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in off LOLL Wednesday, November 20, 1996 Montgomery Advertiser, Taped re-creation of ValuJet blaze shown THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI A videotape of a plane cargo hold engulfed in a white-hot, hissing fire sparked by an oxygengenerating canister as a test left relatives of the victims of ValuJet Flight 592 red-eyed and tearful on Tuesday. Investigators searching for a cause into the May 11 crash re-created what they believed happened to the doomed jetliner, triggering an oxygen generator to start a fire in an old plane and then taping i it as temperatures soared. The fires burned at a white-hot 3,000 degrees and above, said Merritt Birky, an explosion expert with the National Transportation Safety Board, which held a hearing Tuesday at which the videotape FERNAKD was played. "This is the hottest fire I've ever seen in a test," he said. Investigators have said at least 500-degree heat was needed to partially melt the aluminum frame of Bernard Loeb of the National a passenger seat found in the jetasks a question Tuesday during liner, which nose-dived into the into the May 11 crash of ValuJet Everglades, killing all 110 people ValuJet chairman, listens at left.

aboard. They suspect about 135 oxygen- intense fire in the DC-9. in generating canisters packed in five Tuesday was the first time the en boxes in the cargo hold started an videotaped re-creation was shown FUNERALS NAME TIME BARKER, Mrs. Emylene 11am BOLES, Mary Frances 2 pm BOOTH, Mr. Johnny, Jr.

2 pm BOWDEN, Willie C. 1 pm CAUTHEN, Ben Tom 12 pm CONYERS. Mr. David Eugene 12:30 pm COPELAND, Mrs. Rebecca Lamar 1:30 pm FRITH, Maud W.

2 pm GREATHOUSE, Mr. Walter, Sr. 11 am GUY. Mr. Anthony 2 pm McGEE, Marjorie C.

10 am MITCHELL, Jessie Jane 3 pm MURRAY, Rev. Robert Andrew 2 pm PERRY, Mr. Robert STOUDMIRE, Sallie L. WORD, Ethel Morland 10 am YELVERTON, Zelma Jones 2 pm E. G.

Cummings Montgomery, AL 265-9221 PERRY, Mr. Robert, a resident of Montgomery, AL died Tuesday, November 19, 1996. Funeral services and survivors will be announced later by Cummings Funeral Home. West Church Orville, OH died SunSTOUDMIRE, Sallie lie a resident of 1700 day, November 17, 1996 in Massillon, OH. Funeral services and survivors will be announced later by Cummings Funeral Home.

Jimmy Tindol General Manager Donald W. Jones Vice President of Client Services Leak Chapel John Lowe 272-6501 945 Lincoln Road Greenwood Serenity Jerome Couch 272-3181 909 Lincoln Road Alabama Heritage Robert Moulton, Ill 215-0180 10505 Atlanta Highway White Chapel Scott Powell 262-3501 43 South Jackson Street Montgomery, Alabama CAUTHEN, Ben Tom, 77, a resident of Hope Hull, AL died on Monday, November 18, 1996. Mr. Cauthen was retired from the Montgomery County Sheriffs Dept. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 1996 at 12:00 noon, from Leak-Memory Chapel with the Minister Philip Black officiating.

Burial will follow in the Montgomery Memorial Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Edna McGehee Cauthen, Hope Hull, AL; one son and daughter-in-law, Abner M. and Dorothy Cauthen, Hope Hull. Anita AL: two daughters and sons-in-law, and James G. Mays, Millbrook, AL, one brother.

Effron Cauthen, Prattville, Linda and Ben Kyser, Montgomery, AL; FUNERAL SERVICE Floral Directory Flowers From the Heart 1007 Ann Street 834-6060 The closest florist to Leak Memory Greenwood Funeral Home For All Occasions" Phone Answered 24 hours. FLORAL OUTLET CENTER Silk Memorial Flowers Fresh Flowers Delivery 401 Coliseum Boulevard Eastbrook Shp. Ctr. 409-0200 TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS DIRECTORY CALL STACEY JOHNSON AT 262-1611 ext. 221 DATE FUNERAL HOME November 20 Jeffcoat November 20 Moss-Terry November 21 McKenzie's November 20 Harrison November 20 Leak-Memory November 20 Ridout's November 20 Leak-Memory November 21 Greenwood Serenity November 21 McKenzie's November 21 Hudson November 23 Leak-Memory November 21 Greenwood Serenity November 22 Prattville Memorial E.

