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Presidential queries posed
U.S. public has many concerns
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Give Americans the chance, and they would ask Bill Clinton about his ethics. They would also ask Bob Dole how the country can afford his proposed tax cut.
They would ask where the jobs are going to come from for people taken off welfare.
And how about a tax break for parents whose adult kids come home to roost?
And will the candidates ever stop bickering and start working together for the common good?
People across the United States were asked by Associated Press reporters yesterday what questions they would pose if they had seats at today's town hall-style presidential debate in San Diego. The actual questions will come from 120 Californians, picked by the Gallup
Organization.
Welfare, tax relief and the president's ethics were recurring themes in the street corner interviews.
Sandi Otoshi, a tourist visiting Boston, would ask about foreign policy.
"How far does the United States have to go to protect other nations?" Otoshi asked. "I know we're the world leader, but how responsible are we?"
Out-of-work truck driver Reggie Harrell, on the way to pick up an unemployment check in Springfield, Mo., said he'd ask Clinton: "Why are taxes the highest they've been in the whole history of the world?"
Harrell said he would vote for Ross Perot.
Davis Morin, a Concord, N.H., psychologist, said he would ask Clinton, "Why do so many people think you're a sleazeball and accuse your administration of being unethical?" He was one of a number of people expressing discomfort with Clinton's personal standards.
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tor in Bismarck, N.D.: "Why can't Clinton tell the truth? He's always backtracking."
Todd Corey, a loan officer from Higganum, Conn., who still said he planned to vote for Clinton, said, "I'd like to know if we're ever going to know the full story behind Whitewater."
The questions also revealed skepticism about Dole's tax proposal.
Charlie Dodson, of Greensboro,
N.C., said he would ask Dole: "If you
can give a 15-percent tax cut now when you're running for president, why didn't you introduce a bill to that when you were in the Senate?
To Clinton, Maria Hernandez, of Phoenix, said she would like to pose this question: "Why did he cut welfare? There are a lot of kids who need it."
Simon L. Johnson, said, "If they're going to get people off welfare that's all fine and good. People shouldn't be lazy, but where are all these jobs going to be coming from?"
Lori Ehrlick, of Wichita, who plans to vote for Dole, said she would ask how the candidates would bring families together.
Linda Rose, of Providence, R.I., said she would ask Clinton if he would revive plans for universal health care in a second term.
Homemaker Joy Hamrick of South Charleston, W.Va., who has two twentysomething sons still living at home, said she wondered why Clinton put so much emphasis on tax breaks for parents of young children.
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Jim Whitney, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said his party's candidates were leading for six seats held by Republican retirees and were ahead of 14 GOP incumbents.
Republicans are looking for gains among the 30 seats where no Democratic incumbent is running. Nineteen of the seats are in the South, including six in Texas, two in Alabama and one in Mississippi.
Republicans say public support has firmed up for many of their candidates in the last week or 10 days. The claimed resurgence coincides with a GOP counter-offensive advertising campaign accusing the AFL of trying to buy control of Congress and with the adjournment of Congress, which freed lawmakers for full-time campaigning.
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During the trial, defense attorneys argued that if Priebek had not followed orders to kill the civilians, he would have been executed.
Germany has also asked for the extradition of a former SS major who took part in the slaying, Karl Hass. Hass, 84, testified in Priebke's trial and is being investigated by Italian prosecutors.
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two of the victims.
The August acquittal was condemned broadly by Jewish groups and officials at the highest levels of the Italian and foreign governments — and it was in such a climate that the Court of Cassation considered the appeal.
The Court of Cassation agreed with prosecutors that the lead judge in the military trial was biased in favor of the defendant, 83-year-old Erich Priebke.
Italian high court orders new trial for war crimes
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ROME — Italy's highest court ordered a retrial yesterday for a former Nazi SS captain acquitted of acting with premeditation and cruelty in the World War II slaying of 335 civilians.
"We've hit the jackpot," said Antonino Intelisano, who prosecuted the first case and who likely will represent the government in the retrial. A date for the new trial has not been set.
Prilebke's defense attorney, Velio Di Rezez, said yesterday that he probably would represent Priebke again.
"I feel like a man who has battled in vain but who will battle again," he said.
In the end, the court agreed that the leader of the three-judge panel, Agostino Quistelli, was predisposed to rule in Priebke's favor. A lower court had rejected a similar appeal during the trial.
with premeditation and cruelty — effectively freeing him, because prosecutors needed a conviction on those charges to get around Italy's 30-year statute of limitation on murder.
The military court on Aug. 1 convicted Pribek of involvement in the 1944 massacre in Nazi-occupied Rome. But it acquitted him of acting
"I hope there can finally be a true trial," said Giovanni Gigliozzi, president of an association of victims' relatives.
Priebke immediately was rearrested after the verdict, with the Italian government citing Germany's desire to have him extradited. Priebke remains jailed in Rome.
At one point during the trial, he allegedly was overheard making remarks suggesting Priebke should not be sent to prison.
Before the Priebke case, Quistelli's experience consisted mostly of routine military matters, leading some to question whether he was qualified to preside in the case.
It was not clear how the ruling would affect the German extradition request, which still is being reviewed by Italy's Constitutional Court.
Di Rezez said that he would seek a change of venue for the retrial.
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