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Sunday Nation 7heSenfinePageA3 March 8, 1998 i Panel member calls Iwo memorial 'kitsch' ft- "I would say that the Iwo Jima memorial is kitsch. It was taken from a photograph, it is by a sculptor, even though he was a member of this commission at one point, who is not going to go down as a Michelangelo in history and yet it is very effective, largely because of its site." Solomon said Brown's disparaging comment draws into question the Fine Arts Commission decision during a 1994 meeting to approve the site for the Air Force monument. The National Capital Planning Commission, which must also sign off on projects on federal land, initially rejected the proposal but later reversed its decision. WASHINGTON (AP) At a meeting of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the chairman referred to the Marine Corps Iwo Jima Memorial as "kitsch" but admitted it's "very effective" as art.

The comment drew demands from a congressman that J. Carter Brown resign from the commission. Brown's reference appears in a transcript being circulated by Friends of Iwo Jima, a group lobbying Congress to reverse approval of an Air Force monument just 600 feet from the Marine memorial on an Arlington, hillside. The group, along with Rep. Gerald Solomon, a former Marine, is also battling in court to block con struction of the Air Force structure on the Arlington grounds just across the Potomac River from Washington.

Solomon called Brown's description a "slap in the face" and said Brown should step down. "That is just an atrocious statement to make," Solomon said Saturday from New York. "Carter Brown has a tendency to look down his nose at people, especially the Marine Corps. I think this man ought to step down." Webster's New World Dictionary defines "kitsch" as art "of a pretentious but shallow kind, calculated to have popular appeal." The transcript has Brown saying, -tC jV s-jrt kA r-7 51 J--S-f 1 ix-. tJO Mtrnt'tm mi .1 Lewinsky issue creating split among Republicans Connecticut State Police Major Crime Squad officers search the parking lot area of the Connecticut State Lottery in Newington, Saturday.

Matthew Beck, a lottery employee, killed four co-workers Weapons found in home of man who shot 4 people For updates on this story mil EWD 243-3669 and press option 1915 it clear Friday he's fed up with media attention. "I want some space," he barked at photographers, pushing a camera trained on him and cursing television camera crews. In an interview on CNN's "Evans and Novak" show taped Friday night for broadcast during the weekend, Lott responded to a question on whether Congress could take a lesser action than impeachment to show displeasure with Clinton's conduct: "I don't think we know yet what might be alleged. But, yes, you could go with a lesser action, and censure certainly would be one." He said the House could say the evidence was not serious enough for impeachment, "but this is clearly conduct that is on the margin and (that) we don't approve of." No such effort has arisen in the House, and experts say a resolution of censure would have virtually no legal effect on Clinton. Asked if the president should resign, Lott said: "It depends on what turns out to be true.

I think all of it's very serious, even just if a sexual relationship did exist, that does demean the office." WASHINGTON (AP) With the Senate's majority leader speaking out for an early end to the prolonged investigation of President Clinton, Republicans appeared at odds Saturday over the party's strategy toward the president. GOP leaders have remained largely noncommittal since independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigation turned seven weeks ago to allegations that Clinton had sex with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, then urged her to lie about it. But Saturday, after Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott suggested that Starr wind up his investigation and that evidence against Clinton might support punishment no greater than congressional censure, House Speaker Newt Gingrich strongly disagreed with Lott. "I don't think (Starr) should move a step faster than he needs to or a step slower," Gingrich said in his hometown of Marietta, Ga. "I think he ought to go at the pace that justice dictates, not the pace that public relations dictates." Asked to explain Lott's comments, Gingrich said: "I don't know why Trent said what he said yesterday." Another leading Republican, former Education Secretary and presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander, lambasted Clinton, demanding that Republicans make the president's conduct the central political issue in this year's congressional election campaign.

"The president's conduct is a national embarrassment," Alexander said in Des Moines, Iowa, where he is testing his chances for another run in 2000 for the GOP presidential nomination. "All he has to do is give us a day of honesty, to come out and say this is what happened, and then try to reclaim his moral authority." In another development, Ms. Lewinsky's attorney, William Gins-burg, who for weeks has courted the press with multiple television talk-show appearances and social outings with TV news commentators, made co-workers as a quiet, diligent worker who became mired in depression because of job problems. He went years without a promotion, then filed a grievance in August one year after he was shifted from accounting to data processing work. After taking a stress-related medical leave in October and undergoing treatment, he returned to work Feb.

25 when an arbitrator ruled he had taken on responsibilities outside his job description. Beck was waiting to see if he would be given back pay for the additional work. Prior to returning to work, Beck told reporters about alleged lottery scams. "They need to increase (revenues) by $30 million and they're under a lot of pressure to let other things take a back seat," Beck told The Day in January. eyes were "wild," while the Day described him as "scruffy" in appearance.

Beck, 35, shot to death four of his bosses Friday, including one who was chased into a parking lot and shot as he reportedly begged for his life. As police approached, Beck put the pistol to his temple and fired. A cache of weapons was later found inside Beck's home, a law enforcement source told The Associated Press. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said police recovered three assault rifles, and two large-caliber handguns from his home. Beck used a Glock semi-automatic handgun in his shooting spree, police said.

He had used up over one clip of ammunition and had two others on his body, one containing at least 19 rounds, the source said. Beck was described by friends and NEWINGTON, Conn. (AP) The accountant who gunned down four people at state lottery headquarters before killing himself had complained to newspapers months beforehand that lottery players were being cheated. Matthew Beck, who worked for the lottery more than eight years, approached at least two newspaper reporters to interest them in recent changes at the lottery. He claimed the Connecticut Lottery Corp.

exaggerated potential winnings to spur ticket sales, and that store clerks were taking winning scratch tickets for themselves by cracking the computer system. His discussions with The Day of New London and The Hartford Courant included his complaints of unfair treatment at work. The Courant described him as frothing at the mouth and said his Hf a glance Gingrich: Delay tax change Government charges infomercial leader ORLANDO, Fla. A get-rich-quick infomercial guru of late-night television has been charged in a 90-count federal indictment with defrauding the public and laundering $7 million. William McCorkle was indicted Thursday with conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud through his telemarketing business, 10 months after federal agents raided his Lake Mary home and Orlando offices.

The indictment said McCorkle misled consumers in infomercials and seminars and the videotapes and booklets that were promoted as a way to make money by purchasing pre-foreclosed real estate. The indictment also said consumers were misled with claims that thousands of people had become wealthy using the program and that McCorkle would allow consumers to use his money to finance purchases at government auctions. Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Saturday Congress should not replace the nation's 1ax code until a Republican is in the White House. A Republican plan announced last week would abolish the code in 2001 and try to build a simpler, fairer system from scratch.

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