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...successful outcome of the Deaver trial should not be mistaken as a resolution of the more serious problem which brought about the appointment of an independent counsel in the first place," Whitney North Seymour Jr. said in a statement...
...That problem is too much `loose' money and too little concern in Washington about ethics in government," Seymour said in a statement referring to "vast sums of money" spent by corporations and foreign governments "to buy influence and favors...
...Seymour said that "until the attitudes of government leaders change, there is little that prosecutors can do except put a thumb in the dike...
Without naming the secretary of state by name, Seymour criticized George Shultz for vouching for Deaver's honesty and integrity when he testified as a prosecution witness...
Although Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. asked that expert testimony on the alcoholism issue be disallowed, Presiding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has agreed to hear medical witnesses on Deaver's problems. In other cases, judges have allowed testimony on whether alcohol impaired a defendant's intent to commit a crime. To prove perjury, Seymour must show that Deaver intended to lie under oath...