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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 28, 1992 election 92 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bush envisions jobs health care As future goals Albuquerque . A president bus offered a Brief High minded look at his second term priorities monday and followed it up hours later wit another slashing attack on Democrat Bill Clinton. Returning to his familiar theme that Clinton has been truthful about his Vietnam draft record Bush charged you cannot equivocate and  is a pattern of deception the president said at an outdoor rally As thousands cheered. And you cannot Lead America by misleading an you darn sure can t turn the White House into the Waffle  just 3vz hours earlier Bush described to a hardware dealers convention in Denver his vision of a second term and his philosophical differences with  president said his top priorities would be creating jobs increasing exports and providing health care to Al americans. The two speeches were the political equivalent of Yin and Yang. Where one offered Cool reasoning the other was filled with hot rhetoric. The approach seemed calculated to offering voters rationale to vote for Bush while keeping the heat on Clinton with slashing attacks. In Denver Bush said with each program gov. Clinton puts Forth you Seea philosophy where bureaucrats in Washington or some entrenched members of Congress carve out the exact same programs to try and solve problems facing people in Denver and Dallas or Dover or Delaware. And i be Lieve americans understand that these old Liberal solutions Are not right for our new postwar Era. It does no make sense that hardware store owners will somehow get Richer by giving More of your Money to the irs. A sea of supporters greets president Bush at the civic Plaza in Albuquerque ., on monday afternoon. It does t make sense that we will get this terrible deficit Down by giving More Money to the government to spend. At a time when every organization is decentralizing Power Why turn Back to Central bureaucracy in Washington in Albuquerque Bush said Clinton is no expert. He has no feeling for foreign affairs or defense. He was the Guy that said the Patriot missile was the one that goes Down chimneys. Gover nor that is Santa Claus. This Guy wants to be com Mander in chief and he does t know the difference Between the Patriot and Santa  later in the speech he told the crowd no we be got a world of difference Between the Linton Gore ticket and the Bush Quayle ticket. And May i say i am very proud of my running mate. I love the equity in the news Media. They beat up on Dan Quayle for going into the service and they apologize for Clinton for staying out of the service. Come on where s fair play out there where is fair play twp Erot s latest ads focus on family Job creation Dallas a Ross Perot spent nearly $1 million for two half hour commercials leading into Abc s monday night football neither of which touched upon the firestorm Over his allegation about gop dirty tricks. The hour Long presentation featured previously Jared segment on his family life and a new 30-minute spot How to build a business designed to promote his Job creation ideas. Though editing on the jobs segment was finished just hours earlier the pro Gram contained no mention of the imbroglio Over Perot s weekend charges that he was driven out of the Campaign last july because of Republican dirty tricks including a threat to Embarrass one of his daughters. President Bush s spokesman Marli Fitzwater called those charges the ramblings of a paranoid and crazy  in the latest half hour spot Perot billionaire who founded the nation s larg est computer services company said think the. Record shows pretty clearly i have created huge numbers of  i understand that we can create More jobs More quickly through the Small Busi Ness sector of our Economy than another Way he said. Stimulating Small businesses would be closing statement at the final presidential debate oct. 19. I m not going to Tell you How to  s wrong Perot said in one of the new spots. But you ought to vote for what you believe in and you know that s Here s nothing More powerful than Ross Perot looking in the camera and talking to you and that s exactly what he s doing Sharon Holman spokeswoman for Perot the highest priority of a Perot administration he said adding that he favors Bank regulation changes to make More credit available. Earlier monday Perot also unveiled nine new 30 and 60-second commercial sin which he personally appeals to voters. The ads were the first aside from his half hour programs that featured Perot himself. Some Are excerpts of Perot s  until now Perot s Short commercial shave used stylized images along with a scrolling text to discuss issues such As the National debt. Some of his longer pro Grams have featured Perot lecturing on economics with charts while others have been of Perot family and friends responding to an interviewer. There s nothing More powerful than Ross Perot looking in the camera an talking to you and that s exactly what he s doing Perot spokeswoman Sharon Holman said of the ads. In the How to build a business com Mercial Perot was interviewed in a studio by his Media consultant Murphy  said business owners should develop Benefit programs that Are comparable Fornall employees and be wary of building up too much debt. I would t consider starting a business without doing it very simply very straightforwardly and have everybody i your business know what those philosophies Are Perot said. That s the easy part. Then you As the founder have to live them Day in and Day  he has bought another 30 minutes of time on lbs at 11 30 . Est today 30 minutes on Abc and Abc sunday and30 minutes on All three major networks monday the eve of the election. Since formally entering the presiden tial race oct. 1, Perot has spent $26 Mil lion on advertising. Californians split on proposal to Cut welfare by the los Angeles times californians Are evenly divided Over a referendum proposition to Cut welfare and the measure s Fate May hinge on which party does a better Job on voter turn out according to the los Angeles times poll. Proposition 165, a measure pushed by gop gov. Pete Wilson has the support of Wilson s fellow republicans by More than 2-1, the poll showed. Democrats on the other hand oppose it by the same lopsided ratio the statewide Survey showed. So the partisan composition of the electorate tues Day probably will determine whether the measure passes or fails. At the same time Wilson s Basic unpopularity has weakened his ability to attract support for the measure. The governor s Job rating inched downward and hit anew All time Low in this Survey with Only 29 percent approving of his performance and 62 percent disapproving. The times poll also found very close contests Over two other ballot measures proposition 161, to allow doctor assisted suicide and euthanasia. And proposition 167, to increase taxes on business and the wealthy. But voters overwhelmingly support proposition 164,to impose term limits on members of Congress by a 2-1 ratio a margin of 33 percentage Points. They als favor proposition 166, to require companies to provide health insurance for their employees by a 14-Pointmargin. There remains a lot of confusion about most of these measures however and Many voters May not firm up their decisions until election Day. For example nearly three fourths did not know enough about proposition 167 to offer an opinion until it was explained by times poll interviewers. The interviewers ran into a similar situation with nearly two thirds of those surveyed on proposition 166, More than half on proposition 165, nearly half on proposition 161, and four in 10 on proposition 164. Only on term limits do most voters seem to have made up their minds. After people were read a summary of each proposal together with some of the pro and con arguments these were the results among registered voters proposition 161, euthanasia for 49 percent against 45 percent undecided 6 percent. Proposition 164, term limits for 61 percent against 28 percent undecided 11 percent. Proposition 165, welfare for 42 percent against 43 percent undecided 15 percent. Proposition 166, health insurance for 49 per cent against 35 percent undecided 16 percent. Proposition 167, taxes for 42 percent against 44 percent undecided 14 percent  
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