WATERGATE ADDING TO NOTORIETY; COMPLEX AGAIN AT CENTER OF SCANDAL.Byline: Paul Kane For other persons named Paul Kane, see Paul Kane (disambiguation). Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. State News Service If Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. wants to, she probably could hide out inside the sprawling Watergate complex The Watergate complex is an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in northwest Washington, D.C., best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. the rest of her life. And live very comfortably. The Watergate is its own little, self-contained community. There are three apartment complexes. Two office buildings. One hotel. Restaurants. A Safeway grocery store. A post office. Dental suites. Several banks. And, of course, a trendy coffee shop. All of life's desires, almost completely hidden from the glare of the camera crews that have set up a 24-hour vigil: ``Monica Watch.'' More than 25 years after it first gained infamy Notoriety; condition of being known as possessing a shameful or disgraceful reputation; loss of character or good reputation. At Common Law, infamy was an individual's legal status that resulted from having been convicted of a particularly reprehensible crime, rendering him , the Watergate complex is again the center of a firestorm that could bring down a president. This controversy isn't focused on the sixth floor of the Watergate office building, where G. Gordon Liddy George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Richard Nixon's Presidency. Along with E. and company started a national ``nightmare'' when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Today, the camera crews are camped out around the corner, on the southern end of the complex, sitting on the sidewalk near the private driveway into Watergate South, the condominium complex where Lewinsky and her mother have been holed up since the story broke last week. The free world's axis of power no longer runs along Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to the White House. For the next few days or weeks, it runs from the office of Independent Counselor Kenneth Starr, a few blocks east of the White House, across town to the Watergate. Waiting for Lewinsky Waiting on beach chairs, a small cadre of photographers and television camera crews stand watch outside the Watergate. In rotating shifts, they wait for the rare moment to catch a glimpse Verb 1. catch a glimpse - see something for a brief time catch sight, get a look see - perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he of Lewinsky. Early Thursday afternoon, the crews pounced to action as Lewinsky was whisked away in her car, speeding past the photographers. Pictures were beamed instantly around the world. When Lewinsky appears, said one cameraman, it's like a madhouse. It was only the third time she had been spotted in a week. And that's the way the Watergate designers wanted it be for Washington's elite power brokers who choose to live next to the Potomac River. ``They're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a good, safe, clean place with many amenities. And that's the Watergate,'' said a Realtor who sells Watergate properties but asked not to be identified. Workers broke ground on the Watergate in 1966. The 231-room Watergate Hotel opened in 1967, and the apartment complexes opened soon after, including Lewinsky's Watergate South, which opened in 1971. In addition to Watergate South, there is also Watergate East and Watergate West. Combined, the three apartment complexes have 624 residences, consisting of one- and two-bedroom apartments and two-floor townhouses, all of which are privately owned. A tiny percentage of the owners rent out their residencies - one of which is rented to Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, who moved to Washington in 1993. Most exclusive Lewis typically spends most of her time in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , while her daughter lives in a ground-floor townhouse town·house or town house n. 1. A residence in a city. 2. A row house, especially a fashionable one. in the most exclusive of the three Watergate complexes. They pay between $1,800 and $2,500 a month for the townhouse, according to another Realtor. They also live in an area of the Watergate steeped in political scandal, according to U.S. News and World Report. Lewinsky's next-door neighbor: Robert J. Dole, the GOP candidate who was defeated by Clinton in 1996 and one of Nixon's chief defenders during the original Watergate scandal as head of the Republican National Committee. Another neighbor: Yah Lin ``Charlie'' Trie, an Arkansas friend of Clinton's indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. Wednesday for funneling illegal foreign contributions to the DNC DNC Democratic National Committee DNC Democratic National Convention DNC Do Not Call DNC Delaware North Companies DNC Domain Name Commissioner DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Do Not Change DNC Does Not Compute DNC Digital Nautical Chart - so-called ``soft money'' that helped defeat his neighbor, Dole. Dole was a bit bemused when he saw the camera crews staking out the Watergate last week. ``He thought to himself, `Look, I won! I'm back,' '' Dole spokeswoman Joyce Campbell told The Associated Press. A grassy courtyard, about 100 yards wide, separates Lewinsky's townhouse from the Watergate office building, the infamous home of the DNC in 1972. Attached to the office building is the Watergate Hotel, where some of Liddy's cohorts stayed while they staked out the DNC. A few more of the Watergate burglars stayed across Virginia Avenue at a Howard Johnson's. Lurking ghosts The DNC is long gone - off to a permanent building a few blocks from the Capitol, built in the 1970s with ``soft money'' funds. In its place, the Watergate offices now house a smattering of law firms and international liaison sites, including the embassies of Yemen and Brunei. But the ghosts of Nixon, Liddy and Bob Haldeman still lurk throughout Watergate. Last June, the hotel marked the 25th anniversary of the scandal by offering its guest a series of ``Break-In'' packages with names like the Weekend Furlough fur·lough n. 1. a. A leave of absence or vacation, especially one granted to a member of the armed forces. b. A usually temporary layoff from work. c. and the Executive Privilege executive privilege, exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congressional inquiries or the judiciary. Plan - priced at about $200 a night. Through May of this year, ``Break-In'' guests also will receive a selection of souvenirs, including ``All the President's Men'' by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who broke the original Watergate scandal story. One wonders whether 25 years from now they'll be offering photos of Monica Lewinsky leering leer intr.v. leered, leer·ing, leers To look with a sidelong glance, indicative especially of sexual desire or sly and malicious intent. n. A desirous, sly, or knowing look. at Bill Clinton. ``Mostly, it's just a place to live,'' the Realtor said. Mostly. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Monica Lewinsky leaves the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. Thursday night. Associated Press |
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