6The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, April 24, 1991
egal teams in ICeimedy case
incliide 6 colorful characters
uu
H
f n
in
, Another Reason To Switch To
More Than 80 Lean
GrctmdBeef
Split
Perdue Grade "A"
BsBSSSfi Lb. cJ
.v'sCSiofce
s&sd Fla&es
20 Oz. L
Prnrpa Tn This AH Fffprfivp
y t I V Wrapped in
f I Tissue Paper
I fr Offer Good In Our 1200 Raleigh Rd. And
r University Mall Chapel Hill Stores Only.
15 r-
I 6Pack-160z.N.R.
I Sprite
f
l ' - ,lr nwi.iil.ii..l...lr,,, ,.,-1111-111,1 nW, mn ,. " ' "'
I Prices Good Through Tuesday, April 30, 1991
We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities. None Sold To Dealers. We Gladly
Fresh
BS1
(C
2.5 Oz.
TTirniiorVi Tiiooow QA 1001 T r
Harris Teeter!
Dry Id
loH-0
LzO
r 4-,. ri
Accept Federal Food Stamps.
5) (Si
The Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. It's Goliath
vs. Goliath as two teams of high-powered
lawyers face off over the alleged
rape at the Kennedy mansion. The vet
erans of cases involving such people as
Richard Nixon, Manuel Noriega, David
Crosby and Judd Nelson are now adver
saries in a case involving a Kennedy.
"It all hinges on what happened that
night," said Susan Estrich, a law profes
sor at the University of Southern Cali
fornia who wrote a book stemming from
her own 1974 rape. "It comes down to
whether he used force, whether there
was intercourse and whether there was
consent."
The men who will dissect the legal
and emotional issues surrounding rape
are a cast of colorful characters who
could have been drawn from a low
budget spy movie.
William Kennedy Smith, 30, ac
cused by a woman who accompanied
him to his family's estate for drinks
has hired a legal team from Washing
ton, D.C., and Miami.
Heading Smith's legal team is Herbert
J. Miller, who was chief of Robert
Kennedy's criminal division in the Jus
tice Department and was once Nixon's
personal lawyer, advising him during
Calvin and Hobbes
XOM GET 1X0
EEMWJTS FOR.
mi Yw GET
FIYE DEMERITS
WRWTTMaUG
OFF NOUR UM
HM10WH) KFRMli
00 CMT
GWE ME
t OAJTRMW.
SKSMG THE.
CLUB WTUB4
BEFORE. T
WK5 OK THE.
Doonesbury
TH5 UNIT PIP 600P, RAY. V0WP
HAV5 B65N PRDUP. U1&K1U5P
TANKS OVER A MIL3ANPA
HALFAUJAY, AT NIGHT TANKS
THATN5VER. SAW US! AFTER.
mmsuiio-up, it
A MAJOR HIGH!
Shoe
3L75V8 ISAST
- J
m-wt&'t 1 " r ( flew mzza V ivmTMEwef&saB&rtPBA
fTI
1 1
mm
Watergate. Miller also was a key figure
in the defense of Sen. Edward Kennedy,
Smith's uncle, after the Chappaquiddick
accident.
Attorney Mark Schnapp, a former
Wall Street lawyer and federal prosecu
tor in Miami, helped indict Noriega. He
is directing Smith's defense from Mi
ami. After Noriega's capture, Schnapp's
name was found on a piece of paper the
Panamanian leader had kept at a voo
doo shrine.
Many of the lawyers in the case are
loquacious off the record, dropping tan
talizing tidbits of information. But they
closely guard statements for
attribution."We are in the process of
gathering evidence to supply to the au
thorities," Miller said this week. Miller
said simply he had "no idea" how long
the process would take.
The 29-year-old woman's stepfather,
a multimillionaire industrialist, has hired
two attorneys to represent her. Attor
neys say it's not unusual for victims in
high-profile cases to hire their own law
yers to protect their interests.
David Roth and his partner, David
Duncan, have handled legal problems
for musician Crosby and actor Nelson
and have long represented local politi
cians for offenses ranging from drunken
HN.' YOOTt JUST
k ROJREPEN)
'(OUR. OWES AKE
CEREMQWMJ
MMfe mm REAL
BE5foNSBUTES.'
UPL! I Wm TtH TIMES
TWF. IMPORTANCE CF A UMtS
FIRST TGK.' K HMDklO
TMC K MlUIQH TIMES '
FOR A 6UHIL3, ANYWAYS. THEN THE
EN6INEER5 5TARJEP COMING BACK
ANP TELLING US ABOUT THE 7HOU
5ANP5 OFBOPIES THEYKJEREBUR1N6
UinHBUUWZERS. THOUSANPS!
I PUN NO, IT JUST MADE MB
n77X FEEL
KINPA
SICK...
1
75$ D)omeskscs
wl i
uffrt rf a.
IKRAMISILM c
driving to extortion.
Roth indicated this week that he arid
his client are undaunted by the Kennedy
team. If anything, he said, the events of
the past three weeks have "strength
ened her resolve."
Schnapp and three investigators have
been prowling the chic bars and restau
rants of Palm Beach, interviewing po
tential witness and collecting back
ground information about the woman.
The Kennedy investigators include
West Palm Beach private eye Tom
Myers, a former FBI agent nicknamed
Dr. Dirt.
Even the lawyers on the periphery
have a colorful history. Joe Mincberg
represents Anne Mercer, who was called
to pick up the woman after she said she
was raped at the Kennedy estate March
30.
Mincberg represented Jose Cabrera
Sarmiento, the first Colombian extra
dited to the United States as an alleged
drug kingpin. ;
Mincberg also represented Mercer's
father, Leonard, who has been linked to
organized crime. Mincberg also was the
only nonprofessional baseball player tb
make a Senior League team, where he
played alongside Graig Nettles and
Rollie Fingers. ;
F WRE SO Y -TUtfC
IMPOKVANT. HOW VPN
w
COKE NOV) SING
TH SOPRMO
PART OF OUR
Jusr till
YEAH. ONE OF !
HEY. HEAR , THEREfWB&S
ABOUT NANCY TOU
REAGAN ANP ME.
SINATRA
r i
1m
toil