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Documents obtained by TIME show new action in the Teamsters union investigation and could signal fresh problems for the White House. Last week federal investigators handed over to the union's court-appointed overseers a "highly personal and confidential" memo written in January 1997 by JERE NASH, campaign manager for RON CAREY, a month after he was re-elected Teamsters president. The memo, addressed to Carey, details how union employees helped his election. For example, the union's chief organizer turned his entire staff into an arm of the campaign, which is illegal. Nash has pleaded guilty of conspiracy...
Documents obtained by TIME show new action in the Teamsters union investigation and could signal fresh problems for the White House. Last week federal investigators handed over to the union?s court-appointed overseers a ?highly personal and confidential? memo written in January 1997 by Jere Nash, campaign manager for Ron Carey, a month after he was re-elected Teamsters president. The memo, addressed to Carey, details how union employees helped his election. For example, the union?s chief organizer turned his entire staff into an arm of the campaign, which is illegal. Nash has pleaded guilty of conspiracy...
...initiative began in September of 1997. I never got a memo," Triantafillou said. "It's [March] 1998, and this is a major policy decision that we haven't been notified about...
...Britain were worried about several specific provisions in the memorandum of understanding between the U.N. and Iraq. It was unclear who would supervise the Special Group, the UNSCOM-plus team, set up to inspect the palaces. The memo called for "specific detailed procedures" for the inspections, but didn't spell out the procedures. This could be trouble, offering the Iraqis any number of avenues for delaying and limiting inspections. But, asks a Clinton aide, "Do we go to war over who drives Butler's car into the palaces...
...Kofi Annan received a hero's welcome from United Nations employees Tuesday, the agreement he signed is not entirely pretty reading for Washington. The two-page memo gives the Secretary General carte blanche to pick and choose members of the "special group" that will inspect the eight disputed Presidential Palaces. For Annan, "it's a masterful piece of diplomacy," says TIME's U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He came back and he's in charge...