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The Battalion
Wednesday, July 21,1993
Clinton appoints Freeh to guide F.B.I
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Clinton
tapped ''street-smart” federal judge Louis
Freeh on Tuesday to lead the FBI in its fight
against persistent violent crime, new chal
lenges in counter-terrorism and the agency's
own morale problems.
"Our country must be made safe again/'
Freeh declared at an upbeat Rose Garden ap
pearance alongside Clinton.
The ceremony provided a sharp contrast to
the previous day, when a grim-faced Clinton
had appeared in the White House briefing
room to announce he was firing William Ses
sions as FBI head because of questions about
his conduct and leadership.
Freeh, a 43-year-old federal district judge
from Manhattan, was appointed to the bench
by President Bush in 1991 after five years as an
FBI agent and a decade as a federal prosecutor.
Street-smart judge takes
over agency's head spot
"He is experienced, energetic and inde
pendent,” Clinton said. "He will be both
good and tough — good for the FBI and
tough on criminals.”
Clinton said that Freeh, working with At
torney General Janet Reno and drug policy di
rector Lee Brown, would give the administra
tion "a street-smart front line against crime.”
Freeh, for his part, pledged "total commit
ment to a Federal Bureau of Investigation
whose only beacon is a rule of law, whose sole
task is protecting all of our people from crime
and violence.”
Clinton called him "a law enforcement leg
end,” citing his drug and mail-bomb investiga
tions as a prosecutor and his work as an FBI
agent against racketeering.
His last name is pronounced "Free.” Clin
ton called him "Louie."
Freeh made a point of introducing his wife
and four sons at the White House ceremony.
".Come on, guys, stand up,” he prompted the
older three boys. He picked up the youngest
for the cameras.
If confirmed by the Senate, Freeh would
take charge of an agency fighting an unyield
ing violent crime problem and new terrorist
activity on U.S. soil.
While the number of murders in America
last year dropped 6 percent, total violent crime
remained steady, and rapes and assaults in-
creased^ The agency has established a task
force to work with state and local officials on
combatting violent crime.
At the same time, the agency has been ac
tive in investigating new terrorist challenges,
including the February bombing of the World
Trade Center and alleged plots to bomb sites
in New York and Los Angeles.
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Ginsburg testifies before
Senate Judiciary Committee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Supreme
Court nominee Ruth Bader Gins
burg testified Tuesday that while
she rose "on the shoulders” of
women's rights pioneers, advocacy
is not her vision of a justice's role.
"My approach... is rooted in
the place of the judiciary, of
judges, in our democratic society
... third in line” behind the people
and their elected representatives,
she told a receptive Senate Judi
ciary Committee at her confirma
tion hearing.
Quoting Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, she said: "One of the
most sacred duties of a judge is
not to read her convictions into
the Constitution. I have tried, and
I will continue to try, to follow
that model.”
President Clinton's nominee,
the first by a Democratic presi
dent since Lyndon Johnson, was
greeted warmly by members of
both parties. No significant oppo
sition has emerged, and the re
laxed atmosphere of Tuesday's
hearing contrasted starkly with
recent experience.
Only Sen. Arlen Specter, re
cently returned from brain
surgery, had any tinge of harsh
ness in his words.
"I admire the positions you've
taken, what you've achieved as a
litigant and what you've done as a
jurist,” he said. "But ... when
you're on the Supreme Court ...
you'll have a free hand in doing a
great deal more. ... So that I think
these hearings are very important.”
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-
Ohio, said he hoped she took ad
vantage of her new powers.
"I want to know whether
Judge Ginsburg will embrace this
opportunity to shape thg law to
make the enduring principles of
the Constitution a reality for all
Americans,” he said.
Not taking her lifetime ap
pointment for granted, Ginsburg
sat primly and attentive as each
senator delivered his or her wel
coming remarks. She delivered
her own opening statement with
measured diction, giving weight
to each word.
Ginsburg would be the second
woman on the Supreme Court,
joining Sandra Day O'Connor.
She is the first woman to face
members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee who are women.
General Motors offers
rebate on older trucks
$1,000 for your 'exploding pickup'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — The tide may be turning in favor of General Motors
Corp.'s struggle to settle the longstanding debate over the safety of its
older pickup trucks.
The tentative settlement announced Monday under which GM
will give each of 5 million to 6 million owners of 1973-87 full-size
pickups a $1,000 rebate certificate on a new GM truck might sound
like hush money.
