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While Clinton quickly dispatched the Watkins episode, his own ethical controversies require far more sensitive handling. White House counsel Lloyd Cutler indicated last week that he would ask a federal judge in Little Rock to postpone consideration of Paula Corbin Jones' sexual-harassment suit against Clinton on the grounds that a President should not be distracted by civil litigation while in office. Cutler's strategy would seem to avoid the suggestion that the President is above the law while postponing the possibility of unseemly depositions until later. This legal course virtually ensures that Clinton can avoid dealing with the Jones...
...toying with the question of whether or not to file a sexual- harassment suit against the President. The latter story line was echoed in the recent two-hour season finale of Melrose Place, a currently hot nighttime soap that was floundering until old pro Heather Locklear -- a sort of Lloyd Cutler with dark roots -- was brought in to get the show on track...
Washington -- Treasury Secretary LLOYD BENTSEN, who has been on the sidelines of the health-care debate for more than a year, has quietly begun to sound out Democratic elders and health-care interest groups in the event Congress can't pass legislation this summer. Bentsen has never been a fan of the grandiose Clinton scheme, and may help cut a deal if the committee chairpeople on Capitol Hill can't do it themselves...
This week the heads of the nation's 40 leading public housing agencies will gather in Washington to hear the case for the lease provisions Clinton favors. "You could legally compel" such clauses, argues White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, because "residing in publicly funded housing is a privilege, not a right" -- but political reality renders mandatory provisions impossible. So, says Cutler, "we're hoping that the majority of project tenants" who have signaled their support for Clinton's plan "will exert peer pressure" on those reluctant to go along. However the idea plays -- and it will surely be tested...
...Literature and Arts B-23, "Frank Lloyd Wrightand Modern Architecture," which will be taught byGleason professor of Fine Arts Neil Levine...