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Field shrinks as candidates enter Super Tuesday
Little support
causes Harkin
to leave race
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WASHINGTON—Iowa Sen. Tom
Harkin departed the Democratic presi
dential field Monday the same way
he entered it—an unrepentant liberal
convinced that his party’s salvation
lies in its past.
In a speech that paid homage to
Hubert Humphrey, Harkin called
Democrats “the party of hope and
opportunity for all
those... who want
to fulfill their God
given potential,
who just want to
be part of the
American
Dream.”
Harkin preached a populist Demo
cratic gospel that promised deep de
fense cuts and a massive public works
program in the style of Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
His exit raised an immediate prob
lem for hard-core liberal and labor
voters who had seen him as their best
hope.
Harkin’s showings were dismal
except in the Iowa, Minnesota and
Idaho caucuses; he emerged from South
Carolina’s primary Saturday with a 6
percent vote total and a $300,000
campaign debt.
Most primary-season voters spumed
Harkin and Nebraska Sen. Bob Ker
rey, in favor of two candidates trying
-^Campaign scorecard
Current breakdown of presidential preferences of delegatee to tile
Democratic end Republican national conventions:
Clinton __
137.25
Democrats
Needed to nominate: 2,145
Total delegate votes: 4,288
Chosen thus far : 830.5
Yet to be chosen: 3,457.5
to lead their party away from liberal
orthodoxies — Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton and former Massachusetts Sen.
Paul Tsongas.
“It says absolutely nothing about
liberalism,” said pollster Mark Mcll
man. “Tom Harkin’s failure was not
so much a failure of ideas as it was a
failure of the way he conveyed them.
He was a superb vehicle for venting
anger and venting frustration. But
voters this year were also looking for
solutions.”
Bill Carrick, who managed Rep.
Richard Gephardt’s 1988 presiden
tial campaign, agreed that Harkin
“never seemed to bridge the gap from
Bush-bashing to a more substantive
message that he had an economic
plan to get the economy moving again.”
Harkin was backed by most unions
in Michigan and Illinois, which hold
primaries next week. Clinton appar
ently is drawing much of that support
and the organizational muscle that
goes with it.
Democrats vie for 783 delegates
By the Associated Press
Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas
barnstormed through Florida on
Monday in a final, hurried hunt for
Super Tuesday votes as Sen. Tom
Harkin bowed out of the Democratic
presidential race.
The White House predicted a sweep
for President Bush.
Harkin folded his uncompromis
ingly liberal cam
paign with a part
ing shot at Bush
and a pledge to
“bear any burden”
to help unseat him
in the fall.
His departure
left Clinton, Tsongas and former
California Gov. Jerry Brown as the
Democrats still afloat.
Brown said Clinton could not win
in the fall. “You can’t elect a candi
date with a scandal a week. I’ll tell
you that,” he said in Rhode Island.
Clinton seemed assured of win
ning at least six states and a rich*
delegate harvest on Tuesday. Tson
gas was favored in two New England
states and struggled for a Florida
showing strong enough to give him a
boost as the campaign moves on to
industrial states.
Bush and his camp exuded confi
dence in the race against Patrick
Buchanan and David Duke. The presi
dent campaigned from the While
House, sitting for dinner-hour televi
sion interviews broadcast live to Super
Tuesday stales.
“We arc going to keep this battle
going for the heart and soul of this
party. And as I say, we are winning
the national debate and everybody in
Washington knows it,” Buchanan said
in a CBS interview.
There are 783 Democratic dele
gates and 421 Republican delegates
at stake in the states voting Tuesday.
All three remaining Democrats said
they would reach out to Harkin’s
constituency, particularly the union
workers whose votes will be critical
in next week’s primaries in Illinois
and Michigan.
Tsongas aides said they were pre
paring fresh television commercials
criticizing Clinton’s record as gover
nor of Arkansas; Clinton was ready
with a reminder to voters that Tson
gas opposes legislation that would
ban the hiring of permanent replace
ment workers in cases of strikes.
Clinton, the favorite in primaries
in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma and Tennessee and cau
cuses in Missouri, headed for Kissim
mee, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa on
the final rounds of his Super Tuesday
campaign.
He sought to depict Tsongas as the
stronger of the two men in Florida,
saying his rival “has had a big advan
tage in this race” because he has tar
geted Florida.
Brown look aim at the political
establishment in general and Clinton
in particular.
“Rhode Island is a perfect example
of what politics is doing to people
right in their pocket,” he said in a
reference to a scandal in the state’s
banking system.
Supreme Court allows California to limit terms
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on
Monday let California limit the terms of its
state legislators, an action likely to encourage
supporters of similar anti-incumbent drives in
other states.
The justices, without comment, let stand a
California Supreme Court ruling that said the
term limits, adopted in a 1990 voter initiative,
do not violate the constitutional rights of legis
lators or voters.
The denial of a challenge to the initiative is
most certainly not a ruling on the merits, and
cannot be interpreted as formal approval of
such measures. It’s possible the justices could
agree to review a challenge to term limits
imposed by some other stale, and then invali
date them.__
John Sowinski, who is heading a term-limit
campaign in Florida, wasted no lime in inter
preting expansively the court’s action.
