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For fair use Webster Hubbell's Plea Wednesday, June 30, 1999; Page A30 WEBSTER HUBBELL, the former associate attorney general of the United States, has once again agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge brought by independent counsel Kenneth Starr. What precisely Mr. Hubbell will admit to will not be made public until later today. But he will apparently admit that he lied about his and Hillary Clinton's work at the Rose Law Firm on a shady deal known as Castle Grande. Such a plea would complete Mr. Hubbell's shameful descent from a high law enforcement officer to a multiple ...

A Cruel Scheme to Curb Abortion Don't be misled by the label. The benignly titled "Child Custody Protection Act" scheduled for House action today is in fact a cold-hearted piece of legislation that would jeopardize the health of desperate young women seeking abortions and potentially imprison adults who help them. The bill also flouts the Constitution. In essence, the measure seeks to broaden the reach of strict laws that are now on the books in 22 states requiring teen-agers to notify or consult their parents before obtaining an abortion, or else seek a judge's permission. It would do so by ...

An Ex-Wrestler Goes to the Mat for Reform Jesse Ventura wants to reform the Reform Party. The in-your-face Minnesota Governor, a former professional wrestler whose surprise victory last November made him the most successful candidate in the party's brief history, has been saying for weeks that Ross Perot, the party's founder and all-powerful eminence, should step aside and give others a chance. Now he's going after Russell Verney, the party chairman and Perot's closest political ally since the heady days of 1992, when Perot first ran for President and won nearly a fifth of the vote. Ventura insists he does ...

Bush Moves Toward the Center on Immigration and Quotas By RICHARD L. BERKE LA JOLLA, Calif. -- George W. Bush plunged into the most populous state Tuesday for the first time as a presidential candidate and immediately cast himself as more temperate than most Republican leaders here and in Washington on two emotionally charged ballot measures that have roiled his party: immigration and affirmative action. Bush distanced himself from a proposition that passed in this state in 1994 that prohibits public services to illegal immigrants. And he refused to endorse a proposition approved by this state's voters in 1996 that ...

Vexing Party, Clinton Backs Year 2000 Law Bill Would Put Limits on Punitive Damages By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM WASHINGTON -- Infuriating many Democrats, the White House Tuesday reached a basic agreement with Republicans in Congress on legislation to limit lawsuits arising from Year 2000 computer breakdowns. Republican leaders said all the main points had been settled and that they hoped Congress would clear the measure for the President's signature this week. The White House agreed that only technical language remained to be worked out. The agreement, aggressively promoted by the computer industry and other business interests and opposed by trial ...

Last night was great with Heston and company . . . Tonight is AWESOME with Alan Keyes. He is truly incredible.

With Counsel Law Expiring, Attorney General Takes Reins By DAVID JOHNSTON WASHINGTON -- Corruption investigations of Presidents and high Government officials will change significantly on Wednesday at midnight with the expiration of the law that gave the country the Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr and 19 other independent counsels over the last two decades. Starting on Thursday, decisions about whether to begin ethics investigations of top officials will be left solely to Attorney General Janet Reno, who has sent to Congress the rules under which her department will name special prosecutors in certain cases. The rules give the Attorney General ...

It’s Not Too Early Gore Needs to Raise the Bar Here’s a novel idea: Why doesn’t Veep Al Gore resign, cut a deal with Bill Bradley and spend from now until November of 2000 campaigning for the presidency with the former New Jersey senator as his runningmate, unbound from the chains of Clinton Corruption? It’s not so far-fetched, although I doubt Gore has the imagination and integrity to pull it off. Still, it was another disastrous week for the beleaguered Washingtonian: When a Democrat has to spend time in California, answering the sometimes hostile questions of gay and lesbian activists, ...

Bush Raises $20 Million; Bradley's Tally Is Robust By DON VAN NATTA Jr. WASHINGTON -- Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has accumulated at least $20 million in just four months, raising more money, more quickly, than any Presidential candidate in history. But the most surprising early windfall has gone to former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, who has raised more than $11 million to close the money gap with Vice President Al Gore. Buoyed by three days of receptions in California this week that is expected to net $4.2 million, Bush has amassed more money than all his ...

LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD Senator vs. Senator WASHINGTON -- One Senate. Two Clintons. It is a concept so novel, so alarming, attention must be paid. Jeffrey Toobin caused a kerfuffle when he wrote in The New Yorker this week that Bill Clinton was interested in running for the Senate from Arkansas in 2002. If Mr. Clinton won in his home state and Mrs. Clinton won in somebody else's home state, they would make history as the first connubial Senate team. When the President called the story "crazy," I knew it could be true. As Hal Bruno, formerly of ABC, ...

