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Thursday, April 3, 1997
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Webster Hubbell Scandal
Alongside the campaign finance and Whitewater scandals, lies
yet another political time bomb that could also spell serious
trouble for the White House — the case of the former assistant
attorney general and Clinton confidante Webster Hubbell.An Arkansas friend of the Clintons and a law partner of Hillary
Rodham Clinton at the Rose law firm, Webster Hubbell
resigned from his Justice Department post in 1994 after being
charged with the fraudulent billing of clients. He pleaded
guilty to the charge and was sent to jail in 1995.But just before he was indicted, Webster Hubbell was hired by
the Lippo Group — an Indonesian conglomerate with close ties
to Indonesian dictator Suharto. And yesterday, two senior
White House officials conceded they had tried to find work for
Hubbell after he resigned.The implication is that the White House sought lucrative work
for Hubbell in order to keep him from talking to Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr.GUEST:
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Clinton Wants Support for Standardized Tests
In his State of the Union message in January, President Clinton
made clear that educational reforms would be a cornerstone of
his 2nd term in office. At the heart of President Clinton’s push
to raise standards is a National Testing Initiative — which,
simply put, is a plan to give tests to all 4th and 8th graders.Yesterday at the White House, President Clinton held a
roundtable with educators and corporate executives, where he
announced that California had become the fourth state to
support the tests. Clinton also collected the endorsement of
some 240 high-tech business executives for his plan to
administer reading tests to all fourth graders and math tests
for all eighth graders.GUESTS:
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Project Censored
They’re not stories you’ll read in the New York Times or see on
ABC News. But you may hear them on Democracy Now or read
them in Covert Action Quarterly. They are the most censored
news stories of 1996.Project Censored, a media watchdog group based at Sonoma
State University in California, released this past week the top
ten censored news stories of 1996.GUEST:
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