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Mar 15 - 21, 1998 edition
WASHINGTON -- Time's cover story this
week on "Primary Colors" offers an incendiary
hypothesis about the movie's Bill Clinton clone, Jack
Stanton.
Has Bill Clinton reinvented Richard Nixon’s Plumbers Unit? Back in the 1970s, Chuck Colson, G. Gordon Liddy and other federal employees spied on Nixon’s critics from the White House. Now, in a 1990s, New- Democrat twist, the collection and dissemination of dirt on President Clinton’s detractors may have been privatized, specifically to a gumshoe operation called Investigative Group, Inc. [more]
"Exit Strategy" has become a common term in today's parlance. It seems to have originated when U.S. Rangers on "intervention" in Somalia had their dead bodies dragged through the streets in front of the world's television cameras. It was a miserable way for brave young men to die, but it did indelibly highlight the importance of having a strategy to protect oneself while retreating from a hostile situation. [more]
Washington Post KEARNEY, Neb.—An ecclesiastical jury Thursday acquitted a United Methodist minister accused of violating church doctrine by performing a marriage ceremony for a lesbian couple. Advocates for gays and lesbians said the decision represents a pivotal success in the efforts of homosexual Christians to worship freely in their churches.
Washington Post Federal agents have shut down two major immigration fraud rings, one in Northern Virginia and the other in New York, arresting eight government officials and dozens of other alleged conspirators in separate sting operations, officials announced Thursday.
Washington Post The incidence of cancer among Americans is declining for the first time since the 1930s, a team of epidemiologists announced Thursday.
Washington Post Prodded by the threat of a national boycott and angry correspondence from thousands of people around the country, Merriam-Webster has assembled a task force to come up with new definitions for the word "nigger" and hundreds of other offensive words found in its collegiate dictionary.
Washington Post Based on a moment of midnight inspiration, Vice President Gore today will announce his plan to make a live video image of the full, sunlit Earth -- spinning on its axis against the blackness of space -- continuously available to the world, via television and the Internet.
Washington Post By a vote of 96 to 4, the Senate Thursday approved a $214 billion highway and mass transit reauthorization bill that would boost spending by 38 percent in the coming six years and correct long-festering regional inequities in the way highway money is divided among the states.
Washington Post Archaic peoples of the American Southwest formed organized farming communities thousands of years earlier -- and in a different way -- from what is generally believed, according to a new study of an ancient Mexican village.
Washington Post While last year's threats of dismantling the National Endowment for the Arts have largely faded, a congressional panel Thursday warned officials of the agency not to expect any largess from Congress.
Washington Post For the third year running, tobacco maker Philip Morris was the biggest "soft money" donor to the Republican Party, giving $1.2 million in contributions last year, according to figures compiled by Common Cause. The Democratic Party's biggest soft money donor was the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which contributed $430,000 to Democratic Party committees.
Washington Post The Pentagon tightened security and halted public tours after a threat of possible terrorist action, a spokesman said Thursday. "We did receive some information through the FBI. Some of it was credible; some of it wasn't very credible," said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon.
London Telegraph THE long and bloodstained shadow of King Shaka, the Zulus' warrior founder, is once more looming over South Africa because of a controversial plan to honour him with a giant stone statue. In the nearly two centuries since Shaka's impis (regiments) carved out his empire in a series of brilliant but genocidal campaigns, historians have clashed repeatedly over his record. Whites saw him as a barbaric dictator while blacks hailed him as their Napoleon whose legacy fuelled a proud and independent spirit.
London Telegraph SOYA beans contain a powerful substance that thwarts cancer, scientists have shown. The beans are packed with genistein, a hormone that plays a pivotal role in suppressing the growth of cancerous cells.
London Telegraph AMERICA may ease sanctions against Cuba after agreeing with the Vatican to adopt a "religious-driven" policy towards Cuba, reports in Italy and America say. La Repubblica newspaper, which enjoys close contacts with the Holy See, quoted an American diplomat admitting to Vatican officials that "for years" Washington had been "over-reacting" to the Castro regime, and a policy change was needed.
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Telegraph Monty Python Members Re-Unite, Set U.S. Tour THE Monty Python team reunited on stage for the first time in 18 years last weekend, and enjoyed themselves so much that they decided to reform for a concert tour next year to coincide with their 30th anniversary.
New York Post It was a real Friday the 13th for President Clinton, who must be wondering why he didn't settle with Paula Jones a long, long time ago. Now the world has heard -- in graphic detail -- how Kathleen Willey accuses him of groping her at the White House.
