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Almanac A2 SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1997 FREMONT TRIBUNE Reports on Huang sent back to CIA Obituaries Hegyi said Dickerson told his CIA superiors what he observed perhaps any comments they may have made in response to his briefings. The FBI and congressional fund-raising probes are investigating foreign contributions to the Democratic Party and whether any of the money was tunneled from the Chinese government or foreign businesses. Huang came to the Commerce Department after having worked for the Indonesian conglomerate, the Lippo Group, whose owners, the Riady family, have long-time close political and personal ties to President Clinton. The Riadyst and their business associates! have contributed heavily to! Clinton and the Democratic1 Party. After Huang left the Commerce Department, he became a top fund-raiser at the Democratic Party, being placed there follow- ing a meeting at the White House with the president and James 1 Riady.

tioned again about the matter later in April, he said that Huang probably had the most interest in Taiwan and China, together. Huangs primary area of responsibility was Taiwan while he was deputy assistant commerce secretary for international trade and economic policy. Dickersons testimony came in a suit filed by a private group, Judicial Watch, which is seeking information from the Commerce Department about whether Democratic donors were rewarded with seats on overseas trade missions. Dickerson said no one at Commerce ever discussed political contributions with him. As well as providing intelligence reports to Huang and other Commerce officials, Dickerson reported back to CIA officials what he observed in the recipients of the report, in this instance Mr.

Huang, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Hegyi told the court. Friday testimony sheds new light on fund-raising probe WASHINGTON (AP) John Huang a central figure in the campaign fund-raising investigation expressed a particular interest in getting secret intelligence about China, according to testimony by the CIA officer who briefed Huang 37 times. In testimony released Friday in a lawsuit, CIA officer John Dickerson said he also sent back to CIA headquarters reports on the reaction of Huang and other Commerce Department officials to his briefings. The Justice Department and congressional investigators are probing whether Huang might have fed secret intelligence information to his Indonesia-based former employer, which has had extensive business dealings with China, including a proposal to build a power plant.

In his very Charles Greene Charles Lee Greene, 97, of Fremont died Thursday, June 26, 1997, at Arbor Manor in Fremont. Greene was bom Jan. 29, 1900. He married Grace Duff. He was a 50-year member of the Plattsmouth Masonic Lodge No.

6 A.F. A.M. Survivors include two sons, C. Gordon Greene of LeM-ars, Iowa, and John Greene of Omaha; two brothers, Kenneth Greene of Albuquerque, N.M. and Del Greene of Austin, Texas; a sister, Bea Wells of Denver; five grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife. There will be a graveside service 2 p.m. today at Glendale Cemetery in Cedar Creek. Crosby Burket Swanson Golden Funeral Chapel in Omaha was in charge of arrangements. Denver Johnson The Masonic memorial service for Denver W.

Johnson, 82, of Fremont will be 11 a.m. today at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater, Okla. He died Tuesday, June 24, 1997, at Valhaven Nursing Center in Valley. Johnson was bom Feb. 2, 1915, in Osgood, Mo.

He grew up at Chillicothe, Mo. and lived at St. Joseph, Mo. before moving to the Arlington and Fremont area in 1954. He married Dorothy Flick June 28, 1942, at Los Angeles.

He was a truck driver and dispatcher for Bell Creek, Inc. at Arlington, and also was a dispatcher for Hunt Transportation at Omaha. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Fremont; Hiram Masonic Lodge 52 A.F. and A.M. of Arlington; the Scottish Rite; and the Tangier Shrine Temple at Omaha.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Darwin Johnson, Dennis Johnson, and Denver Johnson; two daughters, Dawna Imus and Deanna Seals; three brothers, Claude Johnson of Fremont, James Johnson of Chico, and Kenneth Johnson of two sisters, Marjorie Worth of Excelsior Springs, Mo. and Mae Rucker of Kent, 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two infant sons, three brothers, and two sisters. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater, Okla. Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont was in charge of arrangements.

BRADY: Part of law rejected Baltimore inmate changes mind on how he wants to die a rather painful strangulation-type death, said Richard Dieter of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center in Washington. Lethal injection renders the condemned unconscious before it kills. Hunt refused to discuss the reasons for his change of mind during an interview Friday. Doily Million The numbers drawn Friday were: 1ECL WHITE JLU flftl 0(3X10! Nebraska Pick 5 The numbers drawn Friday were: 631 Park pppp 721-3353 BiRihdAy DiiiiER a with This coupoN Dine with party of 4 or more I and get your dinner FREE! I Purchase of equal value required I Must be redeemed on birthday Look for these circulars inside your Fremont Tribune Medicine Chest Payless Cashways Walgreens Call 721-5000 for home delivery Marjorie Midge Mets The funeral for Marjorie E. Midge Mets, 69, of Fremont will be 10:30 a.m.

Monday at First Lutheran Church in Fremont. She died Thursday, June 26, 1997, at Fremont Area Medical Center. Marjorie Nelson was born Aug. 20, 1927, in Fremont. She grew up on a farm north of Fremont.

She attended the Larsen School, District 76, and then Fremont schools after eighth grade. She graduated from Fremont High School in 1944, and attended Dana College. She graduated from Midland Lutheran College in 1951. She taught five years in Cedar Bluffs schools. She married Kenneth Jensen June 6, 1953, in Fremont.