G. Cummings E. G. Cummings November 21 Leak-Memory November 20 Leak-Memory and 18 great grandchildren. Leak-Memory Chapel Directing AL; five grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Serving as active pallbearers will be Tommy Cauthen, Jimmy Cauthen, Jerry Cauthen, Bobby Cauthen, Herbie Cauthen, and Oliver McGehee. Honorary pallbearers will be active and retired members of the Montgomery County Sheriffs Dept. Leak-Memory Chapel Directing COPELAND, Mrs. Rebecca Lamar, 82, a resident of Montgomery, AL, died Sunday, November 17, 1996. She was a member of the Highland Avenue Baptist Church.

Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 1996, at 11:30 a.m. in Greenwood Cemetery with the Rev. Walter Bozeman officiating. Friends and family members will assemble at the gravesite. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gurney Copeland and is survived by two daughters, Mary Ellen Dennis, Deafsville, AL and Martha Copeland Thomas, Shady Grove, AL: two sons, Gary Allen Copeland, Vicksburg, MS and John Copeland, Prattville, AL; two brothers, Joe Lamar, Mobile, AL and Evans Lamar, Bossier City, LA; 17 grandchildren; FRITH, Maud 82, a resident of Montgomery, AL, died on Monday, November 18, 1996.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, November 21, 1996 at 2:00 p.m. in Leak-Memory Chapel with Greenwood Funeral Home directing. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Rev. Randy Newman officiating.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Wednesday evening at LeakMemory Funeral Home. She was a widow of the late W. B. (Bill) Frith, Montgomery, AL; Surviving are son and daughter-in-law, William and Nell D.

Frith, Montgomery, AL; four sisters, Claudia Toole, Elizabeth Flores, both of Montgomery, Ann Mendelson and Bety Jean Mendelson both of California; brother, William Harold Walker, Pine Mountain, GA; three grandchildren, William Frith, Ill, Lisa Aldridge and Caryn Simmons, all of Montgomery; seven great grandchildren; also numerous nieces and nephews. Serving as active Pallbearers are Gerald Aldridge, David W. Simmons, Charles Brown, Gary Talley, Jimmy Talley and Miles Simmons. Greenwood and Serenity Directing McGEE, Marjorie 84, a resident of Montgomery, AL and Overland Park, KS died Tuesday, November 19, 1996 in a local nursing facility after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 23, 1996 at 10:00 a.m.

from McGilley and Hoge Funeral Home, Overland Park, KS with Dr. James Reynolds officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, MO. She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Michael S.

and Bonnie Jones, three grandchildren, Michael S. Jones, Montgomery, AL, Jane Ellen Holbrook, Northport, AL, and Laura Bice, Abingdon, five great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, November 20, 1996 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., at Leak-Memory Chapel Funeral Home. Leak-Memory Chapel Directing MITCHELL, Jessie Jane, passed away at her home on Tuesday, November 19, 1996.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, November 21, 1996 at 3:00 p.m. in Greenwood Chapel, with Rev. Adjustable Beds Manufacturers Come For A No-Obligation Demonstration. Rd. Across Montgomery Mall) Just Twain 3666 DEBBY DRIVE 410 NORTH Shopping from Village.

McGchee EASTERN BYPASS BEDDING Outlet 288-5502 270-5500 Monday Saturday 10am-6pm fire quickly grew into a groaning, white-and-yellow blaze covered by pinkish-brown smoke. The haunting noise on the videotape sounded human to some relatives. "I could hear my daughter in there, it seemed like," said Ella Gore, of Erie, Pa. "They didn't have a chance. The smoke killed them.

