Word: reno
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...COVER: Reno's Commanding Role...
Last Friday Time correspondent Elaine Shannon interviewed Janet Reno in the office at the Justice Department...
...second is accused of planning to bomb the United Nations building, a federal office building and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels; some of its members were arrested in the act of mixing the explosives. Officially, though, the sheik's detention had nothing to do with terrorism. Attorney General Janet Reno determined that there was insufficient evidence linking Abdel Rahman to the bomb plots, and she clung to that stand despite reports that the FBI had taped the sheik saying "American blood must be spilled on its own soil." (That, said one of the sheik's allies, was just "Arabic hyperbole...
...Janet Reno does not rush to judgment. She says she is as concerned with protecting the rights of the guilty as with punishing them. This has never been an especially popular position. But Reno had never been tested quite as she was last week...
Rahman had his associates tell the press that the extensive coverage had worn him out and that he needed to get away from it all--and attorney general Janet Reno must have agreed, as she stopped Federal authorities from arresting the sheik at last...