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...define the national interest in terms of a million Haitian Americans living in the U.S. and "an interest in stabilizing those democracies that are in our hemisphere." By any traditional measure, such interests are not vital to national security, and Americans are -- so far -- largely unconvinced. A TIME/ CNN poll last week asked if the U.S. should send troops to oust Haiti's military rulers. Only 31% of Americans supported the idea; 61% opposed...
That was enough for the President, who started one-to-one meetings with Democratic legislators to get them to support the bill while pursuing a furious counteroffensive that includes commercials purchased by the Democratic National Committee, aired on CNN. At rallies last week in New Jersey and on the White House lawn, Clinton pounded the podiums with calls for the G.O.P. to get with the program. "If Bob Dole and the special interests win," Vice President Al Gore told another crowd on Capitol Hill, "millions of Americans will lose...
...Apparently, something I've said has displeased a lot of people at the White House . . . I will no longer use the phrase 'White House 10' because I can understand how it would seem offensive to some people." -- CNN Anchor Bernard Shaw, during the network's coverage of the House Whitewater hearings
Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered...
...disparity between the races on the Simpson case is stark. In a TIME/ CNN poll, 63% of whites said they believe Simpson will get a fair trial; only 31% of blacks felt the same way. While 66% of whites think Simpson received a fair preliminary hearing, just 31% of blacks found the proceeding fair. And 77% of whites called the case against Simpson "very strong" or "fairly strong"; 45% of blacks judged it the same...