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...today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...
...hasn't garnered the same press coverage as his worst blunders, but President Clinton nonetheless worked hard to make political hay of one of his seemingly rare victories: the $360-million National Service program. Passed earlier this year, Clinton today swore in the first members of the "Americorps," which aims to get America's youth involved in community service and provides money for college in return. But even this feel-good event had a gray cloud: the White House was supposed to host one of the photo-op ceremonies on the South Lawn, but the event had to be moved...
...current and former officials of the Clinton Administration who raised their right hands and swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, last Friday was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. They had already been interviewed by federal attorneys, testified to a grand jury, told their stories to a government ethics board and explained their actions to the White House counsel. In every instance, they had been cleared of wrongdoing. As they completed their disjointed testimonies in congressional hearings last week, senior White House officials were relieved to have put the half-year of scrutiny...
...night at the officers' club before he left, Meyer swore to a fellow officer that he had "buddies waiting to fly with her" and that Hansen "would get hers." This threat was reported to Hansen's superiors but ignored. Despite some ostracism, Hansen maintained passing grades -- 3.0 out of a possible 4.0 in all phases of training -- with some flyers giving her rave reviews like "one of the best boost-off approaches I've seen." Her final flight, however, was with a captain who had previously chewed her out. Her average fell to 2.997, and she was bounced in March...
Even as victorious Tutsi-led rebels swore in moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister today, the former Hutu rulers tried to set up a government-in-exile in Goma, where 1 million refugees are encamped. "They brought all their money with them," says Purvis -- as well as arms now stockpiled near the border. U.S. refugee officials are openly worrying about reinvasion, he says, but the former government is "in such disarray right now that I don't think it's likely...