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...alleged to have offered Linda Tripp to guide Tripp's deposition testimony to lawyers for Paula Jones. Steve Smith, a longtime Clinton friend and adviser, is the former president of Madison Savings & Loan, the institution at the center of Whitewater. After being targeted by Starr, Smith entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to divert government-backed loan proceeds. But he insists that lawyers on Starr's staff wrote out a prepared script for him to read before the grand jury. "It contained things I had told them time and time again were not true," he says...
...with those words, Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, last week saved himself from the threat of execution. In a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, he accepted a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of appeal or release. Denied his belated request to defend himself in court, he abandoned his plan to argue that his 18-year killing spree--aimed mainly at those he considered technocrats, like computer scientists and business executives--was necessary to save an environment-despoiling America from itself. But he also gave up what some Justice Department officials and his victims feared was a chance that...
...lawyers on both sides worked to complete the plea agreement, David Kaczynski, brother of Ted, scribbled on a yellow legal pad. It was David who had turned his brother in--and who has since argued forcefully that he should be spared execution on account of his mental state. At the top of his pad, he began writing, "The reaction of my mother and I to the plea agreement..." And when he was finished, as other spectators chatted quietly among themselves, he and his mother Wanda leaned silently against each other...
...DAVID KACZYNSKI Ted, thanks to a plea bargain, gets to live. And David doesn't have to live with the guilt...
...unique in its brevity and laserlike in its focus on emergency measures to stimulate growth and reinforce sagging financial institutions. "It is my unwavering determination," he declared, "to avoid at all costs a worldwide financial or economic panic originating in Japan." The Japanese financial markets gagged on that plea for confidence, plunging to their lowest levels in more than two years. Hashimoto's public-approval rating wasn't far behind. To make matters worse, the powerful Ministry of Finance widened the credibility gap by announcing on the same day that...Oops--the amount of potential bad loans on the balance...