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With the exception, perhaps, of Bill Clinton. And Gingrich's life has surprising -- if often superficial -- parallels with the President's. Both are Southerners. They are about the same age (Gingrich, at 51, is three years older). Both own classic Ford Mustangs. Both got deferments from the Vietnam draft (Clinton's 2-S student dodge, Gingrich's 3-A married-with-children exemption). They share dopey explanations for marijuana use. (Clinton: "I didn't inhale." Gingrich: "I tried it once; it had no effect on me.") Both took the names of their stepfathers (Clinton was born Blythe; Gingrich, McPherson). Most...
...government'swatchful eye. The Digital Telephony Bill -- in the Senate it's S2375, in theHouse HR4922 -- forces telephone companies to make any new networks they develop"wiretap ready" for the FBI; Congress has set aside $500 million over four yearsto reimburse the corporations for compliance. However, an earlier draft of thelegislation was changed so that online bulletin board services such as AmericaOnline have been excluded from the provisions. And restrictions on releasingrecords regarding transactions on the Net were actually tightened. Jerry Berman,deputy policy director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the newbill a "significant victory" for electronic wanderers. Clinton...
Powell has been equally coy about elective politics. A Republican draft- Powell-in-1996 committee has signed up 20 state and 10 regional coordinators and begun raising money. But the general has had no contact with the group, and in fact has never declared himself a Republican -- or a Democrat. He helped to shape Republican foreign and military policy during the Reagan and Bush administrations, but friends say his views on civil rights and social issues may be too Democratic to reconcile with a right-leaning G.O.P...
Clinton got a start -- very, very late -- toward making the case for invasion in his TV address to the nation last Thursday night. He reworked a draft so heavily and so late that by 6 p.m., three hours before airtime, the White House was able to release only excerpts for quotation on the night's TV news shows; aides joked that Clinton was locked into those sentences but that everything else was up in the air. When the cameras finally started rolling in the Oval Office, however, the President was in good form, speaking calmly and firmly, as befits...
...meeting in Cairo, formally known as the International Conference on Population and Development, ended in surprising peace and harmony, even though it had opened amid fierce disputes about abortion and threats of violence by Islamic fundamentalists. For once the U.N. was truly united: no country voted against the final draft of a 113-page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to the cause of curbing population growth...