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...initial indictment in the case namedseveral people who worked for Walsh, but many ofthem testified against their former boss inexchange for lighter sentences...
...much speculation about Yeltsin's hold on power that the Kremlin had to respond. ! Even Chernomyrdin got into the act. Breaking off an important meeting with the head of the International Monetary Fund to negotiate a $1.5 billion loan, he jetted down to Sochi on Monday to join his boss. That evening Russian television showed the two men strolling along a promenade. The next day Chernomyrdin dismissed the stories of Yeltsin's illness as "insulting" and told reporters, "I worked with him for almost four hours yesterday...
Certainly Yeltsin has had health problems in the past. When Gorbachev had him ousted as Moscow party boss in 1987, he suffered something resembling a nervous breakdown. In 1990, when his aircraft made a bone-rattling landing in Spain, he sustained a serious back injury, for which he still takes medication. A host of other ailments, ranging from bad colds to kidney disease, are regularly said to plague him. But the most widely whispered diagnosis is cirrhosis of the liver, a condition stemming from chronic abuse of alcohol...
While Moore and other campaigners, including Stephanopoulos' War Room co- star James Carville, maintained their distance from the White House after the campaign, the younger man's path led toward ever greater identification with his boss. "George has an innate knowledge of the President's thought process," says Moore. It is Stephanopoulos who underlines Clinton's press summaries every morning. And it is he who serves as the President's "policy body man," hovering near him throughout the day, providing continuity and calculating each issue's relative importance. Says press secretary Dee Dee Meyers: "He's the place where...
...killing nine men, women and children besides himself. As is the custom at Irish funerals, Adams "took a lift," shouldering the coffin for a short time on the way to the cemetery. ; That picture stirred outrage in Britain, where it was regarded as proof that Adams was an I.R.A. boss. "It would have been seen as a cynical political maneuver not to attend," he says. "I accept the criticism of the families who were killed. I think the operation was totally wrong...