European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes tuesday May 19, 1992clinton says democrats keyed to Reform r a or inn san Diego a Bill Clinton asked for help sunday in convincing americans enamoured with the idea of an Independent candidate that the democratic party is Best suited to change America for the better. A a let a go out and Tell the american people the democrats can be for political Reform. Well change what we be done wrong too a Clinton said delivering the keynote address at a democratic dinner for san Diego activists. Clinton without naming Ross Perot said americans have a a profound disillusion with the Way Washington has worked for the past decade and have decided a no party is the Best option. A new poll released Over the weekend shows Perot the Texas billionaire considering a presidential run As an Independent now leading both president Bush and Clinton. Voters a Are blaming both parties a said the Arkansas governor who has practically locked up the delegates needed for the democratic presidential nomination but is campaigning in and Vance of californians june 2 primary nonetheless. He also had two fund raisers in the state sunday evening. Clinton called Reagan Bush economics Over the past decade a a fraud Quot that was touted As a Way to create great Prosperity but resulted in Only a privileged few enjoying any Benefit. But he said democrats were to blame for americans Disfavour with politics too because congressional democrats helped pass the Republican administrations deficit swelling budgets the savings and Toan deregulation and Perks for lawmakers. A so people say maybe what we need is no party. Maybe what we need is somebody not in politics a Clinton said. Clinton pushed the need for an Industrial policy that would have management labor and government work together a health care plan to cover everyone and education changes that would let students Swap College tuition for Community service. As in Many other outings on the Campaign Trail he got his Best applause a a standing ovation from some segments a for pledging his commitment to abortion rights. Abortion morality should be debated in Home and in churches he said not by the government. A group plans bid to recall Louisiana governor Baton Rouge la. Up a group seeking the ouster of gov. Edwin Edwards just six months after he regained inc states top Job has announced it will kick off a petition drive this summer to Force a recall election. A Edwards can to say a i Haven to been Given a Chance what she done a zilch a said Ted Schirmer the organizer of recall �?T92. If Edwards were voted out of office in such an election it. Gov Melinda Schwegmann would become governor. In december however she publicly disavowed a recall drive. Recall �?T92 said it will Start a 180-Day petition drive on july 2 to gather the 740,000 voter signatures required to Force a recall election. The controversial governor Defeated sex Kun flux klan Leader David Duke last fall. Edwards who served three terms As governor in the 1970s and 1980s, is said to be fond of gambling and women and was indicted but acquitted on corruption charges in 1985. A lawyer and Vietnam Veteran Schirmer has publicly advocated a recall election since Edwards battled Duke for the governors chair. Edwards Defeated Duke 61 percent to 39 percent a a margin that frightened Many people a in a nov. 16 Runoff election. Quot polls show that 62 percent of the people done to want to support either one a Schirmer had said two weeks before last Falls election. A let the True believers support their candidates and the rest of us will get together a recall  he said sunday that the six months since the election have provided Edwards with enough time to prove whether he has changed his political ways a something he promised to do during his gubernatorial Campaign. Organizers of the drive said they set july 2 As the Edwards kick off of their recall Effort in order to give Edwards until the end of the current session of the state legislature to accomplish something. A we could Start it tomorrow a Schirmer said. A but i think we should give him the full session to fulfil his Promise of a new  Louisiana a gubernatorial Runoff last fall gained International attention because of the two unusual candidates. The flamboyant Edwards a populist Democrat was in the governors mansion when a Federal grand jury began investigating his business dealings involving hospitals and nursing Homes. It indicted him on corruption charges in 1985, but he was cleared in a trial. Duke ran As a Republican even though much of the party denounced him. A former Kun flux klan grand wizard and nazi sympathizer his White supremacist views scared and angered Blacks hispanics and jews. Edwards campaigned on his ability to form coalitions and work with inc state legislature in order to improve the Economy of Louisiana. He promised to Ward off a fiscal disaster and a huge loss of tourism revenues predicted for the state if Duke won Edwards stressed that if elected he would run an honest and open administration. Duke stumped for welfare Reform and abolition of affirmative action programs. He accused Edwards of corruption and told voters Jesus Christ caused him to recant his involvement with the Kun flux klan and the american nazi movement. Edwards took office in january for his fourth term As governor. Duke almost immediately kicked off a Campaign to win the Republican party a presidential