Hearings Open On FBI Files Case And White House Security Clash
Washington AP The White House named a new security chief as congressional witnesses questioned why the Clinton era gathered FBI background files on nearly 500 former employees from Reagan and Bush administrations. Nancy Gemmell testified she did not leave an outdated list while her successor Anthony Marceca obtained the files. Livingstone was placed on leave as Charles Easley was named head of personnel security.
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White House
Clinton
FBI
Reagan
Bush
Nancy Gemmell
Gemmell
Army
Anthony Marceca
Marceca
Secret Service
Rep
William Clinger
R-Pa
House Government Reform and Oversight Committee
Republican
Security Office
Craig Livingstone
Charles Easley
Livingstone
U.N. backs U.S. on Cuban air attack dispute
The ICAO report concludes the Feb. 24 downing of two U.S. civilian planes occurred over international waters, aligning with U.S. claims and condemning Castro’s regime. Four Miami-based pilots died. Havana faces possible Security Council actions and calls for reparations.
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Washington
United Nations
Cuba
U.S
Clinton
Miami Herald
International Civil Aviation Organization
Ricardo Alarcon
Montreal
Fidel Castro
Brothers
United States
CAO
U.N. Security Council
Security Council
Peter Tarnoff
Miami
ICAO
Senate votes down ban on military abortions
The Senate narrowly repealed a law banning abortions at overseas military hospitals in a 51 to 45 vote, then approved Sen. Patty Murray’s repeal by voice vote. The move challenges the House position and will require negotiation on the $267 billion 1997 defense authorization. Murray argued service members defend constitutional rights.
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Senate
Congress
Patty Murray
Murray
House
D-Wash
White infant surfactant therapy widens racial gap
A Boston study shows surfactant replacement therapy for respiratory distress in very low birth weight premature babies cut white infant deaths by 41 percent after FDA approval in 1990, but did not reduce mortality for Black infants. Researchers warn medical progress may widen inequities.
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Food and Drug Administration
St. Louis
Paul H. Wise
Harvard Medical School
Vietnam commandos seek back pay after decades
Ha Van Son testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that during nearly 20 years in a North Vietnamese prison he did not know the U.S. had declared him killed in action, ending salary payments to his family. About 500 commandos were infiltrated in the 1960s. nearly 200 survived and seek $2,000 per year of imprisonment. Senators Kerr y and others push legislation to authorize payments, saying a debt is owed.
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Ha van Son
United States
Senate Intelligence Committee
Son
North Vietnam
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Congress
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Senate
Kerry
Intelligence Committee
Pentagon
Sedgwick Tourison Jr
Hanoi
Bob Kerrey
South Vietnam
John K. Singlaub
Arvn
Kerrey
Singlaub
Sen
Arlen Specter
R-Pa
United States of America
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