But it's more likely to get people talking. Talking about GM and its
trucks. Talking about the deal they can cut at a Chevrolet or CMC
Truck dealership before tacking on the $1,000 certificate.
Moreover, the owners give up neither their truck nor their rights to
any other settlement that might result if a recall is ordered.
To be sure, the certificates will cut into GM truck profits, much the
way cash rebates have sapped auto earnings for the last decade. The
cost of finding the truck owners and asking whether they want to be in
cluded in the program will be expensive for GM, too.
Further, the certificates are a setback to an auto industry trying to
wean itself off cash rebates, a sales gimmick that consumers have al
most come to expect, like frequent flier miles on airlines.
Still, GM decided it had to do something about the truck situation
as the number of lawsuits claiming lost resale value increased. Press
ing court deadlines meant some of the cases would go to trial soon,
guaranteeing a replay of videotape of exploding trucks and testimo
ny from maimed victims of truck fires that are destructive to the au
tomaker's reputation.
Critics claim more than 400 people have died in fires resulting from
side-impact collisions involving GM's older pickups.
The Center for Auto Safety, the Washington-based advocacy group
started by Ralph Nader, reacted to the $l/)00-per-owner rebate plan by
accusing GM of "trying to paper over its exploding pickups with
worthless coupons.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked GM
to recall the trucks because it says the outboard placement of the fuel
tanks creates a safety hazard. GM has refused and is battling NHTSA
on every technical point it raises, a war of paper that will continue until
one side capitulates.
The absence of a NHTSA director appears to be a factor in getting
the engineering study wrapped up and moving the case forward to a
mandatory recall or dropping it.
GM last week poked holes in NHTSA's methodology of comparing
GM's older pickups with similar Ford Motor Co. trucks of that era. GM
said hundreds of pairs of like vehicles showed one vehicle had a higher
incidence of post-collision fire than another.
So far, GM claims its scrutiny of dealers shows few negative feelings
about the older pickup trucks. In fact, resale values — already the best
in the industry — are rising as the market improves. New truck sales
haven't been hurt either. They were up 16.6 percent through July 10.
GM couldn't be sure how long its truck owners would stand by their
iron despite focus groups of truck owners who said they wanted to stay
with GM products. The rebate certificates are meant to assure they do.
"GM has no problem selling its trucks,” said Dianne Hast, one of
the attorneys for plaintiffs in a class action of 23 suits combined in
U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. "They don't need this incentive to
sell their trucks.”
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Flooding forces evacuation of south St. Louis
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Emergency workers with bullhorns drove
through flooded south St. Louis urging evacu
ation holdouts to flee as the Mississippi River
bulged toward a second, higher crest Tuesday
and another section of levee weakened.
The new crest was expected to be only
about an inch higher than the record 46.9-foot
crest Sunday night, but engineers said the dan
ger could be considerably greater.
"The levees are really taking a beating out
there. If the levee's on the verge of failing, an
inch or two could put it over the edge,” said
Tom Dietrich, a hydrologist with the National
Weather Service in St. Louis. He predicted a
crest Tuesday night at 47.0 feet, 17 feet above
flood stage.
Other parts of the Midwest also faced new
complications in trying to recover from more
than 11/2 months of record flooding:
— Thunderstorms raised the danger of new
flooding in parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
More than 5,000 people were urged to evacu
ate in and near Manhattan, Kan. As much as
2.3 inches of rain fell in an hour Tuesday
morning, and Prairie Dog Creek in Colby,
Kan., spilled over its banks.
"I thought the worst was over,” said
Kansas City, Kan., Mayor Joe Steineger. "It's
not over. If the predictions were right, we will
have major flooding.”
— Showers in much of Iowa and parts of
Missouri made it harder for people to get on
with drying out their homes and businesses
and scrubbing away the reeking muck the
floods left behind.
"It smells like fish, and there's only one
way to get rid of the smell: bleach, Pine-Sol
and lots of elbow grease,” said Dorothy McK-
inzie, owner of an auto repair shop in down
town Davenport, Iowa. Her business was coat
ed with about a quarter-inch of Mississippi
River bottom.
"There is just goop everywhere," she said.
— After some businesses flushed toilets and
opened faucets before the Des Moines, Iowa,
water system was completely refilled, offidals
pushed back by a day their timetable for
restoring running water to 250,000 people. The
water has been out since flooding forced a wa
ter plant to close on July 11.
