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Starr's major coup last week was to get Washington to tear itself away from the fang baring on Capitol Hill and take note of the opening of the second Whitewater trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill, joint owners of a bank in microscopic Perryville, Arkansas (pop. 1,141), are charged with illegally channeling funds to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. The two men allegedly failed to notify the irs that they let Clinton's campaign withdraw $30,000 at one time--banks must report any cash transaction over $10,000--by disguising the withdrawal...
...publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
This kind of subterfuge offends Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who, despite his long-standing friendship with Dole, has sponsored a bill that would turn off the soft-money spigot. Unlike any of the growing number of campaign-finance reform measures being floated on Capitol Hill, his bill, which is co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, would stop the flow of these funds by preventing national parties from distributing the money to state parties. After months of trying, the two sponsors have finally succeeded in getting the Senate to schedule a debate on the bill next...
Perhaps appropriately, the Olympic-torch route through Washington is the most convoluted of any city's so far, with the potential to replicate the metaphorical gridlock on Capitol Hill with the real kind as 145 torch runners pay homage at every shrine in hopes of slighting no one. It's a touchier city than most: there are three branches of government to tip your hat to, plus the city administration, the various military services and their cemeteries and memorials, Presidents living and dead and the Vice President, who is said to be alive. Then there is a black college...
...head of the Federal Security Service; and Oleg Soskovets, the first deputy prime minister, had formed a powerful clique within the Kremlin, but crossed the line when they arrested two of Yeltsin's campaign aides late Wednesday. Television stations picked up the story within hours, agitating the already nervous capitol. One of the aides, after his release Thursday morning, said that during hours of interrogation, he was pumped for compromising information about Korzhakov's political enemies. The arrests and detention were almost certainly part of a power struggle, as Korzhakov is embroiled in a feud with Anatoly Chubais, a reformist...