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Buchanan's Brother Sought by Police
By JOHN SOLOMON
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A brother of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is
arranging to surrender to police on charges he used a gun to threaten
occupants of a home owned by a relative of a top State Department official,
relatives said Wednesday.
The brother, Hank Buchanan, 61, has a history of mental illness and checked
into a hospital earlier this week for treatment, his family said. ``This is a
terrible setback for Hank and his family,'' said Bay Buchanan, his sister and
a former U.S. treasurer.
The charges stem from an episode last weekend at the home of Cody Shearer,
the brother-in-law of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.
Shearer reported that an intruder broke into his garage Sunday, slashed the
tires of his cars and then brandished a handgun at two guests in the home who
confronted him in the garage.
The intruder then fled the site, but one of the guests obtained the license
plate of the car he fled in, Shearer's lawyers said in a statement.
Shearer also reported he had received death threats from anonymous callers
earlier in the week after a television show aired unsubstantiated allegations
that Shearer may have been involved in threatening presidential accuser
Kathleen Willey in January 1998. Shearer denies the allegations.
``Mr. Shearer is concerned about the breakdown in journalistic standards that
has led to his personal safety being jeopardized,'' his lawyers said in a
statement.
Police traced the car and on Wednesday contacted Hank Buchanan's lawyer to
arrange for a surrender.
``Hank, through me, is fully cooperating with the authorities and hopes to
resolve this to everyone's satisfaction,'' said a brother, Tom Buchanan, who
is the lawyer representing him.
The family said Pat Buchanan, a former Nixon White House aide and television
commentator who is making his third bid for the GOP presidential nomination,
has visited his brother since he checked into the hospital.
Hank Buchanan ran his own accounting firm but has had a history of manic
depression, family members said.
``It has been years. He has had lots of problems. It is a tragic situation,''
Bay Buchanan said in an interview from her brother's campaign headquarters.
``He had been doing very well and this is a terrible setback.''
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