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cy aide. But publicly. the White
House is trying to play down
the significance of China's role
as conference host. Since the
U.N. is sponsoring the confer-
ence, they say, Hillary's pres-
ence has nothing to do with bi-
lateral relations between China
and the United States. She
won't be meeting any Chinese
leaders, and there won't be any
embarrassing photo ops. Last
week senior foreign-policy
aides met with Hillary to lay out
the pros and cons of attending.
and the pros were pretty strong.
At a U.N. population confer-
ence in Cairo last year. Vice
President Al Gore managed to
for
ag compromises on
at
guage As the head
WILL
of the % delegation. Hillary
Will Beljing create its own worst nightmare? Policewomen train for U.N. conference duty
will be 're than an ornament.
In fact. the Beijing women's
Making It Hard on Hillary
conference is right up Hillary Clinton's al-
ley. Questions like women's poverty and
the rights of girl children, both centerpieces
of the two-week talkathon. are genuinely
China: Worries over her trip to a women's summit
close to her heart. A big United Nations
conference has the cachet of high-level in-
ternational politics. but it's still an accept-
HUGE HANDPAINTED BANNER HANGS
able extension of the milk-and-causes role
A
across the highway outside Huairou,
of a traditional presidential wife. For the
China: "Expect Everything Will Turn
women at the conference. Hillary Clinton is
Out As You Wish." Don't count on it.
an out-and-out heroine. "Women of the
More than 25,000 delegates to the unofficial
world want to get a look at her." says Joan
part of the Fourth World Conference on
Dunlop of the International Women's
Women will start arriving in Huairou this
Health Coalition. which is sending a large
week, and this muddy town 90 minutes out-
delegation to the conference. "She has al-
side Beijing is probably not what they ex-
most perfect pitch on these issues. Women
pected at all. Even the shirtless workers
genuinely admire her."
erecting circus tents in the center of
Denying visas: China couldn't have known
town don't think they'll be ready in time.
what this conference would entail when it
Several buildings don't have electricity yet.
bid five years ago for the honor of being
The "residential sites" are little better than
host. But last March. hard-line prime min-
marine barracks. with five beds to a room,
ister Li Peng was heckled by unruly NGOs
plus a rickety fan. "Motel 6 is better than
at a U.N. conference in Copenhagen. The
this." said a Western diplomat on an inspec-
JEFFREY ARKOWITZ-SYGMA
Chinese government has denied visas to a
tion tour.
'Almost perfect pitch': The First Lady
handful of NGOs focusing on Taiwanese
China exiled the nongovernmental or-
and Tibetan causes. and thousands more
ganizations (NGOs) to this obscure town
agonizing. "China couldn't have handled
applicants have met with bureaucratic de-
precisely to avoid trouble. Instead, Beijing
this more poorly," says Tim Wirth, under
lays, but it's probably already too late to
may end up creating its own worst night-
secretary of state for global affairs. "On is-
avoid at least a smattering of demonstra-
mare: a big group of angry feminists with
sue after issue, they seem to be thumbing
tions. One Latin American group wants to
some particular gripes about China. Ironi-
their noses at the international communi-
stage a "mock vote" in favor of Chinese
cally. that's Hillary Clinton's big concern,
ty." China's ongoing war games off the
women's rights: an Australian NGO plans
too. As honorary chairman of the U.S. dele-
coast of Taiwan have only heightened the
to lay flowers in Tiananmen Square to com-
gation. she hopes to attend the official part
tension. White House sources say Hillary
memorate students killed in the 1989 de-
of the United Nations conference beginning
will probably end up going. but if the Chi-
mocracy movement. "The question is not
Sept. 4. But China's mishandling of the
nese start harassing delegates while Hilla-
whether to demonstrate. but how." says a
NGOs-coupled with the fact that they're
ry's in town, the result could be a major
member of the Australian group. Western
planning to put Chinese-American human-
foreign-policy embarrassment.
diplomats in Beijing say they're prepar-
rights activist Harry Wu on trial for espio-
Privately, some administration officials
ing-just in case-to negotiate the release
nage-has put Mrs. Clinton in a delicate
are exasperated at how the Clintons have
of jailed delegates. Welcome to China. Mrs.
position. She received a letter last week
waffled over Hillary's plans. "They should
Clinton.
from Wu's wife, begging her not to attend,
have decided this weeks ago. and stuck
CARROLL BOGERT with KATHARINE CHUBBUCK
and that has made the decision even more
with their decision." says one foreign-poli-
in Beijing and KAREN BRESLAU in Washington
AUGUST 28. 1995 NEWSWEEK
45
OUT OF BOUNDS
FIRST FAMILY
Westward Ho
Honoring O.J.
Q
UICK-WHO WOULD YOU
NSTEAD OF CLOGGING THE
name as Athlete of the Cen-
beaches of Martha's Vine-
tury? Jesse Owens, Martina
yard. Mass., this summer, the
Navratilova, Michael Jordan?
First Family's entourage will
Try former football great and
be hogging the hiking trails of
current double-murder defend
the Tetons. This week the
ant O.J. Simpson.
Clintons head for the Jackson
Los Angeles me-
Hole. Wyo., home of fellow
dallion maker
Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller
Larry Labell of
of West Virginia, and locals
Laurence Net-
are not looking forward to the
Presidential retreat: Senator Rockefeller's Teton County spread
work Corp., cit-
hassle. Once the president
in the area. Either way, the
ing an elusive "me-
gets his obligatory Yellow-
First Clan will be staying near
dia poll," is
stone National Park visit out
the sweeping homes of Rev-
minting 225,000
O.J. coin
of the way, he'll have a belated
lon chairman Ronald Perelman
shamelessly topical silver coin
49th-birthday bash at former
and the Firestone and Du Pont
honoring Simpson as Athlete 0
Treasury official Roger Alt-
families. But Clinton can't get
the Century. Though Simpson
man's ranch and may even
too comfortable: Wyoming is
will receive a cut, Labell insist
dine with Harrison Ford. Like
GOP territory. And with the
the $59.95 coins shouldn't be
recent visitors Don Johnson
and Tom Selleck, Clinton will
Downtown Jackson's antler arch
South pitted squarely against
seen as a fund-raiser for O.J.'s
him, White House watchers
legal fees. What's next Judge
surely play a round at Teton
quent visitors Tom Brokaw or
say he's wise to emulate John
Ito's mug hammered into "Tria
Pines golf course, where for-
Uma Thurman. And if she's
Kennedy, who went West in
of the Century" coins?
mer defense secretary Dick
lucky. Chelsea will bump into
'63 after losing support in Dix-
Cheney has a house. Advance
Kevin Costner or Brad Pitt,
ie in the wake of the civil-
TRAVEL
workers could run into fre-
both said to be house-hunting
rights movement.
Civil Service
it traces of melato-
CRIME
W
ITH TOURISTS FLOODING
nin in the liquid
Beijing (and thousands de
with boosting the
Soap Squad
scending next month for the
immune system.
U.N. Women's Conference).
In New York City,
B
AD ENOUGH THAT OUR
certified plumber
society produces criminals;
Martin Lara lec-
while they're in jail, they get
tures AIDS pa-
hooked on "Oprah." Or so, ap-
tients on the bene-
parently, thinks Attorney Gen-
fits of "uropathy."
eral Janet Reno, who is endors-
Eager to heed the
ing a proposal to yank inmate
Bible's directive to
access to soap operas and other
"drink waters from
mind-numbing TV. They'll just
Bottoms up: Costner and Gandhi
thine own cis-
have to learn instead: the Jus-
tern"? Some coun-
tice Department has OK'd a
TRENDS
sel from a practitioner more or-
$150,000-plus pilot program.
thodox than Mr. Lara, Dr. Marc
proposed by the National Sher-
Hospitality 101: Beijing
Gee Whiz
Micozzi: "If the body is trying
iffs' Association. that would
to eliminate something from the
limit local and county inmates
the Chinese government is
H
ERE'S A TREND THAT'S HARD
system. that would be a sign
to viewing satellite-transmitted
cleaning up the city, and a few
to swallow: some fans of ho-
that it's not a good idea to ingest
shows on subjects like math,
mouths. It's barred service-in
listic healing are drinking their
it." Micozzi needn't worry too
English and parenting. Says
dustry workers from mutterin
own urine. Gandhi did it in In-
much-urotherapy enthusiasts
NSA executive director Bud
50 phrases. Among them:
dia and Kevin Costner did it in
are still a wee group indeed.
Meeks, "Recidivism is going to
"Go ask somebody else"
"Waterworld." Now urine-
Says London yoga teacher and
go down." Sure it will-why go
"If you think the bus is slow
quaffing is gaining popularity in
urine drinker Ve-
back to jail when
get off"
Britain and the United States.
danta Saraswati:
you can watch the
"I don't care who you tell"
Known for centuries as "amar-
"Westerners in gen-
Discovery Channel
"Don't ask if you won't buy'
oli" in tantric yoga, the practice
eral are awfully fun-
from the comfort of
"You eat like a pig"
is said to cure ailments from
ny about things that
your own home?
"I don't have change. Go fin
tuberculosis to gingivitis to jet
come out of
SARAH VAN BOVEN
some yourself"
lag. Some "urotherapists" cred-
orifices."
and JENNIFER TANAKA
"Get to the back of the line.
TOP TO BOTTOM TED WOOD DAVID N NEWSWEEK TED WO
8
NEWSWEEK AUGUST 21. 1995
BEN GLASS. DAVE DAVIS-BETTMANN ERICA LANSNER CHIPA
MY
TURN
Harry's Story
The Chinese government, by arresting my husband, is helping his cause
BY CHING-LEE WU
'M AFRAID THAT THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
But they didn't; they wanted to punish Harry again for his
of China don't know the American expression to "shoot
criticism of the communist system.
vourself in the foot." In any case, that's what they have done
Millions of people who had never before heard of Harry Wu
by arresting my husband, Harry Wu, and bringing charges
now know of him and of the reasons he, a free American citizen,
of "stealing state secrets" against him. Harry, a survivor of
would take such huge risks. The Chinese government used its
19 long years in China's Laogai, its system of forced-labor camps,
huge propaganda machine recently to make it seem as if he had
decided to dedicate the rest of his life not just to describing his
"confessed." They titled the 13-minute video "Just See the Lies of
own experiences in this modern gulag but also to exposing a
Wu Hongda," which was Harry's name as a Chinese citizen.
more frightening reality: how the Laogai, by inflicting unbeliev-
My heart fell in sadness as I watched an excerpt from that
able brutalities on millions of Chinese men and women, still
video. In one brief scene that showed him signing an arrest
helps cow the rest of the population into submission.
warrant on July 8, Harry appeared normal. In subsequent shots,
Of late Harry was becoming impatient with himself, afraid he
taken as he was being interrogated by four policemen, Harry was
had not made enough progress in his mission, and so at the age of
a different man. He was unshaven and looked downcast and
58 he decided to make one last trip into China to update his
weary. He had clearly lost weight. His posture was odd, as
information. Three times before, twice in 1991 and once in 1994,
though he had been dumped into the chair sideways with his legs
he had succeeded in enterin China and collecting audiovisual
tangled beneath him. The voice was his, but strangely low. How
documentation firsthand, ev. a a camp where he had once
many days, or hours each day, had be been interrogated? How
been a prisoner himself. This the he failed.
much sleep had he been deprived by his interrogators?
