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Sir: Most American politicians have been elected because of their

ability to make appropriate biblical quotations. Clinton may well have a point when he claims that holy writ does not include oral sex as infi- delity.

There are echoes of this view in the groves of academe. A former headmaster of Stowe (whence your distinguished con- tributors Sir Peregrine Worsthorne and George Melly graduated) addressed the assembled body of pupils with these moving words, 'It is not homosexuality that we mind, it is this damned penetration.'

Claus von Bulow

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