Clinton's Mom Dies of Cancer Rice Diet Founder Rebuffs Suit New Pipes
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Student spotlight a&ngela Earhart is the University's first deaf student requiring an interpreter in THE CHRONICLE the classroom. See page 3. FRIDAY. JANUARY 7,1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 Clinton's Reno intends to seek mom dies independent counsel WASHINGTON (AP) — At cials expired a year ago. Con of cancer torney General Janet Reno de gress is expected to renew it cided to seek a court-appointed early this year. By TODD PURDUM independent counsel to inves A court-appointed counsel N.Y. Times News Service tigate President Clinton's role would mean removing from the - Virginia Clinton Kelley, .an in in an Arkansas real estate ven Justice Department the inves domitable nurse and sometimes ture as soon as Congress passes tigation of a failed .Arkansas single mother who endured the a new ethics law, The New York savings and loan and of deaths of three husbands, sur Times reported today. Whitewater Development Co. vived f.amily drug and alcohol The Times quoted unidenti Whitewater was owned bythe abuse and raised her firstborn fied senior Justice Department Clintons and the operator of son to be president ofthe United officials as saying Reno and her the collapsed S&L, James States, diedof complications from top aides had concluded that McDougal, and McDougals' breast cancer early Thursday at seeking an independent pros wife, Susan McDougal. her home in Hot Springs, Ark. ecutor would be unavoidable if Republicans on Capitol Hill She was 70. Congress acts. are demanding that Reno ap Kelley, who underwent a Reno didn't go that far in a point a special prosecutor, ar mastectomy in 1990 and had suf public statement Thursday, guing that the current probe is fered a recurrence of cancer last telling a news conference that subject to political interference year, died in her sleep after "depending on the language" of from the Clinton administra watching the University of Ar a new ethics law "and the evi tion. kansas-University ofMississippi dence at the time, there might Reno has said she doesn't basketball game on television, be the possibility for me to pe want to appoint a special pros Clay Farrar, her husband's son- tition" a federal appeals court ecutor herself — arguing that in-law, told The Associated Press. "for the appointment of an in such an investigator still would The Garland County coroner's dependent counsel." be answerable to the attorney office said the cause was compli The old law providing for in general, who is a presidential cations from cancer. dependent counsels to investi- appointee. See KELLEY on page 17 • Clinton leaves Washington for Arkansas following mom's death. gat<;e high administration offi See RENO on page 17 • Rice Diet founder rebuffs suit By ALISON STUEBE In the case against Kempner, guise of treatment" and then A retired University doctor Durham resident Sharon Ryan whipped her with a riding crop. " accused of whipping and sexu alleges that Kempner made her Ryan alleges that Kempner ally enslaving a patient for more a "virtual sex slave/servant" be then embraced her. Several than 15 years has admitted that ginning when she was his pa weeks later, Kempner allegedly he did use a riding crop to moti tient at the Kempner Clinic in invited Ryan to his home for a vate her—but says it was her 1970. "social visit" and seduced her. idea. The clinic uses a low-fat diet Kempner's statement says In a 12-page response filed in and strict discipline to help pa that he whipped her only after Durham County Superior Court tients lose large amounts of she requested him to use physi last month, Dr. Walter Kempner, weight. cal punishment as a psychologi professor emeritus of medicine According to the suit, cal aid in breaking her addic and creator ofthe Rice Diet, de Kempner, then 68 years old, first tions to food and drugs. nies allegations of sexual mis whipped Ryan when she broke However, Ryan's suit states conduct. Kempner's response the strict rules he prescribed to that Kempner enslaved her for also argues that the plaintiffs her. The suit alleges that the next 18 years, encouraging consent to be whipped protects Kempner ordered Ryan to ex her to work at the clinic and him from responsibility. pose her bare buttocks "in the See LAWSUIT on page 20 • New pipes cause mess on West By GEOFFREY GREEN cent wet weather has turned mid-February, and It may be two months before the middle of the quad into a grass should begin sprouting in the main residential quad on muddy mess. mid-March, Burrell said. The West Campus is again covered "What we now have is a good grass will grow faster if people with grass. place for mud wrestling," said stay off the seeded area, he