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Roll Call, the newspaper that serves Capitol Hill, has sponsored a contest soliciting advertising slogans intended to improve Congress's image. The not- so-compelling results...
...number of other Republicans, come across as ill advised to those who believe that however scandalous the Ames case may now seem, its significance is eclipsed by the infinitely greater importance of supporting Russian democracy. "The rush to judgment of the last couple of days, primarily here on Capitol Hill," said Kansas Representative Dan Glickman, chairman of the House intelligence committee, "to suspend aid to * Russia because of this case is misguided. That would have far more profound and damaging ramifications on this critical relationship -- and thus on ourselves -- than the damage done by Mr. Ames...
...timing could hardly have been worse for Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey. With the embarrassing Aldrich Ames spy case spread across the nation's front pages last week, Woolsey had to go up to Capitol Hill for one of his public sessions before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. The small hearing room in the Rayburn Building was jammed, and Woolsey's bald head reflected the glare of television lights as he announced he would have nothing to say in open session about the details of the Ames case. The committee chairman, Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, accepted...
...cities, carrying signs and posing for TV cameras in goofy-looking cow suits. A young woman in Manhattan dumped a bucket of milk onto a frozen sidewalk. A man in Madison, Wisconsin, dragged white plastic cartons stamped with the skull and crossbones up the steps of the state capitol. Two dozen demonstrators marched in front of Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center with a banner that read stop the "frankenfood" -- save the cows...
...international lending institutions to begin pumping money into Vietnam's dilapidated economy. But for Clinton, vulnerability on the issue of draft dodging made it impossible for him to act without the support of Congress. With that in mind, National Security Adviser Tony Lake made a trip up to Capitol Hill last fall to pay a call on John Kerry, Massachusetts' highly decorated Vietnam veteran. The President, Lake explained, was prepared to end the boycott, but he needed political cover. And cover he got. Within weeks, both Kerry and Arizona Republican John McCain, another veteran, had made trips to Hanoi...