Word: trades
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...D.N.C. was intricately unhelpful. Last week a federal district judge in Washington, Royce Lamberth, approved a subpoena calling for Huang to appear in court in connection with a lawsuit filed by a conservative group, Judicial Watch, Inc., which suspects that the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown used foreign trade missions to collect money for the Democrats. Attorneys for the group want to question Huang about his old job as a trade official in the Commerce Department, which he left in December. Huang's attorney, who called the suit a political maneuver, said his client would not emerge before Election...
...rogue agent has been a willing witness for the defense at some of the country's most high-profile criminal trials. A forensic chemist specializing in explosives residue, he gave testimony critical of FBI lab work in the World Trade Center bombing trial and was on the defense team's witness list in the O.J. Simpson trial, where he stood ready to testify about evidence contamination. And now, with hearings under way in the Oklahoma City bombing case--in which late last week in Denver, Judge Richard Matsch ruled that defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols could be tried separately...
...have been forbidden to respond to Whitehurst's specific charges, but several claim that although he is a superior scientist, he would become petulant or vindictive when his superiors disagreed with him. "He was an impossible kind of guy to work with," says an official involved in the World Trade Center case. "If you were doing an investigation in a schoolhouse and there was an alphabet above the board and L and Z were missing, Fred would not venture an opinion that that had been an alphabet...
...President appointed Berry special assistant for agricultural trade and food assistance, and Berry may be counting on that coattail to win a district that gave Clinton 69% of its vote in 1992. He has made Medicare a pillar of his campaign, attacking his opponent strongly and saying a raise in premiums would force Arkansans to choose between food and medicine. He would hold off on tax cuts until the budget is balanced, but supports a college-tuition tax credit of $1,500 a year...
Though a 10% Republican registration edge in the district gives Mica a head start in the polls, incumbency also helps. As does his business approach to government--learned during ventures in real estate and international trade before arriving on Capitol Hill--which he has used in his fight against waste as a member of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee...