European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 c the stars and stripes monday february 17, 1992 candidates Trade punches As primary Campaign climaxes Manchester . A democratic presidential rivals argued about their proposals for reviving the Economy and their political credentials sunday in an intense finale to the Campaign for the new Hampshire presidential primary. Front runner Paul Tsongas said Victory would be a mandate to democrats in Congress to heed his rejection of a mid dle income tax Cut. Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton said he has battled Back successfully against personal accusations he called trash that made him Quot virtually a one Man  he said he has now returned to the issues that can prove him a Winner against president Bush. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa ranked far behind both in the polls sniped at them both saying Tsongas sounds like a Republican while the controversy Over Clinton a personal life and draft record raise questions of character and veracity. A they raise questions in everyone a mind and of course in a like everyone else in America a he said. But Clinton said americans a know that i have stoutly denied the untrue tabloid paid for trash alleging an illicit affair a and they know now i did no to Dodge the  Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey and former California gov. Jerry Brown Shook hands at shops and Street Corners As the five Man democratic Field headed into a climactic Campaign debate at St. Anselmus College. The two hour 8 . Confrontation was being broadcast by can. With the first primary election balloting of 1992 starting Only 30 hours after the debate timing made it crucial. In Nashua Bush wrapped up his Republican primary Campaign saying head win substantially and a go on to have another four years As  a you make serious choices Here and you done to elect the loudest or the biggest protester a he told a Pancake breakfast. Conservative challenger Patrick Buchanan insisted he can stall the president in new Hampshire and in the March 3 Georgia primary go on to other contests and eventually a drive or. Bush out of this  All the polls show Bush ahead but they differ on the margin. Buchanan said he expects to do a extraordinarily  a we have run a Campaign that has thrown the White House itself on the defensive a he said in an interview with Wiz to in Boston. The democratic debate Warmup came in sunday interview programs Tsongas on no cd a meet the press Clinton and Harkin on this week with David Brink Ley on Abc. Tsongas repeated that if he were president he would veto a Middle income tax Cut a proposal pushed by democratic congressional leaders. The Buchanan Campaign is broadcasting advertisements accusing Bush of reneging on a tax break for Middle income families that was part of his state of the Union program but was not included in a set of proposals sent to Congress with a demand for immediate action. Clinton has hammered the same argument saying sunday it was a an appalling  Bush said sunday his program is a not a Campaign plan but rather two comprehensive Bills to get the Economy moving. 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 fines. 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 tines 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 Quincy. Author 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 i grew up my grandmother and my great aunts told our family a treasured Story Al the Way Back to the african who said his name was Kinte a Haley wrote m an inscription at the museum. Haley was born in Ithaca n.y., but raised from infancy in Henning by his maternal grandmother. His father t College professor was working in the North and his Mother a grammar school teacher died at a Young age. In roofs Haley blended fact and imagination in tra cing his family Back six generations to kunta Kinte a West african slave. His Rich descriptions of his ances tors 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?,t 37.lan8hages, As Well As being adapted into an Abc television miniseries