NEWS LITE : ONE PRESIDENTIAL COFFEE, TO GO; CASH ONLY, CLERK TELLS CLINTON.

Sorry, Mr. President, that credit card just won't do.

President Clinton picked out several books Monday at Dolly's Books in Park City, Utah, and handed over his American Express card for the $62.66 bill - only to be informed it had expired the previous day.

``He was happy to pay cash,'' said Courtney Gannon, who waited on the vacationing president.

Later Monday, after daughter Chelsea returned to college, Clinton and his wife decided to go back to the White House early from a weekend at a posh ski resort.

The Clintons arrived in Park City on Saturday. Presidential spokesman Barry Toiv said Chelsea left on schedule to return to classes at Stanford University, but her parents had not been scheduled to return to Washington until today.

``We're going baccouple hours early so we can get a better night's sleep,'' the president said. Toiv said the Clintons decided to get home a day early because they have a full schedule this week.

In the president's only public outing on the weekend, he strolled downtown and popped into the Main Street Delicatessen for coffee and peach yogurt. His visit caused a huge commotion, stopping cars and causing crowds to gather on the street. ``Say hello to Hillary; we love her,'' a well-wisher shouted. ``Thank you. We had a wonderful day,'' the president replied.

At Dolly's, the president bought three books, including John Grisham's ``The Testament.'' Clinton also was given a copy of ``Park City Witness,'' written by a Park City author.

Kaczynski still claims he's sane, others not

In a new book, Theodore Kaczynski denies being mentally ill, refuses to acknowledge that he is the Unabomber and rails against the brother who turned him in, comparing him with Judas.

``My brother is another Judas Isca, except that, unlike the original Judas, he doesn't even have enough courage to go hang himself,'' he writes in ``Truth Versus Lies,'' due out this spring.

A story about the 548-page manuscript appeared Monday in The New York Times. The publisher, Context Books, said no other copies would be released.

Kaczynski's brother, David, contacted authorities after recognizing similarities between his brother's writings and the Unabomber's manifesto published in newspapers. He has said it was an agonizing decision.

Kaczynski says in the book that instead of turning him in, his brother should have sent him a message threatening to expose him. ``If I were the Unabomber,'' he writes, ``that would have been an effective deterrent.''

He says he would forgive his brother if he would leave his wife and join the fight against modern society by ``environmental radicals.''

The book barely mentions the crimes but occasionally tries to burnish the Unabomber's image, the Times said.

Any lties earned from the book will be distributed among Kaczynski's victims, as required under his plea bargain.

Feminist remembers red-faced American

Feminist groundbreaker Germaine Greer spoke at Warwick University in England recently and told the story of a 1969 encounter with Bill Clinton, who was studying in England as a Rhodes scholar.

``I was speaking at the Oxford Union,'' she said in the Telegraph of London. ``There was an annoying red-faced American in a seersucker suit arguing that equality in the workplace was all that women really want. So I told him that what I really wanted was the right to be hairy, the right to my own secretions and the right to my own protuberances.

``It was only much later I discovered who the red-faced American was.''

It's hard to say whether Greer's story was an altered version of the one she told in 1992, when Clinton was first elected president. She said then that she had been expounding on the virtues of sex with working-class men aposed to sex with bourgeois men. During the question period, she said, Clinton piped up with, ``In case you ever decide to give bourgeois men another chance, can I give you my phone number?''

`The Blue Room' cancels final shows

The curtain has come down early on ``The Blue Room.''

Due to the lingering bronchial infection of its star, Nicole Kidman, one of Broadway's hottest tickets canceled its final eight performances, show spokesman John Barlow said Monday.

``I am truly devastated not to complete the last week of the run and deeply apologize to the people who have planned to attend those performances,'' Kidman said in a statement.

The play was scheduled to end its sold-out run Sunday.

Kidman missed four performances last week because of the infection. The David Hare drama opened Dec. 13 and played 82 performances.

No Emmy for Oprah, thanks

After winning 32 Daytime Emmys and a lifetime achievement award, Oprah Winfrey is taking herself out of the rng for best talk show host at this year's ceremony.

``Last year I was given the lifetime achievement award,'' she said in an interview scheduled to air today on ``The Roseanne Show.'' ``And after you've achieved it for a lifetime, what else is there?''

The Daytime Emmys will be held May 21.

News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports

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