European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse 1page 6 i r 1 i the stars and . A saturday november 13, 1993 ils. To Check claims of gop payoffs Trenton . A the . Justice depart ment plans to look into whether alleged payments by the Campaign of Republican Christie Whit Man to suppress Black voter turnout would violate fed eral Law. The department s civil rights division and the Public integrity Section of its criminal division will study whether the payments described and then denied by Campaign manager de Rollins would break Federal Law Justice spokesman Carl Stern said thursday. We Are not in a position to launch an investigation right How Stern said. What we Are doing is to deter mine if any Laws under the voting rights act were Rollins told reporters in Washington on tuesday that the Campaign paid $500,000 to Black ministers and democratic workers to discourage them from boosting turnout. Whitman a Republican who ousted democratic gov. Jim Florio by fewer than 27,000 votes has angrily denied that any such operation existed. On tuesday Rollins who managed the Whitman Campaign described How the Money was used we went into the Black churches said to ministers who had endorsed Florio do you have a Spe Cial project we see you have already endorsed s Fine. But Don t get up in the sunday pulpit and preach. Don t get up there and say it s your moral obligation to vote on tuesday and vote for Florio " Rollins said the payments were made the ministers favorite charities. He retracted the statements wednesday. Or. Edward Verner executive director of the Blac ministers Council of new Jersey said thursday that his group did t know of any ministers coming Forward today they were approached by republicans offering Money to suppress voting. The Rev. Keith Owens a Baptist pastor in Camden said in broadcast interviews that Verner had told him that a few Northern new Jersey clergymen had come Forward to say they were approached. Owens the Southern new Jersey chairman of the group s political action committee later told the associated press that besides Verner at least one other Cler Gyman shared with me that some of our fellow clergy were acknowledging that they had been but he said his information was secondhand i do not have names. I do not have Verner said he merely told Owens about unconfirmed reports he had heard. Black leaders including the revs. Jesse Jackson andal Sharpton have joined democrats in demanding a wide ranging investigation of the matter. The democratic state committee which also asked the Justice department to investigate will seek a Feder Al court order monday allowing it to take deposition from Rollins and others in the Whitman Campaign. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 13,1983 president Rea Gan urged South korean leaders to broaden democracy in their country but said the United states would not turn the human rights Issue into a Public crusade. 20 years ago nov. 13,1973 president Nixon said he would surrender watergate related tape recordings dictation belts and additional personal notes to a Federal court even As his actor. Ney told the court that a subpoenaed Dictaphone Belt did t exist. 30 years ago nov. 13,1963 Frederick Charles Barghoorn a professor of soviet studies at Yale University was arrested As a spy the foreign office in Moscow informed the . Embassy. 40 years ago nov. 13,1953 former presi Dent Truman declined on constitutional grounds to obey the subpoena issued by the House in american activities committee in its probe of the Harry Dexter White spy Case. 50 years ago nov. 13,1943-the allies round the clock Aerial offensive was shaping up As a concentrated Effort to smash every German transport line into Italy and wipe out the dwindling roller bearing plants that sup ply the nazi forces. World War ii 50 years ago today nov. 13 1.943 american b-t7ryinq fortresses bomb Rawa in try Pacific beginning week of daily attacks to prepare Tor the invasion by . Marine. In Solomons. Mon american solders and Marine land on Bougainville As . Forces expand Teir foothold on the Island. The Allied Advance on the Western Side of the italian front halts to reorganise. Souror of m oat of to w h. Smith pow of inc. Torua Tunte Book of fett mfr it Boon took corp., 1m1 a cat Calls pour in for Malibu survivor Agoura Hills Calif. A Elsa the siamese cat that filmmaker Dunca Gibbins died trying to save is in demand despite burned footpads singe whiskers and scorched fur. Calls have been pouring in about the pet who was caught up in last week s a lib fire. We be had at least 500 Calls on this cat Calls from As far As Germany eng land Spain Canada and several states Ohio Pennsylvania Florida said Rob Ert Ballenger a spokesman for the Losangeles county animal Center in Agoura Hills where Elsa is recuperating. This cat is More than a cat. It s a one caller offered $1,000. A woman Unalaska offered to cover All the cat s medical expenses and transportation. Gibbins 41, a screenwriter and director had gotten safely away from his to Panga Canyon Home when the fire erupted nov. 2. But he headed Back to Rescue Elsa the stray cat he had adopted a year before and named after the lioness in the Book born free. Gibbins was trapped by the fast mov ing flames and suffered Burns Over 90 percent of his body. He died the next was found near the fire scene. Gibbins Mother will have the final say on where Elsa will go officials least one caller was interested in Elsa ii but not in taking Home Ballenger he was asking about whether the screen rights had been sold he is treated for injuries to scorched paws in the animal shelter at Agoura Hills. Skinhead slammed in 2nd sentencing Galveston Texas a a teen age skinhead who got probation for the drive by murder of a Black Man because of a misunderstanding by the jury has drawn 40 years in prison for a related of sense. Christopher Brosky 19, was convicted thursday of engaging in organized Crimi Nal activity in the 1991 Shotgun slaying of Donald Thomas. The warehouse worker was picked at random and gunned Down on the Street because he was Black. Brosky was Riding in the car from which the shots were fired. In March an All White jury convicted Brosky of murder. But it misunderstood the sentencing instructions and ordered five years in prison and 10 years Proba Tion. The judge had to drop the prison term because that combination is not Al Lowed in Texas. That prompted a Public outcry a huge protest March and a second trial on Dif Ferent charges that ended with a racially mixed jury sentencing Brosky to 40 years in prison and a $5,000 Fine. Ill take 40," said Deborah Peoples of the african american Summit for peace and Justice. You know i had my doubts about this Case and whether it was going to get thrown out with the double jeopardy and All but i am prosecutors said Brosky Joshua Hen dry the car s Driver and William Trey Roberts i shared membership in the Neo nazi skinhead group. The prosecution argued that All three defendants advocated violence toward minorities an helped one another during the crime. Earlier Roberts and Hendry agreed to plea bargains and received 40 years and 15 years respectively. Brosky s attorneys offered no wit Nesses arguing that their client had no motive to commit the crime and did not agree to do the shooting. Brosky has said he was drunk and asleep in the car when the slaying occurred. I feel right now Justice has been done said Thomas widow Carolyn. This is really hard for me because we re going through this a second watergate figure . Haldeman Dies Santa Barbara Calif. Up . Bob Haldeman. Former chief of staff to former president Richard Nixon and a key figure in the watergate scan dal died Friday of cancer at his Santa Barbara Home. He was 67. Haldeman Best known for protect ing Nixon from favor seekers Power Bro kers and pests lived a private life after the watergate scandal forced Nixon fro office. During his years As Nixon s closest aide Haldeman had boasted every president needs his s.o.b., and i m Nix on Haldeman once the strongest Man in the White House next to the president fell victim to the watergate scandal. On april 30,1973, Nixon accepted the resignations of Haldeman and his Urcla Roommate John d. Ehrlichman Nixon s chief Domestic adviser As Well As attorney general Richard Kleindienst and White House counsel John w. Dean. Is if t i ii i
