NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 10, 1992
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The same refrain had been repeated throughout the presidential campaign, and struck a chord with voters, as Clinton pledged to enact ethics reforms if elected and Ross Perot ridiculed high-price lobbyists "in alligator shoes" for selling their country short after leaving government.
Federal officials will face signing of ethics pledge
—They will not lobby their former agencies for five years.
The Associated Press
Under the rules announced yesterday, approximately 1,100 top-level appointees, about the top 25% of those in the agency,
—They will never become registered foreign agents for any foreign government or foreign political party.
Tough new ethics rules unveiled yesterday require them to sign an unprecedented pledge meant to keep them from cashing in on their government connections down the road.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — People seeking top government jobs from Bill Clinton will have to do more than pass a job interview.
In addition, government trade negotiators will be required to pledge that they will not lobby for foreign governments of businesses for five years after they participate in negotiations.
Current law bars most federal employees from lobbying their agencies for a year.
"Taxpayers need to know that public servants are working for them, not for special interests," Christopher said. "We believe it's time for a dramatic step to show we are serious about making government work."
The rules are designed to slam, or at least slow, what has become known as Washington's revolving door, which allows federal officials to turn around and lobby their former agencies within a year after leaving government service.
"In recent years, too many high officials began to sell their access and influence almost the day after they left office," said transition director Warren Christopher. "That saps public confidence in the entire political process."
How will the rules be enforced?
Christopher said federal officials could get injunctions against former officials who break the pledge or, equally important, sue to recover any income they earn from prohibited activities.
He said the rules were not extended to all 3,500 federal appointees because Clinton wanted restrictions tough enough to curb influence-peddling among top-level officials without putting unnecessary limits on what other workers can do when they leave the government.
Fairy-tale romance ends in England Charles, Diana together until his death
The Associated Press
Such a separation for the heir to the throne is unprecedented in this century. In the last century, Queen Victoria's son and successor Edward VII had a series of extramarital relationships despite an apparently congenial marriage to Queen Alexandra, but the couple remained
Prince William, 10, and Prince Henry, 8, will divide their Christmas holidays between their
LONDON — She gets the town house, he keeps the country house, the kids will shuttle between homes at Christmas. And each one gets a crown.
Charles, Diana will not divorce
The palace statement said nothing about the cause for the separation. But in response to questions, the Buckingham Palace press office issued its own statement that there were no third parties involved on either side of the decision.
Confirming years of gossip and tabloid headlines, Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced yesterday that they were separating, but had no plans to divorce.
The announcement caps a year described by a weary queen as an "annus horribilis" in a speech to the king.
"This decision has been reached amicably, and they will both continue to participate fully in the upbringing of their children," said the announcement from Buckingham Palace.
The royal couple are still fond of one another, the statement said.
Since last Christmas, her daughter Anne has divorced, her son Andrew has separated from his wife, and Windsor Castle has burned. Tabloid newspapers have screamed with pictures of Andrews's wife caverting toplell with another man, and reported both Charles and Diana in romantic conversations with outsiders.
Prime Minister John Major told the House of Commons there was no reason why Diana could not be crowned queen — assuming that the couple stayed married and Charles, 44, lives long enough to succeed his 66-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
A divorce would not prevent Charles from taking the throne, but if Diana were no longer his wife, she could not be crowned queen.
He also was convicted of perjury for lying under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee by saying he had no information about the role of Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran.
Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh said that the conviction was a significant victory for the prosecution. "It will be an important deterent to protect the Congress and the public from cover-ups by high-level national security officials." he said.
Jury convicts former CIA spy chief
Craig Gillen, who tried the case for Walsh's office said, "The word has gone out to senior officials in the intelligence agencies that they can't use the secrets of our nation to hide if they commit crimes."
Defense attorney Richard Hibey said that the conviction did not lessen George's stature as a genuine patriot who deserved a presidential pardon because he had performed dangerous missions for the CIA.
Contras at a time when Congress had outlawed direct military aid to the rebels.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former CIA chief Clair George yesterday was convicted by a federal jury of lying to Congress about his knowledge of the Iran-Contr affair but was cleared of charges that he led to a grand jury that investigated the scandal.
The verdict came in a trial that peeked into the CIA's operations as Oliver North's secret arms program for the Nicaraguan Contras unraveled in late 1986.
The jury deliberated for 11 days before finding George guilty of two counts of lying to congressional committees that investigated the Iran-Contra affair in 1986. But it acquitted him of three charges that he lied to congressional committees that year, as well as two counts that he lied to a grand jury that questioned him in 1991. It was the second trial on George's role in the
It was the second trial on George's role in the Iran-Contra affair, the first ended in a mistrial.
George was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee about his knowledge of the secret network to resupply the Nicaraguan
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