At a border post in northwestern China, police stopped him on
On the day this story broke (July 27), reporters in at least 10
June 19, with the help of a computer database listing undesira-
separate interviews asked me how I felt about Harry's "confes-
bles. They could have turned him back, as they did his assistant.
sion." "It's a joke," I said. Chinese propaganda called it a "con-
The Honda 95 Clearance. Timing
American Inc
fession" and the media repeated the false charge, but Harry
more the regime would try to smear him. He told me to prepare
"confessed" to nothing. In his answers to police, he conceded
for this. Anyone who takes the time to look at the evidence he has
that a 1994 BBC TV production which he had helped research
accumulated will see that it stands up to scrutiny.
contained several errors, but denied that he was responsible.
Harry will be surprised to learn how much support his cause
The Laogai Research Foundation, of which Harry is executive
has mustered. Both the U.S. Congress and the European Parlia-
director, in January 1995 published an extensive re-
ment passed strong resolutions urging Harry's im-
port of his titled "Communist Charity, the Use of
mediate release. Australia's foreign minister, Gareth
Executed Prisoners' Organs in China." That report,
Evans, had his government make very early repre-
which the tape did not mention, cites evidence from
sentations to the Chinese government, both in Bei-
other sources, including an internal government
jing and in Melbourne. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
document and human-rights organizations, on how
intervened personally with the Chinese Trade Mis-
China harvests the organs of executed prisoners for
sion in South Africa. U.S. Secretary of State Warren
transplants, and supplements that information with
Christopher has demanded Harry's release.
testimony that Harry gathered firsthand from Chi-
In my travels to Washington, Paris and London I
nese medical personnel and patients.
pinned yellow ribbons on Newt Gingrich, Dick Gep-
The communist officials hate Harry because he
Harry wants
hardt, Margaret Thatcher and other political leaders
keeps telling the ugly truth about the communist
to expose the
I had previously seen only on television. On July 29,
system in all its horrors. About two months ago,
hundreds of demonstrators marked Free Harry Wu
Harry, speaking to a group of business executives in
forced-labor
Day in Hong Kong, Sydney, London, Washington,
New York City, summarized his indictment of that
Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities.
system this way:
camps, where
What all this means is that the longer Chi-
The Laogai serves as the "machinery for crushing
he survived
nese communists keep Harry, the more interest they
human beings physically, psychologically and spiri-
will stimulate in the hidden truths about the Laogai.
tually." It "is not a prison system; it is a tool for
for 19 years
Now, perversely, the Chinese government is help-
maintaining the Communist Party's totalitarian con-
ing his cause.
trol." It's an integral part of China's national econo
roducing
The regime in Beijing wants to silence Harry Wu. It can't,
for domestic and foreign markets. Despite a U.S.
ohibiting
whatever it does. It can't silence other survivors of the Laogai,
forced-labor imports and China's signed agreement "
pect that
now coming forward to tell their stories. And it can't silence me.
law, Laogai products "continue to enter U.S. markets.
These are "lies" that infuriate the communist officials. Harry
Mrs. WU works with her husband at the Laogai Research Foun-
once warned me that the more his message became known, the
dation, in Milpitas, Calif.
everything. At Your Honda Dealer. H
PERSPECTIVES
"I think I've always been pro-life. I just didn't know it."
NORMA McCORVEY, "Jane Roe" in the landmark 1973 Roe V. Wade decision that legalized abortion,
on why she joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue last week
"People are more interested in a strong economy than
Perot
someone who can tell you if Hootie & the Blowfish are
going to have a strong album next time." Bob Dole's press
secretary, NELSON WARFIELD, on why hipness won't be a factor
Yáll look worse
in the '96 presidential campaign
than an armadillos
rump! Let's move
"Maybe we should have executed him at 13th and Locust,
BOB
on to the talent
PAT
portion!.
where he executed Danny Faulkner." Philadelphia policeman
DOLE
100
JAMES GREEN, on a judge's decision to grant political activist
NYMPIDA
and convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal a stay of execution
SPECTER
"I bought an Olympic license tag. I bought an Olympic
brick. And this is the thanks I get." Atlanta resident
DAN BOLING, after finding out his landlord plans to sublease his
$475-a-month apartment to Olympic visitors for $3,000 a month
C1995 LUCKOVICH - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
WEVE INVITED JUDGE
ITO WITH THE HOPES
THESE HEARINGS WILL
"I hear Bach and [Jerry] Garcia are gonna blow the roof
CONTINUE UNTIL THE
off tonight." Unnamed user of the WELL, a Sausalito,
96 ELECTION...
Calif.-based online bulletin-board system, on the death
of the Grateful Dead bandleader
"We had oral sex
he prefers that modus operandi
because then he can say 'I never slept with her'."
ANNE MANNING, a volunteer during Newt Gingrich's failed
1976 congressional campaign, alleging a tryst with Gingrich
in the spring of 1977
D'AMATO
WHITEWATER
C 1995 MARKSTEIN - MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"[It's] a truly great moment for severe drunkards
like myself." Pub patron ADAN STONEBRIDGE, on the repeal
WINDOWS
of historic British laws requiring bars to close between 3 p.m.
95
and 7 p.m. on Sundays
"Easy 100.3 is the perfect radio station to listen while
you work." L.A. prostitute DIVINE BROWN, in new TV ads for
the radio station she says she was listening to during her encounter
with actor Hugh Grant, for which she faces lewd-conduct charges
00
"I want to say 'Sorry' to children everywhere for selling out
to concerns who make millions by murdering animals."
Onetime Ronald McDonald actor GEOFF GIULIANO, now a
c 1995 MARGULIES RECORD
'This makes it so easy to use a computer, even an adult can do it!.
vegetarian, apologizing for his past job, in an animal-rights newsletter
Quotations are compiled from press TV and wire-service reports as well as from NEWSWEEK correspondents.
AUGUST 21, 1995 NEWSWEEK 21
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
health-conscious, vote-rich California. Nor
will Democratic coffers suffer much. The
industry gave nearly six times as much
An End in Sight (Maybe)
money to Republicans in the 1994 elections.
Strategist Dick Morris, who has pushed
Clinton to stake out issues that define him
Whitewater: Trying to finish the investigations
more sharply, strongly favored the idea.
Vice President Al Gore, whose sister died
of lung cancer, prefaced his comments in
ed Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy
meetings by saying he wasn't objec-
Tucker for fraud and conspira-
tive-and then argued for a tough stance.
cy. Starr's probe will be the final
The anti-tobacco offensive caps months
word on whether Whitewater
of backstage manuevering. Last spring the
becomes a danger to Clinton's
industry and its congressional supporters
chances for re-election-or
grew nervous as the FDA prepared its case.
whether, as many Democrats
Fearing that the new rules would eventual-
believe, it is much ado about
ly lead to a total ban on cigarettes, they
nothing much.
began negotiations with the White House
NEWSWEEK has learned that
on a legislative compromise. The adminis-
Starr is pushing to make all the
tration was willing to deal; aides preferred
key decisions in his $11 million
a new law to the often-protracted FDA
investigation within the next
rule-making process. Officials say they
few weeks-possibly as early as
were close to an accord. but the two sides
Labor Day. The main reason is
couldn't resolve several sticking points, in-
that the 1996 campaign is now
cluding the government's insistence that
very close at hand. Even though
glitzy "point of sale" displays in stores be
Starr himself is a Republican,
restricted. Clinton wouldn't compromise;
allowing a criminal investiga-
he was particularly aved by The Journal
tion to continue during the
of the American Medical Association,
coming presidential campaign
which devoted its entire July 19 issue to the
would open him to charges of
health implications of smoking. "It's hard to
letting politics cloud his judg-
argue with this," he told senior aides.
ment. "Ken is very conscious
Still, negotiations continued to the last
that he doesn't want this to drag
minute. White House officials first said that
on into the presidential elec-
Clinton would unveil the plan during a
tion," says one source close to
speech in North Carolina on Wednesday.
LARRY DOWNING-NEWSWEEK
the investigation.
When he held back, aides implied that he
He says he'd do It again: Nussbaum testifying
James McDougal, the Arkan-
didn't want to embarrass Southern Demo-
sas S&L operator who was the
crats in the heart of tobacco country. In
HE WHITEWATER SCANDAL OCCUPIED
fact. the administration was still seeking
T
Clintons' business partner in Whitewater,
key committees in both the House and
remains a possible target-although he has
a deal. But talks broke down for good af-
Senate last week-a two-ring circus
already been tried and acquitted on charges
ter Clinton returned from Charlotte that
whose single goal seemed to be causing
stemming from the collapse of his thrift.
night. Word of the first industry lawsuit
maximum embarrassment to Bill and Hilla-
Starr has also been looking into allegations
reached the White House the next day as
ry Clinton and their friends. In the House, a
that McDougal's bank illegally contributed
Clinton rehearsed his announcement with
low-level government banking investigator
funds to Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial cam-
aides. Gore immediately declared victory.
named Jean Lewis told the story of how she
paign. But lawyers familiar with the case
"They've done you a huge favor," he told
tried for nearly two years to get higher-ups
say it now seems unlikely that Starr will
Clinton. "They put the spotlight on you."
in Washington to take the matter seriously.
bring charges based on most of the issues
The White House has a long way to go
In the Senate, former White House counsel
raised in last week's hearings. These issues
before it will be able to steer teens away
Bernard Nussbaum took the stand to de-
include claims of favorable treatment for
from smoking. While the matter is in the
fend his conduct during the investigation of
McDougal while Clinton was governor and
courts, the FDA has no authority. By filing
Vince Foster's 1993 suicide. Nussbaum de-
questions about Hillary Clinton's efforts to
suit in North Carolina. the industry is
nied there had been a cover-up. He insisted
represent McDougal before the state gov-
counting on a sympathetic hearing in tobac-
he made "the right calls" in the confusion
ernment while she was a partner in the
co's backyard. Even if the FDA wins the
after Foster's death and said he would do it
Rose Law Firm. Though politically embar-
court case, critics say enforcement of the
"essentially the same way" again.
rassing. these actions probably don't add up
new rules would be spotty. It would be left
Whether or not this assault by the con-
to a criminal case, the sources say.
to the FDA's understaffed inspection arm,
gressional GOP is influencing the voters is
So everyone in Washington will be wait-
the industry itself and local authorities who
anybody's guess. The real action, as both
ing for Starr's findings. But even if he finds
seldom enforced state statutes against teen
sides know, lies with independent counsel
no cause for indictment, Whitewater has
smoking. And adolescents themselves, pre-
Kenneth Starr, who has been quietly inves-
already cost the Clintons dearly. Figures
dictably, bridled at the president's message,
tigating the Whitewater affair for a year.
released last week showed that contribu-
saying they would make their own deci-
Like any prosecutor, Starr and his staff
tions to their defense fund seem to be tail-
sions without his help. In the end, the ad-
have the legal authority to bring criminal
ing off-and the First Couple now faces
ministration can gain points for picking a
charges. They have already sent Webster
$1.6 million in unpaid legal bills.
fight with an unpopular industry. but it may
Hubbell, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton's
MARK HOSENBALL and MICHAEL ISIKOFF
not do much to stop kids from smoking.
oldest friends, to jail, and they have indict-
in Washington
26 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 21, 1995
She is now using her clout to help J.P.
