UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, August 30, 1996
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Fighters attack Mexico
Dip in economy incites violence
HUATULCO, Mexico — Camouflaged fighters from a leftist group attacked troops and police in nine cities in the most widespread wave of guerrilla attacks in decades. At least 13 people died yesterday in the raids.
Nine people in this Pacific resort were killed. The hotel area
widely frequented by U.S. tourists, was spared.
Almost 200 miles away, in Tlaxacio, blood stained the walls of city hall, and bullet holes pocked the doors and nearby trees.
The coordinated raids on a dozen federal targets occurred in four states — Oaxaca, Guerrero, Chiapas and Mexico — on Wednesday night and yesterday morning. At least 28 people were wounded.
The attacks appeared aimed at defying political leaders, who earlier had suggested that the Popular Revolutionary Army, known by its
Spanish initials EPR, was a barely significant pantomime mounted by leftist dissidents or criminals.
Mexico's Interior Undersecretary Arturo Nunez said the government would prosecute the law with all rigor.
The group has called for a new constitution and broad economic changes. It outlined those goals in a meeting with journalists, including two from The Associated Press, in central Mexico this month.
No tourists were among the casualties, and some Americans appeared calm, despite the uproar.
Clinton accepts nomination
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Thousands of cheering Democrats thundered, "Four more years! Four more years!" as President Clinton offered himself as the engineer of change for the next century. "We are on the right track," he declared last night, "but our work is not finished."
Fresh from a triumphant four-day train ride through the Midwest, Clinton boasted of accomplishments achieved by changing the politics of Washington.
Clinton said his administration had made college more affordable, streets safer, water and land less polluted, tax rates lower for the middle-class, and jobs more plentiful. He said he would not insult or criticize his rival, Bob Dole, yet he took a swipe at Dole's offer to be a bridge to the past.
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"We are on the right track, but our work is not finished."
President Clinton
need to build a bridge to the past," Clinton said. "We need to build a bridge to the future."
With polls indicating that Americans crave civility in government, Clinton swore off campaign attacks.
As he walked to the podium, a sea of pennants waved in the convention hall. Clinton struggled to calm the delegates so he could speak about his nomination for president by the Democrats.
said. smiling.
"This must be a campaign of ideas, not of insults," he said.
"I don't know if I can find a fancy way to say this, but ... I accept," he
He saluted Dole and his running mate, Jack Kemp, for their years of service to the country, but drew sharp difference on their tax and budget plans.
He argued — if only by inference — that Dole's $548 billion tax cut plan would balloon the deficit and increase interest rates and said his own balanced budget would pay for his more modest tax cut plan.
The speech was a highly thematic, mostly nonpartisan outline of his vision for America in the next century. It included a lineup of new plans, making the argument that he is a can-do president with a fresh vision for a new optimism.
Mutts and matches don't mix
Dog starts house fire after chewing into a box of matches
The Associated Press
Gould, 22, was awakened by a
KELSO, Wash. — Officially, the cause of fire at Matthew Gould's home is listed as dog playing with matches.
smoke alarm early yesterday and saw flames in a bedroom. He said he called firefighters, doused the fire and discovered that Sadie, his 5-month-old German shepherd mix, had gnawed into a cardboard box containing matches.
to ignite and didn't slobber enough to extinguish the flame. Gould was relieved when fire-fighters believed his story.
"This is a first," said fire Capt. Mark Maker. "The cause of the fire officially is a dog playing with matches." Maker said the dog somehow chewed on the matches just the right way to cause them
"I was afraid those guys thought I was playing with matches or something," he said.
Sadie may have chewed her way right out of a home.
"We've been talking about getting rid of her for a while now and this kind of put it over the top," Gould said.
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