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...health insurance will be small (maybe 1%). But they fear it will open the door to other mandates as well. "You have to remember that the Patient's Bill of Rights is being considered too," says Kate Sullivan of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, referring to the proposal in Congress to make it easier for people to get around the cost restrictions of managed care. "So you're talking about 1% here and 1.5% there, but in the aggregate, you're looking at a 6% increase, which is huge...
...foolhardy in letting him go? Yes, on both counts, according to the scathing 909-page Cox report, Congress's account of how the Chinese stole and bought America's most precious nuclear secrets and how the U.S. made it easy for them to do it. Used to be, spies were guys in their intelligence service and ours who lied and duped one another into handing over a nation's secrets with help from the occasional renegade citizen. We each knew the other was an enemy, and we kept our countries and our people at arm's length. Even so, secrets...
...security at the labs. Seven months later, a presidential directive finally went out to the Energy Department. Yet little action was taken until September 1998, after new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrived, another glaring delay that officials lamely ascribe to "bureaucratic inertia." Last week more than 80 members of Congress demanded that Clinton dismiss the National Security Adviser for "failing in his responsibility...
...important data the U.S. had amassed from years of nuclear testing, onto his unclassified computer. Lee was fired but has not been charged, and no one knows if he sent those codes to Beijing. Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI are engaged in an unseemly blame game, while Congress calls for someone's head to roll...
...legally required license" as they worked out the trouble with the Chinese. In the process, says the report, they gave away information on guidance systems that could boost the accuracy of Chinese ballistic missiles. Both Hughes and Loral deny they violated export-control law or transferred sensitive information. Congress reacted last winter by ordering the licensing process back to State...