W`th Friends Like Hillary
Morgan and Co. on an issue of far greater
significance than tollbooths. The company
hopes to finance the privatization of the
Influence: One lobbyist isn't subtle about her ties
U.S. Enrichment Corporation. a federally
backed agency that buvs de-enriched urani-
um from Russia's nuclear-weapons stock-
pile. The idea of privatizing USEC is con-
ONE DOUBTS HER STATUS AS A VERY
might obstruct the view of Niagara Falls.
troversial. since critics say it could create a
N
special friend of Bill and Hillary or
"There's no question Susan used the spec-
monopoly in the world uranium market. In
that Susan Thomases. a brash New
ter of White House interest as a calling
recent months Thomases has pressed the
York securities lawver who has known both
card." one participant savs. During a meet-
plan with senior Treasury officials.
Clintons since the 1970s. played an impor-
ing with recalcitrant federal officials. this
Ironically. only last week Clinton an-
tant unofficial role in the confusion after
source recalls. Thomases mentioned her in-
nounced a decision to restrict lobbvists ac-
Vince Foster's suicide. Thomases. who
volvement in the administration's plans to
cess to federal officials. The reform will
served the Clinton presidential campaign
"reinvent government." then pointedly told
apply to many other Beltway operators. of
as chief scheduler and who is still Hillary
her adversaries "who knows where you're
course-but the Clintons might want to
Clinton private lawver. will be questioned
all going to end up when the reorganiza-
make an exception for the First Ladv's pal.
at the Senate Whitewater hearings this
tion is over.
MICHAEL ISIKOFF in Washington
week. That should raise her
profile as an influential member
of the Clinton entourage. But
what few outside the Beltway
Sexual Harassment: Circling the Wagons
know is that Thomases has
turned her friendship into a ca-
EXUAL HARASSMENT IS
that hearings on the allega-
company issued a statement
reer as a Washington influence
S
taken more seriously to-
tions of sexual misconduct
calling the allegations against
peddler-and she isn't subtle
day then ever before. es-
against Packwood would re-
him "baseless." Citing Del's
about it.
pecially in the wake of Anita
main closed to the public.
impressive success during his
Thomases declined repeated
Hill and Tailhook. But is it
In a second widely publi-
tenure. the board of directors
requests for comment. But
taken seriously enough? Two
cized case, the Equal Employ-
also expressed their "com-
those who have seen her at
events in the last week have
ment Opportunity Commis-
plete confidence" in him.
work describe a heavy-handed
left many wondering.
sion announced a $1.2 million
Advocates of women's
style. Hired to represent a
No fewer than 19 women-
sexual-harassment settlement
rights concede the news isn't
group of Puerto Rican compa-
two of whose complaints be-
against Del Laboratories Inc.,
all bad-not so long ago har-
nies in a dispute with the
came known for the first time
a New York cosmetics compa-
assment charges would hard-
U.S. Department of Housing
last Thursday- have come
ny. Last year the EEOC filed
ly have won big settlements or
and Urban Development. she
forward to accuse Oregon
suit on behalf of 15 female em-
even closed-door Senate
stunned a lawyer representing
Sen. Bob Packwood of un-
ployees charging Del's CEO
hearings. Even so, the treat-
the firms by announcing that
wanted groping and grabbing.
Dan Wassong with. among
ment of Packwood and Was-
"this matter is not going to be
Packwood. who claims the
other things, inviting some to
song is a reminder that organ-
reviewed by the president of
charges stem from miscom-
perform oral sex. Despite the
izations are still struggling to
the United States' mes-
munication. protests he meant
settlement, the largest of its
get it right.
sage being that she could in-
no harm. In an emotional
kind in EEOC history, Del is
LESLIE KAUFMAN with
volve him if need be. The law-
vote, the full Senate agreed
standing by Wassong. The
SUSAN MILLER
yer. Dan Krivit. says his first
thought was "I would hope he's
got better things to do."
High-level help: Thomases
charged ahead got to the
top of the White House staff. In
late March she got Krivit a meet-
ingwith Bruce Katz, chiefof staff
at HUD. Katz then got a call
from White House deputy chief
of staff Harold Ickes inquiring
about the Puerto Rican problem.
"I'm asked for status reports on
lots of things." Katz said.
Thomases also represented
the Niagara River Toll Bridge
Commission. an obscure quasi-
public body in upper New York
state. in a profoundly picayune
dispute with the National Park
Service. The commission want-
PHOTOS ROBERT CUMINS
ed to build a toil plaza: the Feds
Harmless? Aides say embraces like this. at a 1982 reception. were purely innocent
objected that the structure
AUGUST 14. 1995 NEWSWEEK 35
File back
in Newsweek
in proper
order
-
POLITICS
Periscope
Monumental
WHITEWATER
Maneuvers
New Fears
A
NTICIPATING THAT A DEAD-
lock this fall with President
N
EW YORK LAWYER AND
Clinton over GOP spending
Friend of Hillary Susan Tho-
bills will force government to
mases is expected to testify at
grind to a halt. House Republi-
Whitewater hearings next week.
cans are orchestrating a selec-
and Democrats are bracing for
tive shutdown. Stretching the
what some say could be "a disas-
Waiting game: Senator Packwood's chairmanship is at stake
definition of the law's mandate
ter." Thomases's prickly manner
that "essential" elements of
has alienated nearly everyone in
CONGRESS
government go forward. GOP
Clinton's orbit: aides fear she'll
strategists will propose that vis-
Packwood's Next Battle?
ible national sym-
such as the
EN. BOB PACKWOOD OF OREGON ISNT IN THE CLEAR
Washington Mon-
S
yet. The Senate ethics committee. under pressure from
ument and Statue
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's repeated
of Liberty re-
calls for public hearings on sexual-misconduct charges
main open. Why?
against the GOP senator, may decide to do more than censure
To avoid the sort
him. Sources close to Packwood say they now fear the commit-
of public-relations
tee could recommend that the entire Senate vote on whether
fiasco that ensued
to strip Packwood of his chairmanship of the Senate Finance
during the three-
Committee. rather than let Senate Republicans decide his fate
day federal shut-
Too hot to handle? Thomases
in a secret ballot. Tossing the decision to the full Senate and a
down under the
public. recorded vote would all but guarantee that Packwood
Bush administra-
also rile Congress and the TV
loses his chairmanship. Still, the six-member committee is
tion in 1990. when
public. Asked whether anvone is
considered unlikely to call for public hearings, on the ground
crowds of angry
Open for
preparing Thomases for her tes-
that Packwood is not really contesting the charges. In addi-
tourists made
business
timony on Hillary's alleged role
tion. hearings would be a humiliating experience for the Sen-
headlines. If the
in impeding the investigation of
ate as a whole. Yet the committee, which is evenly divided
shutdown occurs. thousands of
Deputy White House Counsel
between Republicans and Democrats, is equally uncomfort-
federal employees would be
Vincent Foster's death. one con-
able with the prospect of being accused of protecting Pack-
furloughed and lose pay. Asked
gressional aide said. "There's
wood. Says one GOP aide: "They don't want public hearings,
what is considered "nonessen-
not enough money to pay me
but they want to give him pretty stiff punishment."
tial." a GOP aide replied: "the
to do that."
Commerce Department."
WASHINGTON FAX
COURTS
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH
Defense Pork
Slammer Suits
Trials and Hearings Edition
J
ust how much pork is in
The CW's fighting the heat the only reason to go outside is
the House National Se-
F
ED UP WITH THE PRISONER
soporific trials and hearings inside on TV. No matter how hot it
curity Committee's mili-
lawsuits that now make up
is, it beats watching D'Amato trying to make witnesses sweat.
tary-construction budget?
around 20 percent of all cases
NEWSWEEK has learned the
before the federal courts. the
Players
Conventional Wisdom
committee's $10.7 billion
National Association of Attor-
neys General this week releases
S. Smith
request for fiscal '96
Justice in three weeks. (You watching. Ito?)
includes $500 million in
its own state-by-state lists of
And the right sentence. too. Let her rot.
add-ons and that more than
the suits it considers the most
O.J.
Defense keeps calling witnesses that help the
80 percent of those extras
frivolous. In Ohio alone. in-
prosecution. Pull up your socks. Johnnie.
were earmarked for proj-
mates claim various prisons
have violated their rights to
Whitewater
ects in committee members'
Not even a smoking squirt gun yet. but CW
an orthopedically correct
wants to hear from Nussbaum. Thomases.
home states. The commit-
tee's GOP chairman, Rep.
wooden gymnasium floor
Waco
Now we get it. If the Feds had said "pretty
Floyd Spence of South Caro-
wear sunglasses
please." Koresh would have caved. Please.
lina, has said that every new
park benches
project-like new squash
meet Gov. George Voinovich,
Packwood
Old CW: Packy's tongue in your mouth. New
who was touring a prison
CW: Sen. Boxer's fist in his kisser.
courts at the Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard and renova-
have Rolling Stone magazine
Heat
Sure it's hot. but CW won't have to jog once
tion of an air force band's re-
delivered to isolation cells
it's taken that new magic fat pill.
cording studio-passed a
own Soap on a Rope
"rigorous, self-imposed
screening process."
LETT BOBERT NEWSWEEK LARRY BRUCT
BOOKS
BEER
Growing Up
Hold the Port
Goofy
Bold enough to try red Bor-
deaux with salmon? There is
A
ND PERI THOUGHT ALL
now a recommended beer for
Barry Williams and Roger
every dessert. A gourmet guide:
Clinton had in common was
DESSERT
BEER
bad hair. "Growing Up Brady"
Nineties hanger-on: Clinton
Seventies icon: Williams
Chocolate layer cake
Stout
and the recently published
Pecan pie
Amber ale
"Growing Up Clinton" tell a
miniature robot": state troopers
zler. a fellow con. Williams. on
different story: Williams offers
talk to Clinton like he's "the
working stoned: "I still don't
Crème caramel
Doppelbock
a running chronology of Brady
worst sort of trash." Williams
know for sure if anyone actually
Fruit fritters
Pilsener
episodes: Clinton offers a chro-
cons blond singer turned ac-
knew my secret." Clinton. on
Cheesecake
Bitter
nological rundown of his prison
tress Florence Henderson into
working as a drug dealer: "I
Strawberry shortcake
Pale ale
term. Producers talk to Wil-
a date: Clinton dates blond
may have been oblivious. but
Pound cake
Weissbier
w/
liams as if he's "some sort of
bank manager turned embez-
I'm not so sure Mother was."
lemon slice
PERI PICKS
Crepes
Oktoberfest
Sorbet
Barley wine
He Moves the Goods in Mysterious Ways
Chocolate
Porter
ganache torte
SOURCE: LLCY SAUNDERS FOOD AND BEER
HRISTIAN MARKETERS HAVE ALWAYS PROFITED BY IMITATING POP CULTURE. THE FAITH-
C
COMPANION
ful share in the mainstream's fun: the faithless are reminded that God is relevant. After tripling
sales to more than S3 billion a year since 1980. religious retailers are hoping to snare soul-
searching baby boomers with less preachy. hipper products. A PERI look at the latest inspirations:
CHERISH
BIBLEOPOLY
Have your cake and chug beer too
3:16
<<
TRAVEL
FIVE
Tour Guys
Bible POGs: The milk-cap
Romance novels: Love
game is so hot. even Sunday-
triangles mean him. her
C
T
HE ITALIAN PLAYBOY is NO
school truants won't turn
and Him: bodices barely
match for Salerno's gent. A
down a "Jesus: Good News
Games: Building churches. not hotels. wins
ripple. Secular publishers
new organization called "Gen-
for Bad Times' slammer
'Bibleopoly.' Next up: a Bible 'Password.'
buy in as the genre booms.
tleman" in the southern city
provides chivalrous escorts for
female tourists wary of lecher-
ous locals. The men act as gratis
SUNDAY
guides to sights such as Pompeii
Ride
and Capri-just to practice
their English and promote tour-
WHO DIES
ism. not for romance. Julv's par-
ticipants rated their dates on
a scale of 1 to 10. Chairman Os-
THE
car Citro savs: "The lowest
TO
score we ve had is an S."
