Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's Geography of Conspiracy. If Disney were to create a theme park celebrating American paranoia (Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated...
...Hillary's January 1996 grand jury appearance. Starr is looking for evidence that the First Lady lied in sworn statements, especially about the Foster matter or the disappearance and reappearance of her Rose Law Firm billing records. The White House says the notes are not incriminating, and most legal observers doubt the independent counsel will bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton...
...asked an Arkansas court to hold a conference to set a trial date and filed the first formal response to the suit, in which Clinton said he did not remember ever meeting Jones and denied her claim he harassed her during an Arkansas state economic conference. Covering all the legal bases, the filing said that even if Clinton did meet Jones at the Excelsior Hotel, as she claims, he did nothing illegal. And even assuming that Clinton had propositioned Jones, lawyers said, it should be considered "a single overture -- abandoned as soon as she stated it was unwelcome." While...
...area is now overpopulated with elephants. Two weeks ago, TIME reported that Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia wanted permission not to kill elephants but merely to sell stockpiled ivory, taken mostly from animals that had died of natural causes or been culled. Environmentalists objected, on the grounds that any legal sales would encourage poachers to go back in business. But last week the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted to let the three nations sell a total of almost 60 tons to Japan--under strict monitoring to make sure contraband ivory stays off the market. Profits from the sale...
...note Thursday by repeating the President's previous assertions that he does not recall making telephone solicitations from the executive mansion, but cannot rule out the possibility. In the meantime, until a clarification of the existing law comes down the pipe, the White House appears content to play legal hopscotch. While White House counsel reportedly advised employees not to make any phone solicitations from federal property, Gore has said he understood they were legal if made with a political credit card...