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Feb 22 - 28, 1998 edition
The 'Steal American Technologies Act'
Washington Post The Clinton administration asked a federal appeals court yesterday to throw out a $285,864 fine against the government for making inaccurate statements about the makeup of Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care task force. The White House aide who ran the task force, Ira Magaziner, filed a separate appeal. "I did nothing wrong here," he said in an interview.
London Telegraph The man who re-forged the Anglo-American special relationship has emerged as the most formidable political gladiator defending President Clinton's scandal-plagued White House. Sidney Blumenthal, who first recognised the possibility of love between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton and became an assiduous transatlantic matchmaker, is also suddenly the man all Washington is talking about.
J. Orlin Grabbe Recently a Mr. Sidney Blumenthal, a Presidential aide and non-practicing journalist, filed a defamation lawsuit saying that some $30 million in damages had been done to his reputation and whatnot.
London Telegraph The White House is bracing itself for next week's release of a Senate report condemning the fund-raising tactics on behalf of President Clinton's 1996 re-election, with Chinese intelligence able to "orchestrate" the laundering of Communist state cash into Democratic campaign coffers.
London Telegraph Hillary Clinton's ability to win round public opinion with "little or no substance and no reasoning" has been recommended as a model for Chinese Communist Party .
WorldNetDaily by Col. David Hackworth When Trent Lott was in his early 20s, dying age during the Vietnam War, do you think the man ever led a rifle platoon across a bullet-swept field in southeast Asia? No way. He was too busy leading cheers at Old Miss! Now the Republican Senate leader foams at the mouth with war talk and wants the United States to bomb Iraq into a sandy waffle. He has become the ultimate cheerleader of death and destruction.
Washington Post A former Pentagon lawyer, her husband and a friend they met when they were all campus radicals in the 1970s were indicted Tuesday on espionage charges and could face life in prison if convicted.
Washington Post A month after he refused to escort Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Walter Reich has been removed as director, museum officials said Wednesday.
Washington Post An Alabama grand jury indicted the nation's largest bookseller, Barnes & Noble, on child pornography charges involving the sale of books by noted photographers whose work includes pictures of nude children.
Washington Post The Christian Coalition, buoyed by its victory defeating gay civil rights legislation in Maine, planned to announce Wednesday a return to the basics: church recruiting and social issues. After private meetings with 65 state and local leaders last weekend, the conservative grass-roots group decided the best way to raise money and increase its electoral clout is by talking to churchgoers about such subjects as abortion, gay rights, pornography and gambling.
New York Times Indonesia's President Suharto defied President Clinton and the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday by dismissing the head of his central bank, a move that raised the risk the the country would lose its $43 billion rescue package.
Agence
France-Presse Colombo -- A high-level panel has ordered a probe into claims that British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke had sex with boys in Sri Lanka.
World Net Daily A retired Massachusetts couple fears the U.S. Marshals Service will move sometime this week with devastating force to evict them from their home and seize their 14-acre estate.
Jerusalem Post Israeli scientists have become the first to coax individual biological molecules into forming an electric circuit. This marriage of biotechnology and electronics will eventually make possible the production of a transistor 1/100,000th the size of the width of a human hair. That's 100th or less of the space required today.
Washington Post A House subcommittee investigating the overturned 1996 Teamsters election subpoenaed the union, its president's campaign, the Democratic National Committee and two political vendors.
Drudge Report CBS NEWS hit total embarrassment Friday afternoon when anchor Dan Rather, in full pancake makeup, and Pentagon correspondent David Martin were caught rehearsing coverage of a U.S. bombing run on Iraq -- a rehearsal that was mistakenly beamed to television affiliates via satellite.
Washington Post Two congressional candidates are struggling to be heard above the din of well-heeled media campaigns on late-term abortion and term limits that are drowning out talk of local issues in this storm-battered central coastal district.
SF Chronicle It was not a terrorist attack that struck San Francisco back in 1950, but a secret Army experiment in germ warfare defense that sprayed the entire city and its inhabitants with a supposedly harmless bacteria that proved not so harmless after all.
Washington Post GREENEVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 20—A teenager who has said she is the daughter of Satan and five other young people pleaded guilty today to killing a couple and their 6-year-old daughter as they returned from a Jehovah's Witnesses conference.
