Word: mattered
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...play ball with Kofi Annan. "The February agreement that averted a military confrontation specified that the Secretary General would be the final mediator in disputes between Baghdad and the U.N. weapons inspection team," explains TIME reporter Stuart Stogel. "If Iraq refuses to abide by Kofi's ruling in the matter, we'll be back in a crisis situation...
...going to be tough for Microsoft not to look hypocritical, since it already agreed to turn over its source code to attorneys in a separate case against software firm Caldera in Utah. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has ordered a hearing Thursday to chew the matter over. Chances that this Microsoft veteran will raise a skeptical eyebrow at the latest complaint: High. Chances that Microsoft would appeal such a verdict: Even higher...
WASHINGTON: The White House has finally run out of privileges, and all the President's lawyers (except personal counsel David Kendall) are open to subpoena by Ken Starr's grand jury. The White House is already simpering that it hopes the full court will take the matter up in the fall. But now that the President is testifying two weeks hence, why should the White House or Ken Starr -- or us, for that matter -- care what Clinton's confidants have to report anymore...
...TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf says that it's a simple matter of thorough cross-examination. "If Starr can get their testimony before August 17, maybe he'll be able to use their testimony to test the veracity of Clinton's responses to similar questions," he says. "Of course, that assumes that the lawyers have different stories to tell than their boss. Perfect consistency -- either in truth or in lies -- should trump Starr. Of course, that kind of agreement is what got Clinton in trouble in the first place...
President Clinton reviewed communist troops in Tiananmen Square, an action that told the world the deeds of the Chinese government, including the murder of protesters in 1989, didn't matter to the American people. And then he sold out 21 million free people in Taiwan by adhering to the one-China policy that does not support Taiwanese independence. Taiwan has now been set up the way South Korea was in the 1950s. ROBERT A. COOPER Phoenix, Ariz...