Clinton and Republicans clash on tax cuts and priorities
Clinton and GOP leaders clash over a fiscal 2001 framework as the White House urges tax cuts targeted to aid education and Social Security while congressional Republicans push broader cuts and debt reduction by 2013. The sides differ on defense and domestic spending, with talks aimed to finish by mid April.
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Clinton attacks Bush Giuliani on education in New York
Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed about 1000 teacher aides at the New York Hilton in midtown Manhattan and tied her campaign to Al Gore while criticizing the Bush Giuliani education agenda. She questioned selling the Board of Education building and urged investment in children’s education.
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School board and principal sued over abuse case awarded damages
A jury ruled the school board and principal were deliberately indifferent to signs that teacher Craig Lawson was a child molester. The board must pay 700000 to Jackson Baynard and the former Barrett Elementary principal Catherine Malone 350000. Baynard was abused starting in 1990 while a sixth grader. Malone could be liable if warned.
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Diplomatic immunity saves torture suspect from arrest
A Peruvian intelligence official Tomas Ricardo Anderson Kohatsu faced arrest in Houston on torture allegations but was released due to diplomatic immunity. Human rights groups denounced the decision, citing evidence of torture, while CEJIL and others criticized State Department for intervening. Anderson had traveled to testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington.
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