Play
on
For
STILL
and
SAHAH VAN Boyrs
Nintendo and Sega: Two
New women's mags:
thumbs vs. a hail of hel-
Clarity (For Today's Wom-
lions-only now you're
an of Faith') and Hearst-
wearing the Breastplate of
distributed Aspire hope to
Righteousness. or beating
Clothing: For every secular logo, there's an
lure Cosmo readers sick of
the bullies to church
evangelical echo on caps. ties and tees
trash talk and lipstick tips
UTI 10000 NEWSWIER
8 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 1995
TOWARD BERKWILZ NEWSWER
BODERN
TAMIN BERRWILZ
M
Y
TURN
Caught in a Parent Trap
I want to do right by my adult children but also make them self-sufficient
BY KATHARINE T.HOFF
Y YOUNGER KID WAS GOING OVER THE RIVER TO
But I've made a boundary. The honeymoon was an optional
M
grandmother's house last Thanksgiving when he hit
luxury. The loan, though we don't mention it, stays on the books.
black ice. He and his passenger survived the 360-
The second son, the one who had the auto accident, emerged
degree skid-then-smash unscathed, but the car was
from school debt-free, having worked hard as a university resi-
fatally injured. And on his entry-level civil servant's
dential-life employee to support his education. But now that he's
salary. the loss- of a 1986. 120.000-mile heap-is a catastrophe.
out and working as a planner in a small city, he earns only one
My right hand reaches for my checkbook: my left hand slaps it.
third as much as his brother. His salary barely qualifies him for
What is the proper giving role. I ask myself. of relatively well-off
the middle class. He has begun an advanced calculus course at
parents to their adult (just) self-supporting (almost) children?
the state university to upgrade his skills; the $500 tuition repre-
My own parents had a clear fix on the question. Once kids
sents an appreciable percentage of his entire salary. He worries
were out of college they were, by definition. no longer kids; they
about the $10 medical copayments for each of 12 physical-thera-
were on their own. Especially if they were married-and wheth-
py sessions to relieve pain from two herniated discs. His crashed
er or not they had finished college. Luckily my brother and I had
car with no collision insurance represents an economic disaster.
no medical or other personal emergencies to test their
I define a boundary again-generous check for Christmas
boundaries.
toward a "new" used car but not enough to pay the entire cost of
I do know that when I married- graduate school-my
a car. I give no shirts, sweaters or other customary gifts so that
husband's parents paid our apartment rent for a year
the check becomes a "present." not a handout.
(different boundaries). My disapproval was so in-
New occasions will arise to make me check the
tense that we said "No thanks" to any parental as-
fine lines. Fresh combinations of circumstances al-
sistance for our remaining years of school. Thoreau-
ways arrive in our lives. But this is where I am now. I
like. we made our wants few and worked inventively
will respond to uninsured medical emergencies. I
to supply them-meat-stretcher casseroles (meat
will slant toward gifts that can be rationalized as
budget for two was 50 cents per day). Homemade
"investments"- the home down payment: birthday
plywood and brick-and-board furniture. cut-paper
checks stipulated for savings funds. and, especially,
Christmas ornaments. It was bracing. character-
assistance for continuing education. I will not incline
building. Actually. it was fun. It was also, we were
to make a gift outright for optional luxuries like
fully aware, short term-just until we got our de-
Is it kinder, in
European honeymoons.
grees. got our jobs. entered the middle-class lifestyle
"Poor babies!" I can hear the truly needy-the
to which we were born.
the long run,
currently unemployed or unemployable. the under-
Now my two sons are out of school (a J.D. and an
not to help,
paid underclass struggling to get by each mock
M.S. corporate litigator and city planner) and on
their own. They are hardworking. responsible young
and let them
my middle-class mother's angst. "Spoiled middle-
class kids with spoiling middle-class parent!"
men. They don't expect support; they rarely ask or
tough it out in
But whether to give or not to give remains an issue
even hint. But they also live on the financial edge and
to me-child of the Depression. child of rigid make-
put my pecuniary-aid limits to the test.
hard times?
your-own-way parenting. It is the middle-class mini-
The lawyer married a law-school classmate right
version of the national debate on welfare. Do hand-
after they took the bar exam. I provided a $3,000 no-interest, no-
outs weaken moral fiber. or is it simple humaneness for the
time-limit loan for the honeymoon to Italy. He managed to repay
have-mores to help out the have-lesses?
$600 in his first year of employment: nothing in the two years
My own modest surpluses come from frugality-penny-pinch-
since. Should I say "forget it" and make a gift of the rest?
ing, if truth be told-the cautious habit implanted by the thrifty
I weigh the situation. High-income two-lawyer couple.
tough love and anxieties of my parents. Was their absolutist way
Though both worked as much as they could to support their law-
the right way? Is it kinder in the long run to encourage self-
school costs. and though both received some parental help with
sufficiency. toughing it out in hard times. learning to make do or
room and board and other costs, they came out of law school
do without? Or is it kinder to help when needed? And what
with a student-loan debt that, even after three years of repay-
defines purely physical survival or some much more com-
ment installments, still exceeds $25,000. They have car pay-
plex set of psychic comforts? My kids seem to work harder than
ments. Their high income subjects them to high taxes. so they
we did and with less result: paying for the basics seems harder.
have bought a house to take advantage of mortgage deductibility.
Yet their shopping list of "basics" seems longer than ours was.
Even a modest house costs lots in the city- where they have to
their gratifications less deferred. Where does true necessity end
live because her public-service job has a residency requirement.
and self-indulgent luxury begin? If they are materialistically
I made a substantial gift toward the down payment. So now there
spoiled. should their spoilers, those of us who "wanted better for
are home costs. And first baby has arrived-more expenses.
our kids," help support their habit?
Professional jobs require looking the part, and expensive
On my map of giving. I struggle with these questions. survey-
networking-clubs. restaurants. weddings and other ceremonial
ing and resurveying the drawn lines.
occasions. The trappings-and traps- of affluence. I haven't the
heart to remind my son again of the honeymoon debt.
HOFF teaches English at Rider University. Lawrenceville, N.J.
12
NEWSWEEK AUGUST 7. 1995
PERSPECTIVES
"I'm so sorry, David."
SUSAN SMITH, sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two young sons,
in a whispered apology to her ex-husband after his anguished court testimony last week
MILCELUCKOVICH
"I thought that we were going to be one big family." TRACY
HAMPTON, on the "Today" show last week. in her first interview
No. thats not my age
since being dismissed May 1 from the jury panel in the O.J. Simpson
murder trial
"It's going to be a large task." Citadel spokesman Col.
TERRY LEEDOM, on getting Shannon Faulkner- who aspires to be
the first female cadet at the military academy- to lose 20 pounds
to meet school weight standards
"I'm so excited about this, it almost brings tears to my
Dole
eyes." Brawny steelworkers union president GEORGE BECKER, on
the proposed merger of his union with that of the automobile workers
and machinists
1995 MIKE LUCKOVICH- ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
"It's not the best decision I've ever made in my life."
THE CHECK'S IN THE MAIL!
LET'S DO LUNCH SOMETIME!
YOU HAVEN'T AGED A BIT!
Hillary Rodham Clinton aide MARGARET WILLIAMS, on removing
records from Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster's
office two days after his death
"This is very similar to how I felt when I came home
from Vietnam
They made us feel that we were the
enemy." Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco and Firearms agent
THE PART WILL BE IN MONDA!!
YOUR WAITRESS WILL BE
THE ALLIES WILL ACT IN
WITH YOU SHORTLY!
BILL BUFORD, testifying last week before a congressional panel
BOSNIA!
on the siege at Waco
"It's beyond hell in there." New York City resident
FELICIA HENNESSEY, on the lack of air conditioning in a local
Manu
welfare office
PSS/OHMAN THE OBEGONIAN
YES,MY HUSBAND HAS
LOST LOT OF WEIGHT.
"Did I win the Lotto?" Rep. MEL REYNOLDS of Illinois. on
AND YES, HE IS SUFFERING
FROMSOME SIDE EFFECTS.
hearing an 18-year-old woman propose a "threesome" with a 15-year-
old girl. Charges against Reynolds include criminal sexual assault.
"His crime is an alleged sex act against a Harley." WALTER
YATT, of Key West. Fla.. seeking clemency for a stray pig that tried
to have sex with his motorcycle
"Cappuccino. Nighterawlers." Sign at the convenience store
Kum & Go in a resort town near West Lake Okoboji. Iowa
NOTRICES
MIKESMITH
"I [show up] in the middle of the film and I never get laid."
Actor DENNIS MILLER, joking about his minor role in "The Net"
1945
Quotations are compiled from press. TV and wire-serv ICE reports as well as from NEW SWEEK correspondents.
