainian Plant was certain to renew debate Over the safety of soviet reactors and intensify Calls for chernobyl and similar facilities to be shut Down. A special commission immediately was dispatched by the ukrainian government to investigate the Accident at the Plant 80 Miles North of Kiev the republics capital. On april 26, 1986, a massive explosion and fire at chernobyl spewed radiation around the world and caused at least 32 deaths in the worst disaster in the history of nuclear Power. A spokesman for the ministry of the atomic Power Industry in Moscow said the fire broke out Friday As the plants no. 2 reactor was being shut Down for repairs. The 1986 disaster also occurred during a routine shutdown but a different reactor a no. 4, now permanently out of commission a was involved. The ministry spokesman Yevgeny Ignatenko said that in the midst of the planned shutdown a an automatic switch turned the reactor on again a producing a surge of electric current and igniting a fire in some ducts at 8 09 . Friday. More than 60 fire trucks and 300 firefighters raced to the Plant from Kiev and the surrounding area. The fire was put out at 11 30 ., before it could spread into the reactor room Tass said. In Finland the Center for radiation and nuclear safety said it had not detected any abnormal level of radioactivity As of saturday morning. But the staff said that if radiation were released it would probably take More than 24 hours to reach Finland. A recorded statement on the Power plants Telephone information line said no one was Hurt in the Accident. It ended by saying a the station is working