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...airlines may be discouraged from doing the extra safety checks that could get them in trouble for what they uncover. Fellman says the new prosecutorial intensity has led him to recommend that his clients "rethink the detailed audits" they traditionally do on their operations, so as to avoid providing grist for prosecutors...
...Bush coronation - and they intend to fight smart. New York governor George Pataki announced Thursday that the state party would drop its efforts to keep McCain off the ballot in a number of congressional districts, after the Bush camp had reconsidered the wisdom of a tactic that's been grist to the Arizona senator's anti-establishment mill. The solidly pro-Bush party establishment had been locked in a legal battle with the McCain camp after using the state's arcane primary rules to shut out the challenger...
...urged that he be allowed to stay to enjoy the freedom he'd be denied in Cuba. The almost soap-operatic human dimension of the story of a boy separated from his natural father - who, by most accounts, was his primary caregiver - by an ideological dispute has been grist to the mill for Castro's propaganda machine, which has used it to rally Cuban public opinion against Washington...
There is certainly a lot more unreleased material to stimulate that crowd and provide grist for an official investigation. This week, in response to a subpoena from Burton's committee, the Texas Rangers will deliver a report on the pyrotechnic rounds. The Rangers still have 24,000 lbs. of Waco evidence in their vaults, and they are under orders to turn over the material to U.S. District Judge Walter Smith Jr. once logistics are worked out. Smith is committed to opening the evidence to public scrutiny--against the advice of the Justice Department. Documentary filmmaker Michael McNulty has already examined...
...theories about a conspiracy. Of course, despite al-Fayed's protestations about "getting to the truth," this ? and his potential appeal in France ? are seen largely as a defensive moves; al-Fayed, as owner of the Ritz, was Paul's employer, and is therefore potentially liable. All in all, grist enough for several more years of Diana stories...