That's what I do believe." In one taped test, boxes of oxygen generators like those in the hold of the ValuJet plane were ignited. In the second test, a tire and luggage were added. The test fires produced flames five to seven minutes after the generator was triggered, and spread quicker with the luggage around it. The flight lasted only nine minutes, Birky said. SabreTech the company that packed the oxygen-generating canisters into cardboard boxes, objected that the fires started in only three of eight tests and additional bubble wrap encouraged ignition.

Only two of the tests were shown. "None of the above test conditions are consistent with, nor do they even resemble, the way the boxes were actually company coordinator John Meekly wrote. ASSOCIATED PRESS Transportation Safety Board second day of hearings Flight 592. John Goglia, public. Relatives of about a dozvictims dabbed their eyes and hung their heads as the finger-size Mickey Kirkland and Rev.

Huey Denton officiating. The family will receive friends Wednesday, November 20, 1996 at Greenwood Funeral Home, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. She is survived by four sons, John W. Mitchell, Ennis D.

Mitchell, Billy W. Mitchell, all of Montgomery, AL, and Roger D. Mitchell, New Orleans, LA; one daughter, Shelby Mitchell, Biloxi, MS; 11 grandchildren; 11. great-grandchildren; one great-greatgrandchild; also numerous nieces and nephews. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Lighthouse Baptist Church.

Active pallbearers will be Jimmy Mitchell, Larry Mitchell, Milton Grant, J. R. Hornsby, Heath Mitchell, and Roger Mitchell, Jr. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Bill Clakely, Monroe Herring, and Donald R. Herring.

Greenwood Serenity Directing WORD, Ethel Morland, 75, beloved mother and educator, who taught distributive education at Sidney Lanier High School for 18 years, died peacefully at her home in Montgomery, AL, on Sunday, November 17, 1996. Funeral services will he held on Thursday, November 21, 1996, at 10:00 a.m. from LeakMemory Chapel with Bishop Paul Duffey and Dr. Karl Stegall officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 20, 1996, at Leak-Memory Chapel. She was preceded in death by her husband, Colonel Edwin S. Word; and her daughter, Martha Cowan Word.

She is survived by three daughters, Rebecca Word Hasemeier, Phoenix, AZ, Susan Morland Word, San Francisco, CA and Evelyn Fisher Word, Marin County, CA; as well as a son, Edwin S. Word, Hope Hull, AL; three brothers, Alvin Morland, Pompano Beach, FL, Dr. J. Kenneth Morland, Lynchburg, VA and Dr. Richard B.

Morland, Deland, FL; a step-brother, Eugene Bluemly, Birmingham, AL; and also four grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be Ham Wilson, Dr. Henry Adair, Lang Parker, Cortlandt Stark, Bill Blount and Davis Bonham. Honorary pallbearers will be Colonel Glennis Rhodes, William McGraw, Jesse Williams, Sam Bone, Albert Hovis and all former Lanier D. E.

C. A. students. She was a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. She served as a docent at the Alabama Department of Archives and History and was a loyal member of the First United Methodist Church, Montgomery, and the Wesley Fellowship Class.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund, Baptist Hospice, the Alabama Department of charity. Leak-Memory Chapel Directing YELVERTON, Zelma Jones, 95, a resident of Tyson Manor Nursing Home, formerly of Uniontown, died Monday, November 18, 1996. Graveside services will be November 20, 1996 at 2:00 p.m. in Rosemont Cemetery, Uniontown, with the Rev. Jim Watters and the Rev.

Virgil Pino officiating. She was preceded in death by her husband, Verdie Sim Yelverton, and her son J. C. Yelverton. She is survived by three daughters, Geneva Givhan, Marion, Jewel Harrison, Demopolis and Linda Jackson, Montgomery; two sons, Glenn Yelverton, Mobile and Clyde Yelveton, Montgomery; 15 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Uniontown Methodist Church or Rosemont Cemetery. The family will see friends immediately following the burial service in the fellowship hall of the Uniontown Methodist Church. Leak-Memory Chapel Directing Prattville Memorial Chapel Prattville, AL 334-365-7147 Tom Huntington, Manager a resident of Prattville, AL died Monday, November 18, 1996 at a local hospital. Funeral services will be held on Friday, November 22, 1996 at 2:00 p.m., from Prattville Memorial Chapel with Reverends Kenny Roberson and Hoyt Chastain officiating. Burial will follow at Prattville Memory Gardens with Prattville Memorial Chapel directing.

