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(Left) Rep. Bob Uvingston, R-La., is greeted by Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich., on
Capitol Hill before a press conference where Livingston announced he will contend
for the House speaker spot opened by the resignation of Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
Gingrich resigned Friday after Republicans lost seats in last week's election.
jury to question
Clinton adviser, Secret Service
Court allows
By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
Supreme Court refused yesterday
to shield President Clinton's closest
adviser, Bruce Lindsey, from
undergoing grand jury questioning
about confidential conversations
with the president concerning
Monica Lewinsky.
The decision gives Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr or Congress
an opportunity to gain new evi
dence just as impeachment pro
ceedings are beginning in the
House.
The justices declined to hear a
White House appeal that Clinton's
conversations with Lindsey should
be protected by attorney-client
privilege, a claim already rejected
by two lower courts.
Lindsey testified four times
before the grand jury investigating
the Lewinsky matter but refused to
answer certain questions, including
those about his conversations with
Clinton, because the president
invoked the privilege.
Barring a new legal fight, the
ruling could open the door for
Starr or Congress to press Lindsey
for information in those areas. The
House Judiciary Committee hasn't
sought to question Lindsey during
the impeachment hearings set to
begin next week.
In a separate case, the high court
refused to shield Secret Service
officers from having to testify in
the Lewinsky case about informa
tion they learned while protecting
the president.
Both cases were rejected by 7-2
votes.
At least 30 Secret Service per
sonnel have already testified in the
Lewinsky probe, making the
Supreme Court action largely
moot.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and Stephen Breyer, both Clinton
appointees, dissented and wanted
to hear the cases. Regarding Lind
sey, Breyer wrote that "the ques
tion presented ... has no clear legal
answer and is open to serious legal
debate."
Starr's office welcomed the rul
ing and said the Clinton adminis
tration had "substantially delayed
and impeded the grand jury's right
to evidence" by invoking various
privileges, including Lindsey's
attorney-client claim.
Expressing disappointment, the
White House said Clinton's discus
sions with Lindsey needed to be
confidential because of the possi-
Gates denies threatening Intel on tape
By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates,
who has had a long though at times
rocky relationship with Intel Corp.,
denied that he ever threatened
Intel or tried to discourage its soft
ware efforts.
In videotaped testimony shown
yesterday during Microsoft's
antitrust trial, Gates alternately
hung his head or rocked slightly as
if in deep thought as government
lawyers challenged him during a
deposition last summer.
Staring at the table before him,
Gates paused fully 15 seconds
when pressed whether he or
Microsoft had ever tried to dis
suade Intel's software efforts.
"No," he said finally.
ston leads House speaker's race
ble threat of impeachment
The WhiN House continues "to
believe that the attorney-client
privilege should protect conversa
tions between government officials
and government attorneys." White
House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff
said.
"The American people benefit
from. 'eenqions made by govern
ment officials, including the presi
dent, on the basis of full and frank
information and discussion." Ruff
said.
Lindsey's numerous conversa
tions with Clinton about Lewinsky
started last December when her
name showed up on a witness list in
the Paula Jones lawsuit accusing
Clinton of sexual harassment.
When Clinton invoked attorney
client privilege, Lindsey refused to
President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton arrive at the
White House yesterday after a weekend at Camp David. Clinton's
closest advisor may be forced to undergo questioning by the grand jury
in regards to conversations dealing with Monica Lewinsky.
But Gates, the world's richest
man, was contradicted repeatedly
yesterday by government evidence
and by testimony from a senior
Intel executive, Steven McGeady.
On video, Justice Department
lawyer David Boies pressed Gates
about whether he had expressed
concern to anyone at Intel about its
work on Internet software.
"I don't think Intel ever did any
Internet software work," Gates
answered.
But McGeady, in a memo after
an August 1995 meeting among
Gates and Intel executives, said
Gates was "livid" about Intel's
investments in the Internet and
"wanted them stopped." McGeady
in his memo wrote that "Gates did
n't want (Intel's) engineers inter
fering with his plans for domina
tion of the PC industry."
Dateline
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Rep. Bob Liv
ingston, a pragmatic conservative from
Louisiana, took command of the race to suc
ceed House Speaker Newt Gingrich yester
day as his only rival dropped out and the
second-ranking Republican leader paid a
courtesy call.
"The truth is, the vote is in. Bob Liv
ingston is going to be our next speaker and
I'm withdrawing my name for that reason,"
said Rep. Christopher Cox of California,
who was a formal candidate for less than 72
hours.
Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas
left the Capitol to visit Livingston in his
office in a congressional building across the
street, said spokeswoman Michele Davis.
"He went over there to congratulate
him," she said.
Armey, too, has enough votes toward off
challenges, Davis said. Even so, GOP
sources said Rep. Jennifer Dunn of Wash
ington was poised to announce a bid to top
ple Armey, joining Rep. Steve Largent of
Oklahoma in that race.
Gingrich returned to the Capitol for the
first time since Republicans lost seats in
say whether he spoke to the presi
dent at crucial times about key fig
ures in the Lewinsky scandal such
as presidential secretary Betty
Currie.
Lindsey did testify that he, like
other White House aides, was mis
led by the president in January
when Clinton denied having a rela
tionship with Lewinsky.
The judge who oversaw the
grand jury rejected Lindsey's
claim of attorney-client privilege.
