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...news for Burton-bashers: The pit bull's still with us. A bid to oust the outspoken Indiana Republican failed Wednesday when Burton used his power as chairman of the House committee on governmental reform and oversight to quash ranking Democrat Henry Waxman's motion. And despite Waxman's vow to take it to the floor of the House, it looks as if Burton has finally weathered the storm over his recent editing of the Web Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom...
...when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic, the Rev. Calvin Butts, head of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, is incensed: "He has brought spiritual wickedness into high power." Butts and others failed to oust Lyons as convention leader last fall when the allegations began to appear, but they intend to try again in September...
...more than any other group, have remained loyal to Clinton through his current ordeal: we've been treating him like one of our own. Just as black voters re-elected Marion Barry to a fourth term as mayor of Washington after his drug conviction, and black parishioners refused to oust the Rev. Henry Lyons from the leadership of the National Baptist Convention after he allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars, we're sticking with the President come hell, high water, or a new plague of bimbos. As Jesse Jackson, who has become Clinton's Billy Graham, puts it, blacks...
...Americans who are squeamish about political assassinations may be surprised to learn that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet. Lincoln believed that when a people have suffered under a tyrant for a long time, all legal and peaceful means to oust him have been exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this is not a job for Americans to undertake, but we should have no moral qualms about providing financial inducements or technical assistance...
Teamsters dissidents, who have no love for either man, say Carey was his own undoing. While he did oust some corrupt officials and sold off union jets and limousines after his 1991 election, insiders say he also readily cut deals with Old-Guard Teamsters leaders. In one such move, Carey withheld his support from a Washington local that was battling corrupt officials--whereupon the 3,500-member group quit the union. "Carey turned on his friends and made deals with the devil," says Arthur Fox, former attorney for a group of dissident Teamsters drivers. "Then when he needed support from...