Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President wanted to amplify whispers of "cover-up" into roars, he could hardly have devised a better strategy. And the Administration promptly compounded the damage. Besieged by demands that she appoint a special counsel to look into the case, Attorney General Janet Reno steadfastly refused to do so at this time. That "might be a possibility," she said, if Congress passes a new law authorizing her to ask a court to choose a special counsel (the old law expired in 1992). But if she were to name one on her own now, said Reno, no one would believe the counsel...
...Madison Guaranty's depositors, but federal taxpayers eventually had to pick up the tab through the RTC. Another intriguing factor is that the plane was at one point owned by Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, then a law partner of Hillary's and now Reno's top deputy at the Justice Department. McDougal sold Ward the plane, and his S&L loaned him the money for the purchase, Ward told TIME, in order to keep the aircraft off Madison's books, where it might have aroused suspicion among regulators. Hubbell acted as counsel to his father...
...anyone to divulge any information contained in the files. Five boxes of papers have been given to the Justice Department, with more to come in the next two or three weeks. The delay, said the White House, was because of the need to "catalogue" the papers. Attorney General Janet Reno said she might seek a court-appointed special prosecutor to pursue the case if a new special- prosecutor bill passes in Congress...
President Clinton spoke out against violence, saying The American people are tired of hurting and tired of feeling insecure. The Administration hopes to push through new crime legislation that will include gun-control proposals that would go well beyond the Brady Bill, and Attorney General Janet Reno said she would support a national licensing system for handguns...
...Bill and the assault-weapons ban, Clinton got the message last week. The President threw out a blizzard of proposals: banning gun ownership by children, requiring tighter licensing and training of gun owners, an amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this...