2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursdcay, January 13, 1994 KERRIGAN Continued from page 1 According to The Oregonian, a minister named Eugene Saunders told a private investigator that he had lis- tened to the tape. The two men then went to authorities. NBC said that after the meeting in Portland, the hit man went to Boston, where Kerrigan lives and trains. It was there the investigators believe he originally planned to get Kerrigan, but bad weather somehow fouled the attempt, NBC said. It was then, the network's sources said, the attacker went to Detroit, site of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. In the attack, a man brandishing a club struck Kerrigan after a practice session, severely bruising her right leg and forcing her to withdraw from the competition. The man escaped. The International Committee of the U.S. Figure Skating Association named Kerrigan to the Olympics team anyway, along with Harding, who won the U.S. championship at the trials Saturday night. The two women will be part of the U.S. contingent at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Feb. 12-27. Harding was scheduled to fly to Fairfax, Va., yesterday for the NationsBank U.S. Olympic Festival on Ice. But Barry Geissler, general manager of Patriot Center, where the event will take place, said she can- celed yesterday. A representative of Bill Graham Presents, the event's promoter, said Harding told producers she was can- celing because she's "having a few media problems." No one answered the telephone at Harding's house, andhercoach, Diane Rawlinson,did not reply toamessage left on her answering machine. There appeared to be no one at either the home of Harding or Eckardt. It was not known where Harding, Gillooly or Eckardt were. The Portland private investigator who spoke with Saunders, Gary Crowe, said Harding evidently knew nothing about aplot to attack Kerrigan. Crowe said Saunders, came to him for advice after an acquaintance played the tape recording for him. Crowe said Saunders told him the tape recording made it clear that Kerrigan was the target. Saunders told him a man's voice on the tape asked, "Why don't wejust kill her?" The response was: "We don't need to kill her. Let's just hit her in the knee." He said Saunders identified the voices on the tape as those ofGillooly, Eckardt and an Arizona man. Crowe said Saunders' acquain- tance became worried after receiving threats from the Arizona man because Gillooly had failed topay the $100,000 promised. Saunders was friends with Eckardt, Crowe said, but he didn't know whether it was Eckardt who had pro- vided the tape. Crowe described Saunders as a "straight shooter, the straightest of the straight." He did not know which church he was affiliated with. No one was home at Saunders' house yesterday, and he did not return messages left on his answering ma- chine. Gillooly told The Oregonian he had been questioned by the FBI but denied that he was involved in the attack. "I wouldn't do that," Gillooly said. "I have more faith in my wife than to bump off her competition." Eckardt called the allegations "ab- surd." "I would never get involved in anything like that," Eckardt told the newspaper. "That would be jeopar- dizing my future, my career. I mean, that's not something I could do or allow." Harding has denied any link to the attack, saying she felt cheated of the chance to compete with Kerrigan. Detroit police, and later FBI agents, questioned all skaters and coaches at the Olympic trials. Outside the home of Kerrigan's parents in the Boston suburb of Stoneham, Mass., Police Chief Eu- gene Passaro said the skater's rela- tives "really don't know any more than what's on the TV." Kerrigan's agent, ProServe, issued a statement on behalf of the family late yesterday. "Based on the information we have at this time, we have no comment on the investigation," the statement said. "We are sure the law enforcement authorities are working hard on this case and we hope their efforts are successful." PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT 0 0 MARY KOUKHAB/Daily Toes pose at an advanced ballet class yesterday at the University's Dance School. Clinton calls for special counsel to investigate Whitewater investments UKRAINE Continued from page 1 complex than what is perceived in the United States. And the contact here is also important for the cooperation between our countries." Clinton himself said in Prague that in Moscow "my urgent task will be to try to continue to press the path of democracy and reform and America's support for it in Russia. "They are a great people with a great history and a great future," he added. However, with all the change of the past two years, he said, Russia again must "define itself as a nation. ... I mean, after all, this is a rather new experience for them." Russian reformers are divided, some determined to move ahead at full speed, others inclined to slow down and to soften the shock of tran- sition to a free-market system. "The forces of reform need to find ways to work together and to speak, if not with one voice, at least with a common message," Clinton said in Prague. He predicted "some rough spots along the way" for the Yeltsin programs. Within his own administration there is division on how whether Clinton should counsel Yeltsin to adopt social welfare programs. Prices are