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News digest Candidates confident at campaign trail’s end Bill Clinton charged confidently through a final, grueling day of cam paigning on Monday, beckoning vot ers to “embrace new ideas” after 12 years of Republican presidents. George Bush predicted a poll-defying upset and attacked his rival to the end as “slippery when wet.” Ross Perot pur chased two hours of clcction-cvc net work advertising and skewered both his rivals as men who “don’t know how to create jobs, r don’t know how to manage money, don’t know howvto build businesses.” Democracy’s most sacred rite was with the balance of the slates rated as toss-ups. The Arkansas governor tested the limits of human endurance with his last and longest day as a candidate — 29 hours ofcampaigning through nine states before returning home to Little Rock. Aboard his jet was his physi cian, Dr. James Y. Suen, to offer treatment for a cracking voice. In uplifting, final night television commercials, he said, “we can make American work again.” And on his final day of campaigning, he touted his message ol change over and over. Outside a diner in Philadelphia, Clinton said the election was a “fight between the comfort of the status quo and the couragctocmbraccncw ideas.” “We must have a new economic already under way in Texas, where polling places opened on Oct. 14. Officials said more than one million voters had already marked their bal lots. Nationwide, there were estimates that the votes could total 100 million on Tuesday, not only to pick a presi dent, but 35 senators, a new House of Representatives, a dozen governors, and countless state and local leaders. Clinton was the leader in all the nationwide polls as the three rivals reached for the finish line. A 50-state survey by ABC said the Democrat was either clearly ahead or leading in states with 295 electoral votes, more than the 270 needed for victory. Bush was clearly ahead or leading in states with 81 electoral votes in the survey, policy,” he said later in Ohio. “No more trickle down, not lax and spend, but pul the American people first, invest in our jobs, control our health care costs, provide education to all our people. And we can be the great est country in the world forever.” Clinton linked himself to America’s heroes, idling supporters that when they vole on Tuesday, they could honor the ideas of Jefferson and Wash ington, the sacrifice of Lincoln, the optimism of the Roosevelts, and “the commitment to the future of John Kennedy.” Bush set six stops to end his last campaign. White House chief of staff James A. Baker III said there had been no talk of defeat in the forward cabin of Air Force One. He said Bush was upbeat and added, “It’s very doable, and we’re going to do it.” He said his rival was “slippery when wet,” trouble wailing to happen oircconomic policy and the possessor of a flawed character. The Democrat, he said, “offers an economic disaster for this country,” and predicted anew that a Clinton administration would lead to the high interest rates and high inflation of the last Democratic presidency under Jimmy Carter. “We simply cannot go back to those days.” “And so in the final analysis, what it boils down to is who has the expe rience and who has the character to lead the greatest, frccstcountry on the face of the earth,” Bush said. AP/Carl Fox _ r Republicans choice challenger proves formidable toe Clinton retains lead in poll despite political baggage WASHINGTON — There was a lime when Bill Clinton was the Re publicans’ favorite Democratic chal lenger. Now the man they thought tlFWc would be vulncr able is at the door step of the White House, the cleclion cvc favorite to dc | feat President Bush on Tuesday. To compound the irony, theorigi ^4 LYSV* na* GOP reckoning may have been right. The character and trust questions Bush was pressing in the final days, when Clinton’s lead in the polls nar rowed to striking distance, couldn’t have been appl icd toa di fferent Demo crat. One lop Republican mused that if the Democratic nominee had been one of the front-rank dropouts — Bill Bradley of New Jersey or Sam Nunn of Georgia, for example — the president’s re-election chances prob ably would be none instead of slim. The GOP theory was that Clinton was a flawed candidate, carrying loo much political baggage to oust the incumbent. He certainly had baggage, but he carried it skillfully and dis pensed with much of it early in the season. Even so, when Bush and his allies began bearing down on character as an issue, the president did show tem porary gains in the polls. However, a new, final ABC News poll released Monday night indicated that Bush had been doing belter in the dosing days because more voters were persuaded that the economy was im proving. The survey showed 18 per cent believed it was getting better by the end of October, up from 10 per cent early in the month, and that helped Bush. But 49 percent still said the economy was getting worse. The poll, completed Sunday, showcdClinton leading Bush by seven percentage points. “We simply cannot take a risk on Gov. Clinton,” Bush said Monday. “You have to have the trust of the people through character and you have to have the trust of the world when you arc president.” Bush said he didn’t come up with the word “slick” to describe Clinton. “I did say slippery when wet. I will stand with that.” The Gcnnfftr Flowers affair accu sations and Clinton ’ s varying accounts of the way he avoided the Vietnam draft both surfaced before the presi dential primary elections began; both were problems but not the disasters they could have been later. Angolan clash leaves 1,000 dead LUANDA, Angola — Angolan government forces had mostof Luanda back under control Monday and ap pealed to citizens not to wreak re venge on UNIT A rebels after fighting reportedly left up to 1,000 dead. As rebel resistance melted in the capital, armed civilians were reported hunting down rebels. UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi’s second-in-command and nephew were reported killed, and a third top rebel wounded. Police said they captured three UNITA generals. If confirmed, the losses would be a major setback to the U.S.-backed UNITA rebels, who signed a cease fire with the pro-Soviet government in 1991 to end a 16-year civil war in which 350,(X)() people died. i Clashes between the governing MPLA — the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola — and UNITA - the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola — erupted in the provinces Thursday and spread to Luanda Saturday. State radio said up to 1 ,(XX) people died in the fighting, which threatened ip renew the war until a U.N.-spon sored truce took effect just after mid night Sunday. Tensions had been rising since September’s national elections, which UNITA lost. Savimbi contends the vote was rigged; the United Nations says the balloting was generally free and fair. Rebel officials reported skirmishes in some parts ot the country Monday, but police claimed to have Luanda back under control. Only sporadic shooting and explosions were heard in some districts. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was im posed, and police warned civilians to stay off the streets because of snipers. Police vehicles with loudspeakers cruised the streets urging people to respect the cease-fire. Many armed civilians had fought alongside police against the rebels over the weekend. A government statement read over state radio appealed to people to show “humanitarian treatment” to UNITA supporters. ► In Store This Week Great New Hits SADE, BON JOVIL BOB DYLAN-ACOUSTIC ... Cs. $6.97 / CD *10.97 *miWm 3814 Normal • 237 S. 70th • 17th L P • 56th L Hwy. 2 Lottery Continued from Page 1 Education and the Environment support noble causes, Eskridge said, but they must realize that the rev enue from a slate lottery will not go directly to those causes, which in clude education and the environ ment. Instead, Eskridge said, the money will go into one fund and will be allotted according to need. “I’m in agreement that the envi ronment and the schools arc in need,” he said. “But the whole thiug is a fraud.” Former Nebraska Gov. Charles Thonc said he opposed the lottery because it raised government rev - (4 -- The lottery has a hollow allure. It is misleading, especially to the poor. Eskridge criminal justice professor -*> " cnucs through gambling, which hits poor people the hardest. “It’s a regressive lax,” he said. “My response to the uses of the revenue arc immaterial — it’s how they arc raised is what I’m opposed to.” If the lottery passes, Moody said he hoped it would lake effect next year. He said the lottery would bring in about S65 million in rev enues to the stale per year.