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Apr 5 - 11, 1998 edition
by Vin Suprynowicz
VAN BUREN, Ark. -- It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and Bill Clinton's celebrated troubles with his zipper may be good news for the Republicans in Arkansas. What happens here is crucial to Republican prospects in the South in November, which is in turn crucial to whether the party strengthens its control of Congress.
more of Pruden: A woman cleans up after Clinton again The bashful and squeamish among us praise Susan Webber Wright for her profile in courage, but it looks to a lot of people like a profile of another woman on her knees in Little Rock.
It was a pretty straightforward document request from the Paula Jones team:
A federal judge's decision to toss out Paula Jones's suit against President Clinton has, without warning, deprived a ravenous press corps of one of the more sensational scandal stories of the '90s. Nearly 700 journalists had signed up to chronicle the trial in Little Rock next month; now they may be writing their final pieces about alleged pants-dropping. It's as if a director had run onto a wartime battlefield and shouted, "Cut!"
Washington Post White House spinmeisters made a big to-do Friday after learning that legal columnist Stuart Taylor, one of President Clinton's critics, recently considered a job offer from independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
Washington Post Federal prosecutors defended their scrutiny of Monica Lewinsky's book purchases Friday, saying government investigators had also examined the reading habits of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, "Unabomber" Theodore J. Kaczynski and the men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center.
While the relentless machinery of investigation may grind on for many months, it is now politically inconceivable that Congress will consider impeachment -- for President Clinton's alleged lies and obstruction in a case that no longer exists.
Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The small but growing number of people who make long-distance calls over the Internet could face higher charges under an idea being discussed by regulators.
Washington Post Facing at least $1.5 million in unpaid bills from the Paula Jones case, President Clinton's legal team is preparing to file suit against two insurance companies that stopped financing the president's defense last year to force them to reverse their decision.
New York Times WASHINGTON -- The Sierra Club, one of the largest and most influential environmental groups in the United States, is in the final throes of a bitter and divisive debate over whether to call for restrictions on immigration as a way of controlling growth in the nation's population.
The Hill Members of the House Judiciary Committee are girding for what they believe will be the intense - and potentially embarrassing - glare of public scrutiny if they ever conduct an impeachment inquiry.
Washington Post Despite a national debate on reducing youth smoking, American teenagers continue to light up in increasing numbers, according to new government figures.
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Washington Times U.S. slack while adversaries modernize attack capabilities The Pentagon's top nuclear-war fighter said Tuesday that China is engaged in a major nuclear modernization that includes development of multiple-warhead missiles capable of hitting all parts of the United States except southern Florida. Washington Post as way to bypass politicians Twenty years ago this June, angry California voters unleashed the revolution of Proposition 13, the ballot initiative that capped local property tax rates, cutting $5 billion in taxes statewide. Across the nation, petitions are circulating to place proposals before voters, but in California, initiatives have become a dominant means of setting government policy. Washington Post Lindsey Graham rose on the House floor and ordered the mighty Bud Shuster, chairman of the transportation committee, to "listen up." Shuster's highway bill was a pork-barrel monster, the young congressman lectured, that made "a sham" out of the balanced budget agreement. "We all should be ashamed." Washington Times An Arkansas prosecutor who brought felony charges against a cooperating Whitewater witness in what law enforcement officials said was an effort to impede the Whitewater probe failed to repay a $169,000 loan from the Little Rock thrift at the heart of the investigation, court records say. Washington Post As many as 100 lawyers and legal aides may be working at taxpayer expense to defend President Clinton against sex charges, a Republican senator said Saturday, but the White House denied the claim as "reckless." Washington Times The White House Tuesday resisted explaining to the Senate whether its $2.36 million legal department is conducting improper personal legal work for President Clinton. The General Accounting Office, meanwhile, moved to determine if tax dollars are being misused in the counsel's office. Washington Times TOKYO -- The chairman of Sony Corp. sharply criticized Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto Thursday as a modern-day Herbert Hoover leading his nation toward collapse and the world into recession.
