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...assist in the RTC investigation of Madison Guaranty, a failed Arkansas savings and loan whose proprietor had been a Clinton business partner and fund raiser. Officials familiar with those calls told investigators that Stephanopoulos asked whether Stephens could be dismissed. Stephanopoulos later explained that he was "just blowing off steam" and had no intent to interfere with the investigation. But other Clinton advisers told reporters in March that they feared that the Stephanopoulos call -- and some 20 other White House-Treasury conversations about the RTC probe between September and February -- might result in indictments for obstruction of justice. Those meetings...
...national spotlight, his career has combined the shrewd manipulation of an instinctive demagogue with the abandon of a swinging Sybarite. Zhirinovsky has slugged fellow lawmakers in the halls of parliament, hobnobbed with ex-Nazi storm troopers in Austria and posed, au naturel, for photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked out of or denied access to nearly half a dozen European countries. He has threatened to restore Russia's imperial borders, annex Alaska, invade Turkey, repartition Poland, give Germany "another Chernobyl," turn Kazakhstan into a "scorched desert" and employ large fans to blow radioactive...
...short run both Presidents benefit from their decision to reopen formal talks in Geneva, set to begin next week. Kim takes the steam out of the rising crisis over his apparent effort to build nuclear weapons and diverts the world's attention to what Washington might offer him at the bargaining table. For his part, Clinton wins a respite from his effort to round up support for U.N. sanctions against North Korea -- a campaign that was not going well. If Clinton has to try for sanctions again later, he will be able to say to reluctant countries like China...
Former Washington mayor Marion Barry is gaining steam in his bid for a comeback, despite his 1990 conviction for cocaine possession. A Washington Post poll shows Barry, now a city councilman, leading the D.C. mayor's race with 38 percent, 12 points ahead of challenger John Ray and 22 points above Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. While many black voters think Barry's trial made him a martyr to white racism, TIME senior correspondent Jack E. White says Kelly's recent municipal floundering has brought nostalgia for the '80s mayor: "The main thing is, he's remembered as a guy whom...
...time Smith started blowing off steam inher first year of college, she'd written only 20poems ("and that," says Smith, "is anexcruciatingly generous estimate"). She was, likemost first-years, more interested in parties andsocializing than in anything academic--sheremembers her first year fondly as a time when shewas still very young...