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Jones documents released to public
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -Lawyers for D o
President Clinton and Paula Corbin
Jones return to court today to argue *
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suit should be reinstated, and yester- /IL As
& the federal court in Little Rock,
Ark., began releasing hundreds of The pres
pages of sealed documents that show that episod
both sides attempting to make an it was this
issue of the sexual history of the alleged en
other. that truly l
Originally asked by Jones' attor- matized."
neys if he had ever had sex with a Taken t
woman other than his wife, Clinton released ye
protested that the question was too of the tota
broad. reveal yea
He eventually swore in writing that gling over
' had not had "sexual relations" informatio
with any female employee of the fed- would hav
eral government or the state of of Jones'I
Arkansas since 1986, the time period tionships v
stipulated by the judge. last but no
However, Clinton has since admit- For exa
ted having an "inappropriate rela- spent consi
tionship" with former White House whether Cl
intern Monica Lewinsky. forced tos
Another document details an Jones' law
Sode in which Jones allegedly met cerning an:
an in a bar and gave him oral sex cedure on
just months before her alleged dent.
encounter with Clinton. U.S. Dis
Government
alleges illegal
eampaign by
M 0C qO
MiCroSoft
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government lawyers
opened their landmark antitrust trial against
Midrosoft Corp. yesterday by accusing the soft-
0 titan of a carefully crafted, no-holds barred
campaign to illegally "crush" a rival company.
The hard-core tactics alleged by the government
included Microsoft using its money and influence
as the maker of the hugely popular Windows oper-
ating system to intimidate computer makers and
entice other companies to distribute Microsoft's
own Internet software over that of Netscape
Communications Corp.
The government contended Microsoft launched
its war with Netscape after a controversial June
1 95 meeting at which Microsoft allegedly pro-
ed, unsuccessfully, to divide the market for
Internet software.
Microsoft has denied ever making such an
offer, which would be illegal under antitrust
laws.
"What you see is a consistent pattern of Microsoft
doing this, using its monopoly power, using its lever-
age, using everything it has," Justice lawyer David
Boies told U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson.
icrosoft's lawyers were expected to make their
o fning arguments today.
The outcome of the trial - expected to last six
weeks - could dramatically change the computer
industry as it becomes increasingly important to vir-
tually every facet of modern life.
The contested 1995 meeting is crucial to the
government's effort to show that Microsoft so
feared the potential of Internet software to threaten
its lucrative Windows system that it acted unfairly
to guard it.
The government used videotape excerpts from
trial interviews with Microsoft's billionaire chair-
son, Bill Gates, to try to show him yesterday as
reluctant to discuss the meeting, which he did not
attend.
On the tape, made last August, Gates denied that
he instructed his executives to make an illegal offer
to divide the software market with Netscape.
"I wasn't involved in setting up the meeting... I'm
not aware of such a thing, and it's very much against
the way we operate," Gates said.
cuments dig up dirt
quit against Clinton
ident's lawyers brought up
e in order to suggest that
incident -rather than her
counter with Clinton -
eft her "emotionally trau-
ogether, the documents
esterday - just a fraction
i caseload of material -
rs' worth of legal wran-
r such matters as what
n certain individuals
e to produce, the handling
legal defense fund, rela-
with outside parties and,
t least, sexual matters.
mple, the opposing sides
derable time arguing over
inton's doctors should be
submit to questions from
yers that would be "con-
y surgery or medical pro-
the genitalia" of the presi-
trict Judge Susan Webber
Wright finally ordered that any "dis-
tinguishing characteristic" of the
president's genitalia was not relative
to Jones' lawsuit because she could
have been told about it rather than
actually seeing it.
Yesterday's release on the Internet
of 700 pages of documents in the
Jones case is the first of several
weekly releases ordered by Wright.
Some material from the case was
released previously.
She dismissed the case last April,
saying that Jones had not proven that
Clinton threatened or intimidated her
in her capacity as a state employee
after she allegedly refused his sexual
advances in a Little Rock hotel room
in 1991.
The Jones lawyers appealed the
dismissal, and today the attorneys for
both camps will square off before a
panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in St. Paul, Minn.
Attempts by both sides to reach an
I I th-hour settlement in the case
appeared to have broken down yes-
terday evening.
On Sunday, Clinton's lawyers
rejected a new demand by Jones for a
total of S2 million.
Half of that sum was to come from
the president and the other half was
offered by New York real estate mag-
nate Abe Hirschfeld.
The president's denial that he had
had sexual relations with a woman
employed by the state or federal gov-
ernment came in response to written
questions used to gauge Clinton's
defense.
The Jones lawyers were allowed by
Wright to ask Clinton whether he
had had "sexual relations" with any
employees dating back to 1986, or
five years before the alleged incident
at the Excelsior Hotel.
Clinton, in a response dated last
Dec. 23, said, "None."
