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AM-Rose Subpoena, 570
Judge Orders Rose Law Firm to Give Client List to Investigators
By CASSANDRA BURRELL= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge has ordered Hillary Rodham Clinton's
former law firm to turn over a list of clients to investigators looking into
possible conflicts of interest involving the cleanup of failed savings and
loans.
But U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said the Rose law firm of Little
Rock, Ark., need not produce other documents that could reveal more detailed
information about the clients.
The subpoena is related to the Whitewater affair. Mrs. Clinton once did
legal work for Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association, the failed
Arkansas thrift owned by James McDougal, who was the Clintons' business
partner in the Whitewater Development Corp. real estate venture.
The Resolution Trust Corp., which acts as a receiver for failed thrifts,
had asked for a list of all Rose clients since 1985 as part of its
investigation into whether Rose failed to disclose conflicts of interest when
it was hired by the government to do savings-and-loan cleanup work.
Mrs. Clinton represented Madison before state regulators in 1985. Rose
also has handled other cases for the RTC since 1989, including a case targeted
at Madison's accounting firm.
In addition, the agency is trying to learn whether former Associate
Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a former Rose firm partner, overcharged the
government in one S&L cleanup case, according to RTC officials who spoke only
on condition of anonymity.
In arguing against the subpoena, Rose claimed that the RTC exceeded its
authority, saying the law limits inspectors general to investigating only the
internal operations of federal departments and agencies.
Friedman disagreed, however.
``The IG's investigation into Rose's possible conflicts of interest
directly concerns whether a government contractor receiving federal funds
related to a federal program may have committed fraud or abuse or wasted
taxpayer dollars by failing to disclose actual or potential conflicts, the
judge said.
`Any undisclosed Rose conflicts of interest could have denied the RTC the
independent, loyal and diligent legal representation and advice for which
taxpayer dollars were paid.
The judge's ruling also denied Rose's request for a protective order''
limiting investigators' use of subpoenaed information. Friedman said the
inspector general had done enough to assure that confidential information
would be kept secret by outlining the steps it would take in a
confidentiality undertaking'' memorandum.
Rose's contracts with the RTC and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
required it to disclose all actual or potential conflicts of interest. The
firm certified that it had found no conflicts of interest that had not already
been waived, Friedman's order said.
The FTC and FDIC reviewed allegations that not all conflicts had been
disclosed in reports the agencies released in February. During
a Feb. 24 Senate Banking Committee hearing, some senators criticized the
reports and asked the RTC's inspector general to investigate.
The inspector general's office issued a subpoena April 18, seeking to
compare a list of Rose's clients with the records of the RTC and of the failed
institutions for which Rose provided legal services. Rose failed to produce
the documents requested, and the inspector general appealed to the federal
courts to enforce the subpoena.
On Oct. 7, Rose and the inspector general signed a memorandum of
understanding that described how Rose could comply with the subpoena by
providing client lists and no other documents.
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BC-WHITE national:WA
Republicans plan bigger, broader Whitewater hearings next year
(HAS TRIMS)
By Angie Cannon
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON If you thought Whitewater was over, think again.
Whitewater will be back next year with bigger and broader hearings before
the Senate and House banking committees. And, with the Republicans in charge,
next year's show is expected to be an even worse nightmare for President
Clinton.
During marathon congressional hearings last summer, often lasting until
the early hours of the morning, the inquiry was confined to the Washington
phase of the scandal: possibly improper White House contacts with Treasury
officials over a federal investigation of a failed Arkansas savings and loan
with ties to the Clintons.
Even with Democrats in control, the televised hearings were an
embarrassment for the White House and led to the resignation of two senior
Treasury officials deputy secretary Roger Altman and general counsel Jean
Hanson.
Next year's hearings are expected to be broader, possibly delving into
Clinton's Arkansas campaign finances, the Clintons' Arkansas real estate
venture known as Whitewater Development Corp., the failure of the Little Rock
thrift Madison Guaranty and perhaps even Hillary Rodham Clinton's lucrative
commodities trading.
The Clintons owned Whitewater in partnership with James McDougal, owner of
Madison Guaranty.
A special prosecutor is trying to determine whether the expenses of
Whitewater, which failed, contributed to losses at Madison Guaranty and
whether Clinton as governor gave the ailing thrift favorable treatment.
Arkansas political contributions to Clinton also are being explored.
The Clintons have insisted they have done nothing wrong.
Clearly, White House aides are not looking forward to another round of
Whitewater testimony, certain to be politically damaging as the 1996
presidential elections draw closer.
Clinton aides question the need for more hearings when the administration
cooperated last summer. But they have no chance of dodging this bullet.
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, the feisty New York Republican, led the charge for a
more extensive Whitewater investigation by the Senate Banking Committee
earlier this year. He was blocked by Democrats who then controlled the
committee and permitted inquiry into only a fraction of the Whitewater affair.
The Democrats said they did not want to interfere with a separate
Whitewater inquiry by then-special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske, a moderate
Republican who argued that broader congressional probes would have stymied
his investigation. In August, a three-judge panel replaced Fiske as special
prosecutor with Kenneth W. Starr, a conservative Republican.
Now, as the incoming banking committee chairman, D'Amato has said he wants
`full and fair, comprehensive hearings
to
see
if
there
were
taxpayers'
monies used improperly, whether there was an abuse of power and to get the
facts He said he wanted hearings early in the session, which begins in
January.
There will be no witch hunts,' D'Amato promised Sunday on NBC's Meet
the Press. We're not going to be looking to tear people apart, but they
will be thorough.
D'Amato said Republicans wanted broader hearings last summer but the
Democratic leadership restricted us, mocked us, fought us at every turn.'
The New York senator said he and retiring banking chairman Donald Riegle,
D-Mich., met with Starr at the end of the congressional session and would meet
with him again to set up procedures for the hearings.
(EDITORS: NEXT 6 GRAFS OPTIONAL TRIM)
`We do not intend to impede his investigation, but we have our own
constitutional responsibility,' D'Amato said. ``So we're going to look to
cooperate with him. We're not going to go in like a bulldozer and go in over
his objections. We're going to do it in a thoughtful manner.'
However, D'Amato emphatically insisted that Starr would not restrict the
congressional areas of inquiry.
'He's not going to determine for the Congress what we can and what we
cannot do,'' D'Amato said. ``We're going to do this in a thoughtful way,
taking into consideration his requests. And we'll give great, great weight to
them. But it is not the responsibility of the special counsel to actually
block us from going forward, nor do I think he would intend to do that.
D'Amato said if Starr objected to any witnesses the committee intended to
call, ``we'll give that great weight and most likely will withhold.
To White House officials, D'Amato is hardly an appropriate watchdog
because of his own ethics problems.
After a two-year investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee criticized him
in 1991 for running his office in ``an inappropriate and improper manner'' by
letting his brother, Armand, use his office on behalf of a defense contractor.
Armand later was convicted of fraud because he took money for a promise to
lobby his brother.
(END OPTIONAL TRIM)
Rep. Jim Leach, a moderate Iowa Republican, will oversee the next round of
Whitewater hearings in the House. Leach, who is incoming chairman of the House
Banking Committee, is much more civil than fiercely partisan and scrappy
D'Amato.
In an interview with Knight-Ridder, Leach said he would proceed with ``a
great deal of caution'' and without any ``mean-spiritedness.'
Leach said he had not decided how broad the House hearings would be, but
said: ``My commitment is to seek full disclosure, to seek public
accountability and to put the issue behind us.''
(EDITORS: STORY CAN TRIM HERE)
Leach said his concerns included the White House handling of the files of
Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide in the first
summer of Clinton's presidency and the fact that Congress had received no
public documents on the collapse of Madison Guaranty.
`This administration has been able to shield documents commonly provided
to Congress on all other types of financial institution failures,' he said.
Leach also said it did not serve the country to debilitate the presidency,
but added, ``nobody is above the law, and nobody is above full disclosure.
Leach is expected to use the subpoena power of Congress to obtain
Whitewater-related documents that federal regulators refused to provide him
when he was in the minority last summer.
He has said he does not plan on early Whitewater hearings and wants to
assess what Starr does. Leach's aides said he wanted to work on banking and
financial regulatory issues before turning to Whitewater.
(EDITORS: STORY CAN TRIM HERE)
That may be a politically wise strategy. To start with Whitewater hearings
out of the box would make the Republicans look as though they were just out
for blood, not meaningful reforms.
-END-OF-AUTOBREAK(1)-
-AUTOBREAK(2)-FOLLOWS
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AM-People, 0492
People in the News
Eds: Contains items on Alan Dershowitz, Neil Young, Al Green, Susan McDougal
and Zubin Mehta.
AP Photos NY44, Jones, Mehta
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Alan Dershowitz has offered Harvard's Widener
Library a spicy gift in perpetuity: Penthouse magazine.
The Harvard law professor made the offer Nov. 10 after finding out the
library subscribes to the Journal of Historical Review, a Holocaust
revisionist magazine.
Nat Bunker, the library's bibliographer for American history, told The
Harvard Crimson it will accept the subscription. He called Penthouse a
``useful publication for the library'' and noted the Widener already receives
Playboy.
Dershowitz, who writes a column for Penthouse called ``Justice,''' said he
doesn't care what the subscription costs.
``If it's $40 or $50 a year, then that's a reasonable price for keeping
the First Amendment alive, he said.
=
NEW YORK (AP) Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa and Duane Allman will be inducted
posthumuosly into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with several other acts,
including Neil Young and Al Green.
Surviving members of Led Zeppelin, Martha & the Vandellas and the Allman
Brothers Band will also be inducted Jan. 12 during the annual ceremony.
The new members were announced Tuesday.
The Hall of Fame is under construction in Cleveland and is scheduled to
open late next year.
=
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) A former partner in the Whitewater investment
deal will stand trial on charges of embezzling more than $150,000 from
conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife.
Susan McDougal is accused of forging checks and making unauthorized credit
card purchases while she was the bookkeeper and assistant to Mehta's wife,
Nancy.
Ms. McDougal and her ex-husband, James McDougal, were partners with
President and Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater real estate venture in
Arkansas.
The project is at the center of a federal investigation into whether
depositors' money from McDougal's failed savings and loan benefited the
Clintons.
Ms. McDougal's attorney, Leonard Levine, denied she did anything illegal.
She was ordered Monday to stand trial.
``All expenses were for the Mehtas' benefit and are with their approval,'
Levine said.
=
NEW YORK (AP) Quincy Jones, Geraldo Rivera and ``Soul Train'' host and
producer Don Cornelius have formed a minority-controlled broadcasting business
and are buying two TV stations.
Investors also include the Tribune Co. of Chicago and football Hall of
Famer Willie Davis.
The new company, Qwest Broadcasting, has agreed to buy WATL in Atlanta
from Fox Broadcasting for $150 million and WNOL in New Orleans for $17
million. WNOL already is partially owned by Jones.
The deals are subject to approval by the Federal Communications
Commission.
The new company ``is setting out on a mission to create a viable
alternative to what is currently on television,' Jones said Wednesday.
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BC-GL-APEC
Pacific Rim nations agree to free trade by 21st century
By John Aloysius Farrell, The Boston Globe Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
JAKARTA, Indonesia--Nov. 16--The nations of the Pacific Rim, spurred on by
President Clinton, vowed Tuesday to open their dynamic economies to free trade
by fixed deadlines early in the next century.
The trade declaration was a diplomatic success for Clinton, who used a
post-summit press conference to hail its benefits for American workers and
announce that he would make his sixth foreign trip of the year - to a summit
on European security in December - even as he dismissed the suggestion that
Republican control of Congress is turning him into a foreign policy president.
Indeed, Clinton said that when he returned to Washington he would meet
with the new GOP congressional leaders to search for areas of agreement. The
president added a middle-class tax cut to his list of potential bipartisan
initiatives.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, however, in her first extensive response to
Republican midterm election victories, told reporters her husband's
administration would resist GOP assaults on its domestic agenda, especially
attempts to cut Head Start, Medicare, child immunization efforts and other
such social programs.
In their free trade declaration, the nations of the Asian-Pacific Economic
Cooperation group pledged to `chart the future course'' of their dynamic
economies toward ``the long-term goal of free and open trade and investment''
and reach that goal no later than the year 2020 in developing economies and
2010 in industrialized nations.
The focus now shifts to Japan, where APEC working groups under Japanese
leadership will try to develop a fixed blueprint for achieving the goals by
next year's APEC summit in Osaka.
In a post-summit press conference, Clinton said the APEC declaration
``will prove to be of historic importance'' in `creating
a post-Cold War world that is both safer and more prosperous. He said it was
'especially good news for the United States and our workers.
Clinton has made it a personal cause to elevate APEC into a prestigious
international forum because the Pacific Rim ``is the fastest growing region in
the world, with rapidly expanding middle classes who are potential American
customers.
``Our nation already has the most open markets on Earth. By opening other
markets, our products and services become more competitive, and more sales
abroad create more high-wage jobs at home, Clinton said.
The president did not downplay, however, the difficult path that lies
ahead in getting the economic dynamos of Asia, with their high protective
tariffs, to drop one-sided trade barriers that penalize American goods.
An illustrative tussle here took place over the different timetable for
industrialized and developing nations. China and South Korea won a last-minute
concession from the United States, Japan and other industrial nations, who
agreed to the two target dates of 2010 and 2020 to give developing nations an
extra decade to drop their protective tariffs.
But Clinton still hailed the possible benefits for U.S. workers, using the
American automobile industry as an example.
Even after progress is made with the new world trade treaty, known as
GATT, `tariffs on American automobiles in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and
the Philippines will still be between 30 and 60 percent, Clinton said. By
contrast our tariffs on automobiles are 2.5 percent.
``The market in just those four countries alone in six years will be as
great as the total market in Canada and Mexico combined, he said. ``This
APEC agreement will knock down Asian tariffs even further, and American autos
will, therefore, be more affordable.
`And that means for an auto worker in Detroit or Toledo more secure jobs
and factories with more workers - factories that are growing, not shrinking,'
Clinton said.
The Asian summit demonstrated how an American president, even facing a
hostile Congress, can still sketch his vision, push policy goals and command
media attention.
The presidency is certainly more than making laws, Clinton said,
announcing that he would make a critical trip'' to Budapest, Hungary, to
attend the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe on Dec. 4.
It would be his fourth trip to Europe this year and if Clinton, as
expected, also travels to Haiti in December, he will have made seven foreign
trips this year, spending some five weeks overseas, and exceeding the yearly
travel records of George Bush - the president who Democrats accused in the
1992 election of paying too much attention to foreign affairs.
There were some unusual things which required a great deal of time this
year I expect that the lion's share of my work will continue to be at
home, said Clinton. ``I have no intention of withdrawing from the domestic
field.
Though Clinton's aides believe trips like this one will bestow an image of
presidential authority, the president noted that the political benefits of his
many foreign policy initiatives were unproven.
Americans may hear about this declaration and think, 'Well, 2010 is a
long time to wait for any benefits, ... Clinton said. Though he said Americans
want him to have a long-term vision for the future, they hear things on a
daily basis that are so contentious and so conflicting and so kind of clouding
the atmosphere that it's hard to think about that.
My job is to keep lifting the sights of the country above that and keep
looking at the long run, Clinton said. ``I'll do my best to get credit for
it, but the most important thing is that I do the right thing. And, you know,
if I can find a way to get credit for it I'll be very happy.
Clinton said he would meet with the new GOP congressional leaders soon. He
added the middle-class tax cut to the list of welfare reform,
a line-item veto, continued reductions in the federal government'' and other
issues on which ``I believe we can cooperate.
The president noted that he had cut taxes on 15 million working families
in the 1993 budget deal, and said that ``on the middle-class tax cut
I
would like very much to go further.
As long as a tax cut did not add to the federal budget deficit, Clinton
called it an initiative ``where I think we can work together, and where I am
certainly willing to.
In another nod to the conservative tide that showed itself on Election
Day, Clinton said, ``I have always supported voluntary prayer in the
schools, particularly at schoolwide functions such as athletic events and
assemblies, and would be ``glad to discuss it'' with the Republican leaders.
END!C$3?GL-APEC
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AM Hillary Clinton, 440
First Lady Extols Impact of U.S. Aid Abroad
By SHEILA MCNULTY= Associated Press Writer=
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) With Republicans threatening deep cuts in foreign
aid, Hillary Rodham Clinton looked at a muddy, smelly slum Wednesday and
talked about the merits of sending money abroad.
``It's good for the people in the United States, she said. ``If you have
our government helping people to get better educations to be healthier, to
have better living conditions then you've got fewer problems that will impact
on our foreign affairs around the world.'
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who stands to become chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee with Republicans taking over Congress, has
pledged to seek drastic cuts in foreign aid.
Mrs. Clinton said it was too early to tell whether foreign aid will be
slashed. We'll just have to wait and see, she said.
The first lady made the remarks while standing on the other side of a
foul-smelling river from a slum, with its ramshackle wooden huts on stilts,
laundry hanging on bamboo poles, chickens pecking at the embankment, and
children standing barefoot in the mud.
``This particular settlement is one of the most densely populated in all
of Asia, Mrs. Clinton said. ``So when you are looking at this, you are
seeing not only the challenges in Jakarta, but the challenges in much of
Asia.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has supported Indonesia's
efforts to revitalize its neighborhoods since 1988 by guaranteeing $120
million in loans. The agency has agreed to provide $125 million in additional
aid over the next five years.
William Frej, director of AID's regional housing and urban development
office for East Asia, said only 30 percent of the urban population in
Indonesia has access to clean water and only 2 percent to a sanitation system.
This is a program that I think the American public should look at
closely. I think we're having a major impact in developing countries, he
said.
He took Mrs. Clinton to a second neighborhood that had been cleaned up
under the Indonesian program to bring roads, paths, drainage, sanitation
facilities and water supplies to the slums.
The neighborhood of green and yellow homes, with birds chirping on front
porches, was clean and sanitary. Children waved tiny, paper American and
Indonesian flags at the first lady.
``It's one of the real success stories that we can demonstrate about
development, Mrs. Clinton said.
Ongky Sukasah Hardjakusumah, head of Jakarta's Housing Department, said
U.S. aid has helped in a nation where 60 percent of the capital's residence
live in slums.
We thank the American taxpayers, he said.
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BC-CLINTON-HILLARY
Hillary works to bolster her wounded husband
By Sharon Singleton
JAKARTA (Reuter) - Hillary Rodham Clinton, clearly rattled by mid-term
election defeats, took the opportunity of her Indonesian visit to claim
successes and bolster her husband's administration.
This administration wants to immunize all children so that our
immunization rates are equal to the third world countries. If they want to
eliminate that then we've got some real differences,' she told reporters.
`This administration has banned certain assault weapons and implemented
the Brady Bill. If they want to eliminate that, we've got some real
differences,' she said on another occasion.
The first lady, accompanying President Clinton on a four-day visit to
Indonesia, undertook a schedule of visits to U.S. funded aid projects,
including a health center and a neigborhood development program.
At every opportunity she seized the chance to stress to reporters the
significant impact of U.S. tax dollars, in the form of foreign aid, on the
lives of Indonesians.
The United States channelled $90.4 million in aid to Indonesia alone last
year.
The total foreign aid budget for 1995 was set at $13.7 billion in July.
But the new Republican-dominated Congress is likely to put growing
pressure on the White House to slash the foreign aid and social welfare
programs that have been the centerpieces of the Clinton administration.
Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is already reported to have taken a
stab at aid for Israel, proposing a $1.2 billion cut in economic aid in return
for forgiving outstanding debt to the United States.
`American foreign aid has done a lot of good not only to the countries
to whom it has been given for our own national interests, and I think it is in
our national interest to help countries like Indonesia
Mrs. Clinton told
reporters after visiting a rural community health center.
Mrs. Clinton returned to her theme during a visit to a poor neighborhood
of Jakarta Wednesday.
``I think it is important for the American public to understand the
improvements that have been made around the world because of our
government she said.
REUTER
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BC-CLINTON-INDONESIA-HILLARY
U.S. First Lady sees two faces of Asia
By Sharon Singleton
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuter) - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was shown
the two faces of Asia Wednesday, touring a grim Jakarta slum before going on
to a model housing project.
Mrs Clinton, on a state visit with President Clinton, was taken to one of
Jakarta's poorest neighborhoods, a sprawling slum along the banks of a putrid
river, which is. home to some 400,000 people.
The area, known as a kampung, had not yet received any development
assistance of the kind that has helped to raise many Asian poor out of the mud
to enjoy some of the fruits of their burgeoning economies.
Clinton was told by U.S. aid official Bill Frej that around three million
people in Jakarta -- about half of its official population -- live in similar
conditions.
Mrs Clinton was then taken to a neighborhood improved under the Kampung
Development Program (KIP), begun in Jakarta in 1969 and then expanded
nationwide.
Frej called the project one of the greatest success stories for U.S.
foreign aid in Asia.
Mrs Clinton walked down the narrow lanes of the kampung to a school,
where she was given a bouquet by a young girl in Muslim dress.
``I think it is important for the American public to understand the
improvements that have been made around the world because of our government
and through our private sector, because this is a real success, she said.
It's not only good for the people in Jakarta but also for the people in
the United States because if we have our government helping people to get
better educated, to be healthier and with better living conditions, then
you've got fewer problems that will impact on our foreign affairs around the
world, she said.
It's a win-win situation.
Mrs Clinton refused to comment on growing pressure at home from the
incoming opposition Republican-dominated Congress to cut back on U.S. foreign
aid programs.
She stressed private sector involvement in the kampung program.
Many of the development funds are borrowed from U.S. capital markets but
with federal government guarantees through the U.S. Agency for International
Development.
Only a third of Indonesia's 55 million city dwellers have access to clean
water and less than two in a hundred can use proper sewer systems.
REUTER
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PM-Mrs Clinton, 530
First Lady Demonstrates Support For U.S. Aid Abroad
By SHEILA MCNULTY= Associated Press Writer=
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) With Republicans threatening deep cuts in foreign
aid, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton viewed a muddy, smelly slum today to
promote the merits of sending money abroad.
It's good for the people in the United States, she said. ``If you have
our government helping people to get better educations to be healthier, to
have better living conditions then you've got fewer problems that will impact
on our foreign affairs around the world.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who stands to become chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee with Republicans taking over Congress, has
pledged to seek drastic cuts in foreign aid.
Mrs. Clinton said it was too early to tell whether Helms would get his
way. 'We'll just have to wait and see,'' she said.
The first lady made the remarks while standing on the other side of a
foul-smelling river from a slum, with its ramshackle wooden huts on stilts,
laundry hanging on bamboo poles, chickens pecking at the embankment, and
children standing barefoot in the mud.
This particular settlement is one of the most densely populated in all
of Asia, Mrs. Clinton said. ``So when you are looking at this, you are
seeing not only the challenges in Jakarta, but the challenges in much of
Asia.'
The U.S. Agency for International Development has supported Indonesia's
efforts to revitalize its neighborhoods since 1988 by guaranteeing $120
million in loans. The agency has agreed to provide $125 million in additional
aid over the next five years.
William Frej, director of agency's regional housing and urban development
office for East Asia, said only 30 percent of the urban population in
Indonesia has access to clean water and only 2 percent to a sanitation system.
`This is a program that I think the American public should look at
closely. I think we're having a major impact in developing countries, he
said. We, hopefully, will be continuing to have this impact.'
He took Mrs. Clinton to a second neighborhood; this one had been cleaned
up under the Indonesian program to build roads, paths, drainage, sanitation
facilities and water supplies in slums.
The neighborhood of green and yellow homes, with birds chirping on front
porches, was clean and sanitary. Children waved tiny, paper American and
Indonesian flags at the first lady.
``It's one of the real success stories that we can demonstrate about
development,' Mrs. Clinton said.
With a lot of assistance from our government, and with the local and
national governments here, we've been able to make tremendous strides in
sanitation, in drinking water, in housing and in a lot of the other changes
that we've just seen, Mrs. Clinton said.
Ongky Sukasah Hardjakusumah, head of Jakarta's Housing Department, said
U.S. aid has helped in a nation where 60 percent of the capital's residence
live in slums. "We thank the American taxpayers,' he said.
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PM-AR--Fitzhugh-Matthews-Sentencing Ark Bjt,300
Matthews, Fitzhugh to be Sentenced Jan. 3
js2houflsfon
LITTLE ROCK (AP) Two men linked to President Clinton's Whitewater land
deal are to be sentenced Jan. 3.
Eugene Fitzhugh and Charles Matthews originally were accused of conspiring
to defraud the Small Business Administration.
Under a plea agreement, the two pleaded guilty to misdemeanors. Fitzhugh
pleaded guilty to one count of improperly trying to influence a banker;
Matthews to two counts of trying to influence a banker.
Fitzhugh could be sentenced to a year in prison. Matthews faces up to a
year and a half in prison.
``I think Mr. Fitzhugh would like to get the matter over with and
resolved, said his lawyer, Randy Satterfield of Little Rock. '`It's (been)
an ordeal.
The other co-defendant in the case, former Pulaski County Municipal Judge
David Hale, avoided trial by pleading guilty to two felony charges in an
agreement struck by then-Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske Jr.
Hale is to be sentenced Dec. 5.
Hale has accused President Clinton of encouraging him to make a
questionable loan to a Whitewater business partner.
Hale said last year that then-Gov. Clinton and James McDougal, Clinton's
business partner, urged him in 1986 to make a $300,000 government-backed loan
to McDougal's then-wife Susan.
The McDougals were Bill and Hillary Clintons' partners in Whitewater
Development Corp. in 1978-92. The company developed and sold 230 acres in the
Arkansas Ozarks. McDougal also owned Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan
Association, which failed in 1989.
Authorities are probing the failure of Madison and whether its funds were
diverted to Whitewater or to help retire Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial campaign
debt.
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M-Girl's Letters, 0386
elebrities Have Many Answers To Meaning of Life
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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) Yes, Rachel, life does have meaning. Take your pick.
Romance author Danielle Steel said family is the key. Washington Redskins
ner Jack Kent Cooke said it was making things happen. Whoopi Goldberg
vised it was being true to yourself.'
More than 100 celebrities responded to 11-year-old Rachel Chandler's
tters asking about the meaning of life.
I wanted to know what was the most important lesson, and what it takes
succeed, said the seventh-grader.
As part of a Girl Scout project, she started writing letters last spring
people she admired.
She started out modestly, with a mailing list of about 25 names, then
ded up writing to nearly 200 famous people, she said Tuesday.
The eclectic list included Randy Travis, Mother Teresa, Cher, Gloria
einem, Oprah Winfrey, Sen. John Warner, Denzel Washington, Sandra Day
Connor, Jimmy Stewart, Desmond Tutu, Vanna White, and Bill and Hillary
inton.
More than half responded with at least an autographed photo and many
ared words of wisdom, which now fill Rachel's bulging blue scrapbook.
The most personal response came in a five-page letter from Ms. Steel, who
oke of her own children and gave this advice:
Friends are important, but sometimes they change and move on. The people
no mean a lot to you now may not mean as much later, but your family is the
reatest gift you have.
Steel enclosed an autographed copy of her best seller `Accident, with a
rning: Don't read until you're 18, unless your parents approve.
Cooke wrote the longest letter, contributing inspirational quotations from
her famous people.
I cannot come up with an easy, simple recipe for success, since I
lieve there's no sure-fire method of reaching the top,' Cooke said. But I
believe humanity is divided into three parts: those who make things happen;
ose who watch things happen; and those who don't know what's happening.'
So, what is the meaning of life?
``Most of the people wrote family and education, Rachel said. ``So I
ink that to have a good family or to kind of make your family better and to
it a good education.
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AM-Girl's Letters-Excerpts,0166
With Girl's Letters
By The Associated Press=
Excerpts of celebrity responses to 11-year-old Rachel Chandler's query
about the meaning of life:
Hillary Clinton: Please work very hard in school and do the best you
can. This will be excellent training for you and help you prepare for whatever
path you take in the future.
Whoopi Goldberg: Be true to yourself. The rest will fall into place.
U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum: Have the courage of your convictions.'
Mother Teresa: ``Be the sunshine of God's love to your parents, friends
and neighbors.
Country singer Randy Travis: `There is one word that stands out and that
is respect. This is a very good thing to learn early in life, for instance,
respect for your parents, your country, your God.
Comedian Lily Tomlin: The human mind cannot hold two opposing thoughts
at the same time. So, if you hold a positve thought you cannot hold a negative
one.
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BC TAXES national:WA
Budget head warns GOP tax-cut plans could explode federal deficits
(HAS TRIMS)
By Robert A. Rankin
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON President Clinton won't just roll over and swallow whatever
Republicans in Congress push his way, top administration officials said
Tuesday.
Republican proposals to slash taxes raise a terrible risk'' that the
GOP-dominated Congress ``will throw fiscal discipline to the winds'' and
explode federal deficits again, warned Alice Rivlin, director of Clinton's
Office of Management and Budget.
We would insist that (any tax cut) be paid for'' with offsetting cuts in
federal spending, Rivlin emphasized at a breakfast with reporters.
Otherwise GOP tax cuts could fuel skyrocketing deficits just as Ronald
Reagan's did in the 1980s. And launching deficits anew in today's purring
economy could inflame inflation and send interest rates soaring enough to
throw the country into a recession,' Rivlin warned, voicing fears widely
held in financial markets.
Hours after Rivlin's comments, the Federal Reserve raised short-term
interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point in an effort to slow
the pace of economic growth and avoid an inflationary spiral that almost
certainly would lead later to recession.
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen echoed Rivlin's warning in an interview
with Reuters, insisting that Republicans will not gain Clinton's cooperation
if they pursue deficit-driving tax cuts.
We want to continue on this path of cutting the deficit and increasing
jobs, Bentsen said, defending Clinton's economic policies. Those policies
have chopped the deficit in half (as a share of gross domestic product) while
growth rebounded and produced 5 million new jobs since he took office.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed in, too, speaking to reporters
in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she accompanied the president at the Asian
Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.
Asked what advice she had for her husband as the dust settles from last
week's GOP landslide, she said: ``I think the president has to stand for what
he's stood for. He has to stick with his principles and protect the progress
that has been made.
I don't think the American public wants to see Medicare cut
dramatically, she continued. ``I don't think they want to see the gains in
cutting the deficit reversed. They don't want to see college loans for
middle-class kids which the president pushed through Congress cut back and
eliminated.''
In both tone and substance, these are the first postelection warnings from
top administration officials that begin to set the stage for an all but
inevitable confrontation between Clinton and the new Republican leadership of
Congress.
(EDITORS: NEXT GRAF OPTIONAL TRIM)
Until now, both sides have paid lip service to bipartisan cooperation
indeed, they continued to do that Tuesday, as White House Chief of Staff Leon
Panetta paid a courtesy call'' on Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of
Kansas and House GOP Leader Newt Gingrich of Georgia.
(END OPTIONAL TRIM)
But Rivlin's comments in particular underscored the potential for
not-too-distant conflict.
Everyone loves a tax cut. And the only reason for not cutting taxes is
that it would escalate the budget deficit'' unless offset by spending cuts,
Rivlin said, adding: ``I don't know what the Republicans will cut. They didn't
tell us anything in the election campaign.
They say they are for smaller government. I guess we're all for smaller
government.
But
would they cut road and bridge repairs? Would they cut
Head Start?''
Rep. John R. Kasich, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee,
points to $176 billion in spending cuts that could go with the GOP Contract
with America'' campaign agenda. But those cuts were listed only as possible
offsets'' to revenue losses expected from GOP plans to give every family a
$500 per child tax credit and to slash the tax on capital gains.
In addition, possible GOP spending cuts include such heretofore unpopular
proposals as dramatically raising the cost of Medicare Part
B premiums for wealthy beneficiaries, privatizing the air traffic control
system and scrapping federal job training programs one of Clinton's biggest
social priorities even though Clinton still holds veto power.
Republicans argue that their tax cuts will generate so much economic
activity that they will pay for themselves by yielding higher revenues to the
Treasury. In the 1980s this was known as `supply-side economics. Today GOP
advocates call it dynamic budget scoring.
OMB Director Rivlin calls such analysis ``nonsense.'
(EDITORS: STORY CAN TRIM HERE)
It's a license to bust the budget, she said. ``Anybody can imagine
that their favorite tax cut would be so good for the economy that it wouldn't
cost any revenue, and if you were to adopt those rules, then you'd cut taxes
without cutting spending and you'd get a bigger deficit.
`Now we've lived through that once, Rivlin said. ``I think the danger
is living through it again.
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BC-HILLARY foreign:WA
Hillary Clinton says president must stick to his principles
By Jennifer Lin and Angie Cannon
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to be urging her
husband to stand and fight Tuesday as she assessed the fallout from the
Republican landslide in last week's congressional elections.
I think the president has to stand for what he's stood for, Clinton
said in a sometimes testy interview with reporters after touring this former
Indonesian capital. ``He has to stick with his principles and protect the
progress that has been made.
