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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 12,1991

Who is telling us and the Senate the truth?

She: ‘ugly, dirty, disgusting’ He: ‘a circus; a disgrace’

WASHINGTON (AP) - - Fighting to salvage his imperiled Supreme Court nomination, Clarence Thomas disputed point by point Anita Hill’s graphic account of sexual harassment and denounced renewed Senate hearings as “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Thomas’ testimony Friday night capped an unprecedented Senate committee session in which Hill provided lurid details of what she said were Thomas’ unwanted advances. They included talk of pornographic movies and sex with animals, bragging of his sexual prowess, boasting of the size of his penis, and pressuring her to date him. “THEY WERE: VERY ugly, very dirty, and they were disgusting,” she said. Thomas, who had been her boss at the Department of Education and later at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, boiled over with outrage in a second appearance before the committee. He called her charges “sleaze ... dirt... trash, which you’ve siphoned out of the sewers.” “This has devastated me,” Thomas said. “It’s untrue. It’s lies.” The committee resumes today questioning Thomas, a conservative black judge appointed by President

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Bush and who, until Hill’s charges exploded in public last weekend, seemed assured of joining the court. FOUR WITNESSES who are to support Hill’s testimony were scheduled next, to be followed by witnesses for Thomas, in hearings that could run into Sunday or Monday. The riveting appearances of Thomas and Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee were unlike anything ever seen in the U.S. Capitol. They commanded the nation’s attention. All major television networks dropped regular programming to carry the proceedings live. Thomas strongly attacked the committee for even holding these second-look hearings and said the humiliation he had been through was unimaginable. “THE SUPREME COURT is not worth it. No job is worth it,” he said. ‘ This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace,” Thomas said. “And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves... Unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.” Thomas startled the commiuee by saying he had refused to watch

Aristide may return to Haiti under new rules

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A human rights leader appointed as prime minister indicates he is willing to allow the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but under new rules of government. Jean-Jacques Honorat, named to the post Friday, said he wanted “to prevent the isolation of Haiti by the international community” and resume negotiations with the Organization of American States, which has approved sanctions in an effort to force Aristide’s return. HONORAT, HIMSELF exiled in a military crackdown 11 years ago, said he does not believe the OAS would allow Aristide to “keep doing the things he was doing before.”

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Hill’s seven hours of testimony even though he denied all her allegations. “NO, I DIDN’T,” he told Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala. “I’ve heard enough lies.” Heflin, a former Alabama Supreme Court judge, appeared taken aback by the response of Thomas, a federal court of appeals judge for little more than a year. He said Thomas’ refusal to watch her testimony makes it harder to

Leaders of the Sept. 30 military coup claimed Aristide overstepped his constitutional authority and encouraged mob violence during his seven months as president of this Caribbean nation of 5.6 million. Honorat, however, did not say under what conditions he would be willing to accept Aristide’s return to the former French colony. DIPLOMATS contacted Friday indicated Honorat’s appointment would have no effect on the international campaign to bring back Aristide, the first freely elected president in the nation’s 187-ycar history. The 34-member OAS, representing most Western Hcmpisphcre nations, this week approved a trade

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determine the facts. “We’re left in a great quandary, and we’re trying to get to the bottom of it,” he said. SEN. ARLEN SPECTER, RPa., later criticized Thomas’ failure to watch Hill’s testimony, saying “I think he made a mistake... I am not happy about that.” Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., Thomas’ chief Senate backer, reacted angrily after the hearings. “No, he doesn’t want to watch her because it was a hateful thing

embargo and a freeze on Haitian government assets abroad. The move was backed by the 13-nation Caribbean Community. On Friday, the U.N. General Assembly added its voice to the growing international chorus by unanimously condemning the coup and calling for reinstatement of Aristide. THE U.S. ambassador, Thomas Pickering, told the 166-nation General Assembly that Haiti’s military and its supporters “must not prevail.” The appointment of Honorat was an apparent attempt to lend respectability to the interim government led by provisional President Joseph Nerette. Parliament installed Nerette, a 67-year-old Supreme Court justice, on Tuesday after soldiers stormed

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that was done to him,” Daniortn said. Hill, a 35-year-old black woman and Oklahoma law professor, did not waiver from her story under what amounted to detailed crossexamination by Specter and other Republicans. She said Thomas’ periodic harassment was so distressing and humiliating that it was the probable cause of an intense stomach pain that kept her hospitalized for five days in early 1983.

the Legislative Palace while deliberations on an interim government were under way. HONORAT, A 60-year-old lawyer, received the American Bar Association’s 1991 International Human Rights Award. Of the four final candidates for the prime minister post, Honorat was the consensus choice of the mainstream political parties. “He is credible. He has a good reputation as a defender of human rights,” center-left politician Louis Dcjoie Jr. said Friday. “He will defend the constitution and national sovereignty.” Honorat, who holds degrees in law and agronomy, was tourism minister under the late dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier from 1958 to 1961. He broke with Duvalier over the formation of the

Hill, as seen by Thomas: WASHINGTON (AP) Here was the way Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas described law professor Anita Hill, who accused him of sexual harassment The description came under questioning by Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala.: Heflin: If we are still faced with the fact if she’s telling a falsehood, what is the motivation? Now, we’ve watched her testify today, and she’s a meek woman. THOMAS: THAT is not as I remember Anita. Anita is I can say that, and you can ask others who visit here. Anita would not be considered a meek woman. She was an aggressive debater. She stood her ground. When she got her dander up she would storm off. I would say that she was a bright person, a capable person. Meek is not something a characterization I would remember. Heflin:... Well, was she a vindictive woman? THOMAS: WHEN I think, Senator, that she argued forcefully for her position, and I took it as a sign of immaturity, perhaps, that when she didn’t get her way that she would tend to get reinforce her position and get a bit angry. I did not see that as a character flaw or vindictiveness.

dictator’s brutal private militia, the Tonton Macoutes. HONORAT WAS exiled to the United States in 1980 in a military crackdown on dissidents. Upon his return in 1986, he founded the Haitian Center for Human Rights. In that role, Honorat frequently criticized Aristide, accusing him, for example, of influencing a court that took only 24 hours to convict Aristide’s Duvalierist enemies of taking pan in a failed coup in January. Under the 1987 constitution, the prime minister heads the government and answers to the National Assembly. The constitution envisages a weak president, but Aristide assumed substantial power, arguing that his landslide election victory gave him a mandate for sweeping reform.