Dole coasts to victory in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dole
won a landslide victory Thursday in
the New York primary, opening a re
sounding lead in the Republican presi
dential race. He said it was “time to
start the fight for November,” but Steve
Forbes and Pat Buchanan vowed to
battle on in the upcoming GOP prima
ries.
“When it comes to picking the Re
publican nominee, it’sover—it’sBob
Dole,” said Gov. George Pataki, a
Dole partisan.
Dole cast his big win as an “over
whelming statement of Republican
unity” and said it was time for Repub
licans “to defeat Bill Clinton and re
turn conservative leadership to the
presidency.”
In an interview with The Associ
ated Press, Dole said it wasn’t for him
to tell Forbes and Buchanan to quit the
race, but suggested they take a long
look at the lopsided New York results.
“Lcfsmove on and recognize ifstime
to start the fight for November,” the
Senate majority leader said.
New Yorkers braved snow or chilly
rain to vote, and many had a humdrum
attitude about a race that was without
a front-runner less than a week ago.
“You pick because you have to, but it’s
not much of a choice,” said Maria
Avellino, a 22-year-old mother ofthree
in Brooklyn who voted for Dole.
New Yorkers voted for delegates
—not directly for candidates—but a
voter survey showed that 53 percent
favored Dole, compared to 30 percent
for Forbes and 14 percent for
Buchanan.
As a result, Dole took a daunting
delegate lead over Forbes and
Buchanan: He won at least 90 of the 93
delegates on the New York ballots,
bringing his national total to 380.
Forbes had 72. Buchanan was third at
62, with 996 needed to clinch nomina
' tion.
“If the others want to stay in, they
ought to focus on Bill Clinton and not
kick me,” Dole told AP from Florida.
Speaking via satellite to a New York
victory rally, Dole chastised Clinton
for vetoing GOP plans to balance the
budget, cut taxes and reform welfare.
But his rivals weren’t willing to
quit, even as they acknowledged the
long odds.
Forbes said he would contest the
Super Tuesday primaries next week,
move onto the big Midwest states up,
next and then make a major push in
California at the end of the month. He
contrasted his “vibrant vision of the
future” with Dole’s “politics as usual”
but would not say how much more of
his personal fortune he would pour
into the race.
Forbes blamed his resounding de
feat on the New York GOP establish
ment—le?d by Pataki and Sen. Alfonse
D’ Amato, “ft was stacked against us,”
Forbes said.
Pataki said Dole’s big margins in
recent primaries gave him plenty of
leeway to choose a running mate who
supported abortion rights, Buchanan ’ s
protests notwithstanding.
“I don’t know where these people
li ve—but clearly not in the real world,”
Bay Buchanan,her brother’scampaign
manager, said in response to that, prom
ising a vigorous convention fight if
Dole took that course.
Only Forbes and Dole were on the
New York ballot statewide. Buchanan
competed in two-thirds of the state’s
31 congressional districts but didn’t
get any reward for his tenacious effort
to overcome New York’s arcane bal
lot access laws.
Thursday’s victory capped a cli
mactic week for Dole, who saw the
nomination he has coveted so long
finally come within reach. Dole won a
10-state sweep Tuesday, and then saw
two rivals quit the race and endorse
him Wednesday, leaving just Forbes
and Buchanan in his path.
Buchanan appeared in no mood to
get out of the way .
Campaigning in Tennessee as he
scoured the South for a symbolic vic
tory, Buchanan said Dole “waffles” on
abortion and labeled him “the biggest
taxer in the history of the Republican
Party.”
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Video captures trooper
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)—A state
trooper was fired after a video camera
in his patrol car captured him shoving,
cursing and threatening to cut the
clothes off a woman he had stopped
for speeding.
The tape of Lance Cpk W.H.
Beckwith’s speeding stop was released
Thursday and broadcast on South Caro
lina television stations. Beckwith, an
11 -year patrol veteran, was fired after
an investigation into the Jan. 8 arrest.
Beckwith was driving an unmarked
patrol car along Interstate 95 in
Clarendon County when he saw the
woman doing 80 mph in a 65 mph
zone. He was not wearing his trooper’s
hat as required, Rose said.
Once the woman stopped, Beckwith
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and tried to drag her out while her seat
belt was still on.
He pulled her out of the car, pushed
her face down on the pavement and
tried to handcuff her, but her clothing
got in the way. “If I can’t get it off, I’ll
cut it off,” he said.
When the woman said she could
not roll over to stand up because she
was next to the car, he shouted: “Roll
over and stand your ass up, lady, now!
You’re fixin’ to taste liquid hell in a
minute!”
The woman, who suffered bruises
and scratches, pleaded guilty to speed
ing and was released the same day,
Rose said.
After the woman complained that
day, Beckwith’s superiors got the tape
from his car. He was suspended Feb. 1
and fired Feb. 22.
Whitewater
investigation
may end early
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Republican chairman of the
Senate committee investigating
President Clinton’s business
deals with the owner of a failed
Arkansas savings and loan of
fered Thursday to end the in
quiry before the political party
conventions in August.
Stymied by a Democratic fili
buster of his proposal to extend
the authority of his Senate
Whitewater Committee indefi
nitely — and possibly into the
fall election season—New York
Sen. Alfonse D’Amato said he
was willing to wind up the
panel’s work by mid-July.
At the same time, Senate
Minority Leader Tom Daschle
indicated to reporters that Demo
crats were willing to extend the
life of the committee for more
than five weeks — their most
recent offer.
The Democrats accused the
Republicans of pushing a politi
cally motivated investigation in
an election year. The Republi
cans, who head the Watergate
style committee, insist they need
to continue the investigation to
uncover the facts.
Senators have engaged in
hours of sniping partisan debate
on the issue since last Thursday,
when the committee’s authority
expired.
The Democrats have offered
a compromise that would ex
tend the investigation for five
weeks only and provide an addi
tional $185,000, compared with
the open-ended extension and
additional $600,000 in the GOP
resolution.
Under the Democrats’ plan,
the Whitewater Committee
would finish its work by April 3
and prepare a report by May 10.
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