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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 a the stars and stripes sunday february 9, 1992 Harkin ads assail Quot weak democrats senator blasts rivals for backing Bush Mexico Trade agreement from wire reports Derry . 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 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 a real Democrat Quot 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  Quot id like to give a tax Cut but i can to. Id love to give you a tax credit for having children but 1 can to he said. A 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 with . 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. Brow in 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 1 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. A i made myself available for the draft a he said a i think the facts Are Clear it has been looked into for  harking a new radio ads criticized Gin 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. Ton Kerrey and Tsongas As a weak democrats for supporting the free Trade talks with Mexico. He said 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 Quot we collected thousands of signatures across the state but we weren table to get Over the 1,250 that Are required in any one  a i m glad a responded state Republican chairman William Powers who filed petitions for Bush delegates. Quot Well 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  fined $1.1 million for smuggling pickers Atlanta apr Federal immigration officials Friday imposed their largest Fine Ever a $1.1 million a against a Georgia peach packing company for smuggling in hundreds of mexican labourers. Lane packing co. Of fort Valley one of Georgia a largest peach harvesters and packers was raided by ins agents last june. More than 130 illegal aliens were apprehended and deported. Four Lane employees were arrested on smuggling charges and convicted. An attorney said the company would Appeal the Fine. Ins investigators said that for at least two years the smuggling venture ran 250 alien workers each month to Lane operations in Georgia and to other harvesters in Florida and North Carolina. The smugglers would typically collect from each worker a $1,000 transportation fee $400 for illegal documentation and $50 a month rent a for housing in cramped shacks with poor sanitation and no air conditioning said ins Atlanta District director Thomas p. Fischer. Workers were paid about $4 an hour. Quot they had these individuals both men and women in their Little bondage Type operation a he said at a news conference. A they had them with the rent. They had them with the false cards. They probably used the threat of calling immigration to have troublemakers deported. The Fine was calculated on the basis of More than 1,000 worker documentation violations As Well As other factors. Of 1,275 worker documentation forms on file at the Central Georgia company 1,257 were improper ins agents said. Duke Lane head of Lane packing co., referred questions Friday to attorney Jay Hawkins who said the company will Appeal to an administrative Law judge and then to Federal court if necessary. Quot we Are going to Appeal the Fine and we Are investigating these allegations that have been made a he said. Ins officials suspect that Lane management was aware of the violations but there is insufficient evidence and verification at this Point to bring other criminal charges Fischer  gets drop on police officers Oxford a. Up 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 before realizing their mistake. Kennedy interest causes Dallas to lose bid Dallas up a Dallas is out of the running for the 1995 special olympics world games because of renewed attention on the assassination of John f. Kennedy mayor Steve Bartlett said Friday. Bartlett said Dallas had been in the Lead to be Host to the major event of the special olympics founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver sister of the president assassinated in the City in 1963, but organizers decided against it. A 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 Stone s film questions the Lone Assassin premise of the Warren commis Sion 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 it 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 Quot the current furore to live Well into 1995. Quot 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 the title of the Quot Host City for the 1999 games. The world games Are held every four years. In 1995, they Are expected to attract 6,000 mentally retarded athletes 2,500 coaches and tens of thousands of volunteers and family members to the Host City. The City Council last week opened previously sealed police files from the police investigation but so far researchers have found nothing strikingly new  
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