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...nearly a year of dodging a full-fledged news conference with the press -- you may remember a little political distraction called impeachment -- the President went before the White House press corps on Friday to address the issues of state. The President used the session to lay out the political groundwork for military intervention in Kosovo, to defend his human rights and security policies regarding China, and yes -- how could he avoid it -- to promote an image of marital peace (?We love each other very much and we?re working on it,? said the President). ?The event,? says TIME White House...
...testify, something Filimonov blames on his lack of subpoena power. Still, the committee has already voted on the first three counts, and Yeltsin has lost each time. While Filimonov concedes there's scant chance of removing Yeltsin, he has other plans: "At the very least, we're laying the groundwork for a case against the President once he retires...
...before archives and image banks become available at the fingertips of Harvard students, librarians and University faculty are spending the next five years simply laying the groundwork for the project...
Micah S. Myers '00, who spent 10 weeks last summer in Spain helping to lay the legal groundwork for the case, is an intern with the Spanish legal firm, Astorga y Garcs, that initially brought the complaint against Pinochet...
...Republican whip Tom Delay, who has already called for Clinton to resign. Staff members from his office had compiled binders full of material on impeachment procedures. By waging a phony war over whether to give Clinton an advance look at Starr's report, Democrats laid the groundwork for a claim that the whole process ahead will be a show trial. "I feel that the Republicans were so wrongheaded not to let the President have a couple of days to review this document," said Democrat Henry Waxman, who nevertheless voted for the resolution to release the report. However deplorable Clinton...