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Clinton's performance enthralled Senate Democrats to the point that Republican lawmakers conceded there was no longer a chance of finding the 67 votes needed to convict and threw open the question of whether this might all end sooner rather than later. "Clinton's won," said Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson on his 700 Club show, to the fury of many conservative allies. "They might as well dismiss the impeachment hearing and get on with something else, because it's over as far as I'm concerned." All that's left to argue is whether history will remember Clinton...
...appeals to common sense and American ideals. Ruff opened the defense with a grave dissection of the House managers' conspiracy theory. He argued that the chronology broke down--Vernon Jordan was already on a plane to Europe when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones team could question other women--so the ruling could not have triggered his meeting earlier that day to help Monica find a job. And Ruff offered the first of the week's rhetorical body blows. The former Watergate prosecutor, hunched in his wheelchair, took his case to the same battleground on which Henry...
...late Friday afternoon, once again up to her neck in yet another independent counsel dilemma and once again waiting until the last minute to announce her decision. This time the focus of Attorney General Janet Reno's concern was former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. The question: whether Ickes, who denies all wrongdoing, had lied before a Senate inquiry on campaign finances regarding administration actions supportive of the Teamsters union. Minutes before the close of business, Reno filed her decision: no independent counsel. The Friday get-out-of-town ruling assured yet another loud cry of foul...
...cross party lines and vote alongside Republicans to proceed with the trial of President Clinton and summon witnesses. Following the vote, Feingold said he merely wanted to give House prosecutors more time to make their case, but he cautioned that "I have not reached a decision" on the question of conviction. Most Democrats avoided criticizing Feingold and indicated they viewed his action as a vote of conscience. "It probably is wise to take Feingold's explanation at face value," says TIME Midwest correspondent Wendy Cole. "It would be a mistake to read too much into this and to interpret...
...from his second Senate race. "His stances on campaign issues have tended to put him apart," says Cole. "But it is also true that he has tended to adopt views on most issues that lean to the left." How that mix will play out for him on the ultimate question of President Clinton's guilt remains to be seen -- and could provide some of the only spontaneity in this rigidly partisan exercise...