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WUERZBURG, GERMANY: Army medic Michael New was discharged for refusing to wear U.N. insignia on a peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. In a case that had captured the imagination of conservatives who opposed putting U.S. forces under U.N. command, New had argued that he had not taken any oath to serve under U.N. commanders. But the court said that New should be discharged because he refused to carry out a lawful order from his U.S. military commanders. "The bottom line for the military is that you can not pick and chose your orders," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...First Lady and the White House spent much of last week trying to neutralize skepticism about a number of her past statements, including some made under oath. Whether the questions involve Whitewater, the search of Vince Foster's office after his suicide or the 1993 firing of the White House travel-office staff, the issue boils down to whether she's none too fussy about the truth. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, 52% of those surveyed think Mrs. Clinton lied about her role in Whitewater and Travelgate. Asked if they thought she had done something...
...before a federal grand jury regarding the mystery surrounding the discovery of her Whitewater billing records. "Friday's testimony will offer the First Lady the opportunity to tell the independent counsel what she knows about these matters," the White House said in a statement. Mrs. Clinton has testified under oath four times previously about Whitewater, but this will be her first appearance before the Whitewater grand jury. "It's serious," notes TIME's James Carney. "In addition to highlighting Starr's investigation, this subpoena strengthens the hand of Senate Whitewater chairman Alfonse D'Amato, who will soon seek to extend...
...ANGELES: A year and a half after his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman were savagely slashed to death, O.J. Simpson finally testified under oath (and under protest) as to what he was doing the night of the killings. Simpson, who was acquitted of the murders in a criminal court on October 3, gave a videotaped deposition as part of a wrongful death suit brought against him by the families of the victims. The court has ruled that the transcripts can be released later...
...least one doctor has been even more outspoken about the conflict between the Hippocratic oath and the cost-controlling imperatives of the HMOs. David Himmelstein, 45, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and a persistent critic of for-profit HMOs, signed on a year ago with U.S. Healthcare, a $2.9 billion behemoth whose 65,000 doctors and 2.3 million members make it the largest HMO on the East Coast...