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Apr 26 - May 2, 1998 edition
by Vin Suprynowicz 'Hi, we want
Washington Times by Wesley Pruden The hapless Republican campaign to turn Congress over
to the Democrats continues.
more Pruden: The sanction The tobacco deal appears to be as dead as a two-packs-a-day smoker, and good riddance. The deal stinks like an after-dinner cigar.
New York Times By Anthony Lewis On March 10, 1969, I was in Memphis to assist Martin Waldron of The New York Times in covering the prosecution of James Earl Ray for the murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We went to court that morning for what we thought was going to be a preliminary phase of the prosecution. Instead, Ray's lawyer, Percy Foreman, entered a plea of guilty. Questioned by the judge, Ray confirmed the plea. [more]
World Net Daily By Col. David Hackworth "Colonel, I can't fly. Gotta breast feed Wendy." "Sarge, I can't deploy. My baby sitter's sick." Pregnancy and a mini population explosion in the ranks have degraded our military's ability to fight.
New York Post By Dick Morris How did confidential information from Linda Tripp's Pentagon personnel file find its way to Jane Mayer, a writer for The New Yorker, in blatant violation of the federal Privacy Act? And how did Mayer - at the very same time - also happen to learn of a Tripp arrest that had been sealed and expunged more than 20 years before?
Salon by David Horowitz How Did It Get the Hale-Scaife Stories, and When Did It Get Them?
Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The United States and its Western allies in the Bosnia peacekeeping operation are creating a tribunal that will have the power to shut radio and television stations and punish newspapers that it decides are engaged in propaganda that is undermining the peace.
Washington Post A recent crop of subpoenas on news organizations has provoked barely a murmur, a pattern that alarms an older generation of First Amendment lawyers who fear that the gains of 20 years in press protections are being eroded inch by inch.
Washington Post Rural senators who asked the Federal Communications Commission for a report on telephone subsidies and the Internet said on Wednesday the agency's conclusions were deficient.
Washington Post Although the number of new AIDS cases in the United States has declined substantially in recent years, HIV continues to spread through the population essentially unabated, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Washington Times In his first public remarks since the White House sex-and-lies scandal broke, the attorney for Linda R. Tripp yesterday charged that President Clinton's supporters have waged a campaign of "vilification" against his client, and he denied that she betrayed her onetime friend Monica Lewinsky by secretly taping their private conversations.
Washington Times Despite the booming economy, Republicans and Democrats on the campaign trail are hearing from men and women who are insecure about the future and worried about the job market their children will face.
Washington Times The Senate took up a school-choice bill last week that is opposed by the White House, teacher unions and the NAACP but that social conservatives call the most important educational reform of the year.
Washington Times A federal jury in Chicago said that two pro-life groups and three pro-life leaders had committed acts of extortion against two abortion clinics and awarded the clinics more than $85,000 in damages.
Washington Times Under fierce criticism from Republicans, the Labor Department reversed a 4-day-old decision to bar a key investigator from working on a House probe of the Teamsters.
Washington Times Susan McDougal is expected to be charged with criminal contempt for refusing Thursday to testify before the Whitewater grand jury on whether President Clinton lied when he denied knowing about an illegal $300,000 loan she received in 1986.
Washington Times U.N. diplomats refused to condemn Cuba's human rights record, demonstrating the diplomats' growing willingness to defy U.S. efforts to isolate President Fidel Castro's Communist regime.
Washington Times House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Clinton's push for a tobacco bill is motivated not by a desire to save children from smoking-related diseases but by a liberal agenda to raise taxes and create bigger government.
Hot Coco Paralyzed by a political crossfire in Sacramento that's draining its resources, the San Francisco- based State Bar of California -- which disciplines wayward lawyers -- is sending out layoff notices this week to most of its 600-plus employees, warning them that they will lose their jobs in 60 days if the bar's ongoing financial crisis is not resolved.
Washington Post The government's compliance with a 1996 law making electronic records subject to the Freedom of Information Act has been "overwhelmingly inadequate," according to a survey by OMB Watch.