Ruddy News Employing the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA], Reed Irvine's Accuracy in Media has obtained a heavily redacted FBI memo written 2 days after Vincent Foster's body was discovered in Fort Marcy Park. The memo was sent from the FBI's Washington D.C Metropolitan Field Office to then acting-FBI-Director Floyd Clarke. Washington Post The federal judge overseeing the grand jury in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation has this week ordered Lewinsky's first attorney to testify and turn over certain documents, in a sealed decision concluding that the attorney-client privilege should be breached, sources familiar with the case said. Ruddy News Who did Vincent Foster and Webster Hubbell meet the weekend before Foster's death in July 1993? Nathan Landow. Landow, a real estate mogul, has been a Democratic party power broker for decades. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter nominated him for an ambassadorship to the Netherlands, but Landow withdrew in the wake of press reports linking him to organized crime figures. Washington Times Senate Republican leaders won back the support of tax-cut hawks Thursday, clearing the way for a 57-41 vote to pass a $1.73 trillion budget resolution that has been under debate for a week. Washington Post LOS ANGELES, April 4—Despite dire predictions by a bug-eyed Dan Rather, El Niņo delivered a winter that was essentially no worse than either of the previous two punishing winters in the United States.
The Paula Jones matter Washington Times A federal judge Monday threw out Paula Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton, a stunning decision after a four-year legal battle over accusations that as Arkansas governor he accosted the woman in a Little Rock hotel.
Washington Post U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright's decision dismissing the Paula Jones lawsuit Wednesday instantly reshaped the battlefield between President Clinton and his accusers and it will significantly complicate the work of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and Republicans in Congress who have been contemplating impeachment proceedings against the president. Washington Times Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright heaped scorn Thursday on critics of administration foreign policy who accuse the United Nations of being a threat to U.S. sovereignty. Washington Times NEW YORK -- Lights! Camera! Action! Kofi Annan is headed for Hollywood. Frustrated with his failure to get Congress to pay off arrears, the U.N. secretary-general is going over lawmakers' heads to the American people, beginning with a high-visibility star turn in Tinseltown. Washington Times Democrats in Congress, who scored one of their biggest political victories in pushing through an increase in the minimum wage two years ago, find themselves surprisingly divided as they gear up to do it again. Washington Times 2K = $50 billion for USG. That is the latest expert estimate of what it will cost the federal government to defuse the millennium computer bomb. Contained in a report by one of the government's leading consultants on the year-2000 problem, known informally as Y2K, the figure is 10 times larger than the most recent estimate of the Office of Management and Budget to fix the "chrono-crash" -- $4.7 billion. CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On a busy day that included a decision involving the Whitewater investigation and a major test of disability rights, the Supreme Court also agreed Monday to decide whether Congress overstepped its authority when it made carjacking a federal crime. Washington Post In forestry lingo, "selective thinning" is what loggers do to woods that are overgrown and vulnerable to disease. It's also what some congressional Republicans are apparently planning for the U.S. Forest Service if it doesn't allow more cutting in the country's 150-plus national forests. Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate killed a drive by conservatives Wednesday to slice taxes by $196 billion over the next five years, weakening their hopes for another round of big reductions this congressional election year. Washington Post The House Wednesday night voted 337 to 80 to approve a historically huge $217 billion highway and mass transit reauthorization bill that would increase spending by 43 percent over the next six years, pump a stream of money into state transportation departments and shower a vast array of new construction projects on almost all congressional districts. Washington Post House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Wednesday he favors giving each working American a piece of any federal budget surplus to save and invest for retirement. Washington Post A New York scientist has quietly applied for a patent on a method for making creatures that are part human and part animal in a calculated move designed to reignite debate about the morality of patenting life forms and engineering human beings. Washington Post Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to speed up its study of his bid to obtain notes taken by a lawyer for White House aide Vincent W. Foster Jr. during a meeting shortly before Foster's 1993 suicide. |
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Through much of history, those in political power have
taken a reactionary view of new technological developments ...
particularly those that threatened to grant to "commoners" the power to do
things previously allowed only to their "betters," or (worst of all) to free the
citizens from an accustomed measure of government oversight, taxation, and control. 