Clinton said she did not know how the new Republican leadership would deal
with legislation proposed by President Clinton and passed by a Democratic
Congress during the last two years.
But she ticked off a number of government programs she said Americans
don't want reduced.
``This administration banned certain assault weapons and implemented the
Brady Bill, Clinton said. ``If they want to eliminate that, we've got some
real differences.
She also said the White House and the Republicans would have ``a real
difference of opinion'' if GOP lawmakers attempted to follow through on
threats to eliminate childhood immunizations and Head Start, the early
childhood education program that the Clinton administration expanded.
``I don't know what is talk and what is action, Clinton said of
Republican criticisms of Democratic programs. ``I have learned in my many
years of observing politics that there is a huge gap between the two. Let's
wait and see what is actually done and then we can proceed from there.
``I don't think the American public wants Medicare cut dramatically, she
said. ``I don't think they want to see the gains in cutting the deficit
reversed. They don't want to see college loans for middle-class kids which
the president pushed through the Congress cut back and eliminated.
On welfare reform, Clinton said that ``will be a real test of how serious
the Congress is in actually dealing with it
Clinton, who worked on the unsuccessful health care reform plan, said she
planned to continuing working on issues she has been involved in for more than
20 years affecting children, families, women, health and education.
Asked if that would be harder now, she said: Who knows? I have no idea.
That's why I don't know how to have these conversations. I don't mean to be
difficult. I don't know how to have them.
Clinton also said she was part of the internal White House discussions
about how the administration should proceed following last week's election in
which the Republicans seized control of both the House and the Senate.
`Everybody at the White House is talking about it, she said. Everyone
wants the country to move forward. Nobody wants to stop the progress that's
been made. Or to hurt people at least I hope they don't. So how that is
worked out is going to be the real discussions in the next months. We're just
going to have to see how serious they are
Initially, Clinton did not want to discuss last week's Republican blowout
with reporters, saying ``I'm not a political pundit, so I don't have anything
to add to the election commentary.
Clinton made her political comments after touring Borobadur, the
eighth-century Buddhist temple considered one of the wonders of the world.
During her tour of the temple, set near the base of jagged mountains,
Clinton was shown a statue of Buddha. According to legend,
a person will be blessed with good luck if they can reach inside and touch
Buddha's fingers.
Clinton stretched and tried hard for the fingers but could only get
a bit of the wrist. ``I have too short of an arm,'' she said with a laugh.
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BC-HEALTH CONGRESS
Odds favor U.S. health bill in 1995 - senator
By Randall Mikkelsen
PHILADELPHIA (Reuter) - A key Republican senator said Tuesday the odds
are slightly better than even that a health care reform bill will emerge from
the new Republican-controlled Congress next year.
But any new bill would be significantly scaled back from President
Clinton's original vision of universal coverage and may be more conservative
than last year's compromise efforts, said Rhode Island Sen. John Chafee,
leader of the bipartisan ''mainstream coalition'' of senators working on
health reform.
Clinton must still lead the drive for health reform to succeed, Chafee
said. ``I think that health care reform will probably still be on top of the
president's agenda. If not, then of course the thing's done with.'
But the president will also have to scale back his ambitions, he said. He
noted the White House decision to remove First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
from the front lines of the health care debate may make it easier to reach a
compromise.
``I think it's positive, he said of the decision. ``I have found Mrs.
Clinton less open to compromise than the president.
Asked after a speech before the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard
Davis Institute of Health Economics whether there would be a successful reform
bill next year, Chafee said, ``I would say yes, but I wouldn't bet the farm on
it -- I think it's a 60-40 or a 55-45 proposition.
``It would be a constrained measure, said Chafee, who is in line to
become chairman of the Senate Finance health subcommittee. ``We're not going
to get 100 percent coverage.'
Key features of any new bill may include reforms in insurance markets and
medical liability laws. Other possibilities include new, but limited, benefits
for the poor and incentives for those in Medicare programs to enroll in health
maintenance organizations (HMOs), he said.
A cigarette tax would remain a necessary and achievable way to finance
the reform effort, he said, although some analysts have said the new Congress
may be unlikely to raise taxes on cigarettes or anything else.
In his speech Chafee counted among supporters of a limited health care
reform bill Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, the Republican leader in the Senate.
Chafee said he hoped Congress would begin work in January with last
year's mainstream coalition proposals, which relied on incentives, subsidies
and market reforms to increase insurance coverage.
But Chafee said the any reform bill may well become even more
conservative in the search for broad Congressional support as it moves
through the legislative process.
He said it was in the Republicans' interest to pass health care reform,
to show it was capable of constructive leadership and to restrain the growth
of health care spending, which he said is sapping American comptitiveness.
REUTER
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AM-Whither White House, 750
Does Clinton Deal With or Damn GOP?
With AM-GOP In Charge, Bjt
By NANCY BENAC= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) Shifting between tones of confrontation and compromise, a
White House spread across two continents seems flummoxed over how to deal with
the arrival of Republican rule in Congress.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton summed up the uncertainties and
frustrations of the administration Tuesday with a curt reply to the latest
what-does-it-all-mean question: ``Who knows? I've no idea. That's why I don't
know how to handle these conversations. It depends on what they do.''
For a White House still feeling the sting of sweeping Democratic election
losses, every day brings new and dramatic evidence of the Republicans'
resolve to change the course charted by Clinton over the last two years.
Calls to trash the income tax, hurry U.S. troops home from Haiti, revive
inquiries into the Whitewater land deal, overhaul poverty programs, require a
balanced budget come almost too fast to track.
They've been all over the map in the last eight days,' says Paul
Begala, a White House political adviser. ``It's a lot to digest.
With Clinton playing the world stage at a trade summit in Indonesia, Chief
of Staff Leon Panetta and other top aides stayed home to reorient the White
House toward such a radically changing political landscape.
How to write a budget that Republicans won't immediately shoot down? How
to push an important trade pact through the lame-duck Congress before
Republicans seize power? How to find common ground on welfare reform? How far
to go with health reform?
And, behind it all, how to point Clinton toward re-election in 1996?
The White House is still sizing up how to pick its fights as aides rethink
policy issue by issue.
On health care, for example, White House officials met with outside groups
Monday in their first post-election strategy session.
Even the tone the administration will strike in its dealing with Congress
appears to remain up for grabs.
Clinton, at a morning news conference in Jakarta, highlighted areas where
he hopes to cooperate with the Republicans, including welfare reform and the
line-item veto.
There are all these areas where I think we can work together and where I
am certainly willing to, and that's the spirit in which
I will go home,' he said with enthusiasm.
The president almost immediately drew criticism from liberals when he did
not rule out a constitutional amendment on school prayer. Instant cave-in,"
complained Arthur Kropp, president of People for the American Way.
Clinton's wife, touring Indonesian cultural sites 200 miles south of
Jakarta, was anything but conciliatory toward the Republicans.
If Congress wants to reverse Clinton's achievements, she warned, it will
face ``a real difference of opinion. Furthermore, she seemed to cast doubt
on the Republicans' willingness to work with the White House in good faith.
'We'll see how serious people are about welfare reform and how much of
this is posture, she said. ``I think the welfare reform debate will be a
real test as to how serious Congress is on really dealing with it.'
The contrasting remarks from the president and his wife mirror the private
struggle being waged within the White House over whether to pursue
confrontation or conciliation.
There are a lot of folks who say the most important thing for the
president to do right now is to defeat the Republican revolution and not
to seek accommodation,' said one like-minded ally. There are also some
folks who see a more conciliatory approach.'
Some of us fear that the president, by personality, leans toward the
latter group,' he added, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Such divisions and fingerpointing are inevitable in wake of the
battering that Democrats endured on Election Day.
One startling manifestation was a memo to Panetta that popped up in The
Washington Post this week in which unidentified aides decried a jarring
picture of a White House that never got its act together, fed by recurring
images of utter haplessness.
White House officials seemed dumbstruck by such a public airing of
internal angst, and said Panetta had never even received the biting memo.
`As everybody cools down a little bit, I think you'll probably see less
of that, one administration official said hopefully if not confidently.
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bc-poverty
GROUP SAYS CHILDREN'S POVERTY
COSTS U.S. $36 BILLION A YEAR
Graphic: On GGN
By RICHARD WHITMIRE=
Gannett News Service=
WASHINGTON For newly empowered conservatives unmoved by moral arguments
to combat child poverty, the Children's Defense Fund on Tuesday offered a new
twist: Child poverty costs America $36 billion a year.
That's the conclusion of a new book, Wasting America's Future,
overseen by Nobel Laureate economist Robert Solow.
This report provides evidence, possibly for the first time, that we can
save money by reducing child poverty, said Solow. "At the very least,
eliminating poverty is highly affordable and it is more likely a gain to the
economy.
Poverty is defined by the federal government. For example, children live
in poverty if their family of four has an income of less than $14,335 a year.
The needs of the nation's 14.6 million children living in poverty ``don't
change with the political winds,' the president of the Children's Defense
Fund said Tuesday.
Marian Wright Edelman, a close friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton and
perhaps the most visible liberal symbol in Washington, challenged conservative
Republicans to a debate on curing poverty. She predicts that what she called
the anti-social program rhetoric of House speaker-in-waiting Newt Gingrich
soon will hit `actual reality.
"I don't believe for a moment that most Americans want to see children go
hungry, to die from preventable diseases
to see their families go without
jobs.
Liberal groups such as the Children's Defense Fund find themselves locked
into a new philosophical war with the incoming Republican congressional
majority. In years past with Republicans such as George Bush, the debate was
simple: How much can we afford to spend on helping the poor?''
But with Gingrich, the debate shifts to arguments far more threatening to
social action groups: In the long run, Great Society' solutions to poverty
encourage irresponsible behaviors that only lead to more poverty.
Even if Gingrich refuses to bend, said Edelman, most members of Congress
don't want to dismantle programs such as Head Start. ``Mr. Gingrich is not the
whole Congress.
She appeared resigned that welfare faces dramatic reforms. But, she
cautioned, Most poor people are not on welfare. They are working and
struggling every day to make ends meet.
And private charities, said Edelman, cannot absorb thousands of poor
mothers being dumped into the economy if welfare benefits end after two years
a promise of welfare reformers who pledge to build orphanages to handle the
problem.
All the soup kitchens in the world are not going to make up for the lost
jobs and decent wages,' said Edelman.
The $36 billion price tag pinned on child poverty is an estimate of
lowered productivity, such as the cost to society of a child dropping out of
school. Not included in the estimates are costs such as teen pregnancy, crime
and abuse.
Child poverty is not an act of God, said Edelman, ``but a lack of
action I think it is unacceptable that American children are twice as
likely to be poor as Canadian children, three times as likely to be poor as
British children, four times as likely to be poor as French children.''
Solutions offered in the book for curing child poverty include:
Allowing parents with low wages to qualify for cash assistance welfare
programs.
Strengthening child support enforcement by guaranteeing all children in
single-parent families minimum support each month.
Expanding child care and Head Start assistance.
Expanding programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
Establishing more after-school and summer programs for children.
Guaranteeing adequate low-cost housing for poor families.
Increasing the $4.25-an-hour minimum wage.
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BC-INDONESIA-USA-HILLARY
U.S. First lady sees Indonesian community health
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuter) - First lady Hillary Clinton sat beneath
some palms Tuesday and talked with Indonesian villagers about a favorite
subject, health care, saying the United States could learn from this country.
She visited one of Indonesia's widely praised community health care
clinics, set among palm trees and paddy fields in a rural area of Indonesia an
hour by plane from Jakarta.
Mrs. Clinton said she was ``very impressed'' by the project, primarily
run by local women to provide child care and family planning services.
A crowd of about 200 excited villagers, many dressed in traditional
costume, turned out to see Mrs. Clinton, whose husband was in Bogor at a
summit with other Asian and Pacific leaders.
State Minister of Population Haryono Suyono took Mrs. Clinton through
each step of the clinic's operation -- from registration of a child to its
weight and measurement and treatment.
Mrs. Clinton gave one young child an oral polio vaccination, then sat on
a bamboo seat and talked about the clinic with village women.
Mrs Clinton said many other countries, including the United States, could
learn from Indonesia's health care example.
``I think a lot of countries are recognizing that they need more
integrated approaches and this country has made a great step forward in
demonstrating how to do that at this community level, she said.
``I think that our country, where we have pockets of infant mortality and
children who are not immunized completely and where we do not have the social
support for mothers we saw here as we toured this facility, could appreciate
how important it is to coordinate better the services we provide for women and
children.
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PM-GOP In Charge, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0465,920
Gingrich Says GOP Ideas Can Transform Society `In 2 or 3 Years'
Eds. Inserts 5 grafs after graf 4, 'We're going ... to UPDATE with comments
by President and Hillary Clinton, Panetta courtesy call; picks up 5th pvs,
'Just six ; edits at bottom to tighten
By ALAN FRAM= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican ideas can transform society `within two or
three years, the likely next House speaker says as his party lays plans for
a breakneck 100 days of pushing the first part of their agenda through
Congress.
The House will work seven days a. week, if necessary, on their showpiece
bills to cut taxes, reform welfare, toughen criminal penalties and take other
steps, Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia and other Republican leaders said Monday.
Gingrich and hundreds of his GOP colleagues made a campaign pledge to have
votes on the measures within 100 days of taking control of the House.
We're going to transform the federal government,' Gingrich told a
dinner attended by contributors to GOPAC, his political action committee.
We're going to ask of every dollar, `Is this better spent by a bureaucrat or
by you?'''
President Clinton, meanwhile, said today in Jakarta, Indonesia, that he
and the Republicans should be able to produce a bipartisan welfare reform plan
and work together on a line item veto and reducing the size of government.
We do need a lot more changes, and we can do them together if we are
determined to put America first and not put partisanship first, said Clinton
after an economic summit with leaders of countries from both sides of the
Pacific. He reserved judgment on the idea of a constitutional amendment tó
restore prayer in public school.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, said regardless of last week's election
returns, 'I think the president has to stand for what he stood for and has to
stick with his principles and protect the progress that has been made.
don't think the American public wants Medicare cut dramatically. I
don't think they want to see the gains in cutting the deficit reversed'' or
loans for middle-class college students eliminated, she told reporters while
touring elsewhere in Indonesia.
Taking heed of the new political landscape, White House Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta planned an afternoon `courtesy call'' to meet with Gingrich and
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole on Capitol Hill. Their topics include the
legislative agenda and when Clinton himself can get together with the GOP
leaders.
A week after the election that gave Republicans control of Congress for
the first time since 1954, leaderless Democrats grappled among themselves over
command of their minorities in the House and Senate come January.
Outgoing Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., was facing at least one
challenger to be House minority leader, but was the odds-on favorite. Sens.
Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who have received scant
national attention, were in a close battle over the Senate minority leader
job. Decisions are three weeks away.
But the focus was on Republicans, still jubilant over their Election Day
stampede. The conservative Gingrich met with Dole on a sun-drenched Capitol
balcony to discuss their plans for 1995.
`We need to coordinate whenever we can. That doesn't mean we are never
going to disagree, said Dole, who is less ideological than the Georgian.
Gingrich said they discussed removing the Social Security trust fund from
budget calculations, to alleviate seniors' fears of benefit cuts and make it
harder to mask federal deficits.
And Gingrich told nearly 200 GOPAC contributors that Republican ideas for
cutting taxes, shrinking the size of government and encouraging private
initiative would pay off.
If you'll take up the moral cause of re-establishing for every American
the pursuit of happiness, I believe within two or three years we'll have
dramatically less drug addiction, dramatically less alcoholism,' Gingrich
said.
At times, the GOP's ambitious aims collided with themselves.
Party leaders said they were weighing changes in the House schedule to
make it easier on the personal lives of junior lawmakers with school-age
children. But Rep. Richard Armey, R-Texas, the likely House majority leader,
described an early work schedule that sounded anything but family friendly.
`We will complete the contract within 100 days, Armey said. ``If that
means working seven days (a week), we'll work seven days. If that means
working 20 hours a day, we'll work 20 hours a day.''
Gingrich's GOPAC bowed to pressure and agreed to reveal the names of
future contributors. But Gingrich said it would not divulge who has donated
millions of dollars in past years.
He also called on critics to now insist that other political groups, such
as those headed by Ralph Nader, make similar voluntary disclosures.
In the House, moderate Rep. Charlie Rose, D-N.C., said he would challenge
Gephardt, saying the party needed to move more toward the center and not
automatically champion Clinton's causes.
Our president is not our prime minister, and the (congressional) leaders
are not his chief whips, Rose said.
Rose has recently settled civil charges involving a personal loan he did
not report and is seen as a long-shot for the job.
In the Senate, Daschle said he had 25 votes for his leadership bid, one
more than needed, while Dodd claimed ``in the 20 range.'
Daschle, 46, appeals mostly to younger senators while the 50-year-old Dodd
a 14-year Senate veteran claims support from more senior members.
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BC-CLINTON-HILLARY
First lady says no idea what election results mean
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, (Reuter) - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said
Tuesday she had no idea what the Democrats' crushing election defeats would
mean but pointed to trouble ahead if Republicans try to slash welfare
programs.
Mrs Clinton, visiting the historic city of Yogyakarta while her husband
attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, told reporters
that trying to predict the future under a Congress dominated by the opposition
Republicans was an exercise in ``abstraction.'
Visibly irritated by questions from reporters about last week's mid-term
congressional elections, she said: ``I don't know what they mean. I'm not a
political pundit.
I've certainly thought about them. I don't know that anyone can say
exactly what it means, and I think that's what we'll find out when we go
forward.
Mrs Clinton said the post-Cold War era was an uncertain time for all
advanced democracies and her husband, President Clinton, should stand up for
his beliefs.
``I think the president has to stand for what he stood for and has to
stick with his principles and protect the progress that has been made.
``I don't think the American public wants Medicare cut dramatically,'
she said, referring to government medical aid for the aged.
``I don't think they want to see the gains in cutting the (budget)
deficit reversed. I don't think they want to see college loans for middle
class kids, which the president pushed through the Congress, cut back and
eliminated.'
She warned that Republicans would have a tough fight if they tried to
roll back some of the Democrats' hard-won policy gains.
She noted the president had in the past worked with Republicans on
welfare and had managed to push through a program. So, ``I think the welfare
reform debate will be a real test as to how serious Congress is in really
dealing with it.''
REUTER
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PM-NC--Hillary Double, Adv19, 960
$adv21
Advance for Saturday PMs, Nov. 21, and thereafter
Looking Like Hillary Clinton Changes Woman's Life
AP Member Exchange= By KIM UNDERWOOD= Winston-Salem Journal=
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) A police officer once stopped Teresa Lilly Barnwell as
she approached the White House for a tour because he mistook her for Hillary
Rodham Clinton out and about without her Secret Service escort.
That encounter was more dramatic than most, but people are startled
regularly by how much Barnwell looks like the first lady. The resemblance
between the two is striking enough that Barnwell became a professional
look-alike.
This was not a turn she expected her life to take when she was growing up
in Clemmons. I never imagined in a million years that this would happen to
me, she said. 'It's really bizarre. It has totally changed my life.
Barnwell, who lives in Costa Mesa, Calif., lived in Clemmons until 1971.
After her sophomore year at West Forsyth High School, her parents, Bob and
Martha Lilly, moved the family to Burlington. Her aunt and uncle, Ruth and
George Myers, and her grandmother, Martha Myers, still live in Pfafftown.
Since the Clintons moved into the White House, Barnwell has portrayed
Hillary Rodham Clinton on television several times. On Monday, she will appear
on Leeza Gibbons' talk show, Leeza.
Barnwell said that it never occurred to her that she resembled Mrs.
Clinton until, one day during the Democratic convention, a change attendant in
a casino ``I was gambling; I confess'' came over to her and said, Hey, if
Bill Clinton gets elected, you're going to get a lot of attention.
As the campaign progressed, more and more people began to comment on the
likeness. "It happened over and over and over again.'
At the urging of her friends, she drove to an agency with the intention of
seeing if it would represent her, but chickened out and didn't go in. Later
that day, the editor of the community newspaper where she worked was talking
to the head of the agency and mentioned the striking resemblance.
She was on her way.
Barnwell soon discovered that people are fascinated not only with famous
people, but also with people who look like famous people. She likes parts of
her life as a celebrity the all-expenses-paid trips and being picked up at
the airport in a limousine, for example.
On the other hand, she said, she has begun to understand how life can be
difficult for the famous. During a couple of Fourth of July parades, she said,
people called out unpleasant remarks, held their noses and squirted her with
Silly String.
Even when it's positive, the constant attention can become tiresome.
Everywhere you go, people want your autograph,' she said. They come over
and interrupt dinner.'
One nice thing, Barnwell said, is that, when she doesn't want the
attention, she can dress to minimize the resemblance. There are times when
people don't pick up on it at all.''
When they do, the comparisons some people make can be unsettling. People
have compared her teeth, legs and bust to Mrs. Clinton's, she said. They
will scrutinize you up one side and down another, which I think is kind of
tacky.
About the only change Barnwell made to her appearance was to lighten her
hair a bit. She wore a wig when Mrs. Clinton's hair was shorter.
Barnwell likes to have fun with the role and tries to have something
snappy to say when appropriate. A few months back when someone asked her if
she would like something to drink, she might say, `I'll have a glass of
Whitewater.
But she makes a point of not doing anything that would reflect badly on
the first lady. ``I'm cautious about how I portray Hillary, she said. "I
don't like to do anything that's real disrespectful.
Doing something improper on her own time isn't a big worry. ""I think I'm
pretty much a straight arrow, she said. ``I'm not out dancing until dawn.'
Her husband finds his wife's celebrity simultaneously odd and intriguing.
He sometimes participates by acting as her Secret Service agent. When he puts
on a suit, sunglasses and the earpiece he bought for $1.79 at Radio Shack, she
said, he definitely looks the part.
Barnwell has been in such great demand that she left her job at the
newspaper and took another that allowed her more flexibility with her
schedule. She is now the marketing manager for a business that puts out a
daily newsletter for health-care organizations.
She still needs a regular full-time job, she said, because, unless you're
a look-alike for someone such as Madonna or Elvis and can put on a show, it's
hard to make a living with it.
The jobs can be lucrative by the hour, but a job might be only an hour or
so, and she might have only a couple of jobs a week. She also donates her time
for appearances at events put on by such organizations as the Orange County
Special Olympics and the American Diabetes Association.
Barnwell won't go so far as to say whether she voted for Bill Clinton.
I'm a registered Democrat. That's all I'll say.''
She will acknowledge that she would like to see the Clintons around for
another term. ``I'm having a blast doing this,' she said.
And she would like to meet the first lady some day. But she wants it to be
under the right circumstances. ``I don't want it to be a situation in which
the Secret Service start to wrestle me to the ground.
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First Lady Gets Glimpse of Indonesia's Art, Artistry
Eds. Subs graf 3, The first. to CORRECT her to him
By SHEILA MCNULTY= Associated Press Writer=
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton glimpsed the art and
artistry of this nation of islands Monday, touring a cultural park with
displays of delicately carved jade and wood and watching dancers garbed in a
blaze of bright colors.
She gave an enthusiastic review to a fashion show by Indonesia's premier
batik designer, Iwan Tirta, who like Mrs. Clinton is a graduate of Yale Law
School.
The first lady jokingly told him: '`It's nice to know lawyers can make
good things.'
``The batik I've seen before doesn't have the color, variety and the
design of the batik I've seen here. I love it, said Mrs. Clinton.
She was the center of attention as she toured the Taman Mini cultural park
with Tien Suharto, wife of Indonesian President Suharto, and spouses of the
other Pacific Rim leaders here for an economic summit.
Mrs. Suharto grasped at her hand to urge Mrs. Clinton to walk with her on
the tour. Museum guides pulled out cameras to snap her picture.
A relaxed Mrs. Clinton chatted amiably with the guides as she viewed
carved wooden panels depicting Indonesia's history, artifacts from the Suharto
family's collection, a shadow puppet display and other displays, including the
bed of jade and a sculpture of rubber tree roots.
She stooped to pick up and smell a handful of the jasmine flowers that
dotted the museum and perfumed the air.
She also got a close look at the traditional dress of some of the
country's more than 100 ethnic groups. Aside from women at the park wearing
the clothes, there were dancers in red, green and gold, waving orange paper
flags and red umbrellas.
We hope that by coming to this park our visitors, because of time
constraints, can get a glimpse of Indonesia, Mrs. Suharto told the women.
"We hope that this visit will enhance closer relationships among our
respective nations in order to create a world that brings peace to our
hearts.
Mien Sugandhi, minister of women's affairs, spoke to the group about
women's progress in the country's male-dominated, predominantly Muslim
society.
Marissa Maren, an 8-year-old American girl living in Jakarta, handed the
first lady a card thanking her for visiting Indonesia. Mrs. Clinton promised
to write back.
Later, Mrs. Clinton met with prominent Indonesian women lawyers,
journalists and politicians at a tea in the home of Barbara Harvey, the U.S.
Embassy's deputy chief of mission.
Most of the issues confronting them ``are ones that cut across every
possible line and that really unite us, more than divide us,'' Mrs. Clinton
said.
Mrs. Clinton will spend Tuesday in Yogyakarta, a 45-minute flight from
Jakarta, touring the world's largest Buddhist monument,
a village health care post and other sights.
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PM-VA--Philosophical Query, Bjt,520
Flood of Answers to Child's Quest for Meaning of Life
ROANOKE (AP) Celebrities responded in droves to seventh-grader Rachel
Chandler's search for answers to an age-old philosophical question.
I was just wondering about the meaning of life,'' she said. ``I
wanted to know what was the most important lesson, and what it takes to
succeed.
She first posed the question to her parents, whose answers sounded sage
enough. Understanding the value of family, her mom said. Perseverance,
responded her dad. Then Rachel, 11, decided to consult some other experts.
She wrote letters to people she admired, nearly 200 in all, asking for
their advice.
Rachel's letter-writing campaign started as a modest Girl Scout project
last spring. The mailing list initially had about 25 names. Before long,
though, it had bloomed into a major project that touched an extensive and
eclectic group.
Bill and Hillary Clinton. Randy Travis. Mother Teresa. Cher.
Gloria Steinem. Oprah Winfrey. Sen. John Warner. Denzel Washington.
Sandra Day O'Connor. Jimmy Stewart. Desmond Tutu. And Vanna White.
More than half of the celebrities sent autographed photos and many shared
words of wisdom.
The most personal response came from romance diva Danielle Steel, who
cranked out a five-page letter. Steel spoke of her own children and told
Rachel to stand by her family.
Friends are important, but sometimes they change and move on, she
said. The people who mean a lot to you now may not mean as much later, but
your family is the greatest gift you have.'
With her letter, Steel enclosed a signed copy of her best seller,
``Accident,' but the gift came with a caveat. If your parents don't approve,
wait until you are 18 to read this, the author warned.
As Rachel took one letter after another out of her bulging blue scrapbook,
she said the number of responses surprised her. "`I thought I might get
letters from just a few people. I never thought I'd get this many back.
She peeled away six pages of protective plastic and looked over the
longest letter. It was from Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Washington Redskins.
Cooke drew upon inspirational quotations from other famous people to
assemble a list of advice. ``I cannot come up with an easy, simple recipe for
success, since I believe there's no sure-fire method of reaching the top, he
said. But I do believe humanity is divided into three parts: those who make
things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who don't know what's
happening.'
Rachel and her dad, Michael Chandler, spent hours together in the local
library, researching celebrities and compiling the mailing list.
Ronald Jordan, Rachel's math and science teacher at Woodrow Wilson Middle
School, said he was impressed by her initiative as well as the fact that the
celebrities wrote back. It's hard to get autographs without paying for
them, he said. ``These people took the time to write a little girl in
Roanoke, Virginia. That's magnificent.
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PM-AR--Whitewater-Hale, Ark Bjt, 440
Hale to be Sentenced Dec. 5
js2hou
LITTLE ROCK (AP) A former judge who is a key figure in the Whitewater
affair is to be sentenced Dec. 5 months after pleading guilty to charges he
fraudulently applied for federal money for his lending company.
David L. Hale was sent notification Monday of the scheduled sentencing. In
March, Hale avoided trial by pleading guilty to two felony charges in an
agreement struck by then-Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske Jr.
The two charges replaced a four-count indictment, absorbing those counts
into a single conspiracy charge and creating a new count alleging mail fraud,
which a Fiske aide said involved the loan from James McDougal's S&L.
The former judge could face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a
$500,000 fine, although his cooperation in the Whitewater investigation could
significantly reduce that sentence.
Fiske said at the time that Hale would go before a grand jury to elaborate
on his earlier accusation that President Clinton encouraged him to make a
questionable loan to a Whitewater business partner.
Fiske's assistant, Rusty Hardin, said in March that Hale had been
cooperating with prosecutors and that the former Pulaski County municipal
judge had ``extensive knowledge in the areas we are investigating.'
In August, Fiske was replaced by Kenneth Starr as independent counsel.
Hale said last year that then-Gov. Clinton and McDougal, Clinton's
business partner, urged him in 1986 to make a $300,000 government-backed loan
to McDougal's then-wife Susan.
The McDougals were Bill and Hillary Clintons' partners in Whitewater
Development Corp. in 1978-92. The company developed and sold 230 acres in the
Arkansas Ozarks. McDougal also owned Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan
Association, which failed in 1989.
Authorities are probing the failure of Madison and whether its funds were
diverted to Whitewater or to help retire Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial campaign
debt.
Hale has said that the three men knew Mrs. McDougal was not qualified for
the Small Business Administration-backed loan. About one-third of the money
went into Whitewater's checking account, regulators say, and the loan was
never repaid, according to SBA records.
Clinton, who has denied any wrongdoing in his dealings with McDougal, has
dismissed Hale's allegations.
In his plea, Hale said he fraudulently applied for federal money for his
government-backed lending company in February 1986. That's the same month Hale
said previously that Clinton first approached him about the McDougal loan.
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AM-Hospital Lobbyist, 280
New Head for For-Profit Hospital Group
WASHINGTON (AP) Thomas A. Scully, a former top budget and health policy
official in the Bush administration, was named Monday to head the trade
association for the nation's 1,400 for-profit hospitals and health systems.
Scully will succeed Michael D. Bromberg as executive director of the
Federation of American Health Systems.
Bromberg, 56, has headed the federation since its inception 25 years ago.
He is taking a new part-time position as vice chairman of the group's board.
He will continue to represent the investor-owned hospitals for five years
while also pursuing a private law practice.
Scully, 37, has been a partner in the law firm of Patton, Boggs and Blow
for the past two years since serving as an associate director of the Office of
Management and Budget and deputy assistant to the president in the Bush
administration.
He helped put together a plan that President Bush offered in his final
year in the White House that would have combined insurance reforms with
vouchers to help low-income people buy private insurance.
The federation pushed for the so-called managed competition approach to
health reform in the current Congress.
Bromberg was a critic of the White House proposal, especially its proposed
controls on health insurance premiums. He clashed on one occasion with first
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The federation also elevated three staff members to new posts: Mary R.
Grealy to executive vice president and counsel; Lynn S. Hart as senior vice
president for federal and state legislation, and W. Campbell Thompson as
senior vice president for communications and administrative services.
Scully will assume his post Jan. 1.
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BC-BKC--Clinton Declines, 0180
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) The best-known fan of Arkansas basketball won't
be in town when his beloved NCAA champions play Massachusetts.
President Clinton has declined an invitation to the Nov. 25 game at
Springfield's Civic Center.
A disappointed Mayor Robert Markel, who extended the invitation, said
Monday he had hoped to lure Clinton, the former governor of Arkansas, to the
game.
I know he loves basketball, and I know he loves Arkansas basketball,
said Markel.
But, in a Nov. 4 letter, William Webster, who manages Clinton's schedule,
said presidential responsibilities would not allow him to attend.
Known as the Starter Tip-Off Classic, the game historically kicks off the
college basketball season. It is sponsored by the Basketball Hall of Fame in
Springfield.
At Springfield College on Nov. 4, First Lady Hillary Clinton, who was
visiting to support Sen. Edward Kennedy's re-election bid, made reference to
the Nov. 25 game and her family's enthusiasm for basketball.
But she shot an air ball when she mistakenly referred to the site of the
game as Springfield College, the former home of the Hall of Fame.
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BC-INDONESIA-CLINTON-TEA
U.S. First lady meets Indonesian women
By Sharon Singleton
JAKARTA, Nov 14 (Reuter) - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton took a
tea break with prominent Indonesian women on Monday to discuss the role of
women in the world's largest Moslem country.
Mrs Clinton, accompanying husband President Bill Clinton on an official
visit, met 27 women for tea and biscuits in an elegant colonial style mansion
in a Jakarta suburb.
The women came from all walks of life -- from an executive director of
the Indonesian Aids Foundation to journalists and members of parliament. One
wore traditional dress.
