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Show A8& The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Saturday, January 23, 1999 Senators @ Starr Tries to Get Lewinsky’s Cooperation Growing Weary Independent counsel Kenneth Starr on Friday asked a federal judge to order Monica Lewinsky to cooperate with House GOP managersand“allowherself to be debriefed” bythe prosecutors handling the impeachmenttrial of President Clinton. Starr’s office also asked U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson to revoke Lewinsky’s immunity agreement against prosecution if she refuses to cooperate — therebyclearing the way for him to indict her for obstruction of justice for allegedly joining with Clinton to hide their secret sexual relationship from lawyers in the Paula Jones sexual-harassmentlawsuit The judge is expected to make a ruling today or Sunday, before the Senate votes — possibly on Monday — on whether to allow depositions from any witnesses in the impeachment trial. Absent any voluntary testimony from Clinton, which has been repeatedly rejected by the White House, Lewinsky would far and awaybecome thetrial’s most sensational witness. Lewinsky’s lawyers, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, said they did not think it right for her to assist the managers and not also the White House lawyers. case.” If that fails, the discussion will move on to witnesses — a movethat could prolong thetrial by a weekor so. If the motion to depose witness- es fails, then senators “could go Tight into final arguments and then a vote on thearticles of impeachment,”’ Bennettsaid. Dependingon that outcome, if senators try to convict the presi- dent and fail to muster the re- “Therefore,” the lawyers wrote, “we have recommended against interviews with either side.” quired two-thirds majority, Hatch said, “My preferred route would bethis: If, after everybody's had a chance to present their case and it’s absolutely clear that you will never have 67 votes for conviction, then we should move to adjourn.” That adjournment, Hatch said, should include an agreementthat acknowledges that the 67 votes “are not there and we acknowl- edge the Housevote as the high- est form of condemnation on the president's actions under these circumstances.” “Then,” hesaid, “we adjourn.” Bennett said Hatch’s plan was Starr's office filed an emergencypetition late Friday afternoon with Johnson, asking her to order Lewinsky to be interviewed by the managersor risk losing her immunity. the trial, and a few Senate Republicans are looking for a swift and graceful exit: “Their exit be to vote against witnes: dismissed the notion the Sei seems hopelessly partisan-bound on this matter, something many observers have noted from the outset “worth discussing” and would be taken up at a Republican conference today, before the trial re- Bennett. “If witnesses are allowed, there will be very few in At the end of Friday's questioning, Hatch told reporters that, short of removal, his plan would result in “the ultimate condemna- tion for the president's despicable actions” since ‘‘most people would say right now there aren't 67 votes — but this isn’t the end of the matter.” Bennett said more and more senators are readytovote to end between 12. day, January 33, e live 107.5 radio id receive a FREE* @ the Professional “There's a possibility it could be wrapped up next week,” said sumes. » le attic Of Clinton Trial @ Continued from A-1 number.” But each of the senators stopped short of absolutely de- claring the trial over. 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