The Greenville News from Greenville, South Carolina • Page 1

0 Fit to be tried SPORTS Pro football hits town FDA, Clinton looking for new, tough controls on teen smoking. Story, 4A Braves bullpen has stabilized over past month. 1C Panthers scheduled to report to training camp Friday. Story, 1C Choosing flattering C) dress styles can create dainty or dynamic looks. Lifestyle, IB Weather Mostly sunny, low near 70.

94 Details, 14A we fir tttwim Greenville, South Carolina Final dition FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1995 ATF responds to racism allegations I JtL racism within the agency. Magaw sought to play down the culpability of the Greenville office, saying it was involved only in putting on one outing, a 1994 event for which "a flier went out" in 1993 that bore the office's mailing address and phone number. He said it was limited to retired Agent Gene Rightmyer and rejected the existence of a culture of racism raging unchecked within ATF. But Inglis, who questions both points, said he obtained Magaw's cooperation in setting up a meeting Friday with agents in the Greenville office. By Dan Hoover Staff Writer WASHINGTON ATF Director John Magaw said Thursday an investigation into allegations agents participated in an annual racist outing organized for one year from its Greenville office will be expanded to include branches of the federal government.

Magaw met with 4th District Congressman Bob Inglis in the Greenville congressman's Longworth Building office and said afterwards he deplores any "The fact that he (Rightmyer) had retired makes it worse," Inglis said. "That tells me that it was not (just) one person. If you retire from an office, that means somebody is complicit in that office who remains there. If you're not there to answer the phone and get responses, somebody else is helping you. "It's more than one person, and that's really bad news," he said.

"We're trying to get to the bottom of why the RSVP's were sent to the Greenville office." See ATF on page 11A I 1mm' itntnill lUIW-irmi Newt Gingrich: 4 may have to go. Soma town ties stow jury selection Sixth juror added to Susan Smith panel By William Fox And April E. Moorefield Staff Writers UNION A local police officer's wife on Thursday became the sixth juror seated in the I rfill tl 111 ifcl I It MSI II 1 tmmm.r- iiiiiu! Yi fct Judge Lance Ito Ito's ruling eliminates 'drug hit' theory Simpson's lawyers say decision is a serious setback By Linda Deutsch AP Special Correspondent ANGELES In a stinging defeat, O.J. Simpson's defense lost its bid Thursday to present a theory that Nicole Brown Simpson was mistakenly murdered by drug hitmen out to kill her cocaine-abusing friend Faye Resnick. i Prosecutors attacked the claim as ridiculous, noting that defense lawyers alleged only that some unidentified Colombian drug dealers were mad at Resnick because she failed to pay her drug bills.

"Who was her dealer? Who did she owe money to? Is this person someone the defense can identify?" prosecutor Cheri Lewis asked. "It's all speculation. All it does is confuse and mislead the jury." Judge Lance Ito agreed the scenario proposed by defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. was too vague to meet legal requirements to bring up accusations of so-called third-party culpability. He refused to allow Resnick's former boyfriend, Christian Reichardt, to testify about her drug addiction, her use of cocaine while rooming with Ms.

Simpson and her admission to a drug rehabilitation program a few days before Ms. Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death. In a book written after the murders, Resnick described her cocaine problem, but she has scoffed at the defense suggestion that she couldn't pay for her drugs, saying she had plenty of money. Cochran said she was being supported by Reichardt, See SIMPSON on page 11A Susan Smith murder trial during a day in which small-town ties knotted efforts to seat a jury. And potential jurors said they worry over what it would be like to live in the close-knit community after rendering a verdict they know will be criticized no matter which way it goes.

"I would imagine that for anyone who serves on the jury it will be a problem to go back into the community after the trial," a potential juror told the court. "I have children, and children do make mistakes," she said as Smith appeared to weep at the defense table. "How you bring a child up is not how they always turn out. There could be underlying SUSAN SMITH Thursday Only one juror was seated despite a parade of candidates. Lawyers for David Smith and his book publisher agreed to provide financial details.

Story, 8A A juror revolt prompts a change of hotels. Story, 8A Judge William Howard says the trial could go six or seven days a week. Friday Efforts to seat six more jurors and six alternates continue; lawyers to look over David Smith's book. ALAN HAWES Staff Passing fateful lake: A SLED car transporting Susan Smith to the York County Detention Center passes John D. Long Lake on S.C.

49 Thursday, the lake where her two children died. weighs against Susan or for the prosecution," her lead lawyer, David Bruck, said after court. The jury now consists of four males and two females. Smith, 23, is on trial in the drowning deaths of her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex; she has confessed that she rolled her car into a Union County lake with the boys strapped in their car seats. Thursday's session erased any doubt that it would be difficult to pull jurors from the community.

Some know a member of Smith's family. Even more know people on the list of more than 120 possible witnesses. One excused jury candidate said he could never vote for the death penalty because he was close friends with a brother of Susan See SMITH on page 8A legally serve because they morally oppose the death penalty. The only juror seated Thursday was a nurse, who said she cared for Smith and her stepsister in day care at least 15 years ago. She knew 22 possible witnesses, many of them through her husband's job as a local police officer.

"In this case, I don't know that being connected to law enforcement is anything that reasonS)" she said. On Thursday, Smith watched a parade of potential jurors get sent home because they said they'd vote to spare her life. Six more jurors were excused because they said they could not sentence Smith nor anyone else to die, bringing to 16 the number who could not Angry Clinton reluctantly OKs base closures Serb troops exile thousands, seize males By Snjezana Vukic Associated Press Writer TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina Forced from their homes by Serb troops, exhausted by deportation aboard laboring, steaming buses, Muslims purged from the onetime "safe area" of Srebrenica faced a new horror Thursday: meager food, little water and no shelter in a jammed refugee camp. While the new Serb masters of Srebrenica rounded up men and boys for interrogation, Muslims, many bearing tales of beatings and forced separations from their fathers and husbands, poured into Tuzla, where relief workers could offer them only 1,000 loaves of bread and 5,000 quarts of water. The human wave is likely to overwhelm U.N.

aid workers for days to come. The Serbs who overran Srebrenica on Tuesday said the area was cleared of its approximately 40,000 Muslim residents by Thursday night. The moves are one of the largest recent INSIDE Abby 2B Bigar's stars 7B Bridge 7B Business 60 Classifieds 8C Comics 6B Crossword 7B Cryptoquote 7B Donohue 8B Editorial 12A Tomiayton 1C Health 2A Jumble 7B Lifestyle IB Metro ID Obituaries 4D Sports 1C Television 4B Theaters Tlm Out Circulation hot line 298-4110 Classified Ads 298-4221 THC NEWS IS PRINTED USING RECYCLED PAPER Copyright 1995 Greenville News-Piedmont Company A Multimedia Newspaper 120th year Issue No. 184 4 sections, 52 pages I President decries loss of bases in California, Texas By John Diamond Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Pounding his lectern, President Clinton denounced a base closing list Thursday for the damage it would do to California and Texas, but then approved the package with a promise to save jobs in those states. He delayed the outright closing of a big base in each state for five years.

With the White House scrambling to control the political fallout in two big electoral states, Clinton approved a list that closes 79 bases and realigns 26 others across the country. Unless Congress rejects the package considered highly unlikely it will become law by the end of summer. See BASES on page to --J JIM BOUNDS The Associated Press Hot and getting hotter Justin Weeks, 11, of Chapel Hill, N.C., gets a break from the hmt that is making the East Coast uncomfortable and doing serious damage in the Midwest. Story on Page 2A See SERBS on page iH.