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WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas awaited tonight’s verdict on his confirmation as the White House battled to preserve Senate support against last-minute defections by Democratic backers. “I think the public is very mixed about it,” said one wavering Democrat, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. “This is obviously, in my opinion, not one that you can decide by looking at public opinion polls.” THOSE POLLS indicated that more Americans believed Clarence Thomas’ total denial than Anita Hill’s detailed allegations of ugly sexual harassment in the office a decade ago. President Bush, leading the lobbying effort for his nominee, said support for Thomas was “holding strong.” After a weekend of heated, sometimes sexually explicit hearings televised to the nation, the issue of Thomas’ nomination at last was before the Senate, where floor debate was preceding the scheduled 6 p.m. EDT roll call vote. A SIMPLE MAJORITY was needed to confirm and send the conservative black judge to a lifetime seat on the nation’s highest court. Thomas would have 52 votes, barely a majority, if 41 Republicans and 11 Democrats stick with pledges of support made before Ms. Hill’s allegations surfaced. The
Another ex-assistant told Senate panel of Thomas’ ‘sexual interest’
WASHINGTON (AP) A former assistant to Clarence Thomas
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Senate Judiciary Committee had voted to send the nomination to the floor without recommendation after a motion of approval lost on a 7-7 tie vote. A key Southern Democrat, Sen. J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, reaffirmed his support for Thomas, saying three days of hearings into the allegations by the University of Oklahoma law professor had not changed his mind. BUT OTHER senators expressed anguished about their decision. And there was still more evidence to consider. Another former aide to Thomas, Sukari Hardnett, told The Associated Press that some black
alleges that the Supreme Court nominee “inspected and auditioned” attractive female office workers and demonstrated sexual interest. Sukari Hardnett, a special assistant to Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1985 to 1986, wrote to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee but was not invited to testify at his confirmation hearings. “WOMEN KNOW when there are sexual dimensions to the attention they are receiving,” she said. “And there was never any doubt about that dimension in Clarence Thomas’ office.” In a letter to the panel and in an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Hardnett said she did not allege sexual harassment by Thomas but felt an “unpleasant” atmosphere existed in the office because of his behavior toward certain black women.
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women in his office at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission felt they were objects of Thomas’ “sexual interest” and physical inspection. Her private testimony to Senate investigators was distributed to all 100 senators, as was a transcript of the entire three days of hearings into Hill’s allegations. “IF YOU WERE young, black, female and reasonably attractive, you knew full well you were being inspected and auditioned as a female,” Hardnett said. Hill, back home in Norman, Okla., received a rousing welcome from supporters Monday and
“Clarence Thomas pretends that his only behavior toward those who worked as his special assistants was as a father to children and a mentor to proteges. That simply isn’t true,” Hardnett said in a letter she made available to The AP. “IF YOU WERE young, black, female and reasonably attractive, you knew full well you were being inspected and auditioned as a female,” she said. Hardnett, who like Thomas is black, was interviewed by Republican and Democratic committee staff members after writing to the panel, a Democratic aide said. She was available to testify but was not called. Democratic aides said Hardnctt’s statement was distributed to committee members and would be available to all senators as they consider the Thomas nomination today. THEY SAID Hardnett was not called to testify because her assertions appeared to fall short of sexual harassment. Another former EEOC employee, Angela Wright, also did not appear in person before the Judiciary Committee’s hearings over the weekend, but a transcript of her interview with staff members was made public. Hardnett began doing legal work in early 1985 in the EEOC’s office of review and appeals when Thomas chaired the agency. She said in the interview that she
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lashed out at attacks on her by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who had called her allegations lies or fantasy. “I have been deeply hurt and offended by the nature of the attacks on my character,” Hill said. “I had nothing to gain by subjecting myself to the process. In fact, I had more to gain by remaining silent. The personal attacks on me without an iota of evidence were particularly reprehensible.” VICE PRESIDENT Dan Quayle planned to be on hand as president of the Senate to cast a tiebreaking vote if necessary. Two Republicans, Bob Packwood of Oregon and James Jeffords of Vermont, announced last week they would oppose the nomination. Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., whose support for Thomas never appeared to waver during the unprecedented weekend hearings, predicted Thomas would win confirmation in a close vote. Besides Lieberman, several other Democratic senators who had supported or were leaning toward Thomas voiced their indecision. “I WAS SO disturbed over the events this weekend that I’m literally, entirely in the undecided category,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. “I am generally undecided,” said Sen. J. James Exon, D-Neb., who was the first to withdraw support when Hill’s allegations burst into public view 10 days ago.
