WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 1999 (UPI) -- A prominent Democratic senator says he believes President Clinton's actions in the Monica Lewinsky scandal rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, but he says for the sake of the country perhaps Clinton should The comments of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., came in an interview taped Saturday and broadcast today on ABC's ''This Week.'' Two weeks ago, Byrd had offered a motion to dismiss the case against Clinton.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1999 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate continues its closed-door deliberations, as it heads to an end-of-the-week conclusion to the impeachment trial of President Clinton.The Senate voted Tuesday to bar the public and television cameras from its deliberations. A total of 18 senators spoke, with most reportedly taking their full 15-minute allotment to state their positions. If the remaining 82 senators use all their time, deliberations will cover more than 20 hours and will consume all of today and continue through Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 1999 (UPI) -- The White House spokesman is confirming President Clinton will campaign hard for Democrats before 2000 in a bid to retake control of the House but says the impeachment managers won't be the key targets.That's because most of the 13 lawmakers who led his prosecution in the Senate had little or no opposition in the last election, said press secretary Joe Lockhart.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 1999 (UPI) - After taking another shot at President Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott promised Americans his party was ready to return to fighting him over its legislative agenda, including militaryDelivering his party's weekly radio address the morning after the Republican-led Senate failed to muster even a simple majority for either of two GOP-engineered impeachment charges, Lott began by declaring that ''most'' senators still believe Clinton ''lied under oath while trying to obstruct justice.'' He said that Congress will now have to ''let future historians decide who did their duty and who did the right thing.''

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 1999 (UPI) -- Here is a chronology of the 13 months of the Monica Lewinsky affair that led to the impeachment trial and acquittal of President Clinton:--

MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 18, 1999 (UPI) - With aides claiming vindication and a sense of historic victory, President Clinton returned to the scene of the 1992 primary that propelled him to the presidency, making a daylong nostalgia tour to promote health care reform and raise money for Democratic candidates.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 1999 (UPI)President Clinton says ''presidents are people too'' and the Constitution may actually have been re-ratified as a result of his yearlong ordeal over the impeachment trial stemming from his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.