U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said groups accused of funneling money to key government witness David Hale might also have orchestrated his removal from a Whitewater case initially assigned to him.
"It is important to me, and I believe to the integrity of the judicial process, to know whether any person in the justice system, including those in (Starr's office) or in the legislative branch, was aware of machinations to affect and determine what judge would preside over the ... case," Woods said in a statement released by his office.
Woods, a lifelong Democrat, was assigned to hear a fraud and conspiracy case against then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, also a Democrat, until the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals removed him in March 1996.
Starr asked that Woods be removed after the judge tossed out Tucker's initial indictment.
The bulk of the case against Woods depended on media articles suggesting Woods had close ties to President Clinton and the first lady. Woods said some articles were based on an "untrue" and "libelous" op-ed column written by one of his polar opponents.
One in five of those false alarms will lead to a breast biopsy in which tissue is removed from the suspected tumor, a team from the University of Washington School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School report in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
According to the study, 50 percent of women who have 10 mammograms will have one so-called false positive result. The high rate is an outgrowth of physicians' efforts to detect every breast tumor possible, said Joann Elmore of the University of Washington.
Although increased efforts should be directed at reducing the number of false positives, she said, the study carries a hopeful message.
When women receive a positive result on a mammogram or clinical examination, "it is very scary," Elmore said.
Jones and her lawyers huddled in a series of meetings yesterday in Dallas discussing the odds of winning an appeal. An announcement there was scheduled for 2 p.m. CDT today.
"She's made the decision to appeal, and unless something changes between now and 2 p.m. tomorrow, that's the announcement she'll make," said the source.
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