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...development in the foreign fund-raising scandal centers on a donation to Thompson's party. According to documents turned over to Senate investigators on Friday, then G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour discussed the possibility of helping a Hong Kong tycoon get business in China if he forgave a $2.2 million loan to a Republican think tank. Barbour has denied this latest allegation...
...halfway house and implying that Smaltz had been overzealous. In March a federal judge threw out Smaltz's case against Espy's brother Henry, saying the government didn't have enough evidence to prove that he had defrauded federal election authorities or lied to get a bank loan when he tried to win Michael's old House seat...
...damaging to the Clintons, McDougal allowed that it certainly couldn't help them. Maybe so, but McDougal has little credibility. His willingness to cooperate with Starr has slashed his possible 84-year prison term to just three years for his role in the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The real qustion that must be worrying the Clintons is whether he is backing up his stories with evidence of any wrongdoing. McDougal may be colorful, but isn't colorful financing the charge behind Whitewater...
...that 1 of 3 students works and attends school at the same time. Says Paul Rogat Loeb, author of Generation at the Crossroads, a study of college students: "The issue today is finding a job--in a fragmented workplace--that will allow them to avoid being crushed by their loan payment...
...jury secrecy rules are aimed at preventing precisely this kind of leak-and-smear damage." The Times article quoted several anonymous prosecutors as saying that former Whitewater partner James McDougal's cooperation led to new documents relating to Mrs. Clinton's legal work for McDougal's failed savings and loan and the "truthfulness of her statements" to federal investigators. The article also reported that Starr provided background assistance for the piece and that lawyers in his office made no attempt to suppress speculation that the indictment of the First Lady is under consideration. Deborah Gershman, a spokeswoman for Starr, said...