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"The president and his aides demeaned the offices of the president and vice president, took advantage of minority groups, pulled down all the barriers that would normally be in place to keep out illegal contributions, pressured policy makers, and left themselves open to strong suspicion that they were selling not only access to high-ranking officials, but policy as well. Millions of dollars were raised in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign sources." – The Thompson Committee on the Clinton 1996 re-election campaign Throughout the day on April 3, 1996, the man who most fully embodied the historic corruption of...

<p>Bill Clinton calls his sexual encounters with White House intern Monica Lewinsky "immoral and foolish" and said his "relationship" with Gennifer Flowers was one he "should not have had." But in his autobiography flying out of bookstores, he doesn't mention several other women whose names were linked in scandal with his.</p>

PORTLAND, Ore. — A suspect in the disappearance of a Brigham Young University student had dryer lint in his house that was labeled to be from the apartment complex where the woman was last seen, according to a court document.Sung Koo Kim (search), 30, of Tigard was arrested by Portland police Monday on unrelated theft and burglary charges. His bail was set at $10 million after he was accused of stealing underwear from three different Portland college dormitories or laundry rooms starting in October 2002.In the affidavit, Detective Bryan Steed of the Portland Police Bureau refers to Kim as a suspect in...

DATE MISSING: 6/21/04 MISSING FROM: Hollywood,FL COUNTY: Broward BIRTH: 1/1/1999 AGE DISAPPEARED: 5 years old RACE: White HEIGHT: 3' 05" WEIGHT: 040 SEX: Female HAIR: Brown EYES: Brown ENDANGERED Abductor Name:Unknown Unknown Birth Date:Unknown Race:White Height:601 Weight:220 Sex:Male Hair:Grey Eye:Hazel NARRATIVE: The child was abducted at gunpoint by the abductor. Abductor forced the child to take another change of clothes that consisted of a blue t-shirt with a fish on the front, a long blue skirt and a white beach hat. The suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. If you have any information concerning the whereabouts of this child,...

Mich. Authorities Search for Missing 12-Year-Old Girl The Associated Press Jun 20, 2004 LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) - More than 200 firefighters, police officers, relatives and other volunteers searched an area near Lake Michigan on Sunday for a 12-year-old girl who disappeared from her home. Police were holding a man known by the child's mother for questioning, but did not release any information about him except that he was 30 and had a criminal record. Sabrina Dalzell was last seen Friday. Her mother, Amanda, left the girl and her 10-year-old brother at home that night, and discovered Sabrina missing the following...

 News-Info-Alerts Re: POW-MIA Freedom RadioFrom: POW-MIA InterNetwork Date: June 13, 2004Remember Pfc. Keith Maupin...Prisoner of War since April 9, 2004. Contact his representative, Mr. Rob Portman, 202-225-3164 and demand every effort be made to effect his immediate release! Ask your senators why the "Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000", (S-1339, the "Speicher Bill"), as amended, is not being invoked now!

Caribbean floods left 3,300 dead, missing Jun. 5, 2004. 08:51 AM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The toll of dead and missing from floods that ravaged parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic was set at more than 3,300 on Friday as aid workers reached the most remote areas. In Haiti, the official death toll was at 1,191 and the number of missing at 1,484. The figures on the Dominican side of the border were 395 dead and 274 missing. That brought the overall toll to at least 3,344 from flooding caused by days of rains that unleashed torrents of water...

A few days after Libya's historic pledge on December 19 to abandon the quest for nuclear weapons, Libyan intelligence officials met visiting US diplomats to deliver some unsettling news: a sizeable quantity of nuclear equipment bought by Libya appeared to be missing. The equipment had been ordered from black-market suppliers months earlier and was now long overdue, the Libyans disclosed. US officials say the Libyans wanted to prepare the Americans for the possibility that more illicit nuclear shipments could suddenly appear on Tripoli's docks. "They clearly expected more things to turn up," one of the US participants said. Four months...

European researchers have found 30 previously hidden supermassive black holes anchoring faraway galaxies, which suggests there at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as thought. Supermassive black holes hold as much matter as millions or billions of suns. The newfound black holes were long sought but went unnoticed because they lurk behind veils of dust and are so faraway that even the galaxies they anchor are difficult to examine in any detail. "This discovery means that surveys of powerful supermassive black holes have so far underestimated their numbers by at least a factor of two, and possibly...

Police have cordoned off a gravel pit after searchers looking for a missing 19-year-old university student found "a strange discovery" near the Willamette River, a police spokesman said Friday. "It was enough to call investigators. They secured the area and began again this morning," said Lt. Ron Noble, a spokesman for the Corvallis Police Department. "If this is related to Brooke's disappearance, we don't want to take the chance of missing anything at all." Noble would not elaborate on what searchers might have found just before dusk on Thursday, and stressed that there was no immediate indication that "there is...