said. During winter break, a con Steve Burrell, interim director The work, performed by John tractor hired by the University of Facilities, Planning andMan- Kirlin, mechanical contractor, removed and replaced an aban agement. cost the University about doned steam pipe and hot wa It will take at least two $112,000,saidGaryTeater,utili- ter pipe that ran underneath months before the quad will be ties and machine shop supervi the main residential quad from covered with grass, Burrell sor. the Union building to House C. said. The work was done to replace In order to replace the pipes, Once the mud dries, workers an abandoned steam line with a DAVID PINCUS/THE CHRONICLE workers cut up parts ofthe side will regrade the land and spend functional pipe. The new pipe walks and dug a trench that two to three weeks putting in will give the buildings from Ouch! was five feet wide in some an irrigation system. Ciocktower Quad to Cameron Trinity senior Albert Lee flashes a smile just before he gets places. Although the construc If the weather remains rela Indoor Stadium a backup source his weekly allergy shot. tion is now complete, the re tively dry, the land will be re- See QUAD on page 20 • THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 1994 World and National Newsfile Government role in aviation to be altered Associated Press Artists nominated: Ten-time By MARIA RECIO "Overall, it's a good document," said the overall economy. Grammy Award-winner Stingledthis N.Y. Times News Service Ed Faberman, vice president for gov "We believe the economy has moved year's Grammy nominations with six, WASHINGTON—Transportation ernment affairs at Fort Worth-based into a sustained period of economic including best record, song and al Secretary Federico Pena on Thursday ..American Airlines. "We would have growth," she said. bum. Whitney Houston, R.E.M. and unveiled a plan for the struggling avia liked more discussion ofthe tax issues." The FAA restructuring provision Billy Joe! each got four. tion industry that would overhaul gov Atanews conference withPena, Coun promises to be the most controversial ernment regulation in new ways, from cil of Economic Advisers chairman with Congress, which must approve Gun sales restricted: The u.s. spinning off the Federal Aviation Ad Laura Tyson explained, "We did not most ofthe initiatives in the Pena plan. government said this week it would ministration to allowing increased for think the problems in this industry were The new philosophy was summed up prohibititslawenforcementagencies eign investment in U.S. carriers. problems of taxation." She singled out by FAA administrator David Hinson, from selling surplus firearms to deal the airlines' boom-bust cycle, excessive ers, a practice that has put 61,900 "We have defined a role for govern who said, "We view ourselves not just as guns on the street since 1982. ment as an active 'player* in aviation, debt and excess capacity. regulators, but as partners." using the power of government to pro Tyson and Pena stressed that the Lawmakers are concerned that the Stolen cars ranked: The most mote competition at home, and abroad most important action the Clinton ad corporate entity approach — which has stolen car of 1993 was the Cutlass in ways consistent with the public in ministration can take is to revitalize See AVIATION on page 8 • Supreme. General Motors products terest in safe, affordable, accessible air filled every Top 10 slot in a list of travel," Pena said. most-often stolen cars. Among the plan's key proposals: Government, leftist rebels •Make the FAA a quasi-governmen Aspirin recommended: An in ternational study shows that women, tal corporation like Amtrak so that it the elderly, diabetics and those with would be more flexible and responsive begin talks in Guatemala high blood pressure should be added to the industry. to the groups of patients who should •Allow foreign control of voting stock By The Now York Times Elias. be given aspirin after they have sur to increase to 49 percent, from the cur MEXICO CITY—After months of de The two sides were starting from vived heart attacks or strokes to pre rent 25 percent limit, as a means of lays and mutual recriminations, the scratch, having virtually abandoned the vent the risk of recurrence. attracting investment. Guatemalan government and leftist 11-point agenda that guided two years •Change bankruptcy laws so that rebels who have been fightingit for more of negotiations between Serrano's gov carriers in Chapter 11 no longer have than 30 years began new talks here on ernment and an alliance of three rebel open-ended protection as they compete Thursday aimed at ending Central armies, known as the Guatemalan Na Weather with healthy airlines. America's longest and most violent civil tional Revolutionary Union.