I'm happy to have an opportunity to talk openly about issues concerning
women, Mrs Clinton, wearing a pale lemon suit, said in brief introductory
statement.
These are issues that cut across every kind of line
It is especially
important, as you know there will be a conference on women
that as many of
us as possible are involved in discussion.
It is very important to get across what we want said, and not for
it to be said for us, she said.
The first-ever United Nations International Women's Conference will be
held in Beijing next year.
U.S. deputy chief of mission Barbara Harvey, who hosted the tea, said the
guest list was drawn up with women not afraid to speak their mind.
She said they were drawn from all walks of life to give Mrs Clinton a
sense of their different lifestyles in Indonesia.
The Clintons, on a whistlestop Asian tour that includes the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Tuesday, arrived in Jakarta late on
Sunday night.
The president makes a one-day state visit to Indonesia on Wednesday and
they leave for Hawaii at the end of that day.
Earlier on Monday the first lady toured an Indonesian cultural theme park
with the wife of Indonesian President Suharto, followed by lunch at the
National Palace.
Mrs Clinton has been criticised in the United States for what many
consider to be her overly prominent role in formulating U.S. policy. She was a
chief architect of the White House's effort to revamp the healthcare system,
which failed.
Women are playing an increasingly prominent role in Indonesia, the
world's largest Moslem country, with a growing number taking senior private
sector positions.
Indonesia's President Suharto has stressed the importance of the role of
women and young people in the development of the country over the next 25
years.
`Mothers, he says, are the main pillar in increasing the quality of
our generation.
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PM-Clinton, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0491, 730
Clinton Leaves Election Losses Behind for Trade Mission
Eds: Subs 2nd graf, `It was with two to UPDATE with Clinton en route to
hotel
By TERENCE HUNT= AP White House Correspondent=
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Plunging into foreign policy after devastating
election losses, President Clinton arrived in the Philippines today to open a
campaign for free trade in Asia and commemorate World War II victories in the
Pacific.
It was just before midnight local time when Air Force One touched down at
Ninoy Aquino Airport after an overnight flight from Washington with a
refueling stop in Alaska. Vice President Joseph Estrada, Foreign Secretary
Roberto Romulo and U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte greeted the president and
his wife, Hillary.
Clinton waved to a crowd of reporters and security guards as he walked
across a red carpet to a limousine, which was to take him to his Manila hotel,
where demonstrators, who had protested during the night, were still gathered.
A state arrival ceremony is planned Sunday at Malacanang Palace, where
President Fidel Ramos will formally welcome the president.
Hours before Clinton landed, hundreds of demonstrators staged protest
marches through Manila, shouting `Clinton Out!'' and Yankees Go Home.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons to stop about 500 leftists carrying
torches toward Clinton's hotel.
The Philippines were once the site of huge American military
installations, but the United States closed its last base in 1992 after the
Philippine Senate refused to ratify a new base agreement. Washington and
Manila still have a mutual defense treaty, and the United States is the
Philippines' largest trading partner.
In contrast to the sweltering weather in Manila, there was a foot of snow
on the ground at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska where the president
addressed a Veterans Day audience during a refueling stop.
Urging unity after Republicans captured the House and Senate in Tuesday's
elections for the first time in 40 years, Clinton said: ``Let us now join
together to move this country forward in the best American spirit.'
Still smarting from his political losses, he said ``we are in the midst of
an economic recovery that is the envy of the world and yet, still, a majority
of ordinary Americans (are) worried about the crime in our streets or the
stability of their jobs or the security of their health care benefits.
In a global economy, Clinton said, `we have to fight and struggle for
every single opportunity we have.
The president will press for lower trade barriers and expanded world trade
when he meets in Indonesia on Tuesday with 17 other leaders at the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Expanded trade has always been a goal of mine in this administration
because, whether we like it or not, we are in a global economy that we can't
run from, and trade-related jobs pay so much more on the average than jobs not
related to trade, Clinton said in his weekly radio address, taped in
Anchorage for broadcast today.
The lame-duck Congress is meeting at month's end to vote on a new world
trade agreement, and Clinton said it would be a `defining decision for
America as we head into the next century.'
believe that members of both parties will put aside partisanship to do
what's right for our country and our future'' and approve the accord, he said.
In the Republican response, Congressman-elect J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, said
Tuesday's election was a mandate to carry out Republican goals of less
government, stronger defense and welfare reform.
You have rejected the one-party rule of Congress for the last four
years, and you have rejected the leftist drift this country has taken in the
last two years under the Clinton administration, Watts said.
Clinton's visit to the Philippines today was a followup to ceremonies in
Europe last June marking the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
On Sunday, Clinton will tour Corregidor, the island fortress in Manila Bay
seized by Japan in 1942 after Gen. Douglas MacArthur escaped to Australia in a
patrol boat while pledging, ``I shall return.
In a scene captured in a now-famous photograph, MacArthur fulfilled his
promise Oct. 20, 1944, wading ashore at Leyte Island. That campaign included
the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history. MacArthur
completed the recapture of the Philippines on July 5, 1945.
Clinton also will visit the Manila American Cemetery, where white marble
headstones mark the graves of 17,206 Americans and Filipinos killed in the
Philippines. A memorial carries the names of 36,279 missing U.S. soldiers.
Honoring one of the Philippines most revered leaders, Clinton is to lay a
wreath at a monument to Jose Rizal, executed for writings that challenged
Spanish domination.
Clinton's quarters here were the seven-room penthouse suite at the Manila
Hotel where MacArthur lived from 1935 to 1941. MacArthur's aide, then-Maj.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, lived in a smaller suite on a lower floor in the hotel.
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BC-AK--Clinton Alaska, 1st Ld-Writethru, 800
Eds: Minor edits thruout to tighten
With AM--Clinton
AP Photos
Well-wisher or Not, Anchorage Crowd Turns Out for Clinton
By ROSANNE PAGANO= Associated Press Writer=
ELMENDORF AFB (AP) Betty Hult surrounded herself with young Democrats
and basked in their whoops and cheers as President Clinton appeared at the
podium here, telling a capacity crowd of military families that Veterans Day
was a reminder of America's strength.
About 7,000 people gathered at Hangar One to see the president and Hillary
Clinton in their first public appearance outside the Beltway since Tuesday's
election gave Republicans control of Congress. They departed aboard Air Force
One around 7:45 p.m. Friday for economic summits in Asia.
The Clintons wrapped up their visit by stopping at a downtown cafe owned
by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Knowles. The president had a bowl
of reindeer stew. It's very good,' he told reporters.
With snow still falling, he walked along one of Anchorage's main streets,
shaking hands and looking in shop windows.
Earlier, Mrs. Clinton told a reception after the president finished taping
his weekend radio address that she had been to Alaska 25 years ago, while a
college student working a summer job in a fish cannery.
In addition to doing things like washing dishes, I slimed fish, she
said. Good preparation for working in Washington.'
Alaska, which went solidly for President Bush two years ago, offered the
president a mixed crowd: Yes, Alaskans may have disagreed with his politics,
and no, they weren't about to miss a chance to glimpse a commander-in-chief.
Anthony Jones, a 21-year-old Army enlistee from Maysville, Ky., said he
voted for Ross Perot for president but was setting aside politics for the day.
``On the civilian side, I'll choose the best man,'' Jones said, ``but who
ever's in office, I'll support.''
``He's the commander-in-chief. What other reason can you have for wanting
to see the president?'' said Barbara Rembert, 58, a Korean War veteran who
said she'd seen plenty of movie stars but no other president.
Interest in the president's remarks during a four-hour refueling stop
heightened after Alaska Democrats last week said there was a chance Clinton
would reveal White House plans to lift the export ban on Alaska North Slope
crude oil. There was no mention of the ban in his 20-minute speech.
The Clintons were greeted by Anchorage Mayor Rick Mystrom and his wife,
Mary; U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska; and Gov. Walter J. Hickel. The
president acknowledged Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation,
saying the country's problems could no longer be neatly boxed into Democratic
or Republican solutions.
Believe it or not, we actually work together sometimes,' Clinton said,
noting the support of Stevens and Murkowski in passing the Family and Medical
Leave Act.
``I'm glad to be in Alaska, Clinton said as the crowd cheered and waved
small American, Alaskan, and POW-MIA flags passed around moments before he
walked in. ``I just want you to know I'm proud of the contributions Alaska has
made, and I'm especially pleased to be here on Veterans Day.
The president recalled World War II casualties in the Aleutian Islands,
noting that Alaska today had the highest per-capita population of active and
retired military.
Enlisted men in camouflage hoisted small children for a better look as a
grinning Clinton accepted a military-issue parka from Air Force Lt. Gen.
Lawrence Boese, who declared Clinton an ``honorary arctic warrior of the
North.
We love you, Mr. President!'' a woman yelled from the front as Clinton
removed his dark blue suit jacket and donned the coat, ignoring the hangar's
warmth.
``We like him. We definitely like him,'' said Jonathan Coppedge-Henley,
25, who stood in the crowd's center along with his wife, Elizabeth. ``He's
been known to try do things that seem politically stupid but are ethically
correct.'
Some parents kept school children home for the afternoon, going through a
security check and arriving at the hangar more than two hours before Clinton
began his speech.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime,' said Kim Hummel, a 37-year-old secretary
with the Alaskan Command who had a bleachers seat between her two children,
Davey, 8&1/2, and Kristin, 10&1/2. ``They'll remember this.'
Free tickets were distributed about evenly to the Army's Fort Richardson
and to Elmendorf. Some women arrived in furs, others wore veterans' caps.
Children trudged along in ski jackets and waterproof boots.
Katherin Webb, an Air Force wife who came with her husband, Martin, and
their two children, Gabrielle, 5, and Jonathan, 7, declared that Clinton was
``OK.''
We came because of the history of it, not because he's a celebrity,'
Webb said.
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Clinton begins Philippine visit
MANILA, Nov. 13 (UPI) U.S. President Bill Clinton began his state visit
to the Philippines Sunday in characteristic fashion: with a jog through
sweltering heat followed by a meeting with President Fidel Ramos at Manila's
opulent Malacanang Palace.
The first lady, Hillary Clinton, who joined her husband at the palace, was
spied early Sunday morning in the lobby of the Manila Hotel with former
Filipine President Corazon Aguino.
Aquino received worldwide admiration for her courage in heading the
People's Power movement that toppled former Filipine President Ferdinand
Marcos, whose abuses of power were legendary. Her husband Benigno, an
influential Filipino senator, was assassinated at Manila airport in 1983.
Aquino, who is now retired from politics, ascended to the presidency as
Marcos fled the Philippines in 1986. The United States threw its' full weight
behind Aquino and ordered American jet fighters to fly combat air patrols over
Manila during an attempted coup in the late 1980s.
Clinton, drenched with perspiration and surrounded by a phalanx of
security officers, went out of his way to shake hands with guests and staff
members at his Manila hotel after his jog. Although Clinton made no comments,
he appeared relaxed and relieved to have left his political problems back in
Washington.
Shortly thereafter, Clinton dropped by a breakfast hosted by U.S.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher for American business executives here,
and announced that the Export-Import bank would finance $100 million of new
projects in the Philippines, a White House official told reporters under
conditions of anonymity.
Clinton also ``stressed the importance'' he attached to congressional
approval of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which will lower
artificial barriers to commerce worldwide, the official said. The president
has `received positive indications'' from Congress on that score, the
official said.
The president and the first lady then went to Malcanang Palace, where they
were greeted with a 21-gun salute and a military honor guard. Thousands of
cheering Filipinos lined the streets as Clinton's motorcade sped to the
palace.
Clinton is scheduled to take a 15-minute helicopter hop to the island of
Corregidor later Sunday morning for a ceremony commemorating World War II.
Corregidor, considered the gateway to Manila, was military heaquarters for
U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur until Japanese troops seized it in May of 1942.
MacArthur retook the strategic island three years later in February.
Following the trip to to Corregidor, Clinton will visit the Manila-
American cemetery. More than 70,000 U.S. troops are buried in the World War
II-era graveyard.
The president then meets again with Ramos and holds a brief news
conference Sunday afternoon before flying to Jakarta, Indonesia, for a summit
of Asian and Pacific leaders.
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BC-FEA--Town-Seven, 0610
An AP New Dimenskons Feature
TOWN 11-11
Revamping of Seven Sisters Kindle New Interest
By TOWN & COUNTRY= A Hearst Magazine= For AP Special Features=
The Seven Sisters were the most prestigious women's colleges in the United
States until the Ivy League went coed and skimmed the best female students
but now applications are up again.
New interest in single-sex education, role models such as Hillary Rodham
Clinton and the revamping of the seven colleges themselves, Patricia Beard
wrote in an article in the current issue of Town & Country, have kindled new
interest.
Until the 1960s, for four generations the best education a woman could get
was at one of the Sisters Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe,
Smith, Vassar and Wellesley strung along the East Coast.
Traditionally, graduates of women's colleges not just the Seven Sisters
have accounted for a high proportion of achievers. They still do. At a recent
count, women's colleges produced 13 of 54 women members of the 103rd Congress,
one-third of the women board members of the 1992 Fortune 1000 companies, and
one out of seven women cabinet members in state governments.
Ambitious women stood out because, while Sister graduates were educated to
converse with well-educated men, until the 1970s most women did not intend to
compete with them. There were few Margaret Meads (Barnard, '23).
All seven colleges were founded in the 19th century to give women an
education comparable to the one their brothers could get in the Ivy League,
but by the 1920s the Sisters were equally important as marriage marts.
In the '60s, much of the Sisters' appeal disappeared as both all-female
and all-male schools changed. By the early '70s, the Ivy League universities
and many other first-rate all-male colleges had gone coed and attracted top
female students. Detractors began to call Sister students (except those at
Radcliffe, which effectively merged with Harvard in 1975) ``Ivy League
rejects'' and radical feminists `afraid of the real world.'
The Sisters tried to figure out how to fulfill their intrinsic mission and
still attract the best students.
Vassar went coed in 1970, after turning down a proposition from Yale, and
now is 42 percent male.
In 1975, Radcliffe turned over academic, administrative and housing
responsibilities to Harvard.
Both Radcliffe and Vassar remain members of the Seven College Conference,
as they have been since its founding in 1926.
The other five colleges stayed all female with some adjustments. Bryn
Mawr established a coed dorm and invited men from her brother school,
Haverford College, to share it; there are now three such dorms and many
cross-registered coed classes. Although Barnard women traditionally attended
classes and participated in extracurricular activities with Columbia
University students, Barnard decided not to merge with Columbia when it went
coed in 1983.
The three remaining Sisters Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley
- added classes with nearby coed colleges.
During the last five years, Barnard's applications have soared 55 percent;
Smith's 35 percent; Wellesley's 32 percent; Bryn Mawr's 10 percent and Mount
Holyoke's 7 percent.
The renewed enthusiasm for the Sisters had been partly attributed to ``the
Hillary factor'' the first lady graduated from Wellesley. Another explanation
points to recent studies indicating widespread gender bias in coed schools at
every level. Among the findings teachers reward boys' more aggressive,
competitive style over girls' collaborative approach, and in coed classes,
science and math are still male subjects.
The syndrome is called the chilly classroom, because these attitudes
freeze girls and undermine their confidence and performance.
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bc-hi-clinton
CLINTONS TO TAKE BRIEF
VACATION IN HAWAII
Gannett News Service=
WASHINGTON President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will
spend three days relaxing in Hawaii next week, the White House press office
said Friday.
The Clintons and a small traveling party are scheduled to arrive at Hickam
Air Force Base at 7 p.m. Wednesday after a non-stop flight from Jakarta,
Indonesia, where the president is to attend an Asia-Pacific economic
conference.
The Clintons will stay at a private residence on Oahu and depart the
following Sunday at 9 a.m. The location of the private residence was not
disclosed.
A press office spokeswoman said the Hawaii stopover will be devoted to
private time. She said no official functions have been planned, although
she said it's possible one or two public appearances might be scheduled later.
Clinton has kept a brutal schedule since returning from a 10-day vacation
on Martha's Vineyard in August.
He spent long hours on the Haiti and Iraq crises, traveled through the
Middle East, and stumped across more than a dozen states for Democratic House
and Senate candidates.
Despite the effort, Democrats took a pounding at the polls, losing
a majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1950s.
Clinton and top advisers are scheduled to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation conference in Jakarta Sunday through Wednesday. The conference
will focus on trade issues affecting Pacific Rim nations.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Bob Rubin will attend the conference
with Clinton but are not scheduled to stop in Hawaii on the return.
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President Clinton stops in Alaska
By KENNETH R. BAZINET=
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, Nov. 11 (UPI) President Clinton stopped
Friday in cold and snowy Alaska, where he attended a Veterans Day ceremony and
told servicemen they are bolstering U.S. `strength and preparedness'' in asia
and even in the middle east.
``I am really glad to be here, Clinton said, adding that he had never
before visited the arctic state, though he noted that first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton spent time here about 25 years ago.
The first lady, who is traveling with the president, worked in an Alaskan
fish cannery for a summer.
Clinton, who earlier had breakfast with veterans at the White House and
also attended ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, spent only
a few hours in Alaska while en route to the Philippines and Indonesia for the
second annual summit of Pacific rim economic powers known as the Asia-Pacific
Economic Community.
The president was greeted by about a foot of snow that had fallen in the
past 24 hours, a stark contrast to the Indian summer that he had experienced
in Wqashshington.
Clinton took advantage of a refueling stop for Air Force One in Alaska and
addressed the troops at Elmendorf Air Force Base and visited the Anchorage
Museum of History and Art.
During his talk, Clinton, in the wake of Tuesday's huge defeat for the
Democratic Party, said he looked forward to working with the Republicans to
shape a bipartisan government. His focus, however, was on the armed forces
past and present.
To all the veterans of the armed forces, you're country will never
forget the extraordinary service you have performed. We owe you the safety of
our shores and the liberty we enjoy,' Clinton said.
Here at the Alaska Command, your strength and preparedness has helped
America to keep its security commitments in asia, Clinton said.
And finally, I thank you for your support of our troops in the Persian
Gulf, where we moved with amazing speed and strength to make sure that Iraq
poses no threat to its neighbors or the the stability of the vital gulf
region. I thank you for your contribution.'
The president mentioned two bills he has signed into law the Veterans
Health Program Act and the Veterans Benefit Improvement Act both of which
increased benefits for veterans.
While at the museum, Clinton taped his weekly radio address, which will
air at 10:06 a.m. EST Saturday.
Afterwards, Clinton shook hands with members of a crowd outside the
museum.
He went by motorcade to the Downtown Delly and Cafe, where one of the
owners, Tony Knowles, is the Democratic contender in the as-yet-to-be- decided
Alaska governor's race. Knowles served the president a bowl of reindeer stew,
which the president proclaimed is ``really good, and which Knowles described
as the ``red meat of the '90s.'
From Anchorage, the president embarked on a 13-hour flight to Manila,
where he will rest up overnight before his official state visit to the
Philippines Sunday.
Clinton, who was to arrive late Saturday night local time in Manila, was
to be greeted at Ninoy Aquino Airport in Manila by Philippine Foreign Minister
Roberto Romulo.
A formal state arrival ceremony was planned for Sunday morning prior to
Clinton's one-on-one meeting with Philippine President Fidel Ramos.
While in the Philippines, Clinton again will honor veterans with a visit
to Corregidor Island, where 15,000 U.S. and Filipino troops fought the
Japanese in World War II. The Island was headquarters for the Allied commander
for the Far East, Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
The U.S. surrendered Corregidor to the Japanese on May 6, 1942, but as
MacArthur promised, the allies returned to take back the island on Feb. 16,
1945.
Clinton also will speak at a formal ceremony at the Manila American
Cemetery, the largest overseas burial ground for U.S. servicemen. The remains
of 17,206 allied servicemen are buried there.
By the end of the weekend, Clinton will have visited the two largest
military cemeteries, Arlington and Manila.
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BC-CLINTON-HILLARY (PICTURE)
Two Filipino babies named Hillary and William
MANILA, Philippines (Reuter) - Two Filipino babies were named Hillary and
William Sunday during First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to a Manila
hospital cited by the U.N. as
a leader among mother-baby friendly hospitals.
Two-day-old Hillary Bercenio and seven-day-old William Beltran caught Mrs
Clinton's attention as she looked at a maternity ward in the Jose Fabella
Memorial Hospital.
Hospital director Ricardo Gonzales said the two would now be known as
commemorative babies.
Cristina Bercenio, 28, said she was delighted at Clinton taking interest
in her 6 &1/2-lb baby girl.
I was very happy to see her (Clinton). I found her very pretty so I
said I'd name her (the baby) Hillary, Bercenio said.
The ward, which houses about 79 mothers and their babies, showed the
74-year-old hospital's advances in reducing the infant mortality rate, forging
stronger bond between mothers and babies and improving immunizations.
I'm very impressed, said Mrs. Clinton who came to Manila with the
president for a day-long visit. ``I'm very pleased to have actually seen it. "
Health Secretary Juan Flavier who showed her around the 700-bed hospital
told reporters that she plans to adopt the same measures in the United States.
Her parting words were: 'I saw what is probably needed in the U.S. so I
will go back and make sure that what we saw here can be duplicated there',
Flavier said.
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Clinton visit recalls Corregidor battle
By MARC R. CROWE=
MANILA, Nov. 13 (UPI) Nearly 50 years after Gen. Douglas MacArthur
fulfilled his promise to recapture Corregidor, U.S. President Bill Clinton's
visit Sunday to the former island fortress in Manila Bay has refocused
attention on a largely forgotten World War II battle.
Clinton strolled through the historic island under a brilliant sun,
surveying the rusted cannons and stone tunnels, run-down remnants of the
bloody five-month siege by Japanese imperial forces.
So much of the sacrifices by both Americans and Filipinos in 1942 and
through the entire Japanese occupation has sort of been forgotten over the
years, said James Black, a Corregidor historian who led Clinton on a brief
tour of the island.
Accompanied by U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Philippine
President Fidel Ramos and Foreign Secretary Roberto Romulo, Clinton made
Corregidor the first major stop during his one-day state visit. First Ladies
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Amelita Ramos also attended the tour.
Standing on a precipice with Ramos, Clinton looked out over the shimmering
South China Sea from where Japanese ships began the bombardment of Corregidor
in late December 1941.
Clinton did not make any formal remarks, but his tour of the Pacific War
Memorial and other sites on the island, known as `The Rock, highlighted the
united stand by some 13,000 U.S. and Filipino troops against the Japanese.
As the sky over the island turned to lead with 16,000 shells a day,
relief was impossible, freedom's last foothold seemed lost, Clinton later
told an audience at the Manila American Cemetery. But Gen. MacArthur did
return and so would freedom.
The battle of Corregidor helped cement the special bond that exists
between the United States and the Philippines, a former U.S. colony, Black
said.
``This is where Americans and Filipinos fought side by side for the same
ideals, in defense of the same ideals of democracy and the value connected
with freedom, Black said.
MacArthur, commander of U.S. Forces in the Far East, set up his
headquarters in the elaborate system of tunnels carved out of a rocky
outcropping of Corregidor, 26 miles from Manila.
Before the war destroyed most of the facilities, Corregidor had three
theaters, a nine-hole golf course, an American high school, a Spanish
colonial-era lighthouse and military barracks.
On the tiny tadpole-shaped island that had served as a Spanish garrison
during the Spanish-American War a half century earlier, MacArthur chose to
make his stand against the invading Japanese troops.
Philippine President Manuel Quezon and his family also took refuge at
Corregidor during the early stages of World War II.
But during the Japanese onslaught in March 1942, MacArthur fled the island
for Australia, accompanied by Quezon, with the now famous pledge ``I shall
return. Corregidor fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942.
MacArthur's promise was fulfilled when he led the assault on the island of
Leyte, 370 miles southeast of Manila, on Oct. 20, 1944. In February 1945,
allied paratroopers recaptured Corregidor and the iconoclastic American
general presided over the flag-raising ceremony a month later. Corregidor,
which fell into disrepair after the war, has undergone a face-lift in the
past few years in an attempt to turn the site into an international tourist
destination.
But the former fortress still bears the scars from months of savage
assault by Japanese forces.
For a group of aging Filipino and U.S. World War II veterans, Clinton's
visit was an opportunity to stand in the spotlight that was turned off nearly
half a century ago.
Sometimes I feel as if these old you are seeing here now, who fought on
Bataan and Corregidor, have been forgotten men,'' Black said.
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AM-Philippines-Mrs. Clinton, 360
First Lady Says She Still Wonders At Meaning Of Electoral Disaster
With AM-Clinton
AP Photos MLA101, 102
By THOMAS WAGNER= Associated Press Writer=
MANILA, Philippines (AP) First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday
the administration will forge ahead with its agenda despite a Republican
landslide that left her puzzled.
I don't know yet exactly what the message from the voters was, Mrs.
Clinton said when the subject was raised in a meeting with Philippine relief
workers.
In contrast to the first lady's uncertainty, President Clinton said the
day after the elections that he understood exactly what voters were telling
him and other Democrats. They `sent us a clear message I got it, Clinton
said. The president said Americans are fed up with the way the federal
government works.
Mrs. Clinton said, ``Like many other countries, ours is searching for
political meaning after the Cold War.
During it, we knew who our enemy was and how to organize our politics.
Now many countries are looking for a new government role, and there is
widespread discontent and desire for change because many problems were
overlooked during the Cold War.'
The first lady said she and the president, faced with a Republican
majority in both the House and Senate, aren't about to change what they stand
for.
We will continue to work for the principles we believe in, and we will
try to work with Congress,' she said. `But I won't stop working on issues I
care about: women, health and education.
Mrs. Clinton's remarks came in response to a question from Rina Jimenez
David, a relief worker and well-known Philippine women's rights activist and
newspaper columnist. She asked the first lady what the election's outcome
would mean for feminists and for minorities, especially illegal immigrants who
would lose education and health care benefits in California because of that
state's passage of Proposition 187.
More than 40,000 Filipinos emigrate annually to the United States, the
Asian nation's former colonial ruler. Thousands more visit America every year
and many disappear in the large Filipino community as illegal aliens.
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BC-FEA--Town-Seven,0610
An AP New Dimenskons Feature
TOWN 11-11
Revamping of Seven Sisters Kindle New Interest
By TOWN & COUNTRY= A Hearst Magazine= For AP Special Features=
The Seven Sisters were the most prestigious women's colleges in the United
States until the Ivy League went coed and skimmed the best female students
but now applications are up again.
New interest in single-sex education, role models such as Hillary Rodham
Clinton and the revamping of the seven colleges themselves, Patricia Beard
wrote in an article in the current issue of Town & Country, have kindled new
interest.
Until the 1960s, for four generations the best education a woman could get
was at one of the Sisters Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe,
Smith, Vassar and Wellesley strung along the East Coast.
Traditionally, graduates of women's colleges not just the Seven Sisters
have accounted for a high proportion of achievers. They still do. At a recent
count, women's colleges produced 13 of 54 women members of the 103rd Congress,
one-third of the women board members of the 1992 Fortune 1000 companies, and
one out of seven women cabinet members in state governments.
Ambitious women stood out because, while Sister graduates were educated to
converse with well-educated men, until the 1970s most women did not intend to
compete with them. There were few Margaret Meads (Barnard, '23).
All seven colleges were founded in the 19th century to give women an
education comparable to the one their brothers could get in the Ivy League,
but by the 1920s the Sisters were equally important as marriage marts.
In the '60s, much of the Sisters' appeal disappeared as both all-female
and all-male schools changed. By the early '70s, the Ivy League universities
and many other first-rate all-male colleges had gone coed and attracted top
female students. Detractors began to call Sister students (except those at
Radcliffe, which effectively merged with Harvard in 1975) `Ivy League
rejects'' and radical feminists `afraid of the real world.'
The Sisters tried to figure out how to fulfill their intrinsic mission and
still attract the best students.
Vassar went coed in 1970, after turning down a proposition from Yale, and
now is 42 percent male.
In 1975, Radcliffe turned over academic, administrative and housing
responsibilities to Harvard.
Both Radcliffe and Vassar remain members of the Seven College Conference,
as they have been since its founding in 1926.
The other five colleges stayed all female with some adjustments. Bryn
Mawr established a coed dorm and invited men from her brother school,
Haverford College, to share it; there are now three such dorms and many
cross-registered coed classes. Although Barnard women traditionally attended
classes and participated in extracurricular activities with Columbia
University students, Barnard decided not to merge with Columbia when it went
coed in 1983.
The three remaining Sisters Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley
- added classes with nearby coed colleges.
During the last five years, Barnard's applications have soared 55 percent;
Smith's 35 percent; Wellesley's 32 percent; Bryn Mawr's 10 percent and Mount
Holyoke's 7 percent.
The renewed enthusiasm for the Sisters had been partly attributed to ``the
Hillary factor'' the first lady graduated from Wellesley. Another explanation
points to recent studies indicating widespread gender bias in coed schools at
every level. Among the findings teachers reward boys' more aggressive,
competitive style over girls' collaborative approach, and in coed classes,
science and math are still male subjects.
The syndrome is called ``the chilly classroom,' because these attitudes
freeze girls and undermine their confidence and performance.
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PM-AP on TV-Hillary's Class, Adv14, 0712
$Adv14
For release Mon PMs, Nov. 14, and thereafter
PBS Documentary Looks At Hillary's Graduating Class
By BOB SALSBERG= Associated Press Writer=
BOSTON (AP) It's been 25 years since Hillary Rodham's class graduated
from Wellesley College. Everyone knows what has happened to her since. But
what of some of her less famous classmates?
A new PBS documentary finds that, like so many other women of their
generation, they are struggling to balance careers with family and deal with
other dilemmas of modern life.
`Despite their education, despite their privilege, despite the fact that
they were generally upper middle class white women who had all the right
credentials, they all faced very difficult choices that are common to all
women, says filmmaker Rachel Dretzin, producer of the `Frontline'' special
``Hillary's Class, which airs at 9 p.m. EST Tuesday on PBS.
Dretzin spent months tracking down the women who graduated from the small,
exclusive women's campus outside Boston with the future first lady. She then
settled on a few who were willing to share their life's journeys and reveal
the difficult choices they made.
``It was really important to us not to choose just accomplished career
women, Dretzin says. '`It's important for me to see them as unique
individuals who have done their best to navigate very difficult times.
The class of '69 came of age in a time of great social upheaval. Until
then, the film contends, well-bred Wellesley women rolled hoops down a hill
every spring in a mock race to see who would be the first to wed.
In those days, marrying a Harvard man was often a more plausible goal then
achieving success in the corporate or political world.
In 1969, Hillary Rodham became the first class president to speak at
commencement. She startled and offended some of the guests with a fiery,
impromptu speech that ended with the words: `Demand the impossible. We will
settle for nothing less.
The women's movement was gathering steam. Rodham's speech inspired, but
also frightened, Wellesley grads who fully realized, perhaps for the first
time, that society and they themselves were demanding more than a trip to
the altar.
As the interviews with the class of `69 reveal, expectations often were
met at a price. CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner, for example, moved
from assignment to assignment, forgoing marriage and children for career and
occasionally wondering if that decision was the right one.
``I think for most of these women, it was a real shock to the system,'
says Dretzin, who at 29 is much younger than the subjects she profiled.
``In the period of time following graduation, everything they had been
raised to believe had been called into question.
=
Elsewhere in television
SUDSING INTO ACTION: An alliance of stars from all 10 daytime television
dramas has formed Daytime Delivers, a public awareness project designed by the
actors as a way to increase their impact on critical issues of the day. Its
steering committee lists some three dozen soap stars.
This year's campaign will focus on the troubled Central African nations of
Rwanda and Zaire. To launch the campaign, a delegation is scheduled to travel
this week to those nations to meet with survivors of last April's violent
attacks. The delegation includes Scott Baker (Conner on CBS' ``The Bold and
the Beautiful'), William Christian (Det. Derek Frye on ABC's ``All My
Children'), Amy Carlson (Josie Watts on NBC's `Another World'') and Tonya
Lee Williams (Dr. Olivia Barber-Hastings on CBS' `The Young and the
Restless'').
Daytime Delivers has linked up with World Vision, an international relief
and development agency that provided relief during the Rwanda emergency and
operates a $15 million response campaign. During the trip, the representatives
expect to visit refugee camps, children's centers and a health clinic.
In the future, Daytime Delivers plans to continue responding to domestic
and international emegencies, and to focus on other issues such as housing and
homelessness in America, violence prevention, and drug- and alcohol-abuse
prevention.
Those interested in learning more about Daytime Delivers and World Vision
can call 1-800-393-7775.
End Adv for Mon PMs, Nov. 14
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PM-FL-ELN--US Senate-Mack, Bjt, 0450
Mack Eyes Subcommittee Chairmanship, Money for Environment
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By BILL KACZOR= Associated Press Writer=
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) The new GOP majority in Congress will not change
his close relationship with Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, says Republican Sen.
Connie Mack.
