European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes saturday june 20, 1992 Perot says he is out to buy presidency Denver. A Ross Perot has a simple answer to critics who say he a trying to buy his Way into the White House they re right. A a in a buying it for the people because they can to afford it a you made it too expensive a the billionaire Texas businessman said thursday in California As he opened a three Day Campaign trip. Perot a retort to those who rebuke his wealth and largely self financed Campaign is part of a stump speech that a Folksy and funny with a Good dose of criticism for president Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton. But it contains few specifics on the nations problems. Instead the speech is a series of slogans and cliches promising change quotations from Winston Churchill and Lech Walesa mixed with the Credo of the fictional three musketeers a one for All and All for  Perot a Road show is taking him to states where volunteers say they be gathered enough petition signatures to place him on the november ballot. As he tries to pre empt others from using his wealth against him As an Issue Perot is trying to turn the tables on Bush and Clinton. He tells audiences they should watch every minute of the party conventions this summer a because their tax dollars Are paying for them. And Perot tries to play Down spending his own Money on the Campaign saying Bush and Clinton have spent $17 million apiece so far to his $1.4 million. A and we re ahead a Perot said with a smile in californians heavily Republican Orange county. A so if they want to say we bought it i say we bought it  its one of Perot a most reliable laugh lines. But unlike Perot Bush and Clinton competed in months of primaries. And Perot a figure does not include spending from volunteers who say they Are Quick to dig into their wallets for Campaign expenses but slow to document them. Criticism by Clinton was sneak attack Jackson says by the new York times Washington escalating his conflict with Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton the Rev. Jesse Jackson charged thursday that in a Clumsy bid for the backing of alienated White voters the presumptive democratic candidate had a again exposed a character  Jackson said the Arkansas governor had come to the conference of Jackson a Rainbow coalition in Washington last weekend to a stage a very Well planned sneak attack without the courage to confront but with a calculation to Embarrass him. In his speech to the Rainbow coalition Clinton denounced rap Singer sister soul Jah for having used racially inflammatory language and criticized Jackson for asking her to take part in the meeting. By his Choice of language Jackson rubbed an old sore and raised the Specter of continuing conflict within the democratic party. Clinton has struggled for months to put the a character issues behind him. Jackson said Clinton so machiavellian a Neuvert was designed a purely to Appeal to conservative Whites by containing Jackson and isolating  for Haiti a haitian demonstrators March through the streets on new York City on thursday. They Are wearing Black to symbolize the dying in Haiti under the leaders who deposed president Jean Bertrand Aristide in september. The group denounced president Bush for re Tising to allow haitians to immigrate to the United states and demanded that Aristide be returned to  s sex husband Dies of aids related illness new York a Peter Allen the australian performer who was discovered by Judy Garland and who for a time was married to garlands daughter Liza Minnelli died thursday. He was 48. Allen died of an a1ds-rclated illness in a Northern san Diego county Hospital his personal assistant Bruce Cudd said in a statement from new York. He had lived in Allen Leucadia about 20 Miles North of san Diego for is years. Allens last concert appearances were to packed houses in january in Sydney Australia. Allen was born feb. 10,1944, in Tenterfield Australia where he began singing in pubs at age s. Garland discovered the act which was called Chris and Peter Allen at the Hong Kong Hilton while she was on a world tour. She was impressed enough to ask the duo to open for her in Miami Las vegas and other cities. The duo later broke up and Allen went on to write songs that became hits for him and for others. He recorded 11 albums. Allen and Minnelli were married in 1967 and divorced in 1972. His hit songs included i honestly love you for Olivia Newton John who said Allen was a Good Friend. A even though he is now gone in a glad ill have his song forever a she said in a statement. Other hits included done to cry out loud for Melissa Manchester you and me we wanted it All for Frank Sinatra Arthurs theme for Christopher Cross and id rather leave while in a in love for Rita Coo Lidge. Allen received an Academy award for Arthurs theme which was in the film Arthur. In 1973, during a cabaret revival in new York Allen became the Toast of Reno Sweeney the most influential cabaret at that time. But he shone in big concerts with lots of production numbers in which he was on stage non Stop appearing tireless. He played Many concerts at new Yorkus radio City music Hall. At his first appearance there he was the first performer to join the rocket test kick line. His signature songs in his concerts were quiet please there a a lady on stage and / go to Rio. On Broadway he had a Long run in his autobiographical show up in one a More than a concert. In 1988, he wrote music and lyrics for the Broadway show legs Diamond and played the title role. Critics panned it and the show had a Short run. His first Broadway appearance was in 1970 in soon with Richard Gere Ana Nell Carter. Allen is survived by his Mother Marion sister Lynne and Niece Bryden All of Sydney. The funeral will be private. A memorial service will be  vote on jury challenges praised Washington a supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas is being praised by the a act Legal defense fund often one of his harshest critics because of his votes on civil rights issues in his first year on the nation s highest court. Quot Justice Thomas alone showed some sensitivity to the Points we raised a Steve Ralston of the fund said thursday after the court barred criminal defendants from using race As a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials. Thomas joined the courts 7-2 majority in the Georgia Case of three White defendants charged with beating a Black woman. The court said the defendants May not use their peremptory or automatic challenges of prospective jurors to try to get an All White jury. Thomas appeared to be a reluctant member of the courts majority expressing concern that the ruling could make it harder for Black defendants to get fair trials. In a concurring opinion Thomas said his vote was compelled by the courts recent series of decisions restricting the use of peremptory challenges. A i am certain that Black criminal defendants will Rue the Day that this court ventured Down this Road a said Thomas the courts Only Black member. The Legal defense fund of the National association for the advancement of coloured people had urged the court to let minority members on trial freely exclude Whites from their juries. Earlier in the courts 1991-92 term Thomas enraged the Legal defense fund and other civil rights groups by several of his votes. A Thomas joined the courts 6-3 majority As it made it harder for racial minorities to invoke the Federal voting rights act in challenging the reallocation of political Power among elected officials. A he wrote a strongly worded dissent suggesting that prison guards never violate the constitutions ban on cruel and unusual punishment when they beat inmates. A he cast the decisive vote when the court on a 5-4 vote Cut Back Federal court Access for appeals by defendants convicted in state courts