True, they are longtime Arkansas friends.

But Watkins, an Arkansas friend of the president, telephoned McLarty on Monday and said he would pay.

They finally offered the money to Arkansas friends who were building orphanages in Vietnam and went there to see the work under way.

(He gave a discount for his Arkansas friends, his manager said.)

"The really fun thing about thinking about her future is that nobody knows," said Mary Steenburgen, an actress and longtime Arkansas friend of the Clintons.

Mr. Leach has also called Madison a "private piggy bank" for its owners and their influential Arkansas friends, and on this he is surely right.

That person told her that an Arkansas friend of the Clintons was under investigation by the Federal authorities for activities involving a savings and loan.

A lawyer knowledgeable about the case identified the friend as Harry Thomason, a television producer and Arkansas friend of the Clintons.

When American Speech magazine queried readers about sic 'em in 1961, one observed that his mother heard it from Arkansas friends who owned hound dogs.

He has also settled on an Arkansas friend, Webster L. Hubbell, to be Associate Attorney General.