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Wednesday, December 3, 1997
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The Independent Counsel and the White House
A US Justice Department official announced yesterday that Attorney GeneralJanet Reno will not seek an independent counsel to investigate campaignfund-raising calls made by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. Themove has sparked howls of protest from Republicans who charge that Reno iscovering up for her Democratic colleagues.
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FBI Crime Lab
Thousands of newly released FBI documents show a pattern of racial bias andincompetence at the FBIUs once highly vaunted crime lab — this accordingto the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The FBI memos —-part of 60,000 pages generated by an 18-month investigation by the JusticeDepartment inspector generalUs office into the crime lab -— also showrepeated favoritism towards prosecutors.
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Landmines and Global Climate
This week is big week for international meetings. In Ottawa today, morethan 100 nations will sign a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines.Delegates will also be drafting plans for removing the millions of minesnow threatening civilians around the world. But several major producers andusers of land mines — including the United States, China and Russia — aresending only observers and will not sign. At the global warming summitt nowunderway in Kyoto, Japan, the United States is also taking a solitary stand.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
