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GRAPEVINE, Page 15
By JOHN GREENWALD
Bill and Hillary's New Year's Eve
How will the President-Elect and the First Lady-in-waiting
celebrate the last night of 1992? The same way they have spent
every New Year's Eve since 1981, when Bill and Hillary Clinton
joined fellow rising stars at Hilton Head Island for a
renaissance weekend of high-minded chat and a chance to bask in
one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200
pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations
to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part
in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile Planet" to
"Building an Inner Life."
Trouble from Home
The most fearsome weapons confronting U.S. Marines in
Somalia are the 480 Tow antitank missiles and the 75 81-mm
mortars that Washington delivered to the Somali military in the
1980s. To prevent local warlords and brigands from turning the
arms against the Americans, the Pentagon has quietly dispatched
Special Operations forces to Somalia to track down the weapons
and seize them.
The More Things Change
Don't tell Windows Catering Co. of Washington that Bill
Clinton's election spells the end of politics as usual. Windows,
a nonunion firm, last month submitted the apparent winning bid
to cater the Inaugural luncheon on Capitol Hill. But then,
Windows says, a labor official accused the company of
misrepresenting itself as a union firm. The Joint Congressional
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies subsequently reopened the
bidding and awarded the job to a union shop. John Chambers,
executive director of the joint committee, denied that Windows
had ever officially won the deal.
Such Good Friends
If the new Clinton economic team works well together, that
may be because some members already have a trusting
relationship. For years, Goldman Sachs co-chairman ROBERT RUBIN
has personally supervised a blind trust that holds investments
for Texas Senator LLOYD BENTSEN, Clinton's designated Treasury
Secretary. Rubin, who will be Clinton's senior economic adviser,
resigned from Goldman last week to accept the White House
position. Now Bentsen must decide whether to leave the trust
with Goldman or move it to another firm.
Nasty Boys, Nasty Time
They don't just rob banks, they assault them -- firing
wildly, leaping over counters, fondling the women, shooting at
the men. The FBI believes the new bank terrorists are L.A. gang
members who pulled off 193 heists last year and 363 so far this
year. Agents dubbed the first duo they arrested the Nasty Boys,
who are thought to have robbed $800,000 from 28 banks since
October 1991. The pair, Clarence Sanders, 21, and Harold Walden,
19, were convicted of five of the robberies in November.
Prosecutors and the FBI expect the two to get the maximum
penalty of 75 years apiece when they appear for sentencing next
month.