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...ceremony for the handover of power, Habibie kept up his characteristic deference. After a sadly smiling Suharto apologized for his mistakes and announced his resignation, Habibie appeared to hesitate. His mentor gestured with his hand, like a father to a nervous child, and Habibie stepped forward to take the oath of office. Moments later he scuttled out of the room behind Suharto, leaving Wiranto to announce the quid pro quo. The armed forces would fully support the transfer of power to Habibie and had agreed to protect the safety of Suharto and his notoriously corrupt family members. A deal...
...almost certainly witnessed a great deal more about the President's private life than they have been willing to divulge. The secret sessions in recent weeks were designed, Justice lawyers say, to help narrow the scope of Starr's questions and, if possible, enable officers to answer them under oath without having to slug out the privilege issue in the courts. Much of the questioning focused on events occurring in the days before Lewinsky's abrupt transfer out of the White House in April 1996. Starr wants to know whether some incident involving the Secret Service triggered the decision...
Starr is trying to find out whether the President lied under oath when he denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky to Paula Jones' lawyers. In recent weeks Starr's lawyers have interviewed three uniformed officers outside the grand-jury room, but they reportedly refused to answer questions about Clinton and Lewinsky. Starr wants corroboration for testimony that his grand jury heard in February from Lewis Fox, a retired officer. According to U.S. News & World Report, Fox told the grand jury that in the fall of 1995, he admitted Lewinsky to the Oval Office. Forty minutes later, when he left...
...Clinton's phones, opening his mail, greeting his visitors, gauging his mood for nervous guests, correcting his spelling, telling him when he's behind schedule and bringing him all sorts of other news, good and bad. In coming days she'll face Starr's team for another grilling under oath about her boss, which could yield the most crucial testimony yet against the President. She alone can say whether he tried to enlist her in covering up an alleged affair with Lewinsky by helping find the intern a job and by retrieving several gifts Clinton purchased...
Will every male member of Congress please stand up and swear under oath that he has never had sex outside of marriage, never made a pass at a woman, never told a dirty joke in mixed company, never asked a subordinate to have a cocktail and never winked at anyone? You wanna see some perjury? PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...