Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from February 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from February 1998

Lewinsky's lawyer says he thinks crisis for president will pass.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 1, 1998... WASHINGTON _ With polls showing President Clinton enjoying soaring popularity, the attorney for his would-be accuser in a sex scandal said Sunday he expects the brouhaha will fade away and that Clinton, his client and the country will move on...

3 Bay Area school boards take stand against English-only initiative.(Originated from Knight Ridder News Service)
February 1, 1998... SAN JOSE _ The school boards of the Bay Area's three largest school districts have taken stands against the ``English for the Children'' initiative, signalling momentum to the growing opposition to the proposition among educators statewide....

List of English-only opponents.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 1, 1998... Here is a list of the school boards of some major school districts that have voted to oppose the ``English for the Children'' initiative. Others are expected to consider the issue in the coming months. _San Jose Unified _San...

10,000 march in memory of 'Bloody Sunday'.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 1, 1998... LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland _ About 10,000 marchers paraded in bone-chilling rain here Sunday to honor 13 Catholics shot to death by British troops on ``Bloody Sunday'' 26 years ago. For dozens in the crowd, the commemoration was...

Ginsburg helps Clinton, hurts Starr.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 1, 1998... In a series of performances that could only cheer the White House, William H. Ginsburg, the bearded Southern California attorney representing Monica Lewinsky, appeared Sunday on all five television news-talk shows from Washington, and seemed...

Clinton sex scandal is one for the books.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Only in America could a president be brought to the brink of ruin by a literary agent. Her name is Luciane Goldberg, and she's the one who advised Linda Tripp to surreptitiously record her telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky,...

Details on the major components of Clinton's 1999 budget proposal.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Here are details of the major components of President Clinton's proposed federal budget for fiscal 1999, which begins Oct. 1: SOCIAL SECURITY PROPOSALS: Clinton would ``reserve'' projected budget surpluses in coming...

Swordfish aren't only variety who could use a 'break,' says scientist.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... There are a lot of fish in the sea, and speaking strictly, as an ecologist, Tom Hoff isn't sure he'd put the swordfish, as over-exploited as it is, in the No. 1 slot for a special break. Not that he underestimates the challenge of...

It may be impossible to repair the damage to the presidency.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... You can believe, as I do, that the process by which President Bill Clinton has been put on the rack is unfair and even unworthy of American democracy and still fear that it will force his resignation or the slow death that some of his enemies...

Presidential crisis and the decline of American public discourse.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 2, 1998... KRT FORUM By Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Ron Manuto We have missed the real spectacle of the past week. It is no surprise. We are drunk on lurid images of power, unrestrained appetite, and shameless self-promotion. Like...

Clinton has made his private life the people's business.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... I'm tired of hearing people make excuses for Bill Clinton's personal excesses and lack of character. These excuses are particularly odd coming from women. If Republican Newt Gingrich were accused of a prolonged sexual affair with...

Perjury isn't pillow talk.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... ``President Clinton's sex life ought to be off-limits to snoopy prosecutors, litigators and reporters.'' That's what his defenders have been fuming, and if recent allegations portrayed only a standard-issue adulterer, I might...

Austin bridge is home to world's largest urban bat colony.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... AUSTIN, Texas _ They were poisoned. Gassed. Buried in wet concrete. And, finally, in a Texas-size turnaround, adopted as the city's unofficial mascot. Which is why, on some Austin Internet sites, a Mexican free-tailed bat stretches its...

A noodle glossary.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... _Cellophane noodles: Also known as bean threads and slippery noodles. Made from the starch of mung beans. Are translucent in their dried form, but once softened in hot water and cooked, they become gelatinous and transparent. Prized for their...

Adultery needn't be end of marriage, therapists say.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... If there's anything to be gleaned from allegations of infidelity rocking the White House, it's this, therapists say: No marriage is immune. At a time when President Clinton finds himself dogged by accusations that he had an...

Adultery myths.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Among the most common misconceptions about extramarital affairs: _It's all about sex. Those who participate in affairs do so for a variety of reasons, the majority of which are emotional ones, believes Randall Koper, a social...

The road to equality: Civil rights struggle's flash points now honored as high points.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Where would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. be today, if he hadn't stepped onto his balcony at the Lorraine Motel in the early evening of April 4, 1968? Chairing a presidential campaign against racism? Delivering his 10,000th sermon at some...

