NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 20. 1998 - 7 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 * whether her sexual harassment law - i ( 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. 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