Word: leone
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...will still push for tax cuts, fewer federal regulations, reduction in federal spending and balancing the budget. Congress also will continue its investigations into the Clinton administration on a range of ethics issues, the latest being questionable foreign donations to the Democratic Party. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta claims that the message from the election was that voters want compromise not partisan warfare. "The American people have really rejected four years of those kinds of allegations that led nowhere," Panetta said. "If we bog down in the kind of gridlock and partisanship and attacks that we saw over...
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...
With White House help, the low-key Farr won Leon Panetta's old seat in a 1993 special election. Perhaps to repay the debt, Farr quickly changed his NAFTA stripes and voted for the Clinton-backed agreement. The nine-time California Legislator of the Year took his political skills to Washington. When the military closed Fort Ord, Farr got part of the base converted to an environmental-science center for the state's public universities. The seat may be Farr's for keeps if he can hold off Jess Brown again...
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...