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Attorney General Janet Reno buys more time for Gore probe (TIME Daily...
...Janet Reno's parents were both newspaper reporters. Her brother Robert is a columnist. So it's fair to suspect she has a journalist's instinct in her blood. That could explain what it was that got her last week to jump-start her department's investigation of campaign fund raising: sheer fury at being scooped. Earlier this month she read in the Washington Post that $120,000 in "soft money" solicited by Al Gore for general party activities last year had somehow found its way into "hard money" accounts that financed individual campaigns. Reno was outraged that reporters...
...Reported by Emily Mitchell/New York, Andrea Sachs/New Haven and Janet I-Chin Tu/Seattle
Moskowitz's most drastic impact, though, has been in Jerusalem itself. Since the mid-1980s he has used his personal fortune, the size of which is unknown, to buy up Arab-owned properties in East Jerusalem and pay for settlers to live in them. Janet Aviad, a leader of the group Peace Now, says, "Moskowitz is the biggest backer of Jews moving into East Jerusalem." She counts at least 10 buildings he has bought from Arabs there and estimates that he has invested nearly $20 million in the enterprise altogether...
WASHINGTON: The most dangerous question for Bill Clinton in the Justice Department review of his campaign fund-raising is not whether the President made illegal phone calls from the White House. TIME magazine reports that Attorney General Janet Reno's investigators are more concerned about whether those calls solicited "soft money" for party activities that made its way into "hard money" accounts financing specific campaigns...