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Richard F. Scruggs, who won a $368 billion dollar settlement for states against tobacco companies, said the lawsuit would change the way Americans view their own history...
Meanwhile, as the President stays up late into the night urging a peace settlement on Arafat, Hillary's concerns are more domestic. Friends have long been relied on to contribute to the Clintons' campaigns, their legal-defense funds and their library. The New York Times got wind of friends' wanting "to treat her like a bride" to help launch her First-Lady afterlife. Earlier, cooler heads had prevailed to nix an actual shower. Now, friends say, there's something of a silent shower taking place, whereby those who want to help out can learn what china (Spode) and soup ladle...
...seated, a door to the Cabinet Room opened. Clinton walked in, pulled his chair up to the table and unfolded his notes. "I want to be as precise as I can, so I'll read this slowly," he said. As the envoys scribbled on pads, Clinton, sounding like a settlement attorney, calmly laid out American "ideas" for finally closing a peace deal. Arafat would get a Palestinian state, with Israel ceding all of the Gaza Strip and 95% of the West Bank (in exchange for the 5% of the West Bank Israel keeps for its settlements there, the Palestinians would...
...Jerusalem. It's a very nationalistic demonstration - I was there earlier, and it's the same people you usually see at nationalist demonstrations. Mostly religious people, but wearing knitted yarmulkas - not the ultra-Orthodox, in other words, but the religious nationalists who make up the backbone of the settlement movement...
...retreat from compromises they may have been prepared to make at an earlier stage of the peace process. And the intifada of the past three months has woken Israeli leaders up to the vast gulf between their own and their neighbors' ideas of the shape of an acceptable final settlement, which has set the Jewish state on a political swing back to the right. All of which leaves the region no closer to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians than it was when President Clinton first came to power...