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President Clinton makes a statement as first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on at the White.
House, Saturday, Dec. 19, 1998 thanking those Democratic members of the House of Represen-.
tatives who voted against impeachment and vowing to complete his term. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
CLINTON TO CONGRESS:
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BSenators agree on
quick civil action, but
not immediate censure.
By Glen Johnson
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
WASHINGTON
With the impeachment of Presi
dent Clinton now in their hands,
senators vowed Sunday to move
quickly although they disagreed
on the format — speedy trial or
immediate censure.
Sheriffs finding
phones in jail
cells lucrative
Dublin
(AP) The days of one call from jail are over —
sheriffs statewide are encouraging inmates to pick
up the phone.
Under agreements with phone companies, local
jails can get as much as 40 percent back on toll calls
made from phone units located inside jail cells.
. Telfair County Sheriff David Williams, whose jail
features a phone in each of its seven cells, said the
trend is growing across the state. : |
“It’s like a lucrative business,” Williams said. "Wc‘
get a good bit of money out of it, even though our jai
is not large.” . |
Most jails now allow inmates to make as many calls!
asthey would like, as long as someone accepts the toll ‘
on the other end of the line. :
- All calls are paid by the person receiving the call
and even local calls are toll calls. -
Bibb County gets “big money” from its phones b}
way of a 40 percent refund from the phone company
according to Bibb County Sheriff spokesman Elliot
Dunwoody.
The Bibb County Law Enforcement Center gets the
money, which helps make up shortfalls in the budget.
“We use that money with money from the commis
sary to supplement our budget,” Dunwoody said.
Williams had the phones put into his jail in 1993 anc.
hag averaged as much as S6OO a month since then. That
could go up substantially as Williams has renegotiated
his refund from 25 percent to 37 percent.
— Laurens County’s agreement with Bell South calls
for a $2.65 charge for each local call, and more than
.that for long distance, meaning revenue of more than
.$150,000, according to county administrator Will
.McDonald. . ; '
Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton estimates
hustd will pull in $60,000 from phone usage.
heriff Kenny Webb uses the phones as incentive
for good behavior--income or no income.
“If they act up, we can cut off the phones,” Webb
said. : :
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Democrats generally favored
censure; Republicans leaned to
ward at least a brief trial. Both
said the upper chamber of Con
gress had to restore civility and
“political sanity” to the process.
“I don’t believe the challenge
was faced adequately in the
House,” Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-
Vt., said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
The president, meanwhile, pre
pared for a defense that his chief
of staff indicated could include a
challenge to the legality of the
House’s action, given that the
impeachment articles were ap
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the 105th Congress, but a Sen
ate trial would bethandled bythe
106th. :
“I think that our legal team
with take a look at that in the
days to come, as you know, some
of the constitutional experts who
have reviewed that matter be
lieve that it is not consistent with
the Constitution to have done
this in a lame duck Congress,
especially in the partisan way
that they did that,” White House
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DECECEMBER 24 - 30, 1998
Feds blast racism
in police ranks
By Seth Hettena
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
BALTIMORE
The Baltimore Police Depart
ment has disciplined black offic
ersmore harshly than white offic
ers, creating a pattern of race
discrimination in violation of civil
rights law, federal investigators
say.
Black officers have faced more
disciplinary action, been found
guilty at a higher rate and have
been punished more often than
their white colleagues, said
Gerald Kiel, acting district direc
tor of the Equal Employment
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Texas octuplets surviving so far
ENigerian woman
gives birth to eight
babies nearly two
weeks apart.
By Mark Babineck
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
HOUSTOR
‘Doctors knew the infant deliv
ered two weeks ago was just one
of several babies Nkem Chukwu
carried in her womb. But none
knew the girl was just one of a
remarkable — and historic —
eight.
Mrs. Chukwu delivered her 2-
week-old daughter’s five sisters
and two brothers Sunday to com
plete the first known surviving
set of octuplets. They ranged from
11 ounces to nearly two pounds,
and all were in critical condition
after birth.
“We're very hopeful all of the
babies will survive, but they’re
critically illnewborns and we can’t
say for sure everything will be
OK,” said Dr. Patti Savrick, a
pediatrician at Texas Children’s
Hospital.
The first girl was 12 weeks pre
mature, and the others were 10
weeks early. The survival rate for
babies born so young is 85 per
cent, doctors said.
The babies were whisked one
by one to Texas Children’s from
the operating room at St. Luke’s
Episcopal Hospital. About 30
medical personnel were involved
in the 45-minute Caesarean sec
tion.
Seven of the babies were on
ventilators today to help them
Opportunity Commission’s Balti
more office.
The agency's report, released
Tuesday after a two-year investi
gation, also said black officers who
complained of discrimination
were often targeted by the
department’s own watchdog: the
Internal Investigation Depart
ment.
Police Commissioner Thomas
Frazier was unavailable for com
ment Tuesday. His spokesman,
Robert Weinhold, said the depart
ment is addressing its “historical
pattern of inequity.”
“There’s a number of measures
that have been taken to address
the issue of racial disparity and a
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Leonard Weisman take part in a news conference about the
multiple birth of octuplets Monday, Dec. 21, 1998 in Houston.
Nkem Chukwu became the mother of the first known surviving
set of octuplets, giving birth to five girls and two boys Sunday.
The eighth child, a girl, was born on Dec. 8. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
breathe, and all eight will likely
remain hospitalized for two or
three months.
Dr. Leonard Weisman, chief
neonatal specialist at Texas
Children’s, said he will watch for
lung and heart problems over the
next few days. After that, meta
bolic problems and infections are
a danger.
The babies are critically ill, but
they are currently all stable,
Weisman said this morning on
the NBC Today show.
Mrs. Chukwu, a Nigerian na
tive who lives in Houston with
her husband, Iyke, could be out of
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number of measures to address
the inequities in the disciplinary
system,” Weinhold said.
Weinhold said the EEOC’s rul
ing confirms earlier findings,
which the department is address
ing. The department has pro
moted black officers, trained
minority officers to hear disci
plinary cases and created a sys
tem to make punishments more
uniform, he said.
A city commission in 1996
found evidence of racial bias in
the ranks of the department’s
3,200 officers.
Gary McLhinney, president of
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the hospital by week’s end. Her
husband, a respiratory therapist,
was not present for the deliveries
but has seen the babies since then,
doctors said today.
“He’s very excited about the
pregnancy,” said Dr. Brian
Kirshon, a specialist in high-risk
births and one of three doctors
who delivered the babies.
As a result of drugs taken to
forestall labor, Mrs. Chukwu re
quired surgery this morning to
stop internal bleeding. Kirshon
called the bleeding, a side effect of
See OCTUPLETS, page 2A