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SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) -
-Attorney General Janet Reno has taken
'a'first step toward naming a special
prosecutor to investigate President
Clinton's 1996 fund-raising activities.
The president's lawyers insisted
Y Saturday no laws were broken.
The Justice Department opened a 30-
ay review of Clinton's involvement in
campaign money-raising irregularities
in.the last day or two, officials said. The
'White House was notified on Friday.
Reno must now determine whether to
launch a more extensive, 90-day inves-
tigation that could lead to her request-
ing the appointment of a special prose-
cutor.
During this 30-day review, Clinton's
*ttorneys hope to convince the Justice
Department there is not enough evi-
dence against him to even begin the 90-
day review.
"The Justice Department is review-
ing whether allegations that the presi-
dent illegally solicited campaign contri-
butions on federal property should war-
rant a preliminary investigation under
the independent counsel act," Justice
Department spokesperson Myron
arlin said.
WA similar initial review is already
Wnder way in the case of Vice President
Al Gore.
' "We understand the Department of
Justice is in the process of determining
whether a preliminary investigation is
warranted," said White House attorney
Lanny Davis. "We are cooperating and
will continue to cooperate with the
Department of Justice to ensure that it
as all the information it needs.
"We are confident that no laws were
broken," Davis said.
Word of Reno's action came one day
West Coast's 9th Circuit
Court may face break up
.;
Los Angeles Times
1. WASHINGTON - The judges of
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
have called it "idiotic," "silly" and
"very odd."
No, they were not referring to their
usual nemesis, the US. Supreme Court.
Rather, the target of their complaints
was a plan by Senate Republicans to
break up the West Coast's large and lib-
eral-leaning judicial district.
In July, shortly after the 9th Circuit
suffered a rapid-fire round of reversals
in the Supreme Court, the Republicans
pushed through the Senate a measure
that would remove several Western
states from the California-dominated
appeals court.
Under this plan, which is pending in
the House, the 12th US. Circuit Court
of Appeals would be created to hear
federal cases from a seven-state region
stretching from Arizona to Alaska and
Hawaii. Its judges would sit in Seattle
or Phoenix.
Only California and Nevada
would remain in the century-old 9th
Circuit, which is based in San
Francisco.
The House, whose leaders have
favored buying time by studying the
AP PHOTO way the circuit courts are working, is
of scheduled to act on the bill this
rday. week.
Those pushing for the breakup usual-
to raise ly cite good-government reasons, such
"The 9th circuit is
undeniably out of
touch with the
rest of the
nation.
- Conrad Burns
i U.S. Sen. (R-Mont.)
as greater efficiency and collegiality
among the judges.
The 9th Circuit is "huge and
unwieldy,' says Sen. Slade Gorton, (R-
Wash.). By far the largest of the
nation's regional appellate courts, the
9th Circuit covers an area with 50 mil-
lion people, or nearly one in five
Americans.
Typically, the 11 regional courts,
which hear appeals of rulings in US.
district courts, have II to 16 judges and
meet regularly at their main courthouse.
The 9th Circuit, however, has 28 judges
who regularly hear arguments not only
in San Francisco, but in Seattle,
Portland, Ore., Pasadena, Calif., and
San Diego.
Despite the 9th Circuit's size, howev-
er, scholars who study the federal courts
say it decides cases with roughly the
same dispatch as the smaller circuit
courts.
"The size of the circuit is not corre-
lated with the speed of the disposi-
tions," says University of Montana pro-
fessor Carl Tobias. "There is a national
problem of heavy caseloads (in the
appellate courts), but it is certainly ndt
unique to the 9th Circuit."
If the Senate Republicans truly
seek to speed up the decisions com.-
ing from the 9th Circuit, says its
chief judge, Procter Hug Jr. of Reno,
Nev., they could best do so by accel-
erating their response to vacancies
on the court. Though the 9th Circuit
has 28 authorized judgeships, only
18 seats are filled with active
judges.
Many of the senators who are accns-
ing the 9th Circuit of being slov 'to
make decisions have urged the Senate
to go slow in approving President
Clinton's judicial nominees throughout
the federal judiciary.
"Shortly after I came on the court in
1978, our authorized judges were 23 tp
handle 3,100 cases" a year, Hug said.
"Today, we have 18 active judges-to
handle 8,600 cases."
To most observers, it is apparent that
the drive to split the 9th Circuit is fuele4l
by a dislike for its decisions.
Sen. Conrad Burns, (R-Mont.), has
admitted as much. "In my view, the 9th
Circuit is undeniably out of touch with
the rest of the nation," he said.
President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wave to the crowdo
onlookers as they leave the first of three fund-raisers in San Francisco yeste
after officials told the AP that Gore had
hired two defense attorneys to try to
head off the appointment of a special
prosecutor. Clinton already retains
defense attorney David Kendall for
Whitewater counsel.
Kendall said he expected the Justice
Department to resolve the matter
speedily and used language similar to
Davis: "No laws were broken and any
kind of enforcement action would be
absolutely unprecedented."
Congressional and FBI investigators
have been conducting a sweeping inquiry
into the actions of Clinton, Gore and
senior White House officialst
money for the 1996 presidential election,
including allegations that foreign dona-
tions were funneled to the campaign.
Although White House officials said
they did not know how Reno reached her
decision, congressional and Justice
Department investigators have been
studying whether Clinton made fund-
raising calls from the Oval Office. The
president has said he does not remember
making any fund-raising calls, and White
House officials contend he and Gore are
exempt from the law that prohibits fund
raising in government buildings.
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El Nino expected to hit
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World prepares for worst
predicted El Nino in 15 years, which
left $1.5 billion in U.S. damages
The Washington Post
There's trouble in the air. Specifically, in the air off
the west coast of the Americas, where the sea surface
has been heated to abnormal extremes by an ominous,
intermittent flood of hot water called El Nino.
The last time conditions looked like this was when the
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1982-83. By the time that event subsided, some 2,000
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and sundry related calamities, hundreds of thousands were
forced out of their homes, and economic losses topped $8
billion worldwide - $1.5 billion in the United States.
This year's version promises to approach or even equal
1982-83, which climate researcher James O'Brien of
Florida State University's Center for Ocean-
Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) calls "the
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U.N.-sponsored World Climate Research Programme
warns it "could be the climatic event of the century."
er and spring
"This one leapt out of the starting blocks" said Ants
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Climate Prediction Center. "By this summer it was ahead of
all the others we've seen" since 1950 in terms of early and
strong sea-surface warming.
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time and the opportunity to protect itself. The threat of a -
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gressional hearings and anxious regional palavers from'
Zimbabwe to Australia to flood-leery California, where a
federal-state "El Nino summit" has been scheduled for
next month in Los Angeles.
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might mean.
El Nino, the Spanish term for the Christ child, got its
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years. It is part of a larger natural pattern, the combined El
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weather patterns worldwide.
Yugoslavian elections face
weak opposition from Serbs
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -
Many Serbs boycotted yesterday's elec-
tions, fed up with the hard times they
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decade-long autocratic rule.
Although turnout was slow into the
afternoon, the boycott - called by two
of three maiin Annos'ition leaders -
K
The independent radio station B 92,
which has supported the opposition,
said only 10 percent had voted.
The vote would be invalid only if 51
percent of the 7 million eligible voters
failed to participate.
The elections were expected to
munist revolutions of 1989 and the
post-communist upheaval, voted yester4
day in Belgrade's Dedinje district with
his wife and son, Marko.
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