-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Monica's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife Draft Indictment of Hillary Around Sept. 1996 Gee, I guess I was right about this after all LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Kenneth Starr's top deputy testified today that at one point in the Whitewater investigation he drafted a proposed indictment of Hillary Rodham Clinton and showed it to others in the independent counsel's office. Called as the lead-off defense witness in Susan McDougal's trial, W. Hickman Ewing Jr. also testified that he ``had problems'' with some of President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton's statements to investigators in April 1995. Ewing said he drafted the indictment against the first lady sometime after September 1996 and was not more specific. He said it was not unusual for a federal prosecutor to draft an indictment whether or not charge is ever brought. As a prosecutor, he said, ``You're always thinking about ... what possible crime could it be.'' Ewing said he showed the draft to ``a couple of people in the office.'' Asked by Mrs. McDougal's attorney, Mark Geragos, whether he had ever referred to the Clintons as ``liars,'' Ewing said, ``I don't know if I used the L-word or not. But I certainly expressed internally that I had problems with some of their answers.'' Ewing questioned some of Mrs. Clinton's testimony in the Starr investigation: ``I don't know if she was telling the truth or not.'' In the April 1995 interviews, Mrs. Clinton was questioned under oath about the work her law firm had done for James and Susan McDougal's savings and loan, Madison Guaranty. ``She was in conflict with interviews we had already done with several people in the Rose Law Firm,'' Ewing said. Ewing also referred to a statement by Clinton that he didn't remember whether he had asked James McDougal to engage Mrs. Clinton to do legal work for Madison Guaranty. During his presidential campaign, Clinton had said no, he never made that request to McDougal. Ewing's testimony was the type of unwelcome attention the first lady would like to avoid as she tests the waters for a possible Senate bid in New York in 2000. Mrs. Clinton became a focal point for Starr's investigation in January 1996 because of the still-unexplained reappearance of her law firm billing records on a table inside the White House. The records had vanished after the 1992 presidential campaign. They outlined her work for the McDougals' failing savings and loan in 1985 and '86. Attacking the tactics of Starr's office is key to the defense strategy. Geragos contends Mrs. McDougal refused to answer grand jury questions because she felt prosecutors were pressuring her to give false testimony against the Clinton. Geragos also says prosecutors withheld information from the grand jurors who indicted Mrs. McDougal that would have decreased the credibility of other witnesses, including Mrs. McDougal's former husband, James. She is charged with criminal contempt and obstruction of justice. The prosecution rested its case after seven days, ending this morning with testimony from an Arkansas banker, Ron Proctor, who dealt with the original loan for the Whitewater land development. On Wednesday, Ewing watched from the rear of the courtroom as the prosecution closed its case by summoning three former members of the Whitewater grand jury before whom Mrs. McDougal had refused to testify. At the end of the day, Bill Henley, Mrs. McDougal's brother, reached through a crowd of reporters and handed Ewing a subpoena, saying, ``Hick, I've got something for you.'' ``It felt really good,'' Bill Henley said a few moments later. ``It's about time we got to ask them a few questions.'' Geragos would not rule out summoning Starr as well. ``First let me deal with Hick Ewing,'' he said. ``One at a time.'' Making a prosecutor a defense witness was the second unusual turn of the day. The first was putting on the witness stand three members of the grand jury that indicted Mrs. McDougal after she refused to answer their questions. Ewing said that in 25 years as a federal prosecutor he had never seen grand jurors testify at a criminal trial. Grand jury foreman John Washam testified that the death of Mrs. McDougal's former husband, James McDougal, in 1998 made her testimony even more crucial than it had been before. With his death, ``one link of the chain was gone'' of people who knew what went on in Whitewater, said Washam. McDougal had been Starr's chief cooperating witness in his investigation of the Whitewater land deal in which the Clintons and McDougals were partners. Associated Press, March 18, 1999 Another Eco-Scare Water, Water Everywhere, And Not a Drop to Drink Just don't tell Al "I created the Internet and wrote a really stupid environment book" Gore Nearly a third of the world's population will face severe water shortages in 25 years' time, increasing the danger of war over water supplies, the United Nations said yesterday. "Conflicts over water, both international and civil wars, threaten to become a key part of the 21st-century landscape," said Hans van Ginkel, UN under secretary-general. Nearly all of the 3bn increase in global population expected by 2025 will be in developing countries, where water is often scarce or comes in monsoons, hurricanes and floods, draining off the land quickly. Most available fresh water is found in developed countries, which have just a fifth of the world's population. Research published this week by the International Water Management Institute, a research centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka, predicts "absolute water scarcity" in 17 countries in the Middle East, South Africa and the drier regions of western and south India and northern China. Another 24 countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, will suffer from extreme water scarcity. These are unlikely to be alleviated by water development projects because of a lack of funds. Shortages are set to inflict particular damage on agriculture, which takes 70 per cent to 80 per cent of the world's available fresh supplies. The World Commission on Water for the 21st Century, a newly formed think-tank supported by the United Nations and the World Bank, said that irrigated agriculture would have to provide 70 per cent of the increased food needed for the world's population in 2025. But even if there was a steep increase in the efficiency of irrigation, the need for fresh water would expand by 17 per cent more than is currently available. If there are no changes, the demand would be for 56 per cent more water than is available today. The UN says water shortages are aggravated by pollution, inefficient use and the unsustainable use of underground water in aquifers. Water supplies are also damaged by inefficient and fragmented management, a reluctance to treat water as an economic as well as a public good and inadequate recognition of health and environment concerns. The UN predicts a