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...Fayed family says Diana had given Dodi a pair of cuff links that belonged to her late father and a gold cigar clipper with a tag inscribed WITH LOVE FROM DIANA. Dodi had written a poem for Diana, had it engraved on silver and placed beneath her pillow at his apartment. At their last dinner together, on Saturday, he presented her with a $205,400 diamond ring that he had arranged to be made by Albert Repossi, a Paris jeweler. Was it an engagement ring? "He told me how much he was in love with the princess," Repossi said later...
...core of the initiative is a new code-making scheme known as "key recovery." Here at last, the government and its supporters claimed, was a way to get around the more noxious aspects of the reviled Clipper chip, the Administration's first doomed attempt to balance the industry's call for stronger encryption with law enforcement's need to surveil our shadier citizens. Clipper, as proposed, would use a powerful encryption formula to encode communications sent over telephones and computer networks but would require that a "back door" key be built into each chip that would give police--where warranted...
...Billy Joe Clegg from Biloxi, Mississippi, whose slogan is "Clegg Won't Pull Your Leg" and who swears that Jesus is his campaign manager. There's also the poet and former seaman Michael Levinson from Buffalo, New York, who proposes a jobs program to build 10,000 clipper ships, and Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, the self-described "Hemp Lady" and ex-nun who advocates legalizing marijuana as a way of enabling Americans to get back in touch with nature. For $2 she'll sell you a bumper sticker that reads LET CLINTON INHALE...
Already the spontaneous formation of a single-issue interest group has been seen on the Net. In 1993 the Federal Government announced plans to promote the Clipper chip, which would have ensured the government's ability to decipher / messages sent over phone lines by modem. The circulation of an anti-Clipper petition turned into a kind of impromptu online civil-liberties demonstration, boosting the number of signatures from...
WASHINGTON -- The Clinton Administration has been pushing for the development of the CLIPPER CHIP, a technology that would enable the government to "wiretap" scrambled digital communications. Now one of the Administration's own federal-budget-office examiners has denied a request for the almost $15 million that would allow government agencies to continue working on the chip. The agencies, backed by Vice President Gore, are appealing...