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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- By JOHN GREENWALD
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- Bill and Hillary's New Year's Eve
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- 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."
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- Trouble from Home
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- 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.
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- The More Things Change
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- 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.
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- Such Good Friends
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- 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.
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- Nasty Boys, Nasty Time
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- 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.
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