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...Ickes lawyer, Robert Bennett, said that's all investigators will find, telling reporters that there are "no smoking guns; there is no wrongdoing revealed on anyone's part." With funding for his investigation set to run out on February 29, D'Amato chose to disagree, and said he might request an additional $600,000 to continue his hearings...
AMMAN, JORDAN: Iraqui Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead...
...officials insist that time will transform the raw recruits into an effective authority. Now they lean heavily on 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but they will soon be expected to step in for the entire contingent--unless the Security Council approves Preval's urgent request to retain 1,800 for another six months. Even though the peacekeepers may serve only as a psychological deterrent, the Americans have been vital to U.N. credibility. But at the very moment when the country's insecurity is growing, the U.S. is leaving. A senior American diplomat familiar with Haiti says, "Of course...
...pose for photos with the stars of the shows, JEAN SMART of High Society, FRAN DRESCHER of The Nanny, CANDICE BERGEN of Murphy Brown, MARY MCDONNELL of Society and NANCY MCKEON of Can't Hurry Love, some of whom are barely household names? Actually, just a nice request and a substantial donation to Taylor's aids charity, AmFAR. (A CBS staff member who used to live next door to Taylor's assistant helped.) "We thought it was such a long shot," says Maddy Horne, CBs VP of current programming. "But she said the idea was charming." CBS wanted a story...
...victim wasn't flashy: the Health Insurance Reform Act of 1995. Still, persons unknown had attempted to murder it with the "hold"--a secretive but deadly senatorial weapon. Technically, the hold is a Senator's request to be notified before a bill comes up for a vote--but the requester has the right to remain anonymous. Increasingly, holds are used to stall legislation or nominations that otherwise would easily pass. And in the Senate, delay can be fatal. The insurance bill, which seeks to reform allegedly unfair industry practices, boasted an almost evenly bipartisan list of 44 co-sponsors...