Rev. Murray is survived by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Murray, Prattville, AL; four daughters, Maydelle Ward, Locust Grove, GA, Rose Linder, Lawrenceville, GA, Laura Fewell, Prattville, AL, and Betty Wyatt, Prattville, AL; two sons, MSgt. Raymond Graves, USMC, and MSgt. John Murray, USA; four sisters, Margaret Queen, Elmer, NJ, Barbara Johns, Glassboro, NJ, Helen Leach, Pittman, NJ, and Jean Thompson, Swedenboro, NJ; one brother, Charles Herbert Murray, Trenton, NJ; 22 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Rev.

Murray was former Pastor of Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Prattville, and was a 32nd Degree Mason and Member of the Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge in Prattville. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Navy as a Submariner. The family will receive friends at Prattville Memorial Chapel on Thursday, November 21, 1996 from 6:00 p.m.

until 8:00 p.m. MURRAY, Rev. Robert Andrew, 72, Ridout's Prattville Chapel Prattville, 334-365-5982 Steve Campbell, Manager CONYERS, Mr. Daryl Eugene, 64, a resident of Prattville, AL, died Monday, November 18, 1996. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 1996, at 12:30 p.m.

from Ridout's Prattville Chapel with Pastor Andrew Dawkins officiating. Burial will be in Oakhill Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Linda Conyers, Prattville, AL; two sons and daughters-in-law, Stephen D. Conyers, ASSOCIATED PRESS Brian 'Kato' Kaelin arrives Tuesday at Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, with Goldman family attorney Daniel Petrocelli. Kaelin: Simpson Prattville, AL and Major Kevin E.

and Kathy Conyers, Fairfax, VA; one granddaughter, Kelly Conyers, Fairfax, VA; one brother, Robert D. Conyers; and one sister, Roma L. Seeley, both of Olympia, WA. Serving as active pallbearers will be Ken Wilson, Roger Gerlach, John Stephenson, Gilbert Golden, David Berry and Borden Wilbanks. Honorary pallbearers will be SPD employees.

Hudson Luverne, AL 335-3070 GUY, Mr. Anthony, 19, a resident of 523 West 9th Street, Luverne, AL died Saturday, November 16, 1996. Funeral services will be held Thursday, November 21, 1996, at 2:00 p.m. from the King Chapel A. M.

E. Zion Church, Luverne, AL, with Rev. Bobby D. McKenzie officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Hudson Service of Luverne directing.

Survivors include a daughter, Akasha Jenay Guy, Luverne, AL; his mother, Mary Ann Guy, Luverne, AL, his father, Jackie H. Guy, Elyria, OH; one brother, Mark Terimaine Guy, Luverne, AL; one sister, Latosha McCall (Michael), Greenville, AL; a special friend, Lotassa Jones, Luverne, AL; his step father, Eddie Jones, Luverne, AL; three step brothers, Tim, Chris, and Jeffery Jones, all of Luverne, AL; two grandmothers, Mrs. Ollie Guy, Elyria, OH and Mrs. Dorell Fuller, Luverne, AL; one great grandmother, Mrs. Judy Merriweather, Madison, OH; one grandmother and aunt, Thelma Salter, Luverne, AL; a special aunt, Delois McCall; five other aunts; eight uncles; and a host of niece, nephews, cousins and friends.

The body will lie-in-state, at the church, one hour prior to funeral services. Jeffcoat Tallassee, AL 283-6801 BARKER, Mrs. Emy' 1, 72, a resident of Tallassee, AL, died Monday, November 18, 1996. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 20, 1996 at 11:00 a.m. from Jeffcoat Funeral Home Chapel with Rev.