Civil-rights sites in Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... BIRMINGHAM, ALA. _16th Street Baptist Church, 1530 6th Ave., N., gives tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays. A per-person donation of $2 is requested. Details: (205) 251-9402, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays. _Birmingham Civil...

Waves of destruction: Asteroid impact would swamp coasts.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ As if months of darkness, global crop failures and large-scale wildfires set by a rain of molten debris were not enough reasons to worry about a large asteroid hitting Earth, scientists have simulated one more scary consequence:...

Woman's upcoming execution escalates death penalty debate.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... I visited Texas' Death Row several years ago, when more than 300 men were awaiting execution. Some professed to be born-again Christians. Others waited for death by making matchstick villages, reading magazines, watching television and...

At Kennedy Space Center, visitors watch as space station is built.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ The Kennedy Space Center's newest attraction is so clever it's a wonder someone didn't come up with the idea years ago. It's a journey along the assembly line where real engineers and technicians are building the...

Louis Gossett Jr. talks about the ups and downs of his long career.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 2, 1998... What happens when you reach the top of your game? There's no place to go but down, says Louis Gossett Jr., who has experienced the best and the worst in his 42 years of show business. ``One of the things you dream about is getting to...

Black history an integral part of American history.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Elijah Lovejoy was a preacher and protester who lived in Alton, Ill., in the days before the Civil War. Though a free man himself, he was obsessed with the fate of his brothers and sisters in bondage. And in 1837, as publisher of the Alton...

Bishops urge U.S. to ease Cuban sanctions.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Citing ``important changes'' in Cuba's recent treatment of the Roman Catholic Church, the U.S. Catholic Conference on Monday called on Washington to enact a law allowing the sale of U.S. food and medicine to the island. ...

Barring late intervention, Texas will execute woman this evening.(Originated from And Bob Mahlburg)
February 2, 1998... Knight Ridder Newspapers AUSTIN, Texas _ Without last-minute court intervention, or a temporary reprieve from Gov. George W. Bush, pickax killer Karla Faye Tucker will become the first woman executed in Texas in 135 years on Tuesday....

Bias against death penalty for women slowly disappearing.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... Something is to happen in Texas Tuesday night that hasn't happened in 167 years. At 6:01 p.m. Central Time, the state plans to execute a woman. The death of pick-ax killer Karla Faye Tucker has put national focus on a little-noted...

Clinton's popularity is higher than ever.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 2, 1998... While President Clinton was busy Monday selling his new budget, the public opinion polls were serving up numbers that would appear _ at first glance _ to make no sense. Consider the latest sampling by CNN, USA Today, and Gallup: Is he...

Divorce is worse than adultery.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
February 3, 1998... Should a husband or wife lie about an affair? You bet. Indeed, the straying spouse has an obligation to do so, especially if children would be involved in a resulting family dissolution. It is a morally mixed up society that stands in...

White House scandal places Gore in critical role of advocate.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The Monica Lewinsky case has placed Vice President Gore in a critical new role _ Clinton's advocate to a Democratic Party and a country troubled by yet another White House controversy. His continued success in juggling...

Pendulum may have swung back with public tired of hearing about presidents' sex lives.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy had a White House fling with Mafia moll Judith Exner, an affair so reckless he was vulnerable to mob blackmail. Yet, not a public word was breathed about JFK's sexual scandal....

Veggie libel laws infringe on freedom of speech.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... You deserve a break today, so I've declared this column a sex-free zone. I'm going to write about our right to beef about beef. In Amarillo, talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is defending herself and her production company in a $12 million...

Some study black history by tracing their families' roots.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... DETROIT _ Certain memories have a way of staying with you. For Ora Carter it was a cigar box of old photographs from her childhood. ``I used to love to go through that box of pictures with my mother,'' says Carter, of Detroit....

Here are tips for tracing your family tree.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... De Witt Dykes Jr., an associate professor of history at Oakland University, teaches a course on family history and helps people trace their ancestry. His suggestions for doing genealogical research include: Begin with yourself....

Some experts express concern over at-home IQ testing.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... The knot-in-the-stomach generated by SATs and pop quizzes apparently long forgotten, a growing number of people are voluntarily sharpening their No. 2 pencils to take at-home IQ tests. Whether driven by curiosity about how they measure...

Despite politicians' stands, educators wary of ending social promotion.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... End social promotion! That's what President Clinton exhorted during the State of the Union address, thumping the podium as he decried the practice of allowing children to move up through school, regardless of academic performance. ...

