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...references to Monica Lewinsky's besmirched dress. How were news organizations handling the sticky issue of the stain? While some were plain--ABC News, the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times used the word "semen"--others were more circumspect. "Physical evidence" was the phrase favored at NPR, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, while "bodily fluids" prevailed at CBS News. NBC News and MSNBC went with "DNA evidence," the Washington Post liked "DNA material," and the Christian Science Monitor said "forensic evidence that might suggest sexual contact." The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS was quite adroit, mentioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...example, what is contained in the mysterious "diagram" the feds say they found in Weston's notebook? No elaboration was provided. And what was in the envelope titled "public info Freeman -- CNN"? Does it mean Weston was a Montana Freeman sympathizer, or that he corresponded regularly with CNN? Weston, still hospitalized with gunshot wounds, is in no position to tell us any time soon. Let the conspiracy theories begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home With the Capitol Gunman | 8/4/1998 | See Source »

...CNN has also agreed to pay Thomas Moorer, a retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a settlement reported to be $100,000. The original program and article stated that Moorer confirmed the use of sarin during Tailwind, which he has denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely No Evidence | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

There are still unanswered questions about Tailwind. How could such vivid, seamless reportage, quoting a number of eyewitnesses and sources, be so totally reversed, supported by quotes from other "reliable" eyewitnesses and sources? And in your apology, some sources deny that anything in the CNN-TIME story was true. One person even says, "We did not use lethal gas, and we did not kill any defectors, men, women or children." So what was a sizable contingent of heavily armed, Special Forces soldiers doing on that secret mission in Laos? Selling Girl Scout cookies? BRUCE BRASHEAR Goteborg, Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 3, 1998 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...help him if he will." Even assuming he has something to repent, however, Clinton is far more likely to gamble on widespread public exhaustion with the case. "There's no appetite for impeachment either in Congress or the country," TIME deputy Washington bureau chief Jef McAllister told CNN. "I would essentially dare him to have the Congress follow him into his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Dress Rehearsal | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

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