Word: bailing
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...White House really guessing is Bob Kerrey of Nebraska. White House officials believe that Kerrey, Clinton's onetime rival in the Democratic primaries, resents the fact that Clinton campaigned for a middle- class tax cut and against a gasoline tax, only now to call upon Kerrey to bail him out on the Senate floor. Kerrey has been telling friends in the Senate that Clinton "doesn't deserve this" and has confounded Administration lobbyists by not asking for any concessions in exchange for a vote. "Kerrey," said a top White House political operative, "is the least predictable...
...little to reassure New Yorkers about their safety. On Thursday bomb scares closed the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and one entrance to Kennedy Airport. A ninth suspect in the case of the would-be U.N. bombers was arrested, but some other plotters may be still at large. Meanwhile, at bail hearings for some of the original eight suspects, FBI officials charged that their targets also included the George Washington Bridge and the diamond district, a single block in Manhattan where gems are cut and polished, mostly by Jews. On an FBI tape, one terrorist excitedly envisioned the results: "Boom -- broken windows...
...paste. The alleged bombmakers were hauled into court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids on apartments, all described as Muslim fundamentalists, were charged with conspiracy to carry out the bombings and held without bail. Several other suspected members of the ring are still at large while authorities look for more evidence against them, but are not regarded as dangerous...
Bonding sounds ominous, if it means posting big bucks to be forfeited (as with a bail bond) in case of calamity. But it would be hard to argue against voluntary hiking-and-climbing insurance, perhaps offered at modest extra cost along with park entrance fees. In Austria insurance comes with membership in the Alpine Club, which costs little and also gives unlimited opportunity to climb with experts...
...studded with senior Republicans, the mood was much different. Clinton's latest humiliation had infused a sense of quiet pride in G.O.P. elders, who saw the Administration's breakdown as a vindication of Republican competence. More than that, Clinton's drafting of a former Republican operative, Gergen, to help bail out the White House image machinery was delicious irony. Joked one Republican lobbyist: "I'm telling a lot of my Democratic friends that if they need to get to Gergen, I'll be glad to help them...