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...campaign of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter offered, well, it offered Jonathan Steinberg. Unlike the paid political professionals manning most of the campaign booths, Steinberg is a Mather House junior who spent his summer interning at the Senator's Philadelphia campaign headquarters. In delegating a task otherwise held by the head of a candidate's New Hampshire office, the campaign made a genuine effort to build grass-roots support among students. Specter asks for our support based on politics, not props...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
...settlement will not spare the FBI from Senate hearings scheduled for next month by Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential hopeful who wants to determine just how the attempt to arrest Weaver on a weapons charge got so spectacularly out of hand. For one thing, Specter wants to shed light on a central controversy: Who approved radically revised rules of engagement for the incident? Those orders let agents shoot to kill any armed male spotted in the open. Regulations ordinarily allow deadly force only in the face of immediate physical danger. "I bridle at the inability to find answers...
...Arlen Specter's decision to go ahead with Senate Ruby Ridge hearings despite an Administration request to delay until its criminal investigation is complete "is both understandable and political," saysTIME's Elaine Shannon."As a presidential candidate, Specter of course wants to maximize his television exposure; but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this murky, deeply troubling incident has yet to be adequately investigated, and the Justice Department could be accused of stonewalling. Members of Congress are legitimately under pressure to examine this incident." Nonetheless, if the hearings are held this fall, many witnesses will likely cite...
...report was not well received. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter said it "leaves a lot to be desired" and accused the agency of a "deliberate withholding of information" on Alpirez. House Intelligence Committee member Bill Richardson called the report "not terribly visionary in what needs to be done to improve the CIA's internal procedures." CIA director John Deutch tried to remedy that by announcing a series of reforms, including promises to choose CIA station chiefs more carefully, to "scrub" paid informants more thoroughly and report accurately on human-rights abuses by the unclean, and to require better briefing...