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Article: Long live Kennewick.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2001
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You've heard of Monica's old dress, the missing billing records, "is is" and all those other clues to classic Clinton cover-ups. But have you heard of Kennewick Man?
Perhaps the last - and positively the most literal - victim targeted for cover-up by the Clinton White House, the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man, was ordered last fall by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to be turned over to a coalition of American Indian tribes for burial - and quick, before scientists managed to learn anything about him. Why? The answer to that very simple question takes us into one of those murky battle zones of the so-called culture wars where the forces of ...