AUGUST i. 7 1995 NFWSWEEK 17
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"ocrText": "cy aide. But publicly. the White\nHouse is trying to play down\nthe significance of China's role\nas conference host. Since the\nU.N. is sponsoring the confer-\nence, they say, Hillary's pres-\nence has nothing to do with bi-\nlateral relations between China\nand the United States. She\nwon't be meeting any Chinese\nleaders, and there won't be any\nembarrassing photo ops. Last\nweek senior foreign-policy\naides met with Hillary to lay out\nthe pros and cons of attending.\nand the pros were pretty strong.\nAt a U.N. population confer-\nence in Cairo last year. Vice\nPresident Al Gore managed to\nfor\nag compromises on\nat\nguage As the head\nWILL\nof the % delegation. Hillary\nWill Beljing create its own worst nightmare? Policewomen train for U.N. conference duty\nwill be 're than an ornament.\nIn fact. the Beijing women's\nMaking It Hard on Hillary\nconference is right up Hillary Clinton's al-\nley. Questions like women's poverty and\nthe rights of girl children, both centerpieces\nof the two-week talkathon. are genuinely\nChina: Worries over her trip to a women's summit\nclose to her heart. A big United Nations\nconference has the cachet of high-level in-\nternational politics. but it's still an accept-\nHUGE HANDPAINTED BANNER HANGS\nable extension of the milk-and-causes role\nA\nacross the highway outside Huairou,\nof a traditional presidential wife. For the\nChina: \"Expect Everything Will Turn\nwomen at the conference. Hillary Clinton is\nOut As You Wish.\" Don't count on it.\nan out-and-out heroine. \"Women of the\nMore than 25,000 delegates to the unofficial\nworld want to get a look at her.\" says Joan\npart of the Fourth World Conference on\nDunlop of the International Women's\nWomen will start arriving in Huairou this\nHealth Coalition. which is sending a large\nweek, and this muddy town 90 minutes out-\ndelegation to the conference. \"She has al-\nside Beijing is probably not what they ex-\nmost perfect pitch on these issues. Women\npected at all. Even the shirtless workers\ngenuinely admire her.\"\nerecting circus tents in the center of\nDenying visas: China couldn't have known\ntown don't think they'll be ready in time.\nwhat this conference would entail when it\nSeveral buildings don't have electricity yet.\nbid five years ago for the honor of being\nThe \"residential sites\" are little better than\nhost. But last March. hard-line prime min-\nmarine barracks. with five beds to a room,\nister Li Peng was heckled by unruly NGOs\nplus a rickety fan. \"Motel 6 is better than\nat a U.N. conference in Copenhagen. The\nthis.\" said a Western diplomat on an inspec-\nJEFFREY ARKOWITZ-SYGMA\nChinese government has denied visas to a\ntion tour.\n'Almost perfect pitch': The First Lady\nhandful of NGOs focusing on Taiwanese\nChina exiled the nongovernmental or-\nand Tibetan causes. and thousands more\nganizations (NGOs) to this obscure town\nagonizing. \"China couldn't have handled\napplicants have met with bureaucratic de-\nprecisely to avoid trouble. Instead, Beijing\nthis more poorly,\" says Tim Wirth, under\nlays, but it's probably already too late to\nmay end up creating its own worst night-\nsecretary of state for global affairs. \"On is-\navoid at least a smattering of demonstra-\nmare: a big group of angry feminists with\nsue after issue, they seem to be thumbing\ntions. One Latin American group wants to\nsome particular gripes about China. Ironi-\ntheir noses at the international communi-\nstage a \"mock vote\" in favor of Chinese\ncally. that's Hillary Clinton's big concern,\nty.\" China's ongoing war games off the\nwomen's rights: an Australian NGO plans\ntoo. As honorary chairman of the U.S. dele-\ncoast of Taiwan have only heightened the\nto lay flowers in Tiananmen Square to com-\ngation. she hopes to attend the official part\ntension. White House sources say Hillary\nmemorate students killed in the 1989 de-\nof the United Nations conference beginning\nwill probably end up going. but if the Chi-\nmocracy movement. \"The question is not\nSept. 4. But China's mishandling of the\nnese start harassing delegates while Hilla-\nwhether to demonstrate. but how.\" says a\nNGOs-coupled with the fact that they're\nry's in town, the result could be a major\nmember of the Australian group. Western\nplanning to put Chinese-American human-\nforeign-policy embarrassment.\ndiplomats in Beijing say they're prepar-\nrights activist Harry Wu on trial for espio-\nPrivately, some administration officials\ning-just in case-to negotiate the release\nnage-has put Mrs. Clinton in a delicate\nare exasperated at how the Clintons have\nof jailed delegates. Welcome to China. Mrs.\nposition. She received a letter last week\nwaffled over Hillary's plans. \"They should\nClinton.\nfrom Wu's wife, begging her not to attend,\nhave decided this weeks ago. and stuck\nCARROLL BOGERT with KATHARINE CHUBBUCK\nand that has made the decision even more\nwith their decision.\" says one foreign-poli-\nin Beijing and KAREN BRESLAU in Washington\nAUGUST 28. 1995 NEWSWEEK\n45\nOUT OF BOUNDS\nFIRST FAMILY\nWestward Ho\nHonoring O.J.\nQ\nUICK-WHO WOULD YOU\nNSTEAD OF CLOGGING THE\nname as Athlete of the Cen-\nbeaches of Martha's Vine-\ntury? Jesse Owens, Martina\nyard. Mass., this summer, the\nNavratilova, Michael Jordan?\nFirst Family's entourage will\nTry former football great and\nbe hogging the hiking trails of\ncurrent double-murder defend\nthe Tetons. This week the\nant O.J. Simpson.\nClintons head for the Jackson\nLos Angeles me-\nHole. Wyo., home of fellow\ndallion maker\nDemocrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller\nLarry Labell of\nof West Virginia, and locals\nLaurence Net-\nare not looking forward to the\nPresidential retreat: Senator Rockefeller's Teton County spread\nwork Corp., cit-\nhassle. Once the president\nin the area. Either way, the\ning an elusive \"me-\ngets his obligatory Yellow-\nFirst Clan will be staying near\ndia poll,\" is\nstone National Park visit out\nthe sweeping homes of Rev-\nminting 225,000\nO.J. coin\nof the way, he'll have a belated\nlon chairman Ronald Perelman\nshamelessly topical silver coin\n49th-birthday bash at former\nand the Firestone and Du Pont\nhonoring Simpson as Athlete 0\nTreasury official Roger Alt-\nfamilies. But Clinton can't get\nthe Century. Though Simpson\nman's ranch and may even\ntoo comfortable: Wyoming is\nwill receive a cut, Labell insist\ndine with Harrison Ford. Like\nGOP territory. And with the\nthe $59.95 coins shouldn't be\nrecent visitors Don Johnson\nand Tom Selleck, Clinton will\nDowntown Jackson's antler arch\nSouth pitted squarely against\nseen as a fund-raiser for O.J.'s\nhim, White House watchers\nlegal fees. What's next Judge\nsurely play a round at Teton\nquent visitors Tom Brokaw or\nsay he's wise to emulate John\nIto's mug hammered into \"Tria\nPines golf course, where for-\nUma Thurman. And if she's\nKennedy, who went West in\nof the Century\" coins?\nmer defense secretary Dick\nlucky. Chelsea will bump into\n'63 after losing support in Dix-\nCheney has a house. Advance\nKevin Costner or Brad Pitt,\nie in the wake of the civil-\nTRAVEL\nworkers could run into fre-\nboth said to be house-hunting\nrights movement.\nCivil Service\nit traces of melato-\nCRIME\nW\nITH TOURISTS FLOODING\nnin in the liquid\nBeijing (and thousands de\nwith boosting the\nSoap Squad\nscending next month for the\nimmune system.\nU.N. Women's Conference).\nIn New York City,\nB\nAD ENOUGH THAT OUR\ncertified plumber\nsociety produces criminals;\nMartin Lara lec-\nwhile they're in jail, they get\ntures AIDS pa-\nhooked on \"Oprah.\" Or so, ap-\ntients on the bene-\nparently, thinks Attorney Gen-\nfits of \"uropathy.\"\neral Janet Reno, who is endors-\nEager to heed the\ning a proposal to yank inmate\nBible's directive to\naccess to soap operas and other\n\"drink waters from\nmind-numbing TV. They'll just\nBottoms up: Costner and Gandhi\nthine own cis-\nhave to learn instead: the Jus-\ntern\"? Some coun-\ntice Department has OK'd a\nTRENDS\nsel from a practitioner more or-\n$150,000-plus pilot program.\nthodox than Mr. Lara, Dr. Marc\nproposed by the National Sher-\nHospitality 101: Beijing\nGee Whiz\nMicozzi: \"If the body is trying\niffs' Association. that would\nto eliminate something from the\nlimit local and county inmates\nthe Chinese government is\nH\nERE'S A TREND THAT'S HARD\nsystem. that would be a sign\nto viewing satellite-transmitted\ncleaning up the city, and a few\nto swallow: some fans of ho-\nthat it's not a good idea to ingest\nshows on subjects like math,\nmouths. It's barred service-in\nlistic healing are drinking their\nit.\" Micozzi needn't worry too\nEnglish and parenting. Says\ndustry workers from mutterin\nown urine. Gandhi did it in In-\nmuch-urotherapy enthusiasts\nNSA executive director Bud\n50 phrases. Among them:\ndia and Kevin Costner did it in\nare still a wee group indeed.\nMeeks, \"Recidivism is going to\n\"Go ask somebody else\"\n\"Waterworld.\" Now urine-\nSays London yoga teacher and\ngo down.\" Sure it will-why go\n\"If you think the bus is slow\nquaffing is gaining popularity in\nurine drinker Ve-\nback to jail when\nget off\"\nBritain and the United States.\ndanta Saraswati:\nyou can watch the\n\"I don't care who you tell\"\nKnown for centuries as \"amar-\n\"Westerners in gen-\nDiscovery Channel\n\"Don't ask if you won't buy'\noli\" in tantric yoga, the practice\neral are awfully fun-\nfrom the comfort of\n\"You eat like a pig\"\nis said to cure ailments from\nny about things that\nyour own home?\n\"I don't have change. Go fin\ntuberculosis to gingivitis to jet\ncome out of\nSARAH VAN BOVEN\nsome yourself\"\nlag. Some \"urotherapists\" cred-\norifices.\"\nand JENNIFER TANAKA\n\"Get to the back of the line.\nTOP TO BOTTOM TED WOOD DAVID N NEWSWEEK TED WO\n8\nNEWSWEEK AUGUST 21. 1995\nBEN GLASS. DAVE DAVIS-BETTMANN ERICA LANSNER CHIPA\nMY\nTURN\nHarry's Story\nThe Chinese government, by arresting my husband, is helping his cause\nBY CHING-LEE WU\n'M AFRAID THAT THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC\nBut they didn't; they wanted to punish Harry again for his\nof China don't know the American expression to \"shoot\ncriticism of the communist system.\nvourself in the foot.\" In any case, that's what they have done\nMillions of people who had never before heard of Harry Wu\nby arresting my husband, Harry Wu, and bringing charges\nnow know of him and of the reasons he, a free American citizen,\nof \"stealing state secrets\" against him. Harry, a survivor of\nwould take such huge risks. The Chinese government used its\n19 long years in China's Laogai, its system of forced-labor camps,\nhuge propaganda machine recently to make it seem as if he had\ndecided to dedicate the rest of his life not just to describing his\n\"confessed.\" They titled the 13-minute video \"Just See the Lies of\nown experiences in this modern gulag but also to exposing a\nWu Hongda,\" which was Harry's name as a Chinese citizen.\nmore frightening reality: how the Laogai, by inflicting unbeliev-\nMy heart fell in sadness as I watched an excerpt from that\nable brutalities on millions of Chinese men and women, still\nvideo. In one brief scene that showed him signing an arrest\nhelps cow the rest of the population into submission.\nwarrant on July 8, Harry appeared normal. In subsequent shots,\nOf late Harry was becoming impatient with himself, afraid he\ntaken as he was being interrogated by four policemen, Harry was\nhad not made enough progress in his mission, and so at the age of\na different man. He was unshaven and looked downcast and\n58 he decided to make one last trip into China to update his\nweary. He had clearly lost weight. His posture was odd, as\ninformation. Three times before, twice in 1991 and once in 1994,\nthough he had been dumped into the chair sideways with his legs\nhe had succeeded in enterin China and collecting audiovisual\ntangled beneath him. The voice was his, but strangely low. How\ndocumentation firsthand, ev. a a camp where he had once\nmany days, or hours each day, had be been interrogated? How\nbeen a prisoner himself. This the he failed.