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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, February 9, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes sunday february 9, 1992 Harkin ads assail weak democrats senator blasts rivals for backing Bush Mexico Trade agreement from wire reports Derry . A Iowa sen. Tom Harkin attacking party rivals by name in his ads for the first time is trying to make a proposed Trade agreement with Mexico a litmus test of Quot democratic Quot values. In two 60-second radio spots Friday Harkin accused Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton and former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas of endorsing a Quot scheme to Send our jobs  Harkin says in the ads that he is the Only Quot real Democrat running for president because he alone among the candidates opposed a Bill last year giving president Bush so called Quot fast track authority to negotiate a free Trade agreement with Mexico. Kerrey meanwhile called on Clinton to show the same Candor about his draft status he once asked of vice president Dan Quayle. Clinton said the facts about his draft deferment Are already Clear. And Tsongas proclaimed himself the Only fiscal conservative on the democratic ballot in the feb. 18 new Hampshire primary. The former Massachusetts senator said his democratic rivals and president Bush have promised so much during the Campaign that they sound As if they Are Quot running for Santa  a a in a like to give a tax Cut but i can to. Id love to give you a tax credit for having children but i can to Quot he said. Quot my Job is to take the resources of this country and pour it into the manufacturing base and get this engine  Bush who is expected to launch his reelection Campaign this week visited with schoolchildren at an inner City health Center in san Diego on Friday. His Campaign began using images of the persian Gulf War in his new Hampshire ads for the first time. The 30-second to spot seeks to dramatize Bush a Battles with Congress Over the Economy and shows him Ith . Troops in saudi Arabia and then flashes images of warplanes citizens waving flags and the Berlin Wall crumbling. Meanwhile democratic National chairman Ron Brown dismissed a write in Campaign on behalf of new York gov. Mario Cuomo and said he expects his party a nominee to come from the ranks of democrats now in the race. Quot we All know the history of write in candidates a Brown said noting that they almost always failed. Browne a Republican counterpart newly selected gop chairman Rich Bond said it does no to matter whom democrats choose because Bush will win the november election Quot up Down and  the two party chairmen faced off in an appearance before the National press club Kerrey told reporters in Boston that when Quayle a Vietnam Era stint in the Indiana National guard became an Issue in 1988, Clinton had questioned whether Quayle had levelled with voters about what he did. The Nebraska senator also quoted so optically a Clinton statement that he had failed the hearing portion of a physical for a Navy officer program. A Well in a telling you maybe in �?T69 they had a different Standard but in 1968 if you could walk a straight line stand up right use a knife and Fork you could be a naval officer in the worlds largest Navy because i did it a Kerrey said. Clinton in 1969 received a draft deferment on condition that he join an Roth program but later gave up the deferment and was reclassified 1-a. Soon after that the draft lottery began. The number he Drew 311, was High enough to ensure that he would not be called. The Arkansas governor told reporters in new Hampshire on Friday that his situation was different from Quayle a. Quot i made myself available for the draft a he said. Quot i think the facts Are Clear. It has democratic candidate sen. Tom Harkin gestures Friday while saying i want to grab him Bush and i want to shake him hard and see if i can get some sense into that Skull of  Harkin said the president does no to understand families facing foreclosure. Been looked into for  harking a new radio ads criticized Clinton Kerrey and Tsongas As a weak democrats for supporting the free Trade talks with Mexico. He s lid he alone among the democratic presidential contenders had a the guts to stand up for american working people when it  Harkin was among 38 democrats in the Senate and scores of them in the House who unsuccessfully opposed giving Bush Quot fast track authority to negotiate a free Trade Accord with Mexico. A when the Spears Start flying it usually Means the Spear thrower is behind a responded Peggy Connolly a spokeswoman for Tsongas. Meanwhile it was announced Friday that Pat Buchanan can to run in new Yorkus Republican primary. The conservative challenger to Bush has failed to get any Delegate candidates onto the state Republican ballot his new York team announced Friday. They blamed the states restrictive election Law. Buchanan spokesman John Kern said a we collected thousands of signatures across the state but we weren table to get Over the 1,250 that Are required in any one  Quot in a glad a responded state Republican chairman William Powers who filed petitions for Bush delegates. A a we la be the first state to deliver 34 congressional District delegates to the president a Powers said. The Bush delegates wont have any opposition. Kern said new Yorkus restrictive election Laws made Quot a lot of people feel disenfranchised out there. They done to have a  signs Bill to extend jobless benefits Washington a president Bush signed legislation late Friday to extend unemployment benefits by 13 weeks a measure Congress rushed to him earlier in the week to help 2 million jobless americans including 600,000 whose benefits would otherwise run out this month. Earlier in the Day the government announced that the unemployment rate remained at a five year High of 7.1 percent and Bush Lent an air of urgency to the benefits Extension by signing it while aboard air Force one on his return from California. At the same time the president renewed his Chal Lenge to Congress to pass his Overall economic recovery package by March 20. A a in a not giving up on the Congress acting for the Good of this nation a he told reporters noting the alacrity with which the lawmakers had forwarded the jobless benefits Bill. Asked about fact that he had twice killed unemployment benefits Bills after Congress passed them last year he replied a i said i want to do it but i want to do it within the budget  the legislation he signed Friday meets that condition he said. A the Only Way you can protect the taxpayer is beat Back a lot of bad ideas that Are going to make the deficit even worse and they re going to Hurt people even More a he said. Congress overwhelmingly approved the $2.7 billion election year measure on wednesday. But the White House did not receive the legislation until thursday when the president had already left on a Quick Cross country trip to promote his new health care package. The Bill would add an additional 13 weeks to the benefits jobless people can receive. Currently they can get either 39 or 46 weeks of coverage depending on the unemployment rates in their  gets drop on police officers Oxford a. Up1 police were All set to shoot it out with a cardboard likeness of Eddie Murphy. The officers were called to an apartment building Here by a frightened woman and caught a glimpse of a life size likeness of a gun toting Murphy As he appeared in the movie another 48hrs. The officers twice ordered the cutout Murphy to drop his weapon and pulled their own guns Bic realizing their mistake. Ore Kennedy interest causes Dallas to lose bid n Ai i a n Mph Ria inc in Mit ref the Riis it. A Dallas up Dallas is out of the running for the 1995 special olympics world games because or renewed attention on the assassination of John f. Kennedy mayor Steve Bartlett said Friday. Bartlett said Dallas had been in the Laior Ever special olympics founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver sister of the president Lead to be Host to the major event of the d by the i assassinated in the City in 1963, but organizers decided against it. Quot the difficulty has been with the new attention to the Kennedy assassination and the new opening of the previously classified City papers combined with the movie a he told reporters referring to the current hit movie Juk. Oliver stones film questions the Lone Assassin premise of the Warren commission and has sparked Calls for a look at closed Federal files. The City of Dallas recently opened some old police files from the Case. Bartlett said the decision to drop Dallas was made by a special olympics site selection committee but that he agrees Quot that would take away from the games themselves and the athletes themselves to have the event in Dallas because the Kennedy family is so closely associated with the special  while the games Are still three years away Bartlett said he expects a the current furore to live Well into 1995. A it is the apparent nature of things a he said. An announcement of the site of the 1995 games is expected within 90 Days and Bartlett said Dallas May bid for that title of the Quot Host City for the 1991 games. The world games Are held every four years. In 1995, they Are expected to at tract 6,000 mentally retarded athletes 2,500 coaches and tens of thousands o volunteers and family members to that Host City. The City Council last week opened previously sealed police files from the police investigation but so far researcher have found nothing strikingly new  
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