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THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 3,1992

Uncommitted wins Alaska primary

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Alaska Democrats have retained their traditional independence, with a plurality of 36.4 percent undecided in the state’s caucuses. With 75 percent of the precincts reporting in balloting Thursday, former California Gov. Jerry Brown finished second with 33.2 percent. His backers promised a further battle for precinct delegates. FRONTRUNNER Bill Clinton was third with a 30.4 percent showing, despite his having gained an endorsement from state party leaders. Veronica Slajer, a district organizer for the Alaska Democrats, said the turnout was true to form. “At the caucuses, we generally split,” she said. We’re very independent. We’ve never had a decisive winner.” Slajer said seven of 27 districts statewide did not report by midnight. Caucusing began at 7 p.m. statewide Thursday. ABOUT 1,100 people participated, party officials said. A delegate breakdown showed uncommitted with 1,059 votes. Brown with 964 votes and Clinton with 884 votes. Slajer said the breakdown does not correspond to the number of people who actually participated because there are more delegates alloted to the precinct than the number who show up.

Doctors doubt claim JFK shot from front

DALLAS (AP) Two doctors who treated the dying President Kennedy doubt the story of a physician who says in a book that goes on sale Friday that Kennedy was shot from the front. Dr. Kenneth E. Salyer, who said he worked with Dr. Charles Crenshaw in the emergency room where Kennedy was treated Nov. 22, 1963, suggested Thursday the frenzied emergency room was not the place to make a sound conclusion about the wounds. SALYER DECLINED to criticize Crenshaw for his assertion about Kennedy’s wound, but said: “Anybody can make an observation and make a statement about it, and some people have a little more expertise than others. ... He is trained as a general surgeon.”

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BILL CLINTON Continues to falter

Delegates are awarded on a percentage basis. ALASKA’S VAST distances, sparse population and difficult terrain give a whole other dimension to grassroots politicking. In one Anchorage precinct, for instance, 18-year-old Allen Butler, a civics student from Service High School, showed up at a caucus as an extra-credit assignment only to find himself a caucus of one when no one else arrived. In rural northwest Alaska, one precinct in Kotzebue went 100 percent for Brown. Fourteen people attended. And in nearby Nome, on

Crenshaw’s “JFK: Conspiracy of Silence” goes on sale today and publicists have arranged news and talk show appearances to promote it. Crenshaw has been unavailable to discuss his opinions, but in a transcript of an interview with ABC’s “20-20,” to be aired today, he said he looked at Kennedy’s wounds before “we placed him in the coffin.” “I WANTED TO know and remember this for the rest of my life,” he said. “And the rest of my life I will always know that he was shot from the front.” The Warren Commission, appointed by President Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Kennedy was shot from behind by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. However, many various alternative conspiracy theories have been suggested over the years. Several of the theories claim Kennedy was shot from the front

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Alaska’s west coast, 10 people showed up; all checked “uncommitted” rather than cast a vote for either Clinton or Brown. NOT ONLY DID neither of the frontrunners make campaign appearances here to spark interest, but party leaders said neither Brown nor Clinton has the appeal Jesse Jackson had for Alaskans four years ago. Jackson narrowly won the 1988 state caucuses with about 35 percent, to Michael Dukakis with 31 percent. Nearly 2,000 voters turned out. The party forecast a light turnout

RFK murder probe sought

LOS ANGELES (AP) “JFK” director Oliver Stone is among a group urging a grand jury to examine the Los Angeles police investigation of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. ‘We are not charging any grand interlocking conspiracy,” said Paul Schrade, a former aide to the senator. Schrade was wounded during the June 5, 1968, shooting in the Ambassador Hotel. SIRHAN SIRHAN is serving a life sentence for the killing. Both the LAPD and a special investigator hired by the Los Angeles County supervisors concluded he was the lone gunman.

by a gunman standing on a grassy knoll in front of the motorcade. CRENSHAW did not testify before the Warren Commission, but was mentioned by several witnesses. Crenshaw told “20-20” he did not go to the commission because: “If I had gone against all the other people and created this bomb, I’d have been a pariah of our medical community. I could have lost my job.”

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this year. Only about 1,000 of Alaska’s 53,000 registered Democrats were expected to show up at homes and schools across the state that serve as precinct caucuses. PARTY OFFICIALS based in Anchorage, the state’s largest city, were relying on volunteers in the nearly 440 precincts to call in results. Caucuses rely on a so-called fanout, in which people endorsing one candidate or another bunch together in a comer of the room to be counted. With just 18 delegates up for grabs, Alaska has little hope of influencing the outcome at the Democratic National Convention in July. The state has voted solidly Republican in presidential elections since 1976. THE DEMOCRATIC precinct delegates selected Thursday will meet at 27 district conventions on May 2 to select delegates to the May 30-31 state convention. From there, delegates will be chosen to attend the Democratic National Convention. Overall, Alaska will have 18 delegates chosen at the state convention, one unpledged delegate chosen at the convention, and four unpledged super delegates selected from among Democratic party officials.

