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Todd’s proposal:
Give DeVaney’s
job to Mclntyre
BAn issue that clearly defines the mayoral
candidates while exciting the public has yet to
surface. Until it does, the current contest will
be driven by personal appeals and colorful
statements.
Wy Frodorick Benjamin Sr.
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
Even if former mayor Ed
Mclntyre loses his bid to regain
the mayor’s seat, he could come
out a winner. That is, is former
county commissioner Moses Todd
wins the race. According to the
former 4th District lawmaker, “If
Ibecame mayor, I would put Edin
DeVaney’s job.”
Former Augusta mayor Charled
DeVaney is the current head of
Augusta Tomorrow, a local plan
ning agency that has tradition
ally focused on downtown
“+¥iepfront projects.. The agency
was started during the Mclntyre
administration.
Todd’s comments underscores
a running theme in city politics.
Impeachment proceedings
force Democrats to choose
Clinton urges
Democrats to
vote conscience
By Peter Boker and Juliet Eiporin
WASHINGTON POST Staff Writers
WASHINGTOM
President Clinton said yester
day that Democrats should vote
their conscience when the House
of Representatives decides today
whether to launch an impeach
ment inquiry and the White House
promised not to punish party
members who support the open
ended proceedings proposed by
the Republican majority.
With approval of the first im
peachment hearings since
Watergate all but certain, the
White House in effect gave per
mission to wavering House Demo
crats to back the move without
fear of retribution if they feel they
need to in order to protect them
-selves in the Nov. 3 elections.
“I think everybody should cast
-a vote on principle and con
science,” Clinton said, portraying
"himself as somewhat removed
‘from the process that will decide
"what happens to me,” he said,
““and ultimately it's going to be up
“to the American people to make a
clear statement there.”
But privately Clinton refused
to succumb entirely, rebuffing
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Augusta Focus
Seving Metropoliton Augusta, South Carolina and the Central Savannah River Area
Analysis & Interpretation
Riverfront projects lure millions
of dollars in federal and private
money at the expense of growthin
other partsofthe city many people
feel. The emergence of political
power in South has yet
to transform i into a real eco
nomic boom for the neighborhoods
sfioftheGordon highway. And
w . Todd doesn’t envision a
w&o’ ion of money into South
Augusta (after all, the current
mayor ill:. southsider), he is pro
moting less money being spent on
most of which are along the
riverfront corridor — and divert
ing it agencies that focus on.in
dustrigl recruitment and high-
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House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Maxine Woters, €
Calif. gives her opening statement on Capitol Hill Monday
Oct. 5, 1998 as the commiitee began hearings on the possi
bility of opening an impeachment inquiry against President
Ciinton. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., ranking Democrat on
declare today’s vote unimportant
and pledge cooperation with any
probe, sources said, but the presi
dent did not agree to do so.
In a sign that the proceedings
may not end up confined to the
Monica 8. Lewinsky matter, in
dependent counsel Kenneth W.
Starr sent a letter to the House
Judiciary Committee on Wednes
OCTOBER 8 - 14, 1998
tech jobs.
A sign of the malaise of the
current race is the attention given
to the tongue-in-cheek “candi
dacy” of a local disk jockey, who
has “entered” the race despite
the fact that he is ineligible to
receive a single vote.
Todd, Mclntyre and three oth
ers are in the final weeks of a
campaign that has yet to reveal
an issue significant enough to
excite the public to back any of
the five candidates in any great
numbers. Without such a defin
ing issue, the race thus far has
been characterized by each can
didate hoping to keep their sup
porters focused enough to turn
out on November 3.
All three of the chief opponents
of mayor Larry Sconyers — in
cluding Todd, Mclntyre and
former newscaster Bob Young —
have made leadership an igsue in
See the candidates in
action at the next local
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day saying he could not rule out
referring evidence of other mis
conduct Evy Clinton to Congress as
possible grounds for impeach
ment. U
“ can confirm at this time that
matters continue tg be under ac
tive inmfi!afion and review by
this Office,” Starr wrote withou
elaborating.
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NAACP President Kwelsi Mfume Is arrested on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court after
crossing police lines Monday, Oct. 5, 1998 in Washington. Mfume was one of 19 demonstra
fors arrested as they tried to promote the hiring of more minority law clerks at the Supreme
Court. (AP Photo/Khue Bui)
Protesters demonstrate for more
minority hires at Supreme Gourt
By Poul Shepard
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
WASHINGTON
With chants of “No Justice, No Peace,” more than
1,000 protesters helped open the Supreme Court’s
1998-99 term Monday by staging a noisy outdoor
demonstration to demand that the justices hire
more minority law clerks.
NAACP President Kweisi Mfume was among 19
people who deliberately got themselves arrested
while trying to deliver to the justices resumes of
minority law school students they said were fully
qualified to clerk for Supreme Court justices.
No American Indian has ever worked asaclerkon
the Supreme Court. And of the 428 clerks hired over
time by the nine sitting justices, less than 2 percent
have been black, 1 percent were Hispanic and less
than 5 percent Asian-American, according to the
Baltimore-based NAACP. g ,
Those statistics provided the groundwork for the
demonstration on the Supreme Court steps.
Amultiethnic coalition from 10 states represent
ing an array of minority lawyers’ organizations and
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* Supreme Court police said the 19 protesters were
arrested for attempting to demonstrate on Su
preme Courtmperty rather than on the public
‘sidewalk out front. Maximum punishment for the
‘misdemeanor is a 60-day jail term and a fine of
SIOO, a court spokesperson said. ¢
~ Superior Court Judge Thurman A. Morrison 111
‘suspended the jail sentences and each was fined
SSO, said Mfume, who was released around 4:30
‘p.m. The fines will be paid through NAACP funds,
‘Mfume said.
~ “Weare deciding whether we should demonstrate
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‘See MFUME ARREST, page 3A
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