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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, JUNE 07, 1999 23:55:22 UTC XXXXX
NEW YORK CITY'S EMERGENCY COMMAND BUNKER UNVEILED
Sitting on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, accessible only by a
special freight elevator that uses its own power supply, is New York's new
emergency command center.
"The Mayor's Emergency Operations Center" is designed to hold up to 250
people. It will become the Brain Room of the city during a major crisis.
The bunker has been built with walls designed to withstand hurricane winds
and rocket attacks. The compound also uses a special air circulation
system.
The bunker has beds, bathrooms with showers and a kitchen.
There are rows of computer consoles tied into government communications and
emergency systems, reports NEWSDAY's Graham Rayman. On the walls are banks
of television monitors and projection screens.
Earlier this year, the DRUDGE REPORT detailed an elaborate bunker that sits
under downtown Los Angeles.
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DRUGS FOR ALL: CLINTON TO PROPOSE MEDICARE CHANGE
In Tuesday's NEW YORK TIMES, President Clinton will propose revamping the
nation's Medicare program to offer prescription drug coverage to all
beneficiaries.
Confidential White House documents, leaked and sneaked to the TIMES, assert
that drug coverage can save money for Medicare.
White House officials tell the TIMES that the government would hire private
companies to help buy drugs and manage the new drug benefit.
Clinton will not try to impose federal controls on drug prices.
"We would never do price controls," a senior White House official tells Bob
Pear at the TIMES.
The drug benefit is the centerpiece of Clinton's plan to "modernize"
Medicare, a trust that expected to run out of money in 2015.
The White House's John Podesta, last seen dealing with the Lewinsky cancer,
has taken charge of efforts to draft the new Medicare proposal.
The TIMES announcement will take many in Washington by surprise. Even
senior Democratic members of Congress late Monday were unaware of the new
Medicare drug plan.
A White House document released in the TIMES argues the president's drug
plan:
"Beneficiaries across the income spectrum lack drug coverage. About 16
million beneficiaries are projected to have no drug coverage in 2000. Lack
of drug coverage is not just a problem for low-income beneficiaries; 40
percent of beneficiaries without drug coverage have income above 200
percent of poverty."
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MORE SALES OF SUPERCOMPUTERS
The White House is preparing to loosen government controls on the sale of
powerful super computers to more than 100 countries only two weeks after a
congressional committee charged it with carelessly permitting sales to
China, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report in Tuesday editions.
A portion of Page One has been carved out by editors and reporter Peter
Gosselin was jammmming late into the evening, putting the finishing touches
on his exclusive report.
The Commerce Department has proposed easing restrictions on sales of
supercomputers to "most countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and
Central and Eastern Europe, administration sources said Monday."
Gosselin reports that "virtually all restrictions are likely to be lifted
on sales to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, which recently became
NATO members."
The White House's John Podesta, last seen drafting a new Medicare proposal
that extends drug coverage to all beneficiaries, has taken charge of
announcing the new supercomputer policy.
According to Gosselin, first official word that the White House is prepared
to ease export limits on the 100 countries could come during a meeting
scheduled for Friday between Podesta and a group that includes "IBM
Chairman and Chief Executive Louis Gerstner, Intel Corp. Chairman Andy
Grove, Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott D. McNealy and Hewlett-Packard Co.
Chairman and President Lewis E.Platt."
Developing...
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STEVE BRILL GETS COLD SHOULDER FROM COLLEGES; SECRETLY PLANNING NEW
E-COMMERCE DEAL
Having exhausted nearly every option with magazine audiences, Steve Brill
and BRILL'S CONTENT are now reaching out to colleges in a frustrating
search for subscribers.
In an E-mail fired off last month to teachers of journalism, political
science and communications courses throughout the country, Brill offered "a
special educational program" -- school-year subscriptions to students and a
"FREE subscription" for the teachers who make the sale.
But Tuesday's NEW YORK DAILY NEWS will report that Brill's latest deal has
not helped move copies of his magazine.
Brill's cyberpitch has brought only "a dozen responses so far," a mag rep
tells the NEWS. "It isn't the right time of year."
Meanwhile, VANITY FAIR July was planning to reveal that Brill is secretly
working on a new "e-commerce project" -- a project that is completely
unrelated to BRILL'S CONTENT.
Brill has shared his new business proposal to heavies from NBC and CBS, VF
was set to report, according to publishing sources.
The magazine killed the piece that was going to lead to questions about how
publisher Brill has been showing the business deal to executives at media
outlets -- the very media outlets that he has pledged to objectively cover
in his CONTENT.<
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PEGGY NOONAN WRITES HILLARY'S SPEECH
She's written speeches for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush...
But on Tuesday, Peggy Noonan writes the talking points for Hillary Rodham
Clinton's upcoming New York run!
Noonan goes long and deep in Tuesday's WALL STREET JOURNAL with an
editorial that explores how Hillary will talk about the first time she came
to New York, and "saw the glittering towers, and fell in love with the
vitality and energy on the streets, and hoped one day to return...
"'I love New York and I want to be its advocate, to speak for this state in
a national platform and uphold its interests in Washington. But I'm not
gonna pretend I know everything. So I want to hear your concerns, so we can
begin our dialogue.'"
Noonan writes the script: "There will be a war room -- there is always a
war room with the Clintons -- staffed by spinners. They will tell her to
act out humility... Because Mrs. Clinton is loyal not to place but to
position, she will easily make the leap from patronizing Hot Springs to
patronizing Staten Island. She will hide her condescension well and speak
to the locals with warmth and humor. The old good-natured crowing about how
Arkansas has the biggest watermelons in the country will become new
good-natured crowing about the best cannoli in the world."
Peggy Noonan predicts the media scene surrounding the campaign:
"Intrepid reporters who break from the pack will be reduced to yelling
'What about Juanita Broaddrick?' as Mrs. Clinton hurries by the rope line.
They'll be called hecklers and harassers; NBC, CBS and ABC will do pieces
on 'Hillary Faces the Gauntlet,' taking a wry look at the famously
irreverent New York press. Cut to the guy yelling 'How did you make that
hundred grand?' and then a close-up of Hillary being interviewed by a
sympathetic anchor. She'll says she understands how passionate people get
about politics, but that our political process has gotten uglier, which is
sad. She will be noble. She may bite her lip."
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GERALDO PLOTTING RADIO MOVE
In recent months Geraldo Rivera has been in serious talks with both ABC
radio and New York City's WNEW, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
And inside the executive suites of ABC, there is a bitter battle brewing
over whether to bring Geraldo into the blab business.
"He's coming here over my dead body!" one senior executive at ABC said of
Geraldo's possibilities.
At least one senior ABC suit is fighting for Geraldo -- and has become
determined to get him.
Hillary Clinton's likely run for U.S. Senate is set to become a full-blown
driving issue in the New York radio market -- an issue that would become a
Geraldo signature.
Across town, preliminary discussions have been held with WNEW, soon to turn
to an all-talk format, that would put Geraldo Radio in the 10 pm to 1 am
slot.
But WNEW and Rivera are said to be far off on the dollar value of any deal.
[The White House's John Podesta is not involved in this one... yet.]
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