Wednesday, July 29, 1998
Britain to squeeze out illegal immigrants
Britain announced new measures to bring swift retribution to illegal immigrants on Monday, but said around 10,000 refugees held for more than five years while awaiting their fate could stay. A whitepaper, unveiled by Home Secretary Jack Straw, authorises immigration officers to forcibly enter premises to bust bogus marriages and outlines a new strategy to deal with the huge backlog of 73,000 cases of asylum seekers.
China's Communist rulers flirt with democracy when it suits them
With a police sweep on democracy crusaders and a nationwide Communist ideology campaign, Chinese leaders are sending unmistakable signals that their rule brooks no challenge. But behind the arrests, trials and appeals to revolutionary orthodoxy, no less a Communist Party standard-bearer than President Jiang Zemin is said to be poring over potentially the most subversive text in Beijing today: A special study on democracy.
Lewinsky tells Starr she had sexual affair with Clinton
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky has confirmed that she had a sexual affair with President Bill Clinton but denied that he had asked her to lie under oath about it in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Lewinsky, for the first time, was answering questions by independent counsel Kenneth Starr's prosecutors in New York.
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