2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 30, 1996 Pol: Forbes may n 1 e1 ove _ I New Hampshire NATION/WORLD /d Y" 4 ... v ,g lo, NATIllik NAL REPORT WASHINGTON (AP) - Three weeks before New Hampshire's lead- off presidential primary, two new polls suggest that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) leads among Re- publicans but could face a serious threat from Steve Forbes if independents flood the GOP primary. The surveys offered conflicting snap- shots of New Hampshire's political ter- rain but agreed on one point: Forbes remains the biggest threat to Dole as the Feb. 20 primary draws closer. Yesterday's campaigning made it clear the candidates share this view. Dole shrugged off the polls and re- peated his demand that Forbes, a multi- millionaire publisher, release his fed- eral income tax returns. He also sug- gested Forbes and his proposals were escaping serious media scrutiny. "Somehow, they don't seem to bother him," Dole said in Iowa. "They'd rather focus on Bob Dole the front-runner." Of the polls, Dole said: "We're not going to worry about numbers. We're going to keep plugging away and win Iowa and win New Hampshire." In New Hampshire, Texas Sen. Phil Gramm sharpened his criticism of Forbes, labeling him a "Rockefeller Republican" out of step with conserva- tives because he supports abortion rights and President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military. Forbes took the attention as proof he still held momentum, but also was care- ful to dampen expectations for an upset in Iowa or New Hampshire. "Senator Dole must never be under- estimated," Forbes said, "Just remem- ber what people were saying about me three or four weeks ago," Forbes told reporters. After a week in which he lost some ground in Iowa, one of the surveys showed Forbes was slipping in New Hampshire as well. That poll, by Manchester's American Research Group, showed Dole with 33-percent support among 455 likely Republican primary voters and Forbes with 16 per- cent, down six points from an ARG Foster to fight teen pregnancy WASHINGTON - Seven months after his nomination was killed by the Senate, Dr. Henry Foster was named yesterday as a special adviser to President Clinton to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancy. Foster's job as an unpaid aide "ought to be completely without partisan politics," said Clinton, who last year blamed anti-abortion extremists for defeating Foster's nomination for surgeon general. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan) and Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, led the fight against Foster last June in what critics said was a battle for support among the Christian right. The new post does not require Senate approval. Clinton had promised a crusade against teen pregnancy in his 1995 State of the Union speech, but that effort died with Foster's nomination. The president does not plan to nominate a surgeon general candidate this yea, White House spokesperson Mike McCurry said. "It would be difficult to appoint a surgeon general or nominate a surgeon general candidate who reflects the president's view that abortion should be safe, legal and rare," McCurry said. "That doesn't qualify with the rather extreme view t portions of the Republicans have in the Senate." He said Clinton is satisfied with the work of Audrey F. Manley, deputysurgeon general. Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes leaves Nashua Country Club in New Hampshire yesterday afternoon. survey a week earlier. The ARG survey, conducted Thurs- day through Saturday, showed com- mentator Pat Buchanan third with 15 percent, followed by Gramm and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander at 7 percent. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points. The second poll, by the Washington- based Pew Research Center, showed a statistical dead heat in which Forbes had 29 percent to Dole's 24 percent among 543 Republicans and indepen- dents who said they planned to vote in the GOP primary. But the sample for the Pew survey was called into question because 249 respondents to the Republican horserace question - nearly half the sample - identified themselves as independents who planned to exercise their option to vote in the primary. Defense inbombing case seeks new venue OKLAHOMA CITY - Few people would argue that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols,the two men accused of the April bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, can get a fair trial in this city, still so emotionally and physically devastated by the crime. But defense attorneys are pushing this argument a step further in an extraordi- nary legal effort this week to get the entire state of Oklahoma ruled out as a site for the tri al, maintaining that all of its 3 million citizens, in effect, were trauma- tized by the April 19 blast in which 169 people were killed, including 19 chil- dren, and hundreds more injured. The venue issue is also turning into a major test of victims' rights because there have never been as many, homi- cide victims in a case that has gone to trial in this country. A total of 646 people were in the Murrah building when it exploded, turning bustling of- fices and a day-care center into terrify- ing, bloody rubble in the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil. The survivors and families of the victims intend to pack court hearings on the venue issue that begin here to- day to demonstrate their intense inter- est in having the defendants tried some- place easily accessible to them. Cohort says Green killed Jordan's father LUMBERTON, N.C.