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...State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, called his military advisers and Vice President Al Gore to discuss the Butler report. The group agreed air strikes were the right response. Clinton then got assurances of British participation from Prime Minister Tony Blair. At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Peter Burleigh, acting American ambassador to the U.N., called Annan and suggested he begin pulling U.N. personnel out of Iraq. When Annan consulted Berger on Wednesday morning, the National Security Adviser told him the situation was "very serious" but not that Clinton had already ordered an attack. Except Britain, no Security Council...
...central premise of the story--that a Yale faculty member is the "lead suspect" in the investigation of this tragic murder--has been refuted by the police categorically. Yale's college newspaper, the Yale Daily News, reported that New Haven Police Department's communications supervisor David Burleigh said that reports that a faculty member may have killed Jovin were "grievous errors" and "premature and reckless...
...Burleigh said the Register and other media sources "have not been fair" in playing up the fact that police questioned Van De Velde twice, noting that it is standard procedure for police to question a variety of people several times as they narrow their investigation...
...They made a big point that he was interviewed twice," Burleigh said...
...Burleigh did confirm a report in yesterday's Yale Daily News, which said that police were focusing their investigations on a three-block area around the site of Jovin's murder...