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Dole tops Nebraska
list of fund-raising
OMAHA, Neb. — Bob Dole
and Bill Clinton will not spend much
time campaigning in Nebraska,
campaign representatives say.
Republican presidential con
tender Dole has such strong sup
port in Nebraska that there is no
point in his spending time here; and
there is no point for Democratic
President Clinton because he is so
far behind, they said.
According to Federal Election
Commission statements, Dole, the
Kansas senator and Senate major
ity leader, was far and away the
leading fund-raiser in Nebraska last
year, taking in $184,292 from do
nations of $200 or more.
Clinton was second at $24,800.
Republicans Pat Buchanan and
Steve Forbes raised $17,571 and
$2,000 respectively.
Compared with other states’
fund-raising efforts, Nebraska was
squarely in the middle. While some
areas, like New York, raised con
siderably more money—$2.7 mil
lion for Dole, $2.2 million for
Clinton — others were on the low
end. North Dakota, for example,
had Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, as
the lead fund-raiser with $5,800,
and Dole at $5,050.
Andy Abboud, executive direc
tor of Nebraska’s Republican party,
said lie believed Dole now hasclose
to $300,000 in his state campaign
chest, and he credited organization
as the key to success.
“He had a lot of strong organiza
tion here early on,” Abboud said.
“Dole is a favorite son of Nebraska,
lie’s kind of like our third senator.”
However, the son probably will
not be in Nebraska to rouse the
troops, Abboud said.
“Quite honestly, I don’t think
Nebraska is going to be a priority
for him,” Abboud said. “He’s al
ready strong in this state and he
needs to spend his time where he
can have an impact.”
Clinton’s authorized represen
tative in Nebraska is Anne Boyle of
Omaha. Boyle said one reason Dole
raised more money than Clinton in
Nebraska was that Dole faces op
position in the GOP primary, while
Cl inton docs not face opposition on
the Democratic side.
But Boyle, a longtime Demo
crat, said she did not hold out much
hope for Clinton in Nebraska.
“No Democrat running for presi
dent has won Nebraska since LBJ
(Lyndon Johnson, 1964),” Boyle
said. “And in today’s world of win
ner take all, it doesn’t make a lot of
sense for Clinton to campaign here
when in all likelihood he’s not go
ing to win.”
Boyle said she only hoped that
Dole loses overall in the November
general election. “I think if people
sit down and give Bill Clinton a
chance, they will see he is a very
progressive president who has
achieved great things,” she said.
New fires bum in Sarajevo;
UN officials plead for help
oAKAJcvu, bosma-Hcrzcgovina
— More fearful Serbs fled lawless
Sarajevo suburbs on Sunday, and a
U.N. aid official accused the NATO
led peace force of not offering enough
protection.
Two days before ilidza was to be
handed over to Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat
federation, fires burned in a music
school, two factories, a pharmacy, a
church and several apartment build
ings in the largely deserted Serb sub
urb. Dozens of people waited at a
wrecked streetcar terminal for rides to
Serb-held areas.
A mother and her two children stood
weeping outside one burning building.
French NATO troops first stood and
watched, then tried to put out the blaze
after more troops arrived and orders
were apparently changed.
Later, NATO troops escorted a fire
truck from a nearby government-held
suburb to help extinguish an apart
ment fire that threatened to engulf the
entire building.
Serb gangs intent on proving that
Bosnians cannot live together have
been blamed for intimidation, arson
and a reported murder designed to
drive Serbs out of the two remaining
Sarajevo suburbs not yet under federa
tion control.
Local sources have told interna
tional police monitors that more than
200 buildings and houses would be
burned down in the areas in the next 48
hours, spokesman Alexander Ivanko
said Sunday.
U.N. and NATO officials say Serb
gangs apparently are being directed by
the hard-line leadership in the Bosnian
Serb stronghold of Pale.
The Serb mayor of Ilidza, Nedjeljko
Prstojevic, appealed to truck owners
to assemble in the suburb on Monday
to help evacuate remaining civilians,
the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA
reported.
The suburb of Grbavica was al
ready virtually deserted. “The atmo
sphere is really bad and everybody is
going to leave, said Veselinka Risic,
a 57-ycar-old widow.
