European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a the stars and stripes monday february 17, 1992 attack dog tactics challenging Bush in new Hampshire by Walter r. Mears the associated press Concord . A new Hampshire republicans will choose Between a rebuke or a second term Send off for president Bush on tuesday while democrats dominate the Field of challengers in the first presidential primary election of 1992. Bush said saturday that he was facing a attack dog tactics right and left while a Republican and five democrats All campaigning to oust him waged offensives in a final weekend drive for votes. Campaigning in Southern new Hampshire Bush said he has been besieged by negative advertising but argued that gop primary voters wont be guided by a who can trash another candidacy in some 30-Secona Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan told his Manchester Campaign workers a we Are Here to take away the nomination to Lake Back our Buchanan said his conservatives will confront a the hollow army of King George and Cut through it like the democrats campaigned at rallies and restaurants canvassed door to door and bore Down on Bush while sniping at one another. The president Shook hands at a shopping Center dropped by a Manchester outdoor show campaigned with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and stopped at a synagogue supper. He was winding up his new Hampshire Campaign with another half Day of appearances sunday. Within a few Miles and a few hours of one another Bush Buchanan and three of the democrats All campaigned late saturday in the Nashua area. Youthful cadres of Campaign volunteers Many from campuses far beyond new England streamed in to ring doorbells deliver literature and worx Telephone Banks. In polls a sometimes fickle in rating new Hampshire a open primary a former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas held the democratic Edge Over Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton striving to overcome the in act of successive accusations that he had Een involved in an illicit affair and had tried to Dodge the Vietnam draft. Iowa sen Tom Harkin and Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey Are rivals for third place with former California gov. Jerry Brown trailing. The democratic candidates were to meet face to face in a sunday night debate to be televised by can crucial for its timing. Thirty hours after it ends the voting begins. A write in Campaign for new York gov. Mario Cuomo also is seeking support with television advertising Volunteer campaigners How to instructions and a Manchester rally on sunday. Cuomo said he is not encouraging the Effort but will not interfere. The Republican question is not who wins but by How much. Both candidates sides say Bush will run first. Buchanan a target is to Register his conservative message by gaining enough gop votes to prove Bush vulnerable. The Republican turnout is Likely to be about 140,000. About 125,000 ballots Are expected in the democratic primary and in a divided Field it wont take Many votes to shift standings and percentages. A legion of minor candidates will help splinter the primary vote. All told there Are 36 names on the democratic ballot and 25 in the Republican primary. All it took to run was a 51,000 filing fee. Date remains March 10 for Texas Senate primaries Austin Texas a the . Supreme court refused saturday to delay the state Senate primaries which have been marred by accusations that a Federal judge improperly favored republicans in drawing District lines. The , supreme court voted 8-1 saturday against staying the elections with Justice John Paul Stevens dissenting. Texas attorney general Dan Morales on Friday sought the stay of the March 10 primaries. Early Absentee voting begins wednesday Morales spokesman Gray Mcbride said saturday that Texas officials would continue their Appeal. Democrats have charged that . District judge James Nowlin of Austin favored republicans in drawing lines for the 31 state Senate districts. The plan was ordered by a three judge Federal court that Nowlin headed. The state charges that Nowlin a Republican appointee had state rep. George piercer san Antonio secretly adjust the map. Nowlin refuses to comment on the allegations Pierce denies any wrongdoing. Smoke pours from the los Angeles county health department building saturday. Raging fire damages . County building los Angeles a fire ripped through two floors of a county office building saturday injuring three people and forcing 45 workers to flee. Flames and smoke billowed into the air. The Blaze on the seventh and eighth floors of the 12-Story los Angeles county health department building caused office windows to shatter and fall into the Street. Heat could be Felt a Block away. Fire chief Donald Manning said one firefighter and one worker were treated for smoke inhalation and a fire Captain was Cut by broken Glass. None of the victims was injured seriously. All of the 45 workers in the building were accounted for about two hours after the Blaze. The fire caused at least $1 million in damage said Richard Dixon the county a chief administrative officer. Long Range studies of the county a trauma care system were Hurt because records were destroyed in the fire county health officials said. Officials said that they did not know How the fire started but that a Lack of sprinklers let the Blaze get out of control. The building was constructed before a City ordinance made sprinklers mandatory. Smoke could be seen for Miles. It darkened three sides of the Light coloured building nearly to the roof. Crowds gathered and traffic on nearby freeways slowed to a crawl the building about 20 years old houses county health records and staff for the county a Hospital system employee Pete Cascarino said. The structures exterior was used in the television series Haley buried near where roots began Henning Tenn. Apr Alex Haley was buried saturday a few paces from the front porch where he listened As a child to the family stories that inspired his monumental search for his roots. A the made grandfathers and grandmothers and great grandmothers and great grandfathers superstars a the Rev. Jesse Jackson told mourners saturday a Alex Haley resurrected the generations of the connecting Haleys novel roots the Saga of an american family won a pulitzer prize in 1977 and was the basis of a to miniseries watched by 130 million viewers. He died of a heart attack feb. 10 at age 70. The 1,600-seat Greenwood Christian methodist episcopal Church which Haley attended As a child was overflowing during the two hour service. And spectators filled the Small Street in front of the Haley Home As he was buried. African Drums sounded during the burial which also featured a military Honor guard. A separate memorial service was held 50 Miles away in Memphis. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander a former two term governor of Tennessee said Haley was a a god a instrument ,. He was gods storyteller and the most popular person Ever to visit the governors mansion. The grave site is on property formerly owned by Haleys maternal grandparents will and Cynthia Palmer it is now a state museum. A summer after summer As 1 grew up my grandmother and my great aunts told our family a treasured Story All the Way Back to the african who said his name was Kinte Haley wrote in an inscription at the museum. Haley was born in Ithaca n.y., but raised from infancy in Henning by his maternal grandmother. His father a College professor was working in the North and his Mother a grammar school teacher died at a Young age. In roots Haley blended fact and imagination in tracing his family Back six generations to kunta Kikuc a West african slave. His Rich descriptions of his ancestors lives set off a wave of interest in genealogy lasting Long after the Book faded from Best seller lists. The Book sold millions of copies and was translate into at least 37 languages As Well As being adapted an Abc television miniseries