Washington Post Members of one of the nation's leading environmental organizations have voted to maintain neutrality on U.S. immigration policy, turning back a call for reduced immigration as a means of limiting U.S. population growth to preserve natural resources.
Washington Post The Washington scandal machine has now come full circle. The White House team that responds to rumor, innuendo and accusation -- labeled Masters of Disaster by one of its original members -- is itself the focus of a Senate committee investigating why so many lawyers are working at taxpayers' expense to defend President Clinton.
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Washington Times White House seeks standby U.N. army Congressional officials are investigating $200,000 the Clinton administration gave the United Nations last fall as seed money to mobilize a worldwide standby army for peacekeeping operations. Science & Environmental Policy Project FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA---More than 15,000 scientists, two-thirds with advanced academic degrees, have now signed a petition against the climate accord concluded in Kyoto (Japan) in December 1997. The Petition urges the US government to reject the accord, which would force drastic cuts in energy use on the United States. Washington Times Whitewater prosecutors have written at least one draft indictment of Hillary Rodham Clinton, but they remain divided over whether to charge the first lady with lying about legal work she did for a failed Arkansas real estate project.
Washington Post U.S. and allied military forces abruptly shelved plans for an operation late last summer to capture Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president indicted for war crimes, after Washington discovered that a senior French military officer had held secret meetings with Karadzic, according to senior U.S. and diplomatic officials. Washington Post SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—There is something poignant and sad about walking into the master bedroom of Rancho del Cielo, the former western White House of the former President Ronald Reagan, his beloved mountaintop retreat where he spent more than a full year of his eight years in office, here in the wildflowered crags of fog and wind and sun.
Washington Post When lawmakers return to Washington this week, they will discover that opposition to comprehensive anti-smoking legislation has been steadily building -- in some of the most unusual corners.
Washington Times The United Nations has adequate resources and its financial picture is not as gloomy as its leaders say, according to a draft General Accounting Office audit done for Congress. Washington Times Cary Carlyle, principal of the 900-student Sylvania School in northeastern Alabama's DeKalb County, is conversant on Plato, states' rights and religion in public schools. He also resents a federal judge's order that sent him and some 500 other teachers and staff from the county's eight schools to a presentation on the role of religion in the public schools. Washington Post House and Senate Democrats are pressing the White House to commit to an ambitious fund-raising plan aimed at generating $20 million for their tough bid to reclaim control of Congress this fall. Washington Times A defiant Susan McDougal refused Thursday for a second time to answer questions before a grand jury in Little Rock, Ark., setting herself up for a charge of criminal contempt that could result in additional prison time for the convicted Whitewater felon.
Washington Times Radio and TV ads featuring low-income Washington, D.C., residents who plead with President Clinton to support a Republican-backed school choice plan will hit the airwaves this week. Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday narrowly passed a showcase Republican bill that would provide a tax break for parents who save for elementary and secondary school expenses, including private school tuition. Washington Times Under pressure from within their party, GOP leaders agreed to consider a massive rewrite of federal election law governing the financing of federal campaigns, assuring that the issue will be debated on the House floor. Washington Times President Clinton used the 28th annual Earth Day to equate himself with Theodore Roosevelt, the father of the environmental movement, but nature and the Sierra Club bogged down the effort. Washington Times The National Organization for Women Wednesday refused for political reasons to support Paula Jones' appeal to salvage a sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton, although more than 50 NOW chapters voted to help her.
Washington Times GOP leaders stripped $18 billion for the International Monetary Fund from an emergency spending bill Thursday as mounting misgivings about the agency's secrecy put its funding in doubt. Washington Times Bring on the clowns, and the lawyers, too. It's one circus vs. another. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. has finally had it with the folks who have turned animal rights activism into performance art.
