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...specifics and criminal nature of the Watergate case rendered that privilege secondary to the public's right to know. On the other hand, while Enron is under criminal investigation, Cheney himself is not - a key distinction between this standoff and the Watergate scenario, in which members of the executive branch were directly linked to criminal charges...
...fired David Duncan, who managed the Enron account in Houston, saying he had "without any consultation with others in the firm" organized the destruction of documents as Enron's losses mounted in October. Seeking to put as much distance as possible between the home office and a wayward Houston branch, the company pointed out that all shredding had ceased once the sec issued a subpoena in the Enron matter. As a former Andersen partner in Chicago told Time, "The issue of document deletion is entirely dependent on when the organization was aware that there might be a liability issue. Liability...
...branch of the Transportation Department and separate from the Federal Aviation Administration. It will assume all existing contracts between airlines and private security firms by mid-February. Within a year, the government will supplant the private screeners with newly trained federal workers, who must be U.S. citizens. (Many of the private screeners will qualify for federal jobs and will be retrained.) Magaw will also hire a security czar for each of the country's 429 major airports. "There was a lack of focus," he said. "There's no lack of focus...
...November election win of Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Front as a "collective mandate for peace and ethnic harmony," the Tamil Tiger rebels announced a one-month unilateral cease-fire beginning on Christmas Eve. Wickremesinghe, who has said that he will negotiate with the rebels, responded to the olive branch by pledging that the government will comply "as a goodwill gesture to facilitate peace." Sri Lanka's previous government pursued an aggressive military strategy favored by President Chandrika Kumaratunga, Wickremesinghe's longtime archrival...
...inwardness and remoteness of this girl are emphasized by the spiky leaves of the dark tree behind her--a juniper, ginevra in the Italian of the day, her given name. Then, on the back of the panel, is the explanatory inscription. A branch of laurel and a palm frond--for glory and virtue--enclose a twig of juniper, with the inscription "Virtutem forma decorat" (Beauty adorns virtue...