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...across. If, for instance, the person appointed as counsel is an expert on tax law and he comes across anything outside his area, he can hire someone else to investigate." Novak notes that another Ethics Committee inquiry awaits Gingrich, this time into a complaint to be filed by Democratic Whip David Bonior over Federal Elections Commission documents that show GOPAC may have violated federal election law by attempting to influence federal campaigns without registering as a federal PAC and disclosing its finances...
...will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and the Earth in a 'crack-the-whip' maneuver to boost the probe's velocity to give it sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter." Also Thursday, a smaller probe released from Galileo 147 days earlier will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. "There won't be any dramatic pictures, just a data stream," notes Jaroff...
...backlash has also thrown the more respectable opponents of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank on the defensive. Rabin's widow Leah has repeatedly accused Likud, the chief opposition party, and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, of tolerating, if not helping to whip up, the climate of violence that felled her husband. Netanyahu, in a telephone interview with TIME, responded with uncharacteristic mildness. "If the left can draw a distinction between moderate and extreme Palestinians," he said, "at least they could do the same for our own people...
...hard as any in America; the struggle was a fact of life, but it didn't define Alma. "We were going to school, falling in love, shopping for clothes, being teenagers," says her best friend from those days, Yvonne Hamilton. "Confronting white power wasn't high on our list." Whip smart, Alma graduated from high school at 16 and from college at 19, then went on to become an audiologist in Boston, where she met Colin. "She succeeded in part because she was mentored by powerful, directed adults who never for a moment considered themselves inferior to anyone," says Odessa...
...Whip me!" he hissed...