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...member after another angrily protested the proceedings today, three federal regulators charged that top government officials repeatedly thwarted their attempts to investigate the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis said she believed "there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping on the assembled press corps." In one of the documents, Hillary Clinton says: "If Reaganomics works...
...friend Vincent Foster committed suicide in 1993 was "the worst day of my life." He also said that he and Justice Department colleagues were concerned when White House aides refused to allow investigators immediate access to documents in Foster's office. Senate Republicans maintain the White House obstructed police attempts to investigate Foster's death. Senator Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said today that newly-released documents from Foster's office, which have raised some questions about the Clinton tax returns, would underscore the argument that "the White House certainly had reason to worry about the Department of Justice search...
...offers. Packwood's problems are hardly over. Today, he spent a second day in closed-door session with the Senate ethics committee, which has kept the job-soliticitation charge alive, along with allegations that Packwood sexually harassed numerous women over two decades andaltered his diaries in an attempt to obstruct the congressional investigation...
...more or less co-opted our demonstration," says Eric L. Jones '70, a leader of the BFSA. "We didn't want to obstruct Dean May. SDS wasn't doing the things they had agreed to do before we had allowed them to join the sit-in, so we left. If SDS wanted to take over University Hall, so be it. But we weren't going to be there...
...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...