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...Director-designate R. James Woolsey, 51, is a Rhodes scholar, a Bush conventional-arms negotiator and the most conservative of the group. Clinton also named Madeleine Albright to be delegate to the United Nations and announced that he would elevate the job to Cabinet rank...
Nonetheless, a campaign to disarm Somalis could create hostility. "If we were obliged to go on a house-to-house search -- which we wouldn't do anyway," said Oakley, "the Somalis would see it as rank colonialism." Still some Somali leaders discount a major backlash because, they say, the people are sick and tired of the violence...
...true, it could rank as the dirtiest trick of them all. In an article in the New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh claims that unreleased archive tapes reveal that Richard Nixon tried in 1972 to link Democratic Party officials to the shooting of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Elvin Stanton, Wallace's chief aide, is calling for the release of all tapes dealing with the Nixon-Wallace affair, now held in secret in the National Archives. But Nixon lawyer R. Stan Mortenson ridiculed Hersh's sources for the story as "incompetent, clerical- level archivists...
...unsuccessfully) to challenge everything from Lacey's right to sit on the board to the government's right to issue rules for it. He has also tried to hamper the board's ability to hire staff, to seek redress in court or even to communicate with the rank and file through the Teamsters newsletter...
...election. At the event, union leaders rejected a proposal to amend the constitution to boot out their "general president emeritus-for-life." And who holds that prestigious post because of his "good-standing membership" ? Who else but Jimmy Hoffa, missing in action, perhaps, but proving once again that the rank and file never gets what the rank and file deserves...