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...between conservatives who can't wait to sink their teeth into Clinton's soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr's findings would warrant impeachment. That quickly gave way to the milder notion, favored by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, to have a less formal group look at whatever Starr eventually sends...
...anything about it," says a G.O.P. aide. "These people are not going to vote Democrat, but these people may not vote. And that's a problem for a lot of members who are facing stiff contests." The G.O.P. strategy now is to take what Starr gives them and then hold a series of so-called informational hearings...
...believe there is so much support for Clinton. People are missing the entire point of Kenneth Starr's investigation: to find out if there was perjury or suborning of perjury by the President. It has nothing to do with Clinton's having sex outside his marriage. Defense of Clinton is premature. Let the investigation determine whether or not he committed a federal offense and if he lied. Americans can withstand quite a bit of nonsense and double-talk from their leaders, but I believe they will not stand for a bald-faced lie. I encourage people to hold in check...
Help! Somebody call the exorcist! It seems that Starr is possessed by Joseph McCarthy's malevolent spirit. Come election time, the political parties had better scour the countryside for monasteries. Only a monk with an interest in politics will do as a candidate. GERA KORTE Kapaa, Hawaii...
...Starr may have been able to force Monica Lewinsky's mother to testify about her daughter's activities [NATION, Feb. 23], but he could chain me to a wall in the deepest dungeon with rats nibbling at my feet and I would never divulge what my daughter told me in confidence. In Nazi Germany children were encouraged to squeal on their parents. Is this what we have sunk to? HARRIETT SCHUTKIN Fox Point...