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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, Aft,
Former governor denies extorti
BATON ROUGF, La. (AP)—Testifying without his
usual what-me-worry swagger, former Gov. Edwin Ed
wards denied Tuesday that he took payoffs for Louisiana
casino licenses tuid said one of his accusers turned on
him because the government put the pressure on.
The 72-year-old silver-haired Edwards displayed lit
tle of his wisecracking Cajun wit hut was relaxed and
confident as he took the stand in his federal racketeer
ing trial, which began Jan. 10.
The high-rolling gambler and ladies’ man wore a
necktie emblazoned with the names of all 64 Louisiana
parishes and answered questions from defense attorney
Daniel Small with a serious attitude.
Edwards began with a terse denial that he ever exert
ed any illegal influence over the state's gambling hoards.
“Did you do anything to corrupt the gaming
board?” Small asked.
“Absolutley not,” Edwards answered.
“Did you do anything to corrupt the gaming com
mission?”
“Absolutely not.”
He then launched into his life story — rural child
hood, growing up in a house without electricity or in
door plumbing, college interrupted by the Navy dur
ing World War II, then graduation from law school.
He began a point-by-point rebuttal of charges that he
and his six co-defendants carried out a series of extortion
schemes involving the licensing of riverboat casinos.
Edwards focused on former Treasure Chest Casino
owner Robert Guidry. Guidry claimed he paid $1.5 mil
lion to Edwards, once dropping money off at his home.
“With tears in his eyes,
he said he couldn't take
the pressure any more
and was going to make
a deal/'
(Juidry, I Edwards said, was a close frienihit
on him while under pressure from federal pros#
wards said that seven days before Guidry pleaij
in 1998, Guidry called and arranged a meeiirci
count shopping mall.
“With tears in his eyes, he said he coil
the pressure any more and was going to mil
Edwards said.
“1 told him to tell them anything as lon£;|
the truth,” I'd wards continued. “He said,Tl!:!
1 can, but they want me to say somethingkl
him, 'Life is too short and eternity took| ;
something like that.”’
It was the second time lid wards found Irk
— Edwin Edwards
former Louisiana governor
other times delivering the payoffs by way of Edwards’ son
Stephen or their friend Andrew Martin.
“I never got a cent from Mr. Guidry. My son never
got a cent from Mr. Guidry . As far as I know, Mr. Mar
tin never got a cent from Mr. Guidry,” Edwards said.
the witness stand in his own defense.
A 1985 federal trial stemming fromhealtl*;
\ estment deals ended in a hung jury'. Edward J|
quitted in a retrial in 1986.
By his own count, Edwards hasbeentlel
of almost t\\ o dozen state or federal investigate
mg back to his days as a congressman in tie tv
four terms as governor in the 1970s, '80san; ;
On Tuesday, he testified that people have ;
voked his name without his permission to gars.'
advantage. It is “a problem that has hauntedej
was first elected governor,’’Edwards said.
Dying girPs cries Philosopherremembefi
reach peacekeepers
Novelist, dramatist and philosopher. Jean-Paul Sartre, leaderoftk I
French existentialist movement died April 15, 1980. He was 75yea-
old. A key figure among French intellectuals for over 40 years, jiisfuttl |
drew nearly 80.000 mourners.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) — Helpless to save her, NATO
peacekeepers and townspeople watched
from the edge of a minefield as a dying
11-year-old girl waved and pleaded for
hours to he rescued.
Ema A lie and two other youngsters
died Monday after venturing into the
minefield on the outskirts of the capital,
the latest casualties of the Bosnian war
that ended five years ago.
“For two hours, the girl was showing
signs of life, waved with her little hand
and called for help. Then she went qui
et,” said eyewitness Nenad Krestalica,
67, who was still visibly upset Tuesday.
His wife, Stana, said she was garden
ing when she heard the explosion.
“We all started running. We heard a
child’s voice screaming for help,” she
said. “We called the police and they came,
but nobody could approach the children.”