still soaring, housing is scarce and crime is increasing. WASHINGTON (AP) - Yield- ing to relentless political pressure, President Clinton asked yesterday that Attorney General Janet Reno name a special counsel to investigate his in- vestment in an Arkansas land devel- opment. "The president requests that this investigation be conducted as expedi- tiously as possible," Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos said in an- nouncing the White House's abrupt strategy shift. Stephanopoulos said Clinton had full confidence that the Justice De- partment could conduct its own im- partial investigation of the Whitewater Development Corp. He said that "innuendo, political posturing and irresponsible accusa- tions" by Republicans had given Clinton little choice but to call for an independent investigation. "This controversy is becoming too much of a distraction," Stephanopoulos said. "The president wants to get on with the vital issues facing the American people." Stephanopoulos repeatedly said that not even any of Clinton's critics on Whitewater have raised any spe- cific allegation of wrongdoing. He said the White House was still of the opinion that no special counsel was necessary. He said the political climate had forced the president's hand. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) said that "in taking this action, the admin- istration has taken the first step to- ward putting this matter behind them." Said House Speaker Thomas Foley (D-Wash.). "It is my clear hope that the president's decision will cut off any further suggestion that the presi- dent or the first lady have been any- thing but forthcoming on this mat- ter." Reno said she knew herpick would be subject to such second-guessing but said, "The person I choose I want to be ruggedly independent." She said she would consider a list of potential appointees recommended by Republican lawmakers but did not promise to make her pick from it. "The president believes it is im- portant to take whatever steps he can to assure complete confidence in the federal law enforcement system," Stephanopoulos said. "He believes the integrity of high officials must be, without question." CITADEL Continued from page 1 peals refused to overturn the order. Faulkner said she hoped to be- come a full-fledged member of the grey-uniformed corps of cadets within a year. "I don't think you can get the full Citadel experience without being a cadet," she said. Since Faulkner sued, five inci- dents of vandalism have been directed against her and her the family. U.S. Attorney J.P. Strom said the FBI was investigating threats against Faulkner's "personal safety" and un- specified threats against her family and attorneys. "I know I feel safe here on cam- pus, it's just the off-campus stuff I do have to worry about," she said. She will stay with a Charleston family that has requested anonymity. After registering, Faulkner toured campus escorted by Lynn Hook, one of 1,649 women who take evening classes at The Citadel. Hook supports keeping the corps of cadets all male. "If we can obligate people to go to coeducational schools, which we do, Clinton may offer Yeltsin new fi- nancial assistance on top of the $4 billion pledged last year for humani- tarian aid, housing and privatization efforts. He also could promise to push the International Monetary Fund to release some of the $5.5 billion in loans it has held until Russia gets its deficit under control. Clinton's support for Yeltsin is unwavering, but he also will hedge his bets by meeting with a wide range of politicians. Excluded will be ultranationalist. Vladimir Zhirinovsky. "Next elections I will receive more voices (votes) than now because Mr. Clinton refused to have a meeting with me," Zhirinovsky said. why can't we obligate them to go to single-gender schools?" Hook said. When Faulkner arrived on cam pus, she was greeted by Pat Johnson, one of three women veterans who sued in 1992 trying to gain admission to day classes. That case was dismissed after The Citadel, worried about coeducation, abolished a program allowing men veterans to attend classes with cadets. "It's kind of like a football game. I feel like a quarterback handing the, bal l off to Shannon Faulkner and she's running -through the gate," Johnson said. Each of the awards, ranging between $2,000 and $5,000, will support an independent research or photography project. "You have to want to write for a non-academic journal," Lowenstein explained. Moseley added, "I'm pretty ex- cited. Doing current research is like- being at the cutting edge. There are more of these trials these days and we hope (our research) will be useful and educational." I 2nd Annual Medstart Conference "A Whole New World: Our Children, Our Future, Ourselves" Saturday January 22, 1994 8:04 a.m. Towsley Center for Medcal Education 2nd Fkor of the Unsity Hospital University of Michigan Medical School Campus Featured Faculty Highlights Barbara Blum Ricky Olane President Center to Prevent Handgun Violence Foundation for Child Development Hon. Charles Gill Creigs Beverly National Task Force for Wayne State Univensty Children's Consbutional Rights Helen Rodrguez-Triaz Nancy McBride American Public Health Association Adam Walsh Center for Missing and Exploited Chidren Woodrow Myers Former Commissioner of Health M. 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