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...Reported by Cathy Booth/Los Angeles and Jay Branegan, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...more than $700,000 in consulting fees paid to Hubbell by presidential supporters (including Time Warner) after he left Justice amounted to hush money designed to buy his silence on Whitewater. "Certainly, this reopens the question of whether there was something there," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But there's certainly nothing wrong with helping a friend, and Hubbell was a powerful guy with connections to the President. And no one so far has been able to make the direct charge that there was any sort of quid pro quo for Hubbell...
...World Trade Organization complaint against the Helms-Burton Act. Europe is fiercely opposed to the law's provision for U.S. sanctions against foreign firms doing business with Cuba. "The administration knew Helms-Burton is bad policy but felt trapped into signing it," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Very little has been done to actually implement the law, and the President has repeatedly waived key provisions." Now the two sides appear to have reached a compromise to avoid wrecking the World Trade Organization, which has served both parties well. And while no one is revealing the details...
...Justice is backing Ellerth's appeal, which runs against the argument of the President's private attorney," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "The Justice Department is trying to counter what it perceives to be an anti-plaintiff drift in the courts." Needless to say, this would be one administration victory unlikely to get the boss lighting up a stogie...
...fund-raiser, saying movies rather than advertising promoted teenage smoking. He also lambasted the President for smoking cigars to celebrate victories. ?If the Republicans want to claim that advertising has no influence on youth smoking, that?s a battle the White House would love to fight,? says Branegan. Indeed, the news might have even tempted the President to light up a stogie...