European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 11,1992 Brown denies drugs were used at Home Campaign from wire reports Washington former California gov. Jerry Brown has denied a network report that he gave parties in his Home while governor where cocaine and marijuana were used a in Large  according to abcs world news tonight four members of the state police detail guarding Brown during that period alleged that the drugs were used at several parties Brown gave at a Home he then owned in Laurel Canyon a Hollywood Hills area of los Angeles. None of the former officers agreed to be identified but two of them appeared on camera with their identities obscured. Abc news said it a could not determine whether governor Brown used drugs  Brown campaigning thursday in Pittsburgh in preparation for the Pennsylvania democratic presidential primary on april 28, called the report a absolutely false and denied he had Ever witnessed the use of drugs in his Home. A i never saw it Quot Brown said. Brown also called the Abc charge a very vague and denounced the network for failing to provide details of the reported drug use to which he might respond. A i find it very curious that 10 years later they now discover this in the Middle of a presidential Campaign a Brown said. A it certainly seems like a phony to  Brown threatened to sue Abc news because of the report. He called the allegations a a malicious and said he will a push this Case to its  a everybody knows i done to hold parties a Brown told Abc during the time the station allotted him for replying to the allegations. Brown then called on his supporters to stand by him a so we can fight  he asked that they dial his 800 number that receives Campaign contributions. In late March Brown told an interviewer in new York that he had never broken any drug Laws. A Why done to you Lay off this stuff a he said. A what we he and democratic rival Bill Clinton did 10 or 20 years ago is not  at the time Clinton had admitted that he tried marijuana while attending Oxford University in England from 1968 to 1970. One of the former officers who was quoted on camera but whose face was lighted so he could not be recognized said he cleaned up Browne a House after the parties. A throughout the House were ashtrays with seeds or leftovers of marijuana a the former officer said. A in one form or another there was evidence of it in every  another former officer also lighted on camera so he could not be recognized said that a after the parties if you will were Over and we cleared the residence we could smell the odor of marijuana and we found traces of a White powdery substance which we later identified As cocaine by using police test kits. The former officer said the tests positively identified cocaine a five or six  under California Law a person who knows that these drugs Are in his or her House and has the ability to control whether they Are there is guilty of Possession. It is a felony for cocaine and a Misdemeanour or an infraction for marijuana a depending on the Quantity. One former officer said he did not arrest Brown because a the was the governor of the state of California. Our primary concern was the Protection of the governor not to arrest  Abc said the officers a raised the Issue with their superiors and nothing was Ever done about  however Abc also reported that Wil Jerry Brown stands in front of abcs offices in Washington to deny drug allegations. Liam Skelton commander of the state police Security division for three of the eight years Brown was governor said no drug use at the House was reported to him. Two close associates of Browne a when he was governor said thursday night that they had never seen or heard of any evidence of drug use by or near Brown. A i never saw any evidence of drug use during the Brown administration whatsoever a said state controller Gray Davis Browne a chief of staff during much of his governorship. A i can categorically say that in be never even heard anyone discuss  Browne a travelling Secretary Lew Werner said that he had been in close proximity to Brown at Many parties and other events at the governors Laurel Canyon Home and that he had never seen nor heard of any drugs being used there. Werner added that state police Security officers did not enter the Brown Home. A the police were always stationed across the Street in a a cannot a Werner said. A i was the person who often left him Brown at night and closed the House myself. The police used to drive me  at state police Headquarters in Sacramento capt. Robert Donnalley said the police must look into the matter before making any comprehensive statement. A we do appreciate the seriousness of this a Donnalley said. A it would be totally unethical and unprofessional and illegal if officers observed drug use and did not report  Abc spokesman Arnot Walker said the network had not been looking into this matter a correspondent John Mcwethy was working a totally unrelated Story and came across information which led him to this Story which we allowed him to  told to avoid sleaze tactics Bush says Washington apr president Bush said Friday that he has ordered Republican Campaign operatives to a stay out of the sleaze business Quot and testily denied that his own re election Effort is beset by disarray. Bush whose re election prospects Are closely tied to the Economy also hailed the Federal Reserve action thursday cutting a key interest rate. At a politically charged Rose Garden news conference the president declined to assess Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton his Likely democratic opponent this fall. The president said he hoped republicans were not behind a series of disclosures that have raised politically damaging questions about Clinton a integrity. Bush was elected in 1988 after a Campaign characterized by sharply negative advertising against his democratic rival Michael Dukakis. Bush said he would work with Congress to extend unemployment benefits for victims of the recession a an Issue that he and congressional democrats have clashed bitterly Over twice before. Bush also said he was pessimistic about prospects for enactment of a National health care Bill this year. Asked whether republicans had orchestrated a string of disclosures that have plagued Clinton during the presidential Campaign including allegations of womanizing and controversy Over his draft status during the Vietnam Era Bush offered this reply a i Hope not. I think not and i have made specific instructions in writing to our people to stay out of the sleaze business Quot he said. He specifically denied a report that he had called his son George to Washington to help sort out tangled operations in the White House. A that was not True a he  says beating became unreasonable sim1 Valley Calif. A the police beating of a Motorist was not justified after the first Lurry of blows seen on a videotape a High ranking officer testified thursday. Cmdr. Michael Bostic who Heads the los Angeles police departments use of Force review Board stopped the videotape after perhaps a dozen blows were struck by officer Laurence m. Powell against Rodney g. King. A i believe from this Point Forward it is outside the policy of the los Angeles police department a Bostic said. A is it your testimony that any Force being delivered to or. King from this Point Forward is unreasonable and unnecessary a asked Deputy District attorney Terry White. Quot yes it is a Bostic said. When the tape stopped officer Theodore j. Briseno is seen holding up his Arm apparently trying to push Back Powell a Baton. King is on the ground trying to get to his Knees. Seconds afterwards officer Timothy e. Wind is seen smashing Kings legs and Powell begins pounding away again. The beating goes on for another minute before the tape made by a bystander ends. King who is Black was beaten by at least four White officers March 3, 1991, after a car Chase. The videotape of the beating is Blurry in parts and does not show exactly where police Batons connected with Kings body. Repeated showings of the tape on Tele vision stirred racial tension in los Angeles and prompted nationwide Calls for police brutality investigations. Charged with assault were police sgt. Stacey c. Koon 41 and Briseno 39 wind 31 and Powell 29. Wind a Rookie at the time of the beating was fired. Prosecutors called Bostic to rebut two defense experts who testified that the Force used on King was reasonable and justified. He is to return to the stand monday after a break in the trial caused by a death in the prosecutors family. Earlier an ophthalmologist said that King suffered fractures within fractures around his Eye and that they were More Likely caused by Baton blows than by a fall. Or. Norman Shorr who performed surgery on King after the beating said fractures of Kings cheekbone were unlikely to have resulted from a fall on a Large Flat surface. He said the cheekbone was pushed inward and Down. A a Broad Flat surface would not result in a concavity like that a Shorr said illustrating his opinion by showing a human Skull. A a there a no question a smaller Blunt object could cause  but on Cross examination he would not flatly say the injury was caused by a Baton strike. The defense earlier called an emergency room doctor who said Kings injuries were consistent with a single fall to the pavement not with Baton blows