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...lying to federal authorities about more than $500,000 worth of consulting he did to help firms secure millions in Department of Housing and Urban Development funding. Watt faces a top penalty of up to five years in prison for each of 25 counts of perjury, unlawful concealment and obstruction of justice. The federal indictment charges that Watt -- who left Interior in 1983 -- lied to Congress and to a grand jury that was investigating the Reagan Administration HUD scandal, and withheld documents that contradicted his denials of lobbying agency employees from1984 to 1986. "I did not lie to the Congress...
...committee suggested that Harvard end funding of ROTC by July 1, 1995, but allow the alumni who have volunteered to pay the administrative fee to do so, "either directly or through an intermediary not associated with Harvard," provided that Harvard does not "facilitate nor obstruct such arrangements...
...Republican minority in Congress is overstepping the bounds of its role. A minority is not meant to obstruct; it is meant to advise and dissent. The Republicans claim a victory when they bring enough Democrats over to defeat a majority bill. But can you really respect the buyers or the sellers of the pork that made the vote happen...
ZAGREB -- The U.N. protection force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia would rather obstruct the media than risk exacerbating tension between the warring factions. Last week it denied journalists access to an area of eastern Croatia that was devastated by Serbs two years ago and is now ostensibly under U.N. control. Said a top unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying...
...floor. The new charges involve not what obscure Arkansas wheeler-dealers did 15 years ago but what was said as recently as late February by George Stephanopoulos, the President's most trusted political adviser after his wife and the Vice President. And the story brings up the dread words obstruction of justice -- even in the minds of Administration officials. Says one: "Based on the facts we believe Fiske has developed during his grand jury sessions, it's possible that at least one and perhaps several Section 1505 indictments could issue." Section 1505 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code brands...