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Show Wednesday, September 16, Starr report puts By David Foster (AP) Is it smut or a civics lesson? Easy access to the Starr report online has put parents and teachers in a dilemma, dilem-ma, wondering whether it's wise to let kids log on to read a graphic description of the president's sex life. "I heard one kid say, i think our president might be a pervert,' and then they said they wanted to check it out on the Internet," said Anne Story, a biology teacher at a Salt Lake City high school. The wide availability of the material, mate-rial, from the Web to television to newspapers, presents parents and other caretakers with some tricky questions, not the least of which is: What do you tell your children about a scandal that has engulfed the nation? Experts say tell them something -they're going to hear about it anyway. any-way. Terry Johnson's five children, ages 6 to 15, won't be reading Starr's report online, not if he can help it. "The Internet in our house is a tool, and unless one of the parents is monitoring it with kids, they do not get access," said Johnson, a manager for IBM in Woodstock, Ga. Even so, family discussions of President Clinton's problems are Party officials cautious of Clinton's future SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Release of the Kenneth Starr report Friday has the Clinton White House taking on water faster than the Titanic, according to Utah political officials and congressional con-gressional delegates. If its lurid allegations of sex and deceit are proven, some say, the president should resign. "I've read the Starr report and I've read the White House rebuttal," rebut-tal," Rep. Merrill Cook, R-Utah, said late Friday. "I don't see how he is not going to be able to show that he didn't lie to the grand jury, that he didn't lie in his deposition, and that he didn't manipulate his staff to try to manipulate their testimony. "And if it is proven, then yes, he should resign or be impeached," Cook said. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, who also had a chance to digest the 455-page report on a plane from Washington to Salt Lake Friday, believes Clinton's presidency presi-dency is mortally wounded. "If that is true ... that means this man is constitutionally inca-, pable of telling the truth and that's a very serious thing to have in a president," he said. "It means that his first instinct is to lie." Bennett a former official in the Nixon administration is not prepared to say Clinton should resign. Nevertheless, he believes the president's position "is more precarious than it ever was. "Whether he clings to office or not, I believe his presidency is irretrievably damaged," Bennett said. "So what we will see is either the Nixon outcome" a resignation resigna-tion "Or we'll see the Johnson outcome, where (President Lyndon) Johnson clung to office in the last months of his term so thoroughly discredited that no one of stature would serve in his administration and he couldn't leave the White House except to go to a military base." Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who chairs the' Senate Judiciary THE . 0 ' "! ' f. v ) Darin Paulus PAULUS HAIR. RESTORATION GROUP FOR MEN & WOMEN Internationally Acclaimed As Seen On T.V. & Rimed For 2020 With 35 Years Experience CALL NOW 1-888-942-4247 SEE US AT THE STATE FAIR 5635 So. Woterbury Way, S.LC, UT 1998 impossible to avoid, Johnson said. His two oldest daughters are curious, curi-ous, though the younger children are still blissfully ignorant of sex and politics. "They're more into baseball and soccer," Johnson said. "This kind of stuff is above their heads." The posting of such lurid material materi-al on usually staid Web sites maintained main-tained by Congress was further evidence evi-dence to officials at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia that students stu-dents must learn for themselves how to discern what's good and useful in the flood of information on the Internet. "The Web is not the sacred cow of information, and all its milk is not pure," said John O'Neill, a spokesman at the $12,000-a-year private pri-vate school for boys. The school blocks access to commercial com-mercial Web sites and issues Internet "driver's licenses" only to boys who agree to cruise cyberspace responsibly. responsi-bly. But those precautions won't prevent pre-vent students from navigating to the House Web site and reading about Clinton's alleged encounters with former intern Monica Lewinsky, O'Neill said Friday. The challenge facing all teachers and parents, O'Neill said, is to pre Committee and has been a harsh critic of Clinton's attempts to cover up his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, appeared Friday night on CNN's "Larry King Live," to say that its too early to start calling for resignation resig-nation or impeachment. "We have to ask ourselves what's the best interest of the American people," Hatch said. "It's too premature to make my decision," Hatch said when King asked him if Clinton should be impeached or resign. "My own personal feeling is that we have to give the president every chance we can." Hatch also said he "forgives" the president his indiscretion. "But it may be that correction is needed," he said. "We just don't know what kind of correction." The key member of the Utah delegation, Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, sits on the House Judiciary Committee, which will weigh the 11 counts Starr claims are potential grounds for impeachment. Cannon said late Friday that he hadn't . drawn any... conclusions about impeachment, but he said it is necessary Congress go through the process. "The impeachment process can reestablish the moral authority of the office," Cannon said. "It's clear we need to do something some-thing so that we have a president with some strength." Earlier Friday, he told KSL-TV that the lurid contents of the report detailing Clinton's sexual liaisons with Lewinsky and then his alleged efforts to cover up the affair "Is not attractive stuff." He later said he was surprised at how the detailed evidence corroborates cor-roborates with the Lewinsky version ver-sion of events. In a prepared release, Cannon said he's taking his committee assignment seriously serious-ly and that Congress "must ensure a full, fair, independent review of the independent counsel's material materi-al ... It is time to take whatever actions are necessary to restore lftfflHS FOR ALL HAIR LOSS PROBLEMS!! 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"I think a document to the Congress is an appropriate place for students to review information, so I wouldn't have a problem with students stu-dents accessing that at all," said Andy Dahlen, principal at North High School in Fargo, N.D. One positive note, said child psychologist psy-chologist Robert Myers, is that the report's written words won't be as stimulating to young viewers as pornographic photographs. "With words, children have to have some experience to understand what they're reading," said Myers, a professor at Widener University in Chester, Pa. "An adolescent may see it as a turn-on. An 8-year-old probably proba-bly wouldn't understand many of the words." Myers' advice to parents: Explain Clinton's problems to children as the honor, integrity and leadership leader-ship of the United States of America. Meantime, Utah's political party leaders remained cautious of Clinton's future and of the impact of the scandal on the November elections. Utah Democrats continued to distance themselves from a president presi-dent party director Meghan Holbrook said is a "disgrace" to his office. She again said Clinton should be at least censured for lying. "This is just an embarrassment," Holbrook said. 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