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...easy enough to find harbingers of the Quincy episode in the early coverage of President Dole's candidacy. In April 1999, for instance, Robert Novak reported that officials of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, whose meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Mrs. Dole had addressed, were informed in advance that in the question-and-answer session following the speech she would provide not only the answers but also the questions--a procedure the White House press corps has so far been unwilling to embrace...
...Starr's prosecutors mentioned Bill Clinton 37 times in their opening statements at the trial of Julie Hiatt Steele. Then alleged presidential gropee Kathleen Willey took the stand. "His hands were all over me," she said -- and who can't imagine that? -- but TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak doesn't see the President's fingerprints anywhere else in this case. "You're supposed to get the feeling that the President's on trial here," she says. "But Starr has really yet to give people a compelling reason why he's even trying this case." Can he nail Clinton, who denied...
...when Newsweek wanted her to corroborate Willey's story. Willey says she confided in Steele not only hours afterward, in November 1993, but repeatedly throughout the years following. Steele, Willey testified Wednesday, "wanted to be very much into this story" and "wanted to make money off of it." Novak says Willey's credibility has some big bruises -- she's even lied to the independent counsel -- but Starr's biggest hurdle isn't establishing that Steele is lying. It's establishing why anyone outside the jury box should care...
...federal jury acquitted McDougal of obstruction of justice charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation, and the judge in the case declared a mistrial on two contempt charges after the jury deadlocked on those counts. The not guilty verdict on the obstruction charge is significant, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak, who has been following the trial: ?That?s the charge on which the jury was allowed to consider her state of mind, and apparently the jury believed her when she said she was scared of Ken Starr.? McDougal had maintained in the trial that she refused to talk because...
...faced in the days ahead with another decision, which his congressional opponents will be eyeing very closely: Will he decide to retry McDougal on the deadlocked counts? Those who have criticized Starr for his multiple prosecutions in the past will be ready to pounce if he does, says Novak. And they will have none other than McDougal and her words on Monday to launch their attack. Said McDougal: ?I?ve been indicted since 1993 and this is the first day I haven?t been indicted in years...