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and long-term deprivation of the Kosovar during 1985 and 1986; the total amount CBN Albanians’ most basic human rights.” He turned over to the tax-exempt Freedom warned, “Such a retreat bodes ill for the peo- Council is estimated at some $8.5 million. Kathleen Willey has her ple of Kosova, as it did earlier for the people Observers believe that the IRS action in of Bosnia and Croatia. the CBN case, which has been in dispute for ‘60 Minutes’ of infamy “Threats of economic sanctions and more than 10 years, may signal a hard-line In an article in the March 23 issue of News- other quick fixes have already been tried, to position in a related case: the eight-year- week, Kathleen Willey, the latest to join the no avail. New ones will at best defer a true long efforts of Robertson’s Christian Coali- conga-line of Kenneth Starr’s key witnesses resolution. In any case, half-measures tion, to win tax-exempt status. The Coalition against President Clinton, complained that helped sustain Bosnia’s suffering for four claims the exemption as a group which, the is “trying to make me look bloody years. This time, we must act deliber- wrote the Post, “promotes public welfare.” like a wacko”—by releasing letters that Wil- ately and decisively. The U.S., its European The Federal Election Commission has ley herself wrote, that contradict her steamy allies and the people of the former Yugosla- charged the Christian Coalition with spend- allegations on “60 Minutes” that President via cannot afford the instability, the strategic ing more than $1.4 million to help elect GOP Clinton sexually affronted her in 1993. risks, or the physical and moral toll of an- candidates, including nearly $1 million to But what really makes Willey look other Bosnia. . . . George Bush’s 1992 reelection campaign, wacko is the story reported about her in the “Only two years after the end of the war and $325,000 to the Republican Senatorial March 23 issue of Time. Willey’s former in Bosnia, a brutal regime in the former Yu- Committee, in violation of federal election friend Julie Hiatt Steele told the FBI in an goslavia is committing war crimes against laws. interview that, in the middle of 1995, Willey innocent civilians. . . . Resolute Western ac- told her boyfriend, British-born soccer tion stopped that carnage [in Bosnia], dem- coach Shaun Docking, that she was pregnant onstrating both the effectiveness and the ne- with his twins—which was not true. The rea- cessity of U.S. leadership in such crises. son? She was mad at him for Fourth of July Sadly, it took the West four years to respond. plans gone awry. Willey then told Docking This time we have no excuses. . . . We also FBI sting in Houston that she was going to have an abortion, and know that this crisis has been brewing for runs into trouble later that she had had a miscarriage. She ap- far too long. When I travelled to Kosova in A Justice Department/FBI sting against parently has never informed Docking that 1990, the region’s 2 million ethnic Alba- black and Hispanic city councilmen and oth- she was lying. nians—90% of the province’s population— ers in Houston ran aground on March 16, Meanwhile, re- had already been under Belgrade-imposed when defense attorneys exposed the FBI ported on March 23 that Starr conducted ex- martial law for one year.” sting-man Julio Molineiro as a “thief” and tensive negotiations, beginning in January, “cocaine user” in court. On trial are two city with CBS’s “60 Minutes” about a possible councilmen, two former councilmen, and appearance, apparently seeking to defend two lobbyists. Molineiro was part of a two- himself from accusations against him for man FBI sting team who posed as wealthy having arranged for to secretly IRS hits Robertson’s CBN investors offering bribes to minority city tape . councilmen, in exchange for preference in for campaign donations the building of a city-subsidized hotel Pat “Elmer Gantry” Robertson’s Christian project. Broadcasting Network (CBN) must pay a The defense moved for a mistrial, after “significant penalty” to the Internal Revenue defense attorney Mike Ramsey presented Dole: ‘No excuses’ for Service, and will lose its tax-exempt status, evidence that Molineiro had been fired by retroactively, for 1986 and 1987, according the Drug Enforcement Administration for inaction to save Kosova to the March 21 Washington Post. Neither stealing $20,000, and had been a heavy co- Former Sen. Bob Dole, now an adviser on the IRS nor CBN would disclose the amount caine user even as a DEA informant. More- veterans affairs for President Clinton, wrote of the settlement, but the agreement stipu- over, this key FBI witness had become a a scathing condemnation of Western do- lates that CBN funds were used in violation DEA informant after being convicted of nothingism to stop the Serbian ethnic cleans- of tax laws to promote televangelist Robert- drug charges in Chile. The mistrial motion ing against the majority Albanians in Ko- son’s 1988 Republican Presidential cam- is based on the grounds that prosecutors sova. His article appeared in the New York paign. The IRS is allowing CBN to retain its failed to turn over exculpatory documents Post on March 18. The West, he said, “ap- existing tax-exempt status, Robertson noted related to Molineiro. Chief prosecutor Mike pears to be retreating” from the resolve of a in a press release. Attanasio denied he knew the allegations military response, enunciated by President CBN gave Freedom Council, which the about Molineiro, and tried to explain them Clinton at the start of his administration, to Post described as “orchestrating” Robert- away, saying that they could be “serious,” “the Serbian regime’s brutal, systematic, son’s campaign, at least $250,000 a month but they may also be “nothing more than an

