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Conflicting descriptions of Tyson emerge; none to be heard in court

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Boxer Mike Tyson was “like a kid in a candy store” hours before he took a beauty pageant contestant to his hotel room last summer, “and women were his candy,” says a security officer who won’t be testifying in the boxer’s rape trial. During dinner on July 18, Tyson asked a security guard, “Which one of these women do you think wants me?” recounted Officer Denise Herndon of STF Securities and Investigations. WHEN THE guard didn’t reply, Tyson said, “I think they all want me,” Herndon told Indianapolis television station WRTV. Herndon was part of the security force that accompanied Tyson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other Indiana Black Expo participants to the Black Orchid Restaurant Tyson is on trial in Marion Superior Court on charges he raped an 18-year-old Miss Black America contestant in the early hours of July 19. Tyson was in Indianapolis to participate in Black Expo. Restaurant employees’ impressions of Tyson’s demeanor at the Black Orchid were far different from those of the security officers. : “I DON’T KNOW what he did outside, but Mr. Tyson acted like a gentleman in here,” waitress Sally Ellis told The Associated Press Friday. “I didn’t see him go off when he was in here.” She said she didn’t recall Tyson’s group ordering alcohol or creating any commotion. • But Robert Black, manager of the Indianapolis security company, said the evening became somewhat intense. He “was like a man in heat,” Black said in the report WRTV aired Thursday night. Black said he heard Jackson describe Tyson as “a time bomb waiting to go off,” and said Jackson warned the boxer to control his behavior. JACKSON WAS out of his Washington office and unavailable for comment Friday. A spokeswoman said she had not heard WRTV’s report and couldn’t com-

Mannerly debate marred by closing spar over rumors of Clinton’s affair

WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic presidential candidates assailed President Bush’s economic policy and touted their own remedies in a debate that ended angrily when a rival revived a woman’s unsubstantiated claim of an affair with Bill Clinton. Until then, the nationallytelevised debate Friday night had the tone of a mannerly issues seminar, with flurries of disagreement, among the five candidates in the Feb. 18 New Hampshire presidential primary. INDEED, CLINTON welcomed the back-to-the-issues forum after starting the week with a televised denial of Gennifer Flower’s unsubstantiated claim in a paid tabloid interview that she had a 12-year affair with him. “I’m glad to be attacked by my opponents again,” the Arkansas governor said. “It’s kind of refresh- • ,mg. The two-hour debate on the Public Broadcasting System covered the economy, taxes, education, health insurance, breaking no new ground but dealing in detail with rival Democratic proposals. COMPETITORS bore down on Clinton, whose lead in New Hampshire public opinion polls has

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Former heavyweight champion and accused rapist Mike Tyson has been described “like a kid in a candy store," “like a man in heat,” like “a time bomb waiting to go off" and like “a gentleman" by several people who observed him

ment on it. Police said Tyson left Indianapolis about 5:45 a.m. July 19 a few hours after the alleged rape and canceled a visit with inmates al the Marion County Jail with Jackson. Despite the conflicting reports about Tyson’s behavior, both prosecution and defense attorneys in the boxer’s rape trial declined to use any of the statements as

withstood the Flowers controversy. The state’s primary is two weeks away. After Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska touted his $240 billion plan for national health insurance, Clinton said that and every other Democratic plan offered would be better than Bush’s proposals. “You’re trying to have it both ways,” Kerrey shot back at Clinton. “Yes, you and I disagree on it, but at least tell the American people what you’re for.” “I HAVE SAID exactly what I’d do,” Clinton responded. He said he favors private health insurance with government coverage for the uninsured, coupled with government cost controls. Sen. Tom Harkin of lowa accused Clinton and former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas of Massachusetts of favoring warmed-over Reagan administration policies because both support variations of a capital gains tax cut. “What I’m calling for is a new New Deal,” Harkin said. The Democrats agreed that defense spending should be cut more sharply than the SSO billion in additional reductions Bush recommends for the next five years. “PRESIDENT BUSH is still

the night he allegedly raped an 18-year-old contestant in the Miss Black America contest. None of the people who saw Tyson will testify at his trial. (AP photo)

evidence. “WE CONDUCTED a thorough investigation, and we feel that all the witnesses that should be called will be called,” said Rob Smith, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. He declined to elaborate on any contact prosecutors had with STF or Black Orchid employees. David R. Hennessy, the accuser’s private counsel in Indianapolis,

fighting the Cold War,” said Harkin, adding the projected defense budget should be slashed in half, to save $420 billion over the decade. Former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. upped the ante and said he’d cut S7OO billion from defense. But he earlier had ventured a Democratic confession: “This arithmetic by the end of the two hours is not going to add up. Everybody knows that.” Clinton and Kerrey supported a middle income tax cut, Tsongas dismissed it as “pandering” to the polls, and Harkin said it wasn’t enough money to do any good, advocating public works spending instead. AS THE DEBATE wound down to a final round on a final question, moderator Jim Lehrer asked the candidates to deal with the issue of character. “We battle, but the Democrats should be proud of this group, because there is character here,”

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said he had not heard the television station’s report, but “it sounds like they were expressing an opinion of what they saw.” “I’d have to know exactly what they based their opinions on before I could decide if they should have testified,” he said. “The prosecutor’s office is trying this case, not me.”

Tsongas said. “...George Bush has no core, there is no principle.” Then it was Brown’s turn. “We’re part of the unreality,” he said. “I mean, what is the biggest character issue out there right now? The stories on Bill Clinton, isn’t it. And whether or not there’s an issue there or whether there isn’t... “THAT’S WHAT everybody’s thinking about, they’re looking at that, and whether it’s legitimate or not..” Kerrey broke in to defend Clinton. “It’s not legitimate, and they ought to ease up on him,” the senator said. “What’s legitimate are out issues, our ideas, our agenda, that’s what’s legitimate in this campaign.” But Brown persisted. “Every time a woman makes a claim she’s either viewed as lying or she's a bimbo and I think we’ve got to face up to the fact that that does reflect some values that are not representative of what a lot of women in this country feel,” he said.

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Record 24.56 million now receive food stamps

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