Clinton backs NATO additions
DETROIT (AP) — President
Clinton urged U.S. allies Tuesday to
admit a first group of former Soviet
dominated nations into NATO by 1999,
promising defense against outside ag
gressors. Republican rival Bob Dole
said Clinton was moving too slowly.
Two weeks before the election, the
president raised his voice on a foreign
policy issue of deep interest to Mid
western voters with family ties to East
ern Europe.
Differences between Clinton and
Dole on expanding NATO are actually
relatively slight, with Dole urging that
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Repub
lic be added by 1998.
“He’s been dragging his feet since
1993,” Dole said. “We think it’s time
for die foot dragging to stop.”
Clinton said he has led the way for
NATO enlargement, raising the idea at
a NATO summit in 1994. The year
1999, he said, would mark NATO’s
50th anniversary and the 10th anniver
sary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“A gray zone of insecurity must not
re-emerge in Europe,” Clinton said.
The West must not “allow the Iron
Curtain to be replaced by a veil of in
difference.”
Russia is wary about any eastward
expansion of the Western military alli
ance that it regarded as a foe during
the Cold War.
Referring to Russia, Clinton said,
“No country outside of NATO will
have a veto” on new members. He said
Moscow should not feel threatened.
“We are building a new NATO just
as they are building a new Russia,” the
president said. “By reducing rivalry
and fear, by strengthening peace and
cooperation, NATO will promote
greater stability in Europe—and Rus
sia will be among the beneficiaries.”
Dole said, “The cries of extreme
Russian nationalists to the contrary not
withstanding, NATO’s mission is
peace. The framework of peace must
include assurances to the Baltic states
and the Ukraine. This is particularly
important given the ongoing instabil
ity in Russia.”
Not missing a chance to campaign
among ethnic voters, Clinton went
from his speech to lunch at the Polish
Village Cafe.
After decades of domination by the
Soviet Union, Central European na
tions are eager to come under NATO’s
security blanket. NATO’s doctrine
obliges all allies to cane to the defense
of any member attacked from outside
the alliance.
“Peace and security are not avail
able on the cheap,’’Clinton said. But if
NATO fails to act now, he said, “we
will pay a much higher price later on
down the road.”
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Much at stake as voters
prepare to head to polk
The Associated Press
(AP)—An American electorate
less disgruntled than four, or even
two, years ago passes judgment
Nov. 5 on Bill Clinton’s presidency
and the Republican stewardship of
Congress.
The presidential choice is as
clearcut as it gets: Republican chal
lenger Bob Dole portraying himself
as the candidate of character,
Clinton as the candidate of compas
sion.
Thirty-four Senate seats — 19
now held by Republicans, 15 by
Democrats — will be filled. The
Republicans now rule, 53-47.
In the House, with all 435 seats
to be filled, the party division is not
as close — 235 Republicans, 198
Democrats, one independent and
one vacancy.
In addition, 11 governorships
are at stake. Six held now by Demo
crats, five by Republicans. The
GOP holds a big edge, 32-17.
Clinton, the incumbent Demo
crat, ran four years ago as the agent
of change; now he runs as a de
fender of government.
In effect, both presidential can
didates would be lame ducks.
Clinton would be constitutionally
barred from running again; at 77,
Dole could be too old for a second
term.
That means the next campaign
—with their running mates, Demo
crat A1 Gore and Republican Jack
Kemp, as the early front-runners—
is sure to begin the day after the
voters speak.
GOP uses King to promote proposition to end affirmative action
In California, demo
crats say the ad is
‘blasphemy.’
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) —
Republicans plan to use Martin Luther
K&gf ir.’s image and quotes iramhis
“I Have a Dream” speech to promote
Propbsitioff309, abaliotimtiaflve'to
end most affirmative action programs
in California.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson called the
planned $2 million advertising blitz “a
blasphemy” against the slain civil
rights leader.
Television ads, bankrolled by the
state Republican party, will begin run
ning across California by Friday and
continue through Election Day, accord
ing to two state GOP sources who
spjjake on con’*'
;-The
double their original budget, state GOP
Chairman John Herrington said. The
party’s disclosure followed reports that
Democrats plan to spend $1 million to
$1.5 million in opposition to Proposi
tion 209 during the final week before
the Nov. 5 election.
Bob Dole’s strategists have sought
tq link hhn tO'^he popular initiative.
; Polls show it is supported by rifiost Cali
fornia voters, white the most recent
Field Poll showed Dole trailing Clinton
by at least 10 points in California.
Clinton opposes the measure. ...
However, the commercial makes no
mention of Dole, a GOPspokeswoman
said.
“It’s an issue ad. It is not a Dole
ad,” said spokeswoman Victoria
it is not an anti
of the controversial initiative, which is
backed by Gov. Pete Wilson and, to
the dismay of many inthe GOP, former
Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who
sparked protests when he spoke in fa
vor of it in a college debate.
Victoria Herrington declined to
provide a transcript or videotape of the
commercial, saying it was still being
developed. But Democrats quickly at
tacked the campaign.
“This is a blasphemy. For right
wing Republicans to try to put Dr. King
and David Duke and Gov. Wilson on
the same side of history is an atrocity,”
said Jackson, who called it a “divisive,
cynical political trick.”
But King supported affirmative ac
tion, according to Steve Klein, a
spokesman for the Martin Luther King
Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social
Change in Atlanta, which opposes
Proposition 209,.......
“He makes several references in his
writings to why affirmative action-style
programs are fair, desirable and justi
fied,” Klein said.
In a 1963 book, “Why We Can’t
Wait,” King said such programs may
be misconstrued by people but they are
necessary to right past wrongs.
“It is obvious if a man is entered at
the starting line in a race 300 years af
ter another man, the first would have
to perform some impossible feat to
catch up with his fellow runner,” King
wrote.
The proposition would abolish race
and gender preferences in state hiring,
contracting and college admissions,
dismantling most affirmative action
programs. Supporters say the initiative
is “racially blind” and provides an ab
solute ban on discrimination.
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did
away with the racial preferences,” said
Republican Assemblyman Bernie
Richter of Chiro, a supporter of Propo
sition 209. “But the government dif
ferentiates about how it treats you on
the basis of race — that is what is so
obnoxious to us.”
But critics contend the measure
would reverse decades of progress.
Colin Powell, retired chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week
in Sacramento that “we still have prob
lems in this country and we don’t solve
those problems by ignoring them and
saying it’s a level playing field and it’s
a color blind society.”
A World Of Opportunity!
Dad admitssharpening
his son’s helmet buckle
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)—The father ofa high
school football player admitted he sharpened a buckle
on his son’s helmet before a game in which several oppo
nents were cut, one badly enough to need 12 stitches.
The father said he did it because referees had failed
to penalize players for roughing up his son in an earlier
game, the Albuquerque Journal reported Tuesday.
Officials stopped an Oct. 12 game between St. Pius
and Albuquerque Academy after five Academy players
were cut.
They then found that a buckle on the helmet worn by
St. Pius junior Mike Cito had an edge sharp enough to
shred a magazine cover. Some Academy players said they
thought other St. Pius athletes knew about the buckle
before the game was stopped.
Last Friday, the newspaper reported, Stephen Cito
admitted to the Rev. Ronald G. Schwenzer, principal at
St. Pius, that he had sharpened the buckle.
“I was shocked when he said it.... He said he is very
remorseful for doing it,” Schwenzer said.
Mike Cito was expelled Monday, and already had been
dismissed from the team.
Peace Corps Is Coming To UNL!
Information Table Film Show
Wed. October 23 " Completely Alive"
9 am-3 pm Oct. 23,3:30 pm
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