European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 1994 a. I commentary i the stars and stripes Page 13 Gramm poised to Battle for gop nomination sen. Phil Gramm the Texas re. A a a. A a a a a a a a or 1. George will sen. Phil Gramm the Texas Republican is agreeably free of cloying coyness a i made up my mind a Long time ago to run for  his wife Wendy an asian american who served in the Reagan and Bush administrations is on the Board of visitors of the University of Iowa College of business administration and the Board of directors of Iowa beef products the largest employer in the state that begins the Delegate selection process. A a this a says Phil Gramm of the coming Campaign. A is. Something we have been working at a Long  from 1992 through this Falls elections he will have spent 286days on the Road away from Washington and Texas. In the last 100 Days of this autumn a Campaign he will do events in 34 states his computerized data base on people he has met since 1991 is at 164,454 names and expanding. Everyone on the list gets correspondence from him. This list includes <w,000 iowans. ,. _ in 1988, 108,000 iowans attended the Republican caucuses which Bob Dole won with 34,000 votes the cd rom data displaying the Gramm campaigns Progress needs and timetable fill the screen 11 times just listing the Sites in Iowa and new Hampshire he has visited since 1991. It Gramm says he failed third seventh and ninth grades because of problems with Reading and arithmetic. _ today he is one of three senators with  democrats Pat Moynihan of new York and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota Are the others. He came to politics from the economics department at Texas a amp a where he met Wendy another ph.d., who also was teaching economics there. He has meticulously studied the arithmetic of presidential campaigning and brings astonishing zest to the economics of presidential campaigning. A i love raising Money. I believe in what in a doing and done to Mim asking for help he has Ai donor list of 88,000 names. _ two million other people have contributed $109 million to the Republican party in response to letters he has signed As chairman of the Republican Senate Campaign committee. His presidential Campaign will absorb some of that committees staff who will be sent to states where they worked on Senate campaigns. He believes the a Money filter Quot in 1995 will winnow the Field of serious candidates a a a a a a a a a  to be serious he says a candidate will need to have More than $25 million before Iowa. Given the compression of the 1996 nominating season Delegate so Lection will happen too fast to allow any one to raise Large sums on the. Basis of Early victories. Dole can raise the Early Money. Many professionals doubt that Lamar Alexander Dick Cheney or Dan Quayle can or that Jack Kemp will want  Iowa feb. 12 and new Hampshire feb. 20 come South Dakota cd. 27then the Colorado Georgia and Maryland primaries on March 5. Gramm says a if i get there As a viable candidate ill win the  next comes new York March 7south Carolina March 9 and then super tuesday March 12mostly  South Florida Louisiana Massachusetts Oklahoma Mississippi Rhode Island Tennessee and Texas. A there is no Way a Gramm says there will be More than two people standing after super tuesday in All probability there will be  California has moved its primary which is Winner take All on the Republican Side from Early june to March 26 so that it will no longer be too late to matter. But it still May be too late. Although the allocation of delegates to states will not be final until next year based on the 1992 allocation there will be 236 delegates californians .201, Connecticut a 35 chosen on March 26. And even More 422 will be picked before that on super tuesday and new Yorkus 100 delegates will be chosen before super tuesday. Washington Wisdom holds that grammes slightly academic and Grumpy Demeanour and southwestern twang Are nearly insuperable obstacles to a successful candidacy. But to a growing number of conserva tics who a noose Republican nominees he sounds melodious because of what he says. Congress late session legislative Calendar imparted momentum to gramme courtship of the Republican nominating electorate. 7 he was prominent in the fight Over the crime Bill Quot if social speeding stopped crime this would be the safest country on Earth and was among the most important impediments to clan monism in health a care. A �,.� a a a a a a a a  �.