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...supported many of their goals? For now they are moving very carefully. "We think both Paula Jones and President Clinton deserve their day in court," says Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women. "We are not going to rise to the right wing's bait by jumping aboard either party's case until we have an opportunity to assess the credibility of the witness...
...Aldrich Ames was an enormous embarrassment. Last week Ames pled guilty to spying for Moscow since 1985 and agreed to help authorities assess the damage. In the case of Awad, damaging publicity about his mishandling threatens to impede overseas operations by giving the U.S. a reputation for running a bait-and-switch program. "We promise ((informants)) the moon in the beginning," says FBI special agent Frank Scafidi. "But when they come through for us, there's not much there. If the government doesn't hold up its end of the bargain, people are not going to come forward...
...bruised well beyond her years, Harding has never known stability either on the rink or at home. She moved between eight different houses in six communities in her first 18 years, during which her father Al, who has variously driven a truck, managed apartments and worked at a bait-and-tackle store, was her best friend. He gave her her first gun, a .22, when she was five, taught her to hunt and fish and fix a transmission. Her parents' marriage fell apart in 1985, and two years later her mother married James Golden, her sixth husband (who told TIME...
...mounted a far more powerful counterforce to FIDE than the solitary Fischer had ever managed. They became the founding -- and only -- members of the Professional Chess Association ( P.C.A.) and began entertaining bids for their runaway world championship match. The Times of London, owned by Rupert Murdoch, rose to the bait. A 24-game competition stretching over eight full weeks and featuring Britain's first-ever contender promised reams of publicity, much of which the Times could provide. Weeks before the match started, the paper began running extensive and incessant chess coverage. London's double-decker buses sprouted ads proclaiming, THERE...
...better idea, says CDC's Rupprecht, is to vaccinate wild animals, just as pets are given protection. He helped develop an experimental oral vaccine for raccoons as a research veterinarian at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University and the Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center. The vaccine is contained in bait and dropped into areas where raccoons roam. In tests done in New Jersey, the animals ate the bait, and many of them developed antibodies to the virus...