Later Tuesday, however, city water chief
L.D. McMullen said businesses apparently had
begun cooperating, and the city's 810 miles of
mains were nearly 80 percent full. Also, work
ers got a second pump working at the water
plant, and McMullen hoped some water ser
vice would resume Wednesday.
Flooding since the start of June in 10 Mid
western states has caused at least 31 deaths
and $10 billion in damage, left 16,000 square
miles of farmland underwater and damaged
more than 22,000 homes.
President's legal counsel found dead in park
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Vince Foster, President Clin
ton's deputy legal counsel, was found dead Tuesday
night in a roadside park from an apparently self-in
flicted gunshot wound. White House officials said.
U.S. Park Police said Foster's body was found at
Fort Marcy, a small Civil War park overlooking the
Potomac River in suburban Virginia outside the na
tion's capital.
The initial investigation indicated the 48-year-old
Foster, a friend of the Clinton family and former law
partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton, died of an appar
ently self inflicted gunshot wound, according to Lt.
Patrick Gavin.
Foster was married and the father of three chil
dren, the White House said.
Clinton left the White House after learning of the
death to be with Foster's family, officials said.
Foster's death stunned the president's staff mem
bers, who said they were unaware of anything that
Study: heredity small
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Family history plays a slightly
smaller role in breast cancer than previous studies
suggest, say researchers who in a large study found
only one in 40 cases due mainly to heredity.
"Sometimes women who have a mother or sister
with breast cancer feel they're doomed to get breast
cancer themselves," said Dr. David J. Hunter, an as
sistant professor at Harvard School of Public Health
and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"This demonstrates they are at high risk, but this
puts that risk in perspective," he said Monday from
Boston.
Previous studies have suggested a woman's risk
more than doubles if she has even one close rela
tive with breast cancer, he said. This study found a
woman's risk increases roughly 50 percent to 80
percent for those with one close relative with
might have caused Foster to take his own life.
Clinton issued a statement expressing "deep sad
ness” and saying Foster had "served ably and with
distinction as deputy White House counsel, and was
my friend for over forty years.”
"Hillary and I love his wife Lisa and their three
children, and we want to draw them close to our
hearts and keep them in our prayers in this painful
moment of grief,” Clinton said.
Foster was the No. 2 White House lawyer, serving
under Bernard Nussbaum, a Manhattan lawyer who
is one of Clinton's closest advisers. Foster kept a low
profile, which is common for White House attorneys.
He was a player in the controversial firing of sev
en travel office employees but he was not singled out
for criticism in a White House review of the issue.
The review said that after being alerted to alleged
accounting problems in the travel office, Foster
agreed to a financial review of the office by an ac
counting firm and asked the FBI to await the results
before proceeding with its own investigation.
factor in breast cancer
breast cancer.
Most of those have looked back, questioning
women who had breast cancer. They may have over
estimated its prevalence in their families, attributing
deaths to it that were caused by other things, he said.
Hunter and colleagues tracked 117,988 women,
enrolled at ages 30 to 55, in the ongoing Nurses'
Health Study. Their findings were reported in
Wednesday's issue of The Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Over 12 years ending in 1988, invasive breast can
cers developed in 2,389 women.
"Within this population of middle-aged women,
only 2.5 percent of breast cancer cases are attribut
able to a positive family history,” Hunter and his
colleagues wrote.
Women who had neither a mother or sister with
breast cancer had about a 7 percent chance of getting
it from ages 30 to 70, the researchers calculated.
'Crazy Eddie'
found guilty of
stock, mail fraud
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWARK, N.J. - Home
electronics tycoon-turned-
fugitive Eddie Antar was con
victed Tuesday of fraud and
other charges in the collapse
of his Crazy Eddie chain.
A U.S. District Court jury
deliberated six days before
finding Antar guilty of 17
counts of stock fraud, mail
fraud, racketeering, conspira
cy and related charges.
His brother Mitchell was
found guilty of six of eight
charges while another broth
er, Allen Antar, was found
innocent of all six counts
against him.
The brothers were accused
of making more than $80 mil
lion by selling Crazy Eddie
stock whose worth they artifi
cially boosted through inflat
ed inventory records and oth
er schemes.
At its height in the 1980s,
the 43-store Crazy Eddie
chain was the New York
area's largest with sales of
$350 million.
It gained a measure of
renown through its much par
odied commercials in which a
frenzied pitchman boasted of
"INSAAAAANE" prices.
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