By The
Associated Press
Edited by Alan Phelps
Yeltsin bans ‘extremists,’
dissolves security force
MOSCOW — President Boris
Yeltsin went on the offensive
Wednesday against his hard-line
political foes, banning a new right
wing group and ordering an oppo
sition-controlled security force dis
banded.
The one-two punch seemed de
signed to keep the hard-liners off
Russia’s political center stage.
Yeltsin took the step after hard
line lawmakers rebuffed his request
to delay the next parliament ses
sion and after weeks of criticism
from many sides.
The ban hit the members of the
parliament, who arc determined to
curb his powers and slow economic
reforms during a session of the
Congress of People’s Deputies set
to start Dec. 1.
Russian and former Soviet law
makers, including Sergei Baburin
and retired Gen. Albert Makashov,
led about 3,000 people on Saturday
in creating a “National Salvation
From” to oust Yeltsin and restore
the former union.
The grouping of Russian na
tionalists and Communists accused
Yeltsin of destroying the national
economy, and polluting Russia’s
moral and social traditions.
Thegroup wascompriscd mostly
of right-wing critics still believed
to have limited influence.
Yeltsin said in a speech on Tues
day he would outlaw the Front.
The president said the group
posed a “great danger” for Russia
and made good on the threat on
Wednesday, signing a decree or
dering authorities to prevent all
activities by the “anti-constitu
tional” group or any other “extrem
ist” organizations, said spokesman
Vyacheslav Kostikov.
Yeltsin also chose Wednesday
to order the disbanding of the spe
cial 5,000-mcmbcr police force
controlled by legislative speaker
Ruslan Khasbulatov.
Clinton pans, praises Perot
Bill Clinton alternately poked and
praised Ross Perot on Wednesday,
hoping to siphon off support in a race
for the White House growing closer
by the day. President Bush said he
wants a second term so “every Ameri
can that is hurting has a better oppor
tunity.”
Perot mapped
plans for a cam
paign-ending series
of rallies to supple
ment the costliest
television advertis
ing effort in Ameri
can history.
“Six more
days,” said Clinton.
The sun was just coming up in
Ohio as Bush wrapped up his morning
Jog. Clinton did his own roadwork in
the pre-morning darkness in Texas,
then had stops set in three southern
states before flying off for Ohio.
Clinton’s lead has shrunk in recent
days as Perot has gained in the polls.
In an appearance on NBC’s “To
day” show, Clinion said Perot’s re
cent claims, including one that Re
publican operatives planned to dis
rupt his daughter’s wedding had
“called his temperament into ques
tion in many quarters.”
Asked his own opinion, Clinton
replied, “The American people make
their own judgments about tempera
ment, character and trust. So he can’t
prove what he said and that bothers
people.”
Clinton told a call-in questioner
that if he wins the White House, he
would like to have Perot’s advice “on
the issues that he cares and knows
about.” He referred specifically to
prisoners of war missing in Southeast
Asia and steps to reduce the deficit
and control government spending.
Later, he told reporters, “I don’t
think he (Perot) wants a position, but
would I let him be involved? Yeah.”
Clinton’s campaign supplemented
hiscomments by announcing that 122
former Perot supporters, including
nine previous statewide coordinators,
were endorsing the Democratic ticket.
“A vote for Ross Perot could let
George Bush and Dan Quayle in
through the back door for four more
years,” they said in an “open letter” to
Perot supporters circulated by the
Clinton campaign.
Bush criticized what he said was
overly negative med ia coverage about
the economy, assailed the “voices of
doom and gloom” who predict his
demise, and said, “Believe me, we arc
going to win this election.”
Most independent analyses give
Clinton a commanding edge in the
Electoral College.
Mary Matalin, Bush’s political di
rector, told reporters traveling with
the president, “We’re ahead in 15
states with 140 electoral votes” out of
270necded for victory. Asked to name
them, she replied, “I don’t have my
list with me.”
Perot planned a late-night broad
cast on CBS of a 30-minute program
called “Ross, You Bet Your Hat We
Can Win.”
State parties quietly bankroll campaign’s ‘ground war'
WASHINGTON — Republican
and Democratic parlies at the state
level have quietly injected at least $35
million of their own money in a mas
sive effort to mobi
lize and influence
voters before Elec
tion Day, an Asso
ciated Press review
of the 50 states has
found.
