Some of the president's political advisers have argued for weeks that Clinton's legal team should prepare a separate report countering the special prosecutor's report with evidence prepared by the defense team.
David Kendall, the president's personal lawyer, made the request for an advance copy of the independent counsel's report in a letter to Starr.
A final report by Starr on his investigation into Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, the former White house intern, and possible obstruction of justice, perjury and abuse of power could go to Congress as early as this month.
''Elemental fairness dictates that we be allowed to respond to any 'report' you send to the House simultaneously with its transmission,'' Kendall wrote.
Officials in Starr's office could not be reached immediately for comment yesterday.
Kendall asked that the president's legal team as well as White House lawyers be allowed to review a draft of Starr's report and be given a week ''to submit a written reply'' that would be submitted to the special appeals court panel overseeing the special prosecutor, and then to Congress for possible impeachment proceedings.
The nation's best organ banks move four times as many organs from the dead to living as the worst, according to an Associated Press computer analysis.
As the government struggles to find the fairest way to allocate scarce replacement organs, that discrepancy helps explain why patients in certain parts of the United States stand a much better chance at getting the transplants they need.
Interviews with organ banks across the country suggest a program's ability to work with local hospitals accounts for much of the difference. Others appear to be hampered by ethnic minorities who are more reluctant to donate or a preponderance of ill
ness that precludes donation, such as AIDS.
But no one is certain why some programs do so much better. "You'd like to take the top 10 and clone them," said Coralyn Colliday at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Police Commissioner Howard Safir said he contacted prosecutors about possible charges against Khallid Abdul Muhammad, the last speaker at the rally Saturday. Authorities would not discuss any details about a possible arrest.
Black leaders said the rally in Harlem was peaceful until police approached the stage where Muhammad was delivering a vitriolic speech against police, Jews, and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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