Nation IN BRIEF : ARKANSAS : First Whitewater Trial Set to Open

The first trial in the long-running Whitewater affair is set to open Monday with jury selection as lawyers on both sides argued over how President Clinton will testify in the case. Clinton has been ordered to take the witness stand, but a plan to allow him to videotape his testimony was rejected by a federal judge, leaving open the question of just how the president will testify, possibly via satellite television hookup. In the trial, Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and co-defendants James B. McDougal and his former wife, Susan, are charged with fraud stemming from the failure of an Arkansas savings and loan.