‘‘What the Supreme Court is saying, and
what we’ve known all along, is term limits is
good public policy,” Sowinski.said. ‘‘They did
what was right and listened to the people.”
Voters in Colorado and Oklahoma also passed
legislative term limits in 1990. The Colorado
measure includes limits on how long someone
may serve that state in Congress.
Voters in more than a dozen states will be
faced with term-limit proposals in November.
Term limits for both executive and legislative
offices, including members of Congress, will
be on the Florida ballot.
The justices rejected an appeal by the Cali
fornia Legislature and a group of voters that
had argued, “The standards to be applied in
election cases arc critically in need of clari fna
tion from this court.”
California’s Proposition 140 says none of
the 40 state senators may serve more than two
four-year terms, and none of the 80 state As
sembly members may serve more than three
two-year terms. It also sets two-term limits for
statewide officeholders.
Former Israeli leader Begin given people’s funeral
Friends reveal
reasons that he
resigned in 1983
JERUSALEM — Former Prime
Minister Menachcm Begin was bur
ied Monday after being carried to his
grave on the Mount of Olives by
aging comrades in arms from Israel’s
war for statehood.
Thousands of Israelis, some in tears,
accompanied Begin’s body to the
cemetery in Arab cast Jerusalem where
he was laid to rest next to his wife,
Aliza.
Begin, who died Monday at age
78, was a giant of the Jewish state, but
he wanted — and got — a people’s
funeral. There was no coffin. He was
carried to the grave on a stretcher,
wrapped in a prayer shawl.
With Begin’s death, his friends
finally began to explain the riddle of
Surgeon general, doctors
want to kill Camel’s Old Joe
WASHINGTON - The nation’s
doctors want Old Joe, the cartoon
camel from the land of Reynolds
tobacco, to bite the desert dust.
Led by Surgeon General An
tonia Novcllo, they declared Mon
day that the dashing dromedary
appeals too much to children in his
ads for Camel cigarettes.
“It’s time for the tobacco indus
try to stop preying on our nation’s
youth," Novcllo said. “It’s lime
that cigarette companies act vol
untarily and responsibly.”
“In years past, R.J. Reynolds
would have us walk a mile for a
Camel,” she said. “Today it’s time
that we invite ‘Old Joe’ himself to
take a hike.” The American Medi
cal Association agreed. The tobacco
company didn’t.
Joe’s ugly as a camel, but he’s
adventuresome, chic and multi
talented. He play s piano, races cars
and wears dinner jackets and tuxe
dos, often catching the eye of a
beautiful woman.
Old Joe has been in trouble with
the health community almost since
RJR Nabisco Inc. introduced him
as the “smooth Character” in its ads
for Camel cigarettes in 1988.
Lasj December, the Journal of
the American Medical Association
published studies that found the
camel’s image wasas familiar to6
ycar-olds as Mickey Mouse.
his 1983 resignation. They confirmed
what most Israelis long suspected —
he stepped down because he was
depressed over his wife’s death a year
earlier and because of the rising Is
raeli death loll in the Lebanon war.
Some branded Begin a terrorist for
the tactics his underground army, the
Irgun, used to oust the British and
achieve Israeli statehood. Begin al
ways called his guerrilla years his
finest moment, and aging comrades
honored their commander by carry
ing the stretcher with the body to the
grave.
At the end of the funeral, some
mourners unexpectedly sang the an
them of Betar, Begin’s ideological
movement.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
watched silently as sacks of soil were
dumped in the grave and a plain marker
with Begin’s name was stuck in the
earth.
Dial-an-elephant offered in India
NEW DELHI, India — For a taste
of the high-class travel once favored
by Indians maharajahs, call dial-an
elcphant.
Within an hour, an elephant can be
at the doorstep for a birthday party, a
wedding celebration or a royal treat
for visitors.
The government parades magnifi
cently decorated elephants in the annual
Republic day events in New Delhi.
Elsewhere, they arc commonly pa
raded for Hindu festivals.
Now, more and more people arc
hiring elephants for personal events.
Sunder Rajan hired one for his 4
year-old daughter’s birthday party.
The kids “squealed all through the
ride,” he said.
About a dozen elephant owners
live in shantytowns with their beasts
outside New Delhi. Most come from
a long line of stable keepers who
worked for the courts of Hindu maha
rajahs and Muslim kings, or nawabs.
Mohammed Ashraf is one. His
ancestors worked in the stables of a
royal family in Bijnor, 75 miles north
of New Delhi.
“As far back as my grandfather or
his grandfather remembered, our
family has lived among elephants,”
he said. ‘‘But with changing times we
also have to change.”
After India won independence in
1947, the princely states were abol
ished, and with them went the trap
pings of royalty.
Many elephants were bought by
zoos or circuses, Icavjng the royal
tamers unemployed.
In 1986, Ashraf and his two broth
ers bought Dimple Kapadia—named
after an Indian actress — to start a
hire service.
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