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...every Congressman's convenience store. Now the woman behind the counter, chief of staff Joanna O'Rourke, 52, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiring to use the mail service for "personal and campaign services." The indictment said O'Rourke, who plans to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, had ordered employees to pick up and deliver campaign contributions and backdate postmarks on federal income-tax returns...
This summer the Democratic Convention gave us some pretty powerful speeches on the need for racial equality. We heard Jimmy Carter plead for attention to human rights. And Bill Clinton endorsed Washington's bid for statehood. But in spite of some finely orchestrated platitudes, the party of Congress has done remarkably little for an area over which it has so much control. Members of Congress and their staff have been shot near their offices, and ambassadors robbed near their embassies, but you haven't heard--and you won't hear--anyone advocating some help for this poor, murder-a-night...
SEPARATED AT BIRTH. As the two most telegenic Southern moderates in the Democratic Party, just 19 months apart in age, both Clinton and Gore had ambitions that seemed on a collision course. In 1987 Gore journeyed to Little Rock, Arkansas, to plead in vain for Clinton's support for the Tennessee Senator's own 1988 presidential bid. But now that the hierarchy between the two men is firmly established, they are at last free to enjoy their Ivy League similarities. "For Clinton it's like having your twin brother run for Vice President on the same ticket," says a campaign...
...says Sergeant Wes McBride of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department. "But there are not a lot of social programs out there to help them." For a 14-year-old living in a housing project run by a gang, it doesn't cut it to plead a hectic schedule when the guys come knocking. "If you're in the projects, getting out of a gang just isn't a smart thing to do," says J.W. Hughes, 22, a former member of a gang called the Black Disciples in Chicago who now counsels gang members. "You have to fear...
...activists, scientists, spiritual leaders and other people on the periphery of the Earth Summit, environmentalist Sharon Rogers of Wright City, Mo., announced that she was circulating a petition in which the U.S. citizens at the conference would request an audience with Bush this week to plead with him to change America's stance. Said Rogers: "We cannot allow Bush to come here, wave a flag and then walk away without doing anything. He has undermined everything that is important about this conference...