Spying on the spies

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The agencies comprising the United Kingdom's security network are under increasing pressure to allow public investigation of their operations. Members of Parliament have demanded that a committee be permitted to scrutinize MI-5, the agency responsible for counterespionage and countersubversion.

United Kingdom, Management, Intelligence service, United Kingdom. Security Service

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Shaky start: Quebec's hearings on sovereignty generate little public enthusiasm

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Quebec's ruling Parti Quebecois (PQ) has held the first round of its planned 304 hearings on independence, and early results suggest that the roving commission hearings may not turn out to be the pro-sovereignty rallies the PQ seeks. Instead, the commissions face tough questions from voters.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, National liberation movements, Quebec, Parti Quebecois, Legislative hearings

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Clinton's comeback: despite the sex scandal, his public approval ratings soar

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Bill Clinton appears to be surviving his impact with scandal in the Monica Lewinsky affair. Popular opinion polls for the President are at a record high. Clinton is stressing the need to return to the work of the United States. Lewinsky is being perceived as an unsympathetic character.

Clinton, Bill, Behavior, Presidents, Presidents (Government), Public opinion, Scandals, Lewinsky, Monica, Obstruction of justice

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