Washington Post HOUSTON—On two occasions last year, Internal Revenue Service agents went to the district office of Rep. Ken Bentsen (D-Tex.) and inquired about workplace complaints that Vera Robinson, a veteran IRS employee, had raised with the congressman. But the IRS agents were not interested in helping the lawmaker deal with Robinson's allegations of harassment, as Bentsen's caseworker assumed. Instead, Bentsen later discovered, the agents were conducting an investigation of the employee, looking for evidence so the IRS could discipline or fire her.
Washington Post Webster L. Hubbell received more than $700,000, most of it from friends of President Clinton and Democratic Party supporters, at a time when he was under pressure from independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to provide information about Clinton in the Whitewater investigation, congressional investigators have determined. Washington Post MOLINE, Ill.—Special interest groups began the television war for the hearts and minds of western Illinois voters last week, and the first battleground is pig manure. Washington Post A Supreme Court justice Tuesday refused to block Whitewater witness David Hale's trial in Arkansas state court on charges of lying to insurance regulators. Justice Clarence Thomas denied Hale's emergency request to halt the trial. Hale contended a plea agreement and immunity granted him by federal Whitewater investigators should protect him against state prosecution. Washington Post DENVER—Terry L. Nichols rejected an offer of leniency in exchange for information about the Oklahoma City bombing, saying it would jeopardize him if he is tried in Oklahoma. Washington Post A bitter dispute has erupted in the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee over Chairman Dan Burton's (R-Ind.) description of President Clinton as a "scumbag" and his decision to make public audiotapes of former associate attorney general Webster L. Hubbell's prison telephone conversations. Washington Post It was a revenge-of-the-nerds kind of scene Tuesday morning outside the U.S. District Courthouse. On the inside, Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department were squaring off before a panel of federal appeals judges. But on the courthouse plaza, a band of skinny, bespectacled males -- all sporting that pallid, computer-hacker look -- heaped praise on Bill Gates, the chairman of the omnivorous software giant, and shoveled condemnation on the Justice Department, which is trying to stop Gates's allegedly predatory and monopolistic business practices. New York Times Invoking a novel and untested legal theory, the Clinton administration formally interceded in court Tuesday to block the independent counsel from questioning Secret Service agents about what they saw and heard as bodyguards for the president, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. CBN News For centuries, the notion of world government has been nurtured by various orders and political leaders. And as CBN News senior reporter Richard Hunt tells us, it appears that dream is still very much alive today. Wired In what may be one of the first demonstrations of the potential of cyber warfare, an international cracking group claims it has stolen a suite of programs used to run classified US military networks and satellites World Net Daily Evidence that a conspiracy took place in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, and that a hit man was hired, has been held quietly without action in the Los Angeles County District Attorney' Office, according to information provided by an individual close to the investigation. Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-- Whitewater figure David Hale, who fought without success to stop a state prosecution he claimed was harassment, checked himself into a hospital complaining of chest pains. Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-- The Internal Revenue Service paid a record $3.5 million settlement to a man who says the agency destroyed his career by breaking an agreement not to publicize the fact that he pleaded guilty to tax evasion. San Jose Mercury WASHINGTON -- In a decision that was heartening for Internet access providers, a federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a libel suit brought against America Online by a high-ranking aide to President Clinton. But the judge let stand a similar suit against Matt Drudge, the cyberspace gossip personality. New York Post Trash-TV titan Jerry Springer's show is a bald-faced fake, with star-struck guests coached on what to say - and whom to punch -- former guests charge. In a report first airing last week on the syndicated newsmagazine show "Extra," 16 Springer alumni complain they were coached, scripted and intimidated into performing the most outrageous acts possible. Washington Post Friends of Paul McCartney admitted the ex-Beatle lied about where his wife, Linda, died so his grieving family could escape the prying eyes of the press. Washington Post Three years after the Oklahoma City bombing, a major interagency study has found widespread deficiencies in the federal government's ability to combat terrorism, from a lack of intelligence-sharing on domestic plotters to the need for smaller tracking devices that will escape detection when placed on people and cars
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For the third year in a row, the House on April 22 rejected a proposed
constitutional amendment that would have required a two-thirds supermajority vote of
Congress to raise taxes. 