-. A. A no rival for the nomination is Apt to match grammes rhetorical gift for assuring republicans they need not fear from him another Nightmare like the Bush administration. For example a the founding fathers would be stunned that in 1994 two consenting adults can to engage in any voluntary behaviour with constitutional Protection other than Industry and Commerce or owning private  a successful candidacy requires Money ideas and Luck. Grant probably will be the Best financed and most conservative candidate in the Republican race. 7 a v if Luck really is the residue of design Gramm is poised for a run of Luck. C Washl Nullon Pool wine i group justices to tackle procedure in death penalty the great red curtains will part at 10 of clock this morning the nine justices will suddenly appear and on the opening Day of its new term the supreme court will look once More at an agonizing question has the wrong Man been sentenced to die the question could be put this Wayt did Lloyd Schlup a 23-year-old member of the aryan nation murder Arthur Dade a Black Man 10 years ago but that forthright quest Iris not before the court. Counsel will argue a disembodied Issue instead How should appellate courts Cope with capital punishment cases in which actual innocence is asserted the facts Are in dispute. At noon on feb. 3, 1984, prisoners at the Missouri correctional Center in Jefferson City were released from their cells for lunch. As they filed toward the dining room one of the inmates identified As Rodney Stewart threw a cup of steaming Coffee into Dades face it a a a a by apparent prearrangement Jwo other prisoners then grabbed Dade from behind and stabbed him fatally.   �.�= a a a the bloody assault lasted less than a minute. Alarms sounded. Guards rushed to the dying Man. One of the murderers was positively identified As inmate Robert of Neal. \ a the other conspirator could have been Lloyd Schlup. Or someone else. Schlup has contended from the beginning that he was already in the dining room when the attack occurred. He absolutely denies his guilt. Schlupp a lawyers say a there was abundant evidence that Schlup did not and could not have had time to participate in the stabbing and then run into the dining  inmates who were friends of Dades and had no reason to lie about the murder were prepared tos Wear that Schlup was not involved. For reasons not Clear from the supreme court record these witnesses never testified at the trial. _ the prosecution relied upon videotape from a surveillance camera plus testimony from two corrections officers. A jury found Schlup guilty. _ the sentence was death. In separate trials of Neal also was sentenced to death and Stewart was sentenced to life without possibility of parole. V All this is in a sense irrelevant. With the help of the Missouri capital punishment resource Center Schlup a a a a a a a. _ v /, �?T� has filed repeated petitions in Hareas Corpus. The Only question before the High court has to do with the procedure to be followed when a plea of actual innocence is filed. Here we get to the Crux of the matter. One school of jurisprudence led by chief Justice William Rehnquist insists that at some reasonable Point there must be finality the appellate process becomes a travesty if prisoners Are permitted to litigate for years a and years and years a in dilatory efforts to find some judge somewhere who will release them under a writ of Hareas Corpus. An opposing school has spoken through such justices As Hugo Black Thurgood Marshall and Harry Black Mun. A it is never too late a said Black a for Cou a in Hareas Corpus proceedings to look straight through James Kilpatrick procedural screens in order to prevent forfeiture of life and Liberty in flagrant Defiance of the  for , Blackmun repeatedly condemned a Petty procedural barriers that interfered with consideration of whether Justice actually had miscarried. In a leading Case four years ago Marshall bitterly assailed his colleagues for being a less concerned with safeguarding constitutional rights than with speeding defendants deserving or not to the  among the briefs in support of Schlup is a Brief from Centurion ministries speaking for five men who once were sentenced to death but were freed on Hareas Corpus petitions. Their trials were tainted by perjured testimony incompetent counsel and prosecutor Al misconduct. 7 in each Case appellate courts concluded that Justice had indeed miscarried a almost fatally miscarried. Under one precedential guideline to win his Freedom Schlup must prove by Clear and convincing evidence that but for a constitutional error no reasonable juror would have voted for execution. This is a Tough requirement. In cases where actual innocence is asserted is it top Tough what legally is needed to reopen a capital Case a decade after trial we will have the High courts final word when the Schlup Case is decided later in the term. C uni Verva press synd Caia the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those or the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government