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What White House Shake...
Leon Panetta announced his long-promised and much anticipated shake-up of the Clinton White House staff. The result: some clearer lines of authority but no major changes. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, whose ouster had been widely rumored, even got a promotion and greater access to the President -- reportedly after circumventing Panetta and making a last-minute plea directly to Clinton...
Bucknell legitimately was a good football team. They had a quality quarterback who had a record-breaking day, they had receivers who knew how to shake their Crimson defenders, and they had a workhorse running back that guaranteed them 100 yards rushing...
...Panetta's coordinator of strategic planning. Myers' savior was apparently President Clinton himself, who met with her Thursday night. "Clinton undercut the chief of staff he supposedly gave the power to do whatever it takes," says TIME White House correspondent James Carney. "It's sort of the shake-up that wasn't. . . The source of disorder in the White House is clearly the President himself...
Terry Anderson, the best-known and longest-held American in the 1980s Beirut hostage crisis, filed suit today against 11 government agencies to shake loose official documents about his ordeal. The former Associated Press correspondent claims the materials are being withheld by the U.S. government without just cause. The State Department says it's not releasing documents because they could endanger national security. Anderson also says State told him the materials would "violate the personal privacy" of his terrorist-kidnappers. Anderson, who's peppered the government with Freedom of Information Act requests for a book about his Hizballah captors...