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WASHINGTON: The Secret Service has persuaded the Justice Department to prolong its court battle for a "Secret Service privilege," hoping to buy some time between Justice's most recent defeat and the Supreme Court ruling this fall. Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision ordering agents to testify in the Lewinsky investigation, on the grounds that a President's life may be at stake...
...Meanwhile, Congress, charged with creating any such privilege by the appeals court?s last decision, is coming to the President?s rescue ?- and just not this President?s. Starr-friendly Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch promised Sunday to "do everything I can to cooperate with the Secret Service" and hold hearings to "see what can be done next year" to craft a bill to satisfy both protective and investigative concerns. But of course, for Bill Clinton, next year will be a year too late...
...were smarter, Elkhart, Ind. (pop. 43,627), would have been our first stop on the Summer of '98 Secret Capitals Tour. Why? Because we could have bought a motor home the size of Graceland and then cruised in prefab splendor, instead of staring moose-eyed at flight-delayed lights in airports across the land. We could have taken a band along too--Elkhart is also the band-instrument capital of the world--and turned this thing into a national polka fest...
...June 7, CNN broadcast a story on NewsStand: CNN & TIME alleging that sarin nerve gas was used by U.S. forces in a secret operation in Laos, known as Tailwind, and that U.S. defectors were intentionally killed. TIME ran a companion story that week, "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas?," written by the CNN journalists. After these stories provoked strong denials, CNN launched an investigation, overseen by the eminent attorney Floyd Abrams, and we promised that we would examine the issue and report back...
...three missions. The first, and most hilariously pressing, is to find a place to take a pee. The next is to find a girl willing to pose as his fiance and help him convince his sublimely indifferent parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he's been doing top-secret CIA work all the years he was in jail. The last is to assassinate the Buffalo Bills placekicker whose missed field goal caused him to lose the bet that led him into a life of crime...