Clinton warns on China crackdown during Asia visit
President Clinton opened a nine day trip to China amid a crackdown on dissidents and fresh arrests that embarrassed him at home. He said the repression was not China at its best and directed the ambassador to raise the issue with Chinese authorities while urging continued engagement and discussion of personal freedom.
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Beijing Red Flag Company
Tiananmen Square
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Beijing
Xi'an
China
James Sasser
Freedom
United States
Parole board grants reprieve in Lucas case
Henry Lee Lucas, a one eyed drifter linked to 600 murders, would not face lethal injection next week if Gov Bush accepts pardons board recommendations. The board vote 10 8 for a 270 day reprieve and 17 1 for commutation to a lesser penalty, while affirming guilt in the present case. Lucas has multiple convictions and previously confessed to several West Texas slayings before recanting.
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Austin
Henry Lee Lucas
George W. Bush
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Lucas
Rita Radostido
Victor Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Court strikes down line item veto power ruling
The Supreme Court on a 6-3 vote rejects the 1997 line item veto law, ruling Congress cannot grant the president authority to cancel specific tax or spending items. President Clinton calls the ruling a mistake and says it won’t end efforts to curb waste. Congress plans to try again, seeking a constitutional amendment.
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Supreme Court upholds attorney client privilege in Starr case
The Supreme Court ruled 6 3 that attorney client privilege survives death and Starr cannot obtain a White House counsel James Hamilton notes from a July 1993 talk with deputy White House counsel Foster. Foster, Clinton ally and key travel office firing witness, would have aided Congress scrutiny.
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Kenneth Starr
White House
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Starr
Hillary Rodham Clinton
James Hamilton
Foster
Congress
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Clinton
Tutor Profile: Lydia Fowlkes Forty-Year-Old Mentor
Lydia Fowlkes, 62, from Borger, has tutored for five years with Mary Louise as her only student. She retired from public school and teaches adults, finding each reading aloud moment rewarding as a steady but unique challenge.
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Borger
Mary Louise
Tam
Woman learns to read to safeguard family finances and communication
Mary Louise, a pseudonym, recounts growing up illiterate while her brothers worked fields. She finally joined the Hutchinson County Literacy Council in Borger, aiming to read, write, and communicate with loved ones in case of illness or emergencies.
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Mary Louise
Hutchinson County Literacy Council
Borger
Judge frees Whitewater figure Susan McDougal
Federal Judge George Howard Jr. released Susan McDougal from prison due to a painful back condition and ordered 90 days of home detention after time served. McDougal, convicted in the 1996 Whitewater case with Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Jim McDougal, faces separate embezzlement and contempt trials in California and Little Rock.
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Whitewater Investigtion
Jim Guy Tucker
Jim McDougal
Whitewater Grand Jury
California
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