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Nation readies to meet new president-elect
WASHINGTON—America, meet
your new president.
Bill Clinton wants to ban assault
weapons. He wants to guarantee fam
ily leave from jobs. He will push fora
national examination system to mea
sure the progress of students and
schools. He wants to guarantee a
woman’s right to abortion.
Executive or
ders signed by
iGcorgc Bush and
Ronald Reagan arc
up for review. Bills
they vetoed are be
ing resurrected. An
activist govern
ment is stirring after 12 years of Re
publican attempts to restrain
Washington’s power.
The economy was issue No. 1, and
thecenterpicceofClinton’scampaign
was a stimulus program built around
a $20-bil I ion-a-ycar spending plan for
highways and bridges to create jobs.
Longer term, he’ll seek investment
tax credits for new plants and equip
ment, and a capital gains lax cut for
new business.
He wants to raise taxes on Ameri
cans with household incomes over
$200,000, and cut taxes for middle
and lower-income workers.
Beyond Clinton’s highly publicized
promises on the economy and health
insurance arc numerous other un
equivocal positions that lay a blue
print for his administration.
He is pledged to sign the Brady Bill
requiring a waiting period for hand
gun purchases. He wants to ban off
shore oil drilling where rigs arc not
already in place. He wants a law to
prohibit companies from hiring per
manent replacements for strikers.
Clinton says homosexuals should
not be excluded from the military.
The number of American troops in
Europe would be Cut to 75,(MM) to
100,(MM) under Clinton, rather than
the 150,(MM) ceiling set by President
Bush. Clinton says allies should shoul
der more of the burden.
He wants a system under which
states would automatically register
people to vote when they apply for
drivers’licenses. Hc,iswilling_lospcnd
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Perot backers pick up pieces, plan
DALLAS — Some of Ross Pcrol’s
campaign aides said Wednesday lhal
the 19 million Americans who voted
for him could form
a third political
party if President
elect Clinton fails
to revive the
economy and cut
the deficit.
“The basis for a
third party is there if the group wishes
to pursue lhal as an ultimate end. 1
think it’s worth a lot of consider
ation,” said Orson Swindle,executive
director of Perot’s volunteer organi
zation, United We Stand, America.
Experts on third parlies and even
some Perot associates said the success
of Clinton’s presidency would deter
mine whether United We Stand would
be a potent political force.
The organization will remain ac
tive to promote thcTcxas billionaire’s
proposals for deficit reduction and
economic revival, Swindle said.
The group might even form a po
litical action committee to contribute
to congressional candidates, aides
said, even though Perot constantly
denounced these committees during
the campaign as the tool of special
interests.
Neither Sw indle nor other aides
could specify how Perot would work
to keep his issues before the Ameri
can public or whether he would con
sidcr running again in 1996.
“We’ve got so many bridges tc
cross before we get there,” Swindle
told the campaign’s final briefing foi
reporters. Still, “Ross Perot has got s
great following. Somebody believes
in him enough to invest in a few
bumper stickers.”
$8.25 billion on ihc atom-smashing
superconducting super collider
projects. He says he’ll repeal most
Bush policies on abortion.
Clinton wants to put 100,000 new
police officers on the streets through
a national police corps and other
means. He supports the death penally.
He wants to limit carbon dioxide
emissions to 1990 levels by the year
2000 to reverse global warming. For
cars, he wants to phase in a 40-mpg
auto fuel efficiency standard by the
turn of the century. He would set
national water-pollution runofl stan
dards. He iscommiltcd tocliminating
the production and use of all ozone
depleting chemicals as soon as pos
sible.
Clinton happy, tired
after hard-won battle
Presidcnt-clccl Clinton pledged
Wednesday to "spare no effort to re
store jobs, growth and incomes” as he
contemplated the first Democratic
administration in a dozen years. The
party’s top leaders in Congress of
fered cooperation and a fast start on
setting the economy right.
President Bush
Hew home to a he
roes’ welcome at
the White House
and said he would
“cooperate fully”
with the man who
defeated him. “It’s
been a wonderful four years and no
body can take that aw ay from us,” the
president told supporters.
On the morning alter his victory,
Clinton look a brief hand-in-hand side
walk stroll with his wife, Hillary.
“I anfhappy, exhausted, thinking
of all the work to be done,” the presi
dcnt-to-bc said. Asked his plans for
the day, he replied, laughing., “1 am
going to be taking a nap.”
He also arranged a meeting w ith
the leaders of a pre-election transition
team.
In remarks aimed at business and
financial leaders, Clinton said later
that "although change is on the hori
zon, we understand the need to pursue
stability even as we pursue new
growth.”
