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...Federal rules, said a frustrated U.S. appeals court, pre-empt state laws. "We affirm this absurdity," the judges wrote. "Congress has given federal bureaucrats the power to order that frozen chickens be labeled fresh." The Clinton Administration promised to review the issue promptly. That pledge, as an internal USDA memo reveals, was little more than a public-relations exercise designed to cover an "embarrassing" policy that "puts the USDA in the position of being anti-consumer." A press release was issued in February 1994, and the inquiry languished. But now, with the 1996 election looming (and California's 54 electoral...
...demanded that former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen explain why he apparently did nothing to deter federal agents under his jurisdiction from using tear gas at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, even after his deputy, Roger Altman, had warned of "the risks of a tragedy" in a memo. "Isn't this an alarm crying out for some responsible action?" Zeliff asked. "Didn'tRoger Altmansound the alarm?" Bentsen responded: "The responsibility at that point was the Justice Department and the FBI. That was their jurisdiction. I had other responsibilities to attend to. I thought it was already being taken care...
...Republicans are applying leverage, the Democrats have also been pretty heavyhanded. A D.N.C. memo turned up by the Chicago Sun Times offers donors of $100,000 a chance to eat and speak with the President and Vice President as well as "participate in foreign trade missions." So far this doesn't seem to be working as well as the G.O.P.'s approach: by the end of last week the party raised $37 million, up from $26 million over the same period in 1993, but well below the size of, and growth in, the G.O.P.'s take...
Indeed, PBHA and HAND leaders worked togetherthis year to coordinate a student protest againstthe College report. Leaders of both groups wrotein a memo to Knowles, Jewett and Maull last fallthat their primary concerns were with a reductionin staff or the elimination of the senior staffpositions...
...such a thing would not be out of character. In a complaint filed in April as part of the Intuit suit, the Justice Department quoted a memo, directed to Gates, in which a Microsoft vice president told how he had tried to pressure Intuit chairman Scott Cook into accepting a $1 billion buyout offer by hinting that Microsoft might spend the money attacking Intuit in the marketplace. "I tried to tell him how much we could do with $1 billion," the V.P. wrote. "I tried to be nonthreatening, but let him know we would do something aggressively...