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"The president has acknowledged
and apologized tor an inappropriate
relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, so
there is no need to describe that relationship
in ugly detail," the lawyers
wrote.
The details, they added, "are simply
part of a hit-and-run smear campaign,
and their inclusion says volumes
about the (independent counsel's)
tactics and objectives."
To support his allegations that Clinton
committed perjury and obstructed
justice to hide his adulterous relationship
with Monica Lewinsky, Starr included
in his report to Congress last
week pages of explicit details relating
to 10 sexual encounters between Clinton
and Lewinsky.
The president's lawyers now face
an elaborate balancing act ? acknowledging
that Clinton's admitted
affair with Lewinsky and his subse
quent lying about it were terribly wrong,
while at the same time vigorously deny^
ing any impeachable offenses and de"
picting Starr as an overzealous, perhaps
prurient prosecutor.
Clinton's lawyers clearly hope that
Starr has overplayed his hand with
concern what the lawyers cadi the "pornographic
specificity" of his report. "The document
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"I think, generally, our policy has
been to believe what the student is
telling us on the appeal was true," he
said.
"But in my own mind, and in your
mind, I'm sure, there might be a percentage
of those (appeals) that are not
^ S true."
Huggins said the appeals committee
is attempting to discourage system
W vl abuse by improving the current appeals
process.
wp I % . "We do 9hun those who try to
* ' / take advantage of it (the appeals system),"
he said. "Thaf s why we're going
* S S f" U I t? enhance the appeals process.
We're trying to develop a historybased
system so the appellant committee
can identify repeat (parking) offenders."
Immediate
treatment
necessary for
STDs
STP continued from page 1
"[Even if] you don't show symptoms,
you could be infected and don't know
it," Sheffield said.
This, she stated, is one of the biggest
misconceptions regarding STDs.
At the Thomson Student Heath
Center, anyone can make an appointment
to be tested for STDs. The biggest
problem with testing is that most viral
STDs cannot be tested for unless there
is a breakout.
Immediacy is important in testing
and treatment of any STD, because serious
long-term medical problems can
result from lack of treatment, includ:
uig mieiimt).
Vince Roberts, Douglas residence
hall director, said his biggest fear about
STDs is that "students won't be responsible
for their own actions and take
proper precautions in order to prevent
STDs."
Nationally, 80 percent of college
freshmen are sexually active. Of that
80 percent, 50 percent used a condom
the last time they were sexually active,
and 20 percent used a condom every
time they had intercourse, according
to the Sexual Health and Sexual Assault
Services.
rsen Though abstinence is the only ab- I
- . solute way to prevent STDs, conI
I "f" I n doms, spermicide and dental dams
W I LI II U greatly reduce the risk of contracting
these very serious illnesses.
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there is none," their response said. 1
Starr spokesman Charles Bakaly {
declined comment Saturday.
But in his report, Starr said the ^
explicit details were necessary to prove
the perjury and obstruction-of-justice y
charges, and to show the extent to 1
which Clinton lied and covered up his 1
actions. \
"Many of the details reveal high- f
ly personal information; many are ^
sexually explicit," Starr conceded.
"This is unfortunate, but it is essential."
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After a four-year investigation, 1
the last seven months of it on the |
Lewinsky matter, Starr submitted a
445-page report to Congress last
Wednesday outlining what he called '
"substantial and credible" evidence of 1
impeachable offenses.
The report was released publicly 5
on Friday, including on the Internet, 1
making it instantly available to a s
worldwide audience in an unprecedented
way.
On Saturday, members of Con- ^
gress seemed to be anxiously awaiting
the public's response before de- \
riding how to respond. c
In his weekly radio address, Clin- v
ton asked people to focus on public is- c
sues, not his personal travails.
"It has been an exhausting and
difficult week in the capital, not on- c
ly for me but for many others," Clin- t
ton said. "As I told my Cabinet on t
Thursday, we cannot lose sight of our e
primary mission, which is to work for
the American people and especially
for the future of our children."
Vice President A1 Gore, one of *
those with most to gain, or lose, from t
a nasty impeachment process, broke c
Viio cilonro nn Starr's rViarcroQ cavincr
they do not establish sufficient grounds g
for removing the president.
"I do not believe this report serves
as the basis for overturning the judg- ^
ment of the American people ... that I
Bill Clinton should be their president," c
Gore said.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, RGa.,
meanwhile, maintained his studied
tone of judiciousness rather
than accusation. *
"Now we're in a period of judgment
that I think is very sobering," Gin- t
grich said in Georgia. i
"We're working very hard with Democratic
leadership to be calm, to be
fair, to do everything so that we're doing
it as Americans ? not as De- 1
mocrats, not as Republicans." i
But Gingrich also said: "The pres- 1
idency was made honorable by George <
Washington. It was made noble by
Abraham Lincoln.