To the voters, he said he would
“get upevery morning and work hard”
on tackling the nation’s economic
difficulties.
“It will not be easy, but we will
spare no effort to restore growth, jobs
and income to the American people,”
he said.
British Prime Minister John Major
announced he had sent the 46-year
old Clinton a message.
“We live in a troubled and often
disorderly world and I look forward to
working closely with you as you lead
the United Slates in pursuit ol our
shared goals," he cabled.
In the.statement he read to report
ers, Clinton reaffirmed the “essential
continuity” of American foreign
policy, and reminded allies and po
tential adversaries alike that the
nation’s affairs of state remained in
Bush’s hands as long as he was presi
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In a government building a few
blocks from the While House, work
crews installed telephones, spacklcd
walls and worked on a security system
in preparation for the arrival of the
Democratic planners who w ill build
the nation’s new government.
The newly elected members of the
Dcmocratic-controllcd Congress, in
cluding 22 more women in the House,
16 more blacks and six more Hispan
ics, looked ahead to their terms in
office.
Four new Democratic w omen were
elected to the Senate, including two
from California. One of them, Dianne
Fcinstcin of California, said voters
wanted to see “steady progress being
made, that the gridlock is gone’ in
Washington.
Carol Moseley Braun, D-III., the
first black woman elected to the Sen
ate, was asked what she thought when
she found out she had won.“Praise the
Lord,” she said.
“I think there will be a very posi
tive and cooperative spirit and alti
tude," Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell said in an interv iew on ABC s
“Good Morning Amcrica."The Maine
Democrat noted Clinton had laid out
several priorities during his success
ful campaign for the White House.
“And they arc, of course: economic
growth and job creation, health care
reform, dealing with the deficit. And
we look forward to acting promptly
when he proposes legislation early
next year.”
World listens when American voters talk
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They stopped doing deals on the
Manila exchange. They quit arguing
at a political congress in Zaire and
listened to bulletins from America. In
the new Ukraine, they tuned in to see'
how an old democracy works.
The world’s millions watched the
United States remake its political face
overnight and
pinned a lotof hope
Wednesday on a
youthful U.S.presi
dent-elect.
JY oulh is
progress,” con
cluded Ukraine’s
prime minister, Leonid Kuchma.
Bill Clinton, 46, could have gotten
a morning-after preview ofthc kind of
global headaches that await him:
While worn-out Democrats slept late
in Little Rock, U.S. envoys were tak
ing steps in Geneva to slap punitive
tariffs on European farm goods.
In Asia, where traders on the Phil
ippine exchange put down their order
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The revitalization of the American economy is
important not only for the United States alone
but also for Japan and for the whole world.
— Watanabe
Japanese foreign minister
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sheets to watch U.S. returns on televi
sion, stocks rose. In Europe, stock
indexes held steady and the dollar’s
value was mixed.
“The revitalization of the Ameri
can economy is important not only for
the United States alone but also for
Japan and for the whole world,” Japa
nese foreign minister Michio
Watanabc said.
GcrmanChancellor Helmut Kohls
congratulatory message struck a more
down-to-earth tone, reminding
Clinton of major tasks ahead: “Our
hopes for a more peaceful world and
for the carrying out of human rights,
democracy and a market economy
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everywhere in Europe still have not
been fulfilled.”
Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin
vowed to work toward “strengthening
the relations of friendship and part
nership between our countries.”
European Community and U.S.
negotiators deadlocked in talks to lib
eral izc world trade. The result:
Wednesday’s moves by the Bush ad
ministration to impose tariffs on se
lected European farm products. The
Europeans would be sure to strike
back.
The congratulatory message
Jacques Dclors, the Community’s top
executive, sent to Clinton had the
sound of an appeal. “Together we can
bear more fruit than separately,” he
told the president-elect.
China also is concerned about
Clinton trade policies. He favors with
drawing favorable trade status from
Beijing’s “frcc-markcl Communists”
to pressure them to liberalize their
politics. A Hong Kong newspaper
that often speaks for Beijing said such
“interference” would “elicit a strong
Chinese response.”
In the African nation of Zaire,
delegates at the “national conference,”
an opposition-led gathering trying to
strip President Mobutu Sese Seko of
his autocratic powers, interrupted the
proceedings to listen to reports of
Clinton’s victory. Opposition news
papers predicted they would find a
friend in the Arkansan.
Hungarian foreign minister Gcza
Jeszenszky offered congratulations to
Bush, “an active player in the fall of
communism. We in Hungary will not
forget him.”
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