European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 b the stars and stripes sunday april 26, 1992 Clinton questions Perot s contributions a a i by the los Angeles times Columbus Ohio in his first attack on h. Ross Perot Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton said Friday that the potential Independent candidate needed to answer questions about whether he had made a vast contributions to congressmen to get special deals for speaking to reporters at the Columbus Airport the democratic presidential can dilate asked of Perot a a if he hates Washington so much what has his relationship with the United states Congress been a does he in fact lobby and make vast contributions to congressmen to get special deals for himself through the Congress what is his background he a got a contribution to make but he a been As political As anybody else has Perot a Dallas based billionaire who made his Fortune in designing and Selling computer systems has said he would spend whatever was required to win if volunteers got his name on All 50 state ballots As an Independent. Clinton and his aides later explained that the reference to special deals was an allusion to a Washington Post article that said Perot contributed $15,000 to the campaigns of congressional tax Law writers who favored legislation that would give Perot a $15 million tax break. According to the Story Perot later denied that he had personally pushed for the break and offered to give the Money Back if the legislation became Law. Clinton a criticism suggested that the Democrat was viewing Perot a threat with a new seriousness. The attack came on a Day when a Gallup can Usa today poll indicated that in a three Way race president Bush would receive 41 percent of the vote Clinton 26 percent and Perot 25 percent. Although Clinton later played Down the criticism he said Perot now represented More of a threat to him than to Bush. For the moment Perot a has what votes he would get on his own merits. Plus the people that have heard bad things about me and not seen anything better a Clinton said. Dee Dee Myers Clinton a press Secretary said Clinton a suggestion concerning Perot a contributions was that the texan a has been very effective at playing by the rules of Washington politics. No one is accusing him of breaking the Clinton also criticized Bush for failing to enact a National health care plan and promised one Early in a Clinton administration. The Arkansas governor toured the neonatal Center at the Pennsylvania Hospital with . Sen. Harris Wofford who Democrat Bui Clinton pushing his plans for prenatal care holds Andrew Morgan while the infants father Douglas Morgan watches at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia on Friday. Won an upset last year Over Republican Dick Thornburgh Bush a former attorney general. The Victory came after a Campaign in which Wofford put health care at the top of his Agenda. Afterwards Clinton told reporters that the country could reduce its nigh rates of infant mortality and Low birth weight babies a while saving Money a through expanded prenatal care programs. A in any system in which we design for health care for All americans there must be a strategy to impose delivery of these services in primary and preventive care Quot he said. If such a Federal program were begun a a we a have major savings a Clinton Calls vote for Clinton ticket on titanic7 aliqu1ppa, a. Apr Democrat Jerry Brown taking his Cue from gov. Robert Casey warned Friday that a vote for rival Bill Clinton in this weeks Pennsylvania primary would be like buying a a ticket on the Brown toured the boarded up shops and cafes of this once thriving steel town in Western Pennsylvania and expressed agreement with Casey that Clinton has Little Chance of winning. A everyone in be talked to knows that voting for Clinton is like taking out a ticket on the titanic a Brown said. A a it a going Down. A the music is playing it sounds Good it looks Good the food is Fine but its going underwater a said the former California governor. Casey has been saying that if enough delegates arrive uncommitted at the democratic National convention they could still Engineer the nomination of a candidate who would be easier to sell to the voters in the fall. Brown lagging far behind Clinton in the Delegate race and Pennsylvania polls urged voters Here to listen to their governor. A once again we re getting ready to lose so disastrously that millions and millions of democrats will be disappointed a Brown said. A i m calling on everyone who knows that the democratic party has to put someone up other than Clinton to vote for my Brown began his walk through Aliquippa about 20 Miles North of Pittsburgh outside a Tunnel leading to an Ltd steel corp. Plant that once stretched nearly seven Miles along the Ohio River and employed about 17,000 people. During the 1980s, the company closed most of the Plant and Laid off most employees. A does this look like Argentina or the United states a Chuck Loverde 33, asked Brown. A yeah its pretty desolate a Brown said. Brown spoke to about 50 people outside the boarded up red Fox movie theater. A a in la go to Washington and if i can to put economic vitality Back in this town ill leave a Brown said. A a in la when he finished speaking a Man in the crowd shouted a you got too much Money against you Jerry. You ainu to got a Chance. That a the problem with this a a it a time to Rise up a a woman shouted to applause from the crowd. Brown asked the Man to continue but rain began pouring Down forcing Brown to hurry to his car. Later Brown addressed about 50 unemployed workers in auditorium of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He told them a Rich country like the United states should have a Job for everyone. Brown said he would follow the Lead of Franklin d. Roosevelt in the 1930s and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of people. Tainted fuel reportedly caused crash Perris Calif. Apr a sky diverse plane that crashed shortly after Takeoff killing 16, was loaded with contaminated fuel that caused the engine to falter a newspaper reported. The contamination was traced to a Load of fuel delivered to Perris Valley Airport on saturday Don Llorente of the National transportation safety Board said Friday. Laboratory tests should identify the contaminant by monday. The planets engines a a done to run on that substance a Llorente said in saturdays press Enterprise of Riverside. Ben Conatser of Canyon Lake who owns the Airport and the plane that crashed said the pumping equip a a a 1 ? a Efu 1" planes had been used to pump other liquids and Wasny to purged before it was used to Transfer the aviation fuel. In addition the Nosb found that the Pilot and Copilot both of whom died in the crash along with 14 sky divers had no formal training in flying the de Havilland twin Otter plane he said. The twin engine plane went Down nose first wednesday while carrying 20 members of american and dutch sky diving teams. Six survivors remained hospitalized Friday. On thursday the Nosb said none of the parachutists was wearing safety belts and the Pilot and Copilot were not properly restrained a factors that May have con it Etc. Ment used to put the fuel into a truck that refuel tribute to the High death toll boy s body found after boat crash Chiefland Fla. Apr searchers on saturday found the body of a 10-year-old boy who was on one of two boats that collided on the Suwannee River injuring nine people and leaving the boy and another child missing authorities said. The coast guard resumed its search at Dawn saturday for the boy and a 12-year-old boy also missing since the Friday evening crash chief Petty officer Keith Spangler said. The search continued for the 12-year-old. Six injured boaters were found Friday in the water or on the two boats and three others turned up on the nearby Riverbank authorities said. The nine were taken to Gainesville area hospitals by helicopter Spangler said. The Levy county sheriffs office did no to release the names of the injured or the boys. The boats one 18 feet Long the other 20 feet Long collided about 9 50 . Near Manatee Springs state Park. Shands teaching Hospital in Gainesville reported admitting one person and treating another from the Accident but declined to give their names. Two people were treated and released at another Hospital. Other hospitals would give out no club backs Buchanan a James not Pat Philadelphia a the procrastinators club of America of around to issuing a political endorsement Friday picking James Buchanan for president. A Buchanan has been dead for nearly 124 years but that should not be a Handicap club president Les Waas said. A Only live politicians cause deficits High taxes wars it Cetera or get Perks a he said. George Washington is the Only other person the group has endorsed for president. Waas said he could t remember the year. Waas said the two members of the clubs political inaction committee agreed Buchanan was today a Best presidential candidate because he served four full years from 1857 to 1861, never avoided military service and volunteered for duty in the War of 1812. Unlike the Modem candidate Pat Buchanan he took no sides on the abortion Issue. Quot regarding the environment Only one Oil Well was drilled during his administration a the first one Ever drilled actually a Waas said. He said Buchanan imposed no income taxes had never heard of Israel never inhaled marijuana and a has always been pro Union especially during the civil
