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...autumn, the stakes were rising for Clinton. On Oct. 1, he received interrogatories from Jones' lawyers asking for a list of women other than his wife with whom he had sought to have sexual relations. Six days later, Lewinsky sent the President another letter complaining about her stalled job search. She was cooling on the U.N. idea now and wanted Clinton to help her get a job in the private sector. After 2 a.m. on Oct. 10, the report says, Clinton called Lewinsky and unloaded on her: "If I had known what kind of person you really were, I never...
Alleged sissy. Tyson denied the charges through an attorney and has an Oct. 2 court date to explain himself...
...first spotted this kind of convergence in the fall of 1964. On Oct. 7, in the midst of a presidential campaign, a top White House aide was arrested in a YMCA men's room and charged with indecent exposure. Nine days later--one day after the St. Louis Cardinals won a seven-game World Series against the New York Yankees and the Soviets ousted Khrushchev and replaced him with Brezhnev--China exploded its first atomic device. That same day, Harold Wilson became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister in 13 years. That week TIME put four people on its cover...
Watergate was still dominating the headlines when, on Oct. 6, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holidays. Four days later, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Over the next 10 days, Middle East and Persian Gulf nations organized a total oil embargo against the U.S. because of its support for Israel. And on Oct. 20, one day before the embargo took full effect, came the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon ordered special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and an honest-to-God constitutional crisis was born...
...folks are a bit cranky on the first day of the workweek, but their Monday blues are nothing compared with those of the stock market. Last week's 512-point plunge in the Dow was just the latest jolt to Wall Street (and international markets) after the weekend--from Oct. 28, 1929, to Black Monday in 1987, to the 554-point dive last Oct. 27. Indeed, half of the 10 biggest drops in the Dow's history, both in percentage and point terms, came on Monday, which has been the worst day of the week for stocks over the past...