Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CBS' Morley Safer tells the stories of the locals this weekend -- locals in Arkansas who say they have suffered deeply at the hands of Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "Behind all the big-name targets of Special Whitewater Prosecutor Ken Starr's investigation lie some you may never have heard of: People like Sarah Hawkins resent his hardball tactics and say they suffered deeply because of them," reports 60 MINUTES. The segment centers on what some locals feel are overzealous tactics of the independent counsel. Safer [who stayed at Arkansas Excelsior Hotel while building the story a few weeks back] focuses on one Sarah Hawkins of Little Rock, an African-American woman who rose to a top administrative position at Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The crew interviewed her and her lawyer, Rick Holiman, and even accompanied her to church. Hawkins tells a long and winding story spanning nearly two year of what she claims was her personal Starr nightmare. She tells how Starr's prosecutors threatened her with "a multi-count indictment based on undisclosed information from undisclosed sources" unless she talked and turned on Gov. Tucker and the McDougals. Demanding that she had done nothing wrong, she refused to give testimony or pass evidence on anything Madison. Hawkins tells why she took the Fifth Amendment in the McDougal/Tucker Whitewater trial: Starr's prosecutors began playing hardball, threatening to indict her if she testified in favor of McDougal's side, she says. Chief producer of the segment, Catherine Olian, was desperately looking for some of those locally conceived bumpers stickers telling Starr to go home, according to Little Rock reports. "Starr is going to take a hit on the piece," a CBS NEWS source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. "He was given every opportunity to respond." The piece is tied to the expect Whitewater grand jury next Thursday. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
