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be considered the top early prospect fa* the next
Republican nomination.
But Wednesday’s issue was the 1996 elec
tion, and the two vice presidential candidates
were determined to keep the focus cm their
bosses, Clinton and Dole.
“This economy is overtaxed, over-regu
lated,” Kemp said in making the case for Dole’s
plan to cut taxes IS percent across the board.
Kemp said the economy was growing a feeble
2.5 percent a year under Clinton. “Bob Dole and
I believe we can do a lot better.”
Gore, in turn, said repeatedly that Dole and
Kemp were offering a “risky $550 billion tax
scheme” that would “blow a hole in the deficit
and cause much deeper cuts in Medicare, Med
icaid, education and the environment.”
For the most part, the policy fights tracked
the positions staked out by Clinton and Dole in
their first debate Sunday night.
Kemp, for example, said Clinton and Gore
were practicing “demagoguery” in trying to
trignten older Americans Dy claiming mat uoie s
budget plan would require devastating Medicare
:uts.
But Gore did not budge. “The word scary
has been used,” he said of the Republican posi
tion.
Dole was criticized by some Republicans
after the first debate for not attacking Clinton
an administration ethical lapses. Moderator Jim
Lehrer of PBS opened the 90-minute debate by
asking Kemp if he agreed with the critics.
“In my opinion, it is beneath Bob Dole to go
after anyone personally,” Kemp said.
Gore thanked Kemp for that answer, and
from there the debate proceeded politely, at
times studiously, even though the two men dif
fered sharply over many issues.
Early on, Gore tried his hand at humor, of
fering Kemp this deal: “If you won’t use any
football stories, I won’t tell any of my warm and
humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon
abatement.”
“It’s a deal,” Kemp said.
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Sexual Assault
A 3 3-year-old woman was attacked early
l Wednesday mining while jogging near 13th and
, Peach Streets.
The woman told police she was running at
5:30 when she thought she saw a man mastur
I bating on the south side of a duplex, Lincoln
' Police Sgt. Ann Heermann said.
She kept running and noticed he was chas
; ing her, Heermann said. He caught up with hei
1 at the intersection of 13th and Plum Streets. He
grabbed her from behind, ripping her clothes.
- Heermann said.
| He then tackled her and sexually assaulted
£ her with his hand, Heermann said. The woman
: screamed and the man fled east.
, He was described as black, about 6 feet tall,
jj weighing 230 pounds. The man was wearing tan
l jeans and a button-up shirt. He was fairly mus
H cular and had short hair.
Larceny
Three cars were broken into Tuesday at a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln parking lot, and
police think a vehicle may have been stolen.
Windows were broken to gain access to three
cars in the lot at 14th and New Hampshire streets,
Sgt. Mylo Bushing said.
From one car, a pair of sunglasses was sto
len. A cellular phone and cash were missing from
another, Bushing said. Nothing was stolen from
the third.
In the same lot, police also found a 1984 blue
Nissan Sentra that was reported stolen off-cam
pus Saturday, Bushing said.
Bushing said he thought the thieves dumped
the Sentra, broke into the three students’ cars,
then stole another one from the lot to escape.
Bushing said Harper-Schramm-Smith resi
dents who park Ini that lot should be sure to check
that their cars are still there.
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