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Page 6 • Monday, February 15, 1999
N
ATION
In the wake of impeachment
e Battalion
Lawmakers say Independent Counsel Act’s days
STARR
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Lawmak
ers from both par
ties saw almost no
chance Sunday
for survival of the
Independent
Counsel Act,
which provided
the framework for
Kenneth Starr’s investigation of
President Clinton, when it comes
up for renewal this year.
“This law needs to terminate. I
don’t want it to be amended. I want
it to be ended,” Sen. Mitch Mc
Connell, R-Ky., said on CNN’s
“Late Edition.”
The act passed in 1978 as the
post-Watergate Congress sought a
means to ensure that politics did
not interfere when the president,
his cabinet and other senior offi
cials are investigated for wrongdo
ing. It expires June 30 unless Con
gress and the president approve its
reauthorization.
Attorney General Janet Reno, at
the urging of Republicans, has sev
en times asked for the naming of an
independent counsel to investigate
administration officials, most no
tably Starr who has pursued Presi
dent Clinton’s connections to
Whitewater, TYavelgate, the FBI
files and, finally, his affair with
Monica Lewinsky, which led to
Clinton’s impeachment.
Democrats conteai
abused the almost
ers the act gives
counsel, while
joined Democrats
amount of money
spent more than $40
more than four
the president.
Another ind
Donald Smaltz,
$17 million lookinginti
charges against formet
Secretary Mike Espy
Espy was acquitiet
charges, and Clinton
nocent of impeacl
that grew out of Stan 1
tion.
New Yorkers, Sharpton
motorcade with body
High school cam
celebrations o
of police victim
, Jior guard Clift
cites potential vi(i ainst the Kans
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of people in everything
from trucks, taxis, beat-up cars and shiny Mercedes Benzes
gathered Sunday in a sendoff to a West African immigrant
whose death at the hands of police has outraged the black
community.
A motorcade of somber supporters assembled outside the
headquarters of the Rev. A1 Sharpton’s National Action Net
work in Harlem and accompanied Amadou Diallo’s family
to Newark International Airport as they prepared to fly his
body home to Guinea for burial.
“It was in the midst of all this pain, a beautiful sight to
see all these brothers and sisters driving down the highway,”
said Sharpton, who was to accompany the family to Africa.
“As we go to Guinea we must continue the struggle for jus
tice here. ... This cannot be the end, but the beginning.”
Four plainclothes police officers fired 41 bullets at Diallo,
22, as he stood in the vestibule of his apartment house in
the Bronx on Feb. 3. Many have questioned why so many
shots were fired.
An attorney for the officers has said that police thought
he was armed. At the time, the officers were searching for a
rapist, who is still at large.
The shooting is being investigated by the Bronx district
attorney’s office with the assistance of the FBI. The officers
have been placed on administrative non-enforcement duty.
I On Sunday, many of the thousands who took part in the
rpotorcade said they were trying to prevent another killing.
“I am doing this so they don’t shoot any more of our peo
ple,” said a taxi driver who identified herself only as Fatima.
STA
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP)-A:
is scrapping celebrations of Bk
Month and Cinco de Mayo, word
ethnic celebrations will spari I
Inglewood High School, 10iE.r-
downtown Los Angeles, has bee:
tensions between black and H
dents. The campus wa in a season fil
day last May after a riot brokeou.:, men s gaskei
of police were called in. )rt again Satin
A task force found that the fig' decision to B
gan, in part, because Hispanics (C0 .
constitute about half the school: The Aggies (
felt slighted. Thev were angr.' ii e d by 13 poi
was set aside to honor black he ight back to c
a day to celebrate Cinco deMayo nt|66-65, will
Instead of celebrating Black His: .
and Cinco de Mayo, Principal Lowe With \2 secoi
has told teachers to follow a “mui ne, sophomc
ucation approach” throughout i r pc, who l
year. nts, buried a t
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tions all the time,” Winston said, ng inbounds
has had racial problems that areur : 6-6 Big 12) '
old ways didn’t work.” gie forward ¥
February is marked by mar. Bears grabbe
around the country as Black Hist ee-point attei
May 5 is a national holiday in M re fouled to S'
memorating an 1862 battle inwf A&M coach P
defeated French occupation troops®*^
of Mexico City.
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