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...Clinton and his wife Hillary went on 60 Minutes to respond to charges of marital infidelity -- breaking their plans to appear on other news interview shows in order to ensure a bigger audience. Patricia Bowman, the woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape, shed her anonymity with Diane Sawyer on PrimeTime Live. Anita Hill appeared last week on 60 Minutes for her first TV interview since the Clarence Thomas hearings...
...Patricia Bowman -- the name virtually every news organization now felt free to use -- told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she came forward so that other rape victims would not be scared off by her experiences. "I'm not a blue blob. I'm a person," she said. "I have nothing to be ashamed of." According to her lawyer, David Roth, Bowman turned down offers of up to $500,000 to tell her story, choosing Sawyer because of her "impeccable reputation for integrity." PrimeTime paid her nothing, but she told Sawyer she would not rule out taking money for future interviews...
Bowman's appearance raised other fairness questions: Should she be allowed, after the prosecution failed to prove her charges in court, to reargue the case on the TV talk-show circuit, where there are no rules of evidence? That, at least, is a double-edged sword. Under Sawyer's questioning, Bowman reiterated her version of events on the night she claims she was raped. But she also had to face questions about issues that were kept out of the trial, like her alleged drug use, abortions, and her experiences as an abused child. No one, of course, can be denied...
...There's a reason why things have gone in the same direction. Because there's a lot of money behind it. Money to buy the campaigns...to keep the status quo paralyzed," Brown told Colby-Sawyer College students last week during his first campaign visit to the nation's earliest primary state...
Galston and other prominent Democratic campaign strategists like David Sawyer and John Rendon are apoplectic at the sight of the current crop of candidates blithely walking away from foreign policy and defense issues. "Idiocy, pure and simple," says Sawyer. "There are certain tests a prospective President must pass before he can seriously contest the election. Foremost among these is the question of whether a particular candidate is imaginable in the role of Commander in Chief...