Word: coxes
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...source may have been the P.L.A. or China Aerospace, the outfit that owns Liu's company. That mystery may never be solved because Justice Department investigators do not have access to Chinese banking records. Even the Republican leading the new House investigation into the matter, California Congressman Christopher Cox, says he has no hope of proving that the Liu-Chung payment had anything to do with Clinton's decision to allow an American corporation to send rocket technology to China. "It's going to remain ultimately ambiguous," Cox told TIME. "We will never know...
...Cox has already decided to ignore the supposed China link and focus his investigation on one narrow point: Did the Loral waiver damage national security, and if so, how did it happen? He will sort through the contradictory advice Clinton was given--State Department in favor, Justice against--and look for signs that Loral lobbied behind the scenes. Before Clinton signed, the company bombarded the White House with calls and at least one letter, warning the Administration that delay would jeopardize Loral's contract. Schwartz says he never raised the issue with Clinton directly. The company's chief Washington lobbyist...
...Newt Gingrich wants to keep it that way. The small eight-person select committee he assembled Wednesday to address the issue is built for discretion and dignity, and its Republican chairman, Christopher Cox, has already achieved in his first round of interviews a credibility level of which Dan Burton never dreamed. In the GOP, the word is out: This is a big one. Let's not fumble the ball...
...Burned by the embarrassing performance of Dan Burton, Gingrich is opting for California Republican Christopher Cox to head up this latest Clinton inquiry. "He's a guy who's got strong conservative credentials but is not as wild as Burton," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "Cox had been tapped last year by Gingrich to watch over Burton on the committee investigating campaign finance. So he's somebody who Gingrich trusts, though he doesn't have the stature of somebody like Henry Hyde, who's seen as a sort of sober, fair-minded judge." Nevertheless, without the unpredictable Burton...
PLAY ALL DAY Monsanto's Celebra is a new-generation anti-inflammatory drug called a COX-2 (cyclo-oxygenase) inhibitor. It blocks arthritis pain without attacking the stomach lining, a major problem with anti-inflammatories. To be co-marketed by Pfizer in the U.S., Celebra could go on sale...