San Diego
Union-Tribune Ken and Judy Reed expected to spend their $175 tax refund on a weekend getaway. What they got was a bill from the Internal Revenue Service -- for $300 million.
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York Times Ex-Arkie Governor Pleads, Will Aid Whitewater Probe Marking an important breakthrough for Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr, former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker reached a plea agreement Friday and promised to cooperate with investigators who have spent the last four years examining the business dealings of President and Hillary Rodham Clinton before they arrived in Washington. San Jose Mercury Hundreds of American servicemen were shuttled through a clandestine network of prison camps in China during the Korean War, say formerly secret U.S. Army intelligence reports, which speculate that many died in captivity from malnutrition or lack of medical care. New York Times Paula Jones contends in her sexual-misconduct suit against President Clinton that she felt threatened by him during a 1991 encounter in a hotel room when he allegedly made a crude sexual proposal. Jones maintains, for instance, that Clinton prevented her from leaving the room, if only for a moment, after she rejected his advances at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock on May 8, 1991, when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a state clerical employee. New York Post The United States has begun sending antidotes for biological weapons and thousands of gas masks to Israel - as the threat of war with Iraq looms closer than ever. "The countdown to war is expected to start," a high-ranking Israeli official told The Post. "We are preparing ourselves." Washington Post LOS ANGELES—Egged on by a smokers' rights group heavily funded by the tobacco industry, a growing number of California tavern owners are thumbing their noses at the nation's only statewide ban on barroom smoking, allowing patrons to light up and blow smoke in the face of authority. New York Times FORT MYERS, Fla. -- In his public high school classroom here, Mark Axford, a history teacher, was gingerly telling his new students what the course would entail. He was being cautious because the subject was the Old Testament, the textbook the Bible, and every word he said was being videotaped for review by lawyers and a federal judge in a pioneering legal case. Christian Broadcast
Network While the White House wrestles with charges of sexual misconduct by the President, there's another matter that refuses to go away: the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.
Boston Globe He no longer speaks of revolution. The former bomb thrower now sees himself as a bridge builder. A new day has dawned for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and as he ponders a run for the presidency in 2000, the former leader of the Republican revolution displays newfound faith in the art of conciliation and the promise of incremental progress. The Dirty Joke in the Oval Office Washington Post Washington lawyer Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was asked by President Clinton's secretary to help Monica S. Lewinsky find a job three days after lawyers for Paula Jones disclosed that they wanted to question Lewinsky about whether she had a sexual relationship with Clinton, a source familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Washington Post A close look at the help Jordan has rendered over the years throws his role in the unfolding Lewinsky story into sharp relief: Jordan appears to have helped Lewinsky in a manner and to a degree that he has helped few, if any, others. Robert Strauss, Jordan's friend and law partner, in defending Jordan in a "60 Minutes" interview, said that the help Jordan offered to Lewinsky would occur only "rarely, rarely." AllPolitics As a grand jury continued its inquiry into the White House sex-and-perjury allegations, CNN has learned that ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky was so interested in President Bill Clinton's schedule last year she told Linda Tripp she "stole" a document from Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon's desk about an overseas journey by the president. New York Times Vernon Jordan, one of President Clinton's closest friends, kept the president personally informed of his efforts to find a job and a lawyer for Monica Lewinsky in the days after Lewinsky, a former White House intern, became a potentially damaging witness in the sexual misconduct case against Clinton, according to a lawyer who knows Jordan's version of events. London Telegraph In a scene reminiscent of a B-rated crime movie, investigators for the Paula Jones legal team had to ambush a friend of President Clinton in order to serve her with a subpoena before the deadline expired in the sexual harassment lawsuit. Washington Post A federal judge sent President Clinton's most trusted aide back before a grand jury Thursday to testify in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation as the president and prosecutors escalated their struggle over the limits of White House secrecy. Los Angeles Times President Clinton has publicly pledged to cooperate with the investigation of his dealings with a former White House intern--but that has not prevented him from utilizing one of the best tools available to those who find themselves the target of a criminal investigation. New York Post Monica Lewinsky hid in a room next to the Oval Office waiting for President Clinton to end a meeting with Mexico's president so she could give Clinton oral sex, a new report says. Lewinsky told pal Linda Tripp that she was "hiding" in Clinton's