He then does a word search in the vicinity of Clinton. It can be written horizontally, vertically, diagonally, upside down or back to front, but with regular gaps between the letters. Presumably Drosnin looked for words that could be associated with Clinton, e.g. Bill, Hilary, USA, president. He just found the last, not the great coup, for the word 'tribal leader' occurs 69 times in the Pentateuch and is the word used for 'president' in Modern Hebrew. Not only is it easy to find words in this word search, because the horizontal lines in the tables he constructs are all copied straight out of the Hebrew Bible, but there is another feature of Hebrew that makes it quite easy to 'find' words in a Hebrew text.
Many Hebrew words consist of just three consonant with the vowels left out.
So if we did this in English and saw the letters B, D, we could read them in at least ten different ways e.g. bad, bed, bid, bod, bud, abide, abode, abed, body, bead. Drosnin also looks for words spelled backwards, so dab or deb would count just as well. Hebrew, like Latin, uses letters to write numbers. So Drosnin looks for words like 'earthquake' or 'world war' and then sees if he can find a combination of letters that looks like a date nearby. On this basis he claims the Bible predicts earthquakes in 1905, or 2006 and so on.