European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes saturday March 2b, 1992tyson s imprisonment called very sad Day a Mike Tyson is searched by Indiana department of corrections officer Jerry senises before going to prison. Indianapolis apr while Mike Tyson stood calmly As a judge sentenced him to six years in prison for rape boxing officials expressed sorrow and local Blacks anger at the fall of one of the sports biggest stars. A the would have gone Down in history As one of the worlds greatest boxers. He Rose up Quick real Quick but he fell Down even faster a said Kevin Rooney Tyson a former Trainer. Rooney helped Tyson become at age 20, the youngest world heavyweight boxing Champion. He lost the title in 1990. On thursday Superior court judge Patricia Gifford ordered Tyson to prison immediately saying she feared he could rape again. Within two hours he was behind bars. A something needs to be done about the attitude you displayed Here a the judge told Tyson. Tyson impassive after the sentence was read slipped off his watch and tie pin handed them to his attorney and hugged 81-year-old Camille Ewald the new York woman who raised him from his teen age years. A i am not guilty of this crime a Tyson said in a rambling 10-minute plea for leniency. He apologized for his a a crass behaviour during the 1991 pageant but said he never harmed his accuser 19-year-old Desiree Washington of Coventry . A i Haven to Hurt nobody. Nobody has a Black Eye or broken ribs a he said. A when in a in the ring i break their ribs 1 break their jaws. To me that a hurting  Tyson a attorneys asked an appeals panel to free him while his conviction is appealed. A a there a a touch of sadness in the air. Its just a very sad Day a said Steve Griffith a spokesman for Madison Square Garden boxing. Washington the miss Black America contestant who said Tyson raped her last summer Wasny to in court. A this child has no feeling of happiness or elation a said Deputy prosecutor Barbara Trathen who called to Tell her. A it will take months just to get Back to  Washington could not be reached for comment. Officials at Rhode islands Providence College where she is a student said her Mother had asked that her privacy be protected. A i think she feels that Justice has been done a said special prosecutor Jeffrey Modisett. Many in Indianapolis Black Community disagreed. Quot we had a lot of comments today that a Black cannot get a fair trial in Indianapolis a said Amos Brown the manager of the Black oriented radio station Wulc pm. Both Tyson and Washington Are Black. The Rev. . Shields local chairman of a nationwide a mercy for Tyson drive organized by Black ministers said he gave the judge a petition with the signatures of 30,000 people a this is a cause that will go on a he vowed. But an Indianapolis woman who led a counter petition drive said Tyson should have gotten a tougher sentence. A if the Man gets help of. But i doubt hell get much help in three years a said Carlin Chapman. Tyson could be out in three years with time off for Good behaviour and Rooney said its possible the former boxing Champ could make a comeback. A a it a too Early to make a prediction but if he trains and keeps in shape sure maybe a he said. Elias m. Cordova who Heads the world boxing association said Aba rules prohibit felons from fighting professionally. A i am very sorry about what happened a he said. A the career of a great Boxer has  comedian Bill Cosby an acquaintance of Tyson said he hoped the Boxer could get psychiatric help. A it would be very honorable for the state of Indiana to allow this prisoner to be rehabilitated while he is serving his debt to society a Cosby said from  gets 5 years for likening judge to nazis Ellicott City my. A peace activist Philip Berrigan was sentenced to five years in prison thursday for contempt when he refused to apologize for comparing a judges procedures to those in nazi Germany. Berrigan 68, was in Howard county District court to support eight fellow activists on trial for trespassing during a dec. 5 demonstration at the Johns Hopkins applied physics Laboratory in Columbia. Berrigan spoke out in court when judge James n. Vaughan refused to let the defendants talk about weapons research they say is carried out at the lab said Berrigan a wife Elizabeth Mcalister one of the defendants. Berrigan compared the judges handling of the cases to those of nazi Germany in the 1930s and declared the court a a disgrace a Mcalister said. Later Berrigan refused the judges demand that he apologize. At that Point Vaughan sentenced him to five years. A i think its an outrage a Mcalister said. A have you Ever in your life heard of anybody sentenced to five years for contempt in two minutes with no jury no defense and no Appeal just because this Man would not apologize for saying the truth in that courtroom a contacted at Home thursday night Vaughan refused