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...unlike Clinton ? who, as a lame-duck second-term president can handle an environmental backlash ? his would-be successor Al Gore, who stood at Clinton's shoulder when the Utah national park was created, may have some explaining to do. And as TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson points out, he will face even more tests in the future: "In terms of environmental issues, there are lots of things that are higher on the agenda, beginning with global warming, the pivotal environmental issue he will stand or fall...
What is the ultimate prize in the current campaign finance investigations? Answer: Al Gore's head. More than anything else, Fred Thompson & Co. would dearly love to catch the Veep red-handed in some hard-money misdeed. But no matter how hard they sniff, the trail always seems to run cold at Gore's door...
Buddhist nuns could cop to laundering money for a Vice President Al Gore event...
...Other News: Sixty-five people are believed dead in a fiery plane crash in Cambodia (Reuters) ... Arizona Governor Fyfe Simington has been found guilty on seven counts of bank fraud (All Politics) ... Vice-President Al Gore has denied knowledge of campaign finance wrongdoing (TIME Daily)... Big Tobacco increases wholesale cigarette prices nearly 8 percent (TIME Daily) ... Volatile Southeast Asian markets could cause a banking collapse (TIME Daily) ... and your GP may not know his stethascope from his elbow (TIME Daily...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: When is a donation not a donation? That's the question the Senate campaign finance inquiry will be very keen to ask Al Gore when they reconvene today. Trouble is, the Vice President doesn't seem to know the answer. Two allegations of fund-raising faux pas emerged Wednesday, and in both cases Gore claimed to be utterly unaware of what he was doing. First of all, says the Veep, he didn't know an April 1996 event at a California Buddhist temple had been a fund-raiser. Secondly, some of that $695,000 he raised in those...