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Torricelli aides tellTIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighthat several "top Administration officials" informed them verbally of the coverup allegations. Now come the questions: "If they knew of this in January, why was Harbury not told? If the CIA knew in 1992, who made the decision not to tell the Administration or make it public at a time when they could have blamed the Bush Administration...
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari began a hunger strike, demanding that his name be cleared of rumors that he allowed the coverup of an assassination. Salinas said: "It's a question of personal honor." The ex-president's downward slide began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas...
...Liems failed to take the steps necessary to rectify the situation and attempted to coverup the controversy. This cover-up consisted of a campaign aimed at silencing tutors in the House who were willing to speak against the unfair hirings. One tutor who has since left said, "[Karel] Liem trampled on all the principles of free speech and made many tutors and students afraid of speaking out." Liem was accused last year of threatening to fire tutors who criticized the hiring policies...
...position no First Lady has ever experienced. As the icon of American womanhood, she is the medium through which the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out. She is on a cultural seesaw held to a schizophrenic standard: everything she does that is soft is a calculated coverup of the careerist inside; everything that isn't is a put-down of women who stay home and bake cookies. As she sits in the White House on a spring day, she seems to be bending with the burden, more relaxed and philosophical < about what life is throwing at her than...
Speakers at the rally, which drew about 150, claimed that national news organizations were not covering the story because Bush aide Donald Gregg had masterminded a media coverup...