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...high-profile slap-down of the bureau over its handling of Waco evidence. The New York Times reported Friday that tensions between the attorney general and FBI director Louis Freeh ?- which have been mounting since he publicly second-guessed her on the issue of opening independent counsel investigations into campaign finance and nuclear espionage ?- had reached a breaking point over Waco. Reno?s anger is understandable: After staking her credibility on a version of events at Waco which denied that federal agents had fired potentially incendiary tear gas rounds, Ms. Reno found herself in limbo last week after a former...
...husband?s recent decision to grant clemency to 16 members of a Puerto Rican separatist guerrilla group responsible for terrorist attacks in New York City. The New York Post, for example, accuses President Clinton of freeing the prisoners "for the sole purpose of helping his wife's Senate campaign attract Hispanic votes." But that may be reaching. "Do you see the Puerto Rican community getting excited about this or rushing out to support Hillary?s campaign? Hardly," says Branegan. Armed struggle for independence isn?t exactly a mainstay of New York Puerto Rican politics. "These guys were released because...
...N.A.A.C.P. lawsuit, Horowitz contends, is part of an insidious campaign by black leaders to create a "politically inspired group psychosis [in which] we find it natural to collude with demagogic race hustlers in supporting a fantasy in which African Americans are no longer responsible for anything negative they do, even to themselves." Shaking down guilt-feeling whites, he says, has allowed "racial ambulance chasers" like Jesse Jackson and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Kweisi Mfume to live like millionaires. If blacks are really oppressed in America, he asks, "why isn't there a black exodus...
...Amount it cost Iowa Governor Thomas Vilsack to get elected in '98, including the primary campaign...
...million How much Forbes spent during his 1996 campaign...