ALBRIGHT STAYS FAST ON TRACK WITH DIRE TRADE WARNING
In a world in which we all look to buy wholesale, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright last week practiced the art of selling foreign policy retail. "We need to move...
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TOBACCO ISSUE CLOUDS HOWARD BAKER’S IMAGE OF INTEGRITY
The legend of Sen. Howard Baker is as enduring and unspoiled as any. But myths, as he is now painfully aware, can become complicated when money and the purchase of...
CHARLTON HESTON WORKS POLITICAL MIRACLES FOR CONSERVATIVES
I was wedged into a crowded suburban Virginia kitchen when a man noticed me from television. I thanked him, asked his name, then cringed. "I'm Jim Gilmore, and I'm running...
GAY ACTIVIST HAS NO TROUBLE WORKING FOR THIS WHITE HOUSE
The new face at the 7:45 a.m. meeting of President Clinton's chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, would be deemed a felon in 20 states. Is a conniving, too-slick-by-half White House...
MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH PROVES HOW LITTLE SENATORS KNOW
It was late and warm and you almost wished that Harold Ickes and Sen. Don Nickles would strip down to their briefs and start beating the hell out of each...
STUDS FINDS A `VERY HOMEY’ SPOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
If Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin could shake hands there, it wasn't that weird to let Studs Terkel onto the White House lawn to be honored. On a crisp, sunny...
WHEN CLINTON IS ON THE SPIT, IT’S THE LANNY BOYS WHO SPIN
Lanny Breuer and Lanny Davis are a dutiful Tweedledum and Tweedledee, political Siamese twins joined at the cellular phone. As the campaign finance mess confronts President Clinton and Vice President...
IN BOBBING THE BOB TALE, CIA PROVES TO BE SPOOKILY SILLY
Questioning a star witness in the Senate campaign finance hearings, Republican Susan Collins of Maine announced she wanted to ask questions about "the now-famous Bob at the CIA." Bob, she...
GOP PROBERS RAISE SPECTER THAT COULD HAUNT THEM AS WELL
In a city given to caricature, Roger Tamraz is a corner-cutting, influence-peddling, fugitive Lebanese-American oil magnate who symbolizes the slimy ways of President Clinton's re-election campaign. That the truth is...
BUDDHIST NUNS DO LITTLE TO ADVANCE FUNDRAISING PROBE
It might have been a first-of-its-kind greeting at a U.S. Senate hearing. "Welcome, venerables. It's good that you're here," declared Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), whose alternately bubbly grin and vampire...