UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 9, 1992
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CAMPAIGN'92 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Clinton tackles economy
The Associated Press
Bill Clinton pledged yesterday to spend $2 billion a year to help U.S. manufacturers create more jobs, hewing to economic themes as his Vietnam draft status came under attack from the Republicans.
Vice President Dan Quaglia and others in the Bush camp called on Clinton to clear up what they called unanswered questions about how the Democratic presidential nominee avoided serving in Vietnam.
Quayle, who went through his own press ordeal four years ago because of his military record, said the Arkansas governor should come clean with the U.S. people.
"Every day there's a new question raised, there's a new story, a new angle, and Bill Clinton simply has not told all the facts," Quayle said.
Clinton obtained a draft deferment by agreeing to join ROTC but later have up the deferment and drew a hairdryer, the lottery number that was not called.
The day after the ceremonial Labor
Connecticut is among the states Bush won in 1988 that the Clinton campaign thinks are ripe for plucking this year.
"Unlike our competition, this nation has no national strategy, no comprehensive partnership between business and workers and education and government," Clinton said.
Clinton promised an investment tax credit for purchasing new plants and equipment, constant retraining of workers, and tax reform to remove incentives that encourage U.S. plants
day start of the fall race found Clinton in Connecticut, sounding familiar economic themes and detailing plans to help manufacturers deal with fast-evolving technology and ever-changing world markets.
to move overseas.
While his supporters focused on Clinton's draft status, President Bush himself devoted most of his day to official business in Washington. The president asked Congress for $7.6 billion in emergency aid for cleanup and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Andrew.
Quayle focused on California, the biggest electoral prize of all and a state where a punishing recession has pounded Bush's standing. Clinton's big lead there is the foundation for much of the optimism in Democratic circles.
The vice president met privately with former President Reagan. During an appearance on a morning television show in Los Angeles, Quayle tried to distance the Bush-Quayle ticket from GOP convention rhetoric critical of homosexuality.
"We are the ones that have implemented a non-discrimination policy when it comes to gays and lesbians." Quayle said. Still, he said he supported the military ban on homosexuals, which Clinton has promised to end.
Quayle softens GOP position
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Vice President Dan Quayle, trying to win back moderate voters, sought to soften the hard-line Republican stance against abortion and gay rights yesterday.
Quayle, in the midst of a three-day West Coast campaign swing, said even he disagreed with parts of the GOP's conservative platform. He declined to give specifics.
The vice president was mounting what he acknowledged was an uphill fight to keep this economically distressed state from voting Democratic for the first time since 1964.
On a widely watched morning television show, he spent an hour fielding questions from Los Angeles residents worried about jobs, the AIDS crisis, school budget cuts, abortion rights and what one man called the homophobia evident at last month's Republican convention in Houston.
Quayle was told that many moderate Republicans and Democrats who voted for Ronald Reagan felt excluded from the GOP.
The party does have a conservative
voice and a conservative philosophy. Quayle said, but he said he did not understand it.
Quayle said homosexuals should vote for Bush if they agreed with him on most issues, whatever their disagreement with some platform planks. One of those planks opposes efforts to include sexual orientation as a protected minority status under civil rights laws and declares that the GOP is against any laws recognizing same-sex marriages or sanctioning gay adoptions.
"If you go down all the 150 issues, I'd even have some disagreements with them," Quayle said.
He sought to play down the platform's support for a constitutional ban on all abortions, though he strongly supports an amendment making most of them illegal. He spoke of wanting to see the abortion-legalizing Roe vs. Wade decision overturned so states could set their own rules.
"This is a step-by-step approach," he said. "I am trying to use the political arena to change attitudes, to have a conversation on the tragedy of abortion."
Quayle also apologized anew for President Bush's breaking his no-new-taxes pledge two years ago, saying, "We raised taxes on the American people, and we put this country right into a recession. He's learned."
Concerning allegations of gass-bashing, Quayle said, "I don't think you've heard any of that rhetoric coming from me or the president."
Quayle has said gay relationships did not deserve the same status as heterosexual marriages - a position echoed in the Republican platform.
"Listen to what the president says and what I say and more importantly watch what we do." Quayle said. "We are the ones that have implemented a non-discrimination policy when it comes to gays and lesbians. We're proud of that record."
And in his Aug. 20 convention speech, Quayle criticized the idea that every so-called lifestyle alternative is morally equivalent.
He defended the military ban on homosexuals as a different issue. Democrat Bill Clinton has promised to reverse that ban.
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