Taking sides and taking chances in Bosnia.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
February 3, 1998... By Gary Dempsey Bridge News WASHINGTON _ Recently, President Clinton was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in Bosnia. But his longest-remembered legacy there may be his decision to take sides in the power...

Web sites honor the accomplishments of black Americans.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... If ever a case needs to be made for the Internet's relevance as a learning tool, Black History Month would be the perfect test subject. Dozens of Web sites rich with historical texts, photographs and chronologies can be found on the...

Self-sacrifice explains our action in Bosnia and our inaction in Iraq.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 3, 1998... KRT FORUM By Robert W. Tracinski At first glance, America's foreign policy presents a paradox. In Bosnia, where there is no threat to the United States, we have deployed thousands of troops, for an indefinite period, as...

Bridge the gap in black health.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 3, 1998... The following editorial appeared in The Miami Herald on Monday, Feb. 2. For black Americans, life in the 1990s is, to quote Charles Dickens, the best of times and the worst of times. The good news is that blacks have made major...

Ex-owner of feminist restaurant now dean of business school for women only.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
February 3, 1998... BOSTON _ Dressed in an executive-style black skirt, blouse, jacket and matching pumps, Patricia O'Brien at 45 looks very much like what she is _ dean of the Simmons College Graduate School of Management. Twenty-three years ago,...

Ginsburg's strategy criticized, but some warn against underestimating Lewinsky's lawyer.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... WASHINGTON _ William K. Ginsburg, a bearded, bespectacled medical-malpractice lawyer, has turned into an overnight media sensation representing Monica Lewinsky in the case of the alleged presidential affair and cover-up. Even...

Killer Karla Faye Tucker 1st woman executed in Texas since 1800s.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... HUNTSVILLE, Texas _ Karla Faye Tucker, the pickax murderer turned born-again Christian and a symbol for anti-death penalty activists worldwide, Tuesday became the first woman in Texas to be executed in more than a century. The...

Officer recalls sting that led to Karla Faye Tucker's arrest.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... It was a passing comment _ spoken more as a courtesy than out of hope of solving a double murder _ that led to the arrest of Karla Faye Tucker. Now, 15 years later, the man credited with bringing Tucker to justice said he supported the...

Scientists determine AIDS began in humans about 50 years ago in central Africa.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... Using sophisticated genetic testing techniques, scientists have determined that the AIDS virus that has spread to more than 40 million people worldwide since 1981 got its toehold in humans in the 1940s or early 1950s in central Africa. ...

Clinton calls for an end to nuclear arms race.(Originated from WRITETHRU)
February 3, 1998... (EDITORS: RECASTS lede and ADDS Clinton quote from evening speech in Albuquerque and quote from member of the audience there.) By Jodi Enda Knight Ridder Newspapers LOS ALAMOS, N.M. _ President Clinton called for an end to...

Women's risk of heart disease could be cut by increased vitamin B6, folic acid intake, study says.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... Women could substantially cut their risk of heart disease by consuming about twice as much folic acid and Vitamin B6 as is currently recommended, a new study suggests. Harvard University researchers tracked 80,000 healthy nurses for 14...

Last words, last meal, last day of Karla Faye Tucker.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... _Karla Faye Tucker's final words: ``I'm going to be face-to-face with Jesus now.... I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.'' _Last meal: Requested peaches, a banana and salad but...

Robertson criticizes execution of Tucker, says she had changed.(Originated from The Virginian-Pilot)
February 3, 1998... VIRGINIA BEACH _ Hours before the execution Tuesday night of Karla Faye Tucker, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said she deserved ``an exception for mercy'' and criticized the clemency process in Texas. But, while saying Tucker's...

Condemned killer's last hours.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 3, 1998... HUNTSVILLE, Texas _ Karla Faye Tucker began her last day of life much like anyone who is awakened at 2:45 a.m. She rolled over in her bunk and went back to sleep. Texas prisoners typically are awakened at 3:30 a.m., but an extra-early...

'Titanium ticker' makes life almost whole; In medical first, patient leaves hospital with heart-assist pump.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... ST. PAUL __ Sharon Barrett made medical history last August when she walked out of Fairview-University Medical Center in Minneapolis with a ``titanium ticker'' pumping in her abdomen. After being hospitalized for seven months and 21...

