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...ROGER CLINTON'S lawyer, Bart Williams, is asking White to give his client time to decide whether to testify or claim the Fifth, but she may be a tough sell. "They are moving speedily along, and they are not letting people have extensions," says a lawyer involved in the probe. BETH DOZORETZ, a friend of Bill Clinton's, testified before the grand jury earlier this month, as have JACK QUINN and ROBERT FINK, lawyers for pardoned fugitive MARC RICH. A lawyer close to the case says White has also struck an immunity deal with political donor DENISE RICH, which means...
White's office has been loath to grant extensions to subpoenaed witnesses and has moved quickly in the investigation. In her probe of the clemency granted fugitive financier Marc Rich, she has worked out an immunity deal with Rich's ex-wife Denise and has heard testimony from such witnesses as Beth Dozoretz, a friend of both Denise Rich and Bill Clinton who had at least one conversation with the President about the Rich pardon...
...find White a tough sell. "They are moving speedily along, and they are not letting people have extensions," said a lawyer who represents someone else in the pardons probe. Most of the possible witnesses connected to the clemency granted to four Hasidic Jews from the New Square, N.Y., community, for instance, have already testified. The four were convicted of stealing more than $30 million in government funds by establishing a fictitious religious school; their sentences were commuted after the Grand Rabbi of their ultra-Orthodox community arranged a Dec. 22 meeting at the White House with both Clintons present...
...MACEDONIA Collateral Damage Macedonian forces continued pounding ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo as fighting spilled into the neighboring province, where a stray shell killed three civilians. nato ordered an urgent probe into the incident, at the ethnic Albanian hamlet of Krivenik, while 400 British troops were deployed in the region and pressure mounted for a halt to hostilities...
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington last week blasted FBI Director LOUIS FREEH and JOHN ASHCROFT'S Justice Department over a new wrinkle in the probe of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. After DOJ decided to yank the investigation from outgoing U.S. Attorney WILMA LEWIS and give it to prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lewis steamed that the move was "the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands...