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...hard to win elections when your main issues are presented by Linda Tripp, defined by Ken Starr and disseminated by Gingrich. What a trifecta! PHIL KENNY Colorado Springs...
...month Lewinsky scandal, it looks as if Bill Clinton may be spared impeachment. But one bit player whose story was sympathetic to his side, and who got caught up in the mess, may be less fortunate. Julie Hiatt Steele's lawyer has been informed by independent counsel Kenneth Starr that Steele will probably be indicted soon for perjury. The indictment is expected to charge that Steele lied under oath when she accused someone else of lying: her former friend Kathleen Willey. Willey has said she told Steele about receiving an unwanted advance from the President. Steele maintains Willey...
...Starr's prosecutors have been looking for evidence that the White House may have paid or pressured Steele, a Republican, to contradict Willey. To that end, they have pored over her bank, credit and tax records, called her before two grand juries, forced family members to testify and inquired about her 1990 adoption of a Romanian orphan. Steele's brother Ben Hiatt is skeptical that Starr's office asked about the adoption just to see if she could be vulnerable to threats from the White House. He says the queries he received about the adoption...
South Africa's ambassador to the United States praised Nelson Mandela's leadership and character while enthusiastically endorsing his country's president-elect in a speech last night in the Kennedy School of Government's (KSG) Starr Auditorium...
...focused his case instead." The trial went on for two months and involved a parade of 70 witnesses. Espy's acquittal is likely to have further political ramifications: Smaltz's four-year inquiry ran up a $17 million bill. Tack that on to the $40 million spent by Kenneth Starr to pursue Bill Clinton and the "Smaltz investigation is likely to become one more factor that will lead to the demise of the Independent Counsel statute when it expires next year," says Novak...