Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, April 14, 1990                   TAG: 9004140065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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FOR THE RECORD

Because of space limitations in Friday's editions, the following paragraphs were left out of a story on a motion filed by Lyndon LaRouche associate Richard E. Welsh of Leesburg. Welsh is one of more than a dozen former LaRouche associates charges with securities fraud. Welsh is asking that Roanoke County Circuit Court Judge Clifford Weckstein disqualify himself from hearing Welsh's trial and that he disclose any discussions he may have had regarding LaRouche or Welsh with attorneys involved in earlier cases, or with reporters and a former managing editor of the Roanoke Times & World-News.

Welsh's motion also questioned Weckstein's association with the Roanoke Times & World-News and various reporters there. The motion stated that the newspaper has given unfavorable coverage to the LaRouche organization, and that Weckstein's associations with representatives of the newspaper indicated that he was biased toward the group.

Weckstein is married to the daughter of John Eure, a former managing editor of the World-News. John Eure's son, Rob Eure, is a reporter at the newspaper.

Weckstein said he and both Eures have not had any substantive conversations about the LaRouche organization except to discuss recent handbills the group has been circulating in the Roanoke Valley criticizing the judge's handling of the cases.

Weckstein declined last month to comment on those handbills, saying he was "prohibited by the Canons of Judicial Conduct . . . ." But in court Thursday, the judge said "my reaction to these was and remains one of amusement."

Weckstein said he found it "unusual and in the nature of preposterous" that Welsh's attorneys would suggest that because relatives of his work or had worked for the newspaper that he should be disqualified from hearing the case.

Weckstein said he had received inquiries from several reporters about the scheduling of proceedings in the cases of LaRouche associates and that he had joked with reporters about the handbills. But, he said, he has had no substantive conversations about any of the cases with anyone associated with the newspaper.