Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best game in Washington this year hasn't been watching Bill Clinton try to skate free of scandal. It has been watching one member of the "permanent government" of lawyers and lobbyists try to decide whom it's more important to protect--the President or himself. Presidents come and go, after all, but the superlawyer at the heart of this game, Vernon Jordan, likes to think he's forever. So when the game got serious last week with (of course) a series of careful leaks from a lawyer close to Jordan, guess who came...
...seriously doubt President Clinton's judgment. His "problems" are not caused by Starr, a far-right conspiracy or former White House employee Linda Tripp. They are the result of a Chief Executive addled by hubris. The only thing scarier than Clinton's maneuverings is the people who think this scandal is much ado about nothing. CRAIG A. KOLLER Kutztown...
...very sad that a majority of Americans think Clinton's alleged affair with a young intern isn't important. This scandal has proved that moral standards no longer exist in America. TANIA DUDZIAK London...
...House, attorneys for Paula Jones say they received a settlement offer -- $700,000 and an apology -- from the Clinton team three weeks ago, and turned it down. The Wednesday press release was an apparent rebuttal to a TIME report that Jones' team, lost in the shuffle of the Lewinsky scandal, was eager to settle. But Jones' attorneys claimed that Mitchell S. Ettinger, second-in-command to Clinton's lead counsel, Robert S. Bennett, had approached them with the offer but never responded when they made a $900,000 counteroffer pending agreement on the language of Clinton's apology...
...itself, the Swiss mishap is not a major scandal, says Beyer. But the story was leaked to ensure Yatom?s resignation: ?You expect the Mossad to bug people, and you assume that from time to time they?ll get caught. But with Yatom clinging to his position following the disaster in Jordan, this story proved to be the last straw.? Expect Israeli spooks to be read the riot act by his successor...