Paula Jones

In the April 2 article reporting the dismissal of the Paula Jones suit, your reporter noted that Jones’ attorneys huddled to decide best how to “revive a case that many thought Clinton would win at trial but few expected to be dismissed before it got to a jury.” Assuming that her attorneys knew this all along, what other conclusion are we to draw other than that the whole purpose of this suit was to embarrass President Clinton and force him from office?

We’re all tired of this mess, and we’re tired of once respected papers like The Times joining in. Try covering some real news and quit this salacious gossiping.

REILLY POLLARD

Goleta

* Jones was used and abused. Not by Clinton, but by the right-wing Republicans who used her to lynch our president.

GREG AMOUR

Los Angeles

* Let me begin by saying I am an Orange County Democrat. Let me end by saying, please, no more front-page pictures of Clinton doing good deeds, i.e., daily coverage of his Africa escapades. He has brought disgrace to the office. Not the first by any means. But I am tired of trying to rationalize his out-of-control behavior. There is no excuse. He has demeaned his office and blighted his tenure there. I just want it to be over and for him to be out.

MERLE MOSHIRI

Huntington Beach

* I’m a Democrat, but I always believed that candidates should be judged on their individual merits rather than party affiliation. Not this November. I am fed up with the never-ending attacks on Clinton from political extremists. Even worse is the cynical opportunism of Republican leaders in these matters. I’ll be voting the party line.

DAVID CALHOUN

Laguna Niguel

* Talk about telling Wright from wrong. Before Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out the Jones case, all the media pundits asserted dogmatically that would never happen and the trial would definitely go forward. There is an old saying in these parts that “Nobody in Hollywood knows anything.” The same can be said about Washington.

IRV ELMAN

Pacific Palisades

* Wright is wrong again! Her previous attempt to postpone the Jones trial until President Clinton is just plain Bill was unanimously shot down by our Supreme Court. Now Judge Wright renders a “summary judgment,” again denying Jones a timely hearing before a jury.

Undoubtedly, in two or three years our Supreme Court will again reverse Judge Wright’s “judgment”; but her original goal of protecting Clinton from a humiliating public trial while he is president will have been achieved.

JAMES W. HORTON

Palos Verdes Estates

* Everything should be just fine for Jones now, especially since she didn’t want any money. And she has Susan Carpenter-McMillan to thank for it.

RALPH E. SMOUSE

Los Angeles