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Their plaintiff is "upbeat" (ABC's This Week With Sam and Cokie ) and "the rule of law is alive and well" (CBS's Face the Nation ). With the president's men falling silent (a deliberate strategy, said George Stephanopoulos on This Week ), the liberal pundits made the case against Jones: She has become a "pitiful pawn" (Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ) of the wacko right, who are "making hay" (Steve Roberts, CNN's Late Edition ) and "diminishing the presidency" (Mark Shields, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) by dredging up Clinton's dirty laundry.
Before moving a pawn, you have to assess all the possible strategies of your adversary."
"Crack-up at Justice," the cover editorial, argues that Attorney General Janet Reno is an ineffectual pawn of the White House and that the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the FBI are rogue agencies.
The Democratic amendment would require background checks for all purchases at gun shows and for anyone who tries to buy back his gun from a pawn shop.
A rebuff to President Clinton by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdallah at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan last week was heralded in the Saudi press Thursday as evidence that the country wasn't a pawn or a puppet of the United States.