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The Sheep Look Up
200 Troops Face Dismissal for Refusing Anthrax Shots
Al Gore's Internet is blamed
WASHINGTON (AP) � Roughly 200 U.S. troops face dismissal for refusing
mandatory anthrax vaccinations, including 23 sailors who were preparing
to ship out to the Persian Gulf this month, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Navy Capt. Michael Doubleday, a Defense Department spokesman, blamed the
scattered resistance to the vaccine partly on "misinformation'' about
the anthrax vaccine that has shown up on Internet sites, apparently
causing health concerns.
Defense Secretary William Cohen, who has been inoculated against anthrax
to set an example, launched the militarywide program last year after
being assured it wouldn't harm troops and in fact would protect them
against potential biological warfare, Doubleday said.
"It was only after it had been studied, that the service chiefs had
looked at it very carefully, that we understood the threat and that we
understood the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, that Secretary
Cohen authorized this forcewide vaccine program,'' Doubleday said.
Army special forces units have been receiving vaccinations and annual
booster shots against anthrax since the 1970s with no ill effect,
Doubleday told a regular Pentagon briefing.
Overall, Doubleday said, "less than one-tenth of 1 percent'' of troops
have refused to receive the series of shots. Some 218,000 personnel have
been vaccinated so far against anthrax. That would mean roughly 200 men
and women in the armed forces have balked.
U.S. military personnel who refuse the vaccinations face dismissal,
usually through an administrative process, for refusing to follow an
order, Doubleday said. Their service record will determine whether
they're honorably or dishonorably discharged, he said.
The Defense Department, which began the militarywide anthrax inoculation
program in August, is seeking to vaccinate all 2.4 million active duty
and reserve military members by 2005.
Cohen ordered all troops sent to the Gulf vaccinated more than a year
ago.
Despite a Pentagon anthrax education program and assurances from U.S.
military leaders about the safety of the vaccine, approved by the Food
and Drug Administration, a growing number of troops are refusing shots.
The Marines Corps has been particularly hard-hit, with more than two
dozen Marines in Okinawa refusing the vaccine, The New York Times
reported in Thursday's editions.
In February, 11 California Air Force Reserve pilots quit rather than
take the anthrax vaccine.
In the latest group rebellion, 23 sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt
aircraft carrier were demoted, fined and given extra duty after refusing
anthrax vaccinations, the Navy said. They face possible administrative
discharges once the ship returns, the Navy said.
Initially, 38 Roosevelt sailors balked at the vaccinations, which began
two weeks ago as the Norfolk, Va.-based carrier prepared for a six-month
deployment to the Mediterranean and Gulf starting March 26. Some sailors
later changed their minds, Navy officials said.
The Navy confirmed the Roosevelt refusals Wednesday after an inquiry by
The Virginian-Pilot, which received an anonymous e-mail message from a
sailor concerned about potential side effects.
"I was given nothing to explain what I was taking, so I did my own
research and found disturbing reports,'' the sailor said. "We are
scared.''
Cmdr. Garry Rudolph, a Navy doctor who directs the occupational health
and preventive medicine program at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center
in Virginia, said he told sailors the anthrax vaccine is safe.
Last year, a sailor on the destroyer USS John S. McCain � named for the
Arizona senator's father, an admiral � developed a temporary paralysis
after being vaccinated, although he fully recovered, Navy officials
said.
Refusals to accept inoculation may stem from a reluctance generated by
the use of experimental vaccines during the 1991 Gulf War. Some troops
blamed subsequent illnesses on drugs administered to counter biological
and chemical exposure.
Anthrax, a disease normally associated with animals such as sheep or
goats, can be used as a weapon when spores are released into the air and
people breathe them in.
Associated Press, March 11, 1999
The Rapeman's Mysterious Finances
McDougal Loan Used to Retire Clinton Debt
A check in a car trunk hit by a tornado
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)--Kenneth Starr's investigators on Thursday
alleged for the first time that a fraudulent loan to Susan McDougal in
the 1980s was used to retire a $27,600 debt in President Clinton's name
that was taken out for their Whitewater land venture.
In opening testimony at Mrs. McDougal's obstruction of justice and
contempt trial, FBI agent Mike Patkus told jurors he would have liked to
ask her "whether Bill Clinton had any knowledge" about the link between
the two loans but she refused to answer questions before a grand jury.
Prosecutors have used the early stages of Mrs. McDougal's trial to air
evidence they say calls into question the president's sworn testimony
during a 1996 criminal trial.
Clinton testified then that he never received any loans from the failed
savings and loan owned by James and Susan McDougal and also knew nothing
about the fraudulent $300,000 loan she received in 1996.
Patkus testified that using microfilm records he discovered that the
McDougals' S&L had made out a loan and cashier's check totaling $27,600
to then-Arkansas Gov. Clinton in 1982.
The check - which does not bear Clinton's endorsement _ paid off an
earlier debt in the Whitewater real estate venture started by the
Clintons, Mrs. McDougal and her ex-husband, James, who died last year.
Patkus then traced for the jury a series of complex transactions that he
said showed how the 1982 Clinton loan came to be reimbursed through the
$300,000 loan Mrs. McDougal took out from a Small Business
Administration-backed lender four years later.
The agent said that Mrs. McDougal paid off part of the Clinton loan and
that Whitewater real estate salesman Chris Wade paid off the rest, using
money he borrowed from Madison Guaranty.
The FBI agent testified that the Wade loan was eventually paid off with
a check from Whitewater, which was replenished with money from a bank
loan to the McDougals, who then used money from the $300,000 loan to
Mrs. McDougal to pay off the bank.
Patkus testified that he discovered the microfilmed copy of the Clinton
check in early December 1996 after James McDougal tipped off Starr's
office about it. Starr's office got the original check in 1997 from the
trunk of an abandoned car hit by a tornado south of Little Rock.
Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, has suggested in the past that James
McDougal simply made out the check and that Clinton didn't know about
it.
Outside the courthouse, however, Starr deputy Hickman Ewing said that
"the question remains whether Bill Clinton knew about it or not."
Of Mrs. McDougal, who listened intently to Patkus' testimony, Ewing
said, "She smiled in the courtroom like maybe she knows the answers."
Patkus revealed that he and another FBI agent had discovered a
handwritten document from Madison Guaranty identifying apparent
borrowers. "B Clinton" is among the names on the paper, Patkus said.
Mrs. McDougal has repeatedly refused to testify about the loans, despite
being granted limited immunity from prosecution after being convicted in
May 1996 on four felony counts regarding the $300,000 loan which was
deposited in her and her husband's personal checking account.
She says she knows of no crimes involving the Clintons and that Starr's
office is trying to get her to lie about the first family.
Ewing said more evidence will come out during the trial about the
$300,000 loan to Mrs. McDougal.
Dow Jones News, March 11, 1999
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