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...issue remained undecided last Tuesday at around 5:30 p.m. as an Oval Office meeting began. The Japanese were still balking. Clinton sat at his desk with chief of staff Erskine Bowles at his side. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and White House economic adviser Gene Sperling discussed whether the President should talk to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Rubin was off to one side, pacing quietly. Asked for his recommendation, he ran his fingers through his hair, then somberly replied that intervention by itself would accomplish little. What really mattered was concrete Japanese actions...
...mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton when Berger enters the Oval Office to tell him about the blasts. His jaw drops. "Why?" is all he can manage...
...steps forward to give a speech here at Whittier Law School, some 200 attorneys, historians, journalists and government officials rise to applaud. An elderly lady grasps his hand, murmuring, "God bless you." A student asks for his autograph. And then, in broken English, the thin young man with oval spectacles begins, "My name is Christoph Meili. My job at the bank--I controlled peoples what come in and out. One night I come to the shredding room. I see two old boxes with books...
...book tour in which he apologized for everything but the end of Seinfeld, Newt was looking calm, thin and happy. Then James Dobson, the country's most powerful Christian activist, with 28 million radio listeners, came calling, threatening to bolt the party unless Gingrich stones the adulterer in the Oval Office and delivers candidates to Dobson's liking, not ones who use him and don't take his calls in the morning...
...question that could pierce the Secret Service's impulse for protection. Again and again, Ken Starr's prosecutors fired questions they have been asking in similar sessions for weeks: What exactly can Secret Service officers see from their posts in the West Wing? When did Monica Lewinsky visit the Oval Office? Who was she coming...