Word: reno
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WASHINGTON: Don't worry, Al. Janet Reno is just going through the motions on her 90-day extension of the investigation into Gore's dollar-dialing during the '96 campaign, says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon. "This is just a pro forma exercise required by the Independent Counsel Act. Based on the evidence right now, at the end of 90 days there'll be nothing...
WASHINGTON: For the family of Martin Luther King Jr., a sliver of satisfaction: Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday she will reopen the investigation of the assassination of the civil rights leader in the hopes of answering the 30-year-old question: Did James Earl Ray act alone? But TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe says that because of the investigation's limited scope -- only new evidence and witnesses allowed -- the chance of obtaining more satisfying answers are slim...
...slam the door in the Kings' faces. This is a courtesy to them," says Monroe. "But there's not a whole lot that's new, and I don't think anybody expects anything to come out of this. Except the Kings." And of course it wouldn't be a Reno investigation without someone crying for an independent counsel -- except this time it's not Republicans, it's Ray's brother Jerry. "If the FBI does it, they'll say James done it and he's a racist," he said Thursday. That call, at least, should be easy for Reno...
...kinds of innovations: one case per episode, scenes inside the judge's chambers, footage from the scene of the crime. Most of them were abandoned, however, and the slight changes actually implemented are ineffective. Instead, the show must rely on Lane, who, for an ex-Marine known in his Reno courtroom days as "Maximum Mills," is shockingly sympathetic, if in a flinty way. Lane, 60, is straight shooting without being superior and so honest that he describes his motive for doing the show this way: "If it's successful, I could make a lot of money." Lane's world feels...
...hardly conclusive evidence, but it may be enough to tip the balance in the DOJ's bitter civil war over whether to call for a campaign-finance independent counsel. Repeated calls for a probe from Louis Freeh and prosecutor Charles La Bella have so far gone unheeded by Janet Reno; according to a report in Thursday's New York Times, however, the A-G is beginning to swing. Reno has until the end of August to order a 90-day preliminary inquiry into the allegations against Gore. That's just enough time to give Al a nice "welcome home" present...