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Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Ex-rivals may combine forces
Bush considers asking McCain to fill ticket
The Associated Press
DEARBORN, Mich. — George W. Bush said yesterday he would consider offering the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket to John McCain, the rival he defeated in this year's rugged primaries.
Last month, McCain suspended his bid for the GOP nomination after falling far behind in a sometimes-brutal campaign against Bush. The Arizona senator won seven primaries, attracting support from Independents and Democrats that could be helpful in November.
McCain has said repeatedly and forcefully that he's not interested in the No. 2 spot on the ticket. But Bush said the topic may well come up on May 9 in Philadelphia when they have their first face-to-face meeting since the primaries.
"As I walk into the meeting, I'll take him for his word, but I do want to visit with him," Bush said.
Standing next to Bush at a news conference was Michigan Gov. John Engler, who frequently was mentioned as a potential running mate until Bush lost the Michigan primary badly.
He hastened to add that "there will be
"in spite of the fact that we had a rough go here in the Michigan primary.
Bush said he also would give Engler consideration.
Bush: Wants to meet with McCain face-to-face
he's still an ally," said Bush. "I like him a lot."
Yesterday he was asked about Engler, but on his own declared, "I'll give John McCain consideration."
Bush's campaign theme for the day was affordable housing, and at a rebuilt home in Battle Creek, he called for a $1.7 billion tax break for developers who
build for low-income residents. Later in the day, he held a roundtable discussion with housing experts.
Bush offered the latest in a series of housing initiatives. This proposal includes a five-year program giving
developers a tax credit worth up to 10 percent a year on the cost of building homes in low-income areas.
"The purpose of the program is not just to provide shelter, but shelter that somebody can say 'this is mine,'" Bush said. "When you own a home, it not only enhances the community, it
McCain: Says she's not interested in joining Bush
makes the schools better because you have a certain sense of stability."
Aides to rival Al Gore dismissed the new proposal, arguing it was yet another example of Bush promising something he hasn't delivered as governor of Texas.
Bush taking more liberal stances
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sounding almost like a Democrat, Republican George W. Bush has unveiled an education agenda one day, headline-grabbing health care and environmental initiatives the next, an affordable-housing plan yesterday.
Where's Al Gore?
After one splashy missimp in the Elian Gonzalez storm, the vice president, who had put his policy proposals on the table months ago, was executing a low-watt strategy to gain consistency for his message, cash for his party, and a homespun shine to his public image.
Gore aides knew he got no front pages with the "School Days" he has begun conducting in battleground states such as Michigan. There, he talked education policy until midnight about teacher Claudia Amboyer's chocolate cake before tucking himself into her
son's bedroom and immersing himself the next day in her eight-hour school routine.
But local communities ate up these vignettes, Gore representative Chris Lehane said. And the campaign saw them as a way to undo perceptions of him as detached and a Washington insider.
"The lesson from Iowa and New Hampshire, where Al Gore spent a great deal of time, was that people liked him more the more they saw him and heard him," Lehane said.
More broadly, Gore's evolving stands on Elian and campaign reform resurrected a key vulnerability — inconsistency.
"It's generally hard to know what Al Gore believes in on any given day," Bush representative Ari Fleischer said.
On the other hand, Gore's Lehane called Bush's initiatives effort the Seinfeld of campaigns — a campaign
about nothing beyond his irresponsible tax cuts and embracing of Bob Jones University."
Race for President
After a primary season that saw Bush listing rightward and courting religious conservatives, Mueller said Bush now was "coming back with issues, particularly education and health care, which play very well with Hispanic and suburban-women swing voters."
In recent days, Bush has proposed nearly $60 billion in new spending on signature Democratic issues — childhood literacy, health care for the poor, low-income housing and environmental cleanup.
Police praised by businesses, criticized by protest officials
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia officials are heartened that bands of protesters were prevented from sabotaging world finance meetings, but a debate about police tactics erupted in the wake of nasty street confrontations that led to more than 1,300 arrests.
The Associated Press
"Nobody wanted to see another Seattle," said Chief Charles H. Ramsey of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, particularly in the nation's capital — tourist haven, host to diplomats, presidents, kings and queens, the nation's showcase.
The department's commanders had a nightmare scenario in mind — protesters like those in Seattle last fall, rampaging and destroying property, police reacting and perhaps overreacting with tear gas — when they drafted a plan to prevent criminal activity without muzzling social activism.
"They really probe to see where your weak points are." Ramsey said. He said demonstrators were organized and often communicated with two-way radios and cellular telephones.
During three difficult days, however, the protesters won his grudging admiration he said.
Prior to the protests targeting World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, more than 1,500 police went through crowd control training. The city bought body armor to protect its officers from the rocks, bottles and sticks
"Nobody wanted to see another Seattle."
Charles H. Ramsey
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Dept.
that injured Seattle police when demonstrators disrupted a World Trade Organization meeting.
Despite their intelligence information and technology, critics contend police did not always differentiate between peaceful protesters and those considered capable of violence, and they accuse Ramsey of trying to discredit their movement by distorting their image.
Lingering resentment by demonstrators in the aftermath of the protest marches surfaced yesterday in a clash at the District of Columbia Superior Court, where a small number of protesters went to complain about how U.S. marshals treated their fellow demonstrators when they were arrested.
Coalition members have threatened to file lawsuits and civil rights complaints accusing the police of brutality and alleging that their constitutional rights were violated.
Police drew praise from business leaders, even though disruptions left many offices nearly inaccessible from Friday through Monday and cost nearby restaurants and shops a day's business.
New class of antibiotics offers hope
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Doctors are getting an important new weapon in the growing battle against drug-resistant infections. The government, yesterday, approved a long-awaited drug called Zyxov, described as the world's first entirely new type of antibiotic in 35 years.
Zyvox seems to cure some infections impervious to all other antibiotics, even that longtime drug of last resort called vancomycin. Consequently, Zyvox could help prevent hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of life-threatening infections every year.
"It comes at a time when we were literally running out of antibiotics," said Dr. Robert C. Moellerling Jr., physician-in-chief of Boston's Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital.
Dr. Dennis L. Stevens of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, who helped test Zyvox, said it was a superb drug.
But Stevens stressed that doctors should reserve Zyvox for only the worst infections and those suspected of being antibiotic-resistant, or bacteria will quickly evolve to make Zyvox useless.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Zyvox, made by Pharmacia Corp., yesterday for use by adults with pneumonia and skin infections, including those caused by a tough-to-treat form of staph bacteria, and with deadly infections caused by a supergerm named Enterococcus faecium.
Zyvox is a synthetic chemical designed from scratch to fight germs at an entirely different point in their life cycle than any other medicine — a true surprise attack. It stops bacteria from making protein, which in turn stops their growth so the body's immune system can step in and finish them off, Mollerelling said.
Pharmacia said Zyvox would be available within a few weeks.
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