Judge Starr's report is very troubling,
particularly when measured {
against that standard." 1
The early indicators in the polls 1
showed 63 percent of Americans still j
believed Clinton should not be im- |
peached, a CNN poll found.
That was a drop of seven percentage
Doints from a survev taken *
in August when Clinton admitted his ]
relationship with Lewinsky. <
An ABC poll taken Friday evening ]
said 57 percent think Clinton should ,
be impeached if he encouraged Lewinsky
to he about their relationship ?
an increase of 14 points on that question
since Aug. 21. 1
Still, the president's job approval
rating held steady near 60 percent, ,
as it has since the Lewinsky contro- (
versy broke into the open in January.
Starr's report detailed several individual
accusations. First of all, ^
the independent counsel asserted, ]
Clinton lied both to Paula Jones' i
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or a phone number that students had
to call.
In all cases, the majority of students
said they would use the service,
although most would rather see it free
of charge.
Although Travers was generally
pleased with the survey results, the
survey uncovered some opposition to
the program as well.
"The main complaint that people
have is that they want Safe Ride
to take people to Five Points, but that
would perpetuate drinking," Travers
said. "This isn't the Madhatter's bus."
Travers' committee met Wednes
day and talked about their plans to
implement Safe Ride now that the
statistics have been compiled. This
week, Travers plans on calling Puli
*s argue
ils in im
mdation
awyers and to a grand jury about the
iffair with Lewinsky.
In addition, Starr charged, Clin;on
obstructed justice by discussing
vith Lewinsky ways tc hide their reationship
from Jones' lawyers, by
oiowingly allowing his aides to give
"alse testimony and by trying to inluence
the testimony of his secretary,
3etty Currie.
More broadly, the independent
:ounsel charged that Clinton abused
lis office by misleading the American
jeople about the affair.
The president's lawyers, Kendall
ind Ruff, rebutted each of those points
n their response Saturday.
"The Office of Independent Counsel
has presented to the House a referral
that no prosecutor would present
to any jury," they said, a
sentiment echoed by several other lejal
experts.
But impeachment is a political
irocess at least as much as a legal
ine, and members of Congress were
varily exploring both of those aspects
Saturday.
Most lawmakers fled Washington
luickly after the report was released
o campaign in their districts, listen
o constituents and sift through the
ixplosive details.
Several members of the House Juliciaiy
Committee, though, stayed in
he capital Saturday to work on maters
relating to the inquiry as they
onfronted the awesome prospect of
indoing American democracy's most
acred ritual: presidential election.
At least one influential member,
Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, fill.,
was less than pleased with the
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"I'm not happy with the salacious
naterial," Hyde told CNN.
"It's just an unfortunate aspect of
his total picture."
With the benefit of an added day
;o peruse Starr's report, some began
loticing additional details.
In one footnote, for example, Starr
suggests that at least one of the tapes
urned over to him by Lewinsky's forner
friend Linda Tripp might have
jeen doctored, according to an FBI
jxamination.
"These preliminary results raise
questions about the reliability and
luthenticity of at least one recording,
vhich in turn raise questions about
;he accuracy's of Ms. Tripp's testimony
regarding her handling of the
;apes," the footnote said.
While much of the furor of the last
several days has surrounded the report's
explicit details and its
charges of obstruction of justice, perhaps
most telling will be the public's
reaction to Starr's final, and in a sense
climactic, accusation ? that Clinton
broke his oath to uphold the nation's
laws.
In that count, Starr essentially accuses
Clinton of abusing the highest
Dffice in the nation.
The charge is among the haziest
from a legal perspective, but the most
powerful from a straightforward ethical
viewpoint.
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liam Ford to talk about leasing or borrowing
a van.
Travers is optimistic about getting
Safe Ride implemented by the
end of the semester, even if the service
isn't quite perfected. She is hesitant
to give an exact date, however.
"I think if we put a timetable on
this well sell ourselves short (in that)
we may not get as good a deal on
the van and maybe not get as much
funding as we'd like," Travers said.
She says that eventually she would
like to see Safe Ride develop into something
similar to the "P&P service offered
at the University of North Carolina,
which takes students anywhere
in Chapel Hill.
A total of 750 students returned
the 23-question surveys, which were
distributed last year by then-Student
Services chair, Mike Moore.
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