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WASHINGTON: William Rehnquist has taken a pass and will not delay the fight over "Secret Service privilege" until October. But even though Ken Starr ordered Larry Cockell and a number of other agents to appear in court at high noon, the President's body man isn't likely to sing the tune Starr wants to hear just yet. The reason? The Secret Service agent is now expected to claim that any conversations he overheard between the President and Bruce Lindsey are protected by attorney-client privilege. And that means the Justice Department is passing the baton back to the White...
...insensitive, but if you?re a Secret Service agent, and America knows your name, you?d better have taken a bullet. Otherwise something?s rotten in the state of the Union. Oh, we don?t blame you, Larry Cockell -? the fault for the current ugliness lies with either Starr or Clinton, and most likely both. We like our presidential protectors tall, dark and inscrutable, preferably with mirrored sunglasses. With an earpiece and a little cord that disappears down past a starched collar. With nothing to say to us. Sure, we?ve giggled at you from time to time, but never...
...making a solid American thriller and casting Fred Thompson to boot. And if, like me, you found Clint Eastwood a little old and stiff to leaping about on rooftops, think of it this way: He?s supposed to be stiff, at least -? he?s a Secret Service agent. And he does...
...that Starr ever cared about his popularity -? to him, the legal battles are the ones that matter, and he will likely win this one as well. An immediate Justice Department appeal will probably delay Special Agent Larry Cockell?s trip to the stand -- which Starr has set for Thursday -- until sometime in the fall, when the battle over "Secret Service privilege" ends in the Supreme Court. In a nation that still remembers the Kennedy assassination, Starr would seem to need an unlimited supply of gall to subpoena a standing President?s last line of protection, especially before he?s heard...
DIED. FRANK SCOTT, 80, silver-tongued superagent to sports stars of yesteryear; in Livingston, N.J. Scott was the first agent to prove that his clients could pitch a product as well as a ball, shagging Yogi Berra Yoo-Hoo commercials, Roger Maris a gig for Camel cigarettes and Mickey Mantle a spot on an early box of Wheaties...