A federal appeals court then ruled
2-1 that "when an executive branch
attorney is called before a federal
grand jury to give evidence about
alleged crimes within the execu
tive branch, reason and experi
ence, duty and tradition dictate
that the attorney shall provide that
evidence."
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"He was very upset," McGeady
said yesterday. "He became quite
enraged at one point. ... Bill made
it very clear that he would not sup
port our next microprocessor
offerings if we didn't get align
ment."
McGeady in his memo also
harshly criticized Intel for conced
ing.
As part of its antitrust lawsuit,
the government contends that
Microsoft, with its dominant Win
dows operating system, tried ille
gally to extend and maintain its
influence to restrict competition in
other areas.
The government contends that
Microsoft even attempted to intim
idate Intel, which makes the
processors used by 85 percent of
computers and had sales last year
of $25 billion.
last week's midterm elections, an event that
led to his stunning decision Friday to step
down as speaker. The Georgian did not
speak to reporters as he arrived. A hand
written sign was posted at the entrance to
the suite where he presided over the
Republican Revolution the past four years:
"Office closed to tours."
Gingrich arranged an evening speech
before GOPAC, a political organization that
helped fuel his extraordinary rise to power.
Inside the Capitol, though, he was a lame
duck, his power ebbing as Republicans
jockeyed for position in the Congress that
convenes in January.
Influence was flowing to Livingston, 55,
who chairs the Appropriations Committee
and was elected last Tuesday to his 11th full
term. Cox announced his decision on ABC's
Good Morning America, then wrote a letter
to fellow Republican lawmakers, saying
Livingston "deserves our unanimous sup
port as he takes on this daunting chal
lenge."
As a veteran of the Appropriations Com
mittee, Livingston has spent a career mak
ing deals with lawmakers of both parties to
build support for legislation. While solidly
conservative he is firmly opposed to
abortion, for example he bristled at sev-
Five members of UNSCOM loaded their luggage on a bus and left Baghdad yesterday. Iraq is still not
allowing U.N. weapons inspectors to check for weapons of mass destruction.
CIA reports
quickly
By JOHN DIAMOND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Iraq
could rebuild its chemical and
biological arsenals if internation
al arms inspections ceased, the
CIA said yesterday as the Clin
ton administration prepared
options on the latest standoff.
Iraq has "the capability to
quickly resurrect weapons of
mass destruction production
absent U.N. sanctions," the CIA
reported to lawmakers.
Although the report predates
the latest flurry of activity
involving Iraq, a U.S. intelli
gence official said yesterday
that the assessment reflects the
agency's current thinking.
Administration officials are
debating whether continued
inspections or an open-ended
threat of military force can root
out Iraq's suspected secret
weapons cache.
Ten days ago, Saddam Hussein
declared a halt to cooperation
with the U.N. Special Commis
sion that searches for chemical
and biological weapons.
President Clinton's national
security team has developed
options for him that include air
strikes.
A concern that could rule out
strikes is that Iraq might
respond by permanently banning
Iraq could
revive arsenals
"The blame of the whole world is resting clearly
and squarely on the doorstep of Iraq and the
shoulders of Saddam Hussein. ... We don't feel
lonely."
the international search for ille
gal chemical and biological
weapons.
At the State Department,
spokesperson James Rubin
sought to dispel suggestions that
the United States was alone in its
effort to isolate and punish Iraq
for noncompliance with interna
tional arms inspectors.
"What has happened in recent
weeks is we've seen the coalesc
ing and the clarity of the entire
world that Iraq is in noncompli
ance, that this current problem
is Iraq's fault," Rubin said.
"The blame of the whole world
is resting clearly and squarely
on the doorstep of Iraq and the
shoulders of Saddam Hussein....
We don't feel lonely."
Saudi and Egyptian officials
have urged the United States and
the international community to
pursue diplomatic rather than
military solutions to the standoff.
And former Irish Prime Minister
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1998
eral points over the last few years when
other conservatives wanted to use the
spending bills that came out of his commit
tee to carry controversial amendments
dealing with social issues.
Normally genial on one recent day he
lingered to explain details of a diet that has
enabled him to shed several pounds Liv
ingston also has occasional outbursts of
temper. Past targets of his anger say it
passes quickly.
One GOP source, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said Livingston has been
assuring senior committee chairmen that
he will not resort to the numerous task
forces that Gingrich created to oversee the
drafting of legislation an approach that
eroded the role of chairmen.
Livingston is also very much a man of the
House, unabashedly supporting past pay
raises for members of Congress, for exam
ple, even though the issue makes fellow
lawmakers squirm.
He had been on the verge of announcing
plans to retire earlier this year when he
decided at the last moment to seek one
more term. He said at the time that he
wanted to be ready to run for speaker if
Gingrich stepped down to campaign for
president.
James Rubin
spokesperson at the State Department
Albert Reynolds, who helped lay
the groundwork for the Northern
Ireland peace accord, said yes
terday he believed Iraq had met
80 percent of U.N. demands on
weapons and that the "remaining
20 percent, in my view, does not
justify a strike or a return to
conflict."
Once again, it appeared that
only Britain was ready to join
the United States in a threat of
force against Iraq.
British Defense Secretary
George Robertson warned dur
ing a visit to Kuwait yesterday
that the international communi
ty's patience was "draining
away."
The CIA concluded that
despite years of U.N. inspections
and the destruction wrought by
the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Iraq
retains the key equipment and
technology needed to make
chemical and biological weapons
and mount them on missiles