European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday january 7,1994 Clinton s mom Dies suddenly of breast cancer hot Springs Ark. A president Clin ton s Mother whose colourful ways and sunny disposition hid a will of Iron that she passed along to her son died of complications from breast cancer thursday. Virginia Kelley was 70. Kelley a retired nurse anaesthetist dealt with adversity with a Confidence that bordered on cockiness. Friends said Clinton who idolized his Mother dealt with personal and political trouble by follow ing her example. Kelley buried three husbands one an abusive Alco Holic. She lived apart from Clinton her oldest child for two years Early in his life while she furthered her education so she could give him the she helped her Only other child through drug addiction and Pris on. And late in life she battled cancer. I have this Knack of putting bad things in the Back of my head. Forget about them she said in 1992. I just get up every Day and figure out How i can make it the Best Day of my with pencilled in arched eyebrows a Streak of White in her dark hair and a passion for betting on horses and going to nightclubs Kelley was a colourful sidelight throughout her son s career. Of her critics she said in 1992, those Are the people who Are used to women being shrinking she was diagnosed with cancer in 1990, just before she started working for Clinton s re election As Gover nor. She underwent a Radical Mastectomy and was campaigning five Days later. Last year she told a group of women that she had had. A recurrence of can cer and was undergoing chemotherapy. Clay Farrar the son in Law of Kelley s current Hus band said Kelley spent Christmas with the Clinton in Washington and went to Las vegas for new year s with her husband Richard Kelley. She had lunch with friends wednesday and literally out of the Blue passed away in her sleep he said. Kelley was born Virginia Cassidy in Bodcaw a Small Community near Hope. Her parents ran a Groc Ery store in Hope often extending credit to poor Blacks in the segregated town or ignoring their Bills altogether. After High school she went to nursing school in Shreveport la., where she met and married William Jefferson Blythe a Salesman. Shortly after their 1943 wedding Blythe was shipped to Europe with the army. After the War Blythe died in a car Accident about four months before his son the future president was Virginia Kelley appears in a 1993 file photo with her son president Clinton at the Arkansas inaugural Ball. Born / " two years later Kelley moved to new Orleans to specialize in anaesthesia at Charity Hospital leaving her Young son Bill with her parents in Arkansas. In 1950, she married Roger Clinton a car dealer from hot Springs. It was a troubled marriage in Large part because of his alcoholism. He never struck the children but he did hit his wife until his Stepson Putan end to it at age 14. In a 1991 interview Kelley said Young Bill broke up a quarrel by barging into his parents bedroom and saying Don t Ever strike or Lay a hand on my Mother Ever again. Not Roger Clinton died of cancer in 1967. Hairdresser Jeff Dwire her third husband died of complications from diabetes after about six years of marriage. She married Kelley a retired food broker in 1982. They lived in a Small Lakeside Home in hot Springs. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Subpoena will shut off Public Access to records on Clinton land project from wire reports Washington a grand jury subpoena sought by president Clinton s personal attorney will restrict a Cess to records being Given to officials investigating a failed real estate investment by the first family. Clinton s personal lawyer David e. Kendall was to begin giving the records on the investment in Whitewater development corp. To Federal investigators thurs Day after the grand jury issued the subpoena the White House said wednesday. The subpoena was issued dec. 24 and disclosed in a White House statement wednesday night. It directs that the documents be. Surrendered to the Justice department by Jan. 18. Bruce r. Lindsey senior adviser to Clinton said in the statement that Kendall sought the subpoena to As sure the integrity of the documents and the privacy of the under the order the papers May Only be viewed by Justice department officials and Are less Likely to be made Public. What it Means is if somebody were to leak them there would be penalties connected with that Lindsey said. He added if i m engaging in a criminal investigation i Don t want the investigation i have to be in the it also has the effect of impeding Access to the documents by republicans in Congress who Are trying to conduct an Independent inquiry Republican sources in Congress said. The subpoena would not prevent the Clinton them selves from making disclosures about the documents or from making them Public a lawyer not involved in the Case said. But it would serve As an added Barrier to their unauthorized release by Justice department lawyers be cause such a step would become a violation of criminal procedures. The subpoena could also make it More difficult for outsiders to obtain the documents under the Freedom of information act the lawyer said. The Clinton were partners in the Whitewater development plan with James Mcdougal a political supporter who owned Madison guaranty an Arkansas savings and loan. When the institution failed a Federal investigation was begun into its banking and investment practices. Clinton have always maintained that they were involved in nothing improper in their investment in Whitewater. In fact they say they lost $69,000 on the plan to develop a retirement Community in the ozarks. Details about the Clinton involvement have remained murky but White House officials acknowledged late last month that documents on had been discovered in the office of Vincent w. Foster jr., a Deputy White House counsel who killed himself in july. Youdon thave to break the Bank to pay for College Check out a Steep scholarship from City colleges of Chicago City colleges of Chicago continues the annual scholarship training education enlightenment program Steep As a Means of perpetuating the memory of educational services officers who died while providing educational services to the United states military forces in Europe. Steep is design to Reward academic achievement. The application deadline is 31 january 1994 see your Chicago Field representative today City colleges of Chicago Quality education. Anytime anywhere Fleiss denies telling All new York a Heidi Fleiss say she never named names. The february Issue of vanity fair quotes the alleged Hollywood Madam As claiming actor Charlie Sheen and pro Ducer Jon Peters were among those who hired her $l,500-a-night hookers. But Fleiss speaking wednesday to a a Tiv to news Crew through the inter com of her los Angeles House denied the quotations attributed to her. No i did not say those things and i did not name those names said Fleiss who conceded that she had spoken with a vanity fair writer. In an interview with Chicago radio Sta Tion whup pm Fleiss added that s not me. I Don t talk that Way especially about other people. I was used As vanity fair publicist Beth Kseniak said the Magazine stood by its Story. She would not say whether the interview with Fleiss was tape recorded. Sheen meanwhile denied Fleiss re ported claim that she has a videotape of him having sex with two women. Not Only is it unequivocally impossible it s unconscionable Sheen said adding that the tape does t exist. Peters the former head of Sony Pic Tures could not be reached. Vanity fair also quoted Fleiss As saying that actress Shannen Doherty wanted to hire prostitutes for her Fiance s Bachelor party. But Fleiss was quoted As saying that she Hung up on her because Doherty wanted to pay Only $200 apiece. Doherty s publicist said the actress spoke to a Fleiss associate not to Fleiss. The publicist said Doherty asked about hiring women for the party but not to work As has pleaded innocent to five counts of pandering and one count of possessing cocaine for Sale. Possibly tainted asthma drug recalled Washington a a maker of generic drugs is recalling millions of vials of a widely used asthma medication because the solution May be contaminated by microbes. The drug is the Albu Terol sulfa to inhalation solution made by Copley pharmaceutical. The company and the food and dig administration said wednesday that the problem could pose serious problems for people with weak immune systems. 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