Monica Lewinsky was very frank about her feelings toward President Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr in an interview with ABC but had a hard time explaining her attraction to married men, Barbara Walters said. Walters met with reporters last evening to describe her long-awaited interview with the former White House intern, who has yet to appear in public to discuss her relationship with Clinton. ``She is open, she is expressive, she is sometimes very touching,'' Walters said. Sometimes when she describes herself you realise she can be very difficult. She is funny and articulate. '' The most difficult question is why she gets involved with married men, Walters said.

Anwar's agony

Ousted Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim said he was thrown into a dungeon without medical treatment for several nights after being beaten unconscious by police last year. Anwar said he was transferred from the federal police headquarters on September 24 to a secret police hideout where he wasexamined by a doctor for the first time since being assaulted shortly after his arrest on September 20. ``I felt miserable. At the hideout, I was stripped naked. I protested. The police officers said they were just taking instructions.'' In an emotional outburst to the three-man panel investigating the beating, Anwar then recalled how he was detained at the secret hideout. ```They dumped me in a dungeon for a few nights. No medical treatment,'' the former deputy prime minister said. ``If I'm given this kind of treatment, what about the other people in this country? I do not want this to recur! This is our country! Get the facts! Never mind the political implications! I do not want this to happen to others! It has happened to me never mind.''

Lanka polls

The opposition United National Party (UNP) in Sri Lanka has assured its cooperation and full support to president Chandrika Kumaratunga in any of her move to ensure the conduct of a free and fair poll in the coming provincial council elections,scheduled for April 1. Responding to an invitation from the president for a dialogue, leader of the opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe assured the fullest cooperation towards any constructive steps she may take to achieve this goal. Wickremesinghe agreed to meet the President and other political parties on February 25 to discuss the forthcoming provincial council elections.

bunker busters

Two US F-15 fighters each dropped a 900-kilo `bunker buster'' bomb on a command and control installation in Iraq on Tuesday after planes patrolling the northern no-fly zone came under anti-aircraft fire, Pentagon officials said. Army Colonel Richard Bridges added that in a separate incident, an unknown number of F-15s dropped 222-kilo bombs on a rocket launch site. Both incidents, near the city of Mousel, occurred about 1100 GMT, Col Bridges said. He said there was no immediate word on the extent of damage caused by the bombing and that the US aircraft were not damaged.