-Larry Demery said he watched in shock as his best friend since third grade killed the father of bas- ketball star Michael Jordan. Then, he testified yesterday, he helped Daniel Andre Green dump the body in a swamp. Green took the shoes off Jais Jordan's lifeless feet, saying "he liked them and this man wasn't going to need them any more," before they pushed the body off a bridge, Demery said. Jordan was killed July 23;,1993, as he napped in his red Lexus coupe along a highway near Lumberton. Green and Demery were arrested a few weeks later by police who traced calls made fron Jordan's cellular telephone. Case ends; paper's photos not needed By Jennifer Harvey Daily Staff Reporter The Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota's student newspaper, was freed yesterday from a two-year legal ordeal when a Hennepin County Dis- trict Court jury found Kieran Frazier Knutson not guilty of assault. Michele Ames, the newspaper's edi- tor in chief, said she felt relieved to have a verdict in and the legal battle over. "I'd like to get back to doing myjob," she said. An undisclosed number of unpub- lished photos were sought from the newspaper for use in the case. The pho- tos were taken at a 1993 campus rally by a member of the paper's staff. Ames refused to surrender the photos to law enforcement officials even after the Minnesota Court of Appeals or- dered her to do so on Jan. 2. She cited press freedom laws as one reason for her refusal. Ames also said surrender- ing the photos would deter sources from sharing information with the media. Communications Studies lecturer Joan Lowenstein said the requisition of unpublished material from the media by law enforcement agencies warps the public's image of the media. "It definitely has an impact on the credibility ofthemedia," Lowenstein said. "It gives an image of the media as another arm of the government, an evidence gathering service, and not the image of a watch dog," she said. "It diminishes the autonomy of the media if reporters are used as detectives." The newspaper submitted the case to the Minnesota Supreme Court but was denied the request one week ago. The newspaper was considering submitting the case to the U.S. Supreme Court until the jury in the Knutson case began to deliberate last week. Hennepin County District Court Judge John Stanoch found Ames in contempt of court last week and was fining her $250 per day until jury delib- erations began. Prosecutors in the Knutson case said they were seeking the photos to see if they could clear up discrepancies in eye-witness testimony. Ames said she does not believe this case will be the end of press freedom issues. "This is not really a victory and won't inspire key changes that need to be made," she said. Lowenstein agreed that this case is not the end of the issue. She said the case is one of many happening all over the country, adding that the growing trend in U.S. courts is against protect- ing newspapers. Ames said Minnesota journalists banded together in a show of support, for the newspaper and collected the $500 necessary to pay her fines. Hussein denies WORLD 1. I AIDS Continued from Page 1 Fauci said that the "unprecedented" success of the new treatment constitutes good news about protease inhibitors in general. "As a group, they clearly are more potent than anything we've had so far," Fauci said. "We don't have the an- swernow. ... We can only look at the data we have, and the data looks impressive." The first protease inhibitor, saquinavir, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration late last year and is pro- duced by F. Hoffmann La Roche & Co. But the current formula is not absorbed well by the body, and many in the AIDS community have been waiting for po- tentially more potent drugs such as indinavir and another protease inhibitor called ritonavir, which is being tested by Abbott Laboratories. Emini said that Merck would apply this week to the FDA for accelerated approval of its new drug, which will be marketed under the name Crixivan. The FDA has been approving AIDS therapies within months ofpositive recommendations from scientific advisory panels. Of the 26 A IDS patients in the trial who received all three drugs, 24 of them -- some 85 percent - had fewer than 500 virus particles per milliliter of blood after four months, down from a median of 40,000 particles per millili- ter before treatment. The researchers, Roy Gulick and colleagues from New York University, are continuing to study those patients. At the conference yesterday, Emini also discussed another study involving AZT and ddl, a nucleoside analog made by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Of 22 patients taking all three of those drugs, 13, or 59 percent, saw the amount of HIV in their blood drop below detect- able levels after five months. That study will be presented in greater detail at the conference today. Emini said the results of these and previous studies showed that Crixivan is most effective taken in rather large doses of 800 milligrams every eight hours. The drug's side effects include pain in the side, blood in the urine and kidney stones. Although A IDS researchers have his- torically measured progress against the disease by counting the numbers of a key immune cell known as CD4, scien- tists now are paying more attention to the anount of virus detected in theblood- su cam, called viral "load." reports of cancer NICOSIA,Cyprus-Saddam Hussein has denied reports that he has cancer, and said if it wasn't winter he would swim across the Tigris River to prove it, the official Iraqi News Agency reported last night. Some British newspapers reported Sunday that Saddam, who will be 59 on April 28, is suffering from cancer. The Iraqi news agency, monitored in Nicosia, said the Iraq president spoke on the issue at a Cabinet meeting in Baghdad yesterday. "Although it's not our custom to reply to such fabricated news, moral responsi- bility toward our people compels us to reply," it quoted Saddam as saying. "Be- cause of the grace of Almighty God, Saddam Hussein enjoys very good health and is not suffering any sickness." The report said Saddam had not been sick in the past, either, except for a slipped disc in 1977. "As you see, I've been performing my duties ever since with the efficiency you know I have during times of war Ontario govemer receives new powers TORONTO - When Mike Harris was elected last June as premier of Ontario, Canada's most populous prov- ince, he immediately began applying his conservative agenda. The Ontario legislature, which is con- trolled by Harris's Progressive Conser- vative Party, yesterday approved a giving the provincial government new powers, from health care and child care to taxes and affirmative action. The measure, approved by a 77-47 vote, concentrates power in the hands of one government in ways unprec- edented even in Canada. "This bill allows (Harris) to grab power, to break rules ... and to railroad over people's rights," charged opposi- tion leader Lyn McLeod of the Lib-l Party during debate yesterday. -From Daily wire services - I and peace," Saddam said. 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