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...meant butcher shops had trouble finding meat to sell-and prices soared by up to 50% for what they could locate. Horse racing was suspended for seven days. The Labour government moved quickly to assuage rural misery in what will probably be an election year, picking up the entire tab for all slaughtered animals and offering a further $225 million in compensation to farmers. On Friday the government relaxed the ban on livestock movement to allow animals licensed as disease-free to be transported directly to slaughterhouses. But Labour could be hit by the fallout too. There was the possibility...
Details of the price of alleged FBI mole ROBERT PHILLIP HANSSEN's espionage are beginning to emerge. Sources tell TIME that Hanssen may have cost the U.S. more than $200 million in compromised intelligence programs that must now be replaced. The tab for one supersecret program that tapped Russian communications alone could top $100 million. LOUIS FREEH's FBI had failed to use a standard counterintelligence technique known as mail cover on the Russian spook who ran Hanssen. The technique involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like...
...know the Washington Post existed." They got off to a bad start during the first Inaugural when they solicited donations from a corporation for a party at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. Still, they came up short, and the Democratic National Committee had to pick up much of the tab. On his own, Tony, a former private eye in Miami, tried to land an Indian gaming license in New Jersey and a contract in China to clean the air. In 1993 he became a mid-level "constituency outreach" coordinator at the D.N.C., sent around the country to attend picnics, wave...
STEVE COZ Tab hunter! National Enquirer editor follows the money, hits pardon pay dirt on Hugh Rodham...
...papers to the government and donated part of his Hyde Park, N.Y., estate for a library. In 1955, Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act, which created a public-private partnership: an ex-President would raise money to build his library, but Washington would pick up most of the tab for maintaining the documents housed there. (This year the Federal Government will spend about $38 million on the libraries.) Subsequent acts guaranteed that such documents would be made public. "They're an invaluable resource," says L.B.J. biographer Robert Dallek...