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I - ... _ __————— A3 TAT 1”T A3 4% "f” Associated Press X %k**- w \ kj E S JL 2L %**'■ C3 %• Edited by Alan Phelps i - -— Aide axed over alleged slur DETROIT - A Bush-Quayle cam paign aide was fired after allegedly using a racial slur against a black reporter and denying him credentials to cover a Bush visit, according to a published account confirmed by the White House. The Detroit News, in Wednesday’s editions, said that campaign aide Bobby Carr had been let go from the Bush Quay le campaign. He was removed from a similar job last month at the White House because of poor per formance, the newspaper quoted Marlin Filzwatcr as saying. Ken Cole, a reporter for The De troit News, said Carr called him a “nigger” during the president’s trip to Michigan on July 27, the newspaper reported. In Houston, deputy press secretary Judy Smith said the account in the Detroit News was correct and that Carr was “let go yesterday.” Carr was on the White House staff at the time of the incident, the News said. He was working for the cam paign at the Republican National Convention when he was fired and was on the job as recently as Tuesday. During the Bush visit to Michigan, Cole complained to Carr that he had not received proper press credentials. 1 Cole said Carr then turned to another staffer and said, “This nigger reporter is giving me a hard time. I don’t know | why he’s complaining. He’s probably | just going to write a hatchet job any- I way.” Carr told the News he finds the | word “offensive and repulsive.” But | when asked if he had made the slur | against Cole, he wouldn’t deny it “I | can’t lake that extra step,” Carr said. | Fitzwatcr was quoted as tell ing the | News that Carr was fired Tuesday | after he wouldn’t deny making the | slur. “Anyone who cannot deny such a 1 statement should not be working for | this campaign or for this White House,” Fitzwatcr said. Convention highlights Speeches and events at the m Republican National Convention: Final evening to be about George ; himself AP/Alan Baseden Perot decries costly Houston hoopla; denounces parties’ economic plans HOUSTON - Ross Perot Wednes day dismissed the Republican Na tional Convention as “show business” and said his supporters could be the swing vote that decides the outcome of the 1992 election. The Texas businessman who de cided against becoming a third candi date in the presidential race said he would endorse either President Bush or Democratic nominee Bill Clinton if they came up with a “hard-minded plan” for the economy. Perot appeared on NBC’s “To day” show and said the money spent to carpel the Astrodome and build the podium for the convention demon strates that “our system is totally out of touch with reality, and it’s all show business.” “Now, if the American people want show business, they’re getting it big mpe,” he said. “You can’t eat bal -- loons. You can’t cat hot air.” Perot also said that if neither major party candidate offered a plan for the economy, the American people could still vote for him. “Under that scenario you would consider running again?” he was asked. “Under that scenario, I wouldn’t have a choice,” replied Perot. “I don’t belong to anybody but the volunteers who did this, and 1 do belong to them, and it would be their decision.” He said his supporters would de termine the outcome of the election. “They will select the next president. There arc that many.” Perot said a lax increase would be an essential clement of any plan to deal with the economy. “Nobody in public life likes to say that,” he said. “But you have to do it, and you have to have the people most able to do it pay it. That means folks like me are going to have to pay more.” President Bush is likely to £all for cuts in taxes when he accepts rcnomi nation at the GOP convention Thurs day night. Perot said that would be “counter productive. The concept of a tax decrease at this time is like an aspirin for cancer.” He said neither party has a plan to deal with the economy. “The Democrats have what I call a weak plan,” said Perot. “The Republicans don’t have a plan,” he said. “A tax cut is a move in the wrong direction. Nobody could go head to head in a debate and de fend the Republican plan at this point. That’s giving the people candy. That's telling the people what they want to hear. That’s wrong.” Bush gets GOP nod; family values touted HOUSTON (AP) - Republicans nominated President Bush for a sec ond term Wednesday, sending him and Dan Quayle on the comeback trail with a toast to family values and a prime-time convention boost from the president’s No. 1 fan - his wife, Barbara. On Bush’s big day, the White House made a concerted effort to quash rumors of an imminent Cabinet shakeup, saying the president was happy with his team but would make some changes, as is traditional, if given a second term. In the best of GOP traditions — and campaign strategies — Republi cans turned the night of Bush’s re nomination into a family affair, with speeches by Mrs. Bush and Marilyn Quayle. Clouding the festivities was Bill Clinton’s double-digit lead in the polls, but Republicans from Bush on down promised on Tuesday to fight back with fervor. “He’s fired up,” Jcb Bush said of his father. “He cals nails for break fast.” Bush was working on his speech for Thursday’s finale of the Republi can National Convention, with intra party feuds still brewing over how far to go in making new economic pro posals. The new chief of the Bush White House and campaign, James A. Baker III, was arriving today to referee. The president wasn’t saying much — except to promise some new faces in his Cabinet if re-elected. “What I think you’ll see, as in any second term, arc a lot of changes,” Bush said in a PBS interview Tues day. That comment set off specula tion a shakcup was close at hand. “The president believes his Cabi net is doing an excellent job,” White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwatcr said Wednesday in discounting such talk. He added that Bush had spoken to Jack Kemp today to assure the housing secretary — who figured prominently in the speculation — there was no specific plan to replace him. That was welcome news to Kemp, who said in a Wednesday morning television interview, he’d like to stay on Bush’s team. Democrat Clinton began Wednes day — his 46th birthday — in At lanta, where he and running mate A1 Gore joined Jimmy Carter, the for mer president Republicans love to hate, for a volunteer housebuilding project. Carter’s name came up time and