Minutes before the Federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., closed for the Fourth of July holiday, attorney Bob Bennett filed the defendant's answer in the matter of Jones v. Clinton. The President's lawyer is no longer out to bury the case, he says, but to win it. Smelling trouble for Jones, Bennett is talking witnesses and affidavits these days, not negotiations or settlements. In his answer to Jones' complaint, he denied her charges and asked the court to dismiss the case. Failing that, he requested a conference to set a trial date. "There's no dragging this out," says Bennett, bouncing in...
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