In at least 14
states, local parties
also have provided another avenue
for “soft-money” donations from
unions and corporations, which are
r—
Local Republicans, Democrats spend millions
banned from directly contributing to
federal campaigns, the AP found.
The slate parties will likely spend
millions more in this final week be
fore Election Day, carrying about half
the financial burden for a campaign
that many people have assumed is the
sole work of the national parlies and
the presidential campaigns. '
The effort includes bankrolling get
oul-thc-vote drives, phone banks, ge
neric ads, mass mailings and slate
cards designed to influence voters to
vote for the party’s entire ticket.
“Ours is the ground war in the
trenches in each of the counties and
towns. Things like that end up saving
the campaigns tons of money,” said
Jeff Malmcn, executive director of
the Idaho GOP, which has spent
$351,000.
The state party efforts, often called
“non-fcdcral joint expenditures,” are
particularly important to President
Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton, leav
ing them more of their legally limited
$55.2 million fall election money for
such items as last minute television
advertising.
In some of the biggest-spending
states:
• In New Jersey, the slate GOP has
already doled out $3.05 million from
its coffers while state Democrats have
spent $4.34 million.
• In California, the state with the
most electoral voles, Democrats have
spent $2.84 million to $1.63 million
by the state GOP; but in Texas, the
No. 3 electoral slate, the slate GOP
has oulspcnt the Democrats $2.1 mil
lion to SI ,3 million.
The AP review involved computer
analysis of Federal Election Commis
sion reports and reviews of slate cam
paign finance records in all 50 states.
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It showed that through Oct. 14 the
state parties reported they had spent
S46.3 million on the joint voter mobi
lization projects: $35 million of their
own money and about $11 million in
transfers they received from the na
tional parties.
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Doomsday disappointment
Missing Rapture a revelation for Korean worshipers
SEOUL, South Korea — For months, thou
sands of believers proclaiming the “Rapture is
coming!” stood on street comers and predicted
the end of the world. Some quit jobs and sold
everything to prepare to ascend to heaven.
But early Thursday, 15 minutes after the
midnight deadline passed, worshipers were told
heaven could wait.
“Nothing has happened,” said the Rev. Chang
Man-ho of Seoul’s largest doomsday church,
the Mission for the Coming Days. “Sorry; let’s
go home.”
Some 2,500 believers filed out in disap
pointment, walking under the big yellow chry
santhemum arch at the entrance, past the loud
speakers that earlier blared hymns and “halle
lujahs!”
“We just got the message from God wrong,”
said Kim Tac-jin, a 34-year-old architect. “Jesus
will be back in several years.”
Critics said the church drew followers be
cause ol anxiety over rapid social and political
changes in South Korea, and that the mentally
troubled and the insecure were easily lured by
the doomsday predictions. Korean officials had
said the church was creating a social crisis.
Thousands of police backed by fire engines
and ambulances were placed on alert overnight
to monitor churches across the country and try
to prevent suicides or acts of despair. Four
people committed suicide prior to midnight,
but there were no reports of deaths after it was
clear there would be no ascension to heaven.
One young woman collapsed. Some wept.
Most tried to avoid the 1,000 curiosity seekers
and police searchlights illuminating the night
sky.
Police said they had no immediate word on
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We just got the message from
God wrong. Jesus will be back
in several years.
— Tae-jin,
Korean architect
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whether 10,000 to 20,000 other believers at 200
other churches across the country also had gone
home calmly, or whether they were continuing
prayer.
But anger surfaced. In Taegu, the Rev. Hwang
Bo-kwan was beaten by a man who said the
church had kidnapped members of his family,
the Yonhap national news agency said.
Police said some church members were
reported missing, including 20 believers in the
southern port of Pusan who left wills and per
sonal belongings behind, and a couple in Seoul
who left three small children.
Seven years of apocalypse were to follow
the rapture, the ascent to heaven, and set the
stage for the second coming of Christ.
A spokesman for the Seoul church said
leaders would visit prison on Thursday to sec
Lee Jang-rim, 46, the group’s founder, jai led on
charges of swindling followers of up to $4
million.
Lee wrote a letter to followers that asked
them to restrain themselves if his predictions
were wrong.
“Nothing is wrong with our objective to
meet Jesus Christ,” he wrote. The letter made
no mention of the fraud charges.
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