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Mar 29 - Apr 4, 1998 edition
WASHINGTON -- By defiantly asserting that he and his aides are above the criminal law -- the essence of his claim last Friday of "executive privilege" -- Bill Clinton has increased the likelihood of their indictment and his impeachment. Pitting his soaring poll ratings against bedrock judicial principle, he offers the other two branches of government the choice of the rule of Clinton or the rule of law.
AN Italian journalist of a certain age was telling me about his first trip to Little Rock. ``I recognized it immediately,'' he said with a wry smile. ``The closed atmosphere, the reluctance to be seen talking to an outsider, the background fear . . . just like Sicily.'' He had spent years covering the Mafia in his own country, and he was quick to recognize the similarities between the Sicily of his youth and the Arkansas of his maturer years: Bill Clinton's Arkansas, whose methods and mores have been so brutally and effectively imposed on Washington in the 1990s.
THE hara-kiri legal strategy of the president's lawyer, Bob Bennett, has left Clinton supporters scratching their heads and wondering how many more body blows the president will have to endure before he finally realizes that Bennett is a disaster in and out of court.
The closing weeks of 1997 were not tranquil ones for President Clinton's national initiative on race. Trouble erupted on November 19, when the panel's chairman, John Hope Franklin, offended even supporters of the initiative by excluding Ward Connerly, the the chief advocate of California's Proposition 209, from a forum on diversity in higher education. Clinton himself clashed awkwardly with Abigail Thernstrom, another opponent of affirmative action, at a presidential town meeting on race on December 3 in Akron, Ohio. Then, on December 15, Clinton dismayed even moderate critics of his civil rights policies by naming Bill Lann Lee, a veteran naacp litigator on behalf of racial preferences, as his acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.
There's been a massive effort to discredit Kathleen Willey - an effort that could only be orchestrated by friends of the White House. Yet, the story by the former Clinton booster, Democratic fund-raiser and White House volunteer is, if anything, stronger today than it was last week when she appeared on "60 Minutes" and accused the president of accosting her outside the Oval Office. Also by Farah: America’s During the State of the Union Message , the president boasted he would attack what he described as "the gravest health threat facing America’s young people." But he didn't, because he would have been laughed off the podium. Clinton talked about smoking, but the real No. 1 health threat to young people in this country is irresponsible sexual behavior – something with which Mr. Clinton has more than a little first-hand experience. And right now the U.S. is facing an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases that, in some cases, rivals infection rates in Third World nations.
In their book "Boundaries," (1992, Zondervan), Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend describe an encounter with desperate parents seeking help for their 25-year-old son, Bill. It reads strikingly like America today.
Washington Post The speck in the sky approaches in
virtual silence, unnoticed by the large gathering of
enemy soldiers. After hovering for a few seconds, the
six-inch "Micro Air Vehicle" perches on a
fifth-floor windowsill, its one-gram, inch-long video
camera observing the men and machines below -- and
beaming
Washington Post LOS ANGELES, March 25—A woman in her mid-eighties suffering from breast cancer, whose physician told her she had two months to live, became the first known person to legally commit physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, according to an advocacy group that fought for passage of a new law on medical suicide.
Washington Post NEW YORK -- Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has appointed one of Malcolm X's convicted assassins to head the Harlem mosque the black rights activist led before his murder, the Village Voice reported Thursday.
New York Post THE real winner in Sexgate could be someone who's a zillion miles from the Monica-land of Washington -- so it's no wonder Texas Gov. George W. Bush has quietly emerged as the 2000 Republican front-runner.
Washington Post Reggie White, who usually preaches harmony, accomplished the opposite with a sermon to Wisconsin lawmakers that enforcers of political correctness Thursday said amounted to gay- and race-bashing.
CNN ATLANTA (AP) -- After 30 years of silence, a former FBI agent said Tuesday that papers he took from James Earl Ray's car after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. support claims of a conspiracy.
Washington Post DENVER—A sober forum on the issue of racial stereotyping turned into a raucous protest here Tuesday after President Clinton's race advisory commission came under attack for not including Native Americans on its board.
Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House Judiciary Committee meeting erupted in a shouting match Tuesday as Democrats accused Republican leaders of plotting to spend $1.3 million to prepare for a possible impeachment inquiry.
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Post Clinton Told Jones Team He Had No Willey Notes
Two months before he released a stack of letters from Kathleen E. Willey to undermine her allegation of an unwelcome sexual advance, President Clinton denied that he had any such correspondence when asked in the Paula Jones case, according to court documents filed Saturday. Constitutional Amendment Sought on Tax-Rise Votes The average American family spends about 40 percent of its income paying local, state and federal taxes, prompting two Republican members of Congress Saturday to propose a constitutional amendment that would make it harder to raise federal taxes in the future. Drudge Report Cherry Blossoms are not the only things set to pop in Washington. A new woman is charging that Bill Clinton brazenly stroked her breast without asking permission -- as Hillary Clinton slept just a few feet away. Cristy Zercher, 34, says that Bruce Lindsey called from the White House pressuring her to keep quite about Clinton's behavior, and also describes a mysterious break-in at her apartment where only her personal diary and photos of the president were taken.
