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Associated Press
Edited by Sarah Scalet
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Bush visits
Lebanese
president
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Under
heavy army and police guard,
former President Bush arrived
Tuesday for a visit that raised
Lebanese hopes of Washington
lifting a nine-year ban on travel
here.
Bush traveled to Lebanon
from Damascus, where he con
ferred with Syrian President
Hafez Assad. Lebanon and Syria
were the last scheduled stops on
his Middle East tour, which also
took him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates, Oman,
Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
It was Bush’s first visit to
Lebanon since the end of its
1975-1990 civil war, and his
second in 13 years.
He first came here as vice
president in October 1983 to
boost the morale of U.S. Ma
rines serving with a multinational
peacekeeping force, afier sui
cide bombers blew up their base
and a French paratroopers’ base,
killing 299 people.
The attacks, claitpcd by pro
Iranian Shiite Muslim extrem
ists, brought the collapse of the
17-month peace mission in Leba
non.
Bush’s one-day visit as a guest
of President Elias Hrawi was
seen as an indication the United
States might be moving toward
lining a travel ban imposed by
the Reagan administration in
1987, following a wave of
kidnappings and hijackings.
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Dole secures support,
sets sights on Clinton
Sen. Bob Dole won Nevada’s pri
mary Tuesday and banked on victories
in California and Washington to close
a crowded month of voting that trans
formed him from teetering to trium
phant in the Republican presidential
race.
“A new America is within our
reach,” Dole said in celebration.
Early results from Nevada showed
Dole well ahead of Pat Buchanan, who
needed a win to avoid a 25-state losing
streak, but had little hope of success.
Buchanan conceded Dole’s victory,
and congratulated his rival, but said
nonetheless he would take his cam
paign to the San Diego GOP conven
tion.
In victory, Dole made an overture
to all his vanquished rivals. “The is
sues they have raised and the voters
they have appealed to will be a crucial
part of a winning Republican coalition
this fall,” Dole said.
Yet in an interview, he left no doubt
he had little patience left for
Buchanan’s daily demands about shap
ing the GOP platform. “The longer he
just hangs in there the more he helps
Bill Clinton,” Dole said.
Early returns showed Dole winning
49 percent in Nevada to 21 percent for
Steve Forbes, who quit two weeks ago
while the mail-in voting was already
under way. Buchanan had 15 percent.
Dole dropped his calculated cau
tion and claimed victory a week after
securing a majority of delegates. “The
battle for the Republican nomination
is over,” Dole told a victory rally.
Setting his sights on President
Clinton, Dole cast the Democratic in
cumbent as the obstacle to welfare
reform, tax reform, a balanced budget
and tougher judges. “The battle for
America’s future isbeginningtonight,”
he declared.
The 72-year-old Kansas senator
locked up the nomination with a four
state primary sweep last week, but he
waited a week to declare victory so
that he could give giant California the
credit for putting him over the top on
this third try for the Republican presi
dential nomination.
Republican Party Chairman Haley
Barbour ended his neutrality in the
primary fight and his words were more
than symbolic: Dole has spent most of
his primary money, and the party is
prepared to step in and absorb as much
of his travel expenses and other costs
as allowed.
“From today forward, the Republi
can Party is going to be focused on
everything we can do this spring and
summer to help Bob Dole beat Bill
Clinton and send him back to Arkan
sas,” Barbour said.
Buchanan headed from California
to Washington for a meeting with key
supporters Thursday. Buchanan said
he wasn’t ready toquit, but he sounded
less likely to bolt the Republican Party
and mount an independent bid.
As Dole looked toward a show
“The battle for the
Republican nomination
is over. ”
BOB DOLE
GOP presidential candidate
down with Clinton, he could not ig
nore the lurking shadow of Ross Perot,
who began a busy stretch of travel to
promote his new Reform Party just as
the presidential primary calendar fi
nally gave Dole the chance to plan a
vacation.
“If you think a new party is a good
idea, we’d love to have you join,”
Perot told a Tuesday night Texas A&M
audience, criticizing both Democrats
and Republicans for failing to keep
their promises. He bristled at a few
questions, snapping at one student who
asked why she should support his new
Reform Party, “I don’t care whether
you vote for our party or not.”
Dole tried anew to convince the
Texan to stay on the sidelines.
“The one barrier to what Ross and
his supporters believe in is Bill
Clinton,” Dole said.
In the interview, Dole said he had
given no serious thought to picking a
running mate, and that while he con
sidered it unlikely, had not ruled out
making his choice well before the
August GOP convention.
Greenspan breezes through hearing
WASHINGTON — Alan
Greenspan breezed through his confir
mation hearing for a third term as
Federal Reserve chairman, with sena
tors raising few questions about an
audit criticizing Fed finances or the
central bank’s decision Tuesday not to
lower interest rates.
