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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 14,1991

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President is cautious on his nominee’s chances

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush is expressing new caution over prospects that his Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas, will win Senate confirmation, but he says he doesn’t regret the selection. At the same time, he rejected the idea of a lie-detector test for Thomas and said he cannot understand why Anita Hill waited so long to level the charges of sexual harassment against her one-time boss. BUSH, BEFORE a golf outing at a country club near Camp David, Md., on Sunday, said he believes Thomas “will make it” onto the high court, but he later sounded much more tentative about his nominee’s chances. “I don’t know. I don’t know. ... I haven’t seen any vote count. I’m not sure there are any because this thing is kind of in a state of being decided here,” the president told reporters. “But I have no regrets about putting this good man forward. I have lots of regrets about what happened to him,” he added. BUSH SAID he’d been “glued to the television” like much of America watching the hearings. In fact, he brought along a portable radio-TV to stay abreast of the hearings on the golf course, and aides gave him periodic updates as several of Hill’s colleagues testified she told them years ago about the harassment. The president railed against the Senate hearings that have aired the lurid details of Hill’s charges against the former Education Department civil rights official and chairman of the Equal Employment Oppor tunity Commission. “I think a lot of Americans felt kind of unclean watching this and kind of hurt and troubled by it,” he said. “I know

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PRESIDENT BUSH Wishes it weren’t this ugly

I did. I know my family did.” “I WISH THE political process weren’t quite this ugly,” he said. He said he was “rather persuaded” by Hill’s critics who have alleged her testimony was part of a strategy by liberal spe-cial-interest groups to derail the nomination of Thomas, a black, conservative appeals court judge. When Thomas failed their litmus tests, Bush said, “some groups are going to rant and rave and go after him with anything they can bring to bear on the process.” Even before Hill’s lawyer announced that she had taken and passed a lie-detector test about her allegations, the president ruled out the idea of subjecting Thomas to a polygraph exam. “I don’t want to be in a position of advocating that every nominee takes a lie-detector test,” he said. “I think it’s a stupid idea. If the idea is challenging the word of one over another, I reject it.”

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Thomas hearings end, but question lingers: Who is telling us the truth?

WASHINGTON (AP) Senators today began weighing contradictory testimony from three days of spellbinding hearings into allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. The truth was still unclear when the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up its hearings early today after 20 people spoke long and forcefully for Thomas and his accuser, Anita Hill. A final climactic showdown between the nominee and Hill was averted by mutual agreement. WITH THE VOTE scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, the focus now was on Democratic senators who were undecided or who may have heard something to change their earlier support for Thomas’ confirmation. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, DConn., said he was not officially withdrawing his support for Thomas but that he was undecided after the weekend’s nationally televised hearings. “I’m as pained and perplexed as the rest of America,” Lieberman said on NBC. “It’s quite possible ... that we’re not able to decide that anybody is lying,” he said. AS SENATORS weigh their votes, public opinion polls indicate more Americans are siding with Thomas than with Hill. And poll after poll shows dissatisfaction with the Senate’s handling of the controversy. A USA Today survey of 758 people Sunday night found 47 percent believed Thomas when he denied Hill’s allegations; 24 percent believed Hill. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. A Los Angeles Times Poll conducted among 1,264 people nationwide on Saturday and Sunday found 51 percent supported confirmation for Thomas; 25 percent favored rejection. The Times poll has a margin of error of three

Maine residents go to class with TV

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Kathy Wentworth was skeptical when she heard she could go to college by watching television, and without having to leave the island where she lives 16 miles off Maine’s coast. “It was like, ‘Oh right,’ because when you think of TV, you think you can’t concentrate,” said Wentworth, a single mother of two who works part time. NOW WENTWORTH is a believer. So are a disabled woman who lives in the state’s highlands, a prison inmate and thousands of others who take courses over the state university’s interactive TV system, or ITV. “It’s a super system,” said Wentworth, 34, who is earning A’s and B’s and is eager to earn an associate’s degree. The University of Maine System brings college to every comer of the 33,000 square-mile state, from

Retiree giving $36 million to education

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) A retired United Parcel Service executive is donating 536 million to a Southern Baptist college and five other education groups, a newspaper reported today. Theodore R. Johnson, 90, whose salary rose to only S 14,000 a year but whose investment in UPS stock grew into a S7O million fortune, is donating $14.4 million to Palm Beach Atlantic College, the only liberal arts school in the nation that requires students to take a course in the free-enterprise system.

