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...further reason why Starr will try hard to get Lewinsky's cooperation is that last week the Supreme Court made her even more crucial to his case. The Justices rejected his request for a highly unusual fast-track ruling on his fights with the Administration over whether Secret Service employees and White House attorneys can be forced to testify. Though U.S. District Court Judge Norma Hollaway Johnson has ruled that they can be, the Administration is appealing her decision. A three-judge appeals panel that includes two Clinton appointees has said it will hear oral arguments in the matter starting...
...crises that will mark his presidency. Sources close to the President tell TIME that on May 23, Habibie was confronted at his office by LIEUT. GENERAL PRABOWO SUBIANTO, son-in-law of former PRESIDENT SUHARTO and the head of the powerful Army Strategic Reserve Command. The general "strongly requested" that Habibie name him army Chief of Staff and replace the chief of the armed forces, GENERAL WIRANTO, with a Prabowo ally. Frightened, Habibie told the volatile general that promotions were up to the military, and left. Prabowo refused to go, departing only after his aide pretended Wiranto...
Although they only planned to stay in Leverett for 10 years when they assumed the post, the Dowlings said they postponed their retirement from mastering at the request of their daughter, Alexandra, who asked her parents not to move until she graduated from high school...
...city's interest in local government was reignited when in the mayoral election--which had been delayed a week until Jan. 26 at the request of Councillor Michael A. Sullivan who was away on his honeymoon--Councillor Katherine Triantafillou secured--and then lost--the five of nine votes needed to become the city's top executive...
...estimation of Director of Financial AidJames S. Miller, 70 percent of those offered aidcalled in with a question or request for anadjustment. In previous years, only about 30percent of students called Byerly Hall...