And that will benefit Florida, Mack said in a telephone interview
Thursday, two days after winning re-election to a second term.
But it will be a reversal of roles for the two Florida senators, Mack
noted. When Mack was first elected six years ago, Republicans held the
presidency and Democrats controlled Congress. Now it will be just the
opposite.
It is too early to tell what the full impact of Tuesday's election, which
gave the GOP control of both houses in Congress, would be on him and the
state, Mack said.
`Frankly, people are just beginning to come down from the clouds, he
said.
Mack on Tuesday easily beat Democratic challenger Hugh Rodham, brother of
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to retain his seat. Mack was considered one
of the strongest incumbents in the United States.
Mack is in line for the chairmanship of an Appropriations subcommittee or
the Joint Economic Committee, although the latter may be abolished as part of
a Republican push to reduce the number of standing committees.
The senator from Cape Coral also serves on the Banking Committee, where a
subcommittee chairmanship is another possibility. He said he may instead seek
a switch to the Labor and Health and Human Services Committee because of his
interest in the National Cancer Institute but probably would not have a chance
to head a subcommittee there.
One of his big interests on the Appropriations Committee is see that the
restoration of the Everglades and Florida Bay, already authorized by Congress,
receive money needed to carry them out.
Although Republicans campaigned on a platform of spending cuts, Mack was
confident federal dollars would still be forthcoming for the Florida projects
because they are top national priorities. But he acknowledged funding is not
assured.
We are going to have to battle for our priorities in the state, Mack
said.
Another focus for Mack will be to obtain money to reimburse Florida for
school, law enforcement and other expenses attributed to immigration, but he
said that may be a tougher battle.
``The reality is that most of the members on that committee do not deal
with immigration problems, Mack said.
Defense is an exception to the Republican philosophy of spending cuts,
which could help those parts of Florida, particularly the Panhandle, that are
economically dependant on military bases.
Mack said he will be in a position to help steer money to Florida bases
that survive another round of closures.
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Hillary Clinton will remain primary administration spokesman of the
health-care plan
(ARCHIVE PHOTO; details below)
By Robert A. Rankin and David Hess
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON Forget those recent reports that first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton is going to lower her controversial profile following the beating she
and her husband took on health-care reform.
``Hillary will remain the primary administration spokesman'' for Version
Two of the Clinton health-care plan next year, according to Robert Rubin, who
is in charge of drafting a new reform proposal.
Ira Magaziner will be back, too, Rubin told reporters at a Thursday
breakfast. Magaziner was the architect of Clinton's original health-care plan,
which was widely disparaged as a hopelessly complicated exercise in
mega-government.
``I think Ira's gotten a bad rap, Rubin said. Ira's going to be
integrally involved'' in drafting a new plan, he stressed.
Hillary herself laughed off reports that she intends to drop out of future
policy debates and act more like a traditional first lady.
No, no they've never been right; it gives me a good laugh every time I
read it, Clinton said in an interview with England's BBC TV, excerpts of
which were released Thursday. ``I will be involved in doing what I can on
those issues that I have both an interest in and an expertise and that the
president asks me to work on.
Those are issues that I have a traditional interest in education
issues, family issues, health care,'' Clinton said, according to a Reuters
report.
Rubin heads Clinton's National Economic Council, which White House Chief
of Staff Leon Panetta has directed to draft a revised health-care reform plan.
Carol Rasco, head of the Domestic Policy Council, is to co-chair the effort.
Public disgust with Clinton's health-care proposals helped fuel the
voters' turnover of Congress to Republicans on Tuesday, Rubin conceded, but he
argued that the public's perception of Magaziner's grand plan was incorrect,
the result of distortions by anti-reform lobbies.
It was certainly perceived as big government. I don't think it should
have been. I always felt as it was developed and I was very much involved in
developing it that the structure was sound,' said Rubin. He is Clinton's
special assistant for economic policy and made
a fortune as a partner in the Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs before
joining Clinton's team.
Clinton emphasized at his White House news conference Wednesday that ``I
remain committed to solving the health care problem,' despite rejection of
his proposals this year and Republican domination of the next Congress. He
said he hopes to work with Republicans toward bipartisan reform.
Rubin said everyone in the White House knows the Republican takeover of
Congress means that any health-care reform proposals will have to be quite
modest to stand a chance of enactment.
Whatever health-care reforms emerge from the House will be written in the
Ways and Means Committee whose incoming chairman Rep. Bill Archer, R-Texas
outlined Thursday what might be acceptable.
We'll definitely be doing health care on a targeted basis to correct
things that can be corrected, Archer said in an interview.
Archer said reforms acceptable to him would include modest insurance
changes to assure that people with pre-existing medical conditions cannot be
barred from access to private insurance; a portability guarantee to let people
take health insurance from job to job; legal limits on medical malpractice
awards; and a new system guaranteeing small businesses access to private group
insurance.
Archer also pledged that Republicans would not cut Medicare benefits.
Rubin declined to discuss what kinds of scaled-back reforms the
administration might propose, saying internal discussions are just beginning.
But he stressed that Clinton's goals remain the same.
``I don't think there's any question but that the problems that animated
(Clinton's) focus on health care in the first place are very much present
today as they were costs are still going up, the deficit is still being
driven by the health care entitlements, and coverage is still falling.
...
`Clinton's vision remains the same,' Rubin said. ``He believes that for
both economic and social reasons, we should have universal coverage.
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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Nap Time for the Night-Owl-in-Chief
With AM-Clinton
By NANCY BENAC= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) Blame it on jet lag or post-election blues or one too
many summits, but the peripatetic president, the nation's night-owl-in-chief,
is tired.
On the eve of yet another trip abroad, a baggy-eyed President Clinton
told a Georgetown University crowd Thursday that he was headed for Asia
after visiting six countries in three days in the Middle East and coming
home for eight days of this campaign and trying to stand here without missing
a beat on my speech.'
``I'm a little bit jet-lagged from the first round, he confessed.
That should hardly be surprising, given that Clinton was home for only a
few days here and there as he darted between foreign policy forays and
domestic campaign trips over the past month.
But Clinton is renowned for his ability to outlast even the Energizer
Bunny, so his forthright admissions of fatigue were a bit out of the ordinary.
A lot of us haven't had a lot of sleep and we're going to need
a few days to digest all these results, Clinton said at a sometimes rambling
post-election news conference on Wednesday. ``I think we have to first of all
take a little nap, take a little sleep, take a little rest.
Turns out the president had already taken that advice.
His press conference was pushed back an hour after first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton asked aides to give the president time to take a nap.
Tired as he was, Clinton still managed to find a little humor Thursday in
his party's stunning defeats on Election Day.
Clinton was laying out areas of agreement with the Republicans when he
paused to take a new look at one proposal that he has long opposed term
limits for elected officials.
With Republicans suddenly assuming the majority in both the House and
Senate, Clinton quipped: ``I must say, their term limits proposal's looking
better to me each day.'
Clinton's visit to Georgetown, his alma mater, prompted some reminiscences
about his days as a freshman struggling through Carroll Quigley's Western
Civilization class.
``Even then I was a decent politician, Clinton recounted. ``I remember
the best grade I made on any of his tests was the question about Plato and the
myth in the cave. I only wrote one page in the little test book and three
other lines.
Such brevity apparently impressed the professor, who gave Clinton a 98 and
told him: ``If you can explain it in this short a duration, you obviously
understand it.
Clinton confessed: ``It was the only 98 I received in the entire year.
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Clinton offers election post-mortem
By LORI SANTOS=
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) While brushing off a GOP description of him as
a `counterculture McGovernick,' President Clinton defended his 22 months in
office Thursday, saying ``in an ordinary time'' his record would have helped
re-elect Democrats.
But in another lengthy election post-mortem, this time delivered at the
top of a foreign policy address, Clinton attributed the massive Democratic
midterm losses to insecurity on the part of Americans and distrust of
government that turned Tuesday's election into "a smashing victory for
Republicans.'
``In spite of all these difficulties,' he told an audience at Georgetown
University, `until Tuesday I thought we'd made a pretty good beginning.'
Clinton also good-naturedly deflected a barb from soon-to-be House Speaker
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who described Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham
Clinton, as ``counterculture McGovernicks'' in an interview with the
Washington Post.
Asked about the characterization, Clinton responded, ``I'm a middle- aged
man who's worked very hard to be a mainstream American and I think I've done a
reasonable job of it.'
As to whether such comments would make it difficult to work with Gingrich,
Clinton said, ``Well, the American people can draw their own conclusions. I
can only control my own words and my own deeds. My hand is open to them.
The exchange highlighted a second day of manuevering and evaluation on the
part of Democrats and Republicans alike following the remarkable election that
saw control of both houses of Congress go to the GOP for the first time in 40
years.
In his speech meant primarily to preview his upcoming trip to the
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Clinton again grappled with the
overwhelming rejection of Democrats and his own policies at the polls.
Citing financial insecurity caused by continuing stagnant wages and crime,
Clinton said Americans were understandably `easily unsettled.'
Finally, there is the immutable fact that in every age and time, real
change is difficult, " he said. ``Machiavelli said over 400 years ago,
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of
success, nor dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things.'
``He turned out to be pretty smart, " Clintons said to laughter.
But the president's tone was also reflective as he lamented the loss of
good people in Congress and recited a laundry list of accomplishments
from reducing the deficit and federal work force to passage of the crime
bill, family leave law and affordable college loans that he said have yet to
impact all Americans.
Most of these measures required the support of members of my party in
Congress, especially in the especially polarized environment in which we have
been operating,' he added. In an ordinary time that record would have
generated support for congressmen and women who made it.''
But this is no ordinary time. And on Tuesday the voters reflected their
frustration with the pace of change and the messy and often, to them, almost
revolting process by which it was made, said Clinton.
And in acknowledging his administration had ``sent them some mixed
signals'' in the areas of his economic program, the crime bill and health care
reform, he added, ``You don't have to be bright as a tree full of owls to say
that it was a smashing victory for the Republicans, for their strategy, their
tactics and their message that government is no longer the problem that was
their message in the '80s; now, government is the enemy.
Despite the Gingrich comments, Clinton repeated his determination to
``continue to listen very closely'' to Americans and to attempt to work with
the new Republican leadership.
``With all my strength I will work to pursue the new Democrat agenda
I outlined here at Georgetown in 1991, he said. ``And I hope the Republicans
will move beyond the rancor of the campaign rhetoric to be new Republicans as
well.''
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Israeli Shares Steady as Fund Redemptions Offset oil, Drug Gains
Tel Aviv, Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli shares closed little changed as
gains in drug and oil stocks were offset by investors redeeming mutual fund
investments to repay loans.
The Mishtanim index of 100 top shares fell 1.11 point, or 0.60%, to
184.09. The Maof index of 25 top shares fell 0.8 point, or 0.42%, to 188.28.
The value of shares traded was 144 million shekels ($48 million), the highest
since Oct. 23 and up 29.9 million shekels from yesterday.
For the past six weeks, investors have been liquidating their holdings in
mutual funds to repay loans taken out last year.
Analysts estimate some 1 billion shekels were redeemed from mutual funds
in October. Investors are repaying loans used to buy shares when the Mishtanim
index reached a high of 258.36 in mid-January. It fell to 148.01 in early
July.
Mutual funds are still being sold little by little, said Arieh Maoz,
vice president of Central Securities. ``There is the feeling that the
situation is easing.''
Shares in drug company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. accounted for
some 11% of today's trading, or 15.9 million shekels. The stock gained 4.5% to
802.67 shekels, following a 1 3/16 gain in its New York listed stock
yesterday, to 27 3/16.
Teva rose in New York as investors speculated that the Republican victory
in U.S. Congressional elections will undermine President Bill Clinton's
health reforms, which threatened profits at drug companies, said Maoz.
``Investors believe that drug companies will do well because (health care
reformer) Hillary Clinton will be weaker, said Maoz. Teva benefitted from
this.''
oil shares rebounded after declining for nearly three weeks to levels seen
as cheap, said Maoz. The fall was prompted by a late October announcement that
exploration company Isramco was ceasing production tests on its Yam-Yafo 1
well after failing to discover oil in commercial quantities.
Rising oil shares included Isramco Negev 2 Limited Partnership, which rose
7.2% to 5.7 agorot, compared to 20.8 agorot in late August. Delek Drilling
gained 8% to 6.2 agorot and oil Fields rose 10% to 7.3 agorot.
Several stocks fell 10%. Mario Laznik Building Co. dropped to 2.21
shekels; electronics company T.A.T. Aero Equipment Ind. Ltd. 1 declined to
4.24 shekels; Tadiran Electrical Appliances Industries Ltd. fell to 9.18
shekels; and food producer Shemen Industries Ltd. fell to 91.94 shekels. --
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Sepaker-to-be Gingrich drops conciliatory tone
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Newt Gingrich, the man slated to be the next House
speaker, Wednesday dropped his conciliatory stance toward Democrats and dubbed
President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ``counterculture
McGovernicks.'
Former Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 presidential
candidate, campaigned on the platform of ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam
calling it ``the saddest chapter in our history'' and restoring traditional
values at home. Republican candidate Richard Nixon trounced McGovern.
The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday editions that Gingrich, a
Georgia Republican, also called the White House a circle of ``left-wing
elitists'' and said he would push for a vote on a constitutional amendment to
allow school prayer.
Republicans gained a House majority in Tuesday's elections for the first
time in 40 years. Gingrich, the current minority whip, is expected to elected
Speaker by his colleagues when the new Congress convenes in January.
Known for his combative style, Gingrich had adopted a conciliatory tone
in post-election interviews, saying he would work with the White House when
possible and pledging that Republicans were serious about governing.
But the Post said that during a daylong series of interviews, Gingrich
showed returns to his old style, saying, for instance, that the administration
would be `very, very dumb'' to try to oppose the new conservative agenda.
REUTER
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Hillary Clinton says she' keep policy role
(Eds: Release at 2359 GMT November 10)
LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuter) - Hillary Clinton says she does not plan to end
her involvement in formulating policy to play a more traditional role as
America's First Lady.
In an interview with BBC television, which released extracts on Friday,
she said she had been hurt by some of the attacks on her still-born plan to
overhaul the U.S. health-care system.
But, speaking before President Bill Clinton's Democrats were mauled in
Tuesday's mid-term elections, Hillary Clinton denied the interpretation of
some commentators that she was in retreat and intended to be a more
traditional president's wife in future.
``No, no they've never been right: it gives me a good laugh every time I
read it, she said.
She also denied she would no longer play a policy role.
``I will be involved in doing what I can on those issues that I have both
an interest in, and an expertise, and that the president asks me to work on.
`Those are issues that I have a traditional interest in -- education
issues, family issues, health care, she said.
She said she had not sought a political career herself because there are
different ways of serving without running for office.
Besides, I am married to the greatest political person of our
generation, she said. The BBC interviewed her for a documentary that will
be broadcast on Saturday.
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Election `94: The Republican Congress
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In addition, the White House is still brainstorming about how to revive the
health-care bill in some form. Details of a new health plan must be completed
soon so that the financial impact is reflected in the fiscal 1996 budget. The
only matter certain now is that it will be a scaled-down proposal that
opponents won't be able to easily portray as a government takeover of the
health-care system. But aides close to Hillary Rodham Clinton are still
pushing for as sweeping a proposal as possible.
During his news conference yesterday, Mr. Clinton said he telephoned
Congress's top Republicans, Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas and Rep. Newt Gingrich
of Georgia, to say, "We are ready to work together to serve all the American
people in a nonpartisan manner." In particular, he said, he wanted to work
with them to pass a line-item veto, and campaign-finance and lobbying reform
as well as approve a world trade agreement known as the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
But Mr. Clinton warned that the election results impose added
responsibilities on the GOP. "When the Republican Party assumes leadership in
the House and in the Senate," he said, "they will also have a larger
responsibility for acting in the best interest of the American people." This
comment seemed a veiled threat that the president would try to blame
Republicans if gridlock persists on Capitol Hill.
In getting ready for the change in Washington, White House aides studied
how previous presidents had defined themselves in ways that didn't involve
Congress. Their research unearthed two telling examples: President Nixon's
trip to China and President Reagan's intervention to end the flight
controllers' strike. The plan to follow an "outsider" path through
independent and regulatory actions and to focus more on foreign policy
reflects those findings.
But such a strategy is controversial. Avoiding battles with Congress is "a
mistaken place to take the presidency," says Democratic Sen. John Kerry of
Massachusetts. "It is avoiding the real choices we ought to be making for the
country. That's not leading; that's more politics."
The American public also might not accept such a dramatic turnabout from a
president who came to office promising change. By becoming more of a gadfly
than a legislative leader, Mr. Clinton risks looking ineffectual. Some White
House aides want Mr. Clinton instead to model himself on President Truman, who
in 1948 ran successfully against Congress after the Democrats suffered major
losses in a mid-term election. But Mr. Truman had goals that were more clearly
defined and had stronger public support than is the case with Mr. Clinton.
The president himself developed some ideas for fighting back during his
recent campaign travels. At the end of a long day of campaigning in Cleveland
and elsewhere a couple of weeks ago, he propped up his feet on an Air Force
One conference table and pondered ways to better get his message across to the
public.
Part of what the president foresees is something he has promised before but
never delivered: a narrow, more disciplined agenda. This time, his staff
swears, it will happen.
But there is evidence Mr. Clinton won't be able to focus this time, either.
He often cares deeply about some issues that his staff doesn't consider major
priorities. During his vacation, for instance, he surprised some aides by
telephoning Education Secretary Richard Riley to tell him "I want to do more"
on education. Then, driven by the president, the White House staged two
separate events to promote the government's new flexible student-loan programs
-- although neither event received wide attention from the media.
Another potential problem is that Mr. Clinton also has been resisting a
change to more discipline. Mr. Panetta's tighter White House operation has
reduced the number and size of Oval Office meetings, but the president remains
a micromanager. The night before signing the crime bill this fall, for
example, he phoned Mr. Emanuel, the White House aide, to berate him for
failing to get enough mayors and police chiefs to speak at the ceremony.
There are signs that Mr. Clinton is thinking ahead to 1996, though he isn't
talking about it. Last month, he announced a procurement-reform plan aimed at
saving taxpayer dollars, then told communications aides, "I want this story on
the radio in the Perot states. " They arranged a series of radio interviews for
Elaine Kamarck, the reinventing-government chief.
Mr. Clinton will need a lot of those Perot voters to salvage his
re-election bid, and his "outsider" strategy is partly designed to attract
them. Those voters will determine whether Mr. Clinton, if the 1996 campaign
is a two-man race, would win substantially more than the 43% of the ballots
that he garnered two years ago; he would need far more than that to win a
second term.
Clearly, one way the president hopes to win back public support is to show
strength in foreign policy. At a recent White House dinner, he said he was
proud that he had acted aggressively in Haiti against the advice of some of
his closest aides who didn't deem it worth the risks. But Mr. Clinton declared
that "breaking" the cycle of violence and corruption in Haiti was indeed worth
it.
Al From, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, was one
of those advisers who didn't approve of a Haiti invasion. But he says the most
important aspect of the policy is that Mr. Clinton showed the kind of
independent, forceful leadership that is required if he is to lead a party now
in such a dismal state. "A president has very little power" to begin with, Mr.
From says, "but he has to assert strong leadership."
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Big GOP Win Leaves Clinton -3-: A New Health Plan
In addition, the White House is still brainstorming about how to revive the
health-care bill in some form. Details of a new health plan must be completed
soon so that the financial impact is reflected in the fiscal 1996 budget. The
only matter certain now is that it will be a scaled-down proposal that
opponents won't be able to easily portray as a government takeover of the
health-care system. But aides close to Hillary Rodham Clinton are still
pushing for as sweeping a proposal as possible.
During his news conference yesterday, Mr. Clinton said he telephoned
Congress's top Republicans, Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas and Rep. Newt Gingrich
of Georgia, to say, "We are ready to work together to serve all the American
people in a nonpartisan manner." In particular, he said, he wanted to work
with them to pass a line-item veto, and campaign-finance and lobbying reform
as well as approve a world trade agreement known as the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
But Mr. Clinton warned that the election results impose added
responsibilities on the GOP. "When the Republican Party assumes leadership in
the House and in the Senate," he said, "they will also have a larger
responsibility for acting in the best interest of the American people.' " This
comment seemed a veiled threat that the president would try to blame
Republicans if gridlock persists on Capitol Hill.
In getting ready for the change in Washington, White House aides studied
how previous presidents had defined themselves in ways that didn't involve
Congress. Their research unearthed two telling examples: President Nixon's
trip to China and President Reagan's intervention to end the flight
controllers' strike. The plan to follow an "outsider" path through
independent and regulatory actions and to focus more on foreign policy
reflects those findings.
But such a strategy is controversial. Avoiding battles with Congress is "a
mistaken place to take the presidency," says Democratic Sen. John Kerry of
Massachusetts. "It is avoiding the real choices we ought to be making for the
country. That's not leading; that's more politics."
The American public also might not accept such a dramatic turnabout from a
president who came to office promising change. By becoming more of a gadfly
than a legislative leader, Mr. Clinton risks looking ineffectual. Some White
House aides want Mr. Clinton instead to model himself on President Truman, who
in 1948 ran successfully against Congress after the Democrats suffered major
losses in a mid-term election. But Mr. Truman had goals that were more clearly
defined and had stronger public support than is the case with Mr. Clinton.
The president himself developed some ideas for fighting back during his
recent campaign travels. At the end of a long day of campaigning in Cleveland
and elsewhere a couple of weeks ago, he propped up his feet on an Air Force
One conference table and pondered ways to better get his message across to the
public.
Part of what the president foresees is something he has promised before but
never delivered: a narrow, more disciplined agenda. This time, his staff
swears, it will happen.
But there is evidence Mr. Clinton won't be able to focus this time, either.
He often cares deeply about some issues that his staff doesn't consider major
priorities. During his vacation, for instance, he surprised some aides by
telephoning Education Secretary Richard Riley to tell him "I want to do more"
on education. Then, driven by the president, the White House staged two
separate events to promote the government's new flexible student-loan programs
-- although neither event received wide attention from the media.
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GOP Poised to Make Historic Gains in House (Washn)
By Kenneth J. Cooper and Eric Pianin= (c) 1994, The Washington Post=
WASHINGTON Energized House Republicans, riding the crest of
anti-Washington sentiment, were poised last night to make historic gains in
the House, if not win a majority and seize outright control for the first
time in 40 years.
The Republican wave began to break as the first states closed their polls.
Early returns from Indiana showed Rep. Jill Long, D, trailing former
congressional aide Mark Edward Souder, R, and freshman Rep. Tom Barlow, D-Ky.,
lagging behind former legislator Edward Whitfield, R, in Kentucky.
In South Carolina, real estate investor Marshall Sanford (R) led
legislator Robert Barber, D, in the race for the seat of retiring Rep. Butler
Derrick, D, a member of the House Democratic leadership.
Former legislators Mike Ward, D, and Susan Stokes, R, were locked in a
tight race for the Louisville seat of retiring Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli, D.
Republicans needed a net gain of 40 seats to recapture the House majority
they last commanded in 1954 and to install Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.,
as the first Republican speaker since Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts.
Spokesmen for both parties agreed Republicans would likely come out of the
midterm elections with at least 200 seats for the first time since the
Eisenhower era.
The GOP's bid for majority control of the House was engineered by Gingrich
and a new generation of conservative Republicans who capitalized on President
Clinton's low popularity and voters' growing contempt for Congress. For nearly
two years, Republicans have mounted a campaign to block or discredit Clinton's
legislative agenda, fuel anti-Democratic sentiment among voters and
nationalize the election.
The strength of those political sentiments left House Democrats on the
defensive and endangered an unusually large number of senior members,
including Speaker Thomas S. Foley (Wash.), who did not edge above 50 percent
in any public or campaign poll. Foley would become the first sitting speaker
defeated for reelection since 1862 and the only one to lose since the
speakership acquired its power and prestige in the modern era.
Also high on the Democrats' worry list were a number of the most senior
and powerful members of the House: Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks (Tex.),
Acting Ways and Means Chairman Sam Gibbons (Fla.), Rep. Dan Rostenkowski
(Ill.) and Rep. Neal Smith (Iowa), a senior member of the House Appropriations
Committee.
In stark contrast, only a handful of Republicans were considered in
trouble, nearly all freshmen.
Going into Election Day, Democrats knew they would have big trouble
competing for 52 open seats. Their candidates trailed in most of the 31
Democratic-held seats and few had realistic prospects of capturing any of the
21 seats being vacated by Republicans.
In midterm elections since World War II, the party in control of the White
House has lost an average of 26 seats. Since the mid-1960s, a new president's
party has lost an average of 13 seats in the first midterm election.
If Republicans fall short of a House majority, Gingrich has laid plans to
WOO a number of conservative Democrats to switch parties and make up the
difference-an outcome that Democrats regard as unlikely. Even if Democrats
hold on to a slender majority, Clinton would be unable to move legislation
without a level of bipartisan cooperation Democrats are not accustomed to.
Gingrich proclaimed that the day's results would be the most significant
election in a generation, adding that the outcome would ``be a tremendous
shock'' to Democrats.
Voters who have expressed a desire for change in Congress were bound to
get it in the House. The number of open seats and strong possibilities of
incumbent defeats almost guaranteed that come January about half the House's
435 members will have been elected in the 1990s. A total of 160 were elected
in 1990, 1992 or special elections since then.
The 1992 elections produced the most diverse House ever, with record
numbers of women and African-Americans. A total of 111 women were running this
year, up from 106 the last time. There were 64 black candidates, including a
record 24 Republicans.
Republicans held an advantage in House races headed into the midterm
elections because of Clinton's unpopularity, the last redistricting and the
disproportionate number of Democratic seats open because of near-record
retirements.
Also, the most mobilized constituencies Christian activists, gun owners
and congressional term-limits advocates have favored Republicans and stood to
make the most difference in House districts with their smaller electorates
compared to statewide contests for governor and Senate.
Republican efforts to exploit Clinton's unpopularity and link Democratic
incumbents to him could be seen in two stock television commercials in this
year's GOP arsenal. One showed the images of Clinton and a House Democrat
dissolving into each other; the other used pictures of Clinton and the
Democrat jogging together.
Redistricting that created black majority districts in the South after the
1990 census rendered districts in surrounding areas less Democratic and
created opportunities for Republican pickups.
Several threatened Democrats who managed to survive in 1992 decided not to
try again this year. Of 31 Democratic-held open seats, almost half are in
southern and border states, including two apiece in North Carolina, Florida,
Tennessee and Oklahoma. Redistricting also leveled the political playing field
and posed problems for Democratic incumbents outside the South in Michigan,
Ohio and California.
The 48 voluntary retirements four other lawmakers were defeated in
primaries amounted to the third-highest number of open seats since World War
II.
Surveying the political landscape, Gingrich plotted for most of the year a
strategy to win the first Republican House majority in 40 years and fulfill
his driving ambition to become speaker. House Minority Leader Robert H.
Michel, R-Ill., has announced his retirement after 38 years representing
prototypical Peoria.
Michel's departure almost assures that Gingrich, if he is re-elected, will
ascend from the House's second-ranking to top Republican. The transition marks
an end to accommodating House Republican leaders who identified with the
institution and tried to work cooperatively with Democrats to pass
legislation.
Since his election from a suburban Atlanta district in 1978, Gingrich has
earned a reputation as a confrontational partisan and cultivated a like-minded
cadre of loyalists as House Republicans have grown more conservative as a
group. He is reviled by most House Democrats.
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Leach, who instigated a hearing into the Whitewater land deal and the
involvement of Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that ``the issue is
accountability, not debilitating a presidency. There will be no
mean-spiritedness.'
In the new Congress, Republicans could subpeona documents concerning an
Arkansas savings and loan from the two federal agencies that have so far
refused to turn over to Congress, the Resolution Trust Corp. and the Office of
Thrift Supervision. At his news conference yesterday, Clinton promised his
continued cooperation with congressional investigations into Whitewater and
Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
Energy and Commerce Chairman John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), who over the years
has used his position to aggressively investigate government agencies,
suggested that it would take a while for House Republicans to understand how
to use their new-found powers.
``Our Republicans are a little bit like the dog that caught the car and
then had to figure out what to do, Dingell said. They've spent their
careers as bombthrowers. Bombthrowers don't always make good governance.
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D'Amato Wasn't Running, But Came Out A Winner
With AP Photo
By RONALD POWERS= Associated Press Writer=
NEW YORK (AP) His name was nowhere on the ballot, but New York Sen.
Alfonse D'Amato emerged a big winner in the GOP's stunning Election Day sweep.
With the victory of his political protege, Republican Gov.-elect George
Pataki, and the overnight transformation of his party from minority to
majority, D'Amato is in line to become one of the most powerful politicians
in the state and in Washington.
``When the senator opens his shirt today, there's going to be a big red S
on his chest,' said Republican political consultant Jay Severin.
The GOP's huge nationwide win gives the Republican Party control of the
Senate and elevates D'Amato to the chairmanship of the influential Senate
Banking Committee, a powerful panel that oversees the financial and investment
industry.
'`It's a wonderful day. It's the trifecta, the Republican senator said
Wednesday.
D'Amato, the kingmaker behind Pataki and the Republican Party's revival in
New York, also is seeking the leadership of the National Republican Senatorial
Committee, which raises money and fashions policy for the party.
``Sen. D'Amato is going to have a very large role in whatever job he wants
to take, said Gary Koops, the spokesman for the NRSC. ``He's very clearly
one of the leaders of the Republican Party.
Chairing the Banking Committee will put D'Amato squarely in the spotlight
come January, when the panel will resume hearings in the Whitewater affair.
As the ranking Republican on the panel, D'Amato was one of the most
aggressive inquisitors during the last round of hearings. When they resume,
the senator will set the panel's agenda and direct its investigation into past
real-estate and financial dealings of President Clinton and first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
While D'Amato says he's uncomfortable with the ``kingmaker''' title, he's
largely responsible for the victory of Pataki and the failure of Democrat Gov.
Mario Cuomo to win a fourth term.
D'Amato, one of Washington's most savvy political players, had handpicked
Pataki, then poured money into his campaign and provided him with aides and
strategists.
``This is a man who has a very shrewd understanding of the temper of the
times and of the gut feelings of the voters,' said Robert McClure, a
political scientist at Syracuse University.
The big loser yesterday was Rudy Giuliani,' McClure said, referring to
New York City's Republican mayor, who crossed party lines to endorse Cuomo.
``What that portends, I'm not quite certain.'
D'Amato, pleased to be flexing his muscle at a news conference in his
Manhattan office, said he was ready to move beyond what he sees as the mayor's
betrayal, but he doesn't expect a real reconciliation with Giuliani.
``We don't have to go to sleep together, do we? Let's get into the real
world here, D'Amato said.
Mark Green, New York City's public advocate and a longtime foe of D'Amato,
said the senator may find that his political influence is not as grand as he
would expect because many New York voters still harbor a deep-seated distrust
of the senator.
``Al is on the interesting high wire of having power without popularity,'
Green said. ``He's more influential officially than publicly. He has to be
careful not to overplay his hand.
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BC-MA--Broadcast Beat, Bjt,0668
Documentary Looks At Hillary's Graduating Class
By BOB SALSBERG= Associated Press Writer=
BOSTON (AP) It's been 25 years since Hillary Rodham's class graduated
from Wellesley College. Everyone knows what has happened to her since. But
what of some her less famous classmates?
A new PBS documentary finds that, like so many other women of their
generation, they are struggling to balance careers with family and deal with
other dilemmas of modern life.
Despite their eduction, despite their privilege, despite the fact that
they were generally upper middle class white women who had all the right
credentials, they all faced very difficult choices that are common to all
women, says film maker Rachel Dretzin, producer of the upcoming Frontline
special, ``Hillary's Class.
Dretzin spent months tracking down the women who graduated from the small,
exclusive women's campus outside Boston with the future first lady. She then
settled on a few who were willing to share their lives' journeys and reveal
the difficult choices they made.
It was really important to us not to choose just accomplished career
women, says Dretzin. '`It's important for me to see them as unique
individuals who have done their best to navigate very difficult times.
The class of '69 came of age in a time of great social upheaval. Until
then, the film contends, well-bred Wellesley women rolled hoops down a hill
every spring in a mock race to see who would be the first to wed.
In those days, marrying a Harvard man was often a more plausible goal then
achieving success in the corporate or political world.
In 1969, Hillary Rodham became the first class president to speak at
commencement. She startled and offended some of the guests with a fiery,
impromptu speech that ended with the words: Demand the impossible. We will
settle for nothing less.'
The women's movement was gathering steam. Rodham's speech inspired, but
also frightened, Wellesley grads who fully realized, perhaps for the first
time, that society and they themselves were demanding more than a trip to
the altar.
As the interviews with the class of `69 reveal, expectations often were
met at a price. CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner, for example, moved
from assignment to assignment, foregoing marriage and children for career and
occasionally wondering if that decision was the right one.
