The tape in question is the “sting” tape made by Ms Tripp at the request of the FBI.Yesterday, in appearances on television talkshows, Ms Lewinsky’s lawyer, William Ginsburg, went out of his way to defend her good name, saying he had known her from childhood and describing as “absurd” a claim by a former lover last week that she had gone to Washington with the express purpose of “seducing the President”. The following day she was interviewed by Revlon and offered a job soon thereafter. (The offer was rescinded after the story of the alleged affair broke 10 days ago.)In its latest report, Newsweek cites Ms Lewinsky as telling her confidante on tape that she would not allow her written testimony – in which she denies a sexual relationship with Mr Clinton — to go forward unless she obtained a job. On 28 December she is reported to have met Mr Clinton at the White House. She had another interview, with the New York public relations company Burson-Marsteller, two days later.On 7 January, she signed – but did not release – her sworn statement denying the relationship with the President.

She was interviewed by American Express on 23 December, but was turned down. Telephone numbers for life-boat stations and rescue helicopters were lost when systems at Dover and Liverpool failed. While coastguards have written back-ups, the process for finding numbers is slower and can delay rescues, said Dave Clempson, of the Public Service, Tax and Commerce Union. Monica Lewinsky, the 24-year-old woman implicated in the Clinton sex scandal, may have bargained her denial of the relationship with the US president for a well-paid job in New York, it was reported yesterday. If proved true, the claim lays Mr Clinton and his close adviser, Vernon Jordan, open to charges that they conspired to suborn perjury and pervert the course of justice – the charges that were at the centre of the sex- scandal allegations before the White House launched its highly effective counter-offensive last week.
The claim of a “job for silence” deal is made in today’s edition of Newsweek magazine, whose reporters are among the few people to have listened to tape-recordings made secretly by Ms Lewinsky’s friend and confidante, Linda Tripp.The Newsweek report adds substance to a theory already circulating in Washington based on the dates on which Ms Lewinsky is said to have met or telephoned the President or Mr Jordan.According to this “time-line”, Ms Lewinsky received a summons to testify in the sexual harassment case against Mr Clinton in mid-December.

“It slows it down quite considerably and means we are working under a considerable handicap.” But a Coastguard Agency spokesman said crews are trained for such circumstances.. Lives have been put in danger by a breakdown of computers covering some of Britain’s busiest shipping routes, it was claimed last night. Their choice of hospital will be restricted to the 170 in the Bupa network out of the 800-plus NHS and private hospitals in the country and, ultimately, it fears Bupa may dictate what treatments are provided.Mr Johnson said: “When the biggest private health insurance company is trying to tie up the hospitals, the consultants and the prices they charge, I think that is worrying.” Bupa said in exceptional circumstances the scheme would allow consultants to charge higher prices or refer patients to hospitals outside the scheme.. It puts them in a position where they are increasingly working for an insurance company rather than the patient.”Although there are more than 15,000 consultants who do some private practice, the 4,000 already signed up account for more than half the total private work carried out. The BMA fears that if Bupa succeeds in drawing in a majority of the major players it will have control of who does the work, where they do it and how much they get paid.