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Go, Man, Go! [or: Old News is good news]
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From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Go, Man, Go! [or: Old News is good news]
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 92 13:20:10 EDT
[from: The Boston Herald, Friday, Sept 18, 1992]
Ark escapee: GOP official urged
flight to make governor look bad
DENVER -- An Arkansas Republican Party
official promised accused hijacker Charles
Lloyd Patterson the party would take care
of him if he escaped during his furlough
and embarrassed Gov. Bill Clinton,
Patterson told a jury Wednesday.
Patterson, 48, is on trial in U.S.
District Court, accused of hijacking a
small plane from a Boulder flight
instructor at gunpoint on June 7.
Patterson, arrested June 19 in Texas, did
not return from a five-day furlough from
Arkansas's Pine Bluff State Prison in
April.
Patterson ws serving a 40-year sentence
for hiring someone to kill John Norman
Harkey, a Batesville lawyer who
represented his wife in a divorce.
He also is accused of stealing a plane in
Arkansas.
Patterson said he was on furlough and
planning to return to prison when an
Arkansas state lawmaker told him the state
was reneging on an agreement for his
parole in 1994.
Soon after, he testified, he was contacted
by Gerald Fulbright, a member of the
Arkansas GOP governing committee from
Independence County.
"He advised me if I didn't go back (from)
my furlough, it would make Bill Clinton
look awful bad," Patterson said.
He said Fulbright told him "if I took off,
after the election was over, I'd be taken
care of by the Republican Party."
-- Scripps Howard
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