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...cold war anachronism, but new measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...
...Henry Hyde and his team of 13 GOP House "managers" are in no mood for expediency. They want to hear from Monica, Betty and Vernon, and even let the President's team cross-examine: a real two-sided trial that the U.S. justice system can be proud of. A legitimate point -- but TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney says these guys aren't the ones to make it. "In the House, it was the Republicans who insisted that they didn't need witnesses," he says. "Coming from them it could sound a little hollow...
WASHINGTON: The stampede that just last week sealed President Clinton?s impeachment is now headed in the other direction. CNN reports that at least a dozen more GOP moderates hold views similar to those of the four representatives who Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen...
...spared a trial? House Republicans had been offering the President a way out for weeks: Confess that you lied under oath, they said, and we'll let you off with censure. The President never bit, in part because the White House smelled a GOP trap: Admit to perjury and get prosecuted for it the moment you leave office. Even though the White House has argued that no prosecutor would bring perjury charges on what Clinton is alleged to have done, an admission would be like waving a red cape before Ken Starr. And while few believe Clinton could be prosecuted...
...Anytime you try to correct an abuse in the system, they find the most heart-wrenching story, and that makes it very hard for politicians to function," he said. "I don't know any GOP [members] or Democrats who want to torture people...