UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 24.1996
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Candidate seeks to sway voters in Florida, Georgia
The Associated Press
MACON, Ga. — Bob Dole campaigned for should-win Southern states yesterday with a promise to protect defense spending.
Dole began a seven-day march through the South and West by telling Georgia voters, "We want to carry the South all the way,
solid all the way. Maybe not Arkansas, but everywhere else."
As for Georgia, he said, "This is a state that we must win. This is a state we should win."
"With your help, God willing, we're going to make it on November 5," he said.
At a small airport rally, Dole rolled out a familiar litany of conservative promises to protect the flag, defense spending and Medicare.
"I know we've got to watch the defense budget. But as commander in chief, if I'm going to make an error, it's going to be on the
side of having enough and not having too little."
Clinton, whose policies have become more centrist while the Southern economy has prospered generally, has seen his popularity rise in his home region. Polls indicate that he has a chance of becoming the first Democrat since Georgia's Jimmy Carter in 1976 to carry a Southern majority.
From Georgia, Dole flew to the Florida Panhandle. The region is conservative and strong voter turnout there is a must, said Warren Tompkins, Dole's senior strategist in the South.
Clinton's Florida message sunny
As election nears campaign speeches accentuate positives
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — President Clinton has settled on a politically safe role for the campaign's closing days: the cheerful bearer of good news. Yesterday, he highlighted an increase in child-support collections during his presidency.
"We launched an unprecedented crackdown on child support," Clinton told thousands of cheering supporters at a rally in bright sunshine. He also reminded voters that unemployment in Florida was at an eight-year low.
Comfortably ahead in the polls, the president took time out for nine holes of golf before hitting the campaign trail. "Mediocre," he said after shooting 43.
Republican rival Bob Dole, also campaigning yesterday in Florida, regularly complains that Clinton takes credit for everything that's rosy — a growing economy, falling crime rates, declining welfare roles. Dole says the credit often should go to governors or others, but that has not deterred the president.
In his Florida visit, Clinton seized on a report by the Department of Health and Human Services showing that a record of more than $1 billion in delinquent child support was collected by the federal government from income tax refunds for the 1995 tax year. The amount
was 23 percent higher than the previous year and up 51 percent since 1992.
Child support payments overall during the four years of his administration have risen by 50 percent, or $4 billion, compared with the previous four years, the president said. He said that was "almost $4 billion more dollars for the children of America — from their parents, not from the taxpayers."
Florida is a traditionally Republican state that has turned into a fierce battleground this year. The fact that Dole was spending time in the state's conservative Panhandle underscored his difficulty in securing the Republican base. The most recent independent statewide poll found Clinton and Dole in a statistical dead heat.
It bears repeating!
O.J. Simpson civil trial opens
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — His torne not his freedom — at stake this time, the twice-told tale of O.J. Simpson opened yesterday with an attorney saying the lawsuit represents the "last fight for justice" for the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
The Associated Press
In an opening statement at Simpson's civil trial, attorney Daniel Petrocelli branded him the man who confronted Ms. Simpson and Goldman on June 12, 1994, and stabbed them to death.
"They were defenseless against a man — large, powerful, strong, armed with a 6-inch knife, and in a total state of rage." Petrocelli said.
Goldman died with his eyes open, Petrocelli said. "In the last few, furious moments of his life, he saw the person who killed his friend Nicole. The last person (he) saw through his
Simpson seemed to pay close attention, conferring with his lawyers and occasionally shaking his head in disagreement with Petrocelli, who represents Goldman's father, Fred.
open eyes was the man who ended his young life, the man who now sits in the courtroom, the defendant."
The Brown and Goldman families are suing the former football star for unspecified monetary damages for wrongful death in the slayings. The civil trial opened a little more than a year after a jury in criminal court acquitted him of murder.
Petrocelli, who called the case Fred Goldman's last fight for justice, portrayed Ronald Goldman as a hero who refused to back away from the murderer. Fred Goldman began to cry when Petrocelli described his son's last moments.
Petrocelli generally relied on the timeline drawn by prosecutors at
the murder trial but estimated that the killings happened later in the evening.
He drew frequent objections from defense attorney Robert Baker for arguing his case to the jurors rather than merely stating facts."
The Bronco chase and Simpson's suicide letter, used to imply consciousness of guilt.
Petrocelli outlined some of the new evidence the jurors can expect, including testimony from Simpson, who must take the stand this time. Among the items he promised:
A 1993 photo of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes, tied to bloody shoe prints at the crime scene.
Carpet fibers that match Simpson's Bronco interior, with scientific evidence linking them to Goldman's shirt, a cap at the crime scene and a glove found at Simpson's home.
Youth activism causes concern
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Arizona schoolchildren inundate their local newspaper with letters opposing new home construction in the desert. Texas students sell T-shirts to help preserve the rain forests.
Environmental education or activism?
Conservative organizations and think tanks are saying it's the latter. They're demanding that educators
return to basing lessons on science, not emotional environmental campaigns urging political action.
"I don't mind saving the rain forests or endangered species," said political scientist Michael Sanera, a leading critic of environmental education. "I want the kids to have their facts straight."
He cites textbooks that he says distort population growth and global warming or give one-sided accounts of managing waste accumulation or
protecting threatened species of plants and animals.
Environmental educators admit to isolated cases of teachers using poor materials or urging students to promote pet causes. But they insist that most materials used in schools are balanced.
"There are award-winning programs all over the country," said Rick Wilke; associate dean and professor of environmental education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Public suicide shakes Pennsylvania students
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIIA — For years, Kathy Change tried to bring attention to her message of world peace by dressing in tight T-shirts and thong blinis, waving flags and playing music around the University of Pennsylvania campus.
No one seemed to listen.
doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire.
On Tuesday, the students couldn't help but notice.
On that day, the 46-year-old calmly walked to a large metallic peace symbol in the heart of campus.
"My real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world," Change wrote in a statement she delivered to students beforehand. "I offer myself as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty."
The suicide, carried out in front of 50 people, was meticulously planned as a final, last-gasp attempt to draw attention to her beliefs.
unease as she ranted on couldn't stop talking yesterday about her spectacular suicide. They remembered little of her message, though.
Students who for years had walked by her with indifference or vague
"It's a tragedy," said Justin Piergross, 22, as he sat a few feet from the shiny peace sculpture. "I think a lot of people just didn't give her any respect because she was a bit different."
To 21-year-old Kate Saliba, a Penn junior, the almost daily performances were like a show. "People would be sitting by the library and just cringe," she said.
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