European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday january 6,1994 diary copies for Packwood opposed Washington a the Senate s ethics com Mittee is fighting sen. Bob Packwood s request to make copies of his tape recorded diaries that Are being held by a Federal court. In final Legal papers filed Friday in . District court Senate lawyers said making copies of the tape recorded diaries could damage the tapes and make it impossible to determine whether Packwood altered them. The tapes should not be played until they Are under the supervision of individuals who can ensure Protection against the potential loss of information the Senate lawyers argued. With regard to the tapes absent particular protective methods duplication May risk injuring the tapes an possibly obscuring technical evidence of alterations by Packwood the court papers added. At the request of the Senate select committee on ethics . District judge Thomas Jackson ordered that the diary tapes and transcripts be held by the court until he rules on the legality of a committee subpoena for them. There was no indication when Jackson would Rule. The Senate lawyers also said Packwood waited tooling to claim that his right against self incrimination would be violated if he is forced to surrender his diaries to the ethics committee. Packwood waived his claim that the diaries could in Criminate him by failing to assert it in a timely manner the lawyers argued. They said Packwood passed up numerous opportunities to assert his right against self incrimination during an eight month period last year when the committee was seeking documents from the senator. The committee is investigating allegations that pack Wood made unwanted sexual advances to More than two dozen women intimidated some of his accusers and at tempted to obstruct the probe by altering his diaries. The panel subpoenaed the diaries to determine whether to expand the investigation. The subpoena Fol Lowed discovery of entries that mentioned a lobbyist s Job offer to Packwood s wife raising questions of whether the senator misused his office to Aid the lobbyist s Cli  \ the Job offer also prompted the Justice department to begin a criminal investigation against the five term Oregon Republican. Packwood had argued that he had no realistic threat of self incrimination unt Quast oct. 18, when the commit tee first raised the question of criminal conduct. Rejecting that argument the Senate said of course the evidence that prompted that communication. Was contained in sen. Packwood s own diaries not some extrinsic source the senator created and maintained the diaries and had Access to their contents at All  even after oct. 18, the Legal papers said Packwood failed to file the self incrimination claim until five More weeks had passed and the Senate had gone to court to Force the senator to turn Over the diaries. Outside a restaurant in Albany Ore., Republican sen. Bob Packwood is confronted by Lavon Gunell of con All is,Ore., who carries a sign demanding Packwood s resignation from the Senate. Senator says accuser kissed him ". V i   ". " Albany Ore. A in his first detailed response to allegations of sexual misconduct sen. Bob Packwood said one of his accusers kissed him Many times. Gena Hutton went Public about a year ago with charges that the Oregon Republican grabbed her kissed her and invited her to his hotel room one evening in 1980. On tuesday Packwood told a rotary club audience that Hutton kissed him the next Day and on a number of later  said she continued her Volunteer work for him until 1984 and at one Point asked him to lend her Money Packwood said he did not make the loan. I Hope Gena says Well no i did t go to Coos Bay or i never went to Salem or i did t go to Portland or Idin t line up All those Days or i did t kiss him or i did t want to borrow Money or i did t go to dinner Ori did t play charades because for each of those Inci dents we will have evidence and we will have witnesses Packwood said. The meeting was one of six events Packwood attended in Oregon on monday and tuesday his first Public appearances in his Home state in five months. Hutton said tuesday that she did not remember kiss ing Packwood and never asked to borrow Money. She said she was not an Active Volunteer after 1980, although she attended some Campaign  if she had made sexual advances toward pack Wood the Eugene woman said no. That is  the Senate s ethics committee is investigating allegations by More than two dozen women that Packwood made unwanted sexual advances intimidated some of his accusers and attempted to obstruct the probe by altering his diaries. Irmi to grand jury in Brown probe Miami a a grand jury investigation int charges that . Commerce Secretary Ronald h. Brown received $700,000 to lift the . Trade embargo against Vietnam resumed tuesday with testimony from his chief accuser. Grand jury action had halted in recent months Lead ing to speculation that the probe was Over. But tuesday the vietnamese immigrant who first went Public with the allegations was called before the grand jury testifying for two hours. It was his first appearance before the panel."1 feel Good that i had a Chance to Tell my Story to the grand jury Binh by said As he emerged. But i Don t want to comment on anything until we see what the grand jury  Carol Hamilton a spokeswoman for Brown at the Commerce department in Washington would not comment Only s grand jury  yearly accused Nguyen Van Hao a former vietnamese government official who was once his Busi Ness partner of arranging a $700,000 payment to Brown in late 1992, after president Clinton s  the course of the investigation the Fri asked Singapore authorities to determine if $700,000 Wen through an account in that country s Banque ind Suez. Brown has acknowledged meeting with Hao three times in november and december of 1992 and i february 1993, after he became Commerce Secretary but he strenuously denied making any deals or accept ing any payments. Clinton has stuck by his Commerce Secretary saying he has no reason to be Lieve Brown did anything wrong. By has acknowledged that he never met Brown and that his information on the alleged payoff was All from Hao. Hao in turn dismissed Lyas a minor employee who was fired and made up the Story about Brown in retaliation. By is now a health consultant in Tam Arac Fla. Hao appeared before the Miami grand jury Las year but refused to discuss his testimony later with re porters. The Fri has Hao s notes of his meetings with Brown addressed to vietnamese prime minister to Van Kiel. In the notes Hao characterized his meetings wit Brown As  Miami . Attorney s spokesman Dan Gelber said his office cannot comment even on whether a grand jury investigation exists. Libo a attorney seeks nude Jackson photos Santa Monica Calif. A the attorney representing a 13-year-old boy who says he was molested by Michael Jackson filed court documents tuesday in an Effort to obtain nude photographs of the pop superstar. Jackson was photographed last month by investigators seeking to corroborate the boy s claims that he could describe discolorations on Jackson s private parts. We think that the fact that my client can establish what or. Jackson looks like naked is very substantial evidence of or. Jackson s guilt said Larry Feldman the boy s attorney. Law enforcement officials have refused to say whether their examination corroborated the boy s account. Jackson has denied any wrongdoing and noncriminal charges have been filed against him. Feldman said he filed a multiple Choice re quest Jackson May provide copies of the police photographs submit to a second search or the court May bar the photographs from being entered As evidence in the civil trial. The request is just As outrageous if not More outrageous than that by Law enforcement said Jackson attorney Howard Weitzman. Photo graphs would prove  a hearing on the motion was set for Jan. 19,one Day after Jackson is scheduled for a deposition in the Case