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                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 23, 1995                   TAG: 9504250038
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE NATION

Clintons questioned under oath

WASHINGTON - Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr interviewed President and Hillary Rodham Clinton under oath at the White House on Saturday, the White House said.

``As the president has previously announced, he and Mrs. Clinton are cooperating fully with the independent counsel,'' said Abner Mikva, the White House counsel.

In a statement, Mikva declined to disclose the nature of the interviews, saying Starr had asked that no disclosure be made at this time.

The president and his wife were questioned separately and for about two hours each in the residential quarters of the White House.

- Associated Press

Disneyland threat called a hoax by FBI

WASHINGTON - The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation to find out who delivered a phony, anonymous threat that a Japanese cult planned to release deadly nerve gas at Disneyland during Easter weekend.

Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern said there was no basis for a report in Saturday's editions of The (Baltimore) Sun that authorities had stopped two Japanese men at Los Angeles International Airport a few days before the April 16 holiday and found instructions on how to make the highly toxic gas sarin

``A criminal investigation is being conducted by the FBI in an effort to identify and prosecute whoever was responsible'' for carrying out the hoax against the amusement park.

- Associated Press



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