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WASHINGTON: The contempt is running both ways between Dan Burton and Janet Reno. After Burton's House Oversight Committee finally voted to cite the attorney general for contempt for refusing to play ball with Burton, Reno was icily defiant at an afternoon Q&A, calling the citation "a form of political tampering that no prosecutor in America can accept." In this case, the tampering shouldn't run very deep. The full House would have to endorse any contempt citation, and that vote wouldn't come at least until September. The next stop? Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who would supervise...
...tour was Hillary's most public moment since last January, when scandal enveloped the White House and the nation saw a darkly defiant First Lady rising to her husband's defense against a "vast, right-wing conspiracy." The reception she received last week confirmed what the polls are showing: that her popularity is near its all-time high, with approval ratings almost equaling those of the President...
...Defiant talk in Washington, however, was little comfort to Republicans who saw how well the issue was playing on the campaign circuit. Democratic attacks caught them unawares in special elections in California and New Mexico. John Linder, who chairs the House Republican campaign committee, warned G.O.P. candidates that while strangling the tobacco bill wasn't hurting Republicans, giving aid and comfort to the managed-care companies would. So G.O.P. candidates have been taking cover where they can find it. In the House, Norwood counted 90 Republicans among the 232 sponsors of his reform legislation; in the Senate, no less...
DIED. CONRAD SCHUMANN, 56, unwitting cold war icon whose impromptu 1961 border crossing produced one of the era's most searing images; after hanging himself; in Bavaria, Germany. Shutterbug Peter Leibing stood by--and snapped--as the defiant 19-year-old East German soldier hurdled the tangle of barbed wire that would soon become the Berlin Wall...
...their general reluctance to intervene," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He will back off, but only slightly -- enough to leave the international community wondering what to do next as the situation in Kosovo continues to deteriorate." NATO has been struggling to muster the political will to act against a defiant Milosevic; they may find it even harder to act against a sweet-talking Milosevic...