New Pursuit For Jones Spokesman

Susan Carpenter McMillan will be spending less time being Paula Jones' spokeswoman and more time pushing for mandatory castration for child molesters.

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Jones' appeal of a judge's ruling throwing out her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton was McMillan's cue to resume her work with the Women's Coalition, which deals with family and children's issues in California.

"I'm trying to wind down from this," McMillan said in an interview from her home in Santa Monica, Calif. "Unless it's overturned and Paula goes to trial, there's really nothing much more that I can do."

McMillan and Jones were friends and confidantes before McMillan became her spokeswoman.

She first spoke for Jones on the day the Supreme Court unanimously voted to allow the lawsuit to go forward. She described Jones' reaction to the ruling this way: "In her cute little way, she said, `Susie, can you believe it? Can you believe it?"'

McMillan also headed Jones' legal fund before the conservative Rutherford Institute began bankrolling the court battle. She frequently appeared on national broadcasts as Jones' spokeswoman.

Last fall, she was accused of causing a rift between Jones and her lawyers at the time, Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis, who quit over what they said were differences over the direction of the case.

McMillan denied the allegation but criticized the two lawyers' handling of the case, including their proposal for a settlement involving payment of $700,000 to her and a vague statement of regret from Mr. Clinton.

When Jones and her husband were audited by the IRS, Mrs. McMillan accused a "very Nixonite" Clinton administration of harassment. When lawyers began delving into Jones' sexual past, she suggested that Mr. Clinton was addicted to sex.

By JAMES JEFFERSON