For The Record - Brief Article

n Bill Clinton tells Dan Rather, "I do not regard this impeachment vote as some great badge of shame. I do not. Because I do not believe it was warranted, and I don't think it was right." . . . Announcing his support for hate-crimes bill, Bill Clinton says Slobodan Milosevic should accept " deployment of an international security force to protect not only the Kosovar Albanians . . . but also the Serbian minority in Kosovo. Everybody. We're not for anybody's hate crimes." . . . George W. Bush opposes making violence against homosexuals a "hate crime," while Gov. Tom Ridge (R., Pa.), often mentioned as possible Bush running mate, supports idea. . . . Meanwhile, New Hampshire House, in lopsided vote, repeals ban on gay adoptions.

n John McCain wins media praise for (grudging and critical) support of Clinton on Kosovo. On CNN, Bob Novak asks him whether praise from left- wing journalists embarrasses him. Reply: "I'm so wounded when you criticize me, Bob, that it makes up for all the good feelings I have when they praise me." . . . McCain wins support of House manager Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.). . . . John Kasich says Bush "is going to have the best driver in the bag, but he's got to play all 18 holes. All I've got to do is go out and play my game." . . . Ex-Pres. Bush on Dan Quayle: "He kept his chin up, and now it is a wonderful thing, because many of his critics who were all over his case when he talked about the values of our society . . . now recognize that he was right all along." . . . Gore advisors worry as veep faces ridicule for statements on Internet, his history as a farmer. Among critics: Republican Leadership Council, usually known for attacks on "divisive" social conservatives, and RNC. . . . Gore on his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, widely derided for extremism: "There is not a single passage in that book that I disagree with, or would change."

n Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) on Madeleine Albright: "Every day she commits malpractice in office, and we can't afford that. We need someone competent in charge of this situation." He calls Sandy Berger "equally incompetent." . . . Louisiana Republican Gov. Mike Foster: "Most people I know in Louisiana would prefer to be proud of their state [rather] than to get into a big tax-cutting mode . . . I have not been a big advocate of tax cutting." . . . Montana Republican Gov. Marc Racicot balks at tax cuts, supports increase. . . . In an unusual move, Republican Senatorial Committee plans to endorse New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman's Senate candidacy before primary challengers are announced . . . Whitman campaign announces finance chairmen, Candace Straight and Lew Eisenberg. Eisenberg has raised money for Walter Mondale and Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden; Straight, head of pro- abortion Republican group, for Democrats Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Holtzman, and Jill Long. . . . GAO tells Congress that 24 major agencies don't properly account for their $466 billion in assets. After GAO and CBO say Clinton's Social Security numbers don't add up, Democrats denounce both offices as partisan. . . . IRS plans to double staff in its nonprofit division. . . . House Democrats sell weekend at Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port to $100,000 donors to "Team 2000" fund.

n As part of "Take Our Daughters to Work" day, Ms. Foundation sells 72 trading cards featuring "Women of Honor," including Communist Angela Davis, pro-abortion lawyer Sarah Weddington, MTV's Tabitha Soren, Judy Blume, Queen Latifah, Pat Schroeder. . . . On "Pay Equity Day," Independent Women's Forum releases monograph, Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women. To order, call 1- 800-224-6000. . . . Brigham Young University and University of New Mexico drop five men's sports teams; both cite Title IX "gender-equity" rules. . . . Washington Redskins lose trademark protection because name considered insulting to American Indians. . . . Tom Monaghan uses $50 million of Domino's pizza fortune to start "the ideal Catholic law school," Ave Maria School of Law. First professor: Robert Bork. . . . Frances Kissling, head of Catholics for a Free Choice, on Vatican's U.N. status: "Why should an entity that is in essence 100 square acres of office space and tourist attractions in the middle of Rome with a citizenry that excludes women and children have a place at the table where governments set policies affecting the very survival of women and children?" . . . Ted Turner's Better World Foundation will spend $12 million over two years to lobby U.S. to pay U.N. dues.

n Czech opposition leader Vaclav Klaus expresses "disappointment" over air strikes in Yugoslavia, but president Vaclav Havel says denunciations create an "isolationist and, in the long run, extremely dangerous mood." . . . Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt opposes strikes: "Held on a leash by the United States, we have failed to respect international law and the United Nations charter." . . . Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic, supposedly "full and equal" NATO members, get secrets about Kosovo operation on need-to-know basis. . . . Benjamin Netanyahu on European Union's support for Palestinian independence: "It is particularly regrettable that Europe, where one- third of the Jewish people perished, has seen fit to try to impose a solution that endangers the State of Israel and runs counter to its interests." . . . Deputy president Thabo Mbeki unveils ANC's "election manifesto," warning that South Africa's "haves" will have to do more for "have-nots" in post-Mandela era.