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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. They said steps were "The buck
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mayor's desk," Dinkins said at a August 1991 in Crown Heights wUl
news conference, "With that buck never happen again.
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