All but one of the Democratic Presidential contenders said today that the accusations lodged by Prof. Anita F. Hill only strengthened their doubts about the qualifications of Judge Clarence Thomas to be a Justice of the Supreme Court.

As he waited for a hearing to decide whether he can resume coaching the national skeleton team, Tim Nardiello told The Associated Press yesterday that he had been keeping in touch with the athletes by e-mail and continued to deny the sexual harassment accusations lodged against him by several athletes.

Today, the embattled chief of the election commission, Abel Guobadia, bristled at accusations of fraud and incompetence lodged against his agency in recent days by opposition party leaders and some independent election monitors.

Although he declined to discuss the specifics of any of the accusations lodged by the 10 women in the Post article, he emphatically denied that he had fondled the 13-year-old, who had been sent to a political function to greet people and distribute brochures.

When the agricultural attacM from the American embassy visited eastern Transvaal to check crops, he listened for two days to the scathing accusations lodged against Smuts, then broke into laughter.

Some experts on rape and the law said yesterday that the jury in West Palm Beach, Fla., had little choice but to acquit William K. Smith of accusations lodged by a Florida woman, given the evidence it was presented.

In Orator, Cicero also addressed the accusation lodged by his fellow senators, including Brutus, that he was an "Atticist."

"It's an accusation lodged by the United States Government, by the agency charged with policing our country's labor laws, that the clubs violated Federal law during the course of this bargaining," said Lauren Rich, a lawyer with the union who used to work for the labor board.