Derek Gentle officiating. Burial in Rose Cemetery. Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Survivors include husband, Dodie Barker, Tallassee, AL; son and daughter-inlaw, Danny and Renee Barker, Tallassee, AL: sister, Montez Gregory, Tallassee, AL; five brothers, Dorsey Hale, Madison, MS, Louis, Harold, Pete and Jerry Hale, all of Tallassee, AL; several nieces and nephews. Harrison Greenville, AL 382-6621 BOWDEN, Willie resident of Honoraville, AL, died Monday, November 18, 1996, in a Montgomery hospital.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 19, 1996, at 1:00 p.m. from the Spring Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Cephus Phillips officiating. Interment will follow in the Spring Creek Baptist Church Cemetery with Harrison Funeral Home of Greenville directing. Survivors include two brothers, Jake Bowden, Montgomery, AL and John Bowden, Honoraville, AL; six sisters, Minnie Lee Perdue, Honoraville, AL, Olean Stringer, Greenville, AL, Ruby Mae Stringer, Greenville, AL, Cumi Ballard, Birmingham, AL, Jewel Herron, Illionois and Elna Kelly, Honoraville, AL; and several nieces and nephews.

McKenzie's 727-1750 Tuskegee, Alabama BOOTH, Mr. Johnny a resident of Notasulga, AL, died Friday, November 15, 1996. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, November 21, 1996 at 2:00 p.m. from Reeltown Baptist Church, Notasulga, AL with Rev. M.

A. Moss officiating. Interment will follow in the church yard cemetery. McKenzie's Funeral Home Staff directing. His survivors include his wife, Clara Booth, Eclectic, AL; three daughters, Sgt.

Alisha (James) Moss, Ft. Sill, OK, Arqueta (Darry) Ricks, Tallassee, AL and Teresa Vaughan, Dayton, OH; a special aunt, Johnnie Mae Gilmer, Notasulga, AL; one brother; one sister; seven grandchildren; one great grandchild; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. GREATHOUSE, Mr. Walter, a resident of Tuskegee Institute, AL, died Thursday, November 14, 1996. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, November 21, 1996 at 11:00 a.m.

from Mt. Zion East Baptist Church, Dadeville, AL with Rev. O. D. Hill officiating.

Interment will follow in the church yard cemetery. McKenzie's Funeral Home Staff directing. His survivors include his wife, Helen Greathouse, Tuskegee Institute, AL; one son, Walter (Faye) Greathouse, Panarama, CA; one daughter, Veleda White, Rochester, NY; one godson, Ronald Hicks, Atlanta, GA; three grandchildren; two sisters; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. State BOLES, Mary Frances, 93, born June 28, 1903 and a resident of Garden City, AL, died November 18, 1996 in Cullman Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held November 20, 1996 at 2:00 p.m.

from Garden City Baptist Church with Rev. Keith Gambrill officiating. Burial in Bangor Cemetery, Blount. She was preceded in death by her husband, Otis Otto Boles in 1943 and daughter, Helen Boles in 1926; parents, Margaret Dovie and William Collum. Mrs.

Boles was a farmer. She is survived by four sons, George William Boles, Montgomery, Marcel Boles, Hanceville, AL, Billy Boles, Wetumpka, AL and Bob Boles, Birmingham, AL; two daughters, Alice Virginia Frank, Birmingham and Margaret Joyce Boles, Cullman; one sister, Nell Dorrough; and 13 grandchildren. brooded over Nicole's sex life THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA MONICA, Calif. The day before his ex-wife was killed, 0.J. Simpson was brooding over her sexual escapades, a clean-cut Brian "Kato" Kaelin told jurors at Simpson's wrongful death trial Tuesday.