I think for most of these women it was a real shock to the system,
says Dretzin, who at 29 is much younger than the subjects she profiled.
In the period of time following graduation, everything they had been
raised to believe had been called into question.
'Hillary's Class'' airs Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 9 p.m. on WGBH (Channel 2)
and PBS stations nationwide.
=
Independent Boston station WABU-TV (Channel 68) has premiered a new
locally-produced business program on Sunday nights.
Business World With Jim Howell'' will review local, national and
international economic and financial news with analysis from a team of local
experts, station officials said.
Host Jim Howell is the former chief economist for the Bank of Boston.
The program airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m.
=
Darren Duarte has been named host-reporter of ``Say Brother, a weekly
television program that explores issues of concern to African-Americans, WGBH
executive producer Bob Glover announced.
A Brockton native, Duarte has been a part-time reporter for the program
since February.
Say Brother'' is now in its 26th season. It airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.
and Sundays at 5 p.m.
=
Former Boston Celtic great turned announcer Tommy Heinsohn is holding
court on SportsChannel.
In addition to his duties as color analyst for Celtic home games, Heinsohn
now hosts a 30-minute program following each game.
Holding Court With Tommy Heinsohn, airs live from the Blades
& Boards Club at Boston Garden and combines entertainment with basketball,
SportsChannel officials said.
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AM-CT-ELN- Connecticut Governor, Conn Bjt,1000
The Day After: Rowland Reflects, Gets Ready to Govern
AP Photos
lpstfls
By LISA MARIE PANE= Associated Press Writer=
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) Fresh from his victory on Election Day, Gov.-elect
John Grosvenor Rowland geared up on Wednesday to do what only one Republican
has done in his lifetime: lead Connecticut.
Like Republicans across the country, Rowland was basking in the glow of a
victory he said was put in motion by an electorate sick of the way things are
and looking for a different direction.
Rowland immediately pledged to build coalitions with Democrats in the
Legislature to push through his agenda. He have some help: Republicans
appeared to have gained control of one chamber in the General Assembly.
``I think the people of this country, let alone this state, they want
someone that's going to reverse the trends of what's happening; kind of the
Great Society proposals that have been lying around the last 30 or 40 years,
Rowland said at a Capitol news conference. `The trend is certainly toward the
compassionate conservative approach.
Unofficial vote tallies showed Rowland with 36 percent to Democrat William
E. Curry Jr.'s 33 percent. A Connecticut Party's Eunice S. Groark, now the
lieutenant governor, pulled in about 19 percent, while Independence Party
candidate Tom Scott garnered 11 percent.
After months of dissecting the issues, Rowland spent his first full day as
the next governor working at a more leisurely pace than the past several
weeks.
He returned to his roots and, as called for by tradition, held a
celebratory luncheon at a local hangout. As supporters gathered around him at
Domar's in his hometown of Waterbury, he toasted them with a plastic cup of
beer and held up a copy of the New York Post front page. It showed a picture
of President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton with the tagline:
`Losers.
After each of his three elections to Congress, as well as after his 1990
defeat for governor, Rowland has held a post-election luncheon at the social
club.
'`It's like `Cheers, ... he said, referring to the television show about a
fictional neighborhood bar in Boston. ``No one talks about politics. No one
hassles you.''
Rowland also celebrated by returning to an area of newfound support the
heart of Hartford's Puerto Rican neighborhood and reiterated his pledge to
turn around Connecticut's blighted cities.
Rowland stopped into New York Fashions, a shop on Park Street where he had
bought a dress for his daughter during the campaign.
`Thank you. You've been great, he told shop owner Hilda Gandara. ``I'll
be back for more shopping.'
Gandara, who was not expecting Rowland, was wearing one of his campaign
buttons. Like many along the lively thoroughfare, Gandara warmly congratulated
Rowland on his victory.
``I got the best hopes,' she said. ``I know you're going to be so good.
And you know something else? You're going to be president of the United
States. You're so young.
Indeed, the 37-year-old Rowland is the youngest person elected governor in
Connecticut's history. Two previous governors were 39 when they were elected
to the state's highest office.
Rowland will become the state's 86th governor when he is sworn in along
with a new General Assembly and four statewide constitutional officers on
Jan. 4. He becomes only the second Republican governor in nearly 40 years.
Rowland and his running mate, Lt. Gov.-elect M. Jodi Rell, said they hoped
their combined experience in the General Assembly would help the next
administration craft a workable coalition of Republicans and conservative
Democrats.
It appeared likely the Rowland administration's first two years would be
spent presiding over a split legislature. Democrats held control of the state
House of Representatives, but it appeared Republicans had taken over the state
Senate.
The good news is this: The problems we're facing in this state ...
are
not Republican or Democratic problems, he said. We've got a very good
working relationship with both Democrats and Republicans.
Rowland began the transition of power early in the morning, meeting with
retiring Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., the man who beat Rowland in 1990. Both
men were promising a smooth transition.
The first order of business will be for the Weicker administration to hand
over its proposed budget.
Weicker said Rowland would certainly enjoy a bright financial picture for
the state, unlike the $1 billion debt he confronted when he took office in
1991.
The state of Connecticut is on its feet. We're in the black, Weicker
said. That's a fact of life. He will take over a government far different
from the one that I took over as I walked in here.
Meanwhile, the other candidates and the pundits began assessing how
Rowland scored his victory in the five-way contest.
Groark, who had hoped to continue the state's experiment in tripartisan
governing, told reporters she believed her support for the state income tax
proved her downfall.
She also defended her decision to keep Weicker behind the scenes during
her campaign.
That was a call I made early on,'' Groark said. The question was for
me, Could I come out from behind that shadow?
...
I also had to show that I
was not some sort of wing nut.
Curry, who had hoped to return control of the governor's office to
Democratic hands, said he was among the victims of a Republican landslide that
swept the country.
He said the basic question in the election was whether to ``fix''
government or `kill'' it.
I wanted to fix it, but the voters wanted to kill it, Curry said. ``I
look at the results. God knows we gave them all the race they could handle.
But when you look across the country, there was
a riptide of Republican victories.
As for Rowland, he said he would not spend time dissecting where he
gathered his most support or where his weaknesses were. It was time to come
together, he said.
And Rowland, a former congressman who has had a sometimes tense
relationship with the media, joked: ``I'm sure there will be some that will
report that the Reagan landslide helped John Rowland again in 1994. But
that's a stretch.
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Babbage Files for Governor
Eds: Portions moved late in previous PMs cycle
AP Photo
By CHARLES WOLFE= Associated Press Writer=
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Secretary of State Bob Babbage offered himself as an
agent of change for the Kentucky Democratic Party as he entered the 1995
governor's race.
Significant Republican gains in Tuesday's legislative and congressional
elections proved a need for change, Babbage said in his first appearance with
running mate Tommy Thompson.
The election was ``a rejection, a repudiation of the leadership of Bill
and Hillary Clinton and the liberal agenda. The party has to get that message.
If it does not, it puts itself in peril, Babbage said.
Babbage and his running mate for lieutenant governor, Owensboro developer
Tommy Thompson, filed candidacy papers Wednesday at Babbage's office in the
Capitol. As secretary of state, he is Kentucky's chief election officer.
``The Babbage-Thompson ticket will be the answer Democrats are looking
for, Babbage said.
Babbage did not say how he and Thompson would be different. He told
reporters to examine his platform when their campaign begins next week.
Babbage will be seeking his third statewide office. He was elected state
auditor in 1987 and secretary of state in 1991.
Thompson, who was president of the National Home Builders Association,
said he ran for office once before a losing campaign for the Kentucky House
in 1977. He said he believed his experience in running a business and meeting
a payroll would outweigh a comparative lack of political experience.
Babbage said he wanted ``an admired community leader to run with'' and
that he and Thompson were politically and philosophically compatible. If
elected, Thompson's duties as lieutenant governor would be assigned by
Babbage.
Kentucky law now requires candidates for governor and lieutenant governor
to run in slates. Two Democratic slates filed earlier Gatewood Galbraith and
Jerry Hammond and the husband-and-wife team of Steve and Bonnie Maynard from
Inez.
Also Wednesday, Republican Larry Forgy said he would be a candidate for
governor by Thanksgiving. Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Bunning seemed to rule
himself out of the race. Lt. Gov. Paul Patton was beginning his campaign
today.
Other potential Democratic candidates include Jefferson County
Judge-Executive David Armstrong, U.S. Rep. Scotty Baesler of Lexington,
Senate President John ``Eck'' Rose of Winchester and state Auditor Ben
Chandler.
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With PM-KY--Democrats Reflect Bjt
By The Associated Press=
Reflections of some ranking Democrats to Tuesday's election losses:
think it was a referendum on anything other than the Democrat public
saying they're They're tired of professional politicians shake want up
``I don't tired of politics as usual. I don't think it's a that only or
Republican to get themselves thing. re-elected, ... and they want to send that message and
the system. Gov. Brereton Jones.
``The yesterday is a rejection, a repudiation of the to leadership that of
Bill message. and Hillary If it does not, it puts itself in peril. Secretary Bob
message Clinton and the liberal agenda. The party has of get State
Babbage, candidate for governor.
``You can just people are going to throw those fellows out, Wendell too. Ford. easier
mark my words: If there's no changes in Congress It's in the
next to throw two years, a grenade than it is to catch one.'' U.S. Sen.
Democratic Party in Kentucky needs to be reorganized. I think Senate that
the ``The Democratic Party in Kentucky needs to have the same agenda that
Democrats had in this last session'' of the General Assembly.
If the Senate had adopted Gov. Brereton Jones' proposed budget, would with have $300 a
million majority in in the state Senate.' Senate President John ``Eck'' Rose, possible
bonded debt, "I believe this morning Republicans
candidate for governor.
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BC-Inside Washington:-The-Voters-Speak,
Inside Washington: The Voters Speak, but What Did They Say?
Washington, Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The voters have spoken. But what did
they say?
Move to the political center Mr. President, according to the prevailing
interpretation. Bill Clinton did just that at his post-election press
conference.
"I want bipartisan cooperation, he said. ``We are ready to work
together on behalf of all Americans in a non-partisan way.'
Translating that high-minded goal into practical politics is no easy task,
however. Until Tuesday's rout by the Republicans, Clinton believed he had
staked out the political center.
Take health care reform, the centerpiece of the president's domestic
agenda. Liberals favored a single-payer plan in which the government takes
over the health delivery system. Instead, the Clinton program preserved the
private health system, albeit with closer government regulation.
Or welfare reform. Conservatives, reflecting the values of a majority of
Americans, favor moving welfare recipients off the dole as quickly as
possible. Clinton adopted the goal but offered job training and other
assistance to make the transition easier.
And crime-fighting. Liberals see gun control as a major part of the
solution. Conservatives say, `Put criminals behind bars. Clinton signed
into law an anti-crime package that blends both approaches, banning assault
weapons and building more prisons.
Political Center
So, where is the political center today?
At his press conference, the president offered his sense of the new
geography.
He tacitly conceded that his health-care reform plan, designed by Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Ira Magaziner, self-destructed by scaring more people than
it reassured.
For the future, Clinton said, ``I've got to find a way to reassure the
people that if they like what they've got, they can keep it.''
It was an obvious bow in the direction of the so-called ``mainstream'''
plan of health insurance reforms crafted by a bipartisan group of legislators
before the election recess.
Welfare reform will be no problem, the president said. Eighty percent of
the American people believe in the goal of enabling the dependent to get off
welfare, he said. We will get an agreement, he predicted.
Then, Clinton charted the center's new terrain: Tax cuts, a basic tenet of
the Republican formula.
Arguing that his own program had actually reduced tax rates for families
earning up to $27,000 a year, the president said ``I've always felt the tax
code should be fairer.
`Perhaps we can go further, he offered.
At the same time, Clinton constructed a protective fencing around the new
political center. If taxes are cut more, he said, ``we need to pay for it; we
don't need to explode the deficit again.
In other words, no Reagan-style expansion of the public debt to cut taxes
purely for political gain.
Third Rail
With both Clinton and the Republicans agreeing that defense spending
shouldn't be cut any more, the question remains: How to pay for tax cuts?
The president tip-toed up to the answer but quickly backed away. He said
he awaits the recommendations of the bipartisan commission on entitlements
headed by Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) due at year's end.
Yet, Clinton said, or appeared to say, that he doesn't want to cut either
Social Security or the Medicare health insurance program for senior citizens.
They are the third rail of American politics. Touch them and you're
dead, the admonition goes.
Social Security already is being touched, with higher income beneficiaries
paying tax on a portion of their benefits.
Medicare is the more serious problem. As the president has said, the
program's cost will consume 25% of the federal budget early in the next
century unless something is done.
The question remains: If the Republican revolution Tuesday redefined the
political center to include tax cuts, does it also include Medicare cuts?
--Monroe W. Karmin (202) 434-1827/daw (For more news on politics: BBN45; on
the presidency, NI EXE; on Congress, NI CNG; on health care, NI HCP; on the
economy, NI ECO. For previous Inside Washington columns, BBC035.) 17:46 -0-
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People=
By United Press International=
MODEL RESTAURANT: Three of those super rich super models who have so much
trouble finding a place to invest their money are going into the restaurant
business in Manhattan. Claudia Schiffer, Elle MacPherson and Naomi Campbell
have teamed up to launch Fashion Cafe in the former Banker's Trust Building in
Rockefeller Center, with groundbreaking ceremonies scheduled for Nov. 29. The
newest entrant into what may be the Big Apple's most risky business have
engaged the talents of entrepreneur Tomassao Buti, president of Buti
Management and husband of model Daniela Pestova, who has been working for over
a year on the plans. Tommasi noted that just as Rock 'n' Roll was the main
influence of the 1970s and Hollywood of the '80s, fashion has captured the
imagination of the '90s. With their incredible impact on life style,
designers are the celebrities and models are the heroines of the day, Buti
said. He has retained Michael LeClere, who created the trendy Warner Bros.
Studio Store a few blocks north of the planned restuarant, as designer.
MUSICAL COMEDY ELECT: Four new stars will be added to the Musical Theater
Hall of Fame at New York University in ceremonies Nov. 16 and four others will
receive special awards, it was announced Monday. The Hall of Fame was
inaugurated last year and the new inductees will be the second class added to
it. Actress Mary Martin and composers Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and E.Y.
``Yip'' Harburg will be joining composers Jerome Kern, George Gershwin,
Richard Rodgers, and Frederick Loewe, lyricsts Ira Gershwin and Oscar
Hammerstein 2d, and actress Ethel Merman on the plaque of honor in the
university's theater. Special awards for their contributions to the musical
theater will go to showman George Abbott, now 107, dancer-actress Gwen
Verdon, and the writing partnership of Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
PRESIDENTIAL GIFT: Bill and Hillary Clinton will be giving delegates
attending the Summit of the Americas conference in Miami Dec. 9 a nifty gift.
It's a limited edition sculpture, numbered and signed, by Florida artist
Jeffrey Glick in the form of a glass globe with Miami's skyline etched in
where North and South America meet. The globe will rest in a $150 teakwood
presentation box lined with blue velvet. On the cover is a brass plaque
identifying it as a gift of the First Couple. The globe will be given to the
heads of 34 nations including a newcomer, Haiti's Jean-Bertand Aristide.
SPLIT PERSONALITY: Not many people put David Black, executive producer of
TV's ``The Cosby Mysteries'' together with David Black, the novelist. But they
are one and the same. Black's ninth novel, coming out of Random House soon is
titled ``An Impossible Life. It chronicles 300 years of Jewish history
starting in today's New York and moving back to
a village in Lithuania 300 years ago, making it something of a Jewish
``Roots.' Black says the book is getting a lot of interest from TV producers
who see a movie series in it that might match the popularity of the series
made from Alex Haley's novel.
UPDATE ON DI: The second volume of Andrew Morton's biography of Princess
Diana, bringing her right up to the minute, is going to be in the bookstores
any minute and this is what it says. Although separted from Prince Charles,
the source of much of her unhappiness, the 33-year- old Princess of Wales is
still battling bulimia nervosa with doses of the anti-depressant drug, Prozac,
and has a growing interest and dependence on astrologers, mystics and
clairvoyants. Her depression hit
a new low just before she moved out on her 45-year-old husband and she
attempted suicide on a royal flight, cutting her arms and smearing the blood
over the cabin walls and seats. But, writes Morton, Di still harbors some
affection for Charles, and in private conversation has wished him well with
his life and with Camilla Parker-Bowles, with whom the prince has admitted
adultery. ``He won't give her up and I wish him well, Morton quotes Diana,
as telling a friend. Morton says he believes Di has never branded Camilla a
homewrecker because that might jeopardize her relationship with her two sons,
William 12, and Harry, 10, who see a lot of Parker-Bowles when they are with
their father.
MORE GUNS? Movie producers Jerry and David Zecker have disclosed to the
New York Daily News's Hollywood gossip, Marilyn Beck, that they have talked to
Leslie Nielsen about starting filming of the fourth Naked Gun'' movie this
winter but Nielsen has put the project on hold until we see what happens
with O.J.'' O.J. Simpson has appeared in all of the first three movies in the
series. The Zeckers said Nielsen told them just have
to
take
our
time
and wait and hope everyting turns out for him (Simpson)
I
think
it's
too
easy for people to make judgments to think 'Naked Gun' will start to shoot
again without Simpson
Eventually the next 'Naked Gun' might happen without
any of us. None of us is indispensable.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
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Jesse Jackson Pushes Voting, Clinton Joins Carr, Engler-Abraham Team
AP Photos DT105, FLI101-105
By DAVID GOODMAN= Associated Press Writer=
DETROIT (AP) As the polls close tonight, Democrats will learn whether
last-minute campaigning with President Clinton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson paid
off, while Republicans will look for big gains in Congress.
Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton attended a Monday rally in Flint. It
was the president's fourth trip to Michigan since August and his second in a
week.
Jackson made several stops Monday in the Detroit area, encouraging people
to exercise their right to vote.
Gov. John Engler and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Spencer Abraham made
several joint appearances. Abraham is locked in a tough contest with Democrat
Bob Carr for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Donald
Riegle.
At an auto parts company in Fenton, Abraham said the Senate race amounts
to a simple choice.
If people think Congress is working well, they should vote for Bob
Carr, a U.S. representative for two decades, he told television station
WJBK. If they want change, they should vote for Spence Abraham.'
Jackson, speaking to about 100 people at a breakfast meeting at Christ
Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, said negative campaigning is
turning off many voters.
The response should not be, get drunk and hide. It should be, get sober
and fight, he said.
The 1994 election is the nation's most important since Lyndon Johnson and
Barry Goldwater fought for the presidency in 1964, Jackson said.
Thirty years of progress is being weighed in the balance, he said.
This election is a referendum on the future of the country.
Black voters in Detroit helped put Engler in office four years ago by
failing to turn out for incumbent Democrat James Blanchard in 1990, Jackson
said.
We don't want to do like last time, church Deacon Henry Robinson said
while leading a prayer before the rally. We got mad at Blanchard because he
didn't take us in his arms, rock us and say, Vote for me.' You don't cut off
your nose to spite your face.
At a rally with about 250 people in Pontiac, Jackson criticized
Republicans for ignoring the working class.
If you don't vote, it's a vote for John Engler, Jackson boomed.
Remember, voluntary slavery is legal. Involuntary slavery is illegal.
Wolpe arrived in the middle of Jackson's speech in Detroit and drew his
warm praise. Wolpe also appeared with Clinton in Flint.
Wolpe said Detroit voters have the power to confound the polls and send
him to Lansing in Engler's place.
With your help, we are going to generate John Engler's worst nightmare,
which is a huge, unprecedented voter turnout, and we'll be able to celebrate
together tomorrow night, the former congressman said.
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BC-CRASH-SUB national:DE
Five killed in fiery crash as president's motocade passes nearby
(CLARIFIES TIME ELEMENT)
By Ginger Pullen
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
MUNDY TOWNSHIP, Mich. A fiery interstate crash that left at least five
people dead may have been initiated by an impatient driver trying to change
direction on Interstate 75 to avoid a potential traffic jam caused while
President Bill Clinton's motorcade passed nearby Monday.
A tractor-trailer hauling cars struck the side of a car about 1:30 p.m. as
the car was turned sideways in the northbound lanes. Apparently the driver of
the car was trying to turn around to avoid being caught in traffic that was
slowing to a standstill. Traffic was being blocked on I-75 to allow the
presidential motorcade to travel from Bishop International Airport to the
campus of the University of Michigan-Flint.
President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton were in the area for a get
out the vote rally for Democratic candidates in Tuesday's elections. It was
the president's fourth trip to Michigan since August and his second visit in a
week.
The impact of the car hauler slamming into the car started a fiery chain
reaction involving five other vehicles. Several burst into flames, including
two of the three cars on the car hauler, one of which slid down onto the cab
of the tractor.
Traffic had slowed back from the Bristol exit on I-75 so that the
presidential motorcade could pass. The motorcade was traveling on Bristol
Road to I-75 north, then to I-69 to I-475 to get to the college campus.
President Clinton was informed of the accident Monday night. ``I am deeply
saddened by the tragic loss of life in the traffic accident in Flint, Mich.,
earlier today, Clinton said. ``Hillary and I extend our deepest sympathies
to the family and friends of the victims and our prayers are with them during
this time of sorrow.
X X X
Detroit Free Press staff writers Lori Mathews and Debra Adams contributed
to this report.
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BC-CAMPAIGN national:WA
Clintons barnstorm the country to hold down Democratic losses
(PHOTOS; details below)
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By Robert A. Rankin and David Hess
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WILMINGTON, Del. President Clinton hopscotched across America on Monday
in a last-ditch effort to stem a political tidal wave expected to sweep
Republicans into their strongest position in Congress in 40 years on Tuesday.
Hillary Rodham Clinton joined her husband at spirited campaign rallies in
Minneapolis; Flint, Mich.; and here in Delaware. At each stop the First Couple
tried to energize Democrats to boost their turnout in Tuesday's elections and
perhaps tip the balance in tight Senate races.
I kind of got pumped up tonight, and my voice is coming back, and
I want your voice to be heard tomorrow, a hoarse Bill Clinton told a
cheering outdoor throng downtown at Rodney Square.
Between denouncing Republicans they have no shame'' and praising his
own record of active government think it makes a difference'' Clinton
appealed to Delaware Democrats to elect state Attorney General Charles Oberly
to the U.S. Senate.
Despite Clinton's passionate coast-to-coast effort in recent days,
a flurry of weekend polls indicated that Republicans have a good chance of
capturing control of the Senate, where Democrats now hold a 56-44 majority,
and a shot at taking the House, where the Republican Party now has only 177
of 435 seats.
Republicans have not held majorities in both houses of Congress
simultaneously since 1954, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and have
not had as many as 200 House seats since 1959. The Republican Party did run
the Senate from 1981 to 1986, however.
Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour predicted Monday that
a Republican takeover in Congress would enable his party to impose on a
national scale the same policies that he said have been successfully advanced
by Republican governors.
A Republican-led Congress would ensure more personal freedom for people
from government interference in their lives, Barbour said in
a telephone interview. Look at the records of the Republican governors who
are going to be re-elected Tuesday in landslides. Lower taxes, less spending,
fewer regulations, more local control and parental participation in
children's schooling, tough welfare reform with enforceable work
requirements, and greater emphasis on law enforcement.
But Democratic National Committee Chairman David Wilhelm insisted Monday
that his party will keep control of both houses. He conceded that to do so
we have to win a number of very close races. The real story today is the
extraordinary number of races that are very, very close, Wilhelm told
reporters traveling with the Clintons on Air Force One.
But in a perhaps telling slip of the tongue at Minneapolis, Clinton
referred to Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas as Majority Leader
Bob Dole.
Even if Republicans fall short of the net gain they need to take formal
control seven seats in the Senate and 40 in the House, assuming they hold the
vacant seat of a Republican who died Sunday top Clinton aides concede that
the Republican Party is certain to gain strength from Tuesday's elections.
The Republicans already were strong enough in the last Congress to block
many of Clinton's top-priority programs such as proposed reforms of health
care, campaign finance and lobbying law so whatever gains they win Tuesday
will boost the threat they pose to Clinton's presidency.
That's why the president has barnstormed across America the past eight
days, visiting 10 states in the Northeast, in the Upper Midwest and along the
Pacific Coast, each stop intended to energize demoralized Democrats in hope
that they will turn out and vote Tuesday.
``Get your friends and your family members to go vote,' Hillary Clinton
urged a cheering crowd of several thousand crammed into a gym at the Flint
campus of the University of Michigan.
White House aides say the Clintons' appearances motivate ``core''
Democrats, such as blacks, union members and liberal women, to vote, and the
president even phoned Hispanic leaders for a conference call while flying to
Flint.
But at best, Clinton's get-out-the-vote impact is limited. Despite his
recent rise in popularity polls, for example, Clinton remains too unpopular in
the South and the mountain West to help Democratic candidates there, as
illustrated by the fact that he did not make a single campaign appearance in
either region all fall.
Nevertheless, at each rally this week, Clinton has yelled himself hoarse
praising his own record of government activism, insisting that it is partly
responsible for today's rising economy, and excoriating Republicans.
They had 12 whole years of trickle-down economics. We've had 21 months,
and this country is in better shape than it was 21 months ago, Clinton
asserted to wild applause.
Jobs are up. The deficit is down. The federal government is smaller, but
it's providing more opportunity for working families, for education, for
family leave.
...
The country is getting stronger
...
Why would we want to
give the Congress to people who want to take us back to what almost wrecked us
in the 1980s?'' Clinton implored cheering Democrats in Minneapolis. Say no
to them! Say yes to our people!''
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Clinton repeatedly blasted Republicans for what he called their very
clever strategy'' of exploiting the frustration Americans feel toward
Washington.
What these guys say is, our opponents, they say, `Be mad about it, be
frustrated about it, be cynical about it, and put us in because we are going
to play on your fears, your frustrations and your cynicism, " Clinton said
at Flint. Their argument is: `Look, nothing good has happened, and if you
find something good that happened, it didn't happen because the president was
there
...
It happened in spite of that.'
Well, you know folks, where I come from, we say, If you're walking down
a road and you find a turtle on a fencepost, chances are it didn't get there
by accident!' Clinton said, drawing laughter and applause.
They exploded the deficit. They sent our jobs overseas. They put our
economy in the drink. Let us say: Sorry, we've been there. We've tried that.
We didn't like it
We like hope, not fear. We like the future, not the
past.
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But Republicans see Tuesday's elections as a watershed opportunity to
realize their unfulfilled vision of a business-friendly, low-tax, limited
government.
In addition, many of the Republican Party's more conservative members are
eager to press forward with their long-thwarted agenda for constitutional
amendments to balance the budget and ensure prayer in public schools, tighten
access to abortions, deny welfare benefits to teen-age mothers and slash
social programs that the leader of House Republicans, Newt Gingrich, says
bolster the liberal welfare statism'' that arose from the New Deal.
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First Lady's brother far behind in senate race
MIAMI, Nov 7 (Reuter) - Hugh Rodham, the president's brother-in-law, took
to the airwaves Monday in a final pitch to voters, but polls showed him
lagging far behind in his U.S. Senate race against Republican incumbent Connie
Mack.
In its latest poll, taken about two weeks ago, the Mason-Dixon polling
organisation found the Democratic challenger trailing Mack by 64 percent to 28
percent, with 8 percent of voters undecided.
It's never been a race, said pollster Robert Joffee, vice president
of Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research, Inc. of the campaign that ends
Tuesday.
The only dispute in this race is between those who think Mack will win
80-20 and those who think Mack will win 70-30,'' said Joffee.
Rodham spent his final full day of campaigning on a radio talk show in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and addressing the elderly at a retirement complex.
He wants to help the Democratic ticket statewide, said Rodham
spokesman Bob Rodriguez.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, frustrated by Mack's refusal to debate,
has gained ground in recent weeks, but still has trailed by at least 35
percentage points in the polls since the race began.
Although opinion surveys showed Rodham, a former teacher and assistant
public defender, to be closer to mainstream Floridians on most of the issues,
he lagged far behind the ultra-conservative Mack in fundraising.
His positions virtually mirror those of the president, including strong
support for universal health care and a ban on assault weapons.
But despite two visits to the state by his sister and one by Clinton,
Rodham has been unable to generate the publicity and support to seriously
challenge the incumbent, who raised more than $4 million in his bid for a
second term.
REUTER
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At Illinois Campaign Stop, Gore Blasts Gingrich Comments on Deaths of Boys
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) Vice President Al Gore has blasted Rep. Newt Gingrich
for making a campaign issue out of the South Carolina mother who confessed to
killing her two sons.
Campaigning Sunday for Democratic congressional candidate G. Douglas
Stephens, Gore called Gingrich's comments `outrageous'' and said though the
nation is grieving over the children's deaths, ``we should have a bipartisan
agreement to stop stirring up hatefulness and bringing something like this
into partisan politics.
On Saturday, campaigning in his home state of Georgia, Gingrich referred
to the case of Susan Smith, who was arrested last week in the deaths of her
small sons in Union, S.C. She had claimed they had been kidnapped by a
carjacker Oct. 25 but later confessed that she put the car into a lake with
the boys still inside.
``I think the mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly
reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to
have change, Gingrich said. ``I think people want to change and the only way
you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three
days.
In his appearance, Gore warned that a vote for Stephens' opponent, GOP
candidate Ray LaHood, would give Republicans a better grip on Congress and
increase Gingrich's chances of becoming speaker of the House of
Representatives.
This election on Tuesday is one of the most important of our time. Our
nation has a choice to make about which direction we move in, Gore told a
packed union hall.
LaHood, seeking to replace retiring House Republican leader Robert Michel,
would support Republicans' `scorched-earth'' policy in Congress, Gore said.
LaHood later called Gore's speech the classic case of how desperate they
must be. I can't believe the vice president would waste his time to come here
to Peoria, but obviously they know they're way behind.
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Artisan's Work Heading for Washington
With BC-AR--White House Egg-Quotes
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Dateline: Arkansas= By HAZEL ASHCRAFT= The Jonesboro Sun=
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) When Lee Hightower began carving eggs, it never
occurred to her that one of her products would be heading for the White House.
The invitation came from Janan Jackson, poultry products spokesman for the
Arkansas Egg Council in Little Rock, who read of Ms. Hightower's artwork in a
story published by the Sun.
Ms. Jackson found the story interesting in itself, but it also offered a
solution to a problem what was she going to do about getting an egg to the
White House for the third year in a row?
After Bill Clinton became president, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
asked the national Egg Council to provide decorated eggs from each of the 50
states each year, for display on the White House lawn.
From the White House, Ms. Jackson said, the eggs probably will go to the
Smithsonian Institution.
So, this year, after reading the article about Ms. Hightower, Ms. Jackson
called the Jonesboro artist with an invitation to provide the egg traveling to
Washington from Arkansas.
Recounting her conversation with Ms. Jackson, Ms. Hightower said she
turned to family members afterward and told them of the invitation to provide
an egg for the White House.
At least, she told them, ``I think she said the White House.
Sure! they answered in disbelief.
I had to call Little Rock, just to make certain I'd heard it right,
Ms. Hightower recalled. I was blown away. I could hardly believe it. It took
a little while to sink in. It's not your everyday call.
There was one stipulation. The eggs for the White House had to come from
chickens and that, according to Ms. Hightower, meant that
a commercially produced egg wouldn't do, because such eggs have shells that
are too thin to carve.
But that problem was soluble at Ms. Hightower's end. Her mother has a
friend who raises chickens, and the woman provided eggs with the required
thicker shell.
Ms. Hightower practiced on duck eggs first, working out her design, then
went to the chicken eggs. She used up approximately 20 of both kinds before
she was satisfied and ready to tackle the one that would go to Washington.
One side of the egg is etched with a duck in flight, with smaller ducks
flying above it. A grouping of cattails is etched on the bottom of the egg,
the opposite side of which is decorated with
a scrolled design.
I wanted something that represented Arkansas, she said. I wanted to
get it just right, and I wanted it to be different and special.
She made a second egg an exact duplicate of the first as a backup.
My dad put his thumb through one of my eggs one time, Ms. Hightower
said. When he came to look at this one, he wouldn't even touch it.
The first egg to leave Arkansas for the White House, in 1993, was painted
with the figure of a young girl and a cat, meant to represent Chelsea, the
Clintons' daughter, and her cat Socks. Last year's egg was cut out on both
sides, centered with a piece of quartz from the mines in southwest Arkansas,
and dotted with tiny diamonds from the state's diamond mine.
Ms. Hightower's egg went to Little Rock last week, and was to be sent to
Washington this week, packed in a microwave egg poacher.
The egg-carver says she's still thrilled, and more than a little
awe-struck.
'It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,' she said. And I still can't
believe it.
