Clinton Testifies Before Grand Jury In Lewinsky Inquiry
President Clinton answered questions for over four hours as prosecutors pursue a potential impeachment probe. Attorney David Kendall said Clinton admitted inappropriate contact with Lewinsky but refused some explicit specifics to protect privacy. The session in the White House Map Room was televised to a federal grand jury, making Clinton the first US president to testify in a grand jury regarding his own conduct.
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Clinton
David Kendall
Associated Press
Lewinsky
Office of
Independent Counsel
Kendall
White House
Federal Court House
Starr
Paula Jones
Miss Lewinsky
Martha’s Vineyard
Safer schools seen as community effort not fortress approach
Stapleton argues for trust and practical safety over arming schools. Virginia schools remain among the safest, yet administrators confront last year’s wave of shootings to ease parental concern, stressing that school violence is a broader community problem, not just a school issue.
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Stapleton
Virginia
Richmond
Clinton Testifies as Starr Investigators Arrive at Map Room
Inside the basement Map Room Clinton and his three lawyers face Starr and prosecutors. Bowles urges unity while McCurry jokes with champagne at a White House birthday. Outside, crowds swirl, police cordon gates, a stroller is moved, and a man injures himself with a screwdriver before an ambulance arrives.
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Starr
Erskine Bowles
Mike McCurry
White House
Monica Lewinsky
McCurry
West Wing
Elizabeth Newman
Secret Service
Joe Zammataro
Susanna
Persian Gulf
Mercer airport upgrades eye Davis-Bacon wage impact and ASOS weather link
The Davis-Bacon Act raises local labor costs at the Mercer airport when FAA funds are used, potentially increasing wages to 26 27 dollars per hour with fringe benefits. A satellite dish and ASOS weather system on the terminal roof will feed forecasts to pilots via a computer terminal, with local funding and continued FAA support urged by Mercer County lawmakers.
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Gilley
Mercer County
ASOS
Mercer
Airline moves Bluefield Beckley flights to Manassas
Finnigan notes the airline bases its Bluefield and Beckley flights out of Manassas Virginia with maintenance in Virginia improving weather flexibility. The 1999 Transportation Appropriation bill supports passenger service at Mercer and Raleigh county airports. Annual subsidy was 618,017 dollars per airport as of March 1 1998. Essential Air Service funds airlines serving small communities, many rural.
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Manassas
Virginia
U.S. Senate
Mercer
Raleigh
Tom Gavin
U.S
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Gavin
Essential Air Service
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