Clinton and Broaddrick

* Re “Clinton Rape Charge Can’t Be Proved,” Column Left, Feb. 26: In his article on Juanita Broaddrick, Bill Press either didn’t understand the allegations in the impeachment trial or else, and more likely, he is intellectually dishonest.

In his conclusion Press states: “If Starr would impeach Clinton for oral sex, he would certainly indict or impeach him for rape, if he could prove it.” When Ken Starr interviewed Broaddrick, he was trying to determine whether she was under White House pressure to submit a false affidavit in the Paula Jones case. When he determined that there was no obstruction of justice, he decided not to pursue this case. How could this cast “huge doubts on Broaddrick’s case”?

ROBERT BRASCH

Beverly Hills

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* We applaud The Times for your decision to not put the “Jane Doe” story on the front page (Feb. 25) and your rational approach to this 21-year-old news scoop. One wonders why this woman is going public on TV now. America does not need any more tawdry sensations. It has made sex boring and disgusting.

The press needs to address our real problems, especially campaign finance reform, so we can have really democratic elections of intelligent, honest, capable candidates.

MARIE SMITH

Palos Verdes Estates

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* Should Michael Ramirez (cartoon, Feb. 28) ever become ambitious enough to move in the real, grass-roots world, he would find that the majority of “radical feminists” are gray-haired, grandmotherly types who survived by establishing women’s rights in all social-political-theological-economical areas of their world. We are not truck-driver-type nazis. Look around at your grandmothers and great-grandmothers who have blazed paths of equality for their heirs, and there you will see “radical feminists.”

CAROL HOWARD

Huntington Beach

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* Paula Jones is a hero! It has taken a while, but as the dust settles it becomes more and more evident that she was victimized first by Clinton, then the press, then women’s rights groups, then Clinton again with his defense team (including James Carville and his trailer park trash inference), then the electronic media: news, radio and TV talk shows, comedians, i.e., Jay Leno and the like.

Through all of this she has maintained her integrity, kept her cool and is trying to raise two young children.

JERRY GALICH

Huntington Beach