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...America. In 1984 North Carolina offered the country's hottest Senate race, Jesse Helms vs. Jim Hunt, and Reed wanted his new group to be in on the action. It was at the Helms victory party that a pretty 16-year-old Helms volunteer introduced herself to Reed. Jo Anne Young thought he was about 19 and "really cute." It would be nearly two years before they had their first official date, on the occasion of her high school . graduation. By that time Ralph was taking a recess from politics, obtaining a Ph.D. at Emory University. "I had the feeling...
Although that suspicion was not new, Attorney General Janet Reno had decided two months ago that there was not enough evidence against Sheik Abdel Rahman. When New York politicians angrily protested against letting him walk around free, the best Reno and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White could think of was to arrest him on a charge of violating immigration laws. Federal authorities say no startling piece of new evidence or major new witness knitted their case together. Rather, they assert, good police work did it: the sifting and analysis of many bits of information gradually filled out a picture...
...Attorney Mary Jo White, who was tracking the case in New York, told Reno that the sheik seemed to be trying to wriggle out of the net. He and his followers had left his apartment the night before and sped away in their car, nearly losing the FBI agents following behind. The effort to flee finally provided Reno with a legal justification. She gave the O.K. for immigration agents to apprehend the sheik and told her top aides Webb Hubbell and Phil Heymann to work out the legal details...
Reno did win the battle to name her own pick for the crucial Criminal Division, pulling in Jo Ann Harris, 60, a distinguished former prosecutor from New York, and Doris Meissner, an immigration-reform specialist, to head the INS. And, says a close adviser, "Janet has had total veto power over everyone. But she's not going to keep score. She doesn't think in those terms, and you couldn't get her to talk in those terms." Friends say Reno has no regrets about not being part of Clinton's inner circle. As a White House aide remarked...
...plotters had succeeded, their handiwork would have traumatized the entire U.S. as well. In Washington, President Clinton said the American people should feel "an enormous sense of pride" that the terrorist plot had been foiled. In New York City, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White noted that Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, accused ringleader of the bombmakers, had been quoted as boasting, "We can get you anytime!" (He uttered these words after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center.) Said White: "Law enforcement's answer is, 'No, you cannot' . . . We will not permit the likes of these defendants to terrorize...