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Henry Hyde, R-lll. "I cannot trust him again. If it is in his interest not to tell the truth, he will not tell the truth." Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas GOP marshals legal argument Democrats plan protest walk-out Yalley to have 3 area codes Geographic split plan goes into effect Sept. 1 By Max Jarman The Arizona Republic Given the choice between mental confusion and economic pain, the Arizona Corporation Commission chose the latter Friday and divided the Valley into three separate area codes.

Beginning Sept. 1, Phoenix south of Union Hills Road, excluding Ahwatukee, will use the 602 area code; the East Valley will be assigned the 480 area code; and the West Valley, 623 or 556. The new codes will avert a depletion of Valley phone numbers sometime next year. As a result of the 2-1 vote by the commission, thousands oT residents and businesses will have to reprint business cards, brochures and catalogs, and repro-gram security alarms to reflect new phone numbers. But they will be able to continue making seven-digit calls within their area codes and have the satisfaction of knowing that a call to Scottsdale will require a certain area code and Peoria, another at least for now.

A so-called "overlay plan," which was earlier approved and rescinded, would have assigned a new area code to all new numbers regardless of location and required 10-digit dialing for all Valley calls. Please see 602, Page A16 Motorola to cut 130 Thoenix jobs Shutting down half of 52nd Street plant By Rebecca Rolwing The Arirona Republic Motorola semiconductor division is shutting down about half its production at its largest plant in Phoenix, cutting 1,200 jobs. Some of the work is being sent out of the country, to Mexico and Malaysia, with other work transferring to existing facilities in Mesa. The massive restructuring is planned for the company's, sprawling, 1.4 million-square-foot campus at 52nd Street and McDowell Road, the birthplace of Motorola's semiconductor business. The state's largest private employer says it will try to transfer the highly specialized workers, who earn around $35,000 a year.

About a third of the workers at the 52nd Street facility will be affected, but some of those employees could go to work at other Motorola facilities in the Valley or in Austin, where the company's semiconductor division is headquartered, or other plants. "For those people to be impacted, we certainly hope to place them at other manufacturing jobs," said Ken Phillips, spokesman for Motorola Semiconductor Please seVOTOSt0U, Page Al irisioE What you need to know At ISSu3 The House, will decide on four articles of impeachment against the president: (1) perjury before the Monica Lewinsky grand jury; (2) perjury in the Paula Jones case; (3) obstruction of justice jn both cases; (4) misleading Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee during their investigation. Llksiy vsSs An impeachment vote, which requires a simple House majority, seems inevitable. An Associated Press survey of House members shows there are 219 votes for at least one article of impeachment The House has 228 Republicans, 206 Democrats and one Independent, who is opposed to impeachment Tfcs prssess If any of the four articles is approved, Clinton is impeached, but not removed from office. He faces trial by the Senate, where a two-thirds vote of 67 senators would be required to forcibly remove him from office.

That is considered unlikely because the Republicans have only a '55-45 majority in the next Senate. Inside GOP GRUMBLINGS: Livingston admission causing dissention. A22. BUSY AS USUAL: Routine day in House. A24.

PUBLIC BACKS PRESIDENT: 62 percent oppose impeachment. A25. MECHAM MEMORIES: Arizona GOP recalls scars of impeachment. A26. DISAPPOINTING DEBATE: Arguments fall on nearly empty House.

A27. I Republic news services WASHINGTON The House of Representatives performed a historic morality play about sex, the law and the brute force of politics Friday as it moved to the brink of impeaching President Clinton in what Democrats called a bloodless coup. Democrats defended their man in the White House to the end, setting a walk-out of the chamber for today's historic proceedings to protest the Republicans' refusal to permit a vote on censure. The marathon debate at times lacked drama and passion, but the gravity of voting to put a president on trial in the Senate for only the second time in U.S. history weighed on speaker after speaker aware of the verdict of history and the potentially enormous political consequences.