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PRESERVATION
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President Clinton Visits Again, This Time With Hillary
With AM-MN-ELN--Senate-Grams
AP Photos MP104, MP105, MP106, MP107, MP108
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By AMY KUEBELBECK= Associated Press Writer=
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) In yet another campaign stop for imperiled
Democrats, President Clinton visited Minnesota Monday for the second time in
four days to give a final push to Ann Wynia's campaign.
Clinton was accompanied this time by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,
who said the choice between Wynia and Republican Rod Grams is the choice
between a doer'' and a talker, a builder' and a blamer.
To a cheering, partisan crowd in this Minneapolis suburb, Mrs. Clinton
said Wynia has a strong legislative record of helping children and working on
health care reform. She said she knew of Wynia long before this U.S. Senate
race.
On issue after issue, on problems that I as a mother and as a citizen
was concerned about, I heard about Ann Wynia, she said. We need senators
who care more about the children of America than they do about their own
political partisan position.
Wynia's campaign invited Mrs. Clinton in the hope that she will help among
women voters, Wynia spokesman Kevin Chandler said.
Wynia has never run on the gender issue. She's never wanted to play that
card,' Chandler said. But it is certainly a way to energize that base.'
At the rally at North Hennepin Community College, where Wynia taught
political science beginning in 1970, Clinton urged DFLers to lobby their
friends and neighbors before Tuesday's election. The outcome of the race rests
on undecided voters, he said.
I want you to focus on what you can do between now and tomorrow ...
to
make sure that Ann Wynia wins, said Clinton, his voice raspy from heavy
campaigning. This really is a contest between whether we will continue going
into a future that is full of opportunity and challenge or go back to the easy
answers of the past.
A vote for Democrats is a vote for continued economic improvement, he
said.
They had 12 whole years of trickle-down economics, and we've had 21
months, and this country is in better shape than it was 21 months ago, he
said. Jobs are up, the deficit is down.
Clinton also dismissed Republican claims that the economy was improving
anyway without him.
If you're walking down a road and you find a turtle on a fencepost,
chances are it didn't get there by accident, Clinton said, to laughter.
While the first lady listed accomplishments of the Clinton administration,
an audience member added to her list by yelling, Killing babies!' Not
missing a beat, she pointed toward the protester and assailed those who
provoke yelling instead of bringing people together.
It was the president's third visit to Minnesota for Wynia since the
September primary. Chandler called it a last call to arms'' to try to keep a
Democratic majority in the Senate.
Independent-Republican State Party Chair Chris Georgacas said Clinton's
repeated visits suggest Ann Wynia's campaign on its own merits is not going
to be successful with the people of Minnesota.'
The race remained a dead heat going into the final weekend of the
campaign, according to the latest Star Tribune/WCCO-TV Minnesota Poll. The
survey, taken Tuesday through Friday, had Grams favored by 42 percent to 38
percent for Wynia. The poll had a margin of error of, plus or minus 4.2
percentage points, meaning neither candidate had a clear lead.
Republicans once again were matching Clinton's visit with a trip to the
state by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. Dole also campaigned for
Grams on Friday, when Clinton was in Duluth at
a rally for Wynia.
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PAGE 16A CHARLES TRAINOR JR./Herald Staff
CONCEDING: Hugh Rodham, accompanied by wife Maria, accepts his defeat.
Mack re-elected
to Senate in easy
win over Rodham
MARTIN MERZER
Herald Senior Writer
Seizing a piece of history as the first Florida Republican ever re-elected
to the U.S. Senate, Connie Mack cruised to easy victory Tuesday over Hugh
Rodham, a politically inexperienced relative of President Clinton.
Mack, 54, more than doubled his opponent's vote total and defeated him in
virtually every county. Many people who voted for Democratic Gov. Lawton
Chiles crossed party lines and also voted for Mack.
The Cape Coral Republican drew support from all corners of the state and
from virtually every demographic group, according to exit polls. Women voted
for him 3-1.
I'm overcome by the size of the victory,' Mack said Tuesday night.
`There is a sense of tremendous humility and gratitude.
Mack said he hoped to work with President Clinton on spending cuts and
protection of the environment, but he also framed his victory as a repudiation
of the Democratic administration.
``It appears that we are heading to a major victory for conservative
principles less taxes and more freedom, he said.
The election's outcome was no surprise. It became clear early in the
campaign that Mack would have little difficulty bucking the anti-incumbent
mood of the state and nation.
Rodham, 44, younger brother of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and a
former Dade County public defender, entered the race when more prominent
Democrats declined to confront the increasingly popular Mack.
Rodham trailed substantially in pre-election polls and fund raising so
far behind that the race barely registered on the political radar screen.
The Clintons campaigned in Florida several times during the early stages
of Rodham's effort, but they found other states to visit as Election Day drew
near.
Still, Rodham offered no apologies, expressed no regrets Tuesday night.
"We have to come to the end of a long road, but it is not the end of the
line, he said. ``What we have accomplished is to make people aware of the
pressing need of women's issues, of health care, of the necessity to be safe
in your home and your office.
``If that is what we have accomplished, there are no losers here.
At Rodham's Coral Gables headquarters, glum supporters congratulated each
other for at least mounting a credible campaign. I just admire him for not
giving up,'' said Kathy Dautel, who worked with Rodham in the public
defender's office. ``He'll come back.
Mack, Florida's junior senator, now returns to Washington with far more
support for his conservative views than he mustered in 1988, when he squeaked
into office by less than 1 percent of the four million votes cast.
He is an ardent foe of abortion and opposes a ban on assault weapons. His
passion for budget cuts and less government regulation has been highly praised
by the National Taxpayers Union and other conservative groups.
But he also has emerged as a defender of the Florida environment, earning
plaudits for supporting restoration of the Everglades and extension of a ban
on offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Never under pressure from Rodham, Mack evaded all invitations to debate
and felt secure enough to spend considerable time campaigning around the
country for other Republican candidates.
Rodham, a resident of Coral Gables, never before had run for office. In
fact, he did not vote in Florida until 10 years after his arrival in 1981.
Herald staff writer Grace Lim contributed to this report.
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(Updates throughout)
Clinton Administration Circles Election-Day Wagons (Washn)
By Paul Richter= (c) 1994, Los Angeles Times=
WASHINGTON On the last big election night members of President Clinton's
inner circle cheered, stomped their feet, kissed each other and delivered
impassioned speeches about their plans to show Washington and the country how
government could work.
They didn't do any of that Tuesday night.
The Clinton White House Tuesday weathered election day '94 with weary
stoicism mingled with dread about a future that appeared likely to include
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Speaker Newt Gingrich. The script called
for everyone to pretend it was business-as-usual but it became harder and
harder as the night wore on and the Democrats were losing both the House and
the Senate.
A series of aides tried to salvage what they could from the dismal events.
Voters were not totally rejecting their administration, they insisted, just
sending another message demanding change in Washington a message that the
White House received, loud and clear.
Meanwhile, Clinton stayed publicly silent as he paced around the second
floor of the residential quarters, watching the returns with first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton. The president took comfort where he could find it as
in the victory of Sen. Charles S. Robb, D-Va.
Clinton had gone out on a limb to campaign for Robb, and the victory over
Republican Oliver L. North `might have been the race that he cared most about
anywhere, ventured one aide.
(Begin optional trim)
But between the brave statements, other sentiments were clear.
You can't help but take it personally, one aide said with a sigh.
You come to Washington with all these fantastic dreams of the things you're
going to do. And you soon find out what the other side can do to close you
out.
The administration had prepared for the election verdict in a customary
fashion: It set up a war room. Extra phones and television sets were brought
to a basement office. Political aides milled around through the night,
gathering intelligence and coordinating their explanations and keeping the
boss regularly briefed.
The president seemed outwardly cheerful as he worked through a schedule of
economic and foreign policy meetings, last-minute election interviews and
meetings with White House volunteers and supporters. But nothing could conceal
his own preoccupation with the election results that would say so much about
the future of his legislative agenda and his own prospects for re-election in
1996.
(End optional trim)
Since last week's trip to the Middle East, Clinton has done little to
erase his sleep deficit but no one expected him to do much about it on
election night. Some people at the White House were already thinking ahead to
the coming session of Congress, in which the administration's agenda is not
likely to go far.
Down to the election's final moments, the adversaries were laying the
blame at the door of the White House. California Gov. Pete Wilson blasted away
with charges that Clinton had ``demeaned his office, not told the truth and
succumbed to the worst demons in his own nature.'
But the White House was rejecting any claims that they were the central
reason for the voters' judgment. Was this the Clinton White House's first
report card?
No, insisted White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. ``This is
about a lot of local issues and congressional candidates.
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Kennedy, Weld big winners in Mass.
BOSTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., overcoming the
toughest re-election challenge of his 32-year Senate career, won a sixth full
term Tuesday as Massachusetts voters flocked to the polls in unusually large
numbers.
Gov. William Weld, mentioned as a possible Republican presidential
candidate in 1996, swept to a landslide victory over underfinanced Democratic
state Rep. Mark Roosevelt, a great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
With 95 percent of the vote counted, unofficial returns give Kennedy, 62,
a 58-41 percent victory over millionaire businessman Mitt Romney, 47, the son
of former Michigan Gov. George Romney.
With 95 percent of the vote counted, Weld was leading Roosevelt 71-28
percent in his bid for a second, four-year term.
Both Romney and Roosevelt conceded defeat shortly after 10 p.m. EST.
In a victory speech, Kennedy said he was proud to stand with Bill
Clinton'' and told his supporters, ``I look forward to the battles ahead'' in
Congress. Both Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned for
Kennedy.
Kennedy, 62, had been locked in a dead-even race with Romney, 47, just one
month before the election. But Kennedy pulled ahead after airing a series of
negative TV ads criticizing Romney's business record and a putting on a
better-than-expected performance in two televised debates.
Romney fought back with attack ads of his own, accusing Kennedy of being
soft on crime, weak on welfare reform and responsible for the state's urban
blight, which he called ``Kennedy country, but could never get closer than
13 points in the polls.
Weld said Tuesday night he plans to serve out his second term, but refused
again to rule out a run for the GOP nomination in '96. Tuesday's victory could
be a big asset if he does decide to run.
State election officials estimated 2.3 million voters went to the polls,
about 73 percent of the electorate, an unusually high percentage for an
off-year election in Massachusetts.
Secretary of State Michael Connolly said the hard-fought Senate race and
ballot questions on taxes, campaign spending and term limits sparked the big
turnout.
The term limits question, which would bar officeholders from serving more
than two terms, was winning 52 to 48 percent. Proposals to establish a
graduate income tax and limit corporate spending on future ballot question
campaigns both went down to defeat.
Six of the state's 10 U.S. House members easily won re-electon, with three
others unopposed.
The only close race was in the state's 6th District, where Rep. Peter
Torkildsen, R-Mass., held a 50-48 edge over Democrat John Tierney, an
attorney, with 79 percent of the vote counted in a three-way contest.
Democratic Reps. Richard Neal, Martin Meehan, Edward Markey, Gerry Studds
and Joseph Moakley, the House Rules Committee chairman, all won, as did the
state's other Republican House member, Peter Blute. Democratic Reps. Joseph
Kennedy, Barney Frank and John Olver had no challengers.
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PM-FL-ELN--Election Showdown, Bjt,0600
Republicans Make Strides, But Fail To Live Up To Expectations
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By JOHN PACENTI= Associated Press Writer=
MIAMI (AP) Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles took some air out of the Florida
Republican balloon this election, but the GOP still made big inroads.
`This is a nice showing, said Richard Scher, a University of Florida
political scientist. "But it doesn't match the expectations that this was
going to be the moment when they launched Florida firmly into the Republican
column.
While voters nationwide overwhelmingly chose conservative candidates,
Floridians chose moderate Republicans, the analyst noted.
``I'm not so sure the Republican Party is going to take the sharp right
hand turn that I thought it would, Scher said.
Aside from Jeb Bush losing to Chiles, Republicans failed to defeat two
Democratic incumbents in U.S. House races. Karen L. Thurman won in District 5
against drag-racing legend Dan Garlits and Sam M. Gibbons, acting chairman of
the House Ways and Means Committee, beat Mark Sharpe in District 11.
But the GOP gained two open congressional seats and U.S. Sen. Connie Mack
trounced Hugh Rodham, brother of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Republicans also seized control of the state Senate for the first time
this century, winning 21 of the 40 seats. The battle lasted until the wee
hours this morning when challenger Charlie Bronson finally beat incumbent
Democrat Patricia Grogan.
In the state House, the Democrats had a 71-49 edge over the GOP going into
Tuesday's elections but were in danger of losing as many as nine seats.
In the Cabinet, the GOP gained a split and ousted two Democratic
incumbents Education Commissioner Bob Jamerson and Comptroller Bob Lewis.
However, a bid by former GOP gubernatorial hopeful Jim Smith for Agriculture
Commissioner failed.
``I think they (Republicans) did extremely well, it's like a blow out,'
said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South
Florida in Tampa. They have to be very encouraged.'
The GOP has steadily made gains in the Sunshine State despite lagging
behind in voter registration by nearly 500,000 votes.
Midwestern Republicans have retired with their nest eggs to Central
Florida and the Gulf Coast. Politically active Cuban Americans also have
flocked to the GOP and changed the dynamic of Miami politics.
``The Republicans have made steady voter registration gains in the last 10
years. When I moved here in 1983, most elections were decided in the
Democratic primaries. That is definitely no longer true,'' said Robert Joffee,
a political analyst with the Mason-Dixon polling firm.
But the GOP's state chairman talked as if Republicans had taken it on the
chin.
``We are not going to lick our wounds very long, Tom Slade said. ``We
are going to start working on delivering Florida to the Republican
presidential candidate.
Slade said he felt that the failed Proposition For Limited Casinos brought
out an additional 700,000 Democratic voters and hurt Republicans in close
races.
``Generally speaking, we own the voter turnout of an election, Slade
said. ``The Democrats did very well and they did so on the basis of casino
ballot initiative.'
Scher said it was just matter of not living up to expectations.
``The Republicans perhaps trumped their own horn too much, Scher said.
``I think in the end it may be a great big wash. The faces have changed
but we are not much different from where we were before.'
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Massachusetts First News in Brief
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(election)
(BOSTON) - Senator Edward Kennedy, overcoming the toughest re- election
challenge of his 32-year Senate career, won a sixth full term Tuesday as
Massachusetts voters flocked to the polls in unusually large numbers. Governor
Weld, who is being mentioned as a possible Republican presidential candidate
in 1996, swept to a landslide victory over Democratic state Representative
Mark Roosevelt. With 69 of the vote counted, unofficial returns gave Kennedy a
58-41 percent lead over millionaire businessman Mitt Romney, the son of former
Michigan Gov. George Romney. Weld was leading Roosevelt 71-28 percent in his
bid for a second, four-year term. Both Romney and Roosevelt conceded defeat
shortly after 10 o'clock.
In a victory speech, Kennedy said he was ``proud to stand with Bill
Clinton'' and told his supporters, ``I look forward to the battles ahead'' in
Congress. Both Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned for
Kennedy, who had been locked in a dead-even race with the 47-year-old Romney
just one month before the election. But Kennedy pulled ahead after airing a
series of negative TV ads criticizing Romney's business record and making a
better-than-expected showing in two televised debates. Romney fought back with
attack ads of his own, accusing Kennedy of being soft on crime, weak on
welfare reform and responsible for the state's urban blight, which he called
``Kennedy country, but could never get closer than 13 points in the polls.
Weld said Tuesday night he plans to serve out his second term, but refused
again to rule out a run for the G-O-P nomination in '96. Tuesday's victory
could be a big asset if he does decide to run. State election officials
estimated two-point-three million voters went to the polls, about 73 percent
of the electorate, an unusually high percentage for an off-year election in
Massachusetts. Ballot questions on taxes, campaign spending and term limits
sparked the big turnout.
The term limits question, which would bar officeholders from serving more
than two terms, was winning 52 to 48 percent. But proposals to establish a
graduate income tax and limit corporate spending on future ballot question
campaigns both went down to defeat. Six of the state's 10 U-S House members
easily won re-electon, with three others unopposed. The only close race was in
the state's Sixth District, where Republican Congressman Peter Torkildsen was
clinging to a 50-48 edge over Democrat John Tierney with almost 80 percent of
the vote counted in a three-way contest.
Democrats Richard Neal, Martin Meehan, Edward Markey, Gerry Studds and
Joseph Moakley, the House Rules Committee chairman, all won, as did the
state's other Republican House member, Peter Blute. Democrats Joseph Kennedy,
Barney Frank and John Olver had no challengers.
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PM-FL-ELN--US Senate, Bjt,550
Mack Defeats Rodham To Win Re-election
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By JOHN PACENTI= Associated Press Writer=
MIAMI (AP) When it came to Republicans capitalizing on voter discontent
with President Clinton, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack said he had it easy his
opponent was the first lady's brother, Hugh Rodham.
Mack became the first Republican to win re-election to the Senate from
Florida this century by solidly trouncing Rodham. His win Tuesday took a
little sting out of the GOP's defeat in the gubernatorial election.
I really didn't have to say anything to try to tie my opponent to
President Clinton, said Mack in a telephone interview from Fort Myers where
he monitored election returns. Hugh Rodham basically said, `I am Bill
Clinton. I believe in more government. ...
Mack's victory, forecast by polls throughout the campaign, was a far cry
from 1988 when Mack squeaked into office by less than 1 percent of the vote
against Buddy MacKay who went on to become lieutenant governor.
I'm overwhelmed, Mack said. There is a certain degree of humility
one feels under conditions of this re-election effort. From going from six
years ago when I was probably the last one to be declared the winner to this
year when I'm the first.
Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South
Florida in Tampa, said Mack's victory was just one more example that Florida
loves its senators.
U.S. Senator Bob Graham won re-election in 1992 by beating Republican
challenger Bill Grant, 65 to 35 percent, with a record 3.25 million votes.
MacManus called Rodham's first bid for public office, ``a throwaway
candidacy. The former public defender from Coral Gables entered the race
last spring after other popular Democrats declined to take on the popular
senator.
Rodham was not helped enough by his White House ties. Both Clinton and
Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned for him, but it also had little impact.
During the election, Rodham sought to court the women's vote by portraying
Mack as a representative of the radical right. He contended that Mack voted
against a bill to protect workers at abortion clinics.
The strategy didn't work since women went three-to-one for Mack, an exit
poll conducted for The Associated Press and four television networks found.
Rodham said he was proud that his campaign was able to address topics such
as health care, crime, education and women's issues.
``If that's what we were able to accomplish, then there were no losers
here, Rodham said in his concession speech.
The 44-year-old's campaign was poorly funded. He refused to accept money
from special interests other than labor and was only able to collect about
$600,000.
Mack, 54, used his $4.5 million war chest to bombard the airwaves with his
anti-crime message, promoting his proposal to force criminals to serve 85
percent of their sentences.
Mack, a former Cape Coral banker who served three terms in the U.S. House
in the 1980s, said his goals for his second term are to find common ground
with the Clinton administration on issues such as the line-item veto and to
bolster efforts to protect Florida's environment.
The senator, who has successfully battled cancer, said he also wants to
continue his role in the fight against the disease.
Rodham, who says he will run for public office again, couldn't help but
take a parting shot at Mack who refused to debate him during the campaign.
`Please find something to say yes to, Rodham said. `Never ever forget
the people who put you where you are today.'
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PM-IA-ELN--1st District, 300
Leach Wins In Landslide
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) The predictions came true in Iowa's 1st District, as
Republican Jim Leach skirted voters' anti-incumbency mood to win re-election
by an easy margin.
With all precincts reporting unofficial results in the eastern Iowa
district, Leach beat Democrat Glen Winekauf 60 percent to 38 percent, 109,975
votes to 69,240. Two independent candidates got the remaining 2 percent.
This is a historical year for the Republican Party, when you have a
shift in the legislative body, and a shift in Congress,' Leach said. The
challenge for the Republicans is going to be to govern constructively. After a
year hallmarked by negativity, that's going to be extremely difficult.''
Leach said he felt lucky that the voters didn't cast him out along with
other incumbents.
The public wants to give the benefit of the doubt to new faces and new
ideas, he said.
During the campaign season, polls showed the state's other congressmen
locked in tight races, but political analysts gave Leach a big lead in his run
for a ninth term. The Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll in October didn't even
take a reading in the 1st District, declaring Leach was facing an easier
challenge than his colleagues in the Iowa congressional delegation.'
Winekauf, 31, of North Liberty, has not held public office but is heavily
involved in the Democratic Party, serving since 1991 on the staff at the Cedar
Rapids office of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin. He also worked in eastern Iowa for
President Clinton's 1992 campaign.
Leach, 52, was first elected to Congress in 1976. He serves on the
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee and on the Foreign Affairs
Committee. He led the Republican call for an investigation of Bill and
Hillary Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater Affair.
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PM-AR-ELN--Exit Poll, Ark Bjt,360
Tucker Can Thank Poor, Blacks, Females and Elderly for Election
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By RANDALL HACKLEY= Associated Press Writer=
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker won re-election on the strength of support from the
poor, blacks, women and the elderly, an exit poll found.
And Tucker, the Democrat who replaced Bill Clinton when he went to the
White House, suffered little from an inquiry by the Whitewater special
prosecutor for S&L activities. Asked whether they doubted Tucker's honesty,
six out of 10 Arkansas voters said they did not. Of them, 80 percent voted
for Tucker.
Republican challenger Sheffield Nelson drew a higher percentage of male
voters, especially white ones, the exit poll found.
The VNS exit poll was based on in-person interviews outside randomly
selected voting places across Arkansas on Election Day.
The breadth of Tucker's victory was in large part due to the black vote,
which makes up about one-sixth of the electorate and voted almost without fail
for Tucker.
Women went about 2-to-1 for Tucker, the poll found. Voters who make less
than $30,000 a year went about the same for the incumbent as well. Those older
than 45 supported Tucker by as wide a margin, the poll found.
Clinton's approval rating in his home state was a mixed picture: Only half
the Arkansas electorate who were polled said they thought the president was
doing a good job.
His wife's approval ratings, the poll found, were slightly better, with 53
percent saying they had a favorable opinion of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As with any sample survey, the results can vary because of chance
variations in the sample. For this poll, based on 959 interviews, the results
should not vary from the opinions of all Arkansas voters more than 4
percentage points either way because of sampling error.
That is, if one could have talked to all voters in Arkansas on Tuesday,
there is only one chance in 20 that the results would vary from the finding of
this poll by more than 4 percentage points. The error margin will be higher
for subgroups in the sample, such as for blacks.
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DESPITE CLINTON'S EFFORTS, DESPAIR AT THE WHITE HOUSE
By DOUGLAS JEHL
1994 N.Y. Times News Service
WASHINGTON - President Clinton did not stop campaigning until midafternoon
Tuesday. But even as he urged radio listeners around the country to get out
and vote, there was an air of resignation in his voice, and at the White House
on Tuesday night the mood edged toward despair.
As it became clear that Republicans were making substantial gains in the
Senate, Clinton kept a public silence. Aides said the president had retreated
to his private quarters in the White House to monitor the returns with his
wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a few advisers. He is scheduled to hold a
news conference Wednesday afternoon at which he is expected to say he
recognizes voters' desire for change.
Those who tracked election night results from a command post in the White
House basement conceded that the damage appeared as bad as they had feared,
and they spoke with apprehension about what it would mean for the president in
his next two years.
Clinton had awakened early to devote nearly three hours to nonstop radio
appeals to drive-time audiences. Even then he began to try to put the best
face on the prospect that his party could fall short in its quest to keep the
Senate in Democratic hands.
When asked Tuesday morning where he would be left if Republicans captured
the Senate and even the House, Clinton told a radio interviewer: ``That'll be
up to the American people to decide. But for most of the last 40 years we've
had divided government. We've had the Congress in one hand and the presidency
in another. The American people have kind of gotten used to that. So I don't
know that will make a great deal of difference in that sense.
Because he remains an Arkansan for electoral purposes, Clinton had
attended early to his own Election Day business, casting an absentee ballot
from the White House last week.
Tuesday, his official schedule was designed in part to take his attention
off matters that were now in voters' hands; it included a session with
President Martti Ahtiasaari of Finland and another with Ken Davis of Maryland
and Harry Rocosky of Texas, the men who tackled the gunman who opened fire at
the White House just 10 days ago.
But aides said the president also spent part of the day on the telephone
with strategists trying to keep tabs on what appeared an increasingly gloomy
picture.
And they said that a meeting that was to have focused on his upcoming trip
to Asia was turned instead by Clinton into a discussion of what a president
could realistically hope to do in the next two years without a Congress behind
him.
Even Tuesday afternoon, when he and Mrs. Clinton descended a marble
staircase to the South Lawn to greet White House volunteers, the president
could not resist making one last plea in hopes of reaching those who might not
cast their ballots until after the evening news.
``It is critical that people understand there are clear choices between
going forward and going back, between a government that works for ordinary
families and one that works for organized interests, between a government that
does something about our great national problems, like crime, and one that
tries to just talk them to death,' Clinton declared from a podium set up to
allow television cameras to catch one last glimpse of him for their nightly
broadcasts.
Clinton had spent the last eight days criscrossing the country in nonstop
campaigning that aimed to give a boost to Democratic hopefuls in states where
victories would allow the party to maintain its hold on the Senate.
But those efforts appeared to have fallen so short that even the
predictions offered by David Wilhelm, the party chairman, as he traveled with
Clinton sounded rosy in retrospect Tuesday night.
Early Tuesday evening, the president and First Lady played host to
Democratic donors at a reception in the State Dining Room of the White House,
and a senior White House official insisted that their spirit was ``not bad.
But a more candid assessment was offered Tuesday night by one lower
ranking aide to Clinton as early returns mirrored exit polls in predicting
deep Democratic defeats. '`It's a blowout, the official said.
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BC-VILLAS
AUTOBREAK (2)
Why go to all the trouble to piece together a book of what are, at their
heart, family recipes? After all, a lot of men love their mothers without
taking them on national book tours.
The timing was right in a lot of ways. Southern food is going through yet
another renaissance. In addition to Villas' book, Cooking in the New South''
by former Atlanta Journal-Constitution food editor Anne Byrn (Peachtree
Publishers, $12.95) is being reissued, and Southern Traditions'' by former
Southern Living food editor Margaret Agnew (Viking, $29.95) will be out this
fall.
And we have a Southerner in the White House again, of course.
`Don't kid yourself Bill Clinton loves this food, Villas says
(although he dismisses Hillary Clinton as dangerous she's ruined the White
House with all this lightening'').
And the timing is right for the Villas family. Martha Villas is 79 and for
the last few years she has made it her mission to teach her son to cook to her
standards. He won't eat store-bought pickles, so she says she finally told him
he'd have to learn to make them, `because when I'm gone, you're going to have
to learn to do it yourself.
And there's the question of a legacy.
``It always really bothered me, he says, that this ugly black recipe
book that Mother had, I had always worried it was going to go into oblivion.
And so I really wanted to preserve it.
When all the recipe testing and editing and proofing were done, Martha
Villas admits she was pleased with the way it turned out. Her son wove it all
together with family stories and memories of his Southern boyhood. Her recipes
are there, all cleaned up and quantified, with copies of some of the originals
on their From the Kitchen of Martha Villas'' recipe cards. There are lively
comments and tips from Martha throughout: Jimmy usually makes his poultry
salads with tasteless white meat. I have to have more flavor, so I much prefer
using the thighs and legs for my chicken or turkey salad.
I'm taking a big chance in publishing this book, Villas says.
Because I'm going against the fats and I'm going against calories.
But when you get down to it, what you have is a son who is proud of his
mother.
She takes so much for granted, she thinks everybody should know how to
do these things.
Mother is very big on the idea that cooking is instinctive, and it is.
It really is.
XXX
Jim Villas calls this his favorite simple meal. It is an example of
a Southern dish that combines vegetables, potatoes and meat in the same pot
for an economical dish.
PAW PAW'S SHORT RIBS OF BEEF
(Makes 4 to 5 servings)
6 meaty short ribs of beef
Salt and black pepper to taste
12 small onions, scored on the root ends
10 small red potatoes, peeled
1 (16-ounce) can whole tomatoes with juice
Beef stock (optional)
Place the short ribs in a large saucepan or pot with enough water to cover
and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low, and
cover and simmer at least 3 hours, adding more water if necessary to cover.
During the last hour of simmering, add the onions. During the last 30
minutes, add the potatoes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Transfer the meat with a slotted spoon to a
shallow baking dish. Place the onions and potatoes around the meat and add the
tomatoes with their juice. If the juice doesn't fill the baking dish by &3/4,
add a little of the cooking liquid or beef stock. Season with salt and pepper
and bake until the top is slightly crusted, about 45 minutes. Serve directly
from the baking dish.
XXX
THREE-CHEESE TRIANGLES
Jim Villas' paternal grandfather was Greek, an influence that shows in his
family's recipes. Martha Villas makes these appetizers in advance and keeps
them in the freezer, ready to pop into the oven on a moment's notice.
&1/2 pound feta cheese
&1/2 pound ricotta cheese
&1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 large eggs, well beaten
&1/2 pound filo pastry thawed according to package instructions
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted
In a mixing bowl, combine the three cheeses, add the eggs and stir until
well blended. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Lay the filo pastry out on a counter and keep covered at all times with a
damp tea towel. Place one sheet of pastry on a working surface and cut
width-wise into 2&1/2- to 3-inch strips. Brush a strip with melted butter and
spoon 1 teaspoon of the cheese mixture into the center, about 1 inch from the
edges. Fold one corner over into a triangle, then continue folding like a flag
to the end of the strip, brushing each triangle with melted butter. Repeat
with remaining strips, placing each triangle on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes, turning once, and serve piping hot.
(Triangles may be stacked between sheets of waxed paper and frozen in
airtight containers up to 3 months. When ready to serve, separate the
triangles while still frozen and bake). X X X
BOURBON SPOON BREAD
(Makes 6 servings)
2 cups milk
1 cup white cornmeal
&1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
&1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
4 large eggs
4&1/2 teaspoons bourbon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a medium-size casserole or baking pan.
In a saucepan, scald the milk, heating until bubbles form around the edges
of the pan. Then stir in the cornmeal, beat thoroughly with
a spoon, and cook over low heat until thick. Remove from the heat, add the
butter in pieces, the salt, sugar and baking powder, and beat well until the
butter has melted. Set aside to cool.
In a small bowl, beat the egg yolks and stir them into the cooled cornmeal
mixture. In another bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until
soft peaks form, fold them into the mixture, add the bourbon and mix lightly.
Pour the mixture into prepared casserole or baking dish and bake until a straw
or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 40 minutes. X X X
THANKSGIVING CRANBERRY SALAD
(Makes 6 to 8 servings)
This became a staple of the family's Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner
tables after Martha Pearl Villas had it many years ago.
1 (3-ounce) package lemon-flavored gelatin
1 cup boiling water
1 (16-ounce) can whole-cranberry sauce
2 cans mandarin oranges, drained
1 (9-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup chopped toasted pecans or hazelnuts
Lettuce leaves
In a saucepan, combine the gelatin and boiling water and stir until
dissolved. Add the cranberry sauce, oranges, pineapple and nuts and stir until
well-blended. Transfer the mixture to a large mold, cover with plastic wrap
and chill until firm.
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Second Michigan News Briefs= -7-= (FLINT) President Clinton makes an
election-eve visit to Michigan today in hopes of sparking victory for the
Democrats. The president will be flying into Flint with his wife. Hillary
Rodham Clinton
for a rally at the University of Michigan-Flint. Michigan
candidates seeking a lift from the president include Senate candidate Bob
Carr
who is running neck-and-neck with Republican Spencer Abraham
and
candidate for governor Howard Wolpe
who is trailing incumbent John Engler
in the polls.
=
This is the president's third trip to Michigan in a month
and the second
recent visit for the first lady. Just three days ago
Vice
President
Al
Gore campaigned for Democrats during stops in Marquette and Dearborn.=
Today's stopover for Clinton will be sandwiched between campaign rallies in
Minneapolis and Delaware. Yesterday the president campaigned in Seattle. =
-7-= (DETROIT) Federal officials promise to vigorously enforce election laws
tomorrow and they're are asking voters to report any suspected fraud. The
F-B-I
U-S Attorney for Eastern Michigan Saul Green
and the region's new
federal elections officer Gary Felder want to join forces with the public to
fight fraud in the polling booths. Green says the feds are looking for cases
of voter bribery voter intimidation
ballot forgery and
quote
subjugating the electoral will'' of the
elderly, the illiterate or the socially disadvantaged.
The F-B-I will have special agents in its Michigan field offices to receive
allegations of election fraud. Felder will coordinate a team of U-S assistant
attorneys to follow-up any complaints.=
The FBI's election-fraud number is 313-237-4355. Felder's team can be reached
at 313-237-4793.= -7-= (WRIGHT TOWNSHIP) Medical examiners and police will
return this morning to inspect the human skeletal remains found by a rabbit
hunter in Wright Township near Grand Rapids. The Ottawa County sheriff's
department says the remains were discovered late yesterday along a road.
