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California, as in most states, any election aftermath involves a
wan hunt for silver linings. As always, it's hard to find them.
The Control Equipment such as Voltage Regulators, Auto
Transformers, Oil Circuit Breakers, Panel Board, etc., was
designed by and supplied by General Electric Company.  The media
coverage of the Clinton pardons has been so biased, overblown
and vituperative as to call into question the very purpose of
what currently passes as journalism. It is difficult to recall a
more partisan, one-sided hatchet job.  Surely, even the faintest
sense of fairness would compel a comparison of former President
Clinton's actions with that of his predecessors and, as Rep.
Henry Waxman pointed out at a recent hearing to a largely
indifferent Washington press corps, Republican Presidents have
more than matched the outrages of Clinton.  Forget Gerald Ford's
pardon of Richard M. Nixon, which, while effectively short-
circuiting an ongoing probe of