-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Pre-Impeachment Rape Juanita Broaddrick Meets the Press (excerpt) by Dorothy Rabinowitz Juanita Broaddrick (right) and Bill Clinton in 1978. The argument failed to persuade Mr. Clinton, who, she says, got her onto the bed, held her down forcibly and bit her lips. The sexual entry itself was not without pain, she recalls, because of her stiffness and resistance. When it was over, she says, he looked down at her and said not to worry, he was sterile--he had had mumps when he was a child. "As though that was the thing on my mind--I wasn't thinking about pregnancy, or about anything," she says. "I felt paralyzed and was starting to cry." As he got to the door, she remembers, he turned. "This is the part that always stays in my mind--the way he put on his sunglasses. Then he looked at me and said, 'You better put some ice on that.' And then he left." The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 19, 1999 Pre-Impeachment Rape Woman in Clinton Rape Claim Tells Story NBC Sucks Wind A LONG-suppressed account of the alleged rape of a woman by Bill Clinton when he was attorney general of Arkansas in 1978 surfaced in the Wall Street Journal yesterday after NBC executives refused to broadcast an interview with her. Juanita Broaddrick, 54, gave a graphic account of his alleged "unwanted sexual advances" while he was campaigning to become governor. Sex, she said, had "never entered my mind" when he allegedly stopped talking to her about social reform and became amorous in a Little Rock hotel room. NBC has been anxious about her account because the room was rented by her. She also agreed to his suggestion that they go up in the lift to the suite for coffee. Mrs Broaddrick claimed that after five minutes of small talk, Mr Clinton startled her by clasping her in his arms, saying: "We're both married people." She said she told him that she had no interest in sex with him as she already had a lover, but Mr Clinton forced her on to the bed, biting her lips. She spoke of "the sexual entry" being painful because of her "stiffness and resistance". She said Mr Clinton turned to her as he left. She said: "This is the part that always stays in my mind - the way he put on his sunglasses. Then he looked at me and said, 'You'd better put some ice on that.' And then he left." A friend, Norma Rogers, a nurse who was also a guest at the Camelot Hotel, backed her allegations, saying that she found Mrs Broaddrick in shock on the bed. Her lips were swollen, her mouth was bruised and her tights were torn at the crotch. The tale surfaced during the 1992 election campaign, but Mrs Broaddrick refused to talk to the media. The independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent investigators to interview her but urged that her account be kept secret. The thinking was that the details were not conclusive. NBC has been sitting on its interview since Jan 20 amid reports that network executives were under enormous pressure from the White House to ditch the story. Mrs Broaddrick, who runs a nursing home, said an NBC reporter, Lisa Myers, told her: "The good news is you're credible. The bad news is that you're very credible." The Journal, a conservative newspaper which has done much to unearth dirt in the Whitewater scandal, said it was hard to see what gave NBC pause. Mrs Broaddrick was "a woman of accomplishment, prosperous, successful in her field, serious; a woman seeking no profit, no book, no lawsuit." Mrs Broaddrick said that she first met Mr Clinton while he was on the hustings. He immediately invited her to visit his headquarters in Little Rock. She told him that she was intending to travel to the capital the next week for a seminar. They met at the hotel coffee shop. Mr Clinton told her it was "too noisy" and suggested that they adjourn to her room. Their next meeting was in 1984 when she bumped into him on a stairway. He took her hands, she claimed, saying he wanted to apologise. She said nothing and walked away. The London Telegraph, Feb. 20, 1999 Deflation Continues Europe Rattled by Slow Growth German Growth Rate Turns Negative FRANKFURT - Germany's economic outlook darkened Friday on news that overall growth shrank in the final quarter last year and business confidence fell unexpectedly in January for the eighth consecutive month. Europe's economic locomotive stalled as the Asian and Russian financial crises choked exports and clouded prospects, analysts said in reaction to the latest data. With only sluggish activity at best forecast for the first quarter of 1999, an upturn is not expected until later in the year, they said. ''Our hope is directed at the second half of the year,'' said Peter Pietsch, senior economist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. The latest figures suggest that Germany, which accounts for more than one-third of the 11-nation euro-bloc economy, is headed for tepid full-year growth of only 1.3 percent this year, which is well below the government's forecast of 2 percent and last year's expansion of 2.8 percent, said Elga Bartsch, economist in London at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The Bundesbank reported that the German economy contracted 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the previous three-month period. The central bank's preliminary figures provided the first confirmation that the economy shifted into reverse last year, defying some forecasts hopeful of flat activity. The slowdown, the first quarterly drop in almost three years, stemmed entirely from Western Germany, which accounts for the lion's share of commercial activity. Output in the west contracted a sharp 0.6 percent versus the third quarter, compared to a 0.9 percent expansion in the same period in Eastern Germany. Slumping trade with the stricken economies of Asia and Latin America contributed to a 3.4 percent collapse in German exports in the quarter, according to the Bundesbank's numbers. Adding to the gloom was the economic confidence report Friday from Munich's respected Ifo economic think tank, which reported a surprise drop in the business confidence. The January drop in the business climate index to 91.1, from 91.4 in December, came unexpectedly to many economists and policymakers who had predicted the index would stabilize in January. Ifo's figures are among the most closely monitored indicators on the continent. The European Central Bank mentions confidence trends in each analysis of the euro-bloc economy, often with a note of concern. The Ifo index, which fell from last year's high of 99.2 last January, now stands at its lowest level since August 1996. A benchmark of 100 was set in 1991 for the index. The erosion of confidence could extend beyond January. This week's costly wage settlement for the giant IG Metall trade union is expected to push industrial confidence even lower in February and March, many economists concur. Under the threat of a strike, the metalworkers union extracted a raise of 4.2 percent over the next 14 months, prompting an outcry from industry that managers will react with job cuts. ''The decline not only points to a continued slowdown in economic activity in Germany but also indicates that it is probably too early to look for a rebound in business confidence in Europe,'' Ms. Bartsch said. Those forecasting a rebound later in the year pin their hopes on strong consumer spending, strength from the robust economy in the United States, low European interest rates, and a stabilization of the Asian and emerging-markets crisis. They also say the relatively weak euro will boost European exports by making them cheaper against dollar-denominated products. 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