to comment. Four of the defendants were found guilty thursday. Mike Bardoff paid a $50 Fine and sue Hunt refused to pay and was sentenced to five Days in jail Mcalister said. Sentencing for Mcalister and Carol Mckulik was scheduled for May 27. Berrigan a former Jesuit priest and his brother the Rev. Daniel Berrigan were in the forefront of the peace movement during the Vietnam War. They were arrested Many times then and in subsequent years for their protests. Clinton defends move to drop himself others from ethics Bill from wire reports new York a Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton has denounced a published report that he deleted from a 1988 ethics Bill a provision that would have required him and other top officials to disclose actions relating to their families businesses. Clinton acknowledged dropping the condition but said the account in fridays editions of the new York t Imes left the impression that it was done to prevent himself from being covered by state ethics Laws. He produced documents showing he had introduced an ethics Bill that covered his actions and convened a special session to consider it. He said he had agreed to the watered Down Bill Only after his measure stalled in the state Senate. The times reported that Clinton and top advisers agreed to delete the provision in the Overall ethics Bill that applied to decisions involving a business or firm in which a member of an officials family was employed or a partner. By removing the provision Clinton was exempted irom any possibility that he would be responsible for reporting in detail any actions or decisions on his part that affected the clients of his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton or the Rose Law firm of which she was a partner the times said. But Clinton said his wife and members of her Law firm were covered by other ethics and Public records provisions that would detail any work done for the state. He said they also were subject to the lobbying disclosure provision. The times said the deletion of the provision which would have covered the Clinton occurred during a private drafting session that included the governor close political aides and a senior partner in the Rose firm Webb Hubbell. Clinton said Hubbell was a member of the state ethics commission. A the main reason for the Bill was to put restrictions on lobbying of the legislature a Clinton said. A i had included these broader provisions but they killed the package in the  later Clinton said he decided to put an ethics Bill to a referendum vote but decided to delete a Section requiring certain disclosures by Public officials a including the governor a a because it covered every local water commissioner and everyone else and we knew they would mount a grass roots Effort to kill it when we really needed the lobby  a i never made an Effort to exempt myself from any disclosure requirement a Clinton said. The family disclosure provision applied to legislators. But the Clinton version passed by voters exempted the governor other elected officials and the appointed officials in state agencies and commissions the times said. The times quoted Arkansas consumer activist Scott Trotter an attorney who has worked with common cause and other groups As saying that the deletion of Public officials from the lobbying referendum was a not  in a september 1987 letter to Clinton however Trotter urged Clinton to separate lobbying Reform proposals trom proposals to require greater disclosure by Public  of thousands swamping phone lines at draft Perot offices by the los Angeles times overwhelmed by Telephone Calls from people who want Texas billionaire h. Ross Perot to run for president Sci has added hundreds of new lines to handle  pouring into the Dallas offices of a draft Perot group. Officials for the Long distance phone company said thursday that an 800 number set up by the Perot petition committee has been receiving 200,000 to 300,000 Calls a Day this week from people across the United states who Are seeking information or offering to help Perot. The Maverick businessman a who made headlines in 1979 when he organized a commando style Rescue of two employees from a Tehran Iran prison during the iranian revolution a said last week that he would run for president As an Independent if a Ordinary people could get his name on the november ballot in All 50 states. He has appeared on three nationwide television shows this week a this week with David Brinkley Donahue and this morning each time he touched off a flood of Calls to his 800 number. Sci spokesman Paul Sims said that in the last 10 Days More than 1 million Calls had been made to the line although an unknown percentage did not get through because of the heavy volume. A a it a just mind boggling a Sims said. Sci said that the Perot committee originally had a dozen phone lines installed but those were quickly overwhelmed