With vigor and matter-of-fact recitation, Republicans summoned their legal arguments for impeaching Clinton for perjury, obstruction of justice and abusing his power by saying that he had subverted the nation's judicial system. Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, reaching back to the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, said the issue at hand was whether a president should be held accountable for his actions under the law. "It's not a question of sex. Sexual misconduct and adultery are private acts Please see HOUSE, Page All "We are using the most powerfulinsti-tutional tool available to this body impeachment in a highly partisan manner. Impeachment was designed to rid this nation of traitors and tyrants, not attempts to- -cover up extramarital affairs." Rep.

John Conyers, D-Mich. J. Scott ApplewhiteAssociated Press President Clinton appears animated Friday during a photo session with visiting European dignitaries. He will address the nation after today's vote. 11111 ft cs as usual evastation politi "We are a nation consumed by investigations, consumed by independent counsels, consumed' by scandal.

Where are we going as a nation?" Rep. Peter King cal fighter has steeled himself for the battle of his life, believing that his opponents are acting out of partisan hatred, not constitutional duty. Friday, his enduring ally, Hillary Rodham Clinton, once more rallied to his side. Breaking weeks of silence about her husband's predicament, she issued an appeal "to end divisiveness" and budget priorities and other goals that he hopes will sustain his public support. "My goodness, how do you think he is?" expostulated one adviser to Clinton on Friday.

"This guy reads history books on every president. He can cite you details about every president. So on Please see DEVASTRDON, Page All planned a last-minute speech this morning to summon House Democrats against impeachment. In addition to calling upon Hillary Clinton, the president is trying to enlist George Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, to bolster his defense before the Senate, aides said. At the White House on Friday, Clinton once again bore down on the By James Bennet New York Tmes WASHINGTON Mindful as ever of his standing in history, President Clinton is said by associates to feel devastated about a scar he now regards as inevitable: impeachment today by the House.

But at the same time, aides and friends of Clinton say, America's most tested politi airs 75 targets Mt after 3rd day of tJ il (Lsaui iJi ii feds ll Today on Page A40 GUARD ATTACKED: Saddam's protectors targeted, defense official says. A20. ARIZONA TROOPS: 650 deployed to Middle East A21. Astrology Az Home Bridge Business D13 AMI D13 El whether to continue the bombing and missile attacks or halt them after three days, two Pentagon officials said. "There's going to be a powwow at the highest level.

All kinds of decisions will be made tomorrow," one official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Friday night. Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said Friday night that the airstrikes "will continue until our objectives are achieved." As dawn broke, Operation Desert Fox continued after more than 75 targets had been hit during 'the night by cruise-missiles and guided bombs fired from warships and an aerial armada that has flown more than 200 sorties since Wednesday, the Pentagon said. Ramadan starts, sorties may be wrapping up By Bob Deans and Larry Kaplow Cox News Service WASHINGTON In what may be the wrap-up of their airstrikes, U.S. and British forces pounded Iraq into the first hours of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan today. The allies struck Iraqi defense, communications and oil facilities in a bid to shatter the spine of Saddam Hussein's regime.

President Clinton was expected to meet today with his top national-security advisers in Washington to make a determination on general said. For example, out of 27 surface-to-air missile and air defense sites targeted, eight were missed. Many of those were expected to be targeted again, officials said. Military officials pointed to a long-awaited first: the use of B-1B Lancer bombers aircraft dating back to the 1970s in a combat mission. Military officials said two bombers dropped 500-pound MK-82 general purpose gravity bombs on a variety of targets.

Rear Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of intelligence for the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said Iraq has yet to fire any surface-to-air Please see STRIKES, Page A10 Chuckle A2 Classified CL1 Comics D8, CL43 Dear Abby D13 Landers D13 Leibowitz Bl Life Dl Obituaries B4 Opinions B6, 7 Prayer A2 Puzzles D8, 13 Religion D5 Sports CI Television D12 Wheels CL1 Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said initial bomb-damage assessments indicate only a small number of the 75 targets attacked have been destroyed or severely damaged. "Not all have gone as planned," Shelton told a news conference.

"We have had some very good success with our strikes, but not all of them have gone exactly as planned," the four-star 11 DAILY l- 2.