The following month, the presi-
dent was deposed by Jones' lawyers
and denied, under oath, having had
sexual relations with Lewinsky.
In August, after testifying before a
federal grand jury, Clinton admitted
he had an "inappropriate relation-
ship" with the intern.
AP PHOTO
Firefghters In Jesse, Nigeria try to control a fire after a leaking gasoline
pipeline exploded. Authorities believe the line was intentionally punctured.
blast kills hundreds
JESSE, Nigeria (AP) - The
charred remains of victims still
clutched the plastic cups, funnels
and cans yesterday they intended to
use to scoop gasoline from a punc-
tured pipeline before it exploded in
this southern Nigerian town.
The bodies were among at least
500 killed when the fuel erupted into
a ball of fire over the weekend, an
inferno so intense that flames -
some shooting 65 feet in the air -
still flared yesterday as firefighters
let the last of the gasoline burn away.
The burned body of one woman
was found with her dead baby still
strapped to her back. Many other
victims were farmers and villagers
sleeping in homes consumed by the
blaze that also spread to nearby
towns.
Grieving relatives came yesterday
to Jesse, about 180 miles southeast
of Lagos, searching for relatives who
ventured to the town drawn by
rumors that a huge pool of spilled
gasoline was free for the taking.
"It is finished," cried Charity
Unurhoro, after finding the horribly
burned bodies of her mother and
brother. "Now everything is over for
me."
Authorities believe the pipeline
was punctured intentionally, and that
scavengers' tools sparked the explo-
sion Saturday, said an officer for
Nigeria's state petroleum corpora-
tion, speaking on condition of
anonymity. Some newspaper reports,
however, said it may have been a
lighted cigarette that started the
blaze.
A mass grave was being dug at the
edge of Jesse to bury hundreds of
unidentified corpses, many burned
beyond recognition. Some bodies
remained scattered about town yes-
terday afternoon, but most were
piled together. About 100 people
were hospitalized.
Military ruler Gen. Abdulsalami
Abubakar flew in by helicopter for a
15-minute visit. He said the govern-
ment would pay for medical treat-
ment, but that there would be no
compensation to survivors, apparent-
ly because many of those killed were
believed to be stealing fuel.
But area residents were furious
over the deaths.
AP PHOTO
Microsoft Chair Bill Gates answers a question posed at the Masterminds Panel discussion last Wednesday.
Although Microsoft was accused of an illegal campaign, Gates defended his firm's practices.
In another video clip, Gates said he barely
remembered one of his workers talking with him
about the possibility of investing in Netscape.
"Somebody asked if it made sense investing in
Netscape," Gates said, adding that he had dis-
agreed.
But Boies then produced internal Microsoft docu-
ments written days before the 1995 meeting in which
Gates urged his executives to make a deal with
Netscape.
"I think there is a very powerful deal of some kind
we can do with Netscape," Gates wrote, suggesting
that Netscape executives "agree to do certain things
in the (browser market)... I would really like to see
something like that happen."
Boies also showed a Gates message, written
before the Netscape meeting, in which Gates said:
"We could even give them money as part of the
deal, buy a piece of them or something."
Microsoft said the government took Gates' words
out of context.
"The government once again has based its entire
case on tiny excerpts," spokesperson Mark Murray
said in an interview.
"The facts will show that Microsoft did not in any
way try to divide the market with Netscape," Murray
said.
In written testimony unsealed yesterday,
Netscape's chief executive officer, James Barksdale.
said Microsoft's executives promised during the June
1995 meeting that "we can have our special relation-
ship" if Netscape agreed not to compete in the
unfolding market for Microsoft's Windows 95 soft-
ware.
Microsoft made clear that if Netscape didn't agree,
"Microsoft would crush Netscape, using its operat-
ing system monopoly," Barksdale wrote.
Barksdale described the offer as "something I
had not ever seen happen in my more than 30
years of experience... I left the meeting stunned
that Microsoft had made such an explicit propos-
al ."
The government contends that after Netscape
rejected the offer, Microsoft sought to limit the main
ways that Netscape distributed its software, through
computer makers and Internet providers including
America Online, the nation's largest Internet
provider.
Six months later, in early 1996, when Microsoft
sought to convince AOL to distribute its browser
software rather than Netscape's, Gates asked: "How
much do we need to.pay you to screw Netscape? This
is your lucky day," according to an AOL official's
notes from that meeting.
AOL announced a deal with Microsoft three
months later.
A browser is software that allows computer users
to view information on the Internet.
The John D. Evans Distinguished Lecture Series on the
Social Consequences of New Media Technology
presents a public lecture by Jorge Schement, Professor of
Telecommunications and Co-Director of the Institute for
Information Policy, Pennsylvania State University
The Persistent Visitor:
Information Technology in the Home
Thursday, October 22, 1998 at 4:00 P.M.
Kuenzel Room-Michigan Union
Please contact the Department of Communication Studies (764-0420)
for more information.
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