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Your "Monica and Bill" cover hit a new low [Feb. 2]. It belongs on supermarket racks with the sleaze magazines. DORIS L. STARR Walden...
...story on Kenneth Starr's investigation [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16], TIME inaccurately described the job of Kris Engskov. He is the President's aide; his duties include traveling with the President, managing his schedule and ensuring that his briefing materials are complete. We regret the mischaracterization...
...Starr's defenders argue that he is only following standard procedure. But does anyone remember Ted Bundy's mother being called? Or John Gotti's? Surely the parent-child bond is equal to that between husband and wife. Children should be encouraged to confide in their parents, to tell us their secrets, to turn to us for help, in complete confidentiality. It's because we know so much that we shouldn't, by all we hold dear, be made to divulge it. The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination ought to include the right not to incriminate a child...
...Starr would want Lewis' testimony. Monica moved in with her mother after she got her White House job. She sought her mother's help once she was called by Paula Jones' lawyers. She could help prosecutors more than even Linda Tripp with her surreptitious tapes. When Monica found herself detained by Starr's deputies, she did what every parent wants a child to do: she called home. Lewis could hardly have known that before she jumped on the train from New York she should have read her child her Miranda rights...
Many parents, including this one, would have challenged Starr and risked prison. (Hello, Susan McDougal. How about we get some yoga classes going in the exercise yard?) Just because Starr can call a mother doesn't mean he should. Justice Department guidelines advise against it unless there is serious criminal activity or overriding prosecutorial concerns...