Under the Bosnian peace agree
ment, the whole Sarajevo region is to
be reunified by March 19 under the
control of the Muslim-Croat federa
tion that is to govern half of Bosnia.
Most Serbs have deserted the city’s
five Serb-held districts, fearing repris
als when their wartime enemies take
over.
International civilian officials said
NATO should do more to respond to
the security vacuum as Serb police
withdraw or stand by and federation
police are not yet in place.
The 60,000-member NATO-led
force has refused to carry out police
duties for fear of getting drawn into
conflict between the warring factions.
At a meeting Sunday, representa
tives from NATO, the U.N. civilian
police, Bosnian Serbs and the Mus
lim-Croat federation agreed on a num
ber of measures to help improve secu
rity for those Serbs who choose to stay.
But the idea of a curfew was
dropped. NATO officials said enforce
ment would require extra troops and
personnel trained in civilian control
— both of which are unavailable.
The U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees will set up “safe houses” for
Serbs who stay in Ilidza and Grbavica
that would be protected by interna
tional police and NATO forces.
Firefighters of the Muslim-Croat fed
eration would enter the Serb-held ar
eas with NATO escort and protection.
Adm. Leighton Smith, the com
mander of NATO-led forces, also met
with Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo
Krajisnik late Sunday to discuss the
S6rb exodus.
Smith said Serbs could leave i f they
wished, but urged them to “recognize
that the actions that some are taking
now are clearly inflammatory, threaten
their neighbors, and do great damage
to the prospects for peace.”
Stock market woozy
after Friday’s plunge
NEW YORK — Whether the
“clang, clang, clang” of the stock
market ’s opening bell Monday signals
an outright alarm or simply the start of
another round of jabbing and ducking
is anybody’s guess.
Traders had the weekend to con
sider the Hurry of selling Friday that
pushed the Dow Jones industrial aver
age, the stock market’s best-known
index, down 171.24 points, its third
worst point decline ever. Bond prices
plunged too, in their worst one-day
performance in almost 20 years.
The Dow’s drop almost immedi
ately brought comparisons to the crash
of 1987, when a 108-point decline on
Oct. 16 — a Friday — preceded the
508-point Oct. 19 meltdown that be
came known as Black Monday.
Many Wall Street analysts, who
spent the weekend furiously trying to
piece together the cause and effect of
Friday’s decline, say Monday should
not bring another drop like 1987.
They’re less sure, however, just what
it will bring.
In other words: Get ready for any
thing.
“I don’t hear of much in the way of
panic—obviously, we’ve been on the
phone over the weekend talking to
various financial types,” said A.
Michael Upper, president of the re
search firm Upper Analytical Services
Inc.
“I don’t think Monday will be his
torically bad,” he said, “but that doesn’t
mean it won’t go down.”
Down is the last thing many inves
tors want to hear.
Precipitating the Friday scll-oITwas
a government report showing the na
tion created 705,000jobs in February,
the biggest gain since 1983. Traders
figured the news ofa stronger economy
would keep the Federal Reserve from
cutting interest rates in the near future.
Expectations of lower interest rates
have been a main underpinnin&of the
remarkable rise in the financial mar
kets that carried the Dow average up
more than 30 percent last year. Lower
rates help boost corporate profits and
make stocks and bonds more attractive
than other interest-bearing investments
like savings accounts.
One thing market analysts worked
to figure out over the weekend was the
nature ofthc down draft. Was it simply
a blip or the beginning of a “correc
“I don't think Monday
will be historically bad, ”
he said, “but that doesn't
mean it won't go down."
A. MICHAEL LIPPER
President of stock market
research firm
tiona loosely defined (emi meaning
a pullback in prices that allows an
overall advance to continue?
“I think that’s what we have going
on here, a correction within the theme
of an ongoing up trend,” said Eugene
Pcroni, director of technical research
at Janncy Montgomery Scott, a bro
kerage firm.
Wall Street generally defines a cor
rection as a decline in stock prices of
10 percent or so. The Dow’s drop
Friday to 5,470.45 represented just a 3
percent decline, so analysts like Pcroni
figure there’s more to come. Though,
they say, not all in one day.
