Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest indictments are based heavily on testimony by Hale, who has already pleaded guilty to reduced charges in exchange for his cooperation. He remains unsentenced and reportedly under protective custody. But while Hale may have helped take the spotlight off the White House last week, he has other allegations that may, if Starr chooses to give them credence, still trouble the Clintons. Shortly after being indicted on other loan-fraud charges in September 1993, Hale claimed that on two occasions Bill Clinton personally pressured him to give Susan McDougal a $300,000 SBA loan. Later, about $25,000 of that...
...began covering the Oklahoma City story hours after the April 19 explosion. Unexpectedly, Stephen Jones, McVeigh's attorney, gave Cole permission to interview William and Jennifer McVeigh, his client's father and sister. "I always wonder how the accused and the family feel when they're in the spotlight," Cole says. "Getting to the McVeigh family for their first in-depth interview was thus all the more exciting...
Bagby was launched into the national spotlight last spring when Perot discovered a project she completed during her senior year, The Annual Report. That report reviewed the economic status of the United States based on information Bagby collected from assorted government publications...
...probe put an uncomfortable spotlight on Andreas, 77, who for the past three decades has cultivated Presidents and putative Presidents by heaping money on them. According to Common Cause, Andreas, his wife and ADM have given a total of $1.4 million in so-called soft, or unrestricted, funds to the Republican Party since 1991, as well as $759,000 to the Democrats. In return for his largese, Andreas has often seemed to reap what he has sown. For example, ADM profits handsomely from federal programs that raise U.S. sugar prices above the world level, at an estimated cost to consumers...
While Waco andWhitewater hearingscompete for the Capitol Hill spotlight, lawmakers have managed to find a place on the broadcast agenda for another justice and Treasury department probe: the "Good Ol' Boy" hearings. Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who convened the inquiry today, said sealed affidavits claimed rape and narcotics use may have occurred at one of the "Good Ol' Boys Roundups," an annual gathering staged for federal, state and local law enforcement officers since 1980 in rural Tennessee. Making matters worse, two black agents ofthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one retired and one active, depicted Roundup...