Police identified the other dead chil
dren as Goran Biscevic, 12, and Haris
Balicevac, 12.
As the rescue team carried the bodies
of the children from the minefield, Etna’s
father broke into tears, turned around and
told his wife: “It’s our child,” other wit
nesses recalled. The woman fainted.
The presence of the minefield was
well-known, and signs warned of danger,
residents said. Still, the field was not taped
off, apparently because of lack of money.
Dozens of people are killed and in
jured every month in explosions of some
of the millions of land mines strewn
across Bosnia. Minefields render large ar
eas along the former front line unusable.
Residents gathered around the
minefield after the explosion Monday,
followed by Italian members of the
NATO-led peacekeeping force, hut
they could only watch Hie tragedy a few
hundred yards away.
Although the experts worked quick
ly once on the scene, more than 2 1/2
hours elapsed between the time a demi
ning team was notified and the time it
reached the victims. By then, all three
children were dead.
“It didn't take us more than half an
hour to demine a small path to get to the
children,” said Zoran Gagula. one of the
deminers. “We skipped standard proce
dures, risked our lives, and still, by the time
we got to the children, they were dead.”
Standard demining procedures are
slow, w ith experts sometimes taking as
much as an hour per square yard to min
imize risk, prodding each inch of terrain
for explosive devices.
NATO experts arrived after a team
from Norwegian People’s Aid and
therefore let that squad do the demi
ning, said a NATO spokesperson, Maj.
Paul I lubbard.
His life
1929
1938
1939
1943
1971
Majors in
Publishes
Drafted to
His first play,
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philosophy at
his first
serve in
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first two :
the Ecole
novel,
World War II;
produced in
volumes cl
Normale
“Nausea."
becomes a
Paris. It
four-votal
Superieure
German
carries a
biography :|
where he
prisoner of
message of
Gustave
meets Simone
war in 1940
freedom in
Flaubert
de Beauvoir,
and is
the face of
called 1|
his lifelong
repatriated
tyranny. It
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companion.
the following
escapes Nazi
year.
censors.
Some of his works
“Nausea” (1938) The novel describes, in diary
form, the hero’s repulsion toward life.
“Being and Nothingness” (1943) His first
major philosophical work.
“No Exit” (1945) The play concludes with
the famous line, “Hell is other people."
“The Dirty Hands” (1948) A political drama
with the existential message that man is bom
free and responsible for his actions.
Always controversial,
Sartre declined the 1964
Nobel prize in literature.
Sources: Britannica.com; GaleNet; Wilson Biographies; compiled from AP wire reports
News in Brief
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here, whether this is where they ac
tually died, I don’t know at this
point,” Napoleon said.
DETROIT (AP) — Three women
were found dead along railroad
tracks, but police say they
weren’t sure whether the deaths
are related.
All three bodies were found
Monday, but the women did not die
at the same time, Police Chief Ben
ny Napoleon said. One was par
tially undressed and had stockings
tied around the neck.
“Now whether they were put
here, whether they were brought
Spain exposes illegal
passport-selling ring
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Police
have uncovered a crime ring whose
members sold bogus passports
and offered diplomatic privileges
from a nonexistent country, au
thorities said Tuesday.
More than 60 people used an In
ternet page to advertise passports
from Sealand — described on the
Web as a principality based on an
abandoned military platform off the
coast of England, authorities said.
The passports went for $5,780,
said Civil Guard spokesperson Fer
nando Jimenez. The group claims on
its Website to have sold 160,000 of
them since September 1998.
Former comedian
found guilty of rape
Midwest was found guiltyI^Thdma and Loui
of the rape of a student here 21st century, and
Vinson Horace Champ, 3sg avc u a happy ei
Los Angeles was found guiltyotf
ing a woman at Union
small Seventh-dayAdventistsefi
in Lincoln, in February 1997.
Sentencing was:
June 6. Champ faces
years in prison.
His lawyer, Assistant I
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former
“Star Search” comedian accused
of several sexual assaults at col
lege campuses throughout the
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