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- <title>
- May 10, 1993: Grapevine
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Cleaning House
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
- </p>
- <p> It's spring-cleaning time at the white house, and some
- staffers seem likely to be swept away. An outside consultant
- will be there this week to scrutinize personnel in the West and
- East Wings and to make recommendations on who should go and who
- should stay. Coming under inspection will be the ushers' office
- (responsible for the residence's day-to-day operation) as well
- as the staff of JOHN W. MAGAW, who's headed the Secret Service
- since the Bush era (some of his agents might be transferred).
- The staff rejiggering will result in a White House more closely
- tailored to its current occupants.
- </p>
- <p>Continental Drift
- </p>
- <p> Two major investors in Continental Airlines and Northwest
- Airlines are quietly talking merger. DAVID BONDERMAN, whose
- investor group controls 28.7% of Continental Airlines, and
- RICHARD C. BLUM, a key Northwest Airlines board member, recently
- held a secret meeting in the very conspicuous Hotel Bel-Air in
- Los Angeles. If the two can work out the snags--such as the
- fact that Air Canada owns a chunk of Continental--Bonderman
- and Blum could make a deal that would shake up the airline
- industry.
- </p>
- <p>A Pension Plan for Nazi Followers
- </p>
- <p> Fifty years after World War II, the Third Reich's crack
- troops are cashing in. Many Czechs, Poles and other East
- Europeans served in Hitler's SS but hid their past after the end
- of World War II for fear of retribution from ruling communist
- governments. Now that communism is fading, SS veterans are going
- public to collect pensions from the German government. Germany's
- social security system has awarded $190-a-month payments (a
- small fortune in the Baltics) to more than 250 disabled SS
- veterans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Says Latvian SS
- veteran and pension receiver Boris Mikhailov: "Thank you,
- Germany, thank you." Latvian Jews who survived the Holocaust,
- it should be noted, haven't got a red cent.
- </p>
- <p>Hitler's Body
- </p>
- <p> On May 25 NBC will air a special on the KGB alleging that
- YURI ANDROPOV, when he was the Soviet spy chief, knew where the
- body of Adolf Hitler was buried. Excerpts from a 1970 Andropov
- memo: "In Feb. 1946 in the city of Magdeburg ((G.D.R.))...the bodies of Hitler, Eva Braun, Goebbels, his wife and
- children were buried...I would consider it expedient to
- remove the remains and destroy them by cremation."
- </p>
- <p>Thou Shalt Not Steal (My Scotch)
- </p>
- <p> David Koresh wasn't a real messiah: he couldn't turn water
- into wine, and perhaps that's why he so valued his private
- stash of Scotch whisky. TIME has learned that three Branch
- Davidian cultists who left Ranch Apocalypse before the
- conflagration and surrendered were forced to leave by Koresh for
- getting into the would-be prophet's Scotch cache. At first
- Koresh punished the three--Kevin Whitecliff, Brad Branch and
- Oliver Gyarfas--by ordering them to bury a rotting corpse.
- Finally the Scotch-drinking cult leader had them thrown out. The
- trio are being held in jail in Waco.
- </p>
- <p>Cat-aloging Clinton
- </p>
- <p> In all the punditry about Clinton's first 100 days,
- something has been missed: Socks, the First Cat, is having as
- miserable a start as the President. Is there a connection? You
- decide:
- </p>
- <p> Clinton Administration paralyzed by issue of gays in
- military.
- </p>
- <p> Socks nearly hangs himself with own leash.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton snippy to aides in public.
- </p>
- <p> Cats magazine says Socks not declawed.
- </p>
- <p> Roger Clinton performs with En Vogue.
- </p>
- <p> Socks' sister Midnight does layout in PEOPLE magazine.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton indecisive on stimulus package; initiative dies in
- Congress.
- </p>
- <p> Reports confirm Socks is neutered.
- </p>
- <p>Fashion Statement
- </p>
- <p> One of the hottest accoutrements among the White House
- press corps is a little black-and-white sticker that reads,
- </p>
- <p> HE'S RUNNING A FEW MINUTES LATE. The "he" is none other
- than President Clinton, who is perpetually and notoriously
- behind schedule. Above, White House communications director
- George Stephanopoulos models a sticker. Moments after the camera
- clicked, Stephanopoulos remembered his political instincts and,
- with a laugh, pulled the sticker off.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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