Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 12, 1994 TAG: 9403120090
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Medium
The disclosure came as Republicans continued to call for hearings. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, said hearings would be held, but not until it was clear that they would not undermine the special prosecutor's investigation into the Arkansas land deal.
Also Friday, ABC World News Tonight showed photographs that appear to support police and medical reports that White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster's death last summer was a suicide.
The special prosecutor, Robert Fiske, agreed to review Foster's death after questions about the suicide ruling were raised.
The Treasury Department turned over nearly four times as much paperwork as the White House provided under subpoena on Thursday. A Treasury official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said most of the documents were routine, including drafts of news releases and testimony before Congress.
Fiske is trying to determine if the administration tried to interfere with his broad-based inquiry into President and Hillary Rodham Clinton's investment in the Arkansas land venture and Whitewater's ties to a failed savings and loan.
Four Treasury aides and three White House aides are scheduled to appear before the grand jury, some as soon as next week. Three other White House aides testified Thursday. Fiske subpoenaed them after learning that Treasury officials discussed the status of the Whitewater case with the White House.
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said the volume of the documents turned over does not mean the contacts were broader than initially indicated.
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