initially had “complete and open access to the chairman. Often he asked me to have breakfast with him in the morning, sometimes to accompany him when he had to give speeches.” HARDNETT SAID she became uncomfortable with that situation, however: “I began to wonder why the chairman wanted me to be in that office. I felt the atmosphere started to become unpleasant because of the uncertainty of what my responsibilities were. ... I felt more or less like somebody who was there at the beck and call of the chairman.” “I am not alleging that he sexually harassed me. It was a sense that I was being inspected as a person and physically,” she said. As a result, Hardnett said, she requested a transfer out of the chairman’s office and was moved to the general counsel’s office, where she worked until quitting in 1987. She now works as an ombudsman for nursing home patients with the organization Legal Counsel for the Elderly. IN HER LETTER, Hardnett said women who were in Thomas’ favor were often summoned by him “and given special deference by others because of his interest. And you knew when you had ceased to be an object of sexual interest because you were barred from entering his office and treated as an outcast ....” “For my own part, I found his attention unpleasant,” she said.
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Anita Hill returns home to cheers; says she wanted to serve her country
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Anita Hill came home to 500 cheering supporters and said she saw her sexual-harassment testimony against Clarence Thomas as an “opportunity to serve my country.” “I can’t wait to get back into the classroom,” the University of Oklahoma law professor said Monday after a grueling weekend in Washington. “WORDS SIMPLY cannot express the kind of anguish that I have experienced over the past several days.” Hill told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked under him in the early 1980 s at the Education Department and later at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas vehemently denied the allegations. The Senate was scheduled to vote tonight on his nomination to the Supreme Court. “It was suggested that I had fantasies, that I was a spumed woman and that I had a martyr complex,” Hill told 500 students and faculty members at the university. “I WILL NOT dignify those theories except to assure everyone that I am not imagining the conduct to which I testified.” She said she was “trying to do my duty as an ordinary
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City raises $132,000 for transplant patient
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Area residents have donated more than $132,000 to help with medical bills for a kindergarten teacher who underwent liver transplant surgery. Barbara Marshall of Bloomington, a 37-year-old mother of three, is recuperating after B’/2 hours of surgery Oct. 5 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. MARSHALL, WHO teaches at Childs Elementary School and is a 1972 graduate of Portage High School, is doing fine, her family said Monday. “No matter what you say, it’s really an understatement,” her husband, Dave Marshall, said of how people responded to the financial needs to make the surgery possible. “The community support has been absolutely, fantastic,” said Marshall, who is principal at Unionville Elementary School near Bloomington. He said when the need for the surgery arose, insurance coverage through the Monroe County Community School Corp, didn’t cover transplant operations. As of Oct. 1,
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Coats calls for restrictions on trash coming to Indiana
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) The number of Indiana landfills is about half of what it was in 1980 because trash is pouring in from other states, Sen. Dan Coats says. He told an environmental seminar at Indiana University-Purduc University at Fort Wayne Monday the future of Indiana’s environment rests with its ability to protect its landfills from other state’s trash. “A SIMPLE FACT is clear,” said Coats, R-Ind. “We can’t control our future if we can’t control our borders.”
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ANITA HILL Returning to classroom
American citizen and I simply told the Senate investigators the truth.” “The only personal benefit that I have received from this experience is that I have had an opportunity to serve my country,” she said. “I was raised to do what is right, and can now explain to my students firsthand that despite the high costs which may be involved, it is worth having the truth emerge.” Hill said she hoped those who have suffered sexual harassment will not be discouraged by her experience and will “find the strength to speak up about this problem.”
that coverage is offered to all Monroe County public school employees and their dependents, but the Marshalls arc exempt from coverage for one year. IN ABOUT SIX weeks, a fundraising drive has netted $132,199 through such activities as bake, flower, popcorn and rummage sales, car washes, a roller skating night, used book sales, golf outings, aerobic dance sessions and a hog roast. Childs Elementary Principal Mary Sudbury said a rcad-a-thon raised SII,(XX) in three days at the 400-pupil school where Marshall has taught for six years. Dave Marshall, a 1972 Highland High School graduate, said his wife had stones removed from her bile tract last year, but started having health problems again in late July. It was then doctors at Indiana University Medical Center found a cancerous liver tumor. After tests determined the cancer had not spread, she went on a state and national waiting list for a donor liver.
allegations it offered the discounts solely to bring in cash. TWA. one of the nation’s most troubled airlines, plans to enter bankruptcy court next year and hopes to emerge quickly. “WE JUST WENT a day at a time,” said her husband. “We just tried to keep her health up.” She may get to come home Oct. 28, their son Steven’s third birthday, her husband said. The couple’s two other children arc Annie, 8, and Davey, 4.
Coats vowed to renew his effort to get federal legislation passed to limit interstate trash hauling. Although local governments in New York and New Jersey can ban intrastate trash shipments from their landfills, Coats said, that right “to ban waste from a neighbor down the road is not granted to Indiana.” A TRASH MEASURE which he sponsored passed the Senate in the last session of Congress but died in a House-Senate conference committee.