Cadaver Dogs Join the Search for Joanna Date: Thursday, May 27 @ 06:43:02 CDT Topic: National Amber Alert News Cadaver Dogs Join the Search for Joanna Texas Her name is Shadow. A Siberian Husky trained to search out the missing - alive or dead. "What we're doing is eliminating places," said Captain Bill Drewell of the Lubbock Sheriff's Department. On Wednesday, Shadow was helping the sheriff's department search through cars at a towing yard. "What we're doing is going to some of the areas that we didn't get to search over the weekend," said Drewell. Over the weekend, 700 volunteers...

Last modified Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:49 PM PDT Brook Wilberger The search intensifies By JESSE SOWA Gazette-Times reporter Police believe Wilberger abducted Shoes and personal items were left behind Monday morning outside a Corvallis apartment complex, but there was no other sign of Brooke Carol Wilberger. She was gone without a trace. On Tuesday, police continued interviewing people and searching the Corvallis area for the 19-year-old Veneta woman, whom police believe was abducted. Wilberger was last seen about 10 a.m. Monday at the Oak Park Apartments, 1219 S.W. 26th St., where her sister and brother-in-law, Stephanie and Zak Hansen,...

Families of the 12 Missing Iranian Jews Petition High Court May 13, 2004 IMRA imra.org.il Families of the 12 Jews Missing in Iran to High Court: No Release Deal For Kuntar Without Info Concerning Our Loved Ones. This morning, May 13, 2004, at 10:00 am the families of 12 Jews who are missing in Iran, will petition the High Court of Justice to block the second part of the exchange deal with Hezbullah concerning Ron Arad. The families are demanding that Israel not release imprisoned Palestinian terrorist Samir Kuntar before obtaining information from Iran on the fate of their family...

Hostages in Iraq Who Remain Missing The Associated Press May 2, 2004 The abduction of Thomas Hamill came at the height of the wave of kidnappings of foreigners sparked by the intense violence that began a month ago. Up to 40 people from several nations were abducted, though most were later freed. Among those still missing: - An American soldier, Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, who was kidnapped in the same convoy attack as Hamill, a truck driver for a Halliburton Corp. subsidiary. Maupin was seen in separate video footage. Hamill was among seven American contractors kidnapped in the April 9...

<p>A push by Senate Democrats to extend jobless benefits lost by a single vote yesterday - as their nominee-to-be, John Kerry, missed the vote while campaigning in Kentucky.</p> <p>Kerry, the only senator to miss the vote, said he didn't come back to Washington because "we were told that no matter what would happen, [the Republicans] would change a vote in the Senate and they were not going to let it happen."</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Relatives and U.S. officials said Tuesday a body found on a Baghdad highway overpass was that of an American civilian contract worker missing since April 9 the same day insurgents attacked a U.S. convoy west of the capital. Also Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said one Russian energy company worker was confirmed dead and two others abducted Monday when gunmen fired on their car south of Baghdad. An Iraqi serving as a bodyguard and translator was wounded, said Yevgeny Loginov, spokesman for the Interenergoservis energy company. Gunmen attacked a U.S.-run civilian convoy operated by workers hired by...

Italian police have reopened an inquiry into a kidnapping which took place 21 years ago, after claims that a teenage girl taken hostage by anti-papal conspirators is secretly living under an assumed name close to the Vatican. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee, was kidnapped in 1983, two years after the attempted assassination of the Pope. Investigators in Italy and the Vatican believe the kidnappers were Turkish extremists linked with the KGB, who hoped to exchange her for Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who fired at the Pope on St Peter’s Square on 13 May 1981. This...

SAN ANTONIO — A teenage father from San Antonio has reportedly been missing in a Mexican border city since last weekend after a minor traffic accident turned into a violent dispute. Mexican officials were searching an area near the Rio Grande and the U.S. Border Patrol is assisting with helicopters and boats. A U.S. consular official in Piedras Negras, Mexico, said one person has been arrested for his part in Sunday's attack on 17-year-old Jason Contreras. "According to police, he said they picked (Contreras) up and then apparently beat him with baseball bats," consular representative Dina O'Brien said in an...

A San Antonio teenager remained missing Friday, five days after a minor traffic accident in Piedras Negras, Mexico, turned into a violent confrontation with armed men who reportedly beat him with baseball bats and dumped him miles away. "We're scared because we don't know if he is dead or alive," said Iris Anzures, 25, whose younger brother Jerry Contreras was last seen Sunday afternoon. Contreras and his girlfriend Valerie Cardenas, both 17, had traveled across the border with their infant son, Jason, to attend a baby shower for Anzures. The accident occurred a few blocks from the hall where the...

Three Dead, One Missing After Boat Capsizes Near Massachusetts-Rhode Island Bay By Richard C. Lewis/AP May 8, 2004 TIVERTON, R.I. (AP) - A small boat carrying six people home from a family outing capsized in Mount Hope Bay during the night, the Coast Guard reported. Three people died, and one was missing. Officials said a change in the weather might have contributed to the accident. One survivor was 14-year-old Christopher Duarte, who swam to shore and had a resident call authorities about 1 a.m. Saturday. Christopher's father, Allen Duarte, 35, was rescued and hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. Police...