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To: i-node who wrote (172345)	7/22/2003 11:05:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576633

<font color=blue>Some of your good buds........ <font color=black> ****************************************** Detractors Will Mock Clinton Library LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (July 22) - Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton's $160 million presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency. ``As long as he's talking, we'll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from rewriting history,'' says John LeBoutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York who rode Ronald Reagan's coattails to victory in 1980. LeBoutillier and his partner, Houston businessman Richard Erickson, plan to call it the Counter-Clinton Library. They say the museum here and one planned for Washington will look at such topics as Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the last-minute pardons, even damaged White House furniture. ``We already hear he's going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president,'' LeBoutillier says. ``And we'll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him.'' The two partners hope to open their place the same day that Clinton's opens in November 2004. They say they will need $5 million. LeBoutillier says thousands of donations have come in and the average one is $72, but he will not say exactly how much has been raised so far. Dick Morris, the Clinton strategist who resigned in a sex scandal, has pledged stacks of his insider documents, as has Gary Aldrich, the former FBI agent who wrote a best seller about Clinton's scandals. ``We think people will want to come out of the Clinton Library and head immediately down the street to us to get the rest of the story,'' LeBoutillier says. In recent appearances, Clinton said that the big picture of his presidency is being obscured and that his library will set the record straight. The designer of the Clinton museum, Ralph Appelbaum, said the place will deal with Clinton's impeachment, but will focus on how Clinton policies smoothed the political and technological transition into the 21st century and fostered unprecedented economic growth. LeBoutillier - who once called the late House Speaker Tip O'Neill ``fat, bloated and out of control, just like the federal budget'' - says Clinton's library will require immediate rebuttal in a way that libraries of other scandalized ex-presidents do not. ``Reagan, Nixon, that's the past,'' he says. ``The problem is Clinton's still young, he's the most powerful force in Democratic politics, and he would like nothing more than to erase the past so he can return to the White House with Hillary.'' Skip Rutherford, president of the foundation paying for Clinton's library, says he had hoped for a political cease-fire. ``The haters don't have to like or agree with Clinton, but they need to acknowledge that only 43 men have done this - reached the pinnacle,'' he says. ``I think they need to move on with their lives.'' 07/22/03 12:26 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.

To: i-node who wrote (172345)	7/22/2003 11:09:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576633

<font color=orange>Some more of your good buds............ <font color=black> *************************************************** Tourists flee fire at Eiffel Tower PARIS - Fire broke out at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, forcing throngs of tourists to scamper down thousands of steps to safety as fire-fighters doused the flames in a cable room some 300 meters up. "It was a fire in electric cables," fire services spokesman Christian Decolloredo said Tuesday. "The fire was officially put out at 2025 (7:25 p.m. British time)," just over an hour after the alert was raised and fire-fighters rushed to the scene, he said. Thousands of tourists were evacuated from the giant, mostly metal edifice built for a world fair and inaugurated on March 31, 1889 to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution. They and many others were forced to use the 1,665 steps to get down from the top of a tower which rises 324 meters above ground in a chic part of downtown Paris. Security service officials said nobody was hurt and that 2,000 to 3,000 people were evacuated. Spokesman Decolloredo declined to confirm that the blaze was caused by a short circuit but witnesses and others on the scene privately said this was the apparent cause. There are a lot of cables and TV and radio antennas in the tower's upper reaches. Police maintained a security cordon and helicopters hovered nearby for a while after the blaze was declared quenched. The tower named after entrepreneur Gustav Eiffel and built in the space of two years, two months and five days, is now a veritable industry that lures six million people a year with fabulous views of Paris and the winding Seine river. Jean-Bernard Bros, chairman of the company which manages the tower, said after a meeting with Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe on the scene that he expected to reopen at least a part of the tower to tourists on Wednesday. "At no time was there a danger to the tower," he said. Reuters/abs-cbnNEWS.com