Ashcroft challenged on gay rights remarks in Senate fight
The dispute over John Ashcroft's views on gay rights widens as James Hormel and Paul Offner question his statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hormel says Ashcroft opposed his confirmation because he is gay, while Offner says Ashcroft questioned his sexual orientation in 1985 a claim Bush aides dispute. Senate leaders debate confirmation timing amid possible filibuster risks.
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Inaugural trespasser Richard Weaver confronts Bush with coin
Richard Weaver, who claimed a message from God, passed three security checkpoints to reach President Bush on Capitol Hill after the inauguration. He said he received a mystical ability to pass undetected. Police note Weaver had previously trespassed at Clinton's 1997 inauguration.
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Carey Indicted in Teamsters Fundraising Case
Former Teamsters president Ron Carey was indicted on seven counts of perjury and lying about fundraising in his 1996 re election campaign. If convicted he faces up to five years per count. Carey, 64, of New York, described as a target of the probe, could face prison time.
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Plane crash kills 24 in southern Venezuela
A Rutaca DC-3 carrying American and European tourists crashed near a hotel after departing Ciudad Bolivar. All 24 aboard died, with two children on the ground injured. Passengers included six Americans, five Dutch, four Italians, two Hungarians, two Venezuelans and one Austrian.
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Lawmaker presses for documents in Clinton Rich pardon
House Government Reform Committee chair Rep. Dan Burton demands pardon records and questions motives behind President Clinton's eleventh hour clemency for fugitive financier Marc Rich. Denise Rich and lawyers backed the bid with letters and a lengthy application dating to 1987. Rich fled in 1983 after tax fraud charges.
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