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Administration Reverses Child-Pornography Policy: In a reversal of its position, the Clinton Administration declared this month that a child-pornography law applies to the lewd depiction of children and teenagers even if they are not nude.

In a brief filed on Nov. 10 by Attorney General Janet Reno, the Administration changed its position in Knox v. United States , in Zg_ Stephen A. Knox has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse his lower-court conviction under the child-pornography law.

The Bush Administration had argued that videotapes possessed by Mr. Knox could be considered pornographic even if the young girls shown in them have their genital areas covered. But the Clinton Administration's Solicitor General, Drew S. Days III, said the law required the "visible depiction of the genitals [and] a child lasciviously...