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WASHINGTON: Linda Tripp certainly looks as if she's under siege. According to CNN, Monica Lewinsky may well cooperate with Maryland state prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, who's after Tripp for secretly taping her young ex-confidant. Montanarelli also thinks another set of tapes -- of conversations between Tripp and New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg -- may be just the thing to make his case. Good luck: TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf says that Special Prosecutor Ken Starr's interest in Tripp will probably trump any state investigation...
...that states are suddenly flush with cash, they're starting to give some back to taxpayers. At least 14 states--including Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska and New York--have used sky-high tax revenues to cut personal income taxes in 1998, according to a new study. Tax revenues are still rising, so there could be more cuts coming...
Mitchell was responding to a federal lawsuit filed last week by 11 black motorists and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Maryland N.A.A.C.P. The suit claims that state troopers, who have stepped up efforts to nail drug couriers, have targeted blacks on Interstate 95, a favored route for weapon and drug smuggling...
...colonel's denial echoed recent declarations made by police in other states but did little to convince black drivers in Maryland and elsewhere. Profiling--a police practice of viewing certain characteristics as indicators of criminal behavior--is common across the U.S. But authorities uniformly deny that race is one of the characteristics. "It's a shell game," says Bill Mertens, lead outside counsel for the A.C.L.U. in the case against Maryland. "Police use profiling sloppily and rely on racial characteristics in totally illegal ways...
Marshaling numbers from the state troopers' own records, the plaintiffs in the Maryland case presented dizzying facts: while 75% of the drivers on I-95 are white, only 23% of those that troopers stopped and searched from 1995 to 1997 were white; 17% of drivers are black, yet 70% of those pulled over were black. State police countered with statistics showing that troopers stopped twice as many whites as blacks in 21 months ending in March...