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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Responding to Republican claims that her office could not conduct an independent investigation of the White House "Filegate" incident, Attorney General Janet Reno said she will ask a special three-judge court to give Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr the authority to oversee that probe. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the Administration would welcome an outside investigation, and hoped that it would "shut up" GOP critics. Reno's decision to assign an independent prosecutor will deflect GOP allegations that the White House is influencing the investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno...
...Clark men too have been bombarded by appeals to family. Edwin's wife Janet has been carrying in medication for their son Casey, and last week Edwin met with the FBI, perhaps to discuss his son's release. But at week's end was crying foul because temporary custody of her daughters was awarded to Courtnie's father rather than to her sister, as she says she was promised. This, she said, would end all hope of a peaceful settlement. "They see me get screwed, and they know they're going to get screwed." Unless blood is thicker than paranoia...
...Attorney General Janet Reno and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin will hear in meetings this week with the pastors of several burned-out churches, such misguided scrutiny has been occurring all too frequently in the federal investigation of the fires. Dozens of pastors charge that despite the long history of racist terrorism throughout the region, investigators are not vigorously pursuing the possibility that the fires were set by white hate groups. Instead, the ministers charge, they, their families and their congregations have been subjected to harsh interrogation, lie-detector tests and harassment at their homes and jobs. In one instance...
Ever since she watched Janet Evans swim to three golds in 1988, American Brooke Bennett has wanted to compete in the Olympics. Last year at the summer nationals, she broke Evans' eight-year winning streak in the 800-m freestyle. In March she beat Evans in the 800 at the Olympic trials, setting up a head-to-head contest in Atlanta. And last week in Phoenix, Arizona, Bennett bested Evans again in the 800. Not bad for a 16-year-old asthma and allergy sufferer...
...JANET COOKE became an instant ethics lesson for a generation of journalists after her 1980 Pulitzer-prizewinning story on "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict, was found to have been fabricated. Now she has resurfaced in the pages of GQ magazine, telling her story to onetime colleague and lover Mike Sager. Cooke says that as a child she learned to lie as a way of avoiding her strict father's temper. Unfortunately, liars who indulge their vice publicly and get caught don't have many career options. "I'm in a situation where cereal has become a viable dinner...