Word: arresting
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...leaned more willfully into the national picture. Often verbose, Clinton was conscious, said senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, that "his words carry tremendous weight." For the most part, he chose those words carefully and delivered thn em well. But when he spoke to the press late Friday to announce the arrest of Timothy McVeigh, he strayed from that discipline and turned the encounter into a self-referential exercise. This time, Clinton couldn't resist the temptation to state that federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty; that doing so might strike some listeners as gratuitous no longer seemed to worry...
...most intrusive juror questionnaires I have ever seen. It asked many private questions.'' Watching fellow jurors being investigated and dismissed--in one case the juror's hotel room was searched--has only exacerbated the panel's feeling that they have lost their privacy and, like O.J., are under arrest. Says noted defense attorney Leslie Abramson: "They're being guarded by people who are used to treating everyone like prisoners. They need crisis counseling.'' But, adds Abramson, "there is not a shred of possibility that Ito, who is a smart fellow, is going to declare a mistrial over the defense...
BILL CLINTON MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY LAST WEEK, AND GOOD FOR HIM. ON Friday, after the arrest of one suspect in the Oklahoma City horror, the President was asked if the "constant drumbeat in recent years that government is bad, that government is the enemy" may have contributed to the tragedy. For a President who has been attacked personally and mercilessly by his opponents, it must have been tempting to denounce those who use character assassination as a political tool. Instead he patiently and properly refused to speculate "about the motives or atmosphere until the investigation is complete...
Several promising leads emerged today in the massive investigation of theOklahoma bombing. Federal authorities now say they have a videotape that showsbombing suspect Timothy McVeigh's Arizona license plate on a different car than the one he was driving when he was arrested, theAssociated Pressreports. Officials believe that John Doe No. 2 may have used the second car to leave the scene of the bombing. Authorities are also investigating the owner of a military supply store in Antigo, Wisconsin and his son to see if they supplied small explosive devices needed totrigger the Oklahoma City bomb, the Los AngelesTimesreported. Police...
...circulation war. Today, dozens of police poured into the Tel Aviv headquarters of Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind the country that "not everything is permitted...