At A Glance
Unhappy Jones: `… he gets away with everything’
Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment lawsuit began the scandal that ended with Friday’s impeachment vote, said she was disappointed the Senate did not remove President Clinton from office.
“I’m not happy, you know, for sure,” Jones told Fox News outside a school where she picked up her children in Cabot, Ark. “I just expected it because he gets away with everything.” =dr Jones sued Clinton on May 6, 1994, alleging he propositioned her at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock three years earlier, when she was a state worker and he was Arkansas’ governor.
The case was later thrown out, and Jones and Clinton settled for $850,000. But the House impeached Clinton on charges that he obstructed justice and committed perjury in the lawsuit.
Juxtaposition enough to make students ex-editors
Three high school students have been suspended for using a photograph of a teacher who resembles Monica Lewinsky in what was called a “sexually suggestive” way.
The Brockton, Mass., students put the photo of the teacher’s face next to one of President Clinton on the door to the yearbook office at Brockton High.
The students were suspended for five days and removed as editors of the yearbook after the incident late last month.
They and the teacher were not identified.
Deputy School Superintendent Anthony Luizzi said the display was “very offensive and hurtful” and “sexually suggestive.”
Top story in Europe, but leaders keep counsel
World leaders were largely silent but TV stations in Europe led news broadcasts Friday with the Senate’s acquittal of President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
“There have been many losers in this case and very few winners,” France’s TF1 TV correspondent Ulysse Gosset said from Washington. “Bill Clinton is definitely among the losers, even if he has risen from the ashes.”
In Britain, the British Broadcasting Corp. and rival ITN carried the story as their lead item.
Describing the Senate’s proceedings as a “historic moment,” SKY, a satellite TV service that broadcasts from London and covers Britain and parts of Europe, carried live coverage of the Senate vote to acquit Clinton on articles of impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice.
In Israel, Ehud Barak, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, sent congratulations to Clinton. In a letter, Barak said he was satisfied with the decision because it would let Clinton get back to aiding Middle East peace, Israel radio reported.
Bumpers says senators took right road
Retired Sen. Dale Bumpers, who returned to the Senate to implore his former colleagues not to remove Bill Clinton from office, praised them Friday for heeding his words.
“They rose to the occasion and defended and preserved the Constitution,” the Arkansas Democrat said. Bumpers, 73, summed up the opening of Clinton’s defense at the impeachment trial last month.
It was all over but the shouting
After a bomb threat, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy made his way outside and found himself speaking to reporters at an impromptu news conference.
He had a hard time being heard, however. A female protester planted herself a few feet away and began screaming, drowning out Kennedy’s comments.
The Massachusetts Democrat quickly broke off the interview and was escorted away.