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After 2 1/2 hours, the meeting broke up with no formal decision. Clinton, Gore and chief of staff Leon Panetta went into the Oval Office; a bit later Reed and John Hilley, the President's top lobbyist to Congress, were summoned. Clinton asked a few more questions. Then he said, "Let's do it," and, rising from his chair, declared, "I want to sign it." Gore patted his shoulder and said, "I know that was tough...
DIED. PAVEL SUDOPLATOV, 89, Stalin's spymaster who claimed he stole atom-bomb secrets from the U.S. and plotted the death of Leon Trotsky; in Moscow...
...debate over welfare reform has divided Americans between those who consider recipients to be hapless victims and those who see them as shiftless parasites. Washington Post reporter Leon Dash's Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America (HarperCollins; 279 pages; $23) gives both sides powerful evidence to support their position. It will also leave fair-minded readers in both camps equally discomfited...
...longer in government service, he would not be under any obligation to pass along to the White House a last word on whether Morris had done what Rowlands claimed. (Later McCurry told reporters that the Bowles-Morris talks were "private.") Also, Clinton knew that his chief of staff, Leon Panetta, and Panetta's deputy, Ickes, were too hostile to Morris to deal with him in these circumstances. Panetta had once threatened to quit because Morris was elbowing in on White House access. Ickes had sparred with Morris since the two were rivals in New York City politics three decades...
...Republicans out to embarrass Clinton? "Obviously it's not impossible," says editor in chief Phil Bunton. "But we saw nobody else's fingerprints on this story but hers." One thing that made him doubt any political motives was her naivete. Rowlands didn't know what jobs Clinton aides like Leon Panetta and George Stephanopoulos held, and had misspelled their names in her diaries...