private study last November while he met next door with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, Newsweek reports in this week's edition. Washington Post NEW YORK—Her phone rings every few minutes. Someone else is always knocking. Every day, more desperate suitors arrive on Lucianne Goldberg's doorstep, enticing her with all manner of deals, bribes and sweet talk. Washington Post Bill Clinton, as he struggles to survive the most serious crisis of his career, has become a study in presidential loneliness. His life was built on two things -- words and friends. Now both of them suddenly seem of less use to him. New York Times As Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr began his fourth week of presenting evidence to a federal grand jury on Tuesday, he faced new obstacles in his effort to question witnesses who might have information about President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Washington Post The president of the American Bar Association lawyers cartel Thursday criticized "the prosecutorial zeal" reflected in independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's investigation of allegations that President Clinton had a sexual relationship with a former White House intern and tried to cover it up. Washington Post Legal experts said Thursday the White House faces an uphill struggle to use executive privilege to limit testimony by deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey or other senior Clinton advisers. New York Post White House spokesman Mike McCurry had tongues wagging Tuesday after he admitted there may not be a "simple, innocent" explanation to President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. "Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation," McCurry told the Chicago Tribune. "I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already."
Washington Post Former White House aide Kathleen Willey, who told lawyers for Paula Jones that she was kissed and groped by President Clinton in the Oval Office, has been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury investigating Clinton's alleged relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
New York Times Margaret Williams, the former chief of staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton, says she tries not to read the news from Washington these days. Every time Ms. Williams, who is trying to live unnoticed in Paris, learns of another White House friend going before another grand jury, it reminds her of what binds her and dozens of other Clinton associates to this administration: huge legal bills. Washington Post President Clinton asked a federal court Tuesday to throw out Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit, arguing that she has not proved she suffered career harm or serious emotional anguish even if he did crudely proposition her in a Little Rock hotel suite seven years ago as she claims. Washington Post Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr urged the Supreme Court Tuesday not to slow his effort to get notes from a meeting White House aide Vincent W. Foster Jr. had with his lawyer nine days before Foster's 1993 suicide. Washington Post The Justice Department has concluded that Secret Service agents are covered by a legal privilege that should shield them from telling prosecutors in the Monica S. Lewinsky probe everything they saw or heard while protecting President Clinton, department officials said Friday. Los Angeles Times The focus of attention recently has been on when Monica S. Lewinsky, the most famous ex-White House intern, will be called to testify before the grand jury. However, the more intriguing question is whether or when President Clinton will be called to testify.
Insight Magazine As Fred Thompson's Senate Governmental Affairs Committee prepares to release its report on Clinton campaign fund-raising during the 1996 election cycle, it is evident that those tired jokes about the price of a cup of coffee in the White House still carry a jolt. Insight Magazine If the making of the U.S. government can be dated to July 4, 1776, its remaking occurred on March 3, 1993, according to Clinton administration legend-spinners. On that day, the president asked Vice President Al Gore -- a denizen of the capital from the time he could toddle -- to "reinvent" the bloated, bullying and blundering progeny of what the Founding Fathers had conceived. London Telegraph In a nightmare for post-apartheid South Africa, former African National Congress guerrillas havebecome disillusioned with their political masters and turned to crime. With a demoralised and corrupt police and a limitless supply of weapons from the region's many recent wars, President Mandela's society has long been seen by international criminal syndicates as ripe for exploitation. London Telegraph Austrian men are soon to be legally obliged to do at least half of the household chores under new laws designed to curb the country's rising divorce rate. The idea is to keep Hausfrauen happy by ensuring that their men don't slope off to the bierkeller before doing 50 percent of the washing, cooking and cleaning. Los Angeles Times Orange County has been slow to test the nation's powerful gun lobbies by passing local laws restricting firearms, the latest political technique of gun-control groups that has swept through other cities in the state. But the county's few anti-gun groups have found a new approach to promoting their cause: gun violence as a public health problem rather than a political issue.
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Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, from
California's Huntington Beach, is not a go-along kind of
guy. 