When she spoke again, still crying, she said she would appeal a Federal judge's ruling dismissing her sexual misconduct suit against President Clinton - but with some misgivings.

Lawyers who have watched Judge Susan Webber Wright preside in Federal District Court were not surprised when she threw out Paula Corbin Jones's sexual misconduct suit against President Clinton.

A judge in Little Rock, Ark., dismissed the sexual misconduct suit in April, to the relief of the President and his advisers.

It is, nonetheless, a stark contrast to the situation of the lawyers defending President Clinton against Ms. Jones's sexual misconduct suit.

The President owes a third law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, several million dollars to defend Ms. Jones's sexual misconduct suit.

JAN. 17, 1998 - President Clinton is questioned for six hours in his lawyer's office by lawyers for Paula Corbin Jones in her sexual misconduct suit against him.

In his brief talk to the nation on Monday night, Mr. Clinton said his answers in a deposition for Paula Corbin Jones's sexual misconduct suit against him had been "legally accurate" though misleading.

The conversation came as lawyers for Paula Corbin Jones had begun to investigate the President's relationships with women to bolster her sexual misconduct suit.

And wasn't the President pushing her, they suggested, to file a false affidavit in Ms. Jones's sexual misconduct suit?

The heart of the case against Mr. Clinton involves his testimony during a January 1998 deposition in Paula Jones's sexual misconduct suit.