European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 12, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7apologetic Duke Edwards clash on tone time Leader of Kkt says he rejects nazism new Orleans apr David Duke denied sunday that he was Ever a nazi party member and again apologized for his past intolerance As the Campaign for Louisiana governor moved into its last week. Duke a renegade Republican and former three term gov. Edwin Edwards a Democrat sparred on no cd a meet the press. They spent most of their 20-minute segment disagreeing interrupting each other and trying to shake off their pasts. The Side by Side meeting in the to studio was the last scheduled joint appearance by the two before their Runoff election saturday. Afterwards they both headed for rallies and fundraisers. Also sunday Newsweek said it was reporting in next weeks Issue that one time Duke backers have questioned whether he pocketed $19,000 he raised for a pro White group protesting a 1987 civil rights March in Forsyth county a. A Duke spokesman said the Money was returned to donors unless they opted to make a a personal gift to Duke the Magazine reported. Duke a state representative who has been disowned by president Bush and other gop leaders was grand wizard of the Kun flux klan in the late 1970s and was a nazi sympathizer. When quizzed about his qualifications to Lead Louisiana and knowledge of the state Duke could not identify the top three employers or the number of residents who live Selow the poverty line. Host Garrick Utley asked Duke about his past holding up a front Page picture in sundays edition of the new York times showing him wearing a nazi armband in 1969 and carrying a sign a Gas the Chicago 7.�?� Duke 41, said he was 19 at the time was frustrated and trying to protest what he believed was the wrong direction his country was taking but admitted that he a did no to choose the right a i was never a member of the nazi party or anything like that a Duke said when asked Why he preferred the nazi philosophy As a youth. A i reject nazism. I reject communism. I believe in less government and that a what i stand David Duke right Republican candidate for Louisiana governor talks to his opponent democratic former gov. Edwin Edwards after the two answered questions on no cd a meet the press show sunday. Duke denied Ever saying Adolf Hitler was Quot a Geni us. Duke also renounced a 1988 statement while he was running for president in which he was quoted As saying a zionists have Long ago bought George Bush and Michael asked about his past Edwards a High stakes craps shooter in Las vegas and Lake Tahoe said a Well in a not a Gambler. I could Gamble every Day. 1 done to bet on football games baseball games basketball games. On occasion when i go to Las vegas or Atlantic City it is Legal within my Means i Edwards was asked if for the Sake of the state he would try to recast his image away from that of a Gam Bler Womanizer and Wheeler dealer. He twice evaded the question then replied a a in a 64 years old now and 1 want this Opportunity to do something for myself and for my state and in a not going to blow it. Duke accused Edwards of once running up million in gambling debts but Edwards said in the background Quot that a not True. That s not Quot Why done to you be honest with us a Duke replied. The verbal Battle continued after the show. As the two waited at the Wasu studio for the shows credits to finish rolling Edwards told Duke a you would not have got As far As you have without your past and your past is going to prevent you from getting any killer Bunny says there s no Glamour in jail Milwaukee a convicted murderer Lawrencia a a Bambi Bembenek says she a Quot starved for life in her Canadian prison and claims she does t fit her image of a a killer by inny a a it a horrendous to live under this Microscope a Bembenek 33, said in an interview in Rexdale Ontario published sunday by the Milwaukee journal. Bembenek said she is tired of Reading news stories describing her As a glamorous convict with references to her past As a Playboy club waitress and Calendar girl. A a there a no Glamour about being in jail a she said. A a in a not some self absorbed vain hedonistic individual a she said seated behind a thick plexiglas screen and speaking Over a Telephone in the metro Toronto West detention not this killer Bunny Bembenek has maintained she is innocent despite her 1982 jury conviction for first degree murder in the 1981 shooting of her then husbands former wife Christine Schultz. Bembenek a former Milwaukee police officer contends she was framed because of her efforts to fight sex discrimination on the police Force. Sentenced to life in prison she escaped from Wisconsin a Taycheedah correctional institution and fled to Canada with her Boyfriend Dominic Gugliatto in july 1990. They were captured that october in Thunder Bay Ontario. Gugliatto was extradited earlier this year and is serving a one year prison sentence in Wisconsin for helping he escape. Bembenek who has been seeking political Asylum in Canada was freed on bail sept. 13. After one night in a Halfway House she was rearrested and jailed by Canadian authorities because of an extradition request from Wisconsin. A it was hard to go Back. It was very very cruel a she said. A a in a starved for happiness. Quot in a just starved for life you know a she is battling the extradition request and is still seeking Asylum. Her Canadian lawyer Frank Marrocco said he expects a decision in the Case sometime next year. Acrobat says Foster dad abused her Spring Hill Fla. Apr the Foster father of acrobat Angel Wallenda was arrested on child pornography charges after she told police that he abused her and other children years ago a the photographed me in sexually explicit poses said Wallenda 23, who married into the famed flying Wallendar in 1985. A i thought it was so wrong. But 1 was so embarrassed i Tell anybody. In be lived with this for 13 years a she said saturday in a Telephone interview from her Home near Mansfield a. Richard w. Brook 52, was charged thursday with 40 counts of child pornography based on pictures and videotapes found at his Home 45 Miles North of Tampa. Wallenda who has terminal cancer said Brook sexually abused her and other children while they lived with him and his wife in Carmel . She resided there from age s a until she was nearly 12. The Brooks moved to Florida several years ago. A it takes so Many years to realize it was not your fault a she said. Authorities began investigating Brook in april on a tip from readers digest writer Henry Hurt with whom Wallenda shared the secret while he was interviewing her for the Magazine. Hurt did not publish the revelation at Wallendar a request but he encouraged her to report Brook and arranged for her to speak to a detective. Brook was arrested after ordering child pornography through the mail in a sting operation. On thursday detectives searching his Home found 39 photographs and one videotape showing children in sexual situations. Wallenda is married to Steven Wallenda the grand Nephew of Karl Wallenda who started the family acrobatic refuse to help Man bleeding to death Wichita Kan. Apr a 21-Ycar-old Man bled to death from gunshot wounds in a suspected crack House after neighbors refused to Call for help police said. Cleveland Oliver Iii was shot several times in the Abdomen after going to the abandoned House with a Friend Early sunday police it. Don Deckert said. The Friend who had waited outside went into the House when Oliver did no to return and found him tying on the floor Deckert said. He asked neighbors to Call for help but several refused Deckert said. Finally one neighbor called 911 just after 3 . Oliver later died at Cha Wesley medical Center he said. Deckert said he did no to know How much time lapsed Between the shooting and the Call to 911, but he said Oliver might have lived if someone had tried to resuscitate him sooner. The neighbors apparently feared retaliation from the operators of the House. They refused to cooperate with authorities later sunday Deckert said
