European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 c the stars and stripes Friday february 7,1992 Haiti curbs repatriation of refugees by Cox news service port a Prince Haiti the . Coast guard is set to resume the forced return of haitian boat people thursday after the de Facto military government Here temporarily halted the repatriation. However Haiti said it will accept Only half the number of coast guard cutters . Officials had planned to Send this week a . Embassy official said. The official said Haiti argued that it could not assimilate such Large numbers of refugees at one time. . Officials had planned to Send two Day tour Day but the haitians said they would boats wednesday thursday and sat be willing to accept Only two boats on thursday and one on saturday. The repatriation program began monday and Only two coast guard cutters carrying 381 refugees have been permitted to Dock. Roughly 15,000 refugees Are to be returned from the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Analysts speculated that the haitian military concerned Over . Threats to freeze haitian assets and Over reports that invasion plans Are being studied is using the refugee Issue As a bargaining Chip to prevent such actions. The Bush administration wants the bulk of the refugees sent Back arguing they Are fleeing Adverse economic conditions and therefore do not qualify for political Asylum. Rep. Charles b. Rangel d-n.y., said in Washington that the haitian military and police merely want More time to fingerprint the returning boat people so they can More easily be targeted for repression. The haitians took flight after a bloody sept. 30 coup ousted Haiti a first freely elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Haitian military Leader Raoul Cedras ruled out the possibility of Aristides return As president this week. However negotiations on the Issue Are still being held with the organization of american states. In Atlanta on wednesday a court closed the judicial door on the haitians remaining at Guantanamo Bay who have been denied permission to apply for political Asylum. A three judge panel of the 11th . Circuit court of appeals instructed a Federal judge in Miami to dismiss their Case after finding they have no rights under american or International Law. The . Immigration and naturalization service has allowed slightly More than 3,000 of the haitians at Guantanamo Bay to apply for political Asylum. About 6,000 Nave been denied permission while the rest Are waiting to go through Ihus screening. On Jan. 31, the supreme court cleared the Way for the coast guard to ship the first or the rejected applicants Back to Haiti. An attorney for the haitians said the group planned to Appeal the panels decision to the supreme court. Wrong Way paddlers if these geese could read they would know they Are afoul a or or fowl a of the Law. Maybe however there really is safety in numbers. The Gaggle of geese was out for a sunny stroll this week along a Pond at a Park in Brockton mass. Clinton trying to dear name of draft dodging accusation Manchester . A democratic presidential contender Bill Clinton on thursday denied he tried to avoid the Vietnam draft while his democratic rivals said the Issue raises questions about his character. Clinton campaigning in the Lead off presidential primary state said he gave up a draft deferment in the fall of 1969 after just two months because t did no to think it was rights to keep it. He was responding to a published report that he avoided being called up during a crucial two month period by agreeing to sign up for up an Roth program that he never actually joined. The draft Issue commanded considerable attention As four major democratic presidential contenders campaigned across new Hampshire with less than two weeks to go before the Kickoff feb. 18 primary. President Bush meanwhile dispatched his top surrogate to new Hampshire to Campaign on his behalf a his wife Barbara. Mrs. Bush chided Congress for not enacting Bush a economic proposals saying the president a has had three of the most frustrating years of not getting the Congress to act on  the draft controversy arose just As the Clinton Campaign was recovering from unsubstantiated accusations by an Arkansas woman who said she had a 12-year affair with the governor. Clinton denied the charges. A the last thing Bill Clinton needs now is another Story questioning his veracity and integrity a said Iowa sen. Tom har Kin a democratic candidate who served As a Vietnam Era cargo Pilot based in Japan. A i think its Goin amp to Hurt him a Harkin said. A i think its going to raise further  a i Hope he a telling the truth but in be got some doubts a said Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey another rival who lost part of a leg in Vietnam and won the medal of Honor for heroism there. He said Clinton a explanations a just done to have the ring of  former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas tried to shift the focus elsewhere saying the draft Issue would distract from More important matters. A my candidacy Only has a lift if the Economy is the Issue a he said. Tsongas released a new to and in which he dismisses election year tax Cut plans supported by some of his rivals As a a gimmicks that wont help the Economy. Harkin released a child care proposal that Calls for a family leave Law subsidizing More guidance Counselor for elementary schools and expanding nutrition programs for women and children. Clinton too fielded voters questions about education health care and jobs. But he was besieged with questions about his draft status in the late 1960s. The Wall Street journal on thursday quoted a former draft Board official Opal Ellis a Republican As saying Clinton told her he was too Well educated to be drafted and would a pull every string he could think of to avoid it. Clinton said he had a absolutely no conversations with Here and that the reported Exchange a a just did no to  Clinton said he was granted a four year deferment when he agreed to join the Roth but put himself Back into the draft Pool in the. Fall of 1969 and fully expected to be called up. A nearly everybody else was being called a he said. A i had friends who were wounded there. Four of my High school classmates died  funds lag behind Washington apr Republican presidential candidate David Duke has a Campaign fund of Only $58,864, a fraction of the Money his rivals have collected according to Federal election commission records. Most of the Money the former Kun jux Kjan Leader listed in his year end Fec report came from a Transfer of $50,100 from his unsuccessful Campaign for Louisiana governor last fall. Duke listed $6,781 in expenses for the period finishing with a Cash balance of $52,083 for the year. Relaxed Dukakis gladly sifting out race Boston apr Michael Dukakis lives in Florida wears hawaiian shirts and shoes without socks and does no to fret about his place on the sidelines of the 1992 presidential Campaign. If this years Campaign kindles any nostalgia in Dukakis it does no to show. Asked whether he a watching the Campaign with any personal yearning the 1988 democratic nominee says  but there seems to be anger when the subject of the Campaign comes up a especially the Media coverage �?o1 done to blame anybody but myself for my defeat in �?T88, but having gone through it i sure done to want to see other people go through the same sort of thing a the former Massachusetts governor said. Dukakis 58, and his wife Kitty Are living in the guest Wing of a former supporters Home while he teaches at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. His political Pace has slowed although he says speaking engagements and other activities still keep him talking about issues. Dukakis fall in politics was Swift. When he came Home to Massachusetts from his failed run he got an icy reception especially when he called for tax increases. As the states Economy worsened it became popular to Bash Dukakis and he did t seek a fourth term