Word: leone
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...genuinely hurt their feelings, I'm really sorry and surprised," President Clinton said today of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's complaint that he and Bob Dole had been snubbed on the airplane trip to Yitzhak Rabin's funeral last week. But White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta had a different reaction: "I think all of this is outrageous that they would use that kind of pettiness to shut down the federal government." Later, Gingrich sought to downplay the incident as just one of many factors blocking consensus. But TIME's Viveca Novak notes the Speaker's recent outbursts...
...refusing to meet Dole and Gingrich face to face, Clinton brushed aside congressional calls to cancel a trip to Japan, where he is scheduled to attend an Asian economic summit this week. The President's trip may be shortened by two days, nut White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta says that Clinton's foreign policy goals would not be "held hostage...
...like what he said. If its true, it sounds great," Leon added...
...thought he kept coming to the same point superficially," said Gabriel J. Leon '99. "Maybe he should have gone broader...
...would not invite Yasser Arafat to anything, anywhere, anytime, any place. I don't forget," the Mayor said. Forget what? That some Palestinian henchperson, of which Yasser wasn't even one, killed the American Jew Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Lauro a decade ago? Or that other Palestinians, even if they were sent by the organization over which he had full control, murdered the entire Israeli Olympic team at Munich...