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Already, LaBella has let it be known that he is closing in on the Asian-money connection, eyeing transactions by Charlie Trie, Pauline Kanchanalak and Johnny Chung, all of whom may have raised funds for the Democrats from overseas sources. Those cases could help LaBella tighten the screws on fund raiser John Huang, who enjoyed the closest ties with White House officials, including Clinton and Gore...
...American autos are 90% cleaner than they were three decades ago, but they still account for over a third of urban-area ozone. More than 125 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, and an estimated 15,000 die from it each year--a fact that led the Clinton Administration to tighten clean-air standards last summer...
...this time he had Bill Clinton on the spot. If Iraq kept the inspectors from doing their jobs, how would the U.N. respond? Among the veto-holding members of the Security Council, Russia and France opposed using any more military force on Iraq, and Russia was reluctant to tighten economic sanctions. If the Security Council did not act against Saddam, the U.S. could attack by itself, blasting Iraq with cruise missiles again to avoid getting pilots killed or captured. But that kind of attack could turn out to be another pinprick, or result in civilian casualties that would infuriate...
...government should tighten visa restrictions for students from countries on the State Department's "state sponsors of terrorism" list, according to a report released last week by a Washington-based think tank...
...fraternity hastened to tighten its alcohol ploicy in the wake of the tragedy, new evidence shows that the university ignored warnings about serious alcohol abuse problems on campus...