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Wednesday, October 9, 1996
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Gore, Kemp debate tonight
Media question 2000 campaign
The Associated Press
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — When asked about the possibility of running for president in four years, Al Gore hastens to end the line of inquiry. Jack Kemp shakes his head and wags an admonishing finger.
As they prepare for tonight's debate, the candidates for vice president are trying to keep the focus on Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
"It is not Al Gore vs. Jack Kemp," said Kemp, the GOP vice presidential nominee, yesterday.
In predate interviews with The Associated Press, Gore and Kemp predicted that their 90-minute, prime-time debate would follow closely the themes of Sunday's encounter between Clinton and
Dole. That exchange focused on tax policy and the economy, on education, welfare and other social policies, and on the U.S. role abroad at the close of the 20th century.
Gore said he would reinforce Clinton's argument that the GOP ticket's $548 billion tax-cut plan would require devastating cuts in Medicare and education spending. "The numbers do not add up," Gore said.
Kemp said Dole had scored points in casting Clinton as a liberal hiding behind conservative election-year promises. Kemp promised to follow up by taking issue with a new Clinton campaign ad in which the president said he viewed his job as taking care of the American people.
As they discussed their expectations for the debate and outlined their views of the vice presidency, the former House colleagues showed friendship and respect for each other and predicted their encounter would be civil.
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"You can disagree without being disagreeable," Gore said Monday afternoon during a break in his debate preparations in Sarasota, where former New York Rep. Tom Downey was the Democratic stand-in for Kemp.
Kemp was interviewed yesterday morning before a practice session in
Bal Harbour, Fla. New Hampshire GOP Sen. Judd Gregg was playing the role of Gore.
"I'm having trouble getting my answers down to 30 seconds," Kemp said. "I can go 30 seconds without using a verb."
With Clinton leading comfortably in the final weeks of the campaign, Kemp and Gore have been questioned frequently about the possibility that they could be competitors for the presidency in four years. Both dismiss such talk.
"In 2000, Bob is going to be running for re-election, and I just hope he keeps me on the ticket," Kemp said.
Gore responded with the story of a dog holding a bone while staring at his reflection in a pond. "He wants that other bone that the other dog has, so he opens his mouth to get that other bone and he loses both bones," Gore said.
Tobacco trail smooth for GOP
Democrats'stand shakv in South
The Associated Press
DANVILLE, Va. — Candidate Virgil Goode stood in a sweltering tobacco warehouse and gave President Clinton the kind of tongue-lashing that plays well in Virginia's 5th Congressional District.
"If Bill Clinton and Albert Gore spent as much time fighting illegal drugs as they spent fighting tobacco, the illegal drug problem would be a lot less in this country," Goode snapped.
Across the state line in North Carolina, Bob Etheridge denounced the Democratic president for decreeing that nicotine be regulated as a drug.
Such attacks might be expected from Republicans. Etheridge and Goode, however, are Democrats seeking congressional seats deep in tobacco country.
It's hard to run as a Democrat when your party's president is attacking your constituents' livelihood, Democrat Joe Wright conceded during a Farm Bureau forum in Kentucky. He is challenging Republican Rep. Ron Lewis in Kentucky's tobacco-rich 2nd District.
As a member of the Virginia Senate, Goode's voting record was more conservative than some of his Republican colleagues. He has been a tobacco ally and makes a point of telling voters that he is not beholden Clinton or liberal leaders within his party.
"You're not sent there to follow Bill
Clinton; you're not there to follow Bob Dole; you're sent there to represent the people who brought you to the dance," Goode said during a recent debate at Hampden-Sydney College.
Clinton in August approved a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to classify nicotine as an addictive drug, giving the agency authority to regulate cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.
In rules aimed at curbing teen-age smoking, the FDA is placing restrictions on cigarette advertisements, vending machines and promotions of sporting events.
Polls have shown widespread support for the crackdown outside tobacco states, but Clinton's move pits him against the tobacco industry, advertisers, farmers and Southern lawmakers.
That includes Democrats.
Republicans hold a 235-198 majority in the 435-member House; there is one vacancy and one independent.
Goode, a lawyer, can't even bring himself to utter the president's name when asked for whom he will vote: "I have always said that I will support the nominee from the convention in Chicago."
The 5th District's Democratic leaders were so worried about Goode's allegiance that they refused to back him until he signed a pledge to support the Democratic presidential candidate.
Nevertheless, tobacco-state Republicans benefit merely by lumping their opponents in the same party with Clinton.
Leaders have lunch and friendly talk
The Associated Press
CAESAREA, Israel — With Palestinian negotiators back at the table after walking off in anger, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat made his first public visit to Israel yesterday and pledged to keep his police from firing on Israeli soldiers again.
Sitting in garden chairs on the terrace of President Ezer Weizman's villa, Arafat and Weizman traded compliments, shook hands for the cameras and agreed there was no alternative to peace. The cozy exchange capped Arafat's transformation in two years from Israel's arch fee to its most important peace partner.
Yesterday's meeting came less than two weeks after deadly gun battles between Israeli and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that left 78 people dead.
The cordial luncheon and Arafat's promises contrasted sharply with the deep discord evident to the south at Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on Israel's border with Gaza.
On Monday, Palestinian negotiators balked at Israeli demands for improved security arrangements for Jewish settlers in the West Bank town of Hebron, where an Israeli troop pullout is past due. Only the intervention of U.S. envoy Dennis Ross brought the Palestinians back to the table that night.
Israel said it wanted to retain the right of "hot pursuit" of suspected Palestinian assailants into areas that
will come under Palestinian control in Hebron.
Israel also wants to retain control over a broader area that links the Jewish enclaves with the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a site in the center of town that is holy to both Muslims and Jews.
Even considering the Israeli demands would be tantamount to renegotiating the terms of peace agreements signed with Israel's previous government, said Ibrahim Kreishe, a senior Palestinian negotiator.
Still, talks resumed at the Erez border crossing, with Hebron remaining the key item on the agenda.
Arafat said he was not discouraged by setbacks.
"The most important thing is that we began the meetings," Arafat said.
"As long as there are meetings, no doubt something that is good for the two peoples will come out of them," he said. "We must live as neighbors and watch out for each other's interests."
Weizman, whose role largely is ceremonial, said he held Arafat in esteem for years and referred to him as a colleague.
Arafat addressed the Israeli as "rais," the Arabic word for chairman or president that many dovish Israeli politicians have begun using for Arafat.
The atmosphere was homey, with Weizman's wife, Reuma, coming out onto the terrace a few times — at one point to set a jug of water on the table, decorated with olive branches and laden with Arabic sweets, fruits and orange juice.
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