Her husband, Kenneth, died Jan. 18, 1984. She later married Ralph Mets Aug. 23, 1987, in Fremont. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Fremont.

Survivors include her husband, Ralph; a daughter, Julie (Mrs. Mark) Nielsen of North Platte; a brother, Donald Nelson of Las Vegas; and three grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by an infant son, an infant daughter, and a sister. The Rev. David Jensen and Betsy Hansen will officiate Mondays service.

Visitation will be 4-9 p.m. Sunday at Lattin-Dugan-Chambers Funeral Home in Fremont. Memorials have been established to First Lutheran Church and the Fremont Golf Club Junior Golf first intelligence briefing, Huang was very interested in the energy sector, one of the lawyers in the lawsuit said in one of 1,300 pages unsealed in the case. Asked if he knew whether anyone at the CIA suspected Huang or other Commerce officials might be foreign agents, Dickerson said no. In three days of questioning in the lawsuit, Dickerson described his role in providing Huang with raw intelligence reports about Asian countries.

Dickerson said Huangs boss at Commerce, Charles Meissner, suggested Dickerson meet with Huang to supply him with classified data about Asia. I asked him whether or not he would have an interest in a particular country and he said yes he would, said Dickerson. So the particular country was China? Dickerson was asked. Mm-humm, Dickerson replied. When Dickerson was ques- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen G.

Breyer. Stevens took the unusual step of reading for 18 minutes from his strongly worded dissent. He compared the background check requirement to requiring local police officers to report the identity of missing children to the federal government. If Congress believes that such a statute will benefit the people of the nation we should respect both its policy judgment and its appraisal of its constitutional power, Stevens said. In recent years, the court has acted several times to enhance states power, often at the expense of the federal government.

Northwestern University law professor Martin Redish said Fridays ruling was a substantial limit on federal power that may put some other federal programs at risk. The Justice Department estimated in February that police background checks since 1994 have blocked more than 186,000 illegal over-the-counter gun sales. The Brady law required local officials to make a reasonable effort to find out if a prospective gun buyer had a felony record, a history of mental illness or drug use, or some other problem that would make the sale illegal. It was challenged in federal court by county sheriffs from Montana and Arizona who said conducting the background checks would take time away from other law-enforcement duties. The 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the requirement, saying it was only a minor burden. But the Supreme Court said the lower court was wrong. This is a victory for the American people not only firearms owners but persons who dont choose to own firearms, said Sheriff Jay Printz of Ravalli County, one of the sheriffs who challenged the law. However, Michael Chitwood, chief of police for Maine, said, I along with hundreds of other police chiefs across the country will continue to do these background checks. Call Pat Diet Center now offers 4 different programs I PHENtermineiFenfluramine I Exclusively You I Concept 1 000 I Success to Go Pat CrimOwner Call 721-5559 Open M-W-F 7am-1pm 4-6pm Diet, Center Tor A Healthier Lifestyle 1648 N.

Bell Fremont CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to make that clear to state and local police, and to meet with them to consider further options. My goal is clear: no criminal background check, no handgun anywhere in America, said Clinton, who made the law a centerpiece of his tough-on-crime platform last year. Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, which strongly opposed the law, said, We feel vindicated by this decision. The justices ended their 1996-97 term in dramatic fashion, issuing major decisions earlier this week on confinement of sexual predators, doctor-assisted suicide, smut on the Internet and religious freedom. And on Friday they set the stage for a pivotal ruling on affirmative action during the next term, agreeing to decide whether a New Jersey school boards effort to preserve racial diversity among its teachers amounted to discrimination.

The Clinton administration had asked the court to steer clear of the case, in which a white teacher was laid off to protect an equally qualified black teacher. The Brady law is named after former press secretary James Brady, who was seriously wounded in the assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981. It was passed in 1993 after bitter congressional battles. Bradys wife, Sarah, said she was somewhat disappointed the background-check provision was struck down but was very delighted that the rest of the law remains intact. Writing for the court majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said the federal government could not direct states to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program because such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Scalias opinion was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day OConnor, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. Dissenting were Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, BALTIMORE (AP) Given a choice of how to die, convicted killer Flint Gregory Hunt picked the gas chamber over lethal injection to prove his point about the brutality of the death penalty- I want people to have nightmares and dreams, and suffer like I suffer, he said at the time.

As his execution drew near, however, he changed his mind. He was worried about causing pain for his mother, his new wife and his son, his lawyer said. On Friday after both the state and a judge said it was too late to change his mind the states highest court said he can die by injection. Hunt, 38, is scheduled to die sometime between Monday and Friday for the 1985 murder of policeman Vincent Adolfo. Hunt was stopped in a stolen car and shot the officer in a Baltimore alley.

The gas chamber was last used in the United States in 1994, in North Carolina. Maryland last executed someone by gas in 1961, and since then it has put only one other person to death, three years ago, by injection. Since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, only 10 of the 398 executions nationwide have been by gas. Back in 1994, Hunt was given a choice between the gas chamber and injection because Maryland changed its method of execution to injection while he was on death row.

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From information she has received, Ostransky believes smoking starts as young as fifth-and sixth-grade and picks up at the junior high age. It is critical in her mind that people get to the point of never picking up a cigarette in the first place. You cant force them not to do it. They have to choose, she said. Smoking cessation programs in the Fremont area reportedly do not have an overwhelming enrollment.

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