European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday August 7,1993 5 former travel workers dropped from inquiry by the new York times Washington the Justice department has notified five government employees who were removed from the White House travel office that they Are no longer targets of an investigation. L the notifications had been requested by their attorneys. Officials said the two managers who ran the travel office Billy Dale and Gary Wright remained under investigation. Carl Stern a spokesman for the Justice department said that although the five former employees were no longer targets the notifications did not exonerate the from any future findings of culpability. The five workers have been on paid administrative leave since White House officials fired them in May mutilation victim claims harassment beatings by wife by the Washington Post Manassas a. The Virginia Man whose wife Cut off his Penis after he allegedly raped her says his wife often assaulted and publicly berated him court papers show. In the papers John Wayne Bobbin also asks Forecourt Protection from his wife to keep her from molesting harassing or. Interfering with him. The papers were filed this week in response to Leonor Gallo Bobbitt s request for a divorce. In a related development a sept. 27 jury trial has been scheduled for John Bobbitt 26, who is charged with sexually assaulting his wife hours before she cutoff his Penis the morning of june 23. The Organ was reattached by surgeons during a 9v4-hour operation. Lorena Bobbitt 24, has been charged with malicious wounding her Case has been sent to a grand jury. In the response to the divorce complaint his wife filed last month John Bobbitt denies her allegations that he sexually and physically abused her. He also says that before mutilating him Lorena Bob Bitt who has worked in a Fairfax county Nail Salon had been guilty of extreme cruel treatment by physically assaulting him without provocation on numer Ous occasions. Berating and abusing him in front of others. Being hostile and abusive to him when he attempted to resolve the marital difficulties and otherwise treating him James Lowe an attorney for Lorena Bobbitt disputed the allegations. It sounds like the usual Bovine manure that answers to divorce complaints Are usually made of Lowe said. Lowe rejected the notion that John Bobbitt a former Marine and nightclub bouncer was a battered Hus band. Comparing the couple he said two Hundred pounds 100 pounds. Weight lifter bouncer Marine Nail sculptor. And suggested that they were suspected of criminal activities involving the office s management. Thomas Mack Mclarty the White House chief of staff later retreated from those pronouncements and said administration officials had acted hastily. He said the employees could return to other jobs in government once a Justice department investigation had been concluded. On thursday Dee Dee Myers the White House press Secretary said we see no additional obstacles now to full time Myers said that equivalent positions outside of the White House would be found for the five but that they would not be allowed to return to their previous positions. We just think that that s Best she said. V a John Wayne Bobbitt whose wife Cut off his Penis Lis tens to his attorney Gregory Murphy during a new conference in Manassas va., on thursday. John Bobbitt asks that his wife s complaint toe Dis missed and that he be granted a divorce and awarded his Cost attorney s fees and such other sanctions an Relief As the court deems the entire thing is disturbing Gregory Murphy John Bobbitt s attorney said in an interview s a person who has been seriously victimized and now he s been charged with a crime which he s absolutely innocent Murphy said that John Bobbitt is recuperating froma very serious injury and is limited in what he can do. Therefore he is unemployed and has no Money an May. Be evicted from his present apartment. He May have to return to his parents House so he can continue his recuperation and have a Means of Arizona woman May be Clinton half sister Tucson. Ariz. A a woman who surfaced As a possible half sister to president Clinton stayed out of sight thursday and the White House was t talking about the latest potential presidential relative. The Missouri birth certificate for Sharon Pettijohn 52, lists the father As William Jefferson Blythe a travel ing Salesman. That is the name of Clinton s late father. The Story is similar to that of Henry Leon Ritzen Thaler 55, of Paradise calif., who revealed in june that his birth certificate lists Blythe As father by a different woman. Pettijohn s Mother Wannetta Ellen Alexander of Tucson has told relatives that she realized during the presidential Campaign that her sex husband was the president s father the Arizona Republic