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...Dale deposited checks worth more than $54,000 for press corps expense payments into his personal checking account and skimmed $14,000 from the office's petty-cash fund. Dale's lawyer said his client, one of the officials fired 18 months ago + in the Clinton Administration's "Travelgate" flap, would plead not guilty...
...today expressed regret -- without apologizing -- for the remarks. "President Clinton will of course be welcomed by me and other citizens of North Carolina . . . anytime he chooses to visit us," Helms said in today's statement. But in an interview that took place Monday -- just as the flap hit over Helms' comments about Clinton's not being up to commander-in-chief duties -- and was published today in the Raleigh News & Observer, Helms said that Clinton "better watch out if he comes down here." Today Helms said he made a mistake "which I shall not repeat." Although Democrats rebuked Helms...
...Brown this afternoon said he'd never heard of the proposal and White House aides toldTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratanthey disavowed the speech. Reich's spinners later said the "corporate welfare" idea was "not a proposal." President Clinton, at a news conference, tried to soft-pedal the potential Cabinet flap. Though he claimed ignorance, he said "conceptually" the Reich initiative might be "attractive." Yet, Ratan says, Reich has been pushing such proposals in White House circles for a year and a half without success. But now, amid White House post-election paralysis, he says, the Labor Secretary is freelancing. "Reich...
...what's the harm? ask TT devotees, who seem bewildered by the flap. Kathy Butler, a Melbourne geneticist concerned about TT inroads into Australia, has one answer. "Health funding is in crisis," she says. "Surely valuable nursing hours are better used with scientifically proven, genuinely useful nursing methods...
...were involved in fatal crashes this year -- criticized a report published Sunday by The New York Times, which claimed the airline has allowed jets to leave gates without enough fuel at least nine times and once used a jet for 13 days despite a dangerous crack on its wing flap. USAir said it had followed federal guidelines in all these cases except an emergency landing at La Guardia, in which it said personnel deviated from established refueling procedures. (USAir says it suspended the pilot and first officer without pay for two months and forced them to repeat their training...