Police have sealed off the area pending a thorough investigation. Police say
the remains may have been there since last spring. So far they have NOT
determined the age or sex of the person. Further information was being
withheld pending an autopsy at Blodgett Medical Center in Grand Rapids.= -7-=
(DETROIT) Despite last week's disaster on Devil's Night
Mayor
Dennis
Archer is getting high marks from the people of Detroit. A poll of 600 city
residents finds 72 percent approve of the way Archer is doing his job. The
poll was conducted for the Detroit News just days after city firefighters
battled hundreds of blazes over the Halloween weekend. The flare-up of Devil's
Night brought negative publicity to the city. But according to the poll
city resident's areN'T blaming Archer. In fact
70 percent of those surveyed
think that under Archer things will get better in the Motor city.= -7-= (ANN
ARBOR) The University of Michigan is getting a 390-thousand dollar grant to
help improve public health among minority groups. The federal grant will
finance the work of interns from U-M's School of Public Health. They'll meet
with community groups and design health projects focusing violence AIDS
access to medical care and other needs. The interns plan to work with
African-Americans in Detroit and Flint
Hispanics in Detroit
Indians in
the Upper Peninsula
Asian-Americans
in
Grand
Rapids
and
Arab-Americans
in Dearborn.= -7-= (GRAND RAPIDS) Officials with the Grand Rapids Art Museum
are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a rare
350-year-old Rembrandt painting.
The painting ``The Visitation'' could attract thousands of visitors from as
far as Chicago. It will hang in the Grand Rapids gallery later this month on
loan from the Detroit Institute of Arts. The loan marks the start of the
D-I-A's new effort to work more closely with outstate museums. Museum
officials hope the effort will boost interest in the arts statewide.
Grand Rapids spokeswoman Roberta King says having a Rembrandt even for just a
few weeks will be ``a real joy for the community' and a big boost to the
museum. There are only 300 Rembrandts in the world.= -7-= (STERLING HEIGHTS)
A new state law that lets communities restrict nude dancing is being used in
Sterling Heights to promote a cover-up ordinance. The city council is
reviewing a proposed ordinance that would ban any display of a person's
genitals or a woman's breasts for payment. The ordinance would NOT affect
mothers who breast feed their babies. Currently officials say there are NO
nude-dancing establishments in Sterling Heights
and
they
want
to
keep
it
that way. -7-= (LANSING) The Michigan Employment Security Commission wants
to know what customers like and DISlike about its work. The commission is
sending out surveys to 25-thousand employers and 20-thousand job-seekers who
have used its job-placement services in the past. They'll be asked to rate
the quality of service
describe their experiences at Job Service
offices and rank different programs.= -7-= (DETROIT) Top officials at the
United Auto Workers have nominated Stephen Yokich (YOH-kihtch) to succeed
union president Owen Bieber. The 65-year-old Bieber plans to retire next
year. Other nominees named after
a weekend caucus were Roy Wyse of St. Louis for secretary-treasurer
Richard
Shoemaker of Detroit for vice president
and
Jack
Laskowski
of
Grand
Rapids
for vice president. The caucus nominees are likely to win election at the
union's national convention next June in Anaheim
California.=
-7-=
eaj=
PM-MN--MN In Brief,
pvsblh
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) DFL U.S. Senate candidate Ann Wynia is counting
on President Clinton's visit today to give her the boost she needs to break
open a tight race against Independent-Republican Rod Grams.
Clinton arrived in the Twin Cities late Sunday night for his second
Minnesota visit in less than a week. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew in soon after
and was to join her husband at an election-eve rally Monday morning at North
Hennepin Community College in this Minneapolis suburb.
Republicans once again were matching Clinton's visit with a trip to the
state by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, who had scheduled a Monday
evening news conference with Grams in St. Paul. Dole also campaigned for Grams
on Friday, when Clinton was in Duluth at a rally for Wynia.
The race remained a dead heat going into the final weekend of the
campaign, according to the latest Star Tribune/WCCO-TV Minnesota Poll. The
survey, taken Tuesday through Friday, had Grams favored by 42 percent to 38
percent for Wynia. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2
percentage points, which means
a frontrunner cannot be determined.
OAKDALE, Minn. (AP) In a 30-second TV ad that began airing Friday,
Independent-Republican Tad Jude accuses Bill Luther of blocking legislation
that would have kept a furloughed serial rapist behind bars a charge the
Luther campaign described as ``a gross distortion and drive-by politics.
Luther says he's outraged by the last-minute television ad being run by
his 6th Congressional District opponent that blames Luther for the 1990
kidnapping and rape of a Minnesota woman and her daughters.
The ad suggests that a woman and her daughters might not have been raped
had Jude's anti-crime bill been passed. The ad blames Luther for blocking the
bill, saying, `Sending him to Congress would be a crime.
But even if the Legislature had passed the bill sponsored in 1987 by Jude,
a former state senator, it would not have affected the sentence of Patten or
others in prison, said Marcia Greenfield, the clerk for the Senate Judiciary
committee.
``You can't make sentences retroactive,' Greenfield said Saturday. ``It's
illegal, and Tad Jude knows that. He's an attorney, and he served on the
Judiciary Committee.'
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota's candidates for governor and U.S. Senate have
gone before the voters on a forum where few politicians have gone before
cyberspace.
The discussions on the Internet may not be remembered as among the
greatest debates in political history. Nevertheless, organizers said Sunday
they were extremely pleased and excited with the experiment in what they call
``e-democracy''' using computer technology to create a new arena for citizen
involvement in politics.
``We've created an electronic town hall, Scott Aikens, the e-debates
coordinator of the Minnesota E-Democracy Project, said in an interview Sunday.
Late last month, the major- and third party gubernatorial candidates were
asked to respond via e-mail to questions about their visions for the state.
The candidates were able to rebut their opponents and put questions to them.
U.S. Senate candidates participated in a similar debate last week.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The ballot proposal to legalize off-track betting on
horse racing has gained momentum and appears headed for
a photo finish, according to the latest poll.
The Star Tribune/WCCO-TV Minnesota Poll, published in Sunday's Star
Tribune, shows 45 percent of those questioned favored the amendment, 44
percent opposed the amendment and 11 percent remained undecided.
The statewide poll of 1,006 randomly-chosen likely voters was conducted
Nov. 1-4 and had a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.
The results indicated a significant gain in support for the amendment,
when compared with a similar poll taken Oct. 12-17. That poll showed 54
percent opposed the amendment, 38 percent favored it and 11 percent were
undecided.
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PM-AR--White House Egg, Ark Bjt, 610
Artisan's Work Heading for Washington
With BC-AR--White House Egg-Quotes
tpjon
Dateline: Arkansas= By HAZEL ASHCRAFT= The Jonesboro Sun=
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) When Lee Hightower began carving eggs, it never
occurred to her that one of her products would be heading for the White House.
The invitation came from Janan Jackson, poultry products spokesman for the
Arkansas Egg Council in Little Rock, who read of Ms. Hightower's artwork in a
story published by the Sun.
Ms. Jackson found the story interesting in itself, but it also offered a
solution to a problem what was she going to do about getting an egg to the
White House for the third year in a row?
After Bill Clinton became president, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
asked the national Egg Council to provide decorated eggs from each of the 50
states each year, for display on the White House lawn.
From the White House, Ms. Jackson said, the eggs probably will go to the
Smithsonian Institution.
So, this year, after reading the article about Ms. Hightower, Ms. Jackson
called the Jonesboro artist with an invitation to provide the egg traveling to
Washington from Arkansas.
Recounting her conversation with Ms. Jackson, Ms. Hightower said she
turned to family members afterward and told them of the invitation to provide
an egg for the White House.
``At least, she told them, ``I think she said the White House.
"Sure!" they answered in disbelief.
``I had to call Little Rock, just to make certain I'd heard it right,
Ms. Hightower recalled. ``I was blown away. I could hardly believe it. It took
a little while to sink in. It's not your everyday call.
There was one stipulation. The eggs for the White House had to come from
chickens and that, according to Ms. Hightower, meant that
a commercially produced egg wouldn't do, because such eggs have shells that
are too thin to carve.
But that problem was soluble at Ms. Hightower's end. Her mother has a
friend who raises chickens, and the woman provided eggs with the required
thicker shell.
Ms. Hightower practiced on duck eggs first, working out her design, then
went to the chicken eggs. She used up approximately 20 of both kinds before
she was satisfied and ready to tackle the one that would go to Washington.
One side of the egg is etched with a duck in flight, with smaller ducks
flying above it. A grouping of cattails is etched on the bottom of the egg,
the opposite side of which is decorated with
a scrolled design.
``I wanted something that represented Arkansas, she said. ``I wanted to
get it just right, and I wanted it to be different and special.
She made a second egg an exact duplicate of the first as a backup.
``My dad put his thumb through one of my eggs one time, Ms. Hightower
said. When he came to look at this one, he wouldn't even touch it.''
The first egg to leave Arkansas for the White House, in 1993, was painted
with the figure of a young girl and a cat, meant to represent Chelsea, the
Clintons' daughter, and her cat Socks. Last year's egg was cut out on both
sides, centered with a piece of quartz from the mines in southwest Arkansas,
and dotted with tiny diamonds from the state's diamond mine.
Ms. Hightower's egg went to Little Rock last week, and was to be sent to
Washington this week, packed in a microwave egg poacher.
The egg-carver says she's still thrilled, and more than a little
awe-struck.
'`It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,' she said. ``And I still can't
believe it.
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PM-MN-ELN--President's Visit, 400-up
Clinton's Back to Give Wynia a Boost; IRS, DFLers Upbeat as Campaign Closes
Eds: Will be led with 8:30 a.m. rally.
pbm926sjs
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) DFL U.S. Senate candidate Ann Wynia is counting
on President Clinton's visit today to give her the boost she needs to break
open a tight race against Independent-Republican Rod Grams.
Clinton arrived in the Twin Cities late Sunday night for his second
Minnesota visit in less than a week. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew in soon after
and was to join her husband at an election-eve rally Monday morning at North
Hennepin Community College in this Minneapolis suburb.
Republicans once again were matching Clinton's visit with a trip to the
state by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, who had scheduled a Monday
evening news conference with Grams in St. Paul. Dole also campaigned for Grams
on Friday, when Clinton was in Duluth at a rally for Wynia.
The race remained a dead heat going into the final weekend of the
campaign, according to the latest Star Tribune/WCCO-TV Minnesota Poll. The
survey, taken Tuesday through Friday, had Grams favored by 42 percent to 38
percent for Wynia. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2
percentage points, which means
a frontrunner cannot be determined.
Wynia said the poll showed her campaign has picked up since the
mid-October Minnesota Poll gave Grams a slight lead of 7 points.
The real work of the campaign's final days is being done behind the
scenes. The IR and DFL parties both were planning to make up to 800,000 phone
calls to potential voters during the final days.
Each party also has been mailing an estimated 1.5 million sample ballots
and brochures around the state.
A mailing from the state DFL carried the word ``EXTREMISM''' in 2-inch tall
letters. Inside, the brochure attacked Grams for his opposition to abortion
rights and said, ``On Nov. 8 vote no on radical-right extremist Rod Grams.'
Said Grams spokesman Peter Hong: ``The mainstream that Rod represents may
seem extremist to someone as far left as Ann Wynia, but that's not how the
taxpayers see it.''
Grams will barnstorm around the state Monday with retiring Sen. Dave
Durenberger and Lt. Gov. Joanell Dyrstad, a moderate Republican who challenged
him in the September primary. After stops stretching from Rochester to East
Grand Forks they will fly back to St. Paul in time for the press conference
with Dole.
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PM-MI--Clinton-Mich.,130
President Clinton, First Lady Campaign in Michigan
akytcjal FLINT, Mich. (AP) President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton were
expected at a rally today at the University of Michigan-Flint, the president's
fourth trip to Michigan since August and his second visit in a week.
The Clintons plan to attend the get-out-the-vote rally with members of the
Michigan Democratic ticket a day before Tuesday's election. It is scheduled to
begin at 1:00 p.m. and is open to the public.
The president has been stumping hard for Michigan Democrats, beginning
with an Aug. 6 fund-raiser in Detroit. On Oct. 11, Clinton addressed several
hundred auto workers outside the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn.
On Nov. 1, Clinton fired up some 5,000 people who attended a
highly-charged Democratic rally in Detroit.
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PM-Guns and Politics, 570
CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK: Rodham's Anti-Gun Message Unique
Eds: Nicolle is cq
By DAVID ESPO= AP Political Writer=
Guns and crime have figured prominently in the political campaigns this
year, but in Florida, Democratic Senate candidate Hugh Rodham has a story to
tell that no one can match.
Rodham is first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, and in a
campaign-ending commercial makes reference to the gunman who sprayed the
White House with bullets from a semiautomatic weapon late last month.
Violence is always closer than you think, Rodham says in the
commercial, holding a mean-looking rifle up for the camera.
Last Saturday someone picked up a weapon like this and tried to use it
against members of my family. No, it was not in the Middle East. ... It was
Washington and the gun was turned on the White House, he added.
Rodham, a public defender, tried to turn the issue against his rival,
Republican Sen. Connie Mack. Noting that Mack voted against the crime bill
that passed Congress this fall, Rodham said, ``Connie Mack has turned his back
on the people of Florida. It's time for the people of Florida to turn their
backs on Connie Mack.
Mack is heavily favored to win re-election.
A final pre-election nationwide poll by the Times Mirror Center for The
People and The Press points to Republican gains in congressional races
Tuesday, but also found a drift toward the Democrats in the final days of the
campaign.
The survey said that among likely voters, 48 percent of those surveyed
intended to vote for Republican candidates, 43 for the Democrat and the
balance undecided. If the undecided vote breaks down as it has historically,
said the pollsters, that would give Republicans a chance to win control of
the House, but not guarantee it.
A similar survey in late October showed a 51-43 percent breakdown for the
Republicans.
The poll also said Democrats have been gaining support in recent weeks,
that there's a growing percentage of voters undecided and the percentage of
voters saying they would like to see their incumbent re-elected has increased.
The poll also found that among registered voters not only those likeliest
to vote senior citizens now prefer Democrats after leaning Republican in an
earlier survey. Upper-income voters and suburbanites also have shifted toward
the Democrats, according to the survey.
Republicans have their strongest support in the South.
The survey of 2,000 adults was conducted Nov. 3-5, and has a margin of
error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Hoping for an upset victory in the New Jersey Senate race, Republican
candidate Chuck Haytaian has drafted his infant granddaughter, Nicolle, into
the campaign.
In a pair of late-campaign television commercials, Haytaian, with little
Nicolle perched on his lap, speaks into the camera about his concerns for the
future.
I have a plan to cut taxes for the middle class. Because if we don't,
tomorrow's taxpayers like my granddaughter don't stand a chance, he says.
I need your vote to stop Washington from breaking her piggy bank before she
can even count.
In a second commercial, he says his granddaughter's arrival made him
proud.
She also made me think more about the future. Unfortunately, if
Washington keeps spending the country into the ground, our grandkids won't
have a future.'
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AM-MN-ELN--Clintons Minnesota, 1st Ld-Writethru,
President Clinton Arrives in Minnesota
Eds: SUBS 3rd graf to UPDATE with Mrs. Clinton's arrival.
skstfsjs MINNEAPOLIS (AP) President Clinton returned to Minnesota late Sunday
night for his second campaign visit in less than a week.
Clinton was greeted by U.S. Senate candidate Ann Wynia, U.S. Sen. Paul
Wellstone and other prominent state DFLers at the Air Force Reserves base.
Several dozen relatives of reservists also were on hand to catch a glimpse of
the president, who touched down at about 10:30 p.m., and shook hands with
several people before heading to his hotel.
Hillary Clinton arrived about an hour later, officials said, to join her
husband for campaign stops here and in Michigan and Delaware.
Clinton returned to Minnesota to attend a Monday morning rally on Wynia's
behalf at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, where Wynia
teaches. The rally was Clinton's only scheduled public event.
Wynia's close race with Independent-Republican Rod Grams also brought the
president to Minnesota last Thursday for a Friday rally in Duluth.
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AM-CT--Governor's Race, 2nd Ld-Writethru, 1000
Hillary Rodham Clinton Stumps For Curry
Eds: SUBS 25th graf to CORRECT to two other major party candidates, sted
three
AP Photos HF101-HF105
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By LISA MARIE PANE= Associated Press Writer=
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was back in
Connecticut Saturday to stump for Democrat William E. Curry Jr., telling a
state Capitol rally that he would move the state forward while his Republican
rival would turn back the clock.
And echoing a theme of the past week, Mrs. Clinton urged voters not to
back A Connecticut Party candidate Eunice S. Groark if they want to avoid
costing Curry the election in favor of Republican John G. Rowland.
`Let's send a message to all of those who want to divide and conquer, to
all of those who want to turn back the clock: This state, this country, we're
moving forward together, she said. And electing Bill Curry will send the
message.
Surrounded by female legislative candidates, U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro and
Barbara B. Kennelly, and U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Mrs. Clinton urged a
return to Democratic control. Democrats were ousted from the governor's office
in 1990 after a 16-year reign by Republican-turned-independent Lowell P.
Weicker Jr.
Mrs. Clinton described Rowland, a former congressman, of being part of a
Republican administration in Washington that promoted policies that hurt
Connecticut, drove jobs out of the state and pitted people against one
another.
The first lady also said the GOP stands for Guns Over Police, an
apparent reference to Republican opposition to gun control, which Curry
favors.
Will you vote for the past?'' she said. Or will you vote for the
future when you vote for Bill Curry?''
A spokesman for Rowland called the first lady's remarks about the GOP a
sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey observation.'
It was the fourth time in about a month that a member of the Clinton
administration had been in the state to campaign for Democratic candidates.
The rally, on the north side of the state Capitol facing Bushnell Park,
was attended by about 350 people and was organized by women who support Curry.
Beforehand, the first lady was the featured guest at a private fund-raiser
across the street at The Bushnell theater that attracted about 200 people to
the $250-a-person event.
The day's events occurred on the 20th anniversary of the election of Gov.
Ella Grasso, the country's first woman elected governor in her own right.
I think it is fitting that we gather here on the lawn of this Capitol,
Curry said, referring to Grasso.
Mrs. Clinton's remarks were interrupted early on by a man standing in the
middle of the crowd directly in front of the podium. As the man began yelling,
a handful of Curry supporters surrounded the man, jostled him and pushed him
off to the side, where he was escorted off the grounds by Capitol police.
It was not clear what the man, who was not arrested, was saying. But Mrs.
Clinton immediately diverged from her remarks and told the crowd, We've
always had those who would rather yell than talk'' to help solve problems.
In Tuesday's elections, we will let them know America was not built by
naysayers and yellers, she said.
With Election Day just three days away, Curry was seeking to shore up
support among women, especially since some statewide polls seem to show that
support for Rowland among women is shrinking.
Most polls seem to indicate that there remains a significant block of
voters still unsure who they'll vote for in Tuesday's election. And a
significant chunk of those undecided voters are described by various pollsters
as independent woman and `Weicker likers, or those who have supported
Weicker during his three decades in politics.
Each of the three major campaigns for governor Rowland, Curry and Groark
have been scrambling to pick up and shore up support among women.
Earlier in the campaign, Groark held a news conference to announce support
among women leaders in the state, and picked a woman as her running mate.
This week, Secretary of the State Pauline R. Kezer, who lost in
a Republican primary to Rowland, hosted a fund-raiser for Rowland that was
dominated by women. Rowland also picked a woman as his running mate.
Even though the day was supposed to be devoted to women and women's
causes, the first lady urged voters not to support the lone woman in
Connecticut's race for governor: Groark.
``As Bill was saying, this election on Tuesday is between John Rowland and
Bill Curry, Mrs. Clinton said. There are others on the ballot, but the
fact is as we move closer to Election Day, that is the election.
Groark's campaign said the Democrats' attacks are an indication that
Groark is gaining ground in a race she's consistently been in third place.
Curry began running television ads over the weekend that show a voting
booth and give reasons for not casting votes for the other two major-party
candidates. When it comes to Groark, the ad says she's not strong enough to
win the race for governor, and the imaginary voter settles on Curry.
``It just seems like that for the whole week they've brought the White
House to attack Eunice and buy ads to attack Eunice, and then they stare at us
with a straight face and say it's a two-person race, Groark spokesman Bill
Halldin said. ``They wouldn't be wasting a lot of money on Eunice if she
weren't a factor.
Rowland spokesman John Chapin said he considered the turnout for the rally
pitiful, especially since a first lady was the featured speaker and the
weather cooperated.
``I question how successful that rally was, he said. ``I also thought
the `GOP stands for Guns Over Police' was sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey
observation by the first lady.
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AM-MN-ELN--First Lady's Visit, 175
First Lady to Join President in Minnesota
hosjs
By The Associated Press=
First Lady Hillary Clinton is tentatively scheduled to join her husband in
Minnesota late Sunday in the president's second trip to the state in as many
days.
Mrs. Clinton is expected to arrive in the Twin Cities shortly after 9 p.m.
Sunday, according to the White House media office. President Clinton is due
in at 10 p.m.
The stop, part of a full-court press to get DFL U.S. Senate candidate Ann
Wynia elected, follows President Clinton's visit Friday to Duluth, Minn.
Clinton has been campaigning hard for the past week in areas where U.S. Senate
races are close.
A KARE-TV/Saint Paul Pioneer Press poll conducted early last week found
Wynia and her Independent-Republican opponent Rod Grams in a dead heat.
President Clinton's only scheduled public appearance is an 8:30 a.m.
Monday rally for Wynia at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, a
Minneapolis suburb. Details on Mrs. Clinton's schedule weren't released
Saturday night.
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AM-CT--Governor's Race, Conn Bjt,870
Hillary Rodham Clinton Stumps For Curry
Eds: May be led with developments on the trail
AP Photos HF101-HF105
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By LISA MARIE PANE= Associated Press Writer=
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was back in
Connecticut Saturday to stump for Democrat William E. Curry Jr., telling a
state Capitol rally that he would move the state forward while his Republican
rival would "turn back the clock.'
And echoing a theme of the past week, Mrs. Clinton urged voters not to
back A Connecticut Party candidate Eunice S. Groark if they want to avoid
costing Curry the election in favor of Republican John G. Rowland.
``Let's send a message to all of those who want to divide and conquer, to
all of those who want to turn back the clock: This state, this country, we're
moving forward together,' she said. ``And electing Bill Curry will send the
message.
Surrounded by female legislative candidates, U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro and
Barbara B. Kennelly, and U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Mrs. Clinton urged a
return to Democratic control. Democrats were ousted from the governor's office
in 1990 after a 16-year reign by Republican-turned-independent Lowell P.
Weicker Jr.
Mrs. Clinton described Rowland, a former congressman, of being part of a
Republican administration in Washington that promoted policies that hurt
Connecticut, drove jobs out of the state and pitted people against one
another.
The first lady also said the GOP stands for "`Guns Over Police, an
apparent reference to Republican opposition to gun control, which Curry
favors.
Will you vote for the past?'' she said. ``or will you vote for the
future when you vote for Bill Curry?''
A spokesman for Rowland called the first lady's remarks about the GOP a
`sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey observation.'
It was the fourth time in about a month that a member of the Clinton
administration had been in the state to campaign for Democratic candidates.
The rally, on the north side of the state Capitol facing Bushnell Park,
was attended by about 350 people and was organized by women who support Curry.
Beforehand, the first lady was the featured guest at a private fund-raiser
across the street at The Bushnell theater that attracted about 200 people to
the $250-a-person event.
The day's events occurred on the 20th anniversary of the election of Gov.
Ella Grasso, the country's first woman elected governor in her own right.
I think it is fitting that we gather here on the lawn of this Capitol,
Curry said, referring to Grasso.
With Election Day just three days away, Curry was seeking to shore up
support among women, especially since some statewide polls seem to show that
support for Rowland among women is shrinking.
Most polls seem to indicate that there remains a significant block of
voters still unsure who they'll vote for in Tuesday's election. And a
significant chunk of those undecided voters are described by various pollsters
as independent woman and `Weicker likers, or those who have supported
Weicker during his three decades in politics.
Each of the three major campaigns for governor Rowland, Curry and Groark
have been scrambling to pick up and shore up support among women.
Earlier in the campaign, Groark held a news conference to announce support
among women leaders in the state, and picked a woman as her running mate.
This week, Secretary of the State Pauline R. Kezer, who lost in
a Republican primary to Rowland, hosted a fund-raiser for Rowland that was
dominated by women. Rowland also picked a woman as his running mate.
Even though the day was supposed to be devoted to women and women's
causes, the first lady urged voters not to support the lone woman in
Connecticut's race for governor: Groark.
As Bill was saying, this election on Tuesday is between John Rowland and
Bill Curry, Mrs. Clinton said. "There are others on the ballot, but the
fact is as we move closer to Election Day, that is the election.
Groark's campaign said the Democrats' attacks are an indication that
Groark is gaining ground in a race she's consistently been in third place.
Curry began running television ads over the weekend that show a voting
booth and give reasons for not casting votes for the other three major-party
candidates. When it comes to Groark, the ad says she's not strong enough to
win the race for governor, and the imaginary voter settles on Curry.
``It just seems like that for the whole week they've brought the White
House to attack Eunice and buy ads to attack Eunice, and then they stare at us
with a straight face and say it's a two-person race, Groark spokesman Bill
Halldin said. `They wouldn't be wasting a lot of money on Eunice if she
weren't a factor.
Rowland spokesman John Chapin said he considered the turnout for the rally
pitiful, especially since a first lady was the featured speaker and the
weather cooperated.
I question how successful that rally was,'' he said. ``I also thought
the `GOP stands for Guns Over Police' was sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey
observation by the first lady.'
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PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
PM-MA--Mass. Senate, Bjt,0660
Kennedy, Romney Boosted by First Lady, Kansas Senator
By JEFF DONN= Associated Press Writer=
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and his Republican challenger, Mitt
Romney, continue to seek outside help in their head-to-head battle for the
Senate seat Kennedy has held for better that 30 years.
Friday, Kennedy imported First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for a campaign
stop in Springfield. She lauded the Massachusetts Democrat as a `steady,
patient, resolute'' leader.
Romney got his boost from one of Kennedy's colleagues, Sen. Nancy
Kassebaum, R-Kansas.
Speaking at a senior citizen housing complex in Lynn, Kassebaum tried to
cast the incumbent as out-of-touch.
`The Kennedy name is famous in Massachusetts and ...
throughout the
country, but this election is about the future, she said. What maybe
worked 30 years ago isn't going to work for us as we end this century and
look ahead, she said.
However, at a rally at Springfield College, Mrs. Clinton praised the
Democratic
senator
as
``one
of
the
few
who
can
reach
across
party
lines''
in Washington to `unlock the gridlock.
At the same time, she took a swipe at Romney's inexperience, saying
Kennedy knocked the socks off'' Romney in their two debates because Kennedy
knows what the budget is about.
Romney, the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, is a venture
capitalist seeking his first elective office. He has given Kennedy the
toughest re-election battle of his career, though Kennedy has pulled ahead in
recent polls.
Romney spent $100,000 to tape and air a 30-minute town meeting''
commercial in which he fielded questions from a friendly studio audience made
up mostly of supporters. The campaign said undecided voters also attended the
forum.
He said Kennedy's 32 years in the Senate have been marked by rises in
taxes, crime and the national debt.
If, like me, you feel we're headed in the wrong direction
then I ask
for your vote, Romney said. ``And with that vote, I will fight for a new
direction.'
The commercial, on Boston's WCVB-TV and New England Cable News, opened
with biographical information touting his family ties and business acumen. The
Romney campaign planned to air the commercial Saturday night on WHDH-TV and on
WBZ-TV Monday.
In Lynn, Romney saluted Kassebaum for her cross-party vote on the crime
bill successfully pushed by President Clinton. Senator Kassebaum was willing
to work for change, to work with people on both sides of the aisle, Romney
said. And I agree with her.'
However Kassebaum did not miss the chance to point to her own Republican
heritage as daughter of 1936 Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon.
Kennedy, who accompanied the first lady to the Springfield rally and a
campus daycare center, struck on a range of his traditional themes, including
calls for better educational programs before the sympathetic college crowd.
All of us who care about quality education
welcome you to western
Massachusetts, he told the president's wife.
However, the crowd turned out a bit less friendly than expected, despite
the many Kennedy signs, when Rep. Joseph Kennedy, D-Mass., asked, Is my
Uncle Ted going to win the election?' A sizable group of students yelled back
``No!'' along with the chorus of Yes!''
The Democrats brought Mrs. Clinton to Massachusetts to campaign not just
for Kennedy, but also for other two other Democrats running for Congress John
Tierney of Salem, who is challenging Rep. Peter Torkildsen, and state Rep.
Kevin O'Sullivan of Worcester, who is running against Rep. Peter Blute.
However one parent at the day care center, Eileen Cyr, said she believed
that the first lady's influence would be limited at this late date. I think
you'd really have to be on the fence
really have to be easily
influenced, she said.
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bc-fashion-retro - a0820
(bal) (ATTN: Feature editors)
Visibl Panty Lines Are Latest in Fashion
By Vida Roberts= (c) 1994, The Baltimore Sun=
Designers at the New York spring collections are showing visible panty
lines. It's all part of fashion's backward movement of the moment. Last year
it was thongs and G-strings, but having exposed supermodel backsides to the
glare of paparazzi flash, the fashion-jaded are looking elsewhere for
excitement.
It's to the '50s and your mother's underwear, when respectable girls had
never even heard of bikinis and their bottoms were all covered up by drawers
with cute lolly and spanky names.
That's the new contour, the new hot pants are rounded to cut in at the
thigh. Kate Moss, the underwear poster child, wore them in satin at Marc
Jacobs. At Miu Miu, red panties showed through everything.
Real-life opportunities for wearing these pants would seem to be limited.
A woman could take the panties to the beach with a jacket as a modest suit or
to the club for retro disco.
At Anne Klein, it was not your mother's work-wear or underwear, although
designer Richard Tyler fell for the current obsession for engineered
foundations by giving the Wonderbra a thanks in his program credits. Whether
the successful working woman, who has been the traditional Anne Klein
customer, is ready to use a bra for a push up the corporate ladder remains to
be seen.
Let's hope designers have not abandoned the professional woman in favor of
trophy wives. The reality is still obscured by sound system thump and runway
sashay.
How else to reconcile Randy Kempers bra tops, short skirts and tight pants
with the fact that he's one of Hillary Clinton's favorites? A white leather
bra top would seem too hot for a muggy Potomac summer. So would skin-tight,
knee-length satin skirts.
The longer hemlines, by the way, are being established in all the
collections. For months now, Women's Wear Daily has been capitalizing and
calling them New Length'' skirts.
By the end of this week they are sure to become familiar and lower case.
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AM-MA--Mass. Senate, 1st Ld-Writethru, 0600
Kennedy, Romney Boosted by First Lady, Kansas Senator
Eds: INSERTS 4 grafs after 6th to UPDATE with 30-minute Romney commercial
By JEFF DONN= Associated Press Writer=
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gave U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy
a late campaign push Friday as a `steady, patient, resolute'' leader, but
challenger Mitt Romney took a boost from his own out-of-state backer.
At a senior housing complex in Lynn, U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kansas,
tried to cast the incumbent as out-of-touch.
The Kennedy name is famous in Massachusetts and
...
throughout
the
country, but this election is about the future, she said. What maybe
worked 30 years ago isn't going to work for us as we end this century and
look ahead, she said.
But, at a rally at Springfield College, Mrs. Clinton praised the
Democratic senator as one of the few
...
who can reach across party lines''
in Washington to `unlock the gridlock.
At the same time, she took a swipe at Romney's inexperience, saying the
32-year incumbent knocked the socks off'' the GOP challenger in their two
debates because Kennedy ``knows what the budget is about.
Romney, the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, is a venture
capitalist seeking his first elective office. He has given Kennedy the
toughest re-election battle of his career, though Kennedy has pulled ahead in
recent polls.
Romney spent $100,000 to tape and air a 30-minute town meeting''
commercial in which he fielded questions from a friendly studio audience made
up mostly of supporters. The campaign said undecided voters also attended the
forum.
He said Kennedy's 32 years in the Senate have been marked by rises in
taxes, crime and the national debt.
If, like me, you feel we're headed in the wrong direction ... then I ask
for your vote, Romney said. And with that vote, I will fight for a new
direction.''
The commercial, on WCVB-TV and New England Cable News, opened with
biographical information touting his family ties and business acumen. The
Romney campaign planned to air the commercial Saturday night on WHDH-TV and on
WBZ-TV on Monday.
In Lynn, Romney saluted Kassebaum for her cross-party vote on the crime
bill successfully pushed by President Clinton. ``Senator Kassebaum was willing
to work for change, to work with people on both sides of the aisle, Romney
said. And I agree with her.''
