Lindsey, a White House deputy counsel and longtime Clinton friend from Arkansas, has played an important role at several points in the Lewinsky saga and has declined to answer questions at the grand jury about his conversations with the president. Lawyers are compiling a record of which matters Lindsey considers confidential in preparation for a court fight over the reach of Clinton's executive privilege.
As he departed from the courthouse after about 2 1/2 hours before the grand jury, Lindsey would not discuss his testimony or whether the privilege issue came up. "You know we aren't talking about that," he told reporters.
The grand jury yesterday also heard again from White House steward Bayani Nelvis, who works in the pantry adjacent to the Oval Office and befriended Lewinsky when she worked at the White House as an intern and later as a correspondence clerk. While testimony continued on one floor, the federal judge who oversees the grand jury, Norma Holloway Johnson, heard arguments on another about Clinton's complaint that independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office has illegally leaked grand jury information to the news media.
The drop in the rate of new cases represents a reversal of a discouraging trend of escalating cancer incidence over nearly two decades, while the decline in the death rate sustains a turn around noted for the first time last year.
Moreover, preliminary findings from 1996 show that declines in both incidence and death rates are continuing, officials said.
"The chances of getting cancer are declining, and the chances of dying from cancer are declining even faster," said Dr. James Marks, an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Describing cancer as "one of the most feared diseases, and rightfully so," Marks said that with the new statistics, "the burden of fear should begin to lift."
Stressing that "behind the numbers are peoples' lives," Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute, said that in 1995 alone, the trends mean 25,000 to 30,000 fewer cancer deaths and 70,000 fewer new cancer cases.
In 1996, the most recent year for which data are available, 5.5 million children lived in poverty across the nation, and 63 percent of them lived in families with at least one working parent, according to Columbia University's respected National Center for Children in Poverty.
The number of poor children has declined since peaking at 6.4 million in 1993.
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