Word: visits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Steele's lawyer, John West, Steele got a call one day in early 1997 from Willey, who was talking with Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff. Could Isikoff come to interview her about Willey's visit to the Oval Office? Steele agreed but wondered why. While Isikoff was on his way to Steele's house, Willey called her again and told her what to say--that Willey had come to her house after returning from Washington that day, described a sexual advance by Clinton and was in great distress...
...reality, West says, there was no such visit, and Steele didn't even learn of Willey's session with the President until weeks later. When she did, West told TIME, she was left with the impression that there was nothing more than "mutual affection" between Willey and Clinton, not a sexual encounter and nothing in any way upsetting. Willey, according to a source, sent Clinton a book on dealing with loss shortly after his mother died and less than two months after the encounter. She also sent the President friendly notes and asked him to arrange a visit...
...that freed Kuwait in 1991, was a small, secret operation all its own: an effort to kill Saddam Hussein. Of the 40,000 U.S. air attacks during the Gulf War, about 40 were aimed at the Iraqi leader's headquarters, residences, command bunkers and buildings he was expected to visit. Pentagon lawyers had ruled that Saddam was a legal target because he was considered a wartime military commander. But in the end it didn't matter. Saddam and his entire family came through without a scratch...
...more than a month, she heard nothing. Then suddenly, on Friday, Aug. 8, De Jong called. He was coming to Hong Kong. He had booked a flight that day. He would arrive Sunday. It seemed, at first, just a friendly visit--a chance, at last, to meet face to face...
AFTERMATH OF THE POPE'S VISIT...