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Apr 12 - 18, 1998 edition
THE invisible hand is giving Japan an almighty whack. First to feel the pain were the country’s banks. Having lent immoderately large sums to just about anyone that wanted the money, they have been on the ropes ever since the collapse of stock and land prices earlier this decade. But another wave of casualties is coming, this time in the non-financial parts of Japan’s ailing economy. The implications for output and jobs are serious, more so than many Japanese yet understand.
by Vin Suprynowicz
by George Osborn Headline from a right-wing newspaper? Not so -- unless one considers the Los Angeles Times a right-wing rag. Along with the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Sacramento Bee, newspapers across America are questioning the integrity and veracity of the President of the United States. Such is the state of Bill Clinton’s presidency that the most liberal newspapers in the country are questioning not his legacy, but his very survival. So much so that the Los Angeles Times leads off an article with "Poll of Capitol Hill staffers suggests Clinton may face (impeachment) hearings … if he doesn’t resign."
The young woman who walked into the Governor's hotel suite looked as she did every workday -- trim, dressed in a simple, elegant suit, hair cut in short chic, just the right amount of lipstick. She did not know why she had been called to meet the Governor; the trooper did not say. But she was tickled to be there. She was a clerk but had expectations that her education at Vassar and the law degree for which she had enrolled would move her up in the state government. Getting to meet the Governor was great luck.
More evidence of China-purchased treason If you have any doubts that the Clinton administration has been bought and paid for by political contributions from the totalitarian Chinese government and their U.S. corporate dupes, just check out the latest revelations from Jeff Gerth and Raymond Bonner of The New York Times.
Sicko's victory by David Horowitz Let's see if I've got this Clinton victory right. A federal judge in Little Rock , Ark., has decided that the president is innocent of committing an "outrage" as defined by Arkansas law, or of inflicting any actionable damages on Paula Jones' psyche. That leaves the president guilty only of indecent exposure. Sure, it's "alleged." But who in their own private counsels, or in their right mind, could believe that Jones and the six people in whom she confided at the time just made the whole incident up?
Brother Bruce's Traveling Salvation Show Could it be that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who has become yet another Clinton insider under scrutiny by the Justice Department, is as misunderstood as he makes out to be? To hear Babbitt tell it, he's a prophet without honor, a voice crying in the wilderness, a truly inspired modern Joshua among the many poseurs who propose to lead the flock into the promised pastures of ecotopia.
Behind Judge Wright's unexpected Jones ruling Was fear a factor in dismissal?
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Nations Court Orders US Execution Stayed THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The World Court intervened for the first time in a death penalty case Thursday, demanding that the United States spare the life of a Paraguayan facing execution in Virginia next week. FCC Grabs
for Taxing Power Marking a profound shift in the way the federal government views cyberspace, the Federal Communications Commission said Friday that at least some companies that provide telephone service over the Internet should be regulated in some of the same ways that traditional phone companies like AT&T are regulated. GOP Wants Forest Service Files Congressional Republicans critical of the U.S. Forest Service's logging policies demanded yesterday that the Clinton administration turn over reams of documents to determine whether the agency is violating anti-lobbying laws. Forest Service officials said they have done nothing wrong and will provide the information.
