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...rift between Clinton and the military? This bad: the Air Force is investigating whether Major General Harold Campbell called the President "draft dodging," "gay loving," "pot smoking" and "womanizing" in a speech three weeks ago at an Air Force banquet in the Netherlands. Because the Uniform Code of Military Justice bars officers from making "contemptuous" remarks about the President or other senior government officials, Campbell could face court-martial, one year in prison and loss of $66,000 a year in retirement pay. However, the White House seemed disinclined to get into a scrape with...
Clinton should use these advantages to pose a challenge to the movie stars gracing the White House banquet table: If they really want to do something for the country, they can start by toning down the violence in movies...
Alleging a "banquet feast of corruption" in the national political scene, former California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. attacked media, government and big business during a discussion at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday...
...PRESIDENT'S LUNCH IN BELGRADE DRAGGED ON FOR hours, into the gloomy Balkan dusk. The bruised voice across the banquet table belonged to an interpreter -- off duty for the moment -- a thin, brittle woman with black circles under her eyes. She smoked cigarettes one after another, down to the knuckle. She said she had not slept in days. Outrage burst from her mouth in agitated spurts of smoke: How could the world be so stupid? How could the media be so evil? How could everyone treat the Serbs -- the Serbs, of all people! -- so unfairly...
Well, they voted this Committee into existence immediately, and my first suggestion was, "Let's create some event that highlights the undergraduate arts at Harvard." And I met with Neil, who loved the idea. In fact, he expanded it. I was thinking of just an arts banquet or something, but by the end of our meeting it was a weekend of activities...