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Candidates debate economy
ATLANTA — Paul Tsongas’
economic policies drew repeated fire
from rivals Sunday in a Democratic
presidential debate.
The Georgia forum was the first of
two debates Sunday leading into
Tuesday’s eight primaries and cau
cuses.
Arkansas Gov.
Bill Clinton
opened fire on
Tsongas early,
contrasting his
plan fora middle
class tax cut by
raising taxes on the wealthy with
Tsongas’ proposal to raise taxes on
the rich, but using that money for a
capital-gains tax.
Tsongas answered by saying busi
. nesses needed help to repair the econ
omy.
“We have to take our money, the
precious resources that we have and
put it into venture capital,” the former
Massachusetts senator said.
Former California Gov. Jerry
Brown, in another colorful debate
performance, poked fun at Tsongas’
theme that he’s “no Santa Claus”
ready to offer politically popular give
aways.
“I’d say you ’re Santa Claus sack is
pretty empty,” Brown said. “Lolli
pops for business arc no better than
lollipops for the middle class.”
Brown renewed his call for a uni
versal flat lax, saying the current tax
code was a “4,000 page tax morass
that feeds on the corruption of selling
loopholes for campaign contributions.”
Each of the candidates talked tough
on crime and promised help to Geor
gia’s defense workers worried that
military cuts will cost them their jobs.
The most colorful exchangescame
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when the candidates were allowed to
ask questions of a rival. Nebraska
Sen. Bob Kerrey asked Clinton how
he could promote a program that would
allow for public service to pay back
college loans when hedidn’tservehis
country in Vietnam.
“I opposed that war. I thought it
was a terrible mistake,” Clinton said,
repeating that he gave up a deferment
and made himself available for the
draft, but was never called.
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Gorbachev’s think tank
to open under suspicion
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gor
bachev’s new think tank has a lot
going for it: a handsome complex
of buildings, wealthy would-be
Western contributors, a noble mis
sion and, of course, its famous boss.
But the Gorbachev Foundation,
which officially opens Tuesday,
also has a host of troubles.
The government of Russian
President Boris Yeltsin apparently
views it with suspicion. Russian
media have mostly ignored it. New
tax laws arc strangling it. And some
researchers invited to join its staff
arc wary.
Gorbachev says he has no plans
to use the non-profit, non-govern
ment organization to challenge
Yeltsin — although he said the
Russian president had asked him
point-blank whether he was creat
ing an opposition movement.
The foundation “is not a shadow
cabinet,” Gorbachev told the new s
paper Komsomolskaya Pravda on
Saturday. “I personally am not going
to become an opposition figure as
long as the government is imple
menting reforms.”
The slated goals of the founda
tion — formally named the Inter
national Foundation for Socio
Economic and Political Studies —
arc producing research papers,
books, lectures and conferences that
strengthen democracy and civil
rights, plan market reforms, en
courage disarmament and foster
peace.
Those aims reflect Gorbachev’s
achievements as Soviet leader from
1985 to 1991.
But his failures also arc reflected
in the foundation’s shaky start.
Gorbachev, who resigned Dec.
25, 1991, is still far more popular
abroad than at home, where many
blame him for the country’s eco
nomic free fall.
West Bank unrest continues
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot
and killed a Palestinian teen-ager on
Sunday during stone-throwing clashes
in the Ga/a Strip to protest two shoot
ing deaths a day earlier, Arab reports
said.
Also Sunday, Arab activists killed
two Palestinians suspected of collabo
rating with Israel in Gaza, the army
and Arab reports said.
At least 20 other Palestinians were
treated at hospitals for gunshot wounds
inflicted during unrest at the Rafah
refugee camp, they said.
The army imposed a curfew on the
camp, home lo more than 5(),(X)()
people. It said troops intervened Sunday
lo quell widespread disturbances. It
said hospitals reported one person
killed and said the army was investi
gating.
Meanwhile, Shiite Muslim guer
rillas claimed Sunday they attacked
Israel’s “security /one” in south
Lebanon, killing three soldiers. Israel
denied its soldiers were killed.
In apparent retaliation, Israeli
gunners bombarded the village of Klar
Roumman, just north of Nabaliyeh,
wounding one person, police said.
Saudi King moves to share power
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s
absolute ruler. King Fahd, took a tentative first
step toward sharing power Sunday by announc
ing the long-promised creation of an advisory
body.
Fahd also spelled out a constitution based on
Islamic law.
The 61 -member Majlis al-Shura, or Consul
tative Council, was set up to make recommen
dations to the king and the prime minister,
although it would have no ability to make laws
on its own.
Its creation by royal decree was seen as a
step toward political pluralism in the Islamic
kingdom ruled by the Al-Saud family since
1932.
Fahd said in a statement that council mem
bers would be Saudi nationals aged 30 or older,
apparently to be drawn from the kingdom’soil,
religious and academic communities. If so, this
would be the first time non-royals were al
lowed to participate in the kingdom’s decision
making.
Extra legs may save
lamb from sale bam
LEIGH—A lamb born with six legs doesn’t
seem to be bothered by them too much, its
owner said.
Six Pack, a ewe lamb, was bom with two
extra legs protruding from its chest two weeks
ago. Leigh, a village of about 500 people, is lo
cated 20 miles north of Columbus.
Deb Svehla, who cares for the flock Six
Pack comes from, said the family is consider
ing sparing the animal from the sale bam.
Six Pack is being bottle-fed, said Svehla,
who cares for the herd of sheep for her brother.
She said she and her husband, Dean, weren’t
sure the lamb would live.
“It was pretty weak at first,” she said.
But now, she said, Six Pack continues to get
healthier.
“When it’s feeding time, it’s right there at
the fence,” Svehla said.
The extra legs, which dangle from Six Pack’s
chest, don’t seem to bother the lamb too much,
Svehla said. She said the extra legs arc com
plete with hooves and appear to be as full
grown as the legs the lamb uses.
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The country’s monarchs have been promis
ing political reforms for three decades. Pres
sure for change accelerated after Iraq invaded
Kuwait in August 1990, leading to the deploy
ment of hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim
troops into this traditionally closed society.
Sunday’s reforms, contained in three de
crees, were the most profound in Saudi history.
“Decisions of the council go to the prime
minister, who turns them over to the Cabinet to
consider. If the two bodies concur, the king
approves them. If they differ, then the king has
the right to decide what he sees fit,” one decree
said.
The second decree reorganized provincial
administrations and the other, an 83-point
document, formalized the existing system of
government, including that the throne will remain
in the Al-Saud family.
This was seen widely as the outline of a
formal constitution, although Fahd stressed
that the Koran, Islam’s holy book, “is the
constitution” of the kingdom, apparently to
placate conservatives opposed to change.
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