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WASHINGTON: In the war on drugs, every bust only raises the street price -- and makes kingpins rich. But Janet Reno has just scored a victory that could matter: She got their money. Lots...
WASHINGTON: Eyeball to eyeball with the Justice Department, Microsoft blinked. Just hours before Janet Reno was set to announce a new federal and state antitrust suit against the software firm, Microsoft attorneys arrived bearing what one state lawyer called "major concessions." The upshot: Redmond will not ship Windows 98 to computer makers until Monday. A source close to the negotiations told TIME Daily there "will be a cooling off period" and that "there will be no action" Thursday. "All this means," the source said, "is that the discussion continues...
...were due to be delivered to the likes of Dell, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard this Friday. Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said the fact it had been delayed "will not have any impact on the commercial launch date" for the top operating system upgrade, still set for June 25. What Reno et al would like before then is an agreement to let manufacturers remove the Internet Explorer icon, among others, from the Win 98 desktop. She shouldn't hold her breath. Given Microsoft's penchant for brinksmanship, that could take some time...
WASHINGTON: Poor Alexis Herman. Thanks to jittery attorneys in the Justice Department?s Public Integrity office, the labor secretary becomes the fifth Clinton cabinet member to go under an independent counsel?s microscope. The publicity-wary DOJ lawyers advised Janet Reno to appoint an investigator, and the attorney general agreed -- despite admitting there was ?no evidence clearly demonstrating Secretary Herman?s involvement? in a cash-for-influence scam. Now it?s up to a three-judge court of appeals panel to name the lucky prosecutor...
...where low-flying aircraft and the flares and radar-jamming aluminum-silicon fibers they drop pose a threat to wildlife and motorists. "Have you ever had an F-16 scream over your head at 200 feet?" asks GRACE POTORTI, director of the Rural Alliance for Military Accountability, based in Reno, Nev., which is joining a lawsuit against the Defense Department. The most hotly disputed area: the remote Owyhee Canyonlands of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, where efforts by the Air Force to expand bombing runs are at least temporarily on hold until the bighorn sheep lambing season ends...