\nmuch sleep had he been deprived by his interrogators?\nAt a border post in northwestern China, police stopped him on\nOn the day this story broke (July 27), reporters in at least 10\nJune 19, with the help of a computer database listing undesira-\nseparate interviews asked me how I felt about Harry's \"confes-\nbles. They could have turned him back, as they did his assistant.\nsion.\" \"It's a joke,\" I said. Chinese propaganda called it a \"con-\nThe Honda 95 Clearance. Timing\nAmerican Inc\nfession\" and the media repeated the false charge, but Harry\nmore the regime would try to smear him. He told me to prepare\n\"confessed\" to nothing. In his answers to police, he conceded\nfor this. Anyone who takes the time to look at the evidence he has\nthat a 1994 BBC TV production which he had helped research\naccumulated will see that it stands up to scrutiny.\ncontained several errors, but denied that he was responsible.\nHarry will be surprised to learn how much support his cause\nThe Laogai Research Foundation, of which Harry is executive\nhas mustered. Both the U.S. Congress and the European Parlia-\ndirector, in January 1995 published an extensive re-\nment passed strong resolutions urging Harry's im-\nport of his titled \"Communist Charity, the Use of\nmediate release. Australia's foreign minister, Gareth\nExecuted Prisoners' Organs in China.\" That report,\nEvans, had his government make very early repre-\nwhich the tape did not mention, cites evidence from\nsentations to the Chinese government, both in Bei-\nother sources, including an internal government\njing and in Melbourne. Archbishop Desmond Tutu\ndocument and human-rights organizations, on how\nintervened personally with the Chinese Trade Mis-\nChina harvests the organs of executed prisoners for\nsion in South Africa. U.S. Secretary of State Warren\ntransplants, and supplements that information with\nChristopher has demanded Harry's release.\ntestimony that Harry gathered firsthand from Chi-\nIn my travels to Washington, Paris and London I\nnese medical personnel and patients.\npinned yellow ribbons on Newt Gingrich, Dick Gep-\nThe communist officials hate Harry because he\nHarry wants\nhardt, Margaret Thatcher and other political leaders\nkeeps telling the ugly truth about the communist\nto expose the\nI had previously seen only on television. On July 29,\nsystem in all its horrors. About two months ago,\nhundreds of demonstrators marked Free Harry Wu\nHarry, speaking to a group of business executives in\nforced-labor\nDay in Hong Kong, Sydney, London, Washington,\nNew York City, summarized his indictment of that\nLos Angeles, San Francisco and other cities.\nsystem this way:\ncamps, where\nWhat all this means is that the longer Chi-\nThe Laogai serves as the \"machinery for crushing\nhe survived\nnese communists keep Harry, the more interest they\nhuman beings physically, psychologically and spiri-\nwill stimulate in the hidden truths about the Laogai.\ntually.\" It \"is not a prison system; it is a tool for\nfor 19 years\nNow, perversely, the Chinese government is help-\nmaintaining the Communist Party's totalitarian con-\ning his cause.\ntrol.\" It's an integral part of China's national econo\nroducing\nThe regime in Beijing wants to silence Harry Wu. It can't,\nfor domestic and foreign markets. Despite a U.S.\nohibiting\nwhatever it does. It can't silence other survivors of the Laogai,\nforced-labor imports and China's signed agreement \"\npect that\nnow coming forward to tell their stories. And it can't silence me.\nlaw, Laogai products \"continue to enter U.S. markets.\nThese are \"lies\" that infuriate the communist officials. Harry\nMrs. WU works with her husband at the Laogai Research Foun-\nonce warned me that the more his message became known, the\ndation, in Milpitas, Calif.\neverything. At Your Honda Dealer. H\nPERSPECTIVES\n\"I think I've always been pro-life. I just didn't know it.\"\nNORMA McCORVEY, \"Jane Roe\" in the landmark 1973 Roe V. Wade decision that legalized abortion,\non why she joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue last week\n\"People are more interested in a strong economy than\nPerot\nsomeone who can tell you if Hootie & the Blowfish are\ngoing to have a strong album next time.\" Bob Dole's press\nsecretary, NELSON WARFIELD, on why hipness won't be a factor\nYáll look worse\nin the '96 presidential campaign\nthan an armadillos\nrump! Let's move\n\"Maybe we should have executed him at 13th and Locust,\nBOB\non to the talent\nPAT\nportion!.\nwhere he executed Danny Faulkner.\" Philadelphia policeman\nDOLE\n100\nJAMES GREEN, on a judge's decision to grant political activist\nNYMPIDA\nand convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal a stay of execution\nSPECTER\n\"I bought an Olympic license tag. I bought an Olympic\nbrick. And this is the thanks I get.\" Atlanta resident\nDAN BOLING, after finding out his landlord plans to sublease his\n$475-a-month apartment to Olympic visitors for $3,000 a month\nC1995 LUCKOVICH - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION\nWEVE INVITED JUDGE\nITO WITH THE HOPES\nTHESE HEARINGS WILL\n\"I hear Bach and [Jerry] Garcia are gonna blow the roof\nCONTINUE UNTIL THE\noff tonight.\" Unnamed user of the WELL, a Sausalito,\n96 ELECTION...\nCalif.-based online bulletin-board system, on the death\nof the Grateful Dead bandleader\n\"We had oral sex\nhe prefers that modus operandi\nbecause then he can say 'I never slept with her'.\"\nANNE MANNING, a volunteer during Newt Gingrich's failed\n1976 congressional campaign, alleging a tryst with Gingrich\nin the spring of 1977\nD'AMATO\nWHITEWATER\nC 1995 MARKSTEIN - MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL\n\"[It's] a truly great moment for severe drunkards\nlike myself.\" Pub patron ADAN STONEBRIDGE, on the repeal\nWINDOWS\nof historic British laws requiring bars to close between 3 p.m.\n95\nand 7 p.m. on Sundays\n\"Easy 100.3 is the perfect radio station to listen while\nyou work.\" L.A. prostitute DIVINE BROWN, in new TV ads for\nthe radio station she says she was listening to during her encounter\nwith actor Hugh Grant, for which she faces lewd-conduct charges\n00\n\"I want to say 'Sorry' to children everywhere for selling out\nto concerns who make millions by murdering animals.\"\nOnetime Ronald McDonald actor GEOFF GIULIANO, now a\nc 1995 MARGULIES RECORD\n'This makes it so easy to use a computer, even an adult can do it!.\nvegetarian, apologizing for his past job, in an animal-rights newsletter\nQuotations are compiled from press TV and wire-service reports as well as from NEWSWEEK correspondents.\nAUGUST 21, 1995 NEWSWEEK 21\nNATIONAL AFFAIRS\nhealth-conscious, vote-rich California. Nor\nwill Democratic coffers suffer much. The\nindustry gave nearly six times as much\nAn End in Sight (Maybe)\nmoney to Republicans in the 1994 elections.\nStrategist Dick Morris, who has pushed\nClinton to stake out issues that define him\nWhitewater: Trying to finish the investigations\nmore sharply, strongly favored the idea.\nVice President Al Gore, whose sister died\nof lung cancer, prefaced his comments in\ned Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy\nmeetings by saying he wasn't objec-\nTucker for fraud and conspira-\ntive-and then argued for a tough stance.\ncy. Starr's probe will be the final\nThe anti-tobacco offensive caps months\nword on whether Whitewater\nof backstage manuevering. Last spring the\nbecomes a danger to Clinton's\nindustry and its congressional supporters\nchances for re-election-or\ngrew nervous as the FDA prepared its case.\nwhether, as many Democrats\nFearing that the new rules would eventual-\nbelieve, it is much ado about\nly lead to a total ban on cigarettes, they\nnothing much.\nbegan negotiations with the White House\nNEWSWEEK has learned that\non a legislative compromise. The adminis-\nStarr is pushing to make all the\ntration was willing to deal; aides preferred\nkey decisions in his $11 million\na new law to the often-protracted FDA\ninvestigation within the next\nrule-making process. Officials say they\nfew weeks-possibly as early as\nwere close to an accord. but the two sides\nLabor Day. The main reason is\ncouldn't resolve several sticking points, in-\nthat the 1996 campaign is now\ncluding the government's insistence that\nvery close at hand. Even though\nglitzy \"point of sale\" displays in stores be\nStarr himself is a Republican,\nrestricted. Clinton wouldn't compromise;\nallowing a criminal investiga-\nhe was particularly aved by The Journal\ntion to continue during the\nof the American Medical Association,\ncoming presidential campaign\nwhich devoted its entire July 19 issue to the\nwould open him to charges of\nhealth implications of smoking. \"It's hard to\nletting politics cloud his judg-\nargue with this,\" he told senior aides.\nment. \"Ken is very conscious\nStill, negotiations continued to the last\nthat he doesn't want this to drag\nminute. White House officials first said that\non into the presidential elec-\nClinton would unveil the plan during a\ntion,\" says one source close to\nspeech in North Carolina on Wednesday.\nLARRY DOWNING-NEWSWEEK\nthe investigation.\nWhen he held back, aides implied that he\nHe says he'd do It again: Nussbaum testifying\nJames McDougal, the Arkan-\ndidn't want to embarrass Southern Demo-\nsas S&L operator who was the\ncrats in the heart of tobacco country. In\nHE WHITEWATER SCANDAL OCCUPIED\nfact. the administration was still seeking\nT\nClintons' business partner in Whitewater,\nkey committees in both the House and\nremains a possible target-although he has\na deal. But talks broke down for good af-\nSenate last week-a two-ring circus\nalready been tried and acquitted on charges\nter Clinton returned from Charlotte that\nwhose single goal seemed to be causing\nstemming from the collapse of his thrift.\nnight. Word of the first industry lawsuit\nmaximum embarrassment to Bill and Hilla-\nStarr has also been looking into allegations\nreached the White House the next day as\nry Clinton and their friends. In the House, a\nthat McDougal's bank illegally contributed\nClinton rehearsed his announcement with\nlow-level government banking investigator\nfunds to Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial cam-\naides. Gore immediately declared victory.\nnamed Jean Lewis told the story of how she\npaign. But lawyers familiar with the case\n\"They've done you a huge favor,\" he told\ntried for nearly two years to get higher-ups\nsay it now seems unlikely that Starr will\nClinton. \"They put the spotlight on you.\"\nin Washington to take the matter seriously.\nbring charges based on most of the issues\nThe White House has a long way to go\nIn the Senate, former White House counsel\nraised in last week's hearings. These issues\nbefore it will be able to steer teens away\nBernard Nussbaum took the stand to de-\ninclude claims of favorable treatment for\nfrom smoking. While the matter is in the\nfend his conduct during the investigation of\nMcDougal while Clinton was governor and\ncourts, the FDA has no authority. By filing\nVince Foster's 1993 suicide. Nussbaum de-\nquestions about Hillary Clinton's efforts to\nsuit in North Carolina. the industry is\nnied there had been a cover-up. He insisted\nrepresent McDougal before the state gov-\ncounting on a sympathetic hearing in tobac-\nhe made \"the right calls\" in the confusion\nernment while she was a partner in the\nco's backyard. Even if the FDA wins the\nafter Foster's death and said he would do it\nRose Law Firm. Though politically embar-\ncourt case, critics say enforcement of the\n\"essentially the same way\" again.\nrassing. these actions probably don't add up\nnew rules would be spotty. It would be left\nWhether or not this assault by the con-\nto a criminal case, the sources say.