Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quid, No Quo: An embarrassed DNC is trying to return a $107,000 election donation from the Cheyenne-Arapa ho Tribe of Oklahoma, but the tribe doesn't want its money back. It wants the land it thought it was buying. The tribe wants to turn Oklahoma's Fort Reno, built in 1869, into a tourist attraction, and thought that was what it was getting when it cobbled the check out of funds targeted for food, medical care and other basic needs for the hard-pressed, 10,700-member community, which suffers from 80 percent unemployment. The DNC may duck...
...place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks like a mess, it is not clear whether laws were broken. If not, Thompson's committee would not touch the White House. According to Janet Reno's interpretation of the law, finance restrictions don't apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft money. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said there were arguments that under that interpretation, "some of these coffees, some of these sleepovers" at the White House might fall outside...
...check-screening procedures and reiterated the fund-raising guidelines that forbid soliciting contributions in return for White House invitations and bar most party-related activities from government buildings. But with the flood of new evidence being released, there are more calls for a special prosecutor. Attorney General Janet Reno continues to resist, claiming she still hasn't seen sufficient evidence of lawbreaking by high government officials, the threshold requirement. Reno promises to reconsider after a Justice Department task force concludes its ongoing investigation, which could take several months...
...them, therefore, an independent counsel is doubly attractive--not only to chase the President but also to cut off any other inquiries. Some Republicans are even thinking of invoking an obscure clause of the independent-counsel statute that would require Janet Reno to start a separate investigation into whether a counsel is needed if a majority of either party on the Senate Judiciary Committee provides its own list of possible criminal charges. If she cannot refute the charges within 30 days, she has 60 days to investigate the case for appointing one. During all that time, Reno would be required...
...words were cold and willful. In July 1995, at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, Timothy McVeigh reportedly sat down with a member of his defense team and was asked, Why didn't you bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at night, when fewer people would be killed? The prisoner looked his interlocutor in the eye and said, "That would not have gotten the point across to the government. We needed a body count to make our point...