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insky leaves town; investigation
oves into president’s inner circle
SHINGTON (AP) — Monica Lewinsky left
Tuesday for a California respite as her
jrs waited for prosecutors to make the next
I to secure her cooperation. The investiga-
nto an alleged presidential affair and
p p i essed deeper into die White House in-
fcle
secutors questioned one of President
n’s former senior advisers and confi-
J, George Stephanopoulos, before a grand
nd subpoenaed one of the president’s
t top deputies, John Podesta, to testify
his week.
ave no firsthand knowledge at all about
ture of the relationship, if any, between
president and Monica Lewinsky,”
anopoulos said. He said he had met
sky a few times.
e summons to Podesta, the White House
ty chief of staff, along with another sub-
a to Clinton’s most trusted adviser, Bruce
ey, prompted White House lawyers to
preliminary discussions about whether
oke executive privilege to bar certain
inony.
1|§§>fficials, who spoke on condition of
I
anonymity, stressed the discussions were pre
liminary and some of Clinton’s political advisers
worried the strategy might create a public ap
pearance of stonewalling.
Meanwhile, Lewinsky took a flight back to
Los Angeles to spend time
with her father, departing
the nation’s capital for the
first time since the contro-
11 -'flpy versy arose two weeks ago.
Ginsburg said his talks
with prosecutors about
whether his client should re
ceive immunity from prose
cution in exchange for her
testimony remained “cordial”
and that “generally speaking,
we are where we want to be.”
He said Lewinsky’s offer to testify had not
changed over the last two weeks.
“Quite honestly, it is up to him to be in con
tact with us,” Ginsburg said of Whitewater
prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who is heading the
investigation.
Lewinsky already has been told that she is a
target likely to be indicted. Her trip to Califor-
Clinton
nia signaled a new, lower-profile strategy by her
defense team after a two-week national media
blitz on her behalf.
For his part, Starr promised to move his in
vestigation forward as swiftly as possible.
“We’re trying to gather evidence as quickly
as we can, and that’s important to clear people
or to make an assessment of whether there are
issues that have to be faced,” he said.
At the federal courthouse in Washington, a
federal grand jury heard from Stephanopoulos
and a former Wliite House intern, Caroline Self,
who signed for courier packages that Lewinsky
sent to the White House.
“I know of no improper relationship between
the president and Monica Lewinsky or any oth
er White House intern,” said Self.
Hank Self, who served as his daughter’s at
torney, said she did not know Lewinsky and
had no specific recollection of signing for the
packages.
Prosecutors’ interest in Podesta, one of Clin
ton’s longtime troubleshooters, stems from his ef
forts to help Lewinsky get a job in New York late
last year just before she emerged as a figure in the
Jones case.
amora says victim deserved to die
)RT WORTH (AP) — A former
Kl Academy cadet accused in
|[illing of a romantic rival told a
student the victim deserved
Js because she took something
iras not hers, the student testi-
icsday.
y Guild, who befriended Diane
jra at the Naval Academy, told
'S in Zamora’s capital murder
that the defendant had dis-
Isd the killing of Adrianne Jones
jug several conversations with
..in 1996.
^jLpiane said she thought Adri-
Hjp should die because she took
something she knew did not belong
to her,” Guild said.
Prosecutors say Zamora insisted
that her former fiance, David Gra
ham, kill Jones because of a one
time high-school fling the pair had.
Graham has also been charged in
the killing and will be tried later.
Guild also said Zamora had ad
mitted to ordering the Dec. 4, 1995
killing.
“One day I asked her what she
would do if anyone cheated on her.
At first, she told me she shouldn’t
tell me because I would have to fol
low the honor code ... Later, shp
said, ‘If you really want to know, I
told him to kill her,” ’ Guild said.
When Guild asked her if she
was remorseful about the killing,
he said Zamora replied: “She de
served it. It was something that
had to be done.”
Zamora was a freshman at the
Naval Academy and Graham was in
his first year at the Air Force Acade
my when they were charged in Sep
tember 1996.
According to statements the pair
gave police, they lured Miss Jones to
a secluded road, Zamora hit the girl
with a dumbbell weight, then Gra
ham shot her in the head when she
tried to flee.
Though statements show that
she made a pact with Graham to
stay silent about the killing, prose
cutors say she couldn’t keep quiet
and told several people, eventually
even confessing to police.
Earlier, Graham’s mother, Janice
Graham, said she warned Ms. Zamo
ra that her son had “the potential to
get rough” when he was angry.
Zamora’s attorneys are suggest
ing that Graham might have been
solely responsible for Miss Jones’
death.
Scientists discover
AIDS case from 1959
CHICAGO (AP) —- Scientists
have pinpointed what is believed
to be the earliest known case of
AIDS — an African man who died
in 1959 — and say the discovery
suggests the virus first infected
people in the 1940s or early ’50s.
Where AIDS came from is still a
mystery, although experts assume
an ancestor of the virus crossed
from monkeys or other primates
into people at some point. How
ever, whether this occurred in re
cent decades or centuries ago is a
matter of debate.
Now, researchers say they have
conducted genetic analysis of an
HIV sample that appears to date
from early in the epidemic. They
believe it is an ancestor of the virus
es that have infected more than 40
million people worldwide, most of
them since the early 1980s.
Dr. Toufu Zhu of the University
of Washington in Seattle present
ed the findings Tuesday at the
Fifth Conference on Retroviruses
and Opportunistic Infections.
They will also be published this
week in the journal Nature.
“This is to date the oldest
known HIV case,” said Dr. David
Ho, head of the Aaron Diamond
AIDS Research Center at Rocke
feller University and a co-author
of the study.
Until now, the earliest, undis
puted cases of AIDS were from the
late 1960s and involved members
of a family in Norway, Ho said.
In the new study, scientists
looked for signs of HIV in 1,213
blood samples that were gathered
in Africa between 1959 and 1982.
They found clear signs of the virus
in one taken from a Bantu man
who lived in Leopoldville, Belgian
Congo — what is now Kinshasa,
Republic of Congo —- in 1959.
The virus in the sample had de
graded, but the scientists were able
to isolate four small fragments of
two viral genes. One gene holds in
structions for assembling the outer
coat of the virus, while the other is
code for one of the proteins the
virus needs to reproduce.
The scientists compared the
genes from the 39-year-old sam
ple of HIV with those carried by
current versions of HIV.
“We realized that if we had an
old sequence it would serve as a
yardstick to measure the evolution
of the current HIV” Ho said.
Zhu said this suggests that all
the HIV subtypes evolved from
one introduction of HIV into peo
ple, rather than from many
crossovers from animals to hu
mans, as some have speculated.
And given the steady rate at which
HIV mutates, it also means that
the virus probably first got into
people sometime in the 1940s or
early ’50s.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the
National Institute of Allergy and In
fectious Diseases, said die latest dis
covery does not help those who have
AIDS now, but having the early ge
netic snapshot of HIV may allow ex
perts to predict how the virus will
evolve over the next 10 or 15 years.
The study also does not ex
plain how AIDS spread and be
came an epidemic.
The researchers speculated
that it could have been unwitting
ly transmitted in Africa through
unsterilized needles used in vacci
nation campaigns.
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