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...ARRESTED. CHHUN YASITH, 48, Cambodian-American accountant and leader of the U.S.-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters; on federal charges of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup...
When the members of the Class of 1955 received their diplomas, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s public accusations of communist infiltration at Harvard had faded, but questions of academic freedom still cast their shadows over Harvard Yard...
...don’t like veto threats, and I don’t like statements about overriding veto threats,” said the Senate’s chief sponsor of the bill, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., at a news conference. “I think if it really comes down to a showdown, we will have enough in the United States Senate to override a veto...
...more than seven years later, Rodham Clinton, since 2000 the junior senator from New York, is finding herself in a tempest-plagued teapot of all her own. Two weeks ago, the trial of David F. Rosen, Sen. Clinton’s former fundraising director, began in Los Angeles. Rosen is charged with illegally underreporting the cost of a 2000 gala fundraiser, the Hollywood Gala Salute to William Jefferson Clinton, which fêted the outgoing president and reportedly raised over $1 million for his wife’s campaign for the Senate. As conservative activist groups, such as the United States...
...seems that the ad hoc alliance for the obfuscation of truly significant campaign issues has already begun to mobilize its three-years-hence campaign against Sen. Clinton. The United States Justice Foundation has launched the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project, a direct-mail operation designed to disseminate damaging information about the senator. What’s worrying is that the kind of character-based accusations the Accountability Project will surely level against Clinton will prove damaging if she decides to run for president, even though they will ostensibly have little or nothing to do with her campaign platform...