No Crimes

But a report criticizes Meese

Although Edwin Meese still attends many high-level White House meetings and quietly visited the Republican National Convention in Dallas, he has pretty much dropped from public prominence. But Ronald Reagan's Presidential Counsellor and nominee for Attorney General has re-emerged in the news. Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor appointed last April to probe questions raised at Meese's Senate confirmation hearings, will submit his report to a federal court this week, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

In a strict legal sense, Stein's 200-page report will clear Meese: the...

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