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...Gary Condit's third interview with the cops brought him both shame and relief. After he spoke to them last Friday night, the news emerged that he had admitted to having a romance with Chandra Levy, the federal intern missing since April 30. But the police on Saturday declared that Condit had never been considered a suspect in her disappearance and was not one now; they also praised him for his cooperation. During the two previous interviews, FBI sources say, Condit was treated with kid gloves, even after agents learned that Levy had called the California Congressman five times from...
...That nearly all their leads should be taking investigators toward Condit's innermost life - to the point where the inside of his mouth was swabbed for his DNA - must be a peculiarly hellish torture for a man obsessed with guarding his secrets. The Hill newspaper quoted police sources as saying Condit had insisted that Levy not carry any identification when they were together - a detail that, if true, could have a connection to the fact that items such as credit cards, her driver's license and other personal articles were left behind in her apartment when she vanished. Then again...
...precautions Condit is said to have taken, and despite the wholesome image he projected at home in Modesto, the Congressman's behavior has always been the subject of gossip among his legislative colleagues - first at the state capital, Sacramento, and later in Washington. "A flamboyant party boy who uses his prestige as an assemblyman to fuel a busy social life," California Journal had written in 1988. The pattern continued when he reached Congress. "His looks and clothes are so important to him," says a friend. "He so desperately wants to stay young...
...Washington knew much about his wife Carolyn, who had stayed behind in Modesto; many had the impression that she was a near invalid. But an acquaintance who has known Carolyn Condit for decades told TIME that despite some health problems, she is a vivacious woman. (She has often made appearances on the Modesto political circuit in her husband's stead.) "She was always out there," the acquaintance says. "Even if he wasn't there, she was there...
...however, was in evidence Friday afternoon at the Condit family's Modesto-area home, where an American flag hung from the front porch and the only message to passersby was a vividly colored sign: NO TRESPASSING. For Gary Condit, it's far too late to hope for that...