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WASHINGTON--Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton will assume the presidency at noon today, after he is sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the steps of the Capitol...
...SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TIME OF TRIumph. Carol Moseley-Braun, the newly elected Democratic Senator from Illinois, arrived last week to claim her place in history as the first African-American woman sworn into the Senate. Instead, Moseley-Braun faced a press corps asking pointed questions about her personal life and finances, and about allegations of sexual harassment made against her boyfriend and campaign manager, Kgosie Matthews. After her first week on Capitol Hill, she declared, "If this is a honeymoon, I'm going to divorce...
...conceive a greater harm to national security than that caused by [Pollard]." In discussions with reporters, Weinberger had also said that Pollard "deserved to be hanged." Pollard did, in fact, receive the maximum sentence of life imprisonment--the decision to which Weinberger was clearly alluding in his sworn statement. Indeed, Pollard's lawyers later argued that Weinberger violated the terms of the plea bargain by implicitly calling for the harshest possible sentence...
...also decided to release his personal notes from the Irangate era. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh is right to ask why Bush had not handed over all his files back in 1986, when the first investigative proceedings began in the Senate. Bush also asked for a copy of his sworn testimony from the Senate hearings before he gave Walsh's office his notes. Did Bush want to check the details of his notes against his statement? Why did the president need to get his story straight if both the statement and the notes were six years...
...condemned the deportations, contending that they violated the Geneva Conventions. The expulsions also threatened the Middle East peace talks. In fact, warned the P.L.O., the Palestinian delegation will quit negotiations if the deportations are not reversed. Israelis and Palestinians in the territories are bracing for more trouble. Hamas has sworn to avenge the deportations, a likely trigger for another heavy Israeli reaction...