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...interview shortly after she took office in November, General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, Ryan's boss, said she was unfamiliar with Wiseman's investigation. She called a sanction of Ryan on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct "such a hypothetical outcome that it would be irresponsible for me to comment...
...WANT IT DONE -- NOW," BILL CLINTON TOLD HIS health-care task force. To prove it, he gave them a new boss: Hillary Rodham Clinton (as she now wishes to be called). It is by far the most powerful job ever held by a First Lady: Mrs. Clinton will have six Cabinet officers reporting to her. It is also a tough assignment. Hillary's husband has given the task force only 100 days to produce a program that extends coverage to everybody yet reduces costs -- which under present policy are expected to more than double in the next six years. Should...
WHAT HE WANTS, APPARENTLY, IS RESPECT. IN HIDing since last July when he escaped from his comfy cell in a prison at Envigado, Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar has been trying to negotiate a conditional surrender. Colombian President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo has said no, choosing instead, with the U.S., to place more than $3 million in bounties on Escobar's head and stepping up police pressure. Last week Escobar fired back, announcing that he would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat...
...Serbs to accept their plan for partitioning war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was, he said, a "very important step toward peace." The mediators, U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance and European Community representative Lord Owen, indicated that they believed him. Both gave Milosevic credit for pressing the Bosnian Serb boss, Radovan Karadzic, to accept the plan...
...fact is no absolute privacy exists in a computer system, even for the boss. System administrators need to have access to everything in a computer in order to maintain it. Moreover, every piece of E-mail leaves an electronic trail. Though Oliver North tried to delete all his electronic notes in order to conceal the Iran-contra deal, copies of his secret memos ended up in the backup tapes made every night by White House system operators. "The phrase 'reasonable expectation of privacy' is a joke, because nobody reasonably expects any privacy nowadays," says Michael Godwin, general counsel...