Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small gifts to the President accrue. Last August, Huber came across a sheaf of folded computer printouts. Musing briefly that they looked like legal billing sheets, she carried them off in a box with some knick-knacks. It was not until Jan. 4 that, while straightening her own East Wing office, she looked a bit more closely. At that point, as she testified last Thursday before Senator Alfonse D'Amato's rapt Whitewater Committee, "I sat down for a few minutes and thought." Then, she said, "I called Mr. [David] Kendall," the Clintons' private lawyer. And then she rang...
...that Republicans are trying to roll back a century of social progress. We are not ashamed to defend what we and the vast majority of Americans believe in--student aid, protection of our environment, care for our elders, the social safety net--from attacks by the cabal of right-wing extremists led by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). If Democrats fail to stand up for those not at the top, no one will...
...human-life amendment and distinguishing between early abortions and those post-viability, which he would restrict--Bennett has been labeled "pro-abortion" by Dr. James Dobson of the Focus on the Family. General Powell's revelation that he was pro-choice made him anathema to his party's right wing. In December, when Senator Bob Dole said he no longer supported a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions, he felt compelled to get off a letter immediately to the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed explaining that he didn't really mean...
Prosecutors claim that police surveillance established Berenson's complicity with the left-wing guerrilla movement shortly before she was arrested on Nov. 30. When police raided her house in a Lima suburb hours later, they found it packed with heavily armed MRTA guerrillas. In the ensuing shoot-out, two rebels and one police officer were killed. The military terrorism court, where judges and other personnel wear masks, imposed a life sentence, ignoring the prosecutors' recommendation of 30 years in prison. Berenson will serve the term in a notoriously tough maximum-security prison reserved for terrorists that is located high...
...always to help the downtrodden; as a teenager she donated time to a soup kitchen. In 1989 she dropped out of M.I.T. and went to work with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a leftist group that opposed U.S. military aid to the right-wing Salvadoran government. She worked for cispes in New York City and Washington before pulling up stakes in 1991 and moving to Central America, where she spent time in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. During occasional visits home to the U.S., she told friends she worked for human-rights organizations...