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ingrich burns White House bridges
ew House speaker charges one-fourth of
inton's staff with having used illegal drugs
ASHINGTON (AP) — Suggesting a pat-
of Republican recklessness, President
ton’s top adviser said Monday “we can-
do business” with Newt Gingrich if the
House speaker insists on making un-
ded allegations.
rom chief of staff Leon Panetta to first
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the adminis-
ion pounced on Gingrich for his charges
|t up to a quarter of the White House staff
used illegal drugs.
His charges are absolutely false,” Panet-
aid angrily.
The time has come when he has to un
stand that he has to stop behaving like
out-of-control radio talk show host and
in behaving like the speaker of the
se of Representatives,” Panetta said,
aying he saw signs of “a troubling pat-
Panetta compared Gingrich’s remarks
h Republican Sen. Jesse Helms’ recent
rning that Clinton would need a body-
rd if he ever visited North Carolina.
!‘I think it is so unfair,” the first lady said
ingrich’s remarks. She said she hoped it
was “a momentary lapse.”
If any Republicans were bothered by Gin
grich’s accusations, there was no sign of it as
House GOP members joyfully installed him
as the next House speaker, cheering, “Newt,
Newt, Newt.” In nominating speeches, he
was praised as a visionary.
Rep. Bob Walker, R-Pa., a close Gingrich
ally, said, “This White House is going to
have to learn that they no longer have lap
dogs on Capitol Hill. ... They’re also going to
have to learn there’s a new majority here.”
Gingrich ignited the latest flap between
Republicans and the White House when he
charged in a television interview that up to
a quarter of the White House staff had used
drugs in the past four or five years.
Gingrich, who has admitted smoking
marijuana as a youth, said the source of his
information was a senior law enforcement
official, whom he did not name.
Panetta said that no one in the White
House uses drugs. “If Newt Gingrich has ev
idence to the contrary he ought to tell me
that, he ought to make it public and I’ll fire
them,” Panetta said.
The White House seized on Gingrich’s
remarks as evidence that Republicans who
are taking power in Congress are out of
control and willing to go to any length to
undercut Clinton.
“The bigger concern that I have,” Panet
ta said, “is that this is part of a troubling
pattern that we see with Jesse Helms and
now with Newt Gingrich in which they en
gage in reckless accusations. They impugn
the integrity not only of the president but
now every member of the White House
staff without facts, without evidence, with
out any foundation.”
Helms, who is taking over as chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
eventually said his remark was a mistake.
The White House was slow to react to
Gingrich’s charges Sunday, with adminis
tration officials saying they didn’t want to
dignify his comments with a reply. “He’s
speaker of the House of Representatives.
Words matter,” Panetta said. “And he’s no
longer just the minority whip. ... He’s not
the editor of a cheap tabloid, he’s not just
an out-of-control radio talk show host. “We
want to work with him. ... We can’t do
business on the basis of unfounded allega
tions and on innuendo.”
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jilted lover ac-
iused of threatening his former girlfriend with
arot cards that predicted her kidnapping, rape
md death goes on trial this week in a test of
'Jew Hampshire’s year-old stalking law.
Robert Ainsworth, who mockingly called
limself the Tarot Card Stalker after he was
iharged, is accused of leaving a bundle of the
fortune-telling cards, tied in orange and black
ibbon, to frighten Teresa Reed.
“We’re testing the waters” with the stalking
harge, said Dover City Prosecutor George Watten-
iorf. “It’s an unusual stalking case because he
sed tarot cards to communicate the threat.”
Reed said her former boyfriend left 13 cards,
arranged in a specific order, at a friend’s house just
weeks after the couple split up in September.
Reed said Ainsworth dealt tarot cards fre
quently when they lived together, although she
never became expert at their meanings. Howev
er, two psychics consulted by police interpreted
the cards as telling the story of the couple’s
stormy relationship — with a frightening twist.