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FRONTS FOR two terrorist groups, the Tamil Tigers and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), both of which enjoy safe haven in London, inter-agency squabble.” role of the church and other elements of civil are seeking to have the U.S. Anti-Ter- On March 17, Federal Judge Hittner or- society in Cuba, and to help prepare the Cu- rorism Act of 1996 declared unconsti- dered prosecutors to “scour DOJ files” for ban people for a transition to democracy,” tutional. A lawsuit was filed by the information on Molineiro’s background. He the President has decided “to resume licens- Center for Constitutional Rights on ordered the prosecutors to deploy extra staff ing direct humanitarian charter flights to behalf the Humanitarian Law Project to expedite government files on Molineiro. Cuba; second, to establish new licensing ar- of Los Angeles, which engages “in On the stand that day, Molineiro admitted rangements to permit Cuban Americans and extensive political advocacy on be- that he stole money and used cocaine, but Cuban families living here in the United half of the PKK and the Kurds,” and said he is no longer using it. States to send humanitarian remittances to Tamil-American organizations. their relatives in Cuba; and third, to stream- line and expedite the issuance of licenses for HOUSE DEMOCRATIC Whip the sale of medicines and medical supplies David Bonior (D-Mich.) and Sen. Ed- and equipment to Cuba.” ward Kennedy (D-Mass.) announced Senate passes In addition, McCurry said, the President on March 19 that they would intro- has instructed Secretary of State Madeleine duce bills (H.R. 3510, in the House) HMO ‘bill of rights’ Albright to work with Congress and the pub- to increase the hourly minimum wage The Pennsylvania Senate on March 16 lic “to develop approaches for the transfer by $.50 in both 1999 and 2000, to passed legislation that would create a “bill of food and foodstuffs to the Cuban people, bring it up to $6.15 per hour. of rights” for the 4.7 million Pennsylvanians who have long suffered under the totalitarian enrolled in so-called health maintenance or- regime of Fidel Castro.” OHIO PRISON UNIONS and ganizations (HMOs). The Senate bill was their allies protested the growth of sponsored by freshman Republican Sen. privately owned prisons at a state- Timothy Murphy of Pittsburgh. house rally in Columbus, in mid- The Inquirer noted that March, and condemned pending leg- legislators were responding to “a torrent of has no case, islation to privatize the entire state complaints from constituents.” A compan- prison system. Local 11 of Afscme ion bill, sponsored by Rep. Patricia Vance say President’s lawyers pointed to the level of violence—two (R-Cumberland), a registered nurse, and co- In a legal response on March 20 to papers dozen stabbings and two murders sponsored by Rep. Harold James (D-Phila.), filed in mid-March by Paula Jones opposing during the first eight months of opera- is nearing passage in the House. Gov. Tom Clinton’s motion for summary judgment of tions at a Youngstown facility owned Ridge, a Conservative Revolution darling her harassment suit against him, the Presi- by Corrections Corp. of America. whose Act 35 cut a scant half-million work- dent’s lawyers called Jones’s pleadings a ing poor from state health-care assistance, “90-page press release.” They said that her MISSOURI STATE Rep. Chuck put a finger to the wind and has reportedly 600 pages of exhibits filed along with it are Graham has introduced a gruesome expressed support for both measures. “immaterial,” “scurrilous,” and “nothing law that would allow death row pris- Already 46 states have passed laws ad- more than a smoke screen intended to cam- oners to have their sentences com- dressing some facet of “managed care,” such ouflage the fact that plaintiff has no evidence muted to life imprisonment, if they as the medically unjustifiable practice of to support essential elements of her claims.” donate vital body parts, such as a kid- “drive-through deliveries,” and a dozen Clinton’s pleadings asserted that the op- ney, for transplant, while they are states have enacted broad patient-rights position filed by Jones “is the best evidence still alive. measures. that plaintiff has no case, and is only using this litigation as a vehicle to vilify the Presi- JUDGE ROYCE LAMBERTH, dent.” Clinton’s lawyers say that Jones used the federal judge hearing a number of her filing “as an opportunity to dump on the the “Get Clinton” cases in Washing- public record page upon page of salacious ton, D.C., departed from the sentenc- Clinton responds to material,” whose “real purpose . . . appears ing guidelines in order to sentence to be to make spurious charges of criminal Ronald Blackley to 27 months in Pope’s visit to Cuba conduct against the President.” prison. Under the guidelines, President Clinton responded to the Pope’s The President’s motion to strike many of Blackley, former Agriculture Secre- recent trip to Cuba with a decision to ease Jones’s exhibits, based on abuse of discov- tary Mike Espy’s chief of staff, certain restrictions on U.S.-Cuba relations. ery, include those relating to Kathleen Wil- should have gotten probation. Lam- At the White House press briefing on March ley, Monica Lewinsky, Dolly Kyle Brow- berth is rapidly winning adoration 20, spokesman Mike McCurry said, “To ning, , and a number of among the “Get Clinton” mob, espe- build on the impact of His Holiness the state troopers, on the grounds that they have cially from the Wall Street Journal. Pope’s recent visit to Cuba, to support the no relevance to Jones’s claims.

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