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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cool who wrote (7463)	9/30/1998 4:14:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Clinton-Style Scandal Would Cost Most UK Bosses Job LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executives of most big British companies would face the sack if they behaved as President Clinton has done in the Monica Lewinsky affair, according to a survey released Wednesday. Recruitment agency Bartlett Merton asked a sample of personnel directors what would happen if the boss was found to be having an affair with a junior employee, as Clinton did with the White House intern. Half said they would recommend immediate dismissal to their boards. And of those who would not do so, most said the chief executive would have to go if he were found to have been lying about the affair to his fellow directors. ''A Clintonesque chief executive, even if clearly successful in running a major company, would only have a chance of clinging to his job in one in five British companies,'' said Bartlett Merton chief executive Stephen Rowlinson. He said 200 companies were approached for the survey, which also covered future employment intentions, but only 51 firms, with 250,000 employees between them, provided a full set of answers.

To: cool who wrote (7463)	9/30/1998 4:16:00 PM
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N.Y. Times Advocates Censure For Clinton NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times, which three weeks ago denounced President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, Wednesday advocated a negotiated settlement and censure that would allow him to stay in office. In an editorial, the newspaper said it believed decisions by House of Representatives Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, made for a more open and fair examination of evidence that would conclude the debate over Clinton's future more promptly. It said citizens ''do not want this to drag out indefinitely. Barring the emergence of explosive new evidence, there is no reason that it should.'' Hyde has asked a team of Republican and Democratic members to examine unreleased documents from independent counsel Kenneth Starr for material favorable to Clinton. ''This page advocates a negotiated settlement that would allow Mr. Clinton to remain in office in exchange for censure based on his admission of lying under oath,'' the editorial stated. ''We believe Mr. Hyde's handling of the Judiciary Committee opens the way for gradual progress in that direction.'' More documents in the investigation of Clinton's affair with Lewinsky will be made public Friday by the House Judiciary Committee. The committee will meet Monday to consider whether to launch a formal impeachment inquiry. On Sept. 12, the day after Starr published his report on the investigation, a Times editorial denounced Clinton for his ''sad little trysts'' with Lewinsky and said a ''president without public respect or congressional support cannot last.'' The newspaper, which is often supportive of Clinton's policies, expressed deep indignation in that editorial and said the president brought the crisis on himself by not coming clean about his relationship with Lewinsky when the scandal broke in January. Democrats and Republicans have agreed the material to be made public Friday -- 4,000 pages of grand jury testimony, FBI interviews and transcripts of Linda Tripp's secretly recorded conversations with Lewinsky -- was unlikely to radically alter the debate over whether Clinton committed impeachable offenses. Wednesday's Times editorial said, ''The Republicans know there is peril in ignoring the public desire for closure. But Mr. Clinton's gains in the past week should not induce him, his wife and their surrogates to adopt a war strategy or to count on Mr. Starr's unpopularity as a life preserver.''