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Mar 8 - 14, 1998 edition
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London Telegraph DEMANDS that Hong Kong's BBC-style radio station be turned into a government propaganda department caused anger in the territory Thursday. The attack on the editorial independence of Radio Television Hong Kong, which is publicly funded, came from a Hong Kong publisher in Beijing, not from a mainland official.
London Telegraph THE Central Intelligence Agency is training Yasser Arafat's security forces the techniques of eavesdropping and interrogation, according to a report Thursday. CIA counter-terrorism experts and agents with experience of covert operations have been instructing officers in the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza.
London Telegraph FRANCE has lodged an official protest with the European Commission about the way English is supplanting French as Europe's prime working language. As part of its campaign, France has made clear that it will block the appointment of the next president of the European Commission if he or she does not speak fluent French.
London Telegraph A MAN obsessed with raping Steven Spielberg could face life imprisonment after being convicted Wednesday of stalking the Oscar-winning film director. Jonathan Norman, a body-builder and would-be actor who was arrested near the film-maker's home, was expected to be sentenced at a later date.
London Telegraph THE German authorities Wednesday arrested a 78-year-old Nazi war criminal suspected of being involved in the murder of 70,000 people, mostly Jews. The former Third Reich security officer, who has not been named, said in another war crimes case last July in North Rhine-Westphalia that he personally shot 500 people, including children.
London Telegraph A MAN called Al Nino is being plagued by telephone calls from people blaming him for the El Niņo weather system.
London Telegraph A CRISIS of faith in Austria's Roman Catholic Church over allegations of sexual abuse against its former head may finally be resolved by a visitation by the Chief Abbot of the World Benedictine Confederation.
London Telegraph ULTRA-Orthodox Jews seeking to rebuild the biblical temple in Jerusalem are planning to designate a settlement where new-born boys will be raised in isolation to serve as the purest of priests. Washington Post If implemented, the international global warming treaty the United States signed in Kyoto, Japan, could add $70 to $110 to the average American household's annual energy bill over the next 15 years, according to a long-awaited White House economic analysis released Wenesday. Washington Post When the tide of electric utility deregulation started rolling in, Montana plunged in headfirst. Encouraged by organized labor and pushed by a powerful utility that deployed lobbyists and campaign contributions at the capitol, the overwhelmingly Republican legislature in 1997 enacted a statute phasing in deregulation by the year 2002. Washington Post House Republican leaders Tuesday gave a strong push to a proposal to use future surpluses to create individual retirement accounts for all Americans who pay into Social Security -- an approach that could mark the first step toward the long-term privatization of the financially rocky federal retirement system. Washington Post A federal judge in San Francisco has thrown out the conviction of an African American lobbyist who gave gifts to then-Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy in 1993-94, saying the case never should have been brought in California.
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Telegraph Top Lawyers Denounce White House Smear Campaign FOUR former attorneys general who served Presidents Carter, Reagan and Bush have denounced the smear campaign against the man investigating President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice as "improper." Washington Post Starr, staff
see Lewinsky allegations through As the central characters in the matter of President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky materialized on stage at the same time last week, there was a new sense of recognition that no one outside of Starr's office knows what evidence he and his prosecutors are amassing. Starr and his staff continue to appear confident that their investigation has made significant progress that will quiet the doubters.
Washington Post House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) Saturday staunchly defended independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, saying the prosecutor has become the target of a smear campaign. Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Interest groups, businesses and labor unions are spending $100 million a month to lobby the federal government, according to the first complete computerized study of disclosure reports London Telegraph IRAQ is using a sophisticated network
of offshore companies and Latin American banks to
Washington Post A new tell-all book by a former Supreme Court clerk portrays the nation's high court justices as strongly influenced by politics and manipulated by ideological law clerks who not only play a dominant role in drafting opinions but sway how the justices vote on individual cases. San Jose Mercury A U.S. ambassador's widow filed a $25 million libel suit against conservative columnist Arianna Huffington Thursday, saying an allegation she had an affair with President Clinton was a ``pernicious lie.'' Shelia (Rpt Shelia) Davis Lawrence also separately sued the tabloid National Enquirer for publishing what she said were false statements concerning the alleged affair. Los Angeles Times President Clinton refused to explain Thursday why he warned former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky that she was likely to be called to testify about her relationship with him. Insight Magazine Clinton Druggies Couldn't Get
Cleared, Rep. Porter Goss, a Florida Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, launched an extensive probe in February into the possible breakdown of the White House security system after a pattern of apparent widespread abuses that may have left the most-guarded U.S. secrets unprotected. "This matter has caught my attention and there is an investigation going on," Goss confirms to Insight. Washington Post In a major victory for advocates of affirmative action, the Senate yesterday rejected an effort by Republican conservatives to kill a 15-year-old program that helps women and minorities win highway construction contracts. Washington Post In an issue of growing controversy in its ranks, one of the nation's leading environmental organizations is considering whether to throw its weight behind an effort to reduce immigration as part of a policy to stabilize U.S. population growth. Washington Post Working to avoid a legal showdown with the telecommunications industry, Attorney General Janet Reno yesterday opened new talks with industry executives aimed at preserving the ability of law enforcement agencies to listen in on phone conversations in the digital age. Washington Post The commission charged with coming up with recommendations to save the Medicare system met for the first time yesterday, and raised as one possibility the idea of redesigning the system from scratch. Washington Post Judge Raps Monica's Ding-a-ling Lawyer Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) called on independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr yesterday to quickly wrap up his investigation and suggested that Congress could consider censuring President Clinton for his conduct if there is not evidence to impeach him. Washington Post Congressional leaders are moving to shut down efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to require radio and TV stations to provide free air time for political candidates, a campaign reform idea advocated by President Clinton. ABC News With Congress hard going for new environmental laws, President Clinton is using the regulatory process to move his environmental agenda. Prime examples are a proposed clean water action plan and controversial administrative measures to meet U.S. obligations under a new global warming treaty. New York Times In an effort to expand its influence on the special commission charged with disarming Iraq, Russia has asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to name a Russian as co-deputy chairman of the panel, U.N. officials said on Friday. Forbes WITH ONE SWIFT SLICE into the tentacles of federal regulation, a December ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. may have begun to unravel decades of government intrusion into local, private matters. Washington Post Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung, who delivered a $50,000 campaign contribution to the White House and escorted Chinese businessmen to a presidential radio address, has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's investigation of finance abuses in the 1996 campaign.
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Since last month's "Great Las
Vegas Anthrax Caper" turned out to be a false alarm,
a combination of the FBI going off half-cocked and the
press happily lapping up any libel they're handed (so
long as it supposedly involves "white supremacist
militia" types), ... 
