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...invitation to the roundup that was printed on ATF letterhead and mailed in an ATF envelope. At this year's outing, racist slogans and T shirts were reportedly on display, including one with Martin Luther King Jr.'s face behind a target. Last week Magaw called for a Treasury probe of the event, and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch scheduled a hearing for July 21. Said he: "I'm very upset about it. We're not going to sit around and let this type of stuff happen...
...probe put an uncomfortable spotlight on Andreas, 77, who for the past three decades has cultivated Presidents and putative Presidents by heaping money on them. According to Common Cause, Andreas, his wife and ADM have given a total of $1.4 million in so-called soft, or unrestricted, funds to the Republican Party since 1991, as well as $759,000 to the Democrats. In return for his largese, Andreas has often seemed to reap what he has sown. For example, ADM profits handsomely from federal programs that raise U.S. sugar prices above the world level, at an estimated cost to consumers...
While Waco andWhitewater hearingscompete for the Capitol Hill spotlight, lawmakers have managed to find a place on the broadcast agenda for another justice and Treasury department probe: the "Good Ol' Boy" hearings. Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who convened the inquiry today, said sealed affidavits claimed rape and narcotics use may have occurred at one of the "Good Ol' Boys Roundups," an annual gathering staged for federal, state and local law enforcement officers since 1980 in rural Tennessee. Making matters worse, two black agents ofthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one retired and one active, depicted Roundup...
Because the five Republicans on the 10-member House ethics committee would not authorize a formal probe, Democrats have had to find another way to investigate Speaker Newt Gingrich's book deal. The committee now plans to ask the principals to testify under oath about the deal. Scheduled to appear in the next few weeks: a Gingrich congressional aide, two lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, owner of HarperCollins, which publishedGingrich's book "To Renew America," and two executives from publishers whose bids on the book were rejected. Democrats hope the testimony will convince committee Republicans to break the deadlock and authorize...
...nine brilliant years in office, during which he won plaudits as cheerleader-in-chief of this rusted industrial city on the Passaic River, James could be headed for a crash landing. The former high school track star, politically surefooted for 20 years, is trying to outrun an intensifying federal probe into his fund-raising tactics and his free-spending life-style. U.S. Attorney Faith Hochberg has peppered the mayor, his city hall subordinates and supporters with more than 100 subpoenas...