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SPORTS TBCAS 1IEA1 On-the-job training 'Mothers Matter' helps women with their 'most important' work. IB O.J.'s daughter says her dad was distraught when he learned of his ex-wife's brutal murder. Story, 2A All-Star starters Nomo, Johnson bring excitement to Tuesday's game. Page 1C Weather Partly sunny, low near 68. High 94 Details, 12A Hte Greenville, South Carolina Tuesday, July 1 1, 1995 Final Edition Ms weighs whe tlhw Bombing in Raleigh injures 2 Package exploded when it was opened ntth troal cam mm State psychiatrist says Susan Smith should not testify By William Fox Capital Bureau UNION In a surprise turn that threatens to end the Susan Smith trial before it begins, a state psychiatrist testified Monday that Smith is competent to stand trial only if she doesn't testify in her own defense.

,1 Dr. Donald W. Morgan, who performed the court-ordered evaluation of Smith in April, said the 23-year-old woman on trial for the deaths of her two sons is so suicidal that she might want the death penalty. Defense attorney David Bruck argued the trial can't go forward if Smith can't address the jury. SUSAN SMITH TUESDAY If Smith is found incompetent, her trial could be postponed indefinitely while she undergoes treatment.

If she is found competent, questioning of up to 30 possible jurors continues. U.S. set to establish ties with Vietnam Clinton ready to restore full diplomatic relations By Terence Hunt AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON The path toward normalizing relations with Vietnam began four years ago when the United States offered a road map toward diplomatic ties. Desperate to heal its sick economy, Hanoi responded by intensifying efforts to locate the remains of missing U.S. servicemen.

The reward comes Tuesday when President Clinton announces the United States will establish full relations with a nation where 58,000 Americans lost their lives in a failed effort to defeat a communist regime. "I think it's been our judgment that there's been considerable progress in achieving the fullest possible accounting for POWs and MIAs," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said. "One argument in favor of closer relations with Vietnam is to continue that progress." Twenty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam remains a painful subject that sharply divides Americans. Trying to soften the blow, the administration invited POW and MIA families to a White House briefing a few hours before Clinton's announcement. On Capitol Hill, Rep.

Ben Gilman, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said he would seek legislation barring the use of any federal funds to advance diplomatic or economic relations with Vietnam. "It is painfully obvious that the administration's large-carrot-no-stick policy has not worked so far," said Gilman, who has scheduled hearings on the POW-MIA issue Wednesday. See VIETNAM on page 9A Faulkner's lawyers object to college plan By James T. Hammond Capital Bureau COLUMBIA Shannon Faulkner's attorneys filed a barrage of objections Monday to the state's proposed alternative to The Citadel at Converse College, citing the lack of a director and a lack of applicants to the program. By Emery Dalesio Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C.

Postal inspectors took charge of the investigation Monday after a package bomb exploded, injuring two women at a long-distance telephone company office. The brown paper package, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, exploded about 11:45 a.m. as the 35-year-old woman to whom it was addressed was opening it, officials said. Tracy Bullis of Raleigh was taken to Wake Medical Center, where she was listed in serious condition with multiple injuries after undergoing surgery Monday afternoon, police said.

"There was a substantial amount of blood. It was a serious injury," said Tony Copeland, a vice president at BTI, the company where the explosion occurred. Judith Collins Harrison, 38, of Wake Forest, suffered minor injuries. She drove herself to the hospital, said Earl Fowler, a spokesman for the Raleigh Fire Department. The blast shook the fifth floor of the nine-story office building that serves as headquarters for BTI, a long-distance telephone company with 30 offices across the Southeast.

Most BTI customers are businesses. The blast damaged Bullis' office and tore a hole in the wall to an adjoining office, Copeland said. The building was quickly evacuated. "We didn't hear anything of it at first, then we heard the running" of people down the stairs, said Craig Dance of Greenville, S.C., who was attending a sales training class on the fifth floor. "I don't live in fear.

I might now," he said. Bullis was manager of a department that coordinated the lease or purchase of telephone lines from local or other long-distance telephone companies. Company officials said she is married and has children. Employees gathered around pay telephones at a shopping mall across the street from the building after the blast. Many wondered whether the mail bomb was the work of the Un-abomber, an elusive serial bomber.

But authorities said the package did not appear to be from the Un-abomber, whose targets have included high-tech companies and universities. "She has a statutory right to make jury argument that can only be waived personally by her," he said. Morgan testified that Smith feels her life is over. "She feels that she doesn't care, and she would like to die; and if she could figure out a way to die, she would do that. I believe that," he said.

"She feels like she has caused her family a great deal of pain, and her life is essentially over," he said. "She has a fantasy of reuniting with her children." Morgan's testimony appeared to surprise Bruck, who had said in court last week that the defense did not intend to contest her competency. Circuit Judge William Howard expressed concern at Morgan's testimony. "I'm not trying to play word games," he said. "Is she competent to stand trial?" "Absent her testimony, she is," Morgan responded.

Howard said he would decide whether the trial will go forward following a 10-minute break, but returned only to ad-See JUDGE on page 7 A z'' 7 1 hi h. I i BILL KALIS Staff Entering court: Susan Smith walks into court Monday. A doctor testified she might not have killed if she had gotten help after suicide attempts. Story, 8A Jurors will face a summer ordeal mm my i i Li htnm Mm With just five weeks until Citadel cadets report for classes, Faulkner's attorneys want a federal judge Tuesday to declare South Carolina unprepared to start a women's leadership program this year and admit the Powdersville woman into the corps of cadets. IIS Dktrlrt IhHop C.

the window," said former prosecutor and Columbia defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. "It's an ordeal." Even the selection of a jury can be agonizingly slow, as the process was halted Monday while Circuit Judge William Howard considers whether Smith is competent to stand trial. One Union County employer said he would be forced to fill jobs vacated by potential jurors called at the beginning of the selection process. Others said they would pay employees who are chosen as jurors the difference between their jury pay and normal daily wage. See JURORS on page 6A Separated from family, earning $20 a day By April E.

Moorefield And William Fox Staff Writers UNION Jurors chosen to decide the fate of Susan Smith can look forward to a summer of having family conversations monitored, being cut off from friends and living with strangers in what could be the longest murder trial in state history. It could mean long hours, sometimes six days a week, at $20 a day. "Whatever they had planned for their summer vacation is out INSIDE Abby 2B Bigar's stars 5B Bridge 5B Business 6D Classifieds 8C Comics 4B Crossword 5B Cryptoquote 5B Donohue 2B Editorial 10A Health 2A Jumble 5B Lifestyle IB Ed McGranahan 1C Metro ID Obituaries 4D Sports 1C Television 3B Theaters 5B Circulation hot tine 298-41 10 Classified Ads 298-4221 THE NEWS IS PRINTED USING 4 RECYCLED PAPER t' 7 Copyright 1995 Greenville News-Piedmont Company A Multimedia Newspaper 1 20th year Issue No.181 4 sections, 42 pages n. Weston Houck will hold a Shannon hearing Tuesday to review Faulkner the case in which he already has ruled that for the state to provide a taxpayer-supported, single-gender college program for men, but not for women, violates Faulkner's constitutional rights. Val Vojdik, one of Faulkner's attorneys, said Monday that South Carolina is far from ready to implement the women's program that the state has developed as an alternative to The Citadel's corps of cadets.

See COLLEGE on page 9A 1 IS .7 1 BILL KALIS Staff Answering questions: Solicitor Tommy Pope talks to reporters after Monday's proceedings..