HOUSEHOLD HELP AND TAX QUESTIONS NOW PART OF WHITE HOUSE INTER VIEW.(Main)

Byline: ROBERT PEAR New York Times

All candidates for the hundreds of government jobs subject to Senate confirmation are now being asked if they hired illegal aliens or violated tax laws on household workers, Clinton administration officials said on Monday, and at least a dozen people have been dropped from consideration over those issues.

George Stephanopoulos, the chief White House spokesman, said that in view of the uproar over the nomination of Zoe E. Baird and federal District Judge M. Kimba Wood to be attorney general, employment of an illegal alien would "probably" be enough to disqualify candidates for presidential appointments in the Clinton administration, even if no laws were violated.

The White House imposed …