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...seven travel workers were fired. Also damaging are notes taken during a White House interview of Fan Dozier, an employee of the Arkansas company hired to replace the travel office. "Said HRC very upset re misa(ppropriation) of funds and wanted them out of there," the document says. The furor over each new piece of evidence is increasing pressure for Hillary Clinton to deal publicly with her credibility problem, notes TIME's Viveca Novac. "She may have to confront the 'Hillary lied' allegations head on with a press conference." Novak says what's truly baffling is the actions...
...well in the election set off an immediate firestorm of protest. Yavlinksy claimed that officials "in the top echelons of power" were taking advantage of the President's illness to settle political scores. Chernomyrdin said the decision "damaged the whole election campaign and democracy in Russia." The furor prompted the Kremlin to issue what was allegedly a sick-bed order from Yeltsin calling on the Central Electoral Commission to review its decision...
Strike It Rich contestant came up empty-handed, all was not lost: the host would urge viewers to call in on the "Heart Line" and pledge money and/or medical equipment. Despite this innovative, Roman circus-like approach to charity, the New York City-based show sparked a furor when local social-service agencies complained that they were being overwhelmed by indigent would-be contestants who had been showing up in Manhattan from all over the nation with no means of returning home...
...biracial federal jury acquitted Christopher Lynn Johnson, the son of a black activist, of charges that he burned down Alabama's Randolph County High School last year. The school was gutted following the furor that erupted when the school's white principal, Hulond Humphries, unsuccessfully tried to cancel a prom because of interracial dating. The defense suggested that Humphries may have been the real arsonist--an accusation the principal strongly and tearfully denied on the stand...
Just hours before he was scheduled to be questioned by NBC's Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, O.J. Simpson pulled out of a one-hour, no-holds-barred TV interview, the buildup for which had attracted nationwide curiosity as well as furor. The reason for Simpson's balk: his lawyers told him his answers might complicate his defense in the civil suits brought by the Brown and Goldman families. Simpson followed his NBC no-show with a phone call to the New York Times to declare, "I am an innocent man." Simpson also told the paper that he had been...