Greenspan and two other nominees,
White House budget director Alice
Rivlin and St. Louis economist
Laurence Meyer, were praised exten
sively during the four-hour hearing by
both Republicans and Democrats for
their qualifications to be on the Fed
board.
After the hearing, Banking Com
mittee Chairman Alfonse D’Amato,
who called Greenspan the “world’s
preeminent central banker,” said his
panel would vote on the nominations
Wednesday. He predicted the full Sen
ate would act this week.
Greenspan, 70, was first selected as
Fed chairman by Ronald Reagan in
1987, renominated by George Bush in
1992 and then by President Clinton
last month.
While the hearing was under way,
the Fed announced that central bank
policymakers had decided to leave in
terest rates unchanged after cutting
them at their previous two meetings in
December and January.
Financial markets took the news in
stride with the Dow Jones industrial
average finishing the day up 26.74
points at 5,670.60.
The Fed had been widely expected
to stand pat after a March 8 report
showed the unemployment rate drop
ping to 5.5 percent from 5.8 percent.
Analysis said the Fed’s decision to
leave interest rates unchanged and the
optimistic comments by Greenspan,
Rivlin and Meyer on Tuesday could be
signaling a prolonged period when the
Fed leaves policy unchanged.
“In general, Greenspan gave a re
markably upbeat assessment of eco
nomic prospects,” said David Jones,
chief economist at Aubrey G. Lanston
& Co. in New York. Jones said the Fed
may be content to leave rates alone
until after the November election.
After Republicans took control of
the Senate in 1994, Clinton never seri
ously considered anyone other than
the Republican Greenspan for the
chairman’s post. As part of a package
deal he put forward two prominent
Democratic economists to fill two other
vacancies on the seven-member board,
including Rivlin as vice chairman.
However, all three nominees
sounded as if they were reading from
the same economics textbook Tues
day.
“The Fed has to keep its eye on
inflation,” said Rivlin. Meyer called
price increases the “single most im
portant thing” the central bank has to
be concerned with.
After Rivlin and Meyer offered their
views, Greenspan said he felt no need
to add anything.
Greenspan was questioned about a
critical General Accounting Office
audit released Monday. It contended
the central bank was doing a poor job
of controlling costs, with expenses
soaring by 50 percent since 1988.
Cal ling allegations ofwaste “wholly
contrary to the facts,” Greenspan said
the Fed’s workload had increased dra
matically during this period because
of increased oversight brought on fol
lowing the massive bank failures of
the 1980s.
While Republicans on the commit
tee urged Greenspan and his colleagues
to continue focusing on inflation, sev
eral Democrats said that the law still
required them to pursue policies that
would promote the maximum sustain
able growth consistent with low infla
tion and low unemployment.
Parking lots
could undergo
conversions
By Melanie Brandert
Senior Editor
Several ehanges in the cam
pus parking map, including the
removal of parking west of Me
morial Stadium to make way for
a new parking structure, were
unveiled Tuesday.
Parking Manager Tad
McDowell told the Parking Ad
visory Committee that the lot
contained 286 faculty/staff and
metered parking stalls. He esti
mated as many as 185 stalls could
be eliminated once construction
started on the parking structure
this fall.
Many committee members
voiced concern over the loss of
Area 10 parking in that vicinity.
A temporary solution to the
problem, McDowell said, would
be to move Area 10 parking from
the lot north of the stadium to an
Area 20 lot west of the stadium.
He said commuter parking would
not change.
l nere s no omer cnoiccs wc
have,” he said. “Wc must make
sure the campus functions with
the least amount of disruption.”
McDowell said commuter
parking also would be added to
the Area 1 lots from 17th to 19th
streets between Q and R streets
to give students flexibility.
Many commuters were dis
placed this year because of the
paving project along 19th Street,
he said.
A grassy area j ust north of the
former DaVinci’s property near
13th and Q streets will be con
verted into Area 10 parking,
McDowell said. This will com
pensate somewhat for the loss of
Area 10 stalls created by the
addition of a sculpture to be
placed south of the Temple
Building, he said.
The committee also debated
whether to convert about 20
spaces in the Area 10 lot north of
Abel Hall to Area 2 parking.
McDowel 1 had told members the
extra residence hall parking was
needed to relieve overcrowding
in the lot behind Abel-Sandoz at
the beginning of the school year.
The committee voted to wait
on making the map change to
determine if the parking would
be needed early this fall.
Committee members also
voted to change a strip of com
muter parking southeast of the
College of Dentistry to faculty/
staff stalls to ease congestion in
the Area 10 lot west of the col
lege.
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