Washington Post The $217 billion highway and mass transit bill came under attack from several corners Thursday, with the White House saying it was too fat, a coalition of moderate House members charging it violated the spirit of the balanced-budget deal and some conservatives angrily saying it called into question the principles of the Republican Party.
Washington Post House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) sharply escalated his attacks against President Clinton Friday, declaring that the president "seems to have no shame, no integrity, no dignity." Washington Times President Clinton's claim that his discussions about the White House sex-and-lies scandal are protected by executive privilege stands in stark contrast to waivers of the privilege by Presidents Bush and Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal. Washington Post President Clinton's claim of executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation is intended in part to prevent prosecutors from inquiring about conversations that White House aide Sidney Blumenthal had with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, sources familiar with the matter said Monday
Washington Post The White House has proposed an overhaul of the nation's counter-terrorism strategy that would concentrate greater power in the National Security Council and shift key assignments among federal law enforcement agencies, according to administration officials.
London Telegraph Hillary Clinton sold places on government trade missions for $50,000 each and diverted the money to her husband's election campaign, according to sworn testimony of Nolanda Hill, former business partner of Ron Brown, the Commerce Secretary killed in a plane crash in 1996. "I'm doing my chores for Hillary Clinton," said Brown, according to Hill.
New York Daily News A former Miss America ducking a subpoena in the presidential sex scandal has hired outspoken New York mob lawyer Bruce Cutler to fend off independent counsel Kenneth Starr, the Daily News has learned. Washington Post Confronted with its first opportunity to take up the controversial issue of certain late-term abortions, the Supreme Court Monday chose instead to sidestep the subject, prompting an angry dissent from three conservative justices. The action leaves states without guidance as they try to outlaw certain medical procedures, including what critics call "partial-birth abortion." Washington Post The first scientific look at welfare time limits, a controversial new policy that cuts off benefits for people after a set number of years, found that most recipients in the study were working six months after they lost their assistance. But the study released Tuesday also found that the policy did not prompt families to leave the rolls any sooner than if they weren't facing a time limit. Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO -- The Boy Scouts are a private association not covered by California civil rights laws and can exclude homosexuals, agnostics and atheists, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a pair of unanimous decisions, the court said the Scouts are not a business and therefore are free, like any private club, to set their own membership policies. Washington Post The Supreme Court Monday permitted California to continue enforcing term limits for its state lawmakers, potentially reassuring states across the country that have sought to curtail the tenure of elected state officials. Washington Post Seventeen months after President Clinton and Republican rival Robert J. Dole walked offstage at the University of San Diego, the Federal Election Commission has ruled unanimously against Ross Perot's claim that he should have been there, too, for the final televised debate of the 1996 campaign. New York Times In one election after another, say Christian right leaders, conservative foot soldiers had dutifully worked the phone banks, walked the precincts and turned out masses of voters for Republican candidates who had promised action on issues like abortion, pornography and homosexuality. And the Republicans, they complain, have consistently failed to deliver. What's with those Republicans in Congress?
Washington Post EVANS, Ga. (AP) -- If your high school guidance counselor was right and there is such a thing as ``your permanent record,'' this is going on Mike Cameron's: In 1998, he was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day. School officials say the shirt was an insult to visiting Coca-Cola executives and ruined a school picture in which students spelled out ``Coke.'' London Telegraph PRESIDENT Yeltsin was to launch his second surprise of the week Thursday when inviting President Chirac and Chancellor Kohl to join him in what he hopes will become a thinly-disguised anti-American bloc in Europe. World Net Daily Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch will be asking the court to sanction former White House aide George Stephanopoulos for his uncooperative and mocking attitude during a deposition in the group's "Filegate" lawsuit. The court already has rapped Carville and his attorney for seeking "to mislead the court from the outset and to delay this deposition." World Net Daily SAN FRANCISCO -- For the young Sister Ariadna, the monastery of Our Lady of Vladimir in Russia’s Ural Mountains was her chosen home. Here she had come in 1917, just out of high school, as a novitiate (a beginner), to live the contemplative, yet rigorous life of a Russian Orthodox nun. Such a life is not for everyone. Her decision surprised her parents. But like the other nuns of Our Lady of Vladimir, Sister Ariadna knew she had been called to it by God. London Times Washington Post Washington Post |
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