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To: Capt who wrote (7197)	10/7/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 62549

Porn police swoop on Starr report Wednesday October 7 10:52 AM EDT dailynews.yahoo.com BEIJING (Reuters) - China's anti-pornography authorities have seized a Chinese version of the Starr report, branding it an ''illicit publication'' for its graphic descriptions of sex in the White House. Steamy details of U.S. President Bill Clinton's sexual encounters with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky have been circulating around China in translation, Xinhua said on Wednesday. On Monday, the Office Against Pornography and Illicit Publications of the Municipal Press and Publications Administration confiscated a number of copies, Xinhua quoted a Beijing newspaper as saying. The Chinese translation of the 445-page document was rushed into print by a Chinese weekly newspaper in a ''special edition'' just two days after it published on U.S. government Internet sites, Xinhua said. The document was presented to Congress by independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Xinhua quoted the Beijing paper as saying the Press and Publications Administration had issued a circular banning the publication of translations for ''diplomatic reasons.'' But a dozen publishing houses were ignoring the ban with separate translations. ''I started selling this book from October 2, and it was selling extremely well. I had no problem selling 100 to 200 copies a day,'' one book vendor was quoted as saying. China's major state newspapers have offered only terse reports of the scandal, but the tabloids and talks shows are having a field day with the story. Several tabloids have reported as fact that Lewinsky was sent to the United States as an infant by the former Soviet KGB to try to entrap the U.S. president. Many Beijing residents accept the story at face value.