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...tell TIME that last week, even as the White House's argument was bumping painfully and vainly through the courts, Justice Department officials were telling the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, that chances of prevailing in the matter were virtually nil. But Treasury officials, led by Robert Rubin--who spoke by telephone from Africa, where he was traveling--opted to go ahead anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Detail | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...official: The U.S., at least, is reversing its 10-year-old policy on Lockerbie and Libya. State Department spokesman James Rubin went on the record late Tuesday over the plan to allow a trial for the two Libyan suspects in the Netherlands -- and confirmed, as TIME Daily reported, that this was an attempt to "call Ghadafi's bluff." But it appears that State was caught off-guard by the timing of the original report in the English newspaper the Guardian, confirming it while officials in London were still sticking to the original script: Trial in Scotland or the U.S. only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tremors Over Lockerbie | 7/22/1998 | See Source »

...finally, Robert Rubin spends his day before the Senate Finance Committee testifying on the future of Social Security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's News | 7/21/1998 | See Source »

...Japan was about the only country that was not graced by an encouraging word from Bill Clinton or his top aides as they wrapped up their China extravaganza. Instead, while Beijing's mistakes are all but forgiven these days, Tokyo is regarded as the regional deadbeat. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who pronounced China "an island of stability" in Asia's economic crisis, reminded people in Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea that he was "deeply, deeply" concerned about the value of the yen. Other officials were tossing off background critiques of Japan (whose Finance Minister, Hikaru Matsunaga, has been referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Pain Of Reinvention | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...solution. His ability to work the media is legendary, but today false reports have gone back to Washington that his convoy has been shot at, and he has held an official meeting with the K.L.A., which would infuriate Milosevic. Standing on the runway, Holbrooke phones State Department spokesman James Rubin, catching him just before the daily briefing. The meeting with K.L.A. rebels was a "complete setup," Holbrooke insists, not an official meeting. Sending a cable home, Holbrooke likens the entire province to "the Wild West." Either side could start a war, he adds, "through miscalculation or a drunken brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Impossible | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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