The notion that the President of the United States could be asked, at a public forum involving the senior editors of the nation's leading newspapers, whether he expected to be pardoned for crimes he may have committed during his Presidency is remarkable. The notion that the President would feel it necessary to seriously answer such a question was remarkable. Actually, President Clinton had not answered that question until it was asked yesterday - a day after Gore's remarks. So, the wait continues.
China is one of the few remaining Communist countries in the world.
Another is Cuba. Attorney General Janet Reno, with nothing better to do with her time, meets in Washington with the boy's father, flies to Miami to visit personally with the boy's other relatives, and comes up empty. We have seen how one child can gain our national attention.