European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Chris tone Keeler above had in affair with War minister John profane my with wife Valerie Hobson in 19s3 the famous profit to  we re British by de lion United press International despite Britain s Prim and proper reputation lha government seems to explode every so alien with a political sex scandal that becomes the talk of the nation a real life soap opera coming direct from he seat of Power tha latest involved Best Selling novelist Jeffrey Archer the Deputy chairman of prime minister Margaret Thatcher s conservative party. He was caught in a trap of sorts with a prostitute that ironically had parallels with one of his own plots. But Archer s Case was Only the latest of a string of conservative party sex scandals. Tha times of London newspaper was moved to note the particularly British phenomenon of carrying out of office politicians because of indiscretions in their private  vet indiscretions were not Evan certain in the one stirring lha Shock Able lately. Archer,.46, author of a siring of books that have earned him some $7 million resigned from his conservative party Post Del. 26. A quit the same Day the tabloid sunday newspaper. News of the world sported he had offered a pro Tiiu be 3 000 pounds about $4.260 to leave the country in an of loft to silence talk of a relationship. Reporters photographed a meeting Between the prostitute and an Archer intermediary and he Hooker was wired for sound. Archer said a was quilling because of is Lack of Kadar rent he showed in offering the payoff. He insisted a had never even met is woman in question a said he Only offered the payoff after to receded Calls from her in which she said she was being pestered by he press Over rumours of a relationship. The plot thickened when a tailed opposition labor party candidate emerged As the figure who had attempted to peddle the rumours to newspapers. Scotland Yard launched a blackmail investigation Archer g lawyer also said the author would sue he news of the world and another newspaper Lor libel Over their coverage of he affair. The scandal raised More questions than were answered. Exhaustive newspaper investigations uncovered Tittle More. The times recalled French president Francois Mitterrand once saying that if he were forced to restrict the formation of his government to those who had never had extramarital altars. Then his Choice would be restricted to some 40  themes Lamous of Britain s political sex scandals became known As the Profumo affair in 1963, War minister John Profumo resigned from the House of commons and the Cabinet admitting he lied to parliament in denying he slept Wilh prostitute Christine Keeler. She Wai also sleeping with a soviet Diplomat for the Security Angle alone he affair almost toppled is government of prime minister Harold Macmillan. In 1973, lord Antony Lamb Lon a Junior defense minister had to resign after being photographed in bed with two party girls by the news of the world the husband of one of the Call girls had lipped Oil she photographer prompting Lambton to bitterly comment All int has happened is Fiat some sneaky Pimp Mas seen an Opportunity of making  in the same year lord George Jellicoe Leader of he House of lords also had to resign for dallying with prostitutes. Lambton in an immortal quote said. Poor George really had no Luck. He Only saw one Call girl at a  in 1933, Cecil Parkinson resigned As conservative party chairman after admitting an extramarital affair with his former Secretary Sara Keays and a Lucung her child. He stayed with his wife and Keays the woman abandoned wrote her memoirs. With the latest scandal newspapers noted that Masl of the sex scandals in recent British history i the conservative parly with its family oriented morally but in the Lale 1970s. Liberal party Leader Jeremy Thorpe was accused of plotting to Kil a Man who claimed he was Thorpe s homosexual Lover. Thorpe was acquitted bul disappeared from political life the irony in the Archer scandal was hat in one of his novels first Mong equals a member i parliament receives a blackmail threat from a prostitute and word of he possible scandal is picked up by a Fleet Street reporter. But not a word on the affair is printed and in Archer s fiction the politician goes on to become prime minister. In real Lite As Archer discovered Fleet Street and is British Public Are less forgiving than in fiction monday november 24, 1ss6 the stars and stripes Page 13