sharp increase in the number of deaths from water-related diseases from the current 5.3m deaths and 3.35bn cases of illness each year. About half the population of developing countries is suffering from diseases caused by contaminated water. The World Health Organisation this week said water safety was a growing problem in Europe because of intensive agriculture, industrialisation and over-exploitation of resources. One in seven Europeans, particularly those in eastern Europe, do not have access to safe water. "Medieval" diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever and hepatitis A are making a comeback, it said. The Financial Times, March 19, 1999 US Borrows More Abroad U.S. Trade Deficit Sets Record House Vote Steel-Import Cuts WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit soared to a record $17 billion in January, the government reported Thursday, as economic weakness around the world pushed American exports down for the fourth straight month while imports surged to record highs. The Commerce Department reported that the trade deficit shot up 21 percent from December's $14.1 billion level and surpassed the old monthly record of $16.7 billion set in August The trade deficit with China rose 23 percent to $4.9 billion, as U.S. imports there fell to their lowest level in two years. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji will travel to Washington on April 8 even as American lawmakers grow more concerned about the widening trade imbalance and reports of intelligence leaks to China, including reports of Chinese theft of nuclear technology from the Los Alamos laboratory. The trade figures were released one day after the House of Representatives dealt a harsh setback to the Clinton administration's free-trade policy by approving a bill that would strictly limit the amount of steel imported into the United States. The bill, responding to a surge of cheap imports that has hit the U.S. steel industry over the last year, is one of the most protectionist pieces of legislation to pass either house of Congress in recent years. By setting import ceilings, it would almost certainly violate the rules of the World Trade Organization, and for that reason most major American steel companies did not actively support the bill. The 289-to-141 vote, one short of the two-thirds margin needed to override a presidential veto, displayed the division in President Bill Clinton's Democratic Party over his free-trade policies as well as the increasing draw of protectionism among Republican lawmakers. The trade commissioner of the European Union, Sir Leon Brittan, said Thursday that the bill ''is, of course, highly protectionist in character,'' and if it ever became law would be ''a matter of real concern.'' A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate. But opponents predicted that it was likely to die in the more free-trade-oriented upper chamber or at least fall well short of getting the 67 votes needed to override a likely presidential veto. Commenting on Thursday's trade report, Commerce Secretary William Daley noted that the decline in U.S. exports was accelerating as the global troubles that began in Asia have now spread to Russia and Latin America. ''We must all focus on improving economic conditions abroad while ensuring that foreign markets are open to American firms,'' Mr. Daley said at a briefing. The trade deficit grew to $16.99 billion after narrowing in December to a revised $14.055 billion. Before the report, analysts expected a January deficit of $14.9 billion, up from December's initial reading of $13.9 billion January imports of goods and services rose 2 percent to $93.764 billion, led by consumer goods and computer accessories. Exports fell 1.4 percent to $76.773 billion, reflecting weaker demand for cotton, fertilizers and industrial goods. The deficit with Japan narrowed, while the deficit with Canada, the largest U.S. trading partner, was the largest since November 1986. If weakness in U.S. exports persists, it could point to ''another lackluster year for manufacturers at best,'' said Kevin Flanagan, an economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York, before the report. While the ailing economies of Asia reduced orders to the nation's factories, U.S. consumer spending advanced at the fastest clip in 14 years in 1998, and much of that demand was met by imported products. For goods trade alone, the January deficit of $22.3 billion was the largest on record. For goods and services trade combined, the shortfall was the largest since the government began compiling that figure on a monthly basis in January 1992. Other reports Thursday showing low inflation and continued strong labor markets helped push stock and bond prices higher on Wall Street. In addition to the loss of markets for U.S. exporters, the plunge in currency values and recessions overseas triggered a flood of products into the United States, which has continued to post strong economic growth despite the global troubles. That growth has sent U.S. unemployment to its lowest level in three decades despite the fact that manufacturing has eliminated 337,000 jobs over the past year. In a separate report, the Labor Department said the exceptionally good labor conditions were continuing, with the number of Americans filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits holding under 300,000 for the seventh consecutive week - the longest such streak since 1974. Claims last week were 298,000, up 6,000 from the previous week. And the U.S. economy has seen benefits from the overseas troubles, especially on the inflation front, where the flood of cheaper imports and weakened global demand for commodities such as oil has dampened prices. Confirming that trend, the Labor Department said Thursday that consumer prices edged up just 0.1 percent in February, leaving prices so far this year rising at a rate of just 1.1 percent, even better than 1.6 percent last year. International Herald Tribune, March 19, 1999 Little Known Music Louis Farrakhan Sings Calypso (Links use RealPlayer) In a biography entitled Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation [1996 Harper Collins Publishing] the author Arthur J. Magida briefly touches on an obscure fact that in the 1950's Louis Farrakhan was a Calypso Singer who went under the name "The Charmer." Here find Calypso Louie's most memorable performances: �1.BACK TO BACK, BELLY TO BELLY - (Charmer) �2. IS SHE IS, OR IS SHE AIN'T - (Charmer) �3. STONE COLD MAN - (Charmer) �4. TRINIDAD ROAD MARCH - (Charmer �5. DON'T TOUCH ME NYLON - (Charmer) �6. DON'T LET MOMMA KNOW - (Charmer) �7. UGLY WOMAN - (Charmer) �8. FEMALE BOXER - (Charmer) �9. BROWN SKIN GAL - (Charmer) �10. MARY ANN - (Charmer) �11. FIRE DOWN THERE - (Charmer) �12. HOLD 'IM JOE - (Charmer) Home: http://www.fadetoblack.com///farrakhan/ Nalty News: http://members.xoom.com/NaltyNews/, March 18, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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