Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...talking privately with the President on the phone and after hours. "Mystery," he likes to say, "is an integral part of power." For a while he was known only as Charlie--so named by Clinton--the unseen force that hijacked speeches and made policies change course. Chief of staff Leon Panetta threatened to quit unless Clinton brought Morris into the structure. Deputy chief of staff Ickes, his adversary since the 1960s, bollixed Morris wherever he could, refusing his hotel minibar bills and cutting the commission that Morris and his team earned on Clinton's enormous TV-ad budget. Last summer...
Using laws rather than friendly persuasion to alter Europe's approach, says Sir Leon Brittan, trade commissioner at the E.U. in Brussels, "establishes the unwelcome principle that one country can dictate the foreign policy of others." U.S. allies believe that neither of the new laws is likely to inflict any significant pain on Cuba, Iran or Libya, much less improve their objectionable behavior. The Turkish gas deal is a case in point. "These laws have nothing to do with fighting terrorism," says French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette. Of course, the Europeans do have an economic interest in retaining links...
...always sought to wrestle with the ramifications of startling headlines; just last February we did a cover called "Is Anybody Out There?" after scientists found evidence of two distant planets that seemed to have water. We jumped on the Mars story last week, scheduling pieces by former science editor Leon Jaroff, new writer Jeffrey Kluger (who co-wrote the book that became the basis for Apollo 13), correspondent J. Madeleine Nash and essayist Lance Morrow...