Uesday - January 27, 1998
Nation
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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.”
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