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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States Tuesday, March 17, 1998   Willey goes public over private encounter with Clinton In a riveting public disclosure telecast to millions of Sunday evening viewers, a former White House aide broke her long silence to graphically describe how President Bill Clinton pawed her when she went to his office in 1993 to ask for a job. She said the President has lied when he subsequently denied in a sworn affidavit that he had groped her.   Jiang emerges uncontested helmsman Chinese President Jiang Zemin has secured an emphatic double by getting re-elected to the posts of head of state and chairman of the Central Military Commission while outgoing premier Li Peng was elected chairman of China's Parliament, but with the maximum number of `no' votes. Standing Committee member of the politburo of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) Hu Jintao was elected as Vice-President replacing Rong Yiren. Toll mounts as fighting rages in Sri Lanka Renewed mortar attacks were reported in northern Sri Lanka on Monday after two days of heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil rebels killed at least 39 people. The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) kept up mortar bomb and artillery attacks which they began on Saturday to stall a military advance towards the rebel-held town of Mankulam. Refugees will now be videographed All Lankan refugees arriving in India are to be videographed and their fingerprints recorded. Speaking to reporters Inspector General of Police (coastal security) V Balachandran said terrorists should not gain entry into the country under the pretext of refugees. Only after people's identities were thoroughly screened would they be allowed into Rameswaram.   Kuwait Premier asked to form new Cabinet Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah has accepted the resignation of the country's government but asked the Prime Minister to form a new cabinet. A series of decrees from the Emir read on Kuwait Television said the Emir reappointed Crown Prince Sheikh Saad Al-Abdulla Al-Sabah as Prime Minister and asked him to form a new government. Haryana to review prohibition; real estate on a high The Haryana government's announcement that it would review the policy on prohibition has brought relief to the depressed real estate market. Chief Minister Bansi Lal's statement after the debacle in the Lok Sabha elections has stirred speculations in the real estate sector.     World Vignettes   Quicktakes   Two engineers killed in IISc building collapse   Basra new Western Air Command SASO   Biosensors to help sniff out toxins   Anna Hazare to release booklet against Sutar   Police winks at duck poaching spree in Hokera reserve   Hand over Tanwar probe to CBI, `clueless' Delhi police tells Govt   Man gets life sentence   Prohibition's in the air   NHRC asked to look into farmers' suicides   Village celebrates its "saint" as pilgrims flock to suicide site   AP to introduce new liquor policy   Mumbai Beat   Trunkfuls of Gawli's conspiracy theories   Traders' bandh near-total   Chhaya bar case ruling upheld   Mumbai Notes   SI denies having seen NHRC circular   `Ward officer's reinstatement hasty'   No relief for witness blinded in firing   Hospitals opened for defaulting college   Babloo Shrivastava men nabbed   Teachers lambast eligibility norms