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...furious over the Iceman's mismanaged recovery, declared that the mummy is the archaeological equivalent of "a Leonardo" and warned that it should not be damaged "in any way." When Innsbruck sent out the snippets of flesh "no larger than a sweetening tablet" for carbon dating by experts at Oxford and in Zurich, the Italian government threatened legal action...
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...fact, Shattuck said, the relationship datesback some 25 years, to when the two were bothstudying in England. Shattuck, a Mellon Scholar atCambridge University, and Clinton, a RhodesScholar at Oxford University, had common friendsand worked together on Eugene McCarthy's campaignin...
Bush's comments marked the crescendo of a well-orchestrated campaign of rumors, leaks and innuendos. They ranged from wild suggestions of KGB links, to reports that Clinton had held multiple passports under different names while at Oxford, to dark hints that the young Arkansan may even have been planning to renounce his citizenship to avoid the draft. If Bush did have evidence for such charges that Clinton could not explain away, the results could be devastating. But so far no shadow of proof was forthcoming...
...days before the debate saw some of the most vicious attacks yet, as Bush questioned Clinton's patriotism while piously denying that he was doing so. The President wondered aloud why Clinton, who was then attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, went to Moscow in 1970 and whom he saw there. Clinton says he visited, for all of a week, "mostly as a tourist." The assault quickly backfired, and Bush stopped mentioning Moscow. On Sunday night, though, he persisted in attacking Clinton for helping organize demonstrations by Americans in London against the Vietnam War. Clinton, who had earlier quoted Bush...