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August 22, 1996
World / National View
Dole recruits
Colin Powell
- LOUISVILLE, Ky.
:. (AP)Bob Dole stood with running
aate Jack Kemp and retired Gen.
LColin Powell today and accused the
Clinton administration of making
devastating cuts in defense spend
ing. “We must restore our commit
ment to our men and women in
uniform,” he told the nation’s sec
ond-largest veterans organization.
% In a speech to the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Dole raised the spec
ter of U.S. service men and women
surviving on food stamps. And he
accused the administration of drag
ging its feet on modernizing the
" Dole said Clinton had pressed
through Congressdefense cutsofll
percent - and suggested it would
have been more had not Republi
¢ans in Congress drawn “a line in
the sand.”
“Too much has been squandered
in U.N. missions that have precious
little to dowith U.S. security,” Dole
said.
“We stood together during the
Vietnam*War when Congress
threatened to cut off funds to U.S.
forces there, and later in demand
ing a full accounting of prisoners of
warand those missinginaction,”he
told the VFW.
He called that “a full accounting
that has still has not been deliv
ered.”
. And, Dole added, "We stand to
gether in the most important war
we've ever faced in this county. And
that is the war against drugs.” He
‘said it was a war he did not intend
to lose, if elected.
- Dole, wearing his VFW cap, told
his audience of about 5,000 veter
ans that the values of his campaign
were “the values that have always
been the heart and soul of the VFW.
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Powell, speakingbefore Dole, said
the GOP candidate, “has a vision
that includes being an inclusive
leader.”
Powell, asked about speculation
that he would be Dole's choice for
secretary of state, said, “We haven't
had any such discussions.”
“Anything’s open. But right now,
the important thing is to get the
team elected.”
It is the first time Powell - a
featured speakeratlast week’s GOP
convention -- has campaigned with
Dole. Dole spokesman Nelson
Warfield said that Powell may cam
paign in the future for the ticket.
Despite some speculation that
Dole mightannounce some prospec
tive Cabinet choices in advance --
including Powell assecretaryof state
- Warfield said no such announce
ments are in the works.
“Youdon't hear Bill Clinton talk
ing about his retirement plans yet.
Andyoudon’thear Bob Doletalking
about his Cabinet. There’s plenty of
time for that.”
For his part, Dole said he’s still
looking for a spot to spend some
vacation days during the Demo
cratic convention next week. He
mentioned Santa Barbara, Calif,,
as one possibility. Dole aides have
also suggested a New Hampshire
vacation.
Kemp, who was in the Army Re
serves, was excused from active
military duty in the early 1960 s for
a shoulder problem, although he
continued to play football as a quar
terback for the San Diego Chargers
at the time.
Kemp'sleftshoulder wasinjured.
He throws with his right arm.
GUILT AND INNOCENCE
Polygraph wiz also tested Augusta man
From page one
bystanders at the park, Mr.
Jewell was later targeted as a
key suspect. His attorneys be
lieve the lie detector test is an
other method of proving the
Atlanta man had no affiliation
CIA policies promoted drug scourge in U.S. cities
From page one
lution.”
Blandon’s boss, Juan Norwin
Meneses Cantarero, was a major
drug dealer and smuggler who
ran the FDN operation out of his
homes in Burlingame and Paci
fica in Northern California, the
paper reported.
Although records show that
the U.S. government was aware
of Meneses’ dealings since 1974,
the Mercury News reported that
hehasneverbeeninaU.S. prison.
Meneses currently is serving
time in Nicaragua after being
arrestedin connection with a 750-
kilo shipment of cocaine.
Federal prosecutors blame the
AIDS: Some white people
From page one
AIDS virus needs toinvade cells.
Those who are born with two
copies of the mutant gene -- one
from each parent -- appear to be
highly resistant to AIDS infec
tion, although experts are not sure
if their protection is absolute.
A surprising 20 percent or so of
whites were found to have one
copy. The effects of having one
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with the pipe bomb which killed
Alice Hawthorne of Albany, Ga.
at Centennial Park.
Mr. Smart took the test admin
istered by Mr. Rackleff’s firm on
July 38, and, like Mr. Jewell,
passed the test. His attorney,
Jack Long, has said the test could
CIA and other federal depart
ments for Meneses’ relatively
sweet treatment in the U.S., the
Mercury News said.
“The Justice Department
flipped out to prevent us from
getting access to people, records
-- anything that would help us
find out about it,”said Jack Blum,
former chief counsel to the Sen
ate subcommittee that investi
gated alleged cocaine trafficking
to the Contras. “It was one of the
most frustrating exercises that I
can ever recall.”
Agents from four other agen
cies, including the DEA, U.S.
Customs, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department and the
California Bureau of Narcotics
Enforcement, also have com-
copy are still unclear. But the
researchers believe it makes
people somewhat less likely to
get infected and may help them
survive much longer once infec
tion occurs.
Drug companies are already
working on drugs to block CCRS
as a way of keeping HIV out of
cells, Landau said.
“All over the world, wherever
people look, there is a small frac
tion of people who seem not to
get infected, despite multiple
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be used to help prove Mr. Smart
is innocent of sexual battery
charges.
Mr. Smart is a special educa
tion teacher and coaches girl’s
basketball, track and the boy’s
football team.
plained that the CIA hampered
investigations, theMercury News
reported.
The reason might well be
Meneses’ own connections to the
CIA, theMercury News said. One
piece of evidence -- a picture
taken in June 1984 -- shows
Meneses with Adolfo Calero, a
longtime CIA operative and FDN
political boss.
But efforts to trace the
government’s knowledge of the
drug ring have similarly been
thwarted, the newspaper re
ported.
Freedom of Information Act
requests thatreporters filed with
the CIA and DEA have been de
nied on national security and
privacy grounds. A FOIA request
may be immune to virus
exposure,” said Dr. Robert W.
Doms of the University of Penn
sylvania Medical Center. “For
whites, it is often going to be
because of this mutation. But
this may just be the beginning of
an interesting story.”
Already, some experts worry
that people will throw away their
condoms if they learn they have
two copies of the mutant gene.
“That would be folly. We are
just on the threshold of under
standing all of this,” said Dr.
Polygraph testsarerarelyad-..
mitted as evidence in Georgia
courts and only if prosecutors
and defense attorneys agree.’
Federal court judges have some
discretion to allow the admis
sion of polygraph evidence.
filed with the FBI has so far been
ignored, the Mercury News re
ported.
While Blandon has never said
he was selling cocaine for the
CIA, his lawyer, Los Angeles
defense attorney Bradley
Brunon, said he has drawn his
own conclusions from the ClA’s
clandestine behavior.
“Was (Blandon) involved with
the CIA? Probably. Was he in
volved with drugs? Most
definitely,”Brunon said. “Were
those two things involved with
each other? They've never said
that, obviously. They’ve never
admitted that. But I don’t know
where these guys get these big
aircraft.” ?
Anthony Fauci, head of the Na
tional Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases. :
In another report scheduled
for publication in the Aug. 22
issue ofthejournal Nature, Doms
and colleagues describe locking
for the mutant gene in people of
European, African and Asian
heritage.
Whileonly whites had it, Doms
and others suspect that people of
other ethnic origins will turn out
to have other protective genes, -