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...served on her husband's Senate staff, as director of communications. One of Nesbit's first challenges will be to head off stories about Dan Quayle's alleged 1971 purchase of marijuana. Those rumors were squelched during the 1988 campaign, when Quayle's accuser, convicted drug smuggler Brett Kimberlin, was hustled off to solitary just as he was scheduled to talk to reporters. Last week a federal judge ruled that Kimberlin's charges of mistreatment deserve a hearing...
Convicted drug runner Brett C. Kimberlin, 36, claims he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle a dozen or so times in the 1970s and even smoked some with the future Vice President in 1971 at a fraternity party in Indiana. Serving a 50-year sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., for smuggling dope and taking part in a 1978 series of bombings in Speedway, Ind., Kimberlin tried to publicize his allegations four days before the 1988 election. But a funny thing happened before Kimberlin could conduct a jailhouse press conference: he was suddenly slapped into protective confinement...
...Kimberlin, who has been transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Memphis, is suing Quinlan, the Bureau of Prisons and a former Justice Department spokesman -- Loye Miller -- in federal court, alleging that in keeping him quiet they violated his free-speech rights. The prison bureau insists that the special detention was in line with standard policy governing prisoner contacts with news media. As for Quayle and pot, press secretary David Beckwith declared, "The Vice President has never used marijuana or, to his knowledge, met Brett Kimberlin...
These developments, probably more than any others, hastened the differentiation between man and earlier hominids. Explains Anthropologist Charles Kimberlin ("Bob") Brain of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, South Africa: "Meat eating and hunting were important factors. If you remained a vegetarian, the necessity for culture was not nearly as great." Richard Leakey too believes that hunting helped to make emerging man a social creature. Says he: "The hominids that thrived best were those able to restrain their immediate impulses and manipulate the impulses of others into cooperative efforts. They were the vanguard of the human race...
GREGORY C. KIMBERLIN...