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During last Thursday's heated House subcommittee hearing, Republican Congressman Billy Tauzin of Louisiana chastised the carmaker for submitting an affidavit implying that the suspect tires had initially been tested at the lowest recommended pressure on the Explorer, when they had been run only on a pickup truck, or mule, configured to mimic the SUV. Mules are often used in auto-industry tests, but that didn't mollify Tauzin. As if that weren't bad enough, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began a preliminary investigation into the possible failure of one or both of the Explorer's sway...
Police say they have no reason to suspect the assailant was a student...
...Bureau of Export Administration, faced conservative challenges to his loyalty as an American before he left the post. Says his sister Helen Zia, author of the new book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (Farrar Straus & Giroux): "Every Asian-American in Washington became a potential suspect...
...conversation got heated as the black legislators argued that Gore needed to ramp up efforts with black voters--and soon. A senior aide says Gore's team is not too worried, but notes that black turnout between 1992 and 1996 fell, from 60% to 54%, a number some suspect will slide even further this year. Gore needs black turnout to be at least in the 50s, and he may have to do much of the work himself, since many blacks live in districts with Congressmen who face no opposition and are thus apt to let their political machines sleep. Such...
...storm intensified with reports that the FBI had identified a suspect within the Bush campaign. That cued Austin to counter indignantly with its own unfounded accusation - that the Clinton-Gore Justice Department was leaking lies in order to sow mistrust and chaos in the Bush campaign. "We remain absolutely confident that this act was committed by someone outside the campaign," a senior Bush aide told TIME Saturday. "We are confident that [the] evidence will ultimately bear that...