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...under formal investigation in November 1997, serving five months of preventive detention. She initially attempted to protect her ex-lover but finally, feeling spurned and isolated, told investigators that Dumas had secured her Elf job and that her main assignment was to try to make him reverse his veto on the sale of six frigates to Taiwan...
...worst crisis since taking office when 15% of voters signed a petition calling for the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in neighboring Czech Republic. The petition, which was organized by Jörg Haider's Freedom Party, demanded that Prague close the plant or risk an Austrian veto on its application to join the E.U. Although the Freedom Party's pro-E.U. partners opposed the vote, they agreed to renew discussions with Prague on the safety of the Temelin plant across Austria's eastern border...
When Ashcroft arrived in the Senate in 1995, he suffered from a condition common to Governors who make their way to the Capitol. "He had a difficult time being a legislator," says a Republican Senate source. As Governor, Ashcroft could make policy by signing an Executive Order, casting his veto or using his bully pulpit. But to make policy in the Senate, he had to cajole and flatter fellow Senators--skills Ashcroft had never mastered. He could also be hard to pin down ideologically: he fought for flex time for workers and cutting regressive payroll taxes. Ashcroft's greatest liability...
...although the House Republican leadership opposes the bill, the votes may exist to override the leadership's decision and put the bill up for a vote. If passed, the bill would present an early test of Bush's commitment to reform. Bush would then have 10 days to veto the bill or allow it to become law; a presidential veto of the leading campaign-finance reform bill would have severe political consequences and undercut Bush's credibility as a "reformer with results...
...Bush allies will try to insert a so-called paycheck-protection provision into the bill, an anti-union poison pill that would strip it of needed Democratic support. But if they fail and it lands on Bush's desk, he must either sign it--detonating his right wing--or veto it, a disastrous way to introduce himself to Americans...