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...about trade, global warming and America's great rivers--anything but campaign-finance reform. Nearly everyone else was talking about it, though. Republicans uncovered new evidence that Gore might have known that some of the "soft" money he solicited in 46 telephone calls to donors in 1995 and 1996 wound up in the wrong bank accounts at the Democratic National Committee--raising questions about the legality of the calls themselves...
Even without the campaign-finance scandal, this had promised to be a darkly hued fall for the Vice President. After spending the past two years trying to mend his relations with organized labor, Gore this week will join Clinton in reopening an old wound as the Administration launches its bid for new authority to negotiate trade deals as ambitious and divisive as 1993's North American Free Trade Agreement. December will find Gore in Japan grappling with a global-warming treaty that pits his long-standing environmentalist allies against labor and business...
...door to the bedroom where Foote, a 23-year-old construction worker, and his girlfriend, Wright, a 19-year-old college student, had been sleeping. Gunfire erupted as the men forced in the door. From his bed, Foote fired a 9-mm handgun at his assailants and managed to wound two of them, but he and Wright died in a fusillade...
...Hanson. "Why this prosecutor has decided to press charges now is anyone's guess." It may have to do with the fact that Boundary County prosecuter Denise Woodbury is new to the job. Woodbury has only been in office for about seven months. Now by opening the Ruby Ridge wound, she has already angered FBI director Louis Freeh ? who also thought the case was closed...
Shelton's career began in the jungles of Vietnam, leading Green Beret incursions into enemy territory. While there, he earned a Bronze Star and, after stepping on a manure-covered bamboo spike, a Purple Heart--the kind of wound that won Colin Powell the same medal in the same war. But unlike Powell, who spent much of his career in Washington's power corridors, Shelton has scant capital experience...