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...White House employee, reports TIME's Suneel Rataan, is Helen Dickey, who was then Chelsea Clinton's babysitter. The White House has offered D'Amato a sworn statement from Dickey in which she describes learning of Foster's suicide late that night and discussing it with a state trooper at the Governor's mansion in Arkansas. Deputy Whitewater prosecutor John Bates said today that the investigation of Foster's death continues...
Worby brought many of her problems on herself. She raised eyebrows by sitting in the Governor's lap at a West Virginia football game; she was accused (perhaps unfairly) of kicking a state trooper during a helicopter trip and of cursing another when she missed a phone call. Speaking before a group of gifted high school students, she called Bob Dole "an idiot on every subject.'' At political appearances she looked-and was-unhappy, eager to get back to her musical activities and seemingly unconcerned that she was fast becoming a political liability...
...members who have joined paramilitary organizations, all with a deep-seated fear of the federal government, demonstrate a rejection of and withdrawal from society. A fundraising letter from a top NRA lobbyist calling federal law enforcers "jack-booted government thugs [wearing] Nazi bucket helmets and black storm-trooper uniforms" attests further to this alienation...
...former President for his defense of public servants and his denunciation of the outrageous language in a fund-raising letter by the National Rifle Association. In a now famous letter, Bush excoriated the N.R.A. for railing against federal agents as "jackbooted thugs ... wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm-trooper uniforms." Bush then resigned his life membership...
...truck hit a man that first day, a brown-uniformed trooper from the Arbeitsdienst, or labor service, who suddenly stepped into the road out of a long column of marching men. The impact spun him into the marchers, spilling them like bowling pins. Peise gripped the wheel more tightly and stepped on the gas. No one said a word. Nor did the sergeant stop a few hours later when one of the soldiers riding the front fender slipped off and fell beneath the treads of a tank. My brother, now 56, says that once in a while, in a dream...