“The only cards I understood were at the
end,” Reed said. “They showed kidnapping,
rape, justice and death.”
Psychics sometimes use the colorful, out-
sized cards to predict the future. The cards,
packaged in decks of 78, picture allegorical fig
ures that symbolize the forces of nature and
the virtues and vices.
Ainsworth, 36, was arrested Nov. 17 and
charged with stalking Reed. He is also charged
with violating a restraining order and with crimi
nal mischief for allegedly slashing her car tires.
Reed,. 23, said that after their son, Billy, was
born last winter, she wanted Ainsworth to set
tle down and stop hanging out with bikers. She
walked out when he refused.
After that, police say, Ainsworth often drove by
Reed’s home, honking his horn, and made calls in
which he laughed or left suggestive messages.
In a hand-lettered flier Ainsworth posted in
three towns to try to raise money to win cus
tody of his son, he accused Reed of kidnapping
the boy, now 11 months old, even though Reed
had been awarded custody.
In court, Ainsworth’s lawyer, Jim Loring, said
the tarot cards proved nothing. Loring did not re
turn a reporter’s phone calls asking what his client
intended by sending Reed the particular cards.
“Giving 13 tarot cards to someone is not a
crime in and of itself,” said Grace Mattern, co
director of the New Hampshire Coalition
Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. "How
ever, if the effect and intent is to threaten
someone, there is a criminal act there.”
Reed said she knew Ainsworth for three
years and they lived together five months. “The
day I told him I was leaving, he said he consid
ered me property and that women should do
what they are told,” Reed said.
Ainsworth was released on bail Nov. 18.
Shortly afterward, he allegedly threatened one
of the psychics who had assisted police. Accord
ing to police, he walked into The Hidden Trea
sure, the psychic’s shop in Portsmouth, intro
duced himself as the “Tarot Card Stalker” and
said he'd like to predict her future.
Arrested a second time, for violating the terms
of his bail, Ainsworth is jailed pending start of his
trial this Friday. He could get up to a year in jail
and a $2,000 fine on each of the charges.
Every state but Arizona now has a stalking
law, according to the Battered Women’s Justice
Project, based in Duluth, Minn.
New Hampshire’s law defines stalking as
purposefully causing enough distress for a rea
sonable person to fear for her or his safety, but
it requires an implied or implicit threat. Police
were unable to arrest Ainsworth until he made
the tarot card threat, Wattendorf said.
“Until we have some case law to guide us, there
is going to be some uncertainty on how this law
should be applied,” the prosecutor said. “We took
the tarot cards as an implicit threat to her safety.
Nobody in law enforcement wants to take a chance
in these circumstances.”
Doctors order
longer hospital
stay for Quayle
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Dan
Quayle was ordered to stay in
the hospital an extra day Mon
day because his body was resist
ing medicine to prevent new
blood clots in his lungs.
The former vice president
was given blood thinners, but a
test found that his liver pro
duced enough coagulants to
counteract the medication, said
Dr. Homer Twigg.
Twigg, a lung specialist, said
the dosage was increased, and
Quayle could be released from
the hospital on Tuesday.
The 47-year-old Quayle was
hospitalized a week ago with
clots in both lungs. He had been
scheduled to go home Monday.
Blood thinners are used to
keep more clots from forming
while the body’s natural enzymes
break’down the existing clots.
Twigg said that “things
have gone better than expect
ed” and patients with Quayle’s
ailment usually spend seven to
10 days in the hospital. He
said the clots would take about
six weeks to dissolve.
Quayle is able to walk but
.suffers from shortness of
breath, said Dr. Deborah Allen,
his family’s personal physician.
He won’t have to stay in bed
when he goes home to Carmel,
but his activity will be limited
for a few weeks, she said.
Doctors have also told him
he can’t fly for a month. They
believe the clots formed during
long periods of. inactivity
aboard planes.
Twigg said the illness should
not affect Quayle’s ability to
campaign if he seeks the Repub
lican presidential nomination.
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