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Headed by New York's Alfonse D'Amato, a special Senate committee launched yet another investigation into the Clintons' Whitewater financial dealings, a probe Republicans hope will prove politically bruising to the Administration. The initial focus of the hearings -- the handling of documents in deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office by White House aides after Foster's suicide -- broke little new ground. On Saturday the Clintons gave depositions on Whitewater for the second time to independent counsel Kenneth Starr...
...White House attorney, Clifford Sloan, discovered and called attention to scraps of paper in Vincent Foster's briefcase while searching Foster's office two days after he died, but was rebuffed by then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Foster attorney Michael Spafford told a congressional panel today. "This is troubling," responded GOP Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who is chairingthe Whitewater Hearings. Republicans have repeatedly questioned why it took the White House six days after Foster's death to discover the torn suicide note and another 30 hours to release it to the public. But that night, Spafford recalled, getting Foster...
...immunity." (Until two years ago, the annual licensing fee was $10.) A series of standing ATF orders closely choreographs all such investigations and requires that they be monitored from ATF headquarters in Washington. "You have to jump through six hoops of fire," says Kubicki, the agents' association counsel. Says Phil McGuire, a former ATF deputy director: "There's no question the N.R.A. has dictated exactly [the rules for] such things as dealer investigations and investigations of gun shows...
...survive a Chinese interrogation. "Play it like a game," he said. "They insist you give them something. You resist, then give a little. But you get in trouble if you give everything at once or if you refuse to cooperate." Wu must now follow his own counsel, since the Chinese arrested him on that trip. But his words might also be useful to the U.S., whose relations with China seem to worsen week by week. A disciplined strategy of resisting, but giving a little, may be just what the U.S. needs...
This was it. finally, White House officials said, they were beginning to put the Whitewater controversy behind them by getting it out in the open. On July 9, Mark Fabiani, a deputy White House counsel, summoned reporters and showed them what he described as all the documents on Bill and Hillary Clinton's investments in the Whitewater land deal that had been kept in the office of Vince Foster, the White House lawyer and close friend of the Clintons' who committed suicide on July 20, 1993. For two years, the Clintons and their aides had fought to prevent those...