Simpson's former house guest also said for the first time that the three famous thumps he heard on the night of the double slaying sounded "like someone falling back behind my bedroom wall." In previous testimony, Kaelin always said he thought there had been an earthquake when a picture moved on the wall of his guest quarters at Simpson's estate. This time, though, Kaelin said it sounded "like someone back against my bedroom wafalling Asked by plaintiff attorney Daniel Petrocelli why he had never mentioned that before, Kaelin said, "I wanted to believe it was an earthquake because I didn't want to believe there was someone out there. I was trying to convince myself not to be scared." said the thumps occurred between 10:40 and 10:50 p.m. The plaintiffs have said Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed between 10:35 and 10:40. They contend Simpson, trying to sneak onto his property unseen, slammed into the wall behind Kaelin's roome and dropped a bloody glove match to one left at the crime scene a few miles away.

Kaelin, a struggling actor who was a shaggy-haired, comical figure at Simpson's criminal trial, appeared with his hair cut and neatly combed, wearing a white shirt, green tie and dark green sport coat. nervous start, he exuded confidence as he added details and new emphasis to parts of his story. Jurors appeared riveted as Kaelin spoke. At one point, when the witness left the stand and used a pointer to identify areas on a diagram, he almost hit a juror with the pointer. "Oops.

Lawsuit," Kaelin said, bringing laughter to the tense courtroom. Kaelin calmly repeated his ofttold tale of the events on the day of the killings his trip with Simpson to McDonald's for hamburgers, his phone calls to friends and the three thumps in the night. The day before the slayings, Kaelin testified, he and Simpson were watching a movie "The World According to Garp" when Simpson compared a scene involving oral sex to the night in April 1992 when, looking through a window of her house, he watched his exwife have sex with a boyfriend on her sofa, Kaelin testified. On October 1993, Simpson argued with his ex-wife about what he saw through the window, resulting in a 911 call that brought several police to Ms. Simpson's home.

Jurors heard from Kaelin after the attorney for Ms. Simpson's estate, John Q. Kelly, played for jurors a secretly recorded tape of police interviewing the famed athlete and his ex-wife separately in 1993 after she called 911 to report he'd broken into her house. "He gets this animalistic look to him," Ms. Simpson said on the tape.

I get scared when he looks like that." She told officers she lived in fear of what Simpson might do next during their arguments. "I always felt that if it happened more time, it would be the last time," she said. Most of what Simpson said was indecipherable, but it was clear he felt Ms. Simpson was overreacting. "She flies off and I fly off," Simpson said.

"I'm surprised she called you guys. She wasn't in any danger." The tape was not played during the criminal trial. The plaintiffs are trying to link Simpson to murder through blueblack cotton fibers found at the crime scene, so Petrocelli brought Kaelin back repeatedly to the question of what Simpson was wearing when they went for hamburgers. Kaelin said he remembered Simpson wearing "a sharp-looking sweat suit, dark with a white zipper," he said. Simpson has said he never owned such an outfit.

Kaelin, a reticent witness at the first trial, acknowledged he spent several hours with Petrocelli preparing to testify. ABC transcript, tape turned over to Starr THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK ABC Television, faced with a court order, gave Whitewater prosecutors a transcript and videotape of its entire interview with Susan McDougal, the network said Tuesday. ABC had fought a subpoena from Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who wanted outtakes from the interview recorded for ABC's "PrimeTime Live." Mrs. McDougal is a former business partner of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The interview was taped Aug.

30 and aired Sept. 4. On Nov. 7, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright rejected the network's claim of journalistic privilege and gave it 10 business days to turn the items over to prosecutors.

"It was a difficult decision," ABC spokeswoman Teri Everett said. "We decided to turn it over. We never like to do that." Everett said the items were turned over to prosecutors Friday. Starr's spokeswoman, Deborah Gershman, said her office could not comment on the tape or transcript because they would become evidence for a grand jury to consider. Grand jury proceedings are not made public.

Mrs. McDougal's attorney, Bobby McDaniel, could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Mrs. McDougal was convicted of Whitewater-related charges in May and sentenced to two years in prison. She has not yet begun serving that term; she is in jail on a contempt charge for refusing to answer questions for a Whitewater grand jury.

Mrs. McDougal has denied that her silence is meant to protect the Clintons, but she also has said prosecutors offered leniency if she would incriminate the president. Prosecutors deny that..