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Thursday, June 14, 2007 NATION 7 FROM PAGE ONE Statesman Journal 5A Congress issues subpoenas in firings probe Antique mrniture Sale JianaSelected 40' Container JustIrrivedJrom Europe ALL PIECES AT VERY LOW PRICES Online extras For more national stories, go to StatesmanJournal.com and click on Nation. White House seeks compromise on women's testimony STARTS FRIDAY, June 15th lawyer did not rule out her appearance but suggested it depends on agreement between the White House and Congress. Miers did not immediately respond to a request for 70 I H1RD (HWY WW) LArAYtI 1 OREGON OPEN 7 DAYS (503) 8642 1 20 Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. White House officials pointed out that White House Counsel Fred Fielding already has offered a compromise by suggesting that Miers, Taylor, Rove and their deputies be interviewed by committee aides in closed-door sessions, without transcripts. Leahy and Conyers have rejected that offer.

"The committees can easily obtain the facts they want without a confrontation by simply accepting our offer for documents and interviews," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Wednesday. "But it's clear that Senator Leahy and Representative Conyers are more interested in drama than facts." Leahy's subpoena compels Taylor's testimony on July 11, while Conyers subpoenaed Miers to appear the next day. Both panels also subpoenaed White House documents. In a statement, Taylor's down if the White House does not comply with the subpoenas or strike a deal. "The bread crumbs in this investigation have always led to 1600 Pennsylvania," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.

"This investigation will not end until the White House complies with the demands of this subpoena in a timely and reasonable manner so that we may get to the bottom of this." "The White House cannot have it both ways it can-, not stonewall congressional investigations by refusing to provide documents and witnesses while claiming nothing improper occurred," added Senate Chairman Us House votes to bolster gun background checks Breast cancer and two diseases that affect women by an overwhelming majority. Fortunately, there are two tests in one convenient location that can provide the early detection that is critical to their effective treatment. At the Women's Center at Diagnostic Imaging of Salem, you can have mammogram, the gold standard for breast screening, and a DEXA bone density test, the gold standard for detecting osteoporosis during a single visit. For the ultimate convenience, schedule your mammogram and bone density tests together. For more information call the Women's Center at 503-588-2674.

ni 'omens Center quire states to automate their lists of convicted criminals and the mentally ill who are prohibited under a 1968 law from buying firearms, and report those lists to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The House action came as a panel ordered by President Bush to investigate the Virginia Tech shootings issued its findings, including a recommendation that legal and financial barriers to N1CS submissions be addressed. The Associated Press WASHINGTON The House voted Wednesday to fix flaws in the national gun background check system that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to buy guns despite his mental-health problems. The legislation, passed by voice vote, was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, boosting its chances of becoming the first major gun control law in more than a decade. The measure would re 1 1 65 Union Street NE 1 00 Salem, OR 9730 1 Tel: (503) 588-2674 Fax: (503) 391-1200 Toll Free: (888) 999-7030 wwwdiagnosticimagingufsalem.com at DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SALEM Z7 Thanks Dad for the sense of style and the sense of humor By Laurie Kellman The Associated Press WASHINGTON Congress issued subpoenas Wednesday for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and political director Sara Taylor, reaching directly inside the White House for the first time in the probe of the firings of federal prosecutors.

The Bush administration appeared in no hurry to encourage the pair to testify, as the subpoenas demanded. Complying could set a precedent for testimony by another adviser not yet on the subpoena list: presidential counselor Karl Rove. The Democratic chairmen of House and Senate committees implicitly threatened a constitutional shows' -1 i Alexander Continued from 1A have a decision by the time of Alexander's sentencing. The 12 jurors seven women and five men deliberated for more than 10 hours during two days before contacting the judge at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday to announce themselves hung on two charges.

Jurors leaving the courthouse declined to discuss their deliberations or their verdicts. Alexander resigned from the Salem police in July 2004 under a cloud, after superiors found that he had used a city-owned digital camera to take sexually explicit pictures. He joined the force in March 2003 and was the city's only African-American officer at the time of his resignation. Oregon State Police troopers arrested Alexander just before Christmas in December 2005, charging him with rape of the teenage girl. The girl told police that Alexander took a complaint from her in August 2003, after she reported being harassed by a man involved in a drunken driving crash she witnessed.

Alexander called her several times after taking the complaint and agreed to give her a ride to court on Sept. 11, 2003, when she had to testify in the drunken driving case, the girl said. Instead of taking her to court, Alexander drove her to a warehouse lot off Front Street and forced her to have sex, she said. The jurors were deadlocked on a charge of rape in that case, which involves sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion. On a vote of 11-1 they found Alexander guilty of second-degree sexual abuse, a class felony which involves intercourse without the victim's consent and carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

The jury rejected kidnapping and strangulation charges related to the case. Charges involving the Salem city employee were filed a couple of months after Alexander's initial arrest. The mother of three alleged that he harassed her constantly during a ride-along on June 27, 2004, then drove her to a new construction area in West Salem and forced her to perform oral sex. The jury could not decide whether Alexander had forced the city employee into oral sex, and deadlocked on a charge of second-degree sexual abuse. But they did agree unanimously that he had engaged in oral sex while on duty and found him guilty of official misconduct, a class A misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of 1 year in prison.

Jurors found him not guilty of the last charge brought against him. A Stay-ton woman alleged that in April 2001, when she was 19 and Alexander an officer on the Stayton force, he coerced her into having sex by saying her child could be taken away because of her underage drinking. A i yJL' fti euphoria i i NEW FAVORITES FOR DAD Eau de Toilette Sprays, from left: A. Armani Attitude. 2.5 oz.

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