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WASHINGTON -- This week could bring the stormiest Whitewater weather the Clinton administration has encountered so far.Hearings before the Senate Whitewater Committee will heat up with the long-awaited testimony of Bernard W. Nussbaum, the former White House counsel who is the key figure in the events that followed the 1993 suicide of deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. and who will likely be roughed up by Republicans on the committee.At the same time, the House enters the fray. The Banking Committee will examine the tangle of Arkansas money and politics that is at the heart of the expanding Whitewater controversy and that has already led to numerous indictments.

WASHINGTON -- This week could bring the stormiest Whitewater weather the Clinton administration has encountered so far.Hearings before the Senate Whitewater Committee will heat up with the long-awaited testimony of Bernard W. Nussbaum, the former White House counsel who is the key figure in the events that followed the 1993 suicide of deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. and who will likely be roughed up by Republicans on the committee.At the same time, the House enters the fray. The Banking Committee will examine the tangle of Arkansas money and politics that is at the heart of the expanding Whitewater controversy and that has already led to numerous indictments.

Clarificaton In the cover article in yesterday's LIVE section, Baltimore's Washington Monument (1829) was described as the nation's first monument dedicated to George Washington. That distinction goes to the stone tower erected in 1827 in Boonsboro, Md. The Baltimore landmark was the nation's first architectural monument to Washington. Maryland State House State Circle, Annapolis Washington resigned from his command of the Continental Army here. A Washington mannequin in period costume stands in the Old Senate Chamber.

Dressed up in her pink jumper with matching hair clips, Madison squirmed in her mom's lap, slid off, danced around - hardly the decorum expected in a courtroom. But when her moment in the limelight before the judge arrived, the 3-year-old was asleep. Reginald Gregory of Bowie stood with Madison draped on his shoulder and his wife by his side, as a judge told him he was officially Madison's dad. "I adore Madison," Gregory, 37, said afterward. He had married Madison's mother, Jenn, 30, in March.

Public can inspect voting machines set for use in primary The Carroll County Board of Elections has scheduled a public inspection at 6 p.m. today of the nearly 500 voting machines that will be used for the first time in the March 2 primary. "We have run all the machines through logic and accuracy tests before they go out to the precincts next week," said Patricia Matsko, elections board director. "We will show all the procedures we used to make sure the machines are secure." The sealed machines are in the gymnasium of the county Annex Building, 224 N. Court St., Westminster.

MADISON, Wis.-- Up a dingy flight of stairs over a nondescript eatery off the University of Wisconsin campus, the insurgency known as the Ralph Nader campaign mobilizes for Election Day barely a week from now. It is just one of many local Green Party headquarters around the country, but its location on what might be called the sacred ground of old-time liberalism gives it particular significance. Madison still has a warm and strong heart for the political left wing in various guises. In the tradition of Bob LaFollette, his sons and the Progressive movement going back to the early 1900s, varieties survive in small patches -- not only environmentalist "greens" but also socialists and even a few communists . Perhaps more than in any other single state, Mr. Nader's new raiders are working overtime.

When the first Maryland Film Festival unspooled in 1999, one of the unquestioned highlights was a screening of the 1924 silent version of Peter Pan, complete with live musical accompaniment. This year, finally, the festival is going to try and capture that same sort of magic again, but with a twist. Claire (11 a.m.) is a brand-new, 57-minute silent film, shot with a hand-cranked 35mm movie camera and shown with an original score performed live -- in this case by the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Just days after Gov. George E. Pataki trumpeted a tentative agreement with the Oneida Indians of New York to end a 31-year-old dispute over a quarter of a million acres in New York, the deal has begun to unravel. The Oneidas of Wisconsin, a separate branch of the tribe that was shut out of the negotiations, has filed 20 lawsuits against individual landowners in Oneida and Madison counties. In essence, the move makes private citizens bargaining chips in the struggle over the tribe's claim that the state illegally bought its land 200 years ago. The lawsuits have been filed against owners of commercial, agricultural, entertainment and abandoned properties, but no residential property owners.

John Louis Vordemberge, former owner of a venerable Baltimore saddlery that outfitted area horsemen for more than a century, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 64. Mr. Vordemberge, who was known as Jack, was born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville. He was a 1958 graduate of McDonogh School, where he was captain of the cavalry and trained with the U.S. Olympic team. He served in the early 1960s in the Army as a computer specialist at the Pentagon.

As a brilliant display of reds, oranges and yellows descends on Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Country this month, getting lost while driving might be the best blunder you could make. Imagine miles of white-painted fences on either side of you as rolling acres of horse farms, woodlands and vineyards unfold while you explore the Piedmont region. Imagine the morning mist lifting from dewy fields or an evening fog enveloping the mountains. All across the Mid-Atlantic, similar colorful scenes will be occurring, which makes autumn an ideal time for a getaway.