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- Feb. 08, 1993: Justice's House Sitter
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <body>
- <p>By JANICE CASTRO
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- <p>Justice's House Sitter
- </p>
- <p> President Clinton may be late in naming an Attorney
- General, but Webb Hubbell, Hillary Clinton's former law partner,
- is already ensconced in the office opposite the A.G.'s suite at
- the Justice Department. Hubbell has told friends he does not
- want to be Deputy Attorney General or to take any other position
- that involves Senate confirmation--perhaps to avoid fishing
- expeditions into the law firm's confidential business. Still,
- his conspicuous presence raises questions about potential
- politicization of the department. Former Attorneys General
- Griffin Bell and William French Smith won high marks in part
- because they insisted on naming their own aides. Washington
- Appeals Court Judge Pat Wald, an early Clinton candidate for the
- post, reportedly made the same demand.
- </p>
- <p>Left Out
- </p>
- <p> His book, The Way Things Ought to Be, has topped the New
- York Times best-seller list for 16 of the past 20 weeks, but
- the Times has never reviewed it. RUSH LIMBAUGH says the paper
- doesn't like his politics. The Times says it's the book. Says
- Times Book Review editor Rebecca Sinkler: "This is not the sort
- of book that usually finds its way into our pages. Though I
- suppose if we had known that it was going to be at the top of
- the best-seller list for weeks and weeks and weeks..."
- </p>
- <p>All Shot Up
- </p>
- <p> The Department of Transportation, the FBI, U.S. Customs
- and several U.S. Attorneys are investigating a scam in which
- parts so seriously damaged that they could cause a crash were
- nearly installed in U.S. airliners. Because many components of
- military jets are interchangeable with those of commercial
- jetliners, unscrupulous dealers have somehow passed off parts
- from jets shot up in the Gulf War as acceptable commercial
- spares. Truckloads of such components have been seized, some
- with shrapnel and gaping bullet holes. Investigators found
- critical engine parts so badly damaged that they would have
- fallen apart within two hours if used.
- </p>
- <p>The KGB Could Take Lessons
- </p>
- <p> Moles are recruited. Agents seduce the enemy to gain
- access to secrets. Sound like the cold war? In Friendly Spies,
- which will be released this week, author Peter Schweizer richly
- details how the companies and governments of such U.S. allies
- as South Korea, Japan, Canada, Germany and France are engaged
- in intensive espionage against American firms. The Japanese
- space agency, for example, uses U.S.-based lawyers and employees
- to pepper nasa with Freedom of Information requests on rocketry
- and the space shuttle on behalf of Japanese firms. A French spy
- is caught planting moles at IBM and Texas Instruments. U.S.
- intelligence officials, divided on how an open society can fight
- back, are anxiously awaiting guidance from the Clinton
- Administration.
- </p>
- <p>Shake, Rattle and Snore
- </p>
- <p> The earth may move, little rabbit, but now quake-zone
- residents can sleep safely, according to Hollywood
- special-effects designer Jon Ward. He has developed the "Los
- Angeles Earthquake Bed." Built of steel tubing and 16-gauge
- steel mesh, the 600-lb. bed, he says, can even withstand a
- collapsing roof. Peace of mind costs $2,995.
- </p>
- <p>Trouble Brewing In Twin Peaks
- </p>
- <p> A postcard from Twin Peaks is the clue. Agent Dale Cooper
- is back, this time searching for a missing Japanese woman. Twin
- Peaks director David Lynch has re-created the eerie Northwest
- town for Japanese viewers in four commercials for Georgia
- Coffee, a popular brand marketed by Coca-Cola. Says Cooper:
- "This Georgia is a damn fine coffee." Replies a character
- identified as Log Lady: "It's true." Deep.
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