``The independent counsel's office is looking to complete this investigation as soon as possible, and that is a fact, but a lot of information that surfaced during the Lewinsky inquiry remains under active review,'' the daily says, quoting one lawyer familiar with the probe. ``That information includes perjury and obstruction of justice charges concerning Mrs Willey.''

According to lawyers and others close to the ongoing probe, the independent counsel believes the President lied under oath at a January 17 deposition in the Paula Jones case and before the Monica Lewinsky grand jury when he denied improperly touching Mrs Willey's breats and placing her hand on his groin during a November 1993White House meeting.

Starr also a investigating accusations that the White House, along with democratic party loyalists, sought to pressure Willey to keep quiet about the incident, asking her to deny that Clinton had made an unwanted sexual advance, it quotes sources having said.

Starr has declined comment on the investigation but said in a letter last week to house judiciary committee chairman Henry J Hyde, who will chair impeachment hearings beginning after the November 3 elections, that new impeachment referrals were possible.

``I can confirm at this time that matters continue to be under investigation and review by this office,'' Starr said, adding he would not ``foreclose the possibility'' of further impeachment reports containing ''additional substantial and credible information'' concerning Clinton's conduct.

In a 445-page report to congress, Starr said -- without elaboration -- an investigation was continuing into perjury and obstruction charges ``concerning an incident involving former WhiteHouse volunteer Kathleen E Willey.'' As a result, Willey's January deposition in the Jones case and her March testimony before the Lewinsky grand jury was withheld from the 8,200 pages of corroborating documents, reports and transcripts submitted to the house committee.

Willey testified as a cooperating witness in the grand jury proble, accompanied to the courthouse by investigators from Starr's office.

The daily says Clinton, during his grand jury testimony, denied improper contact with Willey and said he did not remember calling her in 1993 after asking for her telephone number at a Democratic Party event in Virginia. He could not explain telephone records showing two calls from Clinton's hotel room to Willey's home that same night.

Pointing his finger as he did in January when he vehemently denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky, Clinton accused prosecutors of blowing the incident out of proportion.

``Again I say, sir, just from the tone of your voice and the way you're asking questions here,it's obvious this is the most important thing in the world, and that everybody was focused on all the details at the time,'' Clinton had said. ``But that's not the way it worked.''

Jones' attorneys have claimed that Clinton obstructed justice by withholding letters, notes and telephone messages he exchanged with Willey unitil after she publicly accused him of improperly touching her. In a motion filed in the now-dismissed case, they said they asked the president last year for ``all documents concerning Kathleen Willey.''

Their December 1997 subpoena specifically sought records reflecting ``any communications, meetings or visits involving defendant Clinton and Mrs Willey, especially within the White House.''

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