NEW YORK-- On the eve of a U.N.-led meeting to launch the rebuilding of Kosovo, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday the United States would contribute 450 civilian police to the effort and work to "make that happen quickly."But after talks with Albright at his East Side residence, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he had not decided who would run the U.N.-led civlian reconstruction operation and expected it would be a "few days" before he announced his choice.The two officials met for an hour ahead of a special U.N. session of foreign appeal to the world community for ...

Does Webb Hubbell go with no jail time after all this? How could it happen, a month before HILLARY'S CAMPAIN starts,if he gets no jail time, the HUBBELL case is settled, and she will not have to testify? Could anybody enlighten me.

Bush Begins 'Vigorous Fight' For Biggest Electoral Prize Candidate Enters California With Nods to Hollywood, Hispanics By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 30, 1999; Page A24 LOS ANGELES, June 29—Texas Gov. George W. Bush opened his California presidential campaign today with an appeal to Hispanic voters and sent an olive branch to Hollywood by saying he would not "single out" the entertainment industry in the debate over children and violence. Beginning three days of campaigning and fund-raising in a vote-rich state that has turned hostile to Republicans, Bush distanced himself from the anti-immigration Proposition 187 that then-Gov. ...

As Special Counsel Law Expires, Power Will Shift to Reno By Roberto Suro Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 30, 1999; Page A06 At midnight tonight, the independent counsel law that empowered Kenneth W. Starr's five-year investigation of President Clinton will expire, and responsibility for investigating the White House will revert to the Justice Department. Under new regulations, Attorney General Janet Reno will exercise considerably more direct control over politically sensitive probes than any of her recent predecessors. The regulations, which the Justice Department released in draft form yesterday, give Reno sole authority to appoint and remove special counsels for ...

Bush to Set Record for Campaign Donations Bradley Also Makes A Strong Showing By Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 30, 1999; Page A01 Texas Gov. George W. Bush today will shatter the presidential fund-raising record set by the money machine that fueled the 1996 Clinton-Gore reelection, reporting more than $23 million raised in the first half of this year, according to GOP sources, and far outpacing all other White House hopefuls including Vice President Gore. At the same time, Gore is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge for Democratic dollars from former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. ...

DOE Probe Finds External Security Ills at Livermore Lab By Walter Pincus and Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, June 30, 1999; Page A02 An internal Energy Department investigation has uncovered critical weaknesses in computer security, protection of nuclear materials and reaction capability of the guard force at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, according to congressional and administrative sources. The Livermore lab is one of the major components of the nation's nuclear weapons research complex. The findings of lax external security there come in the wake of growing controversy over allegations of Chinese espionage at Livermore and ...

"Ripple" (To be sung to the Grateful Dead's "Ripple") If my words did flow...from the radio with Limbaugh, And my tunes were played...on that M-TeeVee, Would you hear my views...comin' thru the music? Would you hold them near...as if they were your own?! I can't help myself...my thoughts must be spoken. Perhaps, they're better...left unsung. Yes, I know...you don't really care. But, Freedom songs'll...soon fill the air! Ripples from White Water... If you feel no sense of loss...you have no soul! Raise up your voice...tell Slick why you're angry! All our Nukes were sold...Cold War starts a-gain. Let it be ...

Paris, Wednesday, June 30, 1999EU Picks Contentious Aide to Schroeder to Lead Balkan Reconstruction By John Schmid International Herald TribuneFRANKFURT - - European Union leaders moved Tuesday to appoint the German chancellor's closest political adviser, Bodo Hombach, to coordinate Western efforts to deliver aid and promote democracy in the Balkans. The decision filled a critical post in the reconstruction program after NATO's air campaign with a man criticized for inexperience in the Balkans and an inability to repair relations in his center-left party. EU leaders announced the choice after an all-night meeting on economic and trade issues in Rio ...

Iowa's Sen. Grasley (R-Iowa) is a forcing Maddy's hand on her attempts to destroy whistleblower Shenwick after her embarassing the U.S. State Department's coverup of their punishment of Shenwick - by putting a hold on wanabe UN Ambasador HOLBROOK's nomination. Shenwick - LIVE but the State Department will not talk because Shenwick will not sign a waiver to discuss. Jamie (the fag) Rubin, sent a CYA letter to Nightline complaining about their interviewing of Shenwick was unfair. WHINE, WHINE, WHINE

Paris, Wednesday, June 30, 1999The Kashmir Crisis Needs International LeadershipBy Benazir Bhutto LOS ANGELES - After six weeks of increasingly bloody fighting in Kashmir, the international community is beginning to recognize that the worst South Asia conflict in more than 30 years may lead to a wider and potentially nuclear confrontation. Recent sentiments expressed by the Group of Eight nations, as well as by President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair, that India and Pakistan must cease the fighting and resume dialogue are welcome. But now is the time for the international community to take direct action and ...