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Los Angeles Times Nolanda S. Hill, the onetime business partner of late Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown, was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury on charges that she diverted more than $200,000 from companies she controlled to buy clothes and jewelry for herself and failed to report it as income on her tax returns. Washington Post BOISE, Idaho, March 13—Accompanied by four burly bodyguards, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi appeared in federal court here today to hear his lawyers contend that he cannot be prosecuted under Idaho law for shooting and killing a woman holding a baby in her arms during the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge. Washington Post The Justice Department agreed Wednesday to release some 200,000 pages of FBI crime lab reports to a whistle-blower who has already sparked an overhaul of the laboratory and who now promises to search out errors in its past work. Frederic Whitehurst will receive the documents along with $300,000 to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed the Justice Department spread false and derogatory information about him. Washington Post Weeks after winning a Chinese pledge to halt assistance to Iran's nuclear programs, the Clinton administration discovered and protested secret negotiations between the two governments for hundreds of tons of material used in enriching uranium to weapons grade, according to officials with access to U.S. intelligence. Washington Post The House passed a bill Thursday to give property owners broader access to federal courts in property rights disputes with the federal government. Washington Post House Republican leaders Thursday ran into rank-and-file protests over plans to dip into an emerging budget surplus to pay for new military and storm-damage costs -- and then they tripped over a snag in their strategy for dealing with other foreign policy spending. Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO--In what he called a historic event, Gov. Pete Wilson on Wednesday abolished an affirmative action program that has funneled billions of dollars in state contracts to companies owned by minorities and women. The action marks the first time Wilson has been legally free to dismantle state programs that he believes give an unfair advantage to some Californians based on gender and race. Washington Post SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 11—Democrat Lois Capps, the widow of Rep. Walter Capps (D-Calif.), won a key special election here by exploiting Republican conflicts that analysts warned could haunt the GOP in the November elections. New York Times WASHINGTON — The first question in the air as Matt Drudge, cyber-gossip extraordinaire, sidled up to the pack of news workers camped endlessly outside the federal courthouse was whether Drudge even belonged in their midst. Washington Post In a speech highlighting the IRS's new-found commitment to "open communication," IRS Chief Counsel Stuart L. Brown revealed to the ABA Tax Section on January 24 that he intends to repropose legislation that would make agency legal analysis contained in field service advice memorandums (FSAs) confidential taxpayer return information under section 6103. Washington Post SACRAMENTO, March 12—The California Board of Education today rescinded a decades-long policy requiring that students with limited English skills be taught in their native language. The surprise move, which gives local school districts control over bilingual education, came in response to a petition filed by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation. Sexual Predator in the White House Section New York Post On election night 1992, socialite Kathleen Willey and her lawyer husband were in Little Rock at Bill Clinton's invitation to celebrate his win over George Bush. Washington Post On Nov. 29, 1993, Willey went to see Clinton about getting a full-time job because her husband's real estate business was nearing bankruptcy. According to Willey's sworn statements, Clinton made an uninvited sexual advance, kissing and groping her, in a secluded corridor just off the Oval Office. Unbeknownst to Clinton or Willey, her husband had committed suicide that afternoon. Washington Post Much of the once-secret evidence in the Paula Jones lawsuit exploded into public view Friday as her lawyers filed hundreds of pages of documents that collectively accuse President Clinton of a pattern of sexual indiscretions and an elaborate campaign to cover them up. Washington Post LITTLE ROCK—Investigators for Paula Jones's legal team have spent five months tracking down shadows from Bill Clinton's past -- trying to match women's names and accounts to rumors that have dogged the president since his Arkansas days. New York Post WASHINGTON - Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr has warned disgraced presidential pal Webster Hubbell he's about to be indicted on new charges, including tax evasion, NBC News reported Wednesday night. Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell says he is impoverished. But what about his six-figure book deal and the hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees arranged for Hubbell by friends of President Clinton? New York Times WASHINGTON -- Paula Corbin Jones has a personal hairdresser, who traveled with her here recently, providing touch-ups as needed while she signed autographs. But she has no car in freeway-laced Los Angeles, and during her husband's workday, she is all but housebound with two preschool-aged children in their one-bedroom apartment. Washington Post Monica Lewinsky, we are told with an invitation to pity, lives a cloistered existence, rarely leaving her mother's Watergate apartment. But what about the TV cameramen who spend their days outside on the street, waiting for a quick glimpse? Insight Magazine The independent counsel faces slings and arrows from all sides as critics question everything from his sex life to his motives and his legal grounds. Fox News WASHINGTON (AP) — The 700 pages of information revealed by Paula Jones' lawyers could be a bonanza for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's criminal investigation, regardless of whether the material is admitted in Mrs. Jones' civil case, legal experts said Saturday. Washington Post It's all come full circle. The Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit triggered independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's investigation into whether President Clinton or others had attempted to obstruct justice in the Jones case. New York Post Linda Tripp lied about being arrested for theft on a Defense Department security clearance form, a new report says. But the lawyer for the woman whose secret tapes of a friend triggered the Sexgate scandal says she was set up by a friend. Washington Post If congressional Republicans this year stall in passing legislation for a comprehensive tobacco settlement, President Clinton has already signaled what his response will be: He will attack them as shirkers, more interested in partisan politics than the public interest. And if GOP lawmakers begin to step up their so-far muted criticism of Clinton in the Monica S. Lewinsky controversy, White House aides say they are ready with the same response. London Telegraph MILITARY discipline is so weak that the Russian mafia is about to take over in some army units, Marshal Igor Sergeyev, the Defence Minister, said Tuesday. His warning was given to a meeting of senior officers and law enforcement officials called to discuss the crisis in the cash-starved army. London Telegraph CHANCELLOR Kohl and his allies were delighted Monday by the Left-wing programme adopted by the Green Party, using it to draw a lurid picture of the dangers for Germany if the opposition wins September's general election. The Chancellor said the Greens' manifesto "would destroy the foundations of our foreign and security policy", while colleagues denounced the party's plan almost to triple the price of petrol as a "horror vision". |
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