Gandhi's and King's heirs seek relevance for non-violence today.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... The images are branded into the American consciousness: Blacks blasted by Jim Crow's fire hoses. Marchers on the Selma bridge. Ax handles being passed out. Brave children defying hatred to attend a desegregated school. The Rev. Martin...

Esteemed mineral collectors in ultimate search of geologic wonderland.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... OGDENSBURG, N.J. _ They have been at this since childhood and they sneered at the snow that would dare stop the hunt. Snow melts, Alex Kane and Ralph Thomas decided at dawn, but fascination doesn't. ``Maybe Elvis will even show up. You...

Nixon is the standard to judge Clinton.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... Time may well prove Bill Clinton's deeds reach the level of those acts that led to the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974. What's been lost in the loose comparisons between the two men, however, is an...

Earth-friendly precision farming makes its debut.(Originated from KRT FORUM (ARCHIVE PHOTO)
February 4, 1998... By Dennis T. Avery Bridge News CHURCHVILLE, Va. _ Precision farming, the latest trend in modern agriculture, uses all of the high-tech goodies of the modern world: space satellites, microprocessors, computer mapping and little...

Cry 'Scandal!' enough and public will ignore it.(Originated from By Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... They called Ronald Reagan the Teflon President because nothing stuck to him, no allegation of wrongdoing could hurt him. Well, next to Bill Clinton, Reagan is Velcro. Who'd a thunk it? Two weeks ago, rumor had it that Clinton was about...

Scientists discover sea worm capable of withstanding 176-degree water.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... Topping even politicians for resiliency in hot water, a tiny sea worm has been found to live with its hind end immersed in water approaching the boiling point. Before now, only single-celled bacteria had been thought capable of...

Sick child an inspiration.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The first things you notice about 7-year-old Michael McDaris are his chubby cheeks and faint mustache, both the result of medicine meant to save his life. But what you observe after spending time with Michael is more...

Once forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston now ranks among nation's finest writers.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 4, 1998... The history of literature tells of great authors who were misunderstood or neglected in their day and who often died forgotten and broke. Unfortunately, this was the fate that befell Zora Neale Hurston by the time she died in 1960 in a...

Legacy of slavery can't be talked away.(Originated from The Gazette)
February 4, 1998... One of the most defensive calls I ever received was from a guy who insisted that I take on ``The Black Avenger.'' That's what Denver-based newspaper columnist and talk show host Ken Hamblin calls himself. And as much as anything, that's...

Try a little deterrence.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
February 5, 1998... WASHINGTON _ There's something distinctly unsettling about the secretary of state, bouncing around the capitals of the Middle East, seeking to convince our allies in the region (and not too successfully) that military action against Iraq is...

Death penalty is not justice; it's simply barbaric revenge.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 5, 1998... Karla Faye Tucker is dead, murdered by the people of Texas, and these questions are left behind: Are we any safer than when she was alive and behind the thick walls of Huntsville State Prison? Will this deter some other drug-crazed and...

A uniform federal drunk-driving limit could save 500 to 600 lives each year.(Originated from KRT)
February 5, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Momentum is gaining for enactment of a federal law to lower the drunken driving threshold from .10 percent Blood Alcohol Content level to .08. This effort has support from Republicans and Democrats, as well as President Clinton,...

BAC laws won't work: The best way to combat drunken driving is to throw the book at chronic offenders.(Originated from KRT)
February 5, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Because drunken driving accidents can be unspeakably tragic, the current debate over where to set the drunken driving arrest threshold is fraught with emotion. Unfortunately, emotional reaction is edging out rational thought as...

School choice, charter schools march on.(Originated from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
February 5, 1998... KRT FORUM By Nina H. Shokraii While praising many grassroots educational reforms during his State of the Union address, President Clinton could not bring himself even to acknowledge, much less laud, private school choice. The...

Lone scream from Cuba echoes throughout the world.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 5, 1998... She has come to be known as ``la mujer que grit.'' The woman who screamed. In the tumult of Pope John Paul II's mass in Havana, she stood in the Plaza of the Revolution and let out a vein-popping plea. ``Cowards! Scream `Down...

Christian voices speak too softly on death penalty.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 5, 1998... Karla Faye Tucker died for her sins, and in a peculiar way, she also died for ours. Although she had been saved in the religious sense, she would not be saved from execution by the state of Texas because the people who could have...

