National * i Health Chief Resigns, Meets with Clinton LITTLE ROCK. ARK. (A P) ? Dr. Joyce lyn Elders quit her job as Arkansas' top health official shortly before (lying to Washington with President Clinton, who has nominated her to become the nation's surgeon general. Elders submitted her resignation to Gov. Jim Guy Tucker on Sunday, then joined Clinton at the Hot Springs airport for the flight to Wash ington. j ? ? _ A hearing on her nomination as surgeon general was to have begun Friday at Washington. But the hearing was delayed a week after revela tions that she was still on the state payroll though she was being paid as a full-time consultant to federal Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. Questions were also raised last week about the non-payment of Social Security taxes for a woman who took care of Elders' mother-in-law, and about her role as a director for an Arkansas bank. Elders' husband, Oliver, took responsibility for not paying the Social Security taxes on money paid to a woman who took care of his 97 year-old mother. Elders and other former mem bers of the bank board had been sued by the bank, but the suit was settled recently, though ? terms of the settlement weren't disclosed. ? Tucker spokeswoman Max Parker said Elders submitted her resignation during a 40 minute meeting Sunday morning* with Tucker at the Governor's Mansion. 'The governor was surprised by the resig nation," Parker said. Named as acting director of the state agency, Parker said, was Dr. Tom But ler, who had been second-in-command to Elders. The meeting with Tucker was arranged by Elders on Saturday, Tucker's spokeswoman said. Elders said in her letter of resignation that she had been dividing her time between the state agency and DHS since April. "I have taken annual leave from Arkansas for the days I had to be Washington and I have always been able to give the (Arkansas Health Department) my fullest attention when required. As a consultant, I have had no direct line author ity over any issues or programs that would impact the state of Arkansas,'* she said. "Aswork towards my confirmation process intensifies, I must now devote all my efforts and energy to my new federal role," she said. Her job at the state agency was "the most exciting and fulfilling job I have ever ted," she said. getic champion for the children of our stale. We will miss her but will be very proud to have her as our surgeon general," he said in a new^ release. "As surgeon general, she will have the opportunity to confront at the national level the many challenges to public health that she had battled here in Arkansas, such as AIDS, low birth-weight babies, teen pregnancies, clean _? (kinking water, and our national failure to assure that all our children are immunized,' ' he said. On Wednesday, Tucker had expressed dis may upon learning that Elders was drawing fed eral pay. "I didn't know about this, didn't approve of this and wouldn't have approved of this," he said. On Friday, he blamed the contro versy on White House staff members who should have realized it wouldn't be appropriate for her to accept a federal consulting fee. "I think Dr. Elders shoufil be confirmed, I think she will be an excellent surgeon general, and I hope the handling by the White House staff does jot screw up her nomination," Tucker said ? Friday. ' Clinton was driven from Little Rock to Hot Springs on Saturday to visit his mother and stepfather, Virginia and Richard Kelley. Clinton arrived in Arkansas on Saturday after a third visit - to^lood-ravaged-area^of the Midwest. President Clinton and Dr. Joycelyn Elders walk across the tarmac Sun day afternoon^ landing at Andrews AirForce Base, Md. Mayor Dinkins Cleared in '9 1 Crown Heights Disturbance NEW YORK (AP) ? A City Hall staffer fleeing a rock-throwing mob in Crown Heights saw some thing equally disturbing: The police were running, too. "All hell is breaking loose," Robert Brennan recalled urgently telling his boss, Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, on the second night of the disturbances in the Brooklyn neigh borhood nearly two years ago. Brennan* s warning and others like it were cited in a state report that blamed the city for its slow response to the unrest. The report released Tuesday tells how the death of a black child in a traffic subsequent killing of a Jew ish man erupted into racial vio lence lasting nearly four days. Lee Brown For Mayor David Dinkins, who is making his re-election bid, the report was mixed. It cleared him of an oft Mayor David Dink ins was cleared in investigation. repeated accusation that he held police back during the first days of the disturbances ? some Jews have accused Dinkins, the city's first black mayor, of favoring the needs of blacks over those of their com munity. But the report also showed Dinkins was quick to accept his top aides' assurances that Crown Heights was under control, even as television reports flashed images of street violence. The report portrayed then Police Commissioner Lee Brown, now federal drug czar, as a leader somehow unwilling or unable to lead. The report also criticized Brown's successor, Commissioner Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Horse SPARTA, Wise. (AP) ? For the second lime in five years, Ster ling Rachwal has pleaded innocent by reason of mental disease or defect to charges of sexually assaulting horses. Rachwal was on parole when Monroe County sheriff's deputies arrested him in May and accused him of assaulting a horse grazing in a Leon area pasture. He was previ ously accused of assaulting two horses near Tom ah in April. was charged as a habitual criminal with felony cruel mistreatment of ani mals and four misdemeanor counts of using horses for sexual gratifica tion. Rachwal's attorney, Margarita Van Nuland, said during Friday's hearing she would arrange for an examination by a La Crosse psychi atrist. Assistant District Attorney Denise McGrath said her office also would request a psychiatric evalua tion. Rachwal entered the so-called insanity plea to similar charges in 1988 in Outagamie County. He served four years in prison for those offenses. DmC^n"^ ^ T.UOn' With Under wa* 10 responses to ^ rePOrt'S 8ny future Civil di*"rt>ances. nndings. 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