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...returned from another stint in Europe in time for the 1988 presidential campaign, during which he covered Gary Hart. It was a campaign Dionne loathed because of the "side-issues" of Hartis alleged affair and then Vice President George Bush's use of escaped convict Willie Horton in campaign ads against then Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis...
...chairman, Bernard Schwartz, was the largest individual donor to the D.N.C. in 1996, responsible for more than $600,000 in soft-money donations. Clinton was warned in a Feb. 18 decision memo that Justice believed that if the Loral investigation ever went to trial, "a jury likely would not convict" the company if it received another presidential waiver: how serious could the breach be if the White House approved yet another technology transfer? By signing the waiver, Clinton would be handing his donor's company what amounted to a get-out-of-jail-free card. Was that an argument...
Starr lacks adequate proof to convict Clinton, but thinks if he forces a trial on Webb Hubbell, the evidence will be found...
Still, Arrington worries that prosecutors will persuade several Klansmen to testify against Bowers. He fears the changes in state politics that, he says, are driving Moore and Lindsey to work so hard to convict Bowers. "Since the blacks are voting now, that has given them a boost," Arrington says. "I was district attorney before they could vote...
Javert lacks adequate proof to convict Valjean but declares, "If I force a trial, the evidence will be found...