\nto the FDA's understaffed inspection arm,\ngressional GOP is influencing the voters is\nSo everyone in Washington will be wait-\nthe industry itself and local authorities who\nanybody's guess. The real action, as both\ning for Starr's findings. But even if he finds\nseldom enforced state statutes against teen\nsides know, lies with independent counsel\nno cause for indictment, Whitewater has\nsmoking. And adolescents themselves, pre-\nKenneth Starr, who has been quietly inves-\nalready cost the Clintons dearly. Figures\ndictably, bridled at the president's message,\ntigating the Whitewater affair for a year.\nreleased last week showed that contribu-\nsaying they would make their own deci-\nLike any prosecutor, Starr and his staff\ntions to their defense fund seem to be tail-\nsions without his help. In the end, the ad-\nhave the legal authority to bring criminal\ning off-and the First Couple now faces\nministration can gain points for picking a\ncharges. They have already sent Webster\n$1.6 million in unpaid legal bills.\nfight with an unpopular industry. but it may\nHubbell, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton's\nMARK HOSENBALL and MICHAEL ISIKOFF\nnot do much to stop kids from smoking.\noldest friends, to jail, and they have indict-\nin Washington\n26 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 21, 1995\nShe is now using her clout to help J.P.\nW`th Friends Like Hillary\nMorgan and Co. on an issue of far greater\nsignificance than tollbooths. The company\nhopes to finance the privatization of the\nInfluence: One lobbyist isn't subtle about her ties\nU.S. Enrichment Corporation. a federally\nbacked agency that buvs de-enriched urani-\num from Russia's nuclear-weapons stock-\npile. The idea of privatizing USEC is con-\nONE DOUBTS HER STATUS AS A VERY\nmight obstruct the view of Niagara Falls.\ntroversial. since critics say it could create a\nN\nspecial friend of Bill and Hillary or\n\"There's no question Susan used the spec-\nmonopoly in the world uranium market. In\nthat Susan Thomases. a brash New\nter of White House interest as a calling\nrecent months Thomases has pressed the\nYork securities lawver who has known both\ncard.\" one participant savs. During a meet-\nplan with senior Treasury officials.\nClintons since the 1970s. played an impor-\ning with recalcitrant federal officials. this\nIronically. only last week Clinton an-\ntant unofficial role in the confusion after\nsource recalls. Thomases mentioned her in-\nnounced a decision to restrict lobbvists ac-\nVince Foster's suicide. Thomases. who\nvolvement in the administration's plans to\ncess to federal officials. The reform will\nserved the Clinton presidential campaign\n\"reinvent government.\" then pointedly told\napply to many other Beltway operators. of\nas chief scheduler and who is still Hillary\nher adversaries \"who knows where you're\ncourse-but the Clintons might want to\nClinton private lawver. will be questioned\nall going to end up when the reorganiza-\nmake an exception for the First Ladv's pal.\nat the Senate Whitewater hearings this\ntion is over.\nMICHAEL ISIKOFF in Washington\nweek. That should raise her\nprofile as an influential member\nof the Clinton entourage. But\nwhat few outside the Beltway\nSexual Harassment: Circling the Wagons\nknow is that Thomases has\nturned her friendship into a ca-\nEXUAL HARASSMENT IS\nthat hearings on the allega-\ncompany issued a statement\nreer as a Washington influence\nS\ntaken more seriously to-\ntions of sexual misconduct\ncalling the allegations against\npeddler-and she isn't subtle\nday then ever before. es-\nagainst Packwood would re-\nhim \"baseless.\" Citing Del's\nabout it.\npecially in the wake of Anita\nmain closed to the public.\nimpressive success during his\nThomases declined repeated\nHill and Tailhook. But is it\nIn a second widely publi-\ntenure. the board of directors\nrequests for comment. But\ntaken seriously enough? Two\ncized case, the Equal Employ-\nalso expressed their \"com-\nthose who have seen her at\nevents in the last week have\nment Opportunity Commis-\nplete confidence\" in him.\nwork describe a heavy-handed\nleft many wondering.\nsion announced a $1.2 million\nAdvocates of women's\nstyle. Hired to represent a\nNo fewer than 19 women-\nsexual-harassment settlement\nrights concede the news isn't\ngroup of Puerto Rican compa-\ntwo of whose complaints be-\nagainst Del Laboratories Inc.,\nall bad-not so long ago har-\nnies in a dispute with the\ncame known for the first time\na New York cosmetics compa-\nassment charges would hard-\nU.S. Department of Housing\nlast Thursday- have come\nny. Last year the EEOC filed\nly have won big settlements or\nand Urban Development. she\nforward to accuse Oregon\nsuit on behalf of 15 female em-\neven closed-door Senate\nstunned a lawyer representing\nSen. Bob Packwood of un-\nployees charging Del's CEO\nhearings. Even so, the treat-\nthe firms by announcing that\nwanted groping and grabbing.\nDan Wassong with. among\nment of Packwood and Was-\n\"this matter is not going to be\nPackwood. who claims the\nother things, inviting some to\nsong is a reminder that organ-\nreviewed by the president of\ncharges stem from miscom-\nperform oral sex. Despite the\nizations are still struggling to\nthe United States' mes-\nmunication. protests he meant\nsettlement, the largest of its\nget it right.\nsage being that she could in-\nno harm. In an emotional\nkind in EEOC history, Del is\nLESLIE KAUFMAN with\nvolve him if need be. The law-\nvote, the full Senate agreed\nstanding by Wassong. The\nSUSAN MILLER\nyer. Dan Krivit. says his first\nthought was \"I would hope he's\ngot better things to do.\"\nHigh-level help: Thomases\ncharged ahead got to the\ntop of the White House staff. In\nlate March she got Krivit a meet-\ningwith Bruce Katz, chiefof staff\nat HUD. Katz then got a call\nfrom White House deputy chief\nof staff Harold Ickes inquiring\nabout the Puerto Rican problem.\n\"I'm asked for status reports on\nlots of things.\" Katz said.\nThomases also represented\nthe Niagara River Toll Bridge\nCommission. an obscure quasi-\npublic body in upper New York\nstate. in a profoundly picayune\ndispute with the National Park\nService. The commission want-\nPHOTOS ROBERT CUMINS\ned to build a toil plaza: the Feds\nHarmless? Aides say embraces like this. at a 1982 reception. were purely innocent\nobjected that the structure\nAUGUST 14. 1995 NEWSWEEK 35\nFile back\nin Newsweek\nin proper\norder\n-\nPOLITICS\nPeriscope\nMonumental\nWHITEWATER\nManeuvers\nNew Fears\nA\nNTICIPATING THAT A DEAD-\nlock this fall with President\nN\nEW YORK LAWYER AND\nClinton over GOP spending\nFriend of Hillary Susan Tho-\nbills will force government to\nmases is expected to testify at\ngrind to a halt. House Republi-\nWhitewater hearings next week.\ncans are orchestrating a selec-\nand Democrats are bracing for\ntive shutdown. Stretching the\nwhat some say could be \"a disas-\nWaiting game: Senator Packwood's chairmanship is at stake\ndefinition of the law's mandate\nter.\" Thomases's prickly manner\nthat \"essential\" elements of\nhas alienated nearly everyone in\nCONGRESS\ngovernment go forward. GOP\nClinton's orbit: aides fear she'll\nstrategists will propose that vis-\nPackwood's Next Battle?\nible national sym-\nsuch as the\nEN. BOB PACKWOOD OF OREGON ISNT IN THE CLEAR\nWashington Mon-\nS\nyet. The Senate ethics committee. under pressure from\nument and Statue\nCalifornia Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's repeated\nof Liberty re-\ncalls for public hearings on sexual-misconduct charges\nmain open. Why?\nagainst the GOP senator, may decide to do more than censure\nTo avoid the sort\nhim. Sources close to Packwood say they now fear the commit-\nof public-relations\ntee could recommend that the entire Senate vote on whether\nfiasco that ensued\nto strip Packwood of his chairmanship of the Senate Finance\nduring the three-\nCommittee. rather than let Senate Republicans decide his fate\nday federal shut-\nToo hot to handle? Thomases\nin a secret ballot. Tossing the decision to the full Senate and a\ndown under the\npublic. recorded vote would all but guarantee that Packwood\nBush administra-\nalso rile Congress and the TV\nloses his chairmanship. Still, the six-member committee is\ntion in 1990. when\npublic. Asked whether anvone is\nconsidered unlikely to call for public hearings, on the ground\ncrowds of angry\nOpen for\npreparing Thomases for her tes-\nthat Packwood is not really contesting the charges. In addi-\ntourists made\nbusiness\ntimony on Hillary's alleged role\ntion. hearings would be a humiliating experience for the Sen-\nheadlines. If the\nin impeding the investigation of\nate as a whole. Yet the committee, which is evenly divided\nshutdown occurs. thousands of\nDeputy White House Counsel\nbetween Republicans and Democrats, is equally uncomfort-\nfederal employees would be\nVincent Foster's death. one con-\nable with the prospect of being accused of protecting Pack-\nfurloughed and lose pay. Asked\ngressional aide said. \"There's\nwood. Says one GOP aide: \"They don't want public hearings,\nwhat is considered \"nonessen-\nnot enough money to pay me\nbut they want to give him pretty stiff punishment.\"\ntial.\" a GOP aide replied: \"the\nto do that.\"\nCommerce Department.\"\nWASHINGTON FAX\nCOURTS\nCONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH\nDefense Pork\nSlammer Suits\nTrials and Hearings Edition\nJ\nust how much pork is in\nThe CW's fighting the heat the only reason to go outside is\nthe House National Se-\nF\nED UP WITH THE PRISONER\nsoporific trials and hearings inside on TV. No matter how hot it\ncurity Committee's mili-\nlawsuits that now make up\nis, it beats watching D'Amato trying to make witnesses sweat.\ntary-construction budget?\naround 20 percent of all cases\nNEWSWEEK has learned the\nbefore the federal courts. the\nPlayers\nConventional Wisdom\ncommittee's $10.7 billion\nNational Association of Attor-\nneys General this week releases\nS. Smith\nrequest for fiscal '96\nJustice in three weeks. (You watching. Ito?)\nincludes $500 million in\nits own state-by-state lists of\nAnd the right sentence. too. Let her rot.\nadd-ons and that more than\nthe suits it considers the most\nO.J.\nDefense keeps calling witnesses that help the\n80 percent of those extras\nfrivolous. In Ohio alone. in-\nprosecution. Pull up your socks. Johnnie.\nwere earmarked for proj-\nmates claim various prisons\nhave violated their rights to\nWhitewater\nects in committee members'\nNot even a smoking squirt gun yet. but CW\nan orthopedically correct\nwants to hear from Nussbaum. Thomases.\nhome states. The commit-\ntee's GOP chairman, Rep.\nwooden gymnasium floor\nWaco\nNow we get it. If the Feds had said \"pretty\nFloyd Spence of South Caro-\nwear sunglasses\nplease.\" Koresh would have caved. Please.\nlina, has said that every new\npark benches\nproject-like new squash\nmeet Gov. George Voinovich,\nPackwood\nOld CW: Packy's tongue in your mouth. New\nwho was touring a prison\nCW: Sen. Boxer's fist in his kisser.\ncourts at the Puget Sound\nNaval Shipyard and renova-\nhave Rolling Stone magazine\nHeat\nSure it's hot. but CW won't have to jog once\ntion of an air force band's re-\ndelivered to isolation cells\nit's taken that new magic fat pill.\ncording studio-passed a\nown Soap on a Rope\n\"rigorous, self-imposed\nscreening process.\"\nLETT BOBERT NEWSWEEK LARRY BRUCT\nBOOKS\nBEER\nGrowing Up\nHold the Port\nGoofy\nBold enough to try red Bor-\ndeaux with salmon? There is\nA\nND PERI THOUGHT ALL\nnow a recommended beer for\nBarry Williams and Roger\nevery dessert. A gourmet guide:\nClinton had in common was\nDESSERT\nBEER\nbad hair. \"Growing Up Brady\"\nNineties hanger-on: Clinton\nSeventies icon: Williams\nChocolate layer cake\nStout\nand the recently published\nPecan pie\nAmber ale\n\"Growing Up Clinton\" tell a\nminiature robot\": state troopers\nzler. a fellow con. Williams. on\ndifferent story: Williams offers\ntalk to Clinton like he's \"the\nworking stoned: \"I still don't\nCrème caramel\nDoppelbock\na running chronology of Brady\nworst sort of trash.