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Prof. Anita Hill: Polls show she’s not credible to many Americans

percentage points. THE SENATE Judiciary Committee ended the hearings at 2 a.m. today after a 14-hour Sunday session in which supporters of Thomas and Hill debated whether Thomas was capable of committing the aggressive behavior attributed to him, and whether Hill was capable of making it up. “At this point, what more can be said?” concluded Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. “The whole thing was a disaster. The whole process was a disaster,” Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., Thomas’ chief sponsor, said as he walked from the ornate Senate caucus room that had been the scene of X-rated discussions aired on national television. BOTH SIDES agreed on this, at least: Both Hill and Thomas have been forever damaged by the proceeding. President Bush repeated his sup-

the remote forest outpost of Allagash in the north, to Vinalhaven where Wentworth lives, to paper mill towns and potato farming communities. VINALHAVEN, 7 miles long and 5 miles wide, has 1,100 yearround residents. Students gather in 81 high schools, technical colleges, several “mini- campus” centers and one corporate office to take classes televised from studios at the state university’s seven campuses. Students and instructors can talk via cordless phone. And instructors can see their students via the twovideo setup. While there are similar programs in other states, none is as extensive as Maine’s, said Pamela MacBrayne, executive director of distance education at the University of Maine at Augusta. A DECADE AGO, trustees of

“I’M ECSTATIC. What a wonderful, wonderful, caring person he is,” said college President Paul Corts. Johnson also is establishing a $7.2 million scholarship program for children of UPS employees in Florida. Getting $3.6 million each are Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf in Washington, D.C.; the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine; a scholarship program for disadvantaged children in Florida; and the American Indian College Fund. The money has been turned over

port for his embattled nominee, saying “I believe he will make it.” Sunday’s final proceedings were marked by electric moments outside the hearings as well as inside. To bolster her credibility, Hill voluntarily submitted to a polygraph test independent of the committee. The head of a Virginia security firm who administered the lie detector said she he believed her. “MS. HILL IS truthful,” declared Paul Minor, who used to conduct such tests for the Justice Department. “There was no indication of deception to any of the relevant questions.” Lie detector tests generally are inadmissible in court, but as a strategy to shape public opinion the test was explosive. The committee also released the transcript of staff interviews with another former employee of Thomas, Angela Wright, who said

the slate university system saw a thirst for higher education among people across the largely rural state. In 1989, the Community College of Maine went on the air. Enrollment, just under 2,500 in 1989, is up to nearly 4,000 this fall. Classroom sites have more than doubled in two years. To get to class, the typical student travels 10 miles or less, compared with an average of 32 miles they would have to travel to get to a campus. Jennifer Turner, who is disabled, said she saves a half-hour in commuting time by attending classes in the paper-making town of Rumford. “THE ACCESS FOR me as a wheelchair person is incredible through ITV,” said Turner, 21, a junior majoring in rehabilitation services. State prison inmate Michael Bibro takes Western civilization

to a foundation set up by Johnson that will invest it and distribute the income beginning next year, The Palm Beach Post reported today. JOHNSON HAS never visited Gallaudet or the St. Augustine school, but has a natural sympathy for the deaf because he has been hard of hearing most of his life. The president of Gallaudet, I. King Jordan, called the gift “extraordinary.” Johnson has not visited any Indian schools either, but said, “Everybody knows that the Indians in this country got a raw deal.”

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that he had pressed her to date him and made inappropriate “comments about my anatomy.” She said he once asked, “What size are your breasts?” WRIGHT SAID Thomas made that comment in 1984, when he was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sworn to enforce federal laws against sexual harassment “I feel that the Clarence Thomas that I know is quite capable of doing just what Anita Hill alleges,” said Wright, now assistant metro editor at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. At least on the committee, which deadlocked 7-7 on Thomas’ confirmation a week ago, it appeared no minds had been changed. No committee vote was required alter the latest hearings. “If they don’t believe him, they believe Professor Hill, then he will not be confirmed,” Leahy said.

and geology classes on ITV tapes. Bibro, 38, is working toward a bachelor’s degree. Studying “has expanded my world considerably. It’s gotten me to realize that the world is a lot more interesting than I thought,” he said. The average age of an ITV student is 37. Three-fourths of the students are women. Many work. “OUR STUDENTS perform as well or better than their counterparts in other classrooms,” said Fred Hurst, director of distance education technologies. ITV instructors teach before their regular classes. Karen Dcmsey, who teaches a course called understanding music to as many as 125 students at 35 sites, uses the TV technology to superimpose herself over graphics like a weatherman and display graphics while she does the voiceover.

Johnson, who lives in a retirement community in Delray Beach, was bom in 1901 in Holdredge, Neb., to middle-class parents. He was hired by UPS in 1923 as an industrial engineer and became a vice president in charge of personnel in 1928. WHILE HIS salary was $14,000 when he retired in 1952, Johnson took advantage of every opportunity to buy UPS stock, which was reserved for employees. About 10 years ago, he and his late wife, Vivian, began planning how to dispose of their fortune.

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