reported thursday. Alexander swears on a stack of bibles when she saw the pictures of Clinton s father on to that was theman she was married to Pettijohn s husband Bob told the paper. Pettijohn refused to comment saying she did t want publicity and did t care whether she was related to the president the paper said. Clinton has heard news reports about Pettijohn but declined to comment said White House press Secre tary Dee Dee Myers. Clinton has spoken with Ritzenthaler the putative half brother by phone. But he has t publicly acknowledged a relationship. A birth certificate from Jackson county mo., shows Sharron Lee Blythe was born May 11, 1941. Pettijoh changed to the conventional spelling of Sharon rela Tives said. Pettijohn s son Tom 34, of Phoenix told the Republic that his Mother married Blythe in Early 1941 in mis Souri and that they were divorced a few years later. Relatives said descriptions matched those of Clinton father a travelling Salesman from Sherman Texas who died in a car Accident in 1946. Clinton s Mother Virginia Kelley was married to Blythe and gave birth to William Jefferson Blythe i several weeks after the fatal crash. She later married Roger Clinton and moved to hot Springs Ark. Her so was adopted and took the Clinton last name. Walsh completes report on Iran Contra affair from wire reports Washington Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh completed his inconclusive 6v1-year investigation of the Iran Contra affair thursday by filing a report with a special court that appointed him. The court May make the report Public but is no required to do so. In the past portions of reports on other publicly known Independent counsel investigations have been released. Walsh s report must describe the investigation say what happened to All defendants and give the reasons Why any cases were not prosecuted. The affair the biggest scandal of the Reagan administration involved an arms for hostages Deal with Iran. Profits from that Exchange were diverted to pay for illegal arms shipments to anti government rebels in Nicaragua. 300 support cuban Miami three Hundred people protested outside the Miami Federal courthouse thursday demanding that a cuban Pilot who defected with his Airliner be cleared of air piracy charges. The . Attorney s office angered cuban exile by bringing witnesses from Havana to testify before a grand jury considering an indictment of Pilot Carlos Cancio Porcel. In the december defection a cuban Security guard was physically subdued by passengers and Crew members cooperating with Cancio. In All 48 of the 53 people who arrived aboard Cancio s plan asked Tor Asylum in the United states. Clerk suspended in lotto feud Chicago a convenience store clerk who made a mistake that generated five extra winning lotto tickets for an $11 million Jackpot now i dispute has been suspended without pay his lawyer said clerk John Warford filed a lawsuit against the Illinois state lottery on tuesday claiming he is entitled to part of last weekend s Jackpot attorney Edward Diedrich said. The store told Diedrich that the suspension was disciplinary measure for Warford s refusal to participate in an internal investigation. Warford 51, was working As a clerk at a Pride pantry convenience store when he mistakenly punched up five extra lotto tickets for customer Carol Ann Stonecipher of Elburn who had asked for Only one. The woman s numbers won the drawing later that night. Her attorney said he expected that a lawsuit would be filed staking her claim to the $11 million. The clerk and the owner of the store which usually buys the tickets when employees make mistakes want five sixths of the prize. Lotto tickets once issued May not be destroyed. Missing Man acquitted g Estonia , a Man charged with sexual assault ducked out of the courtroom when the jury left to begin its deliberations. Then came the verdict not guilty. Donald Eugene Murray 52, now faces a charge of failure to appear. Apparently he was More impressed with the evidence than the jury was assistant District attorney Mike Kromis said. Murray was acquitted tuesday in Superior Courton two charges that he sexually assaulted a child the jury deadlocked on two Otner charges. Postal hopefuls face checks Washington people seeking jobs at the Post office will be facing More Complete background checks As a result of the . Postal service s Effort to reduce violence in the workplace. A private company will conduct local police checks and gather other background information on people who apply for jobs with the nation s largest civilian employer. Currently Fri and military files Are checked when people apply. But Over the past decade the Post office has attracted considerable attention because of 10 cases in which workers killed or wounded supervisors and other postal employees