Buchanan b
Forbes ‘in fo
HOUSTON—Pat Buchanan cam
paigned with renewed verve Sunday,
stating bluntly he’s not about to help
Bob Dole win the White House, but
the signals from Steve Forbes’ camp
were less clear.
While Forbes said in Florida that
he, loo, was in the GOP presidential
race “for the duration,” campaign aides
indicated Forbes might be willing to
bow out if Dole embraces serious tax
reforms.
Forbes is looking for “basically,
some sort of recognition” of his role in
the GOP presidential campaign, said a
senior an aide to Forbes who asked not
to be identified by name.
But Forbes maintained on NBC’s
“Meet the Press” that he had no inten
tion of withdrawing from the race.
“These principles and issues arc
bigger than the candidate. I’m in for
the duration to get them across to the
voters,” he said.
Buchanan was even more forceful
about staying in.
“Right now, what I’mgoingtodois
campaign as long and hard as we can,
amass as many delegates and votes as
we can and ... fight strongly, fairly,
bravely, as we have all along for the
things I believe in,” Buchanan said in
a television interview.
In a sermon-like address to
Houston’s Bread of Life Church con
gregation, Buchanan cal led for a “more
muscular Christianity” to help in his
fight to outlaw abortion, euthanasia
and assisted suicide, and restore prayer
and Bible study in public schools.
“We’ve had too much of the church
milquetoast and not enough of the
church militants in America,” he
Dlsters fight;
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preached.
Forbes continued to focus on his 11
percent flat tax proposal at visits to a
strawberry festival and an exhibition
baseball game between the Cincinnati
Reds and the Kansas City Royals.
On his NBC appearance, Forbes
acknowledged that Dole was the front
runner “but, as I say, this election is noi
just about pickinga candidate to run in
a single elect ion. This elect ion is aboul
the direction that America takes ...”
Former Housing Secretary Jack
Kemp, campaigning with Forbes on
Sunday, said he was willing to help his
friend close ranks with Dole any time
the candidate asks him to.
“I have a lot of friends in the Dole
camp and maybe, i f he asked me, at the
right time, to help build a bridge to the
party or to Dole, I could play that
role,” Kemp said in an interview.
But Forbes, asked whether he
wanted Kemp to serve as a negotiator,
Forbes had a testy response: “Not at all
—Jack is in this campaign as an advo
cate.”
Forbes also dismissed any thought
of an imminent deal saying “if they
(the Dole camp) want to join my cam
paign they have my phone number.”
Dole, campaigning in Jacksonville,
said: “I didn’t know 1 needed an inter
mediary. Well, that’s what quarter
backs arc for, I guess.” Kemp was a
pro football quarterback before enter
ing politics.
Buchanan conceded on CBS’ “Face
the Nalion”ibat Dole would be a “far
preferable” president to Bill Clinton,
but hastened to add “My objective
now is not to help Bob Dole at all, it is
to get the GOP nomination.”
Family sues
creators of
‘Philadelphia’
NEW YORK—Relatives of
a lawyer who was tired after
contracting AIDS will try to
prove to a jury this week that his
story was stolen by the creators
1 of the movie “Philadelphia.”
Trial is set to begin Tuesday
in U.S. District Court on a $10
million lawsuit fded by the fam
ily of Geoffrey Francis Bowers.
Like the movie character,
Bowers worked for a major law
firm and was tired in 1986 after
workers noticed that he had dis
figuring facial lesions of
Kaposi’s sarcoma, an AIDS-re
lated cancer.
Bowers died in 1987 at age
33, shortly after test i fying against
the New York law firm of Baker
& McKenzie in his own lawsuit
claiming that he was discrimi
nated against because he had
AIDS. The state human rights
board later ordered Baker &
McKenzie to pay $500,000 for
discriminating against Bowers.
Lawyers for TriStar Pictures
Inc., Sony Pictures Entertain
ment Inc. and individuals who
played key roles in the movie’s
development concede in court
papers that two emotional movie
scenes were inspired by Bow
ers’ case.
However, the lawyers main
tain both moments were de
scribed in published stories that
were in the public domain. De
fendant Ron Nyswaner said he
did extensive research and talked
to people diagnosed with AIDS.
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