Death penalty debate suddenly takes on new dynamics.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... Lloyd Wayne Hampton. Jose Jesus Ceja. Robert Smith. Ricky Lee Sanderson. America's debate over the death penalty roared anew last week with the fifth execution of 1998: Karla Faye Tucker. This time, the debate suddenly took on new...

Remains of those who died in 1918 influenza outbreak might unlock mystery.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ For 73-year-old Johan Hultin, it was the mission of a lifetime: an expedition to Alaska's tundra to unearth the bodies of Eskimos who died in the 1918 global influenza outbreak and to unlock the mystery of the virus that killed...

Where countries stand on military intervention in Iraq.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Here's where various countries stand on the issue of escalating tensions with Iraq: GREAT BRITAIN: The one country that has stood firmly with the United States to support strong action against Iraq if it continues to...

Questions and answers on possible military strikes against Iraq.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Questions and answers on possible military strikes against Iraq: Q: What kind of military action is the United States planning? A: While the details of a military plan are secret, U.S. officials have suggested a...

Can killing ever teach the value of life?(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... Killing is an odd way to show reverence for life. Death penalty supporters who cheered when convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker's life was taken by the State of Texas defend their lust for death by citing society's need to show its utter...

Lucianne Goldberg's life is a confection of sex, political intrigue -- and fiction.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ If America's political life has come to sound like a superheated soap opera, you can thank the spectacle's producer, brassy New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, whose own life is a confection of sex, political intrigue _...

U.S. air attack against Iraq would try to destroy air defenses, weapons sites.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The United States has arrayed more planes and pilots on desert runways and steel carrier decks than Iraq has faced at any time since the 1991 Gulf War. They appear to be on the verge of an ambitious air campaign, filled...

Most Americans think Clinton should attack Iraq, polls say, but anti-war groups hope to change attitudes.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Bombs away. Recent polls suggest that is the order most Americans think President Clinton should give if Saddam Hussein continues to refuse U.N. weapons inspections. But a coalition of anti-war groups hopes to change the...

Destroying Iraq's biological weapons would be dicey, experts say.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Destroying Iraq's arsenal of biological weapons by missiles or bombs is going to be a dicey military operation. But experts say Saddam's investment in bacterial warfare probably poses a greater threat to his fellow Iraqis that to...

President's secretary is 20 feet from the seat of power.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ In the compressed corridors of power in the White House, the word ``gatekeeper'' could describe any number of aides who control access to President Clinton. Only one sits literally at the gate to the Oval Office, the last...

Clinton lawyers criticize news leaks about Lewinsky case, demand probe of Starr.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... WASHINGTON _ The White House and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr exchanged heated accusations Friday, charging each other of using smear tactics in the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio. Lawyers for President Clinton initiated the highly...

Many Republicans upset that party leaders aren't speaking out against Clinton.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 6, 1998... Buried within all the television chatter about the Monica Lewinsky scandal is a telling exchange between commentator George Will and U.S. Rep. John Kasich, R., Ohio: When invited the other day to launch a direct hit at President...

Lewinsky's mother continues testimony.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... WASHINGTON _ Looking drained and close to tears, Monica Lewinsky's mother Wednesday emerged from a second day of testimony before the grand jury investigating whether her daughter was urged to lie about an alleged affair with President...

Many congressional leaders urge support for Iraqi democratic movement.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... AMMAN, Jordan _ On a barren hill, located conspicuously next to a Jordanian secret police outpost, are the offices of the Iraqi National Accord, the Central Intelligence Agency's one-time best hope to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein. ...

A threat's a threat, jury finds in e-mail case.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... DETROIT _ A California federal court jury has just sent a mass message to the 67 million people in the country who use e-mail: Think before you click. If that e-mail you're about to send could be taken as a threat, you could go...

Japanese have no tolerance for drug abuse.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... NAGANO, Japan _ In this nation where millions of businessmen come home drunk from work each night, and cancer of the liver is a leading cause of death, there is no tolerance for what Americans consider recreational drugs like marijuana. ...

Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati's gold medal should not go up in smoke.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... NAGANO, Japan _ Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati's gold medal should not go up in smoke. It's preposterous for the International Olympic Committee to strip Rebagliati of his giant slalom medal because traces of marijuana showed up...

Everglades National Park expansion back on track.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
February 11, 1998... MIAMI _ Alarmed by the plight of an endangered songbird, the federal government is moving forward at last to complete a long-stalled expansion of Everglades National Park that Congress authorized in 1989. Interior Secretary Bruce...