Schrade said group members pored over more than 50,000 pages of files and found evidence of police misconduct, including threats against witnesses and destroyed evidence. Police Chief Daryl F. Gates declined to comment, saying, “This has been looked at a number of times before and it hasn’t resulted in anything different.” SPURRED BY Stone’s hit movie, Congress resolved last week to open secret files on the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, the senator’s brother. “JFK,” which won two Oscars this week, theorizes that a government conspiracy led to the president’s murder.

Crenshaw, 59, is the semiretired head of surgery at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. At the time of Kennedy’s assassination, he was a third-year resident at Parkland Hospital. CRENSHAW’S 203-page paperback maintains that there were entry wounds on the front of Kennedy’s head and that they must have been caused by a second gunman on the grassy knoll at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza.

Noriega team wraps up defense case

MIAMI (AP) Manuel Noriega stood with tears in his eyes as a defense attorney closed his case by asking jurors whether the ousted Panamanian leader’s trial was about drugs or politics. Prosecutors were prepared to give their final rebuttal argument today in Noriega’s drug and racketeering trial. JURORS WERE expected to begin deliberating today after four days of final arguments. The trial has lasted six months.

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Congressional Diary HEADLINES: The Senate voted 87-10 to overturn a four-year moratorium by the Bush and Reagan administrations on using fetal tissue from abortions for scientific research. The House passed a similar bill last July, but with a smaller majority. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill when he gets it in final form. An unreleased draft audit by Congress’ General Accounting Office says Secretary of State James A. Baker HI used government planes for 11 strictly personal trips between January 1989 and March 1991 at a cost of $371,599 to taxpayers. Baker said any travel that was personal was “fully reimbursed.” Furor over the House bad-check scandal is taking its toll on Democratic Speaker Thomas S. Foley. Rep. John Bryant, D-Texas, called upon Foley to resign and Rep. Joseph Early, D-Mass., said there is a “50-50” chance Foley will not be re-elected to the post next year. Foley said he would not resign. ODDS & ENDS: The Senate Budget Committee approved a $1.5 trillion federal budget for next year after rejecting a plan by its chairman, Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., to cut defense spending by $lO billion. The panel instead agreed with President Bush’s suggestion to trim $5 billion from the Pentagon’s budget. North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad is the sixth senator to announce he will not seek re-election next fall and Rep. Claude Harris, DAla., became the 44th House member to voluntarily give up his seat. Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., introduced a bill that would create a tax deduction for uncollected child support. Delinquent parents would then be notified by the IRS and required to claim the same amount as income on their tax returns. Some 2.4 million parents, mostly women, are unable to collect some or all of their child support payments each year. The Senate voted to increase spending on prostate cancer research by $92 million next year. The measure was sponsored by Sens. Bob Dole, R-Kan.; Alan Cranston, D-Calif.; Ted Stevens, R-Alaska; and Jesse Helms, R-N.C. All four were diagnosed and treated for the disease. Senate Democrats have concluded they like political action committees after all. Last year they voted to prohibit Senate candidates from taking campaign contributions from union, corporate and other special interest PACs. But in a draft compromise with a similar House campaign finance bill, they now would only cut PAC contributions in half. QUOTABLE: “There have been happier times, no doubt about it.” House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., in reaction to a furor that erupted at a Democratic whip’s meeting over his handling of the bad-check scandal. “This says an enormous amount about the strength of the militaryindustrial complex in this country.” Senate Budget Chairman James Sasser, D-Tenn., after his committee rejected his call for a $lO billion cut in Pentagon spending. “The ice is cracking, ard we don’t know how things will end up in the Soviet Union. What’s so bad about waiting three or four years before we drastically reduce the defense?” Sen. Pete Domenici RN.M. IT’S A FACT: More senators have graduated from Yale than any other college, Yale alumni in the Senate are David Boren, D-Okla.; John Chafee, R-R.1.; Harris Wofford, D-Pa.; James Jeffords, R-Vt.; John Kerry, D-Mass.; Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.; and Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo. DAYS IN SESSION: The House has met 41 of the 83 days in the second session of the 102nd Congress. The Senate has met 45 days.

Noriega is charged with making Panama a way station for drugs and a money-laundering center for Colombia’s Medellin cocaine cartel. Noriega, who surrendered to U.S. troops shortly after the December 1989 invasion of Panama, faces a maximum 160 years in prison if convicted on all 10 counts. HE ALSO IS charged in a separate indictment in Tampa, Fla., centered on marijuana-smuggling charges. He faces additional charges in Panama, including murder in the killings of two opponents. Panamanian President Guillermo Endara said Thursday his government would extradite Noriega and

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try him at home if he is acquitted in' the U.S. case. In Miami on Thursday, defenseattorney Frank Rubino ended closing argument by attacking what he called the politics of the case.' Prosecutors spent more time discussing Panama as a military dictatorship than they did proving drug charges, he said. “THAT MAY BE ... how we change government’s in foreign countries, by indictment diplomacy* but that’s not why we’re here,”, Rubino told reporters outside the courthouse. Rubino wound up his argument by walking over to Noriega, having him stand up, and putting his arm around him. Noriega was clearly emotional.

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