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A top-front-with-picture WP story describes how, yesterday, the national press distracted Hillary Clinton from her great interest in the Jamestown, N.Y., regional economy with still more questions about her comments in Talk magazine about President Clinton as child abuse victim.
President Clinton tried to make a big deal about it, but everyone was distracted by the stock market.
Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair?
Current versions of the 747 seat between 272 and 386 passengers, depending on configuration and how much the pilot is distracted by pathetic whimpering akin to that of caged animals.
But on the other hand, says the paper, U.S. smart bombs have gotten smarter--they're now less likely to be distracted by smoke or bad weather-- and there will be a lot more of them now.