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...Foster and Travelgate to Whitewater and you-know-what, invoking executive privilege all the while. Even when the effort was doomed, when Monica hardly qualified as national security, Clinton used the privilege successfully to stall for time. Time is short now; if the Republicans have recovered their appetite for scandal, they?re unlikely to nail the White House?s elusive current occupant. And there's another thing to think about: the risk of alienating an electorate sated with scandal and irritated by endless investigations...
...bombings, the renewed fighting in Chechnya and Dagestan, the mounting swirl of scandal, are all bringing the crisis to a boil," says Meier. "Something has to give. One of the world?s largest nuclear arsenals is now in the hands of a small coterie of aides terrified of losing their positions, surrounding and protecting a feeble old man whose power is steadily draining." Despite the frenzy of morbid clairvoyance sweeping the political elite, ordinary Russians remain depressed and indifferent. And that?s hardly surprising. A fourth bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg apartment building Thursday night, killing two people...
...separatists ? who are behind the fighting in Dagestan ? have certainly resorted to terror attacks inside Russia on many occasions in the past, many Russian politicians fear that President Boris Yeltsin may use them as a pretext to claim emergency powers and hang on to power. "Faced with a corruption scandal that won?t simply go away, that scenario may be tempting for Yeltsin," says Quinn-Judge. "But there?s no guarantee that he could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces to make...
...suspects but a list of ?versions,?" says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. In the minds of Muscovites, all of the above may be plausible "versions." "And," says Meier, "in Moscow the perception may be as important as the reality." With the Caucasus far from pacified and the swirl of scandal around the Kremlin increasing the incentive for its current occupants to hang onto the lease as long as possible despite looming elections, that will leave Muscovites bracing for further nasty surprises...
...enforcement officers over the years, but no officials realized they were technically--and thus figuratively--"hot" until the press started calling around a month ago. Reno's foes are already sharpening their barbs. House Republicans like Dan Burton, who have seen her as Clinton's protector through various scandal probes, have always relished pitting her against her rival, FBI director Louis Freeh. Though overlooking the troublesome pyrotechnic fact is actually the fault of Freeh's bureau, watch for the G.O.P. to place the blame on Reno. Already the longest-serving Attorney General since 1829, Reno is not likely to find...