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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engage in an extramarital affair inside the White House with a 21-year-old intern, lie under oath and then engage in sidetracking the inquiry seeking to uncover his wrongdoing. We cannot, as a nation, afford to remain indifferent and silent regarding this man's conduct. DOUGLAS G. VETTER New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

Motorists passing through Anadarko, Okla., see little more than a sleepy tourist trap of a town. What they are missing is what 20 lucky visitors (ages 6 and older) will see, starting July 6, when they join anthropologist Robert Vetter for a highly personal eight-day encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME OF THE BRAVES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...tales told by native storytellers and take a medicinal-herb walk. The family of Doc Tate Nevaquaya, the famed Comanche flutist, will show them how to make the wood instrument on which he played the unwritten, melodic music of his ancestors. At the Sac and Fox Powwow, members of Vetter's group will talk with representatives of tribes from all over North America. And if their native hosts deem it appropriate, they may even experience a sweat-lodge ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME OF THE BRAVES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Buffalo will be grazing on the high grass of the Wichita Mountains when Vetter's vans roll in. The herds had been exterminated from this homeland, but were re-established in October 1907, when the Federal Government shipped some buffalo in on railroad cars from the Bronx Zoo. For centuries, Native Americans went to the Wichita Mountains on vision quests. The campers who join Vetter will understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME OF THE BRAVES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...player. He is the sheriff of Hillsborough, New Hampshire's most populous county. "The sheriffs are key," Dole told me last summer. "They're the major grass-roots force in the state." Unfortunately for Dole, the other sheriffs echo Morse. "We'll get the signs up," says Sheriff Wayne Vetter of Rockingham County. "But it's tough. Forbes should have peaked by now. He hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RESCUE BRIGADE | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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