time again as Republicans worked from a familiar convention playbook. From keynoter Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and others there was a steady chorus of anti-Clinton and anti-Con gress rhetoric, much of it borrowed from past Republican campaigns. To hear them tell it, Clinton is a liberal, eager to raise taxes, unpre pared to be commander-in-chief, captive to special interests and pup pet to the Democratic leadership of Congress. “It doesn’t put people first, it puts government first,” Kemp said of Clin ton’s plan. “It doesn’t empower people, it empowers bureaucracy. It doesn’t encourage investment and growth, it spends, and spends, and spends.” Democrats said Republicans sounded like a broken record, run ning the last campaign over again because they had nothing new to say. Still, they fired back, not only with harsh words but with biting television ads reminding voters of Bush’s bro ken promise on taxes, and the slow crawl of the economy during the Bush years. “They haven’t had anything posi tive to say about themselves,” Clin ton said. “If I were the Republicans, I’d be more worried about what I could do for America than how I could bad-mouth Bill Clinton and Al Gore and Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore.” U.S. readies food airlift to anarchic Somalia WASHINGTON - The Bush ad ministration wants the new emergency food being airlifted to Somalia sold through merchants rather than given directly to the poor as a way to com bat chronic thefts thwarting relief efforts. With an estimated l.S million Somalis threatened with starvation in the coming weeks, the Pentagon has dispatched four C-14Is to Kenya for the airlift and eight C-130s arc due there before Friday. The airlift is scheduled to start Thursday but the precise destinations in Somalia have not been picked yet. About 13,000 tons of food from U.S. stocks will be delivered this month and an additional 8,300 tons arc due to arrive in the first week of Septem ber. The first plane load is to leave for Wajir in northeastern Kenya on Thurs day. From there, some of the emer gency rations will be trucked to the nearly 400,000 people living in camps run by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees along Kenya’s border. The balance will leave on flights for Somalia beginning in a week to 10 days, said Marine Brig. Gen. Frank Libulti, head of a 34-mcmber ad vance team that arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, on Monday. In addition to donated food, the United States will contribute seed appropriate for planting new crops in Somalia and sponsor an animal vac cination program. The traditional Somali diet consists more of meat than grains. Virtually no U.S. personnel have been in Somalia for more than 18 months, and administration officials are worried about the safely of Ameri cans now being sent there to help w ith the relief effort. Andrew Natsios, a State Depart ment official who’s coordinating the relief effort, said Tuesday that Somalia poses an unusually difficult humani tarian challenge. “The problem is we’re not facing a civil war with two sides, or even three sides, or even four sides,’’ he said. “We’re facing anarchy. There is no government at all. There is no rebel movement at all. There are simply factions that arc armed, and the fac tions aren’t disciplined.” With armed thugs operating al most at will, the death toll since the I” 1 ■ ' ■ IMWIW crisis began is estimated in the lens ol thousands. Food, meanwhile, has become the principal currency and source of wealth with prices rising more than 500 percent. It also is a magnet for the many bandits and militias roaming the largely desert nation. By some estimates, up to half the emergency food already delivered to Somalia has been stolen. A key ingredient of the U.S. plan, Natsios said, is to sell food delivered by relief agencies directly to Somali merchants. Under the present system, he said, relief agencies donate food to Somali women, who are then shot and killed by teen-age thugs. In contrast, the armed factions creating most of the havoc generally do not steal food from markets. Prosecutor alleges former spy lied WASHINGTON - Clair George lied lo Congress when he failed to reveal the “dirty little secret" of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986, a prosecu tor said today in closing arguments at the former CIA spy’s criminal trial. Prosecutor Craig Gillen said ju rors were shown “startlingly clear, unequivocal, unimpeachable, direct evidence that Mr. George lied” when he said he did not know who was involved in a plane shot down over Nicaragua that was part of Oliver North’s secret military supply net work. George had a briefing book that outlined those very details when he briefed congressional committees in ' . - : 4-1 October 1986, Gillen said. And George knew that arms mid dleman Richard Secord was involved in both the Contra supply network and the Reagan administration's se cret arms sales to Iran, the prosecutor said. George tried to hide his knowl edge of the Contra resupply as “the dirty little secret that the people in the administration knew — and that people in Congress suspected but could not get confirmation — was revealed,” Gillen said. “He was well aware for two years, well aware of Oliver North’s involve ment with the Contras” and was obli gated to tell Congress when members asked questions, Gillen said. Defense lawyer Richard Hibey was scheduled to make his closing argu ment later today. The eight-woman, four-man jury is expected to begin deliberations Thursday after final instructions from U.S. District Judge Roycc C. Lam berth. George, 62, the former head of CIA overseas spy operations, pleaded innocent to three counts of obstruct ing Congress and a federal grand jury and six counts of perjury and false statements. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine upon conviction. , NelSra&kan Editor Chris Hopfsnspsrgsr 472-1766 Managing Editor Kris Karnopp Assoc. News Editor Adsana Lahin Assoc News Editor/ Wendy Navratll Writing coach Opinion Page Editor Dionne Searcey i Wire Editor Alan Phelps Copy Desk Editor Kara Wells Cl Sports Editor John Adklsson Arts A Entertain ment Editor Shannon Llehllng Diversions Editor Mark Baldridge Photo Chief William Lauer Night News Editors Kathy Steinauer Mika Lewis Kim Spurlock Kara Morrison Art Director Scott Maurer General Manager Dan Shaft II Production Manager Katherine Pollcky Advertising Manager Todd Sears Senior Acct. 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