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party candidate sees 'crisis'; WASHINGTON -- A major crisis is brewing for America, and presidential candidate Howard Phillips says he and his supporters are working hard to warn the people. 'Titanic'
Makers Apologize LONDON (Reuters) - The makers of the film "Titanic" have apologized to a Scottish town for turning its local hero into a villain, a British member of parliament said on Wednesday. The Oscar-sweeping Hollywood movie showed the Titanic's first officer, William Murdoch, taking a bribe, shooting a third-class passenger who tried to fight his way into a lifeboat and then turning his gun on himself. Social Security Tide May Be Turning; Bipartisan eyeing of some privatization Even as President Clinton holds his first national forum on Social Security's future in Kansas City today, the debate may be leaving him behind. What once was unthinkable -- partial privatization of the biggest, most popular and most successful program of 20th century American liberalism -- has gone mainstream. Clinton now caught
lying It was "wrong" for President Clinton to receive Holy Communion from a South African priest last month, John Cardinal O'Connor said in a stunning Palm Sunday address. Nobody can explain Foster inconsistencies; new FBI details All of the official investigators of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster's death refuse to accept responsibility for inconsistent information contained in a recently released FBI memorandum. The
Education of Newt Gingrich: There was a moment when House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) hauled his garbage out to the curb during his ethics crisis in the winter of 1996 and his eyes briefly flickered over to the cameras recording his every move in Marietta. Hundreds of miles away in Washington, Gingrich's longtime political adviser Rich Galen picked up the phone and called his friend, urging him to remain silent. Public
handouts enrich Working in a public laboratory, backed by $3.2 million in federal grants, Dr. Barry S. Coller turned a scientific hunch into a ''super aspirin'' and turned himself into a Park Avenue multimillionaire. Justices
Set June 8 Hearing The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would speed up review of Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr's demand to see notes of conversations between White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. and his lawyer. TV Stretches Limits of
Taste, ike a child acting outrageously naughty to see how far he can push his parents, mainstream television this season is flaunting the most vulgar and explicit sex, language and behavior that it has ever brought into American homes. And, as sometimes happens with the spoiled child, the tactic works: Attention is being paid. Leftist Causes in Old-Age Home The aging lefties at Los Angeles' Sunset Hall -- former communists, still-staunch socialists, liberals, intellectuals and other free thinkers -- would rather sit around and talk than engage in bingo, or any other conventional rest-home pastime. It feels more like a Greenwich Village salon of 50 years ago than an old-age home today. Lack of
skilled ethnic journalists A group representing the nation's newspaper editors has proposed scaling back its 20-year-old goals for increasing diversity in newsrooms, saying their longtime goal of making newsrooms mirror the country's ethnic mix by the year 2000 is untenable. Jones lawyers
think WASHINGTON - Paula Jones spent the weekend wondering if she can stand another year in the spotlight - a key factor in deciding if she'll appeal the dismissal of her sex suit against President Clinton. Most
Gays Used Declaration to The majority of people discharged from the military last year for being gay were in their first year of service and voluntarily declared their homosexuality in order to leave the armed forces early, according to a Pentagon study to be released this week. Republicans
turn on President Clinton has been branded "a shameless person" by a leading Republican in one of the harshest attacks yet against the embattled leader. "His basic credo in life is 'I will do whatever I can get away with' ," Dick Armey, the House Majority Leader, told a conference in Texas, calling on the President to resign from shame over his alleged sexual misconduct. White
House told to not The White House cannot erase computer files without first announcing its intentions and giving researchers time to protest, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Minnesotans
show Babbitt usually ignored Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt's rationale for rejecting an Indian casino in Hudson, Wis., is being hurled back at him in a case affecting the richest tribe on the winning side of that controversy. Researcher finds Hillary's role is a federal offense First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton recently claimed "executive privilege" regarding certain White House activities, maintaining that she is employed as a "political adviser" to her spouse-in-chief. President
sets panel to select After several months of unexplained delay, President Clinton has quietly issued an executive order establishing a 12-member American HeritageRivers Inititiative Advisory Committee to 20 rivers from a list of 160 nominated for "federal protection." Militant
sodomites break into GAY rights activists stormed the pulpit as the Archbishop of Canterbury was
delivering his Easter Expect Paula to appeal -- lawyers WASHINGTON -- Paula Jones is planning to announce later this week she's filing an appeal to revive her sex-harassment suit against President Clinton, lawyers close to the case predicted Sunday. Jones' lawyers already have advised her to appeal, telling Jones that her chances of winning are good. |
Members of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington
expressed skepticism April 8 over the pleadings of a lawyer representing a dozen media
companies. 
