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WASHINGTON: Having reconciled their own versions of the tax bill, Republicans are now headed for the White House with a compromise that looks to have "Return To Sender" scrawled all over it. But TIME's John Dickerson reports it's too early to tell if Republicans are setting themselves up for a veto. "Clinton has said he will veto any provision that requires an indexing of capital gains, but they've got a lot of negotiations to do. The Republicans are deliberately throwing out proposals that are on the extreme edge of what they want so they will have some...
...price, may never get to the witness stand, now that Attorney General Janet Reno has announced her opposition to the deal. Granting Huang even partial immunity, she argued, may interfere with her ongoing investigation into campaign finance irregularities. "It's basically the Ollie North rule," says TIME's John Dickerson. "North had an indictment thrown out because the partial immunity he had been granted wound up being treated as total immunity. It's just too complicated legally. And Reno's worried that she'll lose Huang." Thompson's worried too. His proposed compromise: let Huang testify without immunity, answering only...
...first interview since accepting the general discharge, Kelly Flinn, with her brother Don in attendance, spoke to TIME correspondents John Dickerson and Kevin Fedarko on Saturday at the Holiday Inn in Minot, N.D. Throughout, she kept consulting a personal datebook but spoke calmly and with little rancor, even as she reasserted that Marc Zigo was to blame for her downfall. The only show of emotion came after she was asked what position she played in soccer ("I've always been a halfback"). When the next question was Marc Zigo's position, she sighed, closed her eyes and looked down...
...With reporting by Cathy Booth/Los Angeles and John F. Dickerson and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...James Carney and John F. Dickerson...