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09 February 1998

WHITE HOUSE REPORT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1998

(Iraq/Richardson/Japan/China, Kendall/Starr, Clinton schedule) (560)
Deputy White House Press Secretaries Ann Luzzatto, Joseph Lockhart and
Barry Toiv answered reporters' questions at an early afternoon
briefing. White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry was at Harvard
University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he delivered a lecture on
foreign policy and the American public.
DIPLOMACY CONTINUES ON IRAQ
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson is traveling
this week to Japan and to China as part of an ongoing series of
consultations on Iraq, Deputy Press Secretary Luzzatto said.
She also said there are "no deadlines, no time lines" for military
action if Iraq's Saddam Hussein does not honor U.N. Security Council
resolutions. Luzzatto noted that Secretary of State Albright had said
in a televised interview over the weekend that it would be a matter of
"weeks" before military action, if necessary, would begin.
LEAKS ARE UNLAWFUL, UNFAIR, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
Deputy Press Secretary Lockhart said Clinton's private attorney David
Kendall worked through the weekend on a formal complaint to
Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, accusing Starr's office of
violating laws prohibiting disclosure of grand jury testimony relating
to Starr's investigation into the nature of the President's
relationship with a former White House intern.
Kendall hoped to file the complaint February 9 with the U.S. District
Court, Lockhart said, noting that there had been "60 or 70 leaks."
Clinton "shares the sentiments of his lawyer" that the "leaks are
unlawful and grossly unfair," Lockhart said. The White House is not
critical of the press reporting on the situation, but rather "on the
source of those leaks," he explained.
Starr said over the weekend he will investigate whether any grand jury
testimony was improperly leaked to the media by members of his staff.
PRESIDENT CLINTON'S SCHEDULE
Deputy Press Secretary Toiv outlined the events planned for the week
of February 9.
On Tuesday, February 10, Clinton travels to Wintergreen, Virginia, to
participate in an "Issues Conference" with Democratic members of the
House of Representatives. They will discuss their party's legislative
agenda for the upcoming session of Congress.
Clinton will return to Washington later February 10 for a planned
working meeting at the White House with President Peter Stoyanov of
Bulgaria.
In the morning of Wednesday, February 11, the President will present
the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership in the Roosevelt Room at
the White House.
He will then go to the State Department to sign the transmittal
protocol to Congress for the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) to include the Czech Republic, Hungary, and
Poland. Participating in that event will be top U.S. foreign policy
experts as well as the foreign ministers of the three NATO candidate
countries, Toiv said.
That evening, Clinton will host the First Millennium Evening Lecture
in the East Room of the White House. It will be delivered by Harvard
University History Professor Bernard Bailyn, who will discuss the
principles on which the United States was founded.
On Thursday, February 12, Clinton will meet with Democratic members of
the House and Senate at the Capitol to discuss their 1998 legislative
agenda.
On Friday, February 13, Clinton will address the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia. That evening he will
attend a fundraising event at a private home in Philadelphia before
returning to Washington.