SPRINGTIME FOR SADDAM?
Springtime for Saddam? Bill Clinton was taken to the cleaners by Saddam Hussein last week—to the surprise of practically no one. But there were surprising reactions to the Clinton administration's...
...It was all news to me," says Goldberg's son, Jonah, who learned about his half-brother for the frst time in U.S...
...News the White House Can Use Page 36 of the February 23 issue of U.S...
...The first winners of 1998: DiFi herself (again) along with Minnesota Republican senator Rod Grams...
...Isn't that appalling...
...Committee on Human Rights meeting in Geneva criticizing China for its human rights abuses...
...Not much," he said when asked by one inquisitor what he thought of the agreement...
...If—or perhaps when—Mike Tranghese begins looking for a new job, he might move to England and try the BBC, where sensitivity has been taken to lengths that even women's basketball hasn't yet considered...
...A Shot and a Scold The Nykesha Sales controversy took an ugly turn at the end of last week when one of the participants dared—ye gods!—to say something true...
...Parfait...
...As one veteran TV director put it, with typical Brit understatement: "I think doing this when you're blind will pose a problem...
...policy toward Saddam...
...In 1957, U.S...
...News...
...Ramsey Clark-like, Kemp tried to make himself an intermediary between an enemy of the United States and the U.S...
...The two of them teamed up last week to block an anodyne, non-binding sense of the Senate resolution calling on president Clinton to introduce, and take all necessary measures to pass, a resolution at the U.N...
...Already by Friday he was getting scolded in the New York Times...
...But there were surprising reactions to the Clinton administration's failure to use military force against Saddam, and its decision to reward him for agreeing to inspections he was already obligated to permit...
...For saying what everybody knows to be true, Tranghese will be pilloried...
...The good news is that several members of the Senate, Democrats and Republicans, were willing to come to grips with Saddam's drive to produce weapons of mass destruction...
...11, he met secretly in New York with Iraqi U.N...
...But the real opprobrium seems reserved for Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, who let slip he would never have approved the plan if a men's coach had requested it...
...By the end of the week, key senators from both parties were talking seriously, for the frst time, about a congressional role in reshaping U.S...
...Did we mention that Damon Rose is blind...
...Meanwhile, Feinstein reportedly wants language to be included in the resolution acknowledging the State Department's claims that there's been an improvement in China's human-rights climate...
...DiFi Returns_ The Scrapbook is pleased to dust off the Dianne Feinstein Moral-Equivalence Award, named for the California senator who last year compared China's Tiananmen Square massacre to the 1970 Kent State tragedy...
...Lights...
...An injury had sidelined her just as she was one point shy of breaking the school's career scoring record...
...News and World Report contains what must be the most vicious paragraph to appear in a news magazine this year...
...Isn't that sweet...
...He does say that he is "not at all uncomfortable" about the effect the story may have had on the Goldberg family...
...secretary general Kofi Annan schmoozed with Saddam in Baghdad, Democratic senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and Republican John McCain of Arizona made a coherent case on ABC's This Week for removing Saddam rather than making concessions to him...
...Let's You and Him Fight The Feb...
...Forty-one years later, U.S...
...he is probably in for much worse...
...And it has had an effect...
...In collusion with the Big East commissioner, game officials, and an opposing coach, U. Conn's coach arranged for Nykesha to hobble down the court against Villanova and score an uncontested two points, thus ensuring her place in the school's record books...
...News has learned differently: "records show that she put the child up for adoption...
...The resolution, proposed by senators Connie Mack, a conservative Republican, and paul Wellstone, a liberal Democrat, was so uncontroversial that it was set to pass the Senate unanimously, until Feinstein and Grams blocked it...
...One wonders what Kemp's tough-minded colleagues at Empower America, like Jeane Kirk-patrick and William Bennett, think of the propriety of a private citizen's negotiating with an agent of a hostile foreign power at such a sensitive moment...
...According to several friends," says the magazine, "she told people the baby was stillborn...
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...As most sports fans and even many non-sports fans now know, Nykesha was the star scorer on the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team...
...Having opposed the Annan trip to Baghdad in the frst place, Richardson made his lack of enthusiasm for the deal plain to anyone who talked to him privately...
...Men compete, get along, and move on with few emotions," the knuckle-dragging Tranghese said...
...When I have a situation involving females, I try to look at it with more sensitivity...
...Even inside the administration, voices of dissent peeped out, most notably that of U.N...
...On the other hand, there was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who had talked tough but turned out to be the squishiest member of Clinton's team—and who did a notably poor job of defending the deal before Congress...
...Earlier this month, a young man called Damon Rose was awarded a prized position with BBC-TV He won out over 350 other applicants for two years of training to become a television director...
...What could this possibly have to do with President Clinton or Monica Lewinsky...
...23 Le Figaro, summarizing a survey of French opinion on Iraq, perfectly crystallized a century of Gallic strategic thinking: "Oui a une intervention mili-taire, mais sans la France...
...World Affairs Council that "the entire Arab world and the entire Islamic world of 1.4 billion people may very well take [a] bombing campaign as a sure sign the United States will use its supreme power petulantly to crush anyone who refuses our dictates...
...Perhaps inspired by their example, Senate majority leader Trent Lott punched holes in the Annan-Clinton-Saddam deal once it was announced...
...Kerry, in particular, didn't balk even at the prospect of sending American ground troops to the Persian Gulf, if that's what it takes...
...Then, he proceeded to note the gaping loopholes in it...
...Ackerman's editor, former Clinton administration official Steve Waldman, describes the Goldberg profle as "an important story of national signifcance," though he will not reveal what about it is important or signifcant...
...ambassador Bill Richardson...
...Elise Ackerman, the reporter who wrote the piece, says she fnds the fact of Goldberg's adopted child "very pertinent," though she refuses to say what it is pertinent to...
...Democrat Bob Kerrey of Nebraska joined in, as did Republicans John Ashcroft of Missouri and Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado...
...And it was a crappy place to fnd out...
...But Albright —and Annan, for that matter—were not nearly as squishy as Jack Kemp...
...Opinion is divided...
...As U.N...
...On Feb...
...Or, as it would appear in the subtitles: "Yes to military intervention, but without French participation...
...These kind words for Saddam were merely the follow-on to Kemp's extraordinary venture in freelance diplomacy two weeks earlier...
...News reports, Lucianne Goldberg, otherwise known as Linda Tripp's literary agent, became pregnant out of wedlock...
...government, promoting his peace initiative to both sides...
...The day the deal was struck, the 1996 Republican veep candidate told the L.A...
...But women break down, get emotional...
...ambassador Nizar Hamdoon...
...These are dangerous times in which to be "sensitive...
...He may be able to tie it up there as well...
...Now, it will have to go through the Foreign Relations Committee, of which Grams is a member...
...As Kemp put it, the source of the conflict seemed to lie in "ill-considered" American "dictates...
Vol. 3 • March 1998 • No. 25
