PASSING THE CUP, PRESIDENTIAL STYLE

To pay for his rising legal bills, President Clinton will in part rely on the charity of average Americans. His staff is reportedly cooking up a strategy to solicit donations that would raise much of the estimated $2 million legal tab in his fight against sexual harassment charges as well as his defense in the Whitewater land-development case. The contributions would be capped at $1,000, and only individuals--as opposed to corporations or political groups--could participate. The White House effort would mark the first time a sitting President attempted to raise funds publicly for his own legal defense.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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