nomination but that Effort fizzled in a series of dismal primary showings after which Duke retired to write his  suspects meet with . Defense lawyer by the los Angeles times Washington two libyans accused of bombing pan am flight 103 in december 1988 have met in Tripoli with a leading Washington criminal defense attorney a sign that Libya is taking Steps that could bring them to trial in the United states any break in the deadlock Over libyans refusal to surrender the two defendants could Lead to lifting the air embargo and other sanctions the , Security Council imposed against Libya. Four other libyans Are sought by France for the 1989 bombing of a French Airliner Over the Sahara desert. The two suspects in the pan am bombing met in Tripoli this month with defense attorney Plato Cacheris. In an interview Cacheris said that he sought to allay fears they voiced about being tortured by . Authorities and that he explained the civil liberties guarantees governing . Trials. A state department official said that despite Cacheris meetings a we Are very sceptical of any libyan offer. They have made repeated offers in the past since last november and have never acted on them. We have seen no  on several occasions libyan Leader Mon mar Qadhafi and other libyan officials have indicated they were ready to surrender the suspects to various intermediaries but then they have reneged or imposed conditions that were deemed unacceptable. Cacheris whose clients have included watergate defendants Oliver North a Secretary Fawn Hall in the Iran Contra affair and a prominent figure in the Bocci International banking scandal said he had not been officially retained to represent either Man. The meeting was arranged by a libyan businessman he said but he would not identify him. Cacheris also met with libyans minister of Justice Ibrahim Bakari. Cacheris said Bakari expressed doubts that the two defendants Abdel Basset Al Mezrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fahimah could receive a fair trial Given the failure of a jury to convict four White men in the los Angeles police beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. Bakari according to Cacheris said libyan Law docs not permit extradition of its citizens a As Qadhafi also has said a and that he would not encourage them to surrender to . Authorities. But he said they could do so voluntarily and that his government would place no obstacles in their path. Boy with reattached arms graduates bowwow . A John Thompson whose arms were reattached after a january farm Accident grasped his High school diploma Between his wrists sunday and hugged his classmates at a tearful graduation ceremony. The 18-year-old from Hurdsfield received a standing ovation after singing the popular song one moment in time in the school gymnasium packed with about 400 family members friends and Well wishers. He dedicated it to his nine classmates saying a a in la never be Able to repay you  his classmates also look time to recognize him. A you made this a year that no one will Ever forget a salutatorian Kristen Fike told Thompson in her speech. Thompson was working alone on the family farm Jan. 11 when he became entangled in Power machinery that Tore off Boih arms. He staggered 400 feet to his House used his Mouth to open doors and punched out a Call for help with a Pencil clenched in his Teeth. That same Day doctors at a Minneapolis area Hospital reattached both arms during an eight hour operation. Thompson will spend the summer undergoing physical therapy in Minneapolis. He has regained considerable mobility and feeling in his upper arms and doctors believe he May regain at least partial use of his hands. A they said in a coming along really Good a Thompson said after the graduation. A they done to know Why i am doing so Well. In a so far ahead of  Johns father Larry Thompson said a the works hard every Day to get where he is now. He does no to cheat. He a not a  Thompsons Story was reported worldwide and he has been showered with attention since the Accident. His Mother Karen Thompson said he gets about 20 Calls and 30 to 40 letters a Day from people All Over the world a Many from people who Are sick or injured and want to meet him. Karen Thompson said she became fed up with such requests and told a woman on the phone last week a my son is not Jesus Christ. He cannot heal your  she said John plans to study voice at a College in the fall. He also has been invited to sing at a Minneapolis recording studio. Dying mom gets her wish visit from imprisoned son Kansas City Kan. A a Missouri prison inmate unable to visit his dying Mother because her Hospital was a Block across the state line in Kansas was finally allowed to see her after a lawmaker intervened. Jimmie Mccartney an inmate at the Western Missouri correctional Center was granted permission to go to his Mother Dorothy Stark at the University of Kansas medical Center on sunday. He spent 30 minutes with Bis Mother who is dying of cancer and had said her last wish was to see her son. The state department of corrections had said Mccartney who has been in and out of prison for 20 years for burglary and theft could not go because the state would lose custody of him once he left Missouri. A i was outraged Quot said state sen. Harry Wiggins who read about the situation. Wiggins contacted the state corrections director Dick d. Moore who instructed prison officials to allow Mccartney to visit his Mother