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Uesday - January 27, 1998 Nation a! ■ resident denies charges adultery, misconduct (WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting save his presidency, President non on Monday jiphatically de- id a sexual rela sh ip with Mon- Lewinsky and -ighi to reassure vering Democ- s that he will sur- _e the scandal. “I inot have sexual ttions with that "man,'’ he said. In b dramatic 20-second state- F - ;nt] Clinton drew a sharp line of r-, fense that buoyed his supporters d riveted attention on Lewinsky she prepared to face a federal , tnd jury Tuesday. ^ With his wife standing at his side, c Clinton Clinton wagged his finger at TV cam eras and said: “I’ve never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never.” The White House statement marked the first comments on the subject from Clinton since Lewinsky told prosecutors she was willing to testify under the protection of full im munity she had an affair with him— raising the prospect of a high-stakes showdown between the president and a former White House intern. There is no turning back now for Clinton if Lewinsky changes her story and says she had sexual rela tions with him. Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas, said Clinton’s statement “sounded pretty categorical to me. I don’t see any weasel words.” Lewinsky, 24, told a friend she had an affair with Clinton but later denied the claim in an affidavit. She spent several hours Monday with her attorneys, both at her Watergate apartment and a local law office. Lewinsky’s lead attorney, William Ginsburg, is trying to secure a pledge of immunity from Whitewa ter prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Meanwhile, attorneys for Clinton asked a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., to move up the trial date for Paula Jones’ sex harassment lawsuit against Clinton, complaining that the media frenzy surrounding the Lewinsky case had created an “un due distraction.” Clinton’s legal team thinks the lawsuit could be a high- profile forum to discredit Lewinsky if she cooperates with prosecutors against the president. U.S. cites biological weapons as reason for possible attack on Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) — Laying the groundwork for a possible at tack, the Clinton administration said Monday Iraq may be manu facturing illegal biological weapons. If the attack is ordered, “it won’t be a pinprick,” one Pen tagon official said. Military planners prepared options Monday and administra tion officials briefed congres sional leaders and U.S. allies. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said there should be no mistake about the “American nation’s commitment” to preventing Sad dam Hussein from obtaining weapons of mass destruction. Republicans are “prepared to be supportive” of measures to pre vent that from happening, the Georgia Republican said. The White House rejected any notion that President Clinton would make his decision — either to attack or hold back — in an ef fort to shift attention from allega tions that he had sexual relations with a White House intern. “Absolutely not, absolutely not,” White House spokesperson Mike McCurry said, rallying to the president’s side as a leader who made independent judg ments, unrelated to his person al life. “There is no effect,” State De partment spokesman James R Ru bin said, as Clinton sent Sandy Berger, his national security assis tant, to inform leaders in Congress how he was nearing a decision to order an attack. “Our objective for some time has been to do whatever is neces sary, including not ruling out the use of force, to achieve our objec tive ... is to be sure that Iraq’s abil ity to make weapons of mass de struction and missiles is steadily diminished,” Rubin said. Already, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has told the White House chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, he “hoped that the president would take the necessary action in Iraq no mat ter what other distractions might be going on,” Lott said Sunday. Bowles’ response, Lott said, in dicated Clinton “still would try to do what was right for the country.” With tensions growing, Rubin said “it cannot be ruled out that Iraq has an operational biological weapons facility.” Vision and Leadership in the Creation of the George 3ush 'residential Library Center What? ‘98 Rowlett Lecture/Bush Library Symposium WHEN? February 10, 1998, 8 a.m.-S p.m. WI iERE? George Bush Presidential Conference Center s ft ft-A""- V - ^ f % i| , s ' • A ! 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