But Kassebaum did not miss the chance to point to her own Republican
heritage as daughter of 1936 Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon.
Kennedy, who accompanied the first lady to the Springfield rally and a
campus daycare center, struck on a range of his traditional themes, including
calls for better educational programs before the sympathetic college crowd.
All of us who care about quality education
...
welcome you to western
Massachusetts, he told the president's wife.
However, the crowd turned out a bit less friendly than expected, despite
the many Kennedy signs, when U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, D-Mass., asked, Is my
Uncle Ted going to win the election?'' A sizable group of students yelled back
No!!' along with the chorus of ``Yes!''
The Democrats brought Mrs. Clinton to Massachusetts to campaign not just
for Kennedy, but also for other two other Democrats running for Congress John
Tierney of Salem, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Peter Torkildsen, and state
Rep. Kevin O'Sullivan of Worcester, who is running against U.S. Rep. Peter
Blute.
But one parent at the day care center, Eileen Cyr, said she believed that
the first lady's influence would be limited at this late date. ``I think you'd
really have to be on the fence
...
really have to be easily influenced, she
said.
PHOTOCOPY
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Rodham Campaign Treasurer Denies Allegations Made on Police Complaint
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The treasurer of U.S. Senate hopeful Hugh Rodham
denied Friday that he made telephone threats to the campaign's former press
secretary, who has filed a police complaint against him.
Tasha Jospeh, who resigned Oct. 18 citing grave personal
circumstances, told Miami Beach Police last week that Gary Fine had told
her to keep her mouth shut' about the campaign and threatened to blow up
her car.
It's absolutely, categorically, unequivocally false, Fine said Friday.
The statements weren't made. It was never said. Period.
Joseph said the threats were meant to keep her from discussing the
campaign of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, who's trailing badly
in the polls to Republican incumbent Connie Mack.
Though Joseph said Fine made several calls, Fine said he made only one
demanding that Joseph return equipment and a press book that belonged to the
campaign. Fine said he threatened to call the police if she didn't comply.
Joseph filed the police complaint Oct. 26, the same day Fine said the two
spoke about the equipment. He said it did not come to light until now because
the campaign had stopped payment on Joseph's paycheck, and she was angry.
The stop-payment was issued because Joseph had been paid through the end
of the campaign, he said.
She apparently has some type of desperate need for money, he said.
That's the only motivation. It's awfully foolish.
Joseph did not return a call for comment.
In her resignation letter, Joseph said she was relocating to Broward
County and would no longer be able to work at the campaign's office in Coral
Gables. But she would continue to work from Broward until Nov. 1, she wrote.
Campaign employees said she had not worked since Oct. 15, when President
Clinton and the first lady were in town.
Joseph told The Tampa Tribune the campaign has been poorly managed, and
paid staffers were forced to accept salary cuts while Rodham and some aides
stayed in expensive hotels and splurged on air fare.
Rodham's campaign has had problems before. The former Dade County public
defender first faced criticism for not voting for 13 years until his
brother-in-law, Bill Clinton, ran for president. Later, a former campaign
manager turned on him, alleging misuse of campaign funds.
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Clinton Says He Delivered on Promise to Improve Economy
EDs: TOP 9 grafs new with Clinton remarks at rally, radio interview comments
on Mrs. Clinton, Bush comments; picks up pvs 5th graf, Today's Labor
editing at bottom to tighten
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON= Associated Press Writer=
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) President Clinton today seized on a report showing
unemployment at a four-year-low to assert ``we have delivered'' on the U.S.
economy.
We are moving in the right direction. We don't need to turn back on this
now, Clinton said at a rambunctious rally for Democratic Senate hopeful Ann
Wynia.
On a cross-country campaign blitz leading up to Tuesday's midterm
elections, the president accused Republicans of being willing to sacrifice
economic progress for partisan gain.
He called the so-called GOP Contract With America'' to balance the
budget and cut taxes the economic equivalent of a hat trick. He said it
would put the economy back in the ditch.'
Earlier, speaking with reporters, Clinton said Republicans who refuse to
give him any credit for the recovery `are playing to the worst instincts of
the American people.
But, during a campaign stop in Omaha, Neb., for Republican candidates,
former President George Bush said Clinton and the Democrats can't take credit
for the nation's economy. We handed the new administration an economy that
grew, Bush asserted.
Meanwhile, in an interview with a San Francisco radio station, Clinton
disputed a suggestion that his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was stepping
aside as the administration's main point person on health care because her
efforts had become too high-profile.
No. I don't think that's right at all, he told KGO Radio in one of a
series of interviews he did here in advance of his weekend campaign swing
through California.
Clinton said he would renew efforts next year to win approval of
health-care reform. And I just need to go back at it in a way that is less
vulnerable to the interest groups attacking it, he said.
Today's Labor Department report in Washington that unemployment fell to
5.8 percent its lowest level in four years gave the president new ammunition
as he seeks to highlight his own accomplishments.
It's clear that progress has been made, Clinton told reporters.
``America has been growing the economy. More than five million jobs have been
created in the last 21 months. We have delivered what the American people have
long wanted.
Of course, the real heroes in all this are the American workers, he
added.
As he heads West on a cross-country campaign tour, Clinton is appearing
with Democratic candidates willing to embrace his cause as their own.
Boy, I like being here, Clinton said in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday
evening after listening to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Bonnie Campbell, the
Democrats' candidate for governor, compete with each other to praise Clinton
and the record he has made in the White House over the past 21 months.
Referring to Iowa's incumbent Republican governor, Terry Branstad,
Campbell distanced herself from those Democrats who have not welcomed Clinton
to their campaigns this year.
Campbell said: `Terry Branstad told people, `I can't believe she would
bring Bill Clinton to Iowa; he would bring her down.
Her Democratic audience cheered when she added: ``Mr. President, you are
far more popular in Iowa than Terry Branstad.
California was next on the Clinton itinerary, with a series of appearances
in the Los Angeles area for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., embroiled in a
controversy over whether she, like her Republican opponent, employed an
illegal immigrant.
Clinton appeared to grow in energy throughout the day Thursday, beginning
in Albany, N.Y., where he dubbed Gov. Mario Cuomo, now rebounding in his
search for a fourth term, as The Comeback Kid'' of 1994. That was the
moniker Clinton claimed for himself two years ago.
`He's having a good time, hot on the campaign trail, White House Press
Secretary Dee Dee Myers said of Clinton.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Stumps For Curry
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three
AP Photos HF101-HF105
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By LISA MARIE PANE= Associated Press Writer=
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was back in
Connecticut Saturday to stump for Democrat William E. Curry Jr., telling a
state Capitol rally that he would move the state forward while his Republican
rival would ``turn back the clock.
And echoing a theme of the past week, Mrs. Clinton urged voters not to
back A Connecticut Party candidate Eunice S. Groark if they want to avoid
costing Curry the election in favor of Republican John G. Rowland.
``Let's send a message to all of those who want to divide and conquer, to
all of those who want to turn back the clock: This state, this country, we're
moving forward together, she said. ``And electing Bill Curry will send the
message.
Surrounded by female legislative candidates, U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro and
Barbara B. Kennelly, and U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Mrs. Clinton urged a
return to Democratic control. Democrats were ousted from the governor's office
in 1990 after a 16-year reign by Republican-turned-independent Lowell P.
Weicker Jr.
Mrs. Clinton described Rowland, a former congressman, of being part of a
Republican administration in Washington that promoted policies that hurt
Connecticut, drove jobs out of the state and pitted people against one
another.
The first lady also said the GOP stands for Guns Over Police, an
apparent reference to Republican opposition to gun control, which Curry
favors.
``Will you vote for the past?'' she said. ``Or will you vote for the
future when you vote for Bill Curry?''
A spokesman for Rowland called the first lady's remarks about the GOP a
``sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey observation.'
It was the fourth time in about a month that a member of the Clinton
administration had been in the state to campaign for Democratic candidates.
The rally, on the north side of the state Capitol facing Bushnell Park,
was attended by about 350 people and was organized by women who support Curry.
Beforehand, the first lady was the featured guest at a private fund-raiser
across the street at The Bushnell theater that attracted about 200 people to
the $250-a-person event.
The day's events occurred on the 20th anniversary of the election of Gov.
Ella Grasso, the country's first woman elected governor in her own right.
``I think it is fitting that we gather here on the lawn of this Capitol,
Curry said, referring to Grasso.
Mrs. Clinton's remarks were interrupted early on by a man standing in the
middle of the crowd directly in front of the podium. As the man began yelling,
a handful of Curry supporters surrounded the man, jostled him and pushed him
off to the side, where he was escorted off the grounds by Capitol police.
It was not clear what the man, who was not arrested, was saying. But Mrs.
Clinton immediately diverged from her remarks and told the crowd, We've
always had those who would rather yell than talk'' to help solve problems.
In Tuesday's elections, ``we will let them know America was not built by
naysayers and yellers, she said.
With Election Day just three days away, Curry was seeking to shore up
support among women, especially since some statewide polls seem to show that
support for Rowland among women is shrinking.
Most polls seem to indicate that there remains a significant block of
voters still unsure who they'll vote for in Tuesday's election. And a
significant chunk of those undecided voters are described by various pollsters
as independent woman and `Weicker likers, or those who have supported
Weicker during his three decades in politics.
Each of the three major campaigns for governor Rowland, Curry and Groark
have been scrambling to pick up and shore up support among women.
Earlier in the campaign, Groark held a news conference to announce support
among women leaders in the state, and picked a woman as her running mate.
This week, Secretary of the State Pauline R. Kezer, who lost in
a Republican primary to Rowland, hosted a fund-raiser for Rowland that was
dominated by women. Rowland also picked a woman as his running mate.
Even though the day was supposed to be devoted to women and women's
causes, the first lady urged voters not to support the lone woman in
Connecticut's race for governor: Groark.
`As Bill was saying, this election on Tuesday is between John Rowland and
Bill Curry, Mrs. Clinton said. ``There are others on the ballot, but the
fact is as we move closer to Election Day, that is the election.
Groark's campaign said the Democrats' attacks are an indication that
Groark is gaining ground in a race she's consistently been in third place.
Curry began running television ads over the weekend that show a voting
booth and give reasons for not casting votes for the other two major-party
candidates. When it comes to Groark, the ad says she's not strong enough to
win the race for governor, and the imaginary voter settles on Curry.
"It just seems like that for the whole week they've brought the White
House to attack Eunice and buy ads to attack Eunice, and then they stare at us
with a straight face and say it's a two-person race,' Groark spokesman Bill
Halldin said. ``They wouldn't be wasting a lot of money on Eunice if she
weren't a factor.
Rowland spokesman John Chapin said he considered the turnout for the rally
pitiful, especially since a first lady was the featured speaker and the
weather cooperated.
`I question how successful that rally was, he said. ``I also thought
the `GOP stands for Guns Over Police' was sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey
observation by the first lady.'
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**** printed by:WHPR(JEL) on 11/07/94 at 12:16EST ****
AM-MN-ELN--First Lady's Visit, 175
First Lady to Join President in Minnesota
hosjs
By The Associated Press=
First Lady Hillary Clinton is tentatively scheduled to join her husband in
Minnesota late Sunday in the president's second trip to the state in as many
days.
Mrs. Clinton is expected to arrive in the Twin Cities shortly after 9 p.m.
Sunday, according to the White House media office. President Clinton is due
in at 10 p.m.
The stop, part of a full-court press to get DFL U.S. Senate candidate Ann
Wynia elected, follows President Clinton's visit Friday to Duluth, Minn.
Clinton has been campaigning hard for the past week in areas where U.S. Senate
races are close.
A KARE-TV/Saint Paul Pioneer Press poll conducted early last week found
Wynia and her Independent-Republican opponent Rod Grams in a dead heat.
President Clinton's only scheduled public appearance is an 8:30 a.m.
Monday rally for Wynia at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, a
Minneapolis suburb. Details on Mrs. Clinton's schedule weren't released
Saturday night.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Stumps For Curry
AP Photos HF101-HF105
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By LISA MARIE PANE= Associated Press Writer=
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was back in
Connecticut over the weekend to stump for Democrat William E. Curry Jr.,
telling a state Capitol rally that he would move the state forward while his
Republican rival would turn back the clock.
And echoing a theme of the past week, Mrs. Clinton urged voters not to
back A Connecticut Party candidate Eunice S. Groark if they want to avoid
costing Curry the election in favor of Republican John G. Rowland.
``Let's send a message to all of those who want to divide and conquer, to
all of those who want to turn back the clock: This state, this country, we're
moving forward together, she said Saturday. ``And electing Bill Curry will
send the message.
Surrounded by female legislative candidates, U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro and
Barbara B. Kennelly, and U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Mrs. Clinton urged a
return to Democratic control. Democrats were ousted from the governor's office
in 1990 after a 16-year reign by Republican-turned-independent Lowell P.
Weicker Jr.
Mrs. Clinton described Rowland, a former congressman, of being part of a
Republican administration in Washington that promoted policies that hurt
Connecticut, drove jobs out of the state and pitted people against one
another.
The first lady also said the GOP stands for `Guns Over Police, an
apparent reference to Republican opposition to gun control, which Curry
favors.
Will you vote for the past?'' she said. ``Or will you vote for the
future when you vote for Bill Curry?''
A spokesman for Rowland called the first lady's remarks about the GOP a
sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey observation.
It was the fourth time in about a month that a member of the Clinton
administration had been in the state to campaign for Democratic candidates.
The rally, on the north side of the Capitol facing Bushnell Park, was
attended by about 350 people and was organized by women who support Curry.
Beforehand, the first lady was the featured guest at a private fund-raiser
across the street at The Bushnell theater that attracted about 200 people to
the $250-a-person event.
The day's events occurred on the 20th anniversary of the election of Gov.
Ella Grasso, the country's first woman elected governor in her own right.
Mrs. Clinton's remarks were interrupted early on by a man standing in the
middle of the crowd directly in front of the podium. As the man began yelling,
a handful of Curry supporters surrounded the man, jostled him and pushed him
off to the side, where he was escorted off the grounds by Capitol police.
It was not clear what the man, who was not arrested, was saying. But Mrs.
Clinton immediately diverged from her remarks and told the crowd, We've
always had those who would rather yell than talk'' to help solve problems.
In Tuesday's elections, ``we will let them know America was not built by
naysayers and yellers, she said.
With Election Day nearing, Curry was seeking to shore up support among
women, especially since some statewide polls seem to show that support for
Rowland among women is shrinking.
Most polls seem to indicate that there remains a significant block of
voters still unsure who they'll vote for in Tuesday's election. And a
significant chunk of those undecided voters are described by various pollsters
as independent woman and ``Weicker likers, or those who have supported
Weicker during his three decades in politics.
Each of the three major campaigns for governor Rowland, Curry and Groark
have been scrambling to pick up and shore up support among women.
Earlier in the campaign, Groark held a news conference to announce support
among women leaders in the state, and picked a woman as her running mate.
This week, Secretary of the State Pauline R. Kezer, who lost in
a Republican primary to Rowland, hosted a fund-raiser for Rowland that was
dominated by women. Rowland also picked a woman as his running mate.
Even though the day was supposed to be devoted to women and women's
causes, the first lady urged voters not to support the lone woman in
Connecticut's race for governor: Groark.
`As Bill was saying, this election on Tuesday is between John Rowland and
Bill Curry, Mrs. Clinton said. `There are others on the ballot, but the
fact is as we move closer to Election Day, that is the election.
Groark's campaign said the Democrats' attacks are an indication that
Groark is gaining ground in a race she's consistently been in third place.
Curry began running television ads over the weekend that show a voting
booth and give reasons for not casting votes for the other two major-party
candidates. When it comes to Groark, the ad says she's not strong enough to
win the race for governor, and the imaginary voter settles on Curry.
``It just seems like that for the whole week they've brought the White
House to attack Eunice and buy ads to attack Eunice, and then they stare at us
with a straight face and say it's a two-person race, Groark spokesman Bill
Halldin said. They wouldn't be wasting a lot of money on Eunice if she
weren't a factor.
Rowland spokesman John Chapin said he considered the turnout for the rally
pitiful, especially since the first lady was the featured speaker and the
weather cooperated.
``I question how successful that rally was,' he said. ``I also thought
the `GOP stands for Guns Over Police' was sort of an anti-intellectual, dopey
observation by the first lady.
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President Clinton, First Lady Plan Trip to Michigan
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akytc
FLINT, Mich. (AP) President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to
attend a rally Monday at the University of Michigan-Flint, the president's
fourth trip to Michigan since August and his second visit in a week.
The Clintons plan to attend a rally with members of the Michigan
Democratic ticket a day before Tuesday's election. The rally is scheduled to
begin at 1:00 p.m. and is open to the public.
The president has been stumping hard for Michigan Democrats, beginning
with an Aug. 6 fund-raiser in Detroit. On Oct. 11, Clinton addressed several
hundred auto workers outside the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn.
On Nov. 1, Clinton fired up some 5,000 people who attended a
highly-charged Democratic rally in Detroit.
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President Clinton, First Lady Plan Trip to Michigan
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to
attend a rally Monday at the University of Michigan-Flint, the president's
fourth trip to Michigan since August and his second visit in a week.
The Clintons plan to attend a rally with members of the Michigan
Democratic ticket a day before Tuesday's election. The rally is scheduled to
begin at 12:30 p.m. and is open to the public.
The president has been stumping hard for Michigan Democrats, beginning
with an Aug. 6 fund-raiser in Detroit. On Oct. 11, Clinton addressed several
hundred auto workers outside the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn.
On Nov. 1, Clinton fired up some 5,000 people who attended a
highly-charged Democratic rally in Detroit.
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AM-FL-ELN--US Senate, 1130
Rodham Hopes For `Divine' Intervention Against Elusive Mack
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By JOHN PACENTI= Associated Press Writer=
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Hugh Rodham, more than 40 points behind in a
recent poll, hopes a little bit of folklore will go a long way in his bid to
unseat incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Connie Mack.
Rodham, the robust brother of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, has
received a branch from a rare white oak tree near Two Egg in the Florida
Panhandle.
He calls it his ``Connie Mack divining rod'' and says it will lead him to
the elusive senator so Rodham can force him to talk about the issues.
'We're going to drive around and point the stick out the car window, and
whatever direction it points us to, we will go there, says Rodham, who wants
to go to Washington to push his positions on health care, crime, education
and women's issue.
A women's group roared at the former Dade County public defender's dowser
imitation and jabs at Mack at a recent breakfast meeting. Rodham called Mack
`Senator No'' for his opposition to recent legislation on crime, education
and women's issues.
But the 44-year-old Rodham's divining rod joke shows his increased
desperation to get out his message to an electorate that seems quite content
with Florida's junior senator.
Mack, who won by less than 1 percent of 4 million votes cast six years
ago, is heavily favored to win a second term.
A New York Times poll released Sunday found that 63 percent of the voters
surveyed said they would vote for Mack. Another 22 percent said they would
vote for Rodham. Fifteen percent of the voters said they were undecided. The
survey of 826 register voters was conducted from Oct. 30 through Nov. 3.
Under no circumstance is he going to debate me for any reason.
I think this does a disservice to the people of this state, says Rodham, 44.
They have a right to hear what the issues are and where the candidates stand
on them.
It's not the first time Mack has ducked debates. In 1982, while running
for the first of his three terms in the U.S. House, Mack stayed in the
background while Lt. Col. Oliver North campaigned for him.
His opponent in the Republican primary, Bob Merkle, began carting around a
life-size cardboard cutout of Mack.
Mack, whose grandfather and namesake was the owner and manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics, says his campaign offered Rodham an early chance to
debate at the Bull Snort Forum in Jacksonville.
Rodham, who said he was cursed at when he appeared before the forum during
the primary campaign, hesitated before accepting this past week.
Too late, Mack said, the chance to debate had passed.
We've made commitments and I'm not going to break them, he said.
Mack's commitments in the stretch included teaming up with GOP
gubernatorial nominee Jeb Bush in hopes that some of Mack's popularity would
help the Miami developer defeat Gov. Lawton Chiles.
People are upset with the growth of government and angry with
government's involvement in people's lives, says Mack, 54, of Cape Coral in
Lee County.
Mack's ads echo the themes he used in 1988 in a heated race against Buddy
MacKay, who now is lieutenant governor and Chiles' running mate. Mack's
refrain: ``Less taxes, less spending, less government, more freedom.
He supports building a federal regional prison system that states can use
but only if they require inmates to serve 85 percent of their sentences.
Crime is out of control, Mack says in one of the ads he purchased with
his campaign treasury of more than $4.5 million. Rodham has collected about
$600,000 and began running his first campaign ad the final weekend before the
election.
Mack, a banker who served three terms in the U.S. House before winning
election to the Senate, also supports a middle-class tax cut, lowering the
capital gains tax and vouchers for parents to send their children to private
schools. He opposed Clinton's health care plan, a ban on assault weapons in
the crime bill and a bill intended to protect women and workers at abortion
clinics from violence.
Although Mack says his greatest accomplishments were stopping bad bills,
he doesn't always oppose Clinton. He supported the nomination of Supreme Court
Chief Justice Rosemary Barkett, who was assailed by conservative groups. He
was also one of the first on Capitol Hill to say he would support the Clinton
administration in an invasion of Haiti.
Mack is known for his high-profile crusade against cancer. Both he and his
wife have battled the disease successfully and he has played the issue up
during the campaign.
Rodham calls his opponent a hypocrite for talking about fighting cancer
while taking $26,000 from tobacco interests for his campaign. He also assails
his opponent for claiming to want less government, yet lobbying for an
expensive new prison system and for his support of a school voucher program.
'It's more big government for private schools because once the government
decides to give them money it has a say in what they teach and what they do,
Rodham says.
Rodham, who has received political action committee money from labor
groups, contends Mack's vote is for sale.
If you're a millionaire with a yacht, don't vote for me, Rodham says.
Vote for Connie Mack. He supports your interests.'
Rodham, who lives in Coral Gables, criticizes the senator for voting
against a new federal education program that would have provided aid to
disadvantaged and disabled students because it didn't contain a school prayer
rider in it. Mack says he opposed it because it was more big government.
Rodham stumbled as he tried to launch his campaign and wasn't taken
seriously.
After being ridiculed for failing to vote for the first 13 years he lived
in Florida and then firing his campaign manager, Rodham's campaign began to
get on track with help from his well-known family.
His brother Tony is now the campaign's manager and President and Mrs.
Clinton have campaigned for him.
But Rodham was unable to raise enough money to get his message on the
airwaves until the very end.
The candidate regrets the Democratic Party didn't support him more.
Democratic leaders initially opposed Rodham's candidacy, fearing it might
embarrass the president and the party.
It just saddens me that if we'd had some prior cooperation from some
big party interests we could have gotten our message out earlier, Rodham
says. We've done this all on our own and some of the people we hired hurt
us.'
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PM-Clinton, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0544, 650
Clinton Says He Delivered on Promise to Improve Economy
EDs: TOP 9 grafs new with Clinton remarks at rally, radio interview comments
on Mrs. Clinton, Bush comments; picks up pvs 5th graf, Today's Labor
editing at bottom to tighten
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON= Associated Press Writer=
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) President Clinton today seized on a report showing
unemployment at a four-year-low to assert ``we have delivered'' on the U.S.
economy.
We are moving in the right direction. We don't need to turn back on this
now, Clinton said at a rambunctious rally for Democratic Senate hopeful Ann
Wynia.
On a cross-country campaign blitz leading up to Tuesday's midterm
elections, the president accused Republicans of being willing to sacrifice
economic progress for partisan gain.
He called the so-called GOP Contract With America'' to balance the
budget and cut taxes the economic equivalent of a hat trick. He said it
would put the economy back in the ditch.
Earlier, speaking with reporters, Clinton said Republicans who refuse to
give him any credit for the recovery ``are playing to the worst instincts of
the American people.
But, during a campaign stop in Omaha, Neb., for Republican candidates,
former President George Bush said Clinton and the Democrats can't take credit
for the nation's economy. ``We handed the new administration an economy that
grew, Bush asserted.
Meanwhile, in an interview with a San Francisco radio station, Clinton
disputed a suggestion that his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was stepping
aside as the administration's main point person on health care because her
efforts had become too high-profile.
``No. I don't think that's right at all, he told KGO Radio in one of a
series of interviews he did here in advance of his weekend campaign swing
through California.
Clinton said he would renew efforts next year to win approval of
health-care reform. And I just need to go back at it in a way that is less
vulnerable to the interest groups attacking it, he said.
Today's Labor Department report in Washington that unemployment fell to
5.8 percent its lowest level in four years gave the president new ammunition
as he seeks to highlight his own accomplishments.
It's clear that progress has been made, Clinton told reporters.
``America has been growing the economy. More than five million jobs have been
created in the last 21 months. We have delivered what the American people have
long wanted.
`Of course, the real heroes in all this are the American workers, he
added.
As he heads West on a cross-country campaign tour, Clinton is appearing
with Democratic candidates willing to embrace his cause as their own.
Boy, I like being here, Clinton said in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday
evening after listening to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Bonnie Campbell, the
Democrats' candidate for governor, compete with each other to praise Clinton
and the record he has made in the White House over the past 21 months.
Referring to Iowa's incumbent Republican governor, Terry Branstad,
Campbell distanced herself from those Democrats who have not welcomed Clinton
to their campaigns this year.
Campbell said: ``Terry Branstad told people, `I can't believe she would
bring Bill Clinton to Iowa; he would bring her down.
Her Democratic audience cheered when she added: ``Mr. President, you are
far more popular in Iowa than Terry Branstad.
California was next on the Clinton itinerary, with a series of appearances
in the Los Angeles area for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., embroiled in a
controversy over whether she, like her Republican opponent, employed an
illegal immigrant.
Clinton appeared to grow in energy throughout the day Thursday, beginning
in Albany, N.Y., where he dubbed Gov. Mario Cuomo, now rebounding in his
search for a fourth term, as The Comeback Kid'' of 1994. That was the
moniker Clinton claimed for himself two years ago.
`He's having a good time, hot on the campaign trail, White House Press
Secretary Dee Dee Myers said of Clinton.
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Rodham Campaign Treasurer Denies Allegations Made on Police Complaint
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The treasurer of U.S. Senate hopeful Hugh Rodham
denied Friday that he made telephone threats to the campaign's former press
secretary, who has filed a police complaint against him.
Tasha Jospeh, who resigned Oct. 18 citing grave personal
circumstances, told Miami Beach Police last week that Gary Fine had told
her to ``keep her mouth shut'' about the campaign and threatened to blow up
her car.
``It's absolutely, categorically, unequivocally false, Fine said Friday.
The statements weren't made. It was never said. Period.
Joseph said the threats were meant to keep her from discussing the
campaign of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, who's trailing badly
in the polls to Republican incumbent Connie Mack.
Though Joseph said Fine made several calls, Fine said he made only one
demanding that Joseph return equipment and a press book that belonged to the
campaign. Fine said he threatened to call the police if she didn't comply.
Joseph filed the police complaint Oct. 26, the same day Fine said the two
spoke about the equipment. He said it did not come to light until now because
the campaign had stopped payment on Joseph's paycheck, and she was angry.
The stop-payment was issued because Joseph had been paid through the end
of the campaign, he said.
She apparently has some type of desperate need for money, he said.
That's the only motivation. It's awfully foolish.
Joseph did not return a call for comment.
In her resignation letter, Joseph said she was relocating to Broward
County and would no longer be able to work at the campaign's office in Coral
Gables. But she would continue to work from Broward until Nov. 1, she wrote.
Campaign employees said she had not worked since Oct. 15, when President
Clinton and the first lady were in town.
Joseph told The Tampa Tribune the campaign has been poorly managed, and
paid staffers were forced to accept salary cuts while Rodham and some aides
stayed in expensive hotels and splurged on air fare.
Rodham's campaign has had problems before. The former Dade County public
defender first faced criticism for not voting for 13 years until his
brother-in-law, Bill Clinton, ran for president. Later, a former campaign
manager turned on him, alleging misuse of campaign funds.
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AM-MA--Mass. Senate, 1st Ld-Writethru, 0600
Kennedy, Romney Boosted by First Lady, Kansas Senator
Eds: INSERTS 4 grafs after 6th to UPDATE with 30-minute Romney commercial
By JEFF DONN= Associated Press Writer=
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gave U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy
a late campaign push Friday as a `steady, patient, resolute'' leader, but
challenger Mitt Romney took a boost from his own out-of-state backer.
At a senior housing complex in Lynn, U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kansas,
tried to cast the incumbent as out-of-touch.
The Kennedy name is famous in Massachusetts and ... throughout the
country, but this election is about the future, she said. What maybe
worked 30 years ago isn't going to work for us as we end this century and
look ahead, she said.
But, at a rally at Springfield College, Mrs. Clinton praised the
Democratic senator as one of the few who can reach across party lines''
in Washington to unlock the gridlock.
At the same time, she took a swipe at Romney's inexperience, saying the
32-year incumbent `knocked the socks off'' the GOP challenger in their two
debates because Kennedy ``knows what the budget is about.'
Romney, the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, is a venture
capitalist seeking his first elective office. He has given Kennedy the
toughest re-election battle of his career, though Kennedy has pulled ahead in
recent polls.
Romney spent $100,000 to tape and air a 30-minute town meeting''
commercial in which he fielded questions from a friendly studio audience made
up mostly of supporters. The campaign said undecided voters also attended the
forum.
He said Kennedy's 32 years in the Senate have been marked by rises in
taxes, crime and the national debt.
`If, like me, you feel we're headed in the wrong direction
...
then I ask
for your vote, Romney said. ``And with that vote, I will fight for a new
direction.'
The commercial, on WCVB-TV and New England Cable News, opened with
biographical information touting his family ties and business acumen. The
Romney campaign planned to air the commercial Saturday night on WHDH-TV and on
WBZ-TV on Monday.
In Lynn, Romney saluted Kassebaum for her cross-party vote on the crime
bill successfully pushed by President Clinton. Senator Kassebaum was willing
to work for change, to work with people on both sides of the aisle, Romney
said. ``And I agree with her.'
But Kassebaum did not miss the chance to point to her own Republican
heritage as daughter of 1936 Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon.
Kennedy, who accompanied the first lady to the Springfield rally and a
campus daycare center, struck on a range of his traditional themes, including
calls for better educational programs before the sympathetic college crowd.
``All of us who care about quality education
...
welcome you to western
Massachusetts,' he told the president's wife.
However, the crowd turned out a bit less friendly than expected, despite
the many Kennedy signs, when U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, D-Mass. asked, Is my
Uncle Ted going to win the election?'' A sizable group of students yelled back
``No!'' along with the chorus of ``Yes!''
The Democrats brought Mrs. Clinton to Massachusetts to campaign not just
for Kennedy, but also for other two other Democrats running for Congress John
Tierney of Salem, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Peter Torkildsen, and state
Rep. Kevin O'Sullivan of Worcester, who is running against U.S. Rep. Peter
Blute.
But one parent at the day care center, Eileen Cyr, said she believed that
the first lady's influence would be limited at this late date. ``I think you'd
really have to be on the fence
really have to be easily influenced, she
said.
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Visibl Panty Lines Are Latest in Fashion
By Vida Roberts= (c) 1994, The Baltimore Sun=
Designers at the New York spring collections are showing visible panty
lines. It's all part of fashion's backward movement of the moment. Last year
it was thongs and G-strings, but having exposed supermodel backsides to the
glare of paparazzi flash, the fashion-jaded are looking elsewhere for
excitement.
It's to the '50s and your mother's underwear, when respectable girls had
never even heard of bikinis and their bottoms were all covered up by drawers
with cute lolly and spanky names.
That's the new contour, the new hot pants are rounded to cut in at the
thigh. Kate Moss, the underwear poster child, wore them in satin at Marc
Jacobs. At Miu Miu, red panties showed through everything.
Real-life opportunities for wearing these pants would seem to be limited.
A woman could take the panties to the beach with a jacket as a modest suit or
to the club for retro disco.
At Anne Klein, it was not your mother's work-wear or underwear, although
designer Richard Tyler fell for the current obsession for engineered
foundations by giving the Wonderbra a thanks in his program credits. Whether
the successful working woman, who has been the traditional Anne Klein
customer, is ready to use a bra for a push up the corporate ladder remains to
be seen.
Let's hope designers have not abandoned the professional woman in favor of
trophy wives. The reality is still obscured by sound system thump and runway
sashay.
How else to reconcile Randy Kempers bra tops, short skirts and tight pants
with the fact that he's one of Hillary Clinton's favorites? A white leather
bra top would seem too hot for a muggy Potomac summer. So would skin-tight,
knee-length satin skirts.
The longer hemlines, by the way, are being established in all the
collections. For months now, Women's Wear Daily has been capitalizing and
calling them ``New Length'' skirts.
By the end of this week they are sure to become familiar and lower case.
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