\" Williams\nknow for sure if anyone actually\nFruit fritters\nPilsener\nepisodes: Clinton offers a chro-\ncons blond singer turned ac-\nknew my secret.\" Clinton. on\nCheesecake\nBitter\nnological rundown of his prison\ntress Florence Henderson into\nworking as a drug dealer: \"I\nStrawberry shortcake\nPale ale\nterm. Producers talk to Wil-\na date: Clinton dates blond\nmay have been oblivious. but\nPound cake\nWeissbier\nw/\nliams as if he's \"some sort of\nbank manager turned embez-\nI'm not so sure Mother was.\"\nlemon slice\nPERI PICKS\nCrepes\nOktoberfest\nSorbet\nBarley wine\nHe Moves the Goods in Mysterious Ways\nChocolate\nPorter\nganache torte\nSOURCE: LLCY SAUNDERS FOOD AND BEER\nHRISTIAN MARKETERS HAVE ALWAYS PROFITED BY IMITATING POP CULTURE. THE FAITH-\nC\nCOMPANION\nful share in the mainstream's fun: the faithless are reminded that God is relevant. After tripling\nsales to more than S3 billion a year since 1980. religious retailers are hoping to snare soul-\nsearching baby boomers with less preachy. hipper products. A PERI look at the latest inspirations:\nCHERISH\nBIBLEOPOLY\nHave your cake and chug beer too\n3:16\n<<\nTRAVEL\nFIVE\nTour Guys\nBible POGs: The milk-cap\nRomance novels: Love\ngame is so hot. even Sunday-\ntriangles mean him. her\nC\nT\nHE ITALIAN PLAYBOY is NO\nschool truants won't turn\nand Him: bodices barely\nmatch for Salerno's gent. A\ndown a \"Jesus: Good News\nGames: Building churches. not hotels. wins\nripple. Secular publishers\nnew organization called \"Gen-\nfor Bad Times' slammer\n'Bibleopoly.' Next up: a Bible 'Password.'\nbuy in as the genre booms.\ntleman\" in the southern city\nprovides chivalrous escorts for\nfemale tourists wary of lecher-\nous locals. The men act as gratis\nSUNDAY\nguides to sights such as Pompeii\nRide\nand Capri-just to practice\ntheir English and promote tour-\nWHO DIES\nism. not for romance. Julv's par-\nticipants rated their dates on\na scale of 1 to 10. Chairman Os-\nTHE\ncar Citro savs: \"The lowest\nTO\nscore we ve had is an S.\"\nPlay\non\nFor\nSTILL\nand\nSAHAH VAN Boyrs\nNintendo and Sega: Two\nNew women's mags:\nthumbs vs. a hail of hel-\nClarity (For Today's Wom-\nlions-only now you're\nan of Faith') and Hearst-\nwearing the Breastplate of\ndistributed Aspire hope to\nRighteousness. or beating\nClothing: For every secular logo, there's an\nlure Cosmo readers sick of\nthe bullies to church\nevangelical echo on caps. ties and tees\ntrash talk and lipstick tips\nUTI 10000 NEWSWIER\n8 NEWSWEEK AUGUST 1995\nTOWARD BERKWILZ NEWSWER\nBODERN\nTAMIN BERRWILZ\nM\nY\nTURN\nCaught in a Parent Trap\nI want to do right by my adult children but also make them self-sufficient\nBY KATHARINE T.HOFF\nY YOUNGER KID WAS GOING OVER THE RIVER TO\nBut I've made a boundary. The honeymoon was an optional\nM\ngrandmother's house last Thanksgiving when he hit\nluxury. The loan, though we don't mention it, stays on the books.\nblack ice. He and his passenger survived the 360-\nThe second son, the one who had the auto accident, emerged\ndegree skid-then-smash unscathed, but the car was\nfrom school debt-free, having worked hard as a university resi-\nfatally injured. And on his entry-level civil servant's\ndential-life employee to support his education. But now that he's\nsalary. the loss- of a 1986. 120.000-mile heap-is a catastrophe.\nout and working as a planner in a small city, he earns only one\nMy right hand reaches for my checkbook: my left hand slaps it.\nthird as much as his brother. His salary barely qualifies him for\nWhat is the proper giving role. I ask myself. of relatively well-off\nthe middle class. He has begun an advanced calculus course at\nparents to their adult (just) self-supporting (almost) children?\nthe state university to upgrade his skills; the $500 tuition repre-\nMy own parents had a clear fix on the question. Once kids\nsents an appreciable percentage of his entire salary. He worries\nwere out of college they were, by definition. no longer kids; they\nabout the $10 medical copayments for each of 12 physical-thera-\nwere on their own. Especially if they were married-and wheth-\npy sessions to relieve pain from two herniated discs. His crashed\ner or not they had finished college. Luckily my brother and I had\ncar with no collision insurance represents an economic disaster.\nno medical or other personal emergencies to test their\nI define a boundary again-generous check for Christmas\nboundaries.\ntoward a \"new\" used car but not enough to pay the entire cost of\nI do know that when I married- graduate school-my\na car. I give no shirts, sweaters or other customary gifts so that\nhusband's parents paid our apartment rent for a year\nthe check becomes a \"present.\" not a handout.\n(different boundaries). My disapproval was so in-\nNew occasions will arise to make me check the\ntense that we said \"No thanks\" to any parental as-\nfine lines. Fresh combinations of circumstances al-\nsistance for our remaining years of school. Thoreau-\nways arrive in our lives. But this is where I am now. I\nlike. we made our wants few and worked inventively\nwill respond to uninsured medical emergencies. I\nto supply them-meat-stretcher casseroles (meat\nwill slant toward gifts that can be rationalized as\nbudget for two was 50 cents per day). Homemade\n\"investments\"- the home down payment: birthday\nplywood and brick-and-board furniture. cut-paper\nchecks stipulated for savings funds. and, especially,\nChristmas ornaments. It was bracing. character-\nassistance for continuing education. I will not incline\nbuilding. Actually. it was fun. It was also, we were\nto make a gift outright for optional luxuries like\nfully aware, short term-just until we got our de-\nIs it kinder, in\nEuropean honeymoons.\ngrees. got our jobs. entered the middle-class lifestyle\n\"Poor babies!\" I can hear the truly needy-the\nto which we were born.\nthe long run,\ncurrently unemployed or unemployable. the under-\nNow my two sons are out of school (a J.D. and an\nnot to help,\npaid underclass struggling to get by each mock\nM.S. corporate litigator and city planner) and on\ntheir own. They are hardworking. responsible young\nand let them\nmy middle-class mother's angst. \"Spoiled middle-\nclass kids with spoiling middle-class parent!\"\nmen. They don't expect support; they rarely ask or\ntough it out in\nBut whether to give or not to give remains an issue\neven hint. But they also live on the financial edge and\nto me-child of the Depression. child of rigid make-\nput my pecuniary-aid limits to the test.\nhard times?\nyour-own-way parenting. It is the middle-class mini-\nThe lawyer married a law-school classmate right\nversion of the national debate on welfare. Do hand-\nafter they took the bar exam. I provided a $3,000 no-interest, no-\nouts weaken moral fiber. or is it simple humaneness for the\ntime-limit loan for the honeymoon to Italy. He managed to repay\nhave-mores to help out the have-lesses?\n$600 in his first year of employment: nothing in the two years\nMy own modest surpluses come from frugality-penny-pinch-\nsince. Should I say \"forget it\" and make a gift of the rest?\ning, if truth be told-the cautious habit implanted by the thrifty\nI weigh the situation. High-income two-lawyer couple.\ntough love and anxieties of my parents. Was their absolutist way\nThough both worked as much as they could to support their law-\nthe right way? Is it kinder in the long run to encourage self-\nschool costs. and though both received some parental help with\nsufficiency. toughing it out in hard times. learning to make do or\nroom and board and other costs, they came out of law school\ndo without? Or is it kinder to help when needed? And what\nwith a student-loan debt that, even after three years of repay-\ndefines purely physical survival or some much more com-\nment installments, still exceeds $25,000. They have car pay-\nplex set of psychic comforts? My kids seem to work harder than\nments. Their high income subjects them to high taxes. so they\nwe did and with less result: paying for the basics seems harder.\nhave bought a house to take advantage of mortgage deductibility.\nYet their shopping list of \"basics\" seems longer than ours was.\nEven a modest house costs lots in the city- where they have to\ntheir gratifications less deferred. Where does true necessity end\nlive because her public-service job has a residency requirement.\nand self-indulgent luxury begin? If they are materialistically\nI made a substantial gift toward the down payment. So now there\nspoiled. should their spoilers, those of us who \"wanted better for\nare home costs. And first baby has arrived-more expenses.\nour kids,\" help support their habit?\nProfessional jobs require looking the part, and expensive\nOn my map of giving. I struggle with these questions. survey-\nnetworking-clubs. restaurants. weddings and other ceremonial\ning and resurveying the drawn lines.\noccasions. The trappings-and traps- of affluence. I haven't the\nheart to remind my son again of the honeymoon debt.\nHOFF teaches English at Rider University. Lawrenceville, N.J.\n12\nNEWSWEEK AUGUST 7. 1995\nPERSPECTIVES\n\"I'm so sorry, David.\"\nSUSAN SMITH, sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two young sons,\nin a whispered apology to her ex-husband after his anguished court testimony last week\nMILCELUCKOVICH\n\"I thought that we were going to be one big family.\" TRACY\nHAMPTON, on the \"Today\" show last week. in her first interview\nNo. thats not my age\nsince being dismissed May 1 from the jury panel in the O.J. Simpson\nmurder trial\n\"It's going to be a large task.\" Citadel spokesman Col.\nTERRY LEEDOM, on getting Shannon Faulkner- who aspires to be\nthe first female cadet at the military academy- to lose 20 pounds\nto meet school weight standards\n\"I'm so excited about this, it almost brings tears to my\nDole\neyes.\" Brawny steelworkers union president GEORGE BECKER, on\nthe proposed merger of his union with that of the automobile workers\nand machinists\n1995 MIKE LUCKOVICH- ATLANTA CONSTITUTION\n\"It's not the best decision I've ever made in my life.\"\nTHE CHECK'S IN THE MAIL!\nLET'S DO LUNCH SOMETIME!\nYOU HAVEN'T AGED A BIT!\nHillary Rodham Clinton aide MARGARET WILLIAMS, on removing\nrecords from Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster's\noffice two days after his death\n\"This is very similar to how I felt when I came home\nfrom Vietnam\nThey made us feel that we were the\nenemy.\" Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco and Firearms agent\nTHE PART WILL BE IN MONDA!!\nYOUR WAITRESS WILL BE\nTHE ALLIES WILL ACT IN\nWITH YOU SHORTLY!\nBILL BUFORD, testifying last week before a congressional panel\nBOSNIA!\non the siege at Waco\n\"It's beyond hell in there.\" New York City resident\nFELICIA HENNESSEY, on the lack of air conditioning in a local\nManu\nwelfare office\nPSS/OHMAN THE OBEGONIAN\nYES,MY HUSBAND HAS\nLOST LOT OF WEIGHT.\n\"Did I win the Lotto?\" Rep. MEL REYNOLDS of Illinois. on\nAND YES, HE IS SUFFERING\nFROMSOME SIDE EFFECTS.\nhearing an 18-year-old woman propose a \"threesome\" with a 15-year-\nold girl. Charges against Reynolds include criminal sexual assault.\n\"His crime is an alleged sex act against a Harley.\" WALTER\nYATT, of Key West. Fla.. seeking clemency for a stray pig that tried\nto have sex with his motorcycle\n\"Cappuccino. Nighterawlers.\" Sign at the convenience store\nKum & Go in a resort town near West Lake Okoboji. Iowa\nNOTRICES\nMIKESMITH\n\"I [show up] in the middle of the film and I never get laid.\"\nActor DENNIS MILLER, joking about his minor role in \"The Net\"\n1945\nQuotations are compiled from press. TV and wire-serv ICE reports as well as from NEW SWEEK correspondents.\nAUGUST i. 7 1995 NFWSWEEK 17"
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