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...when Representative Dan Burton subpoenaed bank records, he learned that Green had received $2,000 from Trie two weeks after the coffee. Around the same time, Green made 11 cash deposits totaling $30,000. He told Burton the $2,000 covered a bet and the deposits may have been speaker's fees. Burton asked Justice to investigate last year, but task-force activity has picked up with a new chief eager to wrap up investigating the 1996 campaign as a new one heats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Investigates a Civil Rights Hero | 4/9/2000 | See Source »

...corridors of power thinks it's a sensible policy. European and Latin American governments have trade and diplomatic relations with Havana, and interact with the dissident community on the island rather than with the U.S.-based exiles. And when Washington, under the auspices of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, sought to penalize foreign companies doing business with Cuba, it was sharply slapped down as being in violation of World Trade Organization rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cuban Exiles Are Staking So Much on the Elian Struggle | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...most frequently cited reason for reforming the constitution was the impeachment of Burton, which triggered an exhaustive debate about the constitutionality of such a proceeding...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Council's New Tune: You Say You'll Change the Constitution... | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

Many council members see the Constitutional Committee primarily as a way to avoid the ambiguities that plagued the Burton debate. The committee should sift through the constitution and correct inaccuracies, vagaries, redundancies and internal contradictions, they...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Council's New Tune: You Say You'll Change the Constitution... | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...just not going to happen," says Burton of the larger scale reform proposals. He urged the committee to focus on the areas it was created to look at. "This doesn't address elections; this doesn't address impeachment," he said of Smith's plan...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Council's New Tune: You Say You'll Change the Constitution... | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

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