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{Candidates still sparring on last day VOTE from page 1 House and Senate majorities. “I’m not optimistic on a national basis at all on the presidential race,” said Florida Republican Chairman Tom Slade. “It truly would be a po litical miracle if Dole can pull this out.” House Speaker Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, voiced confi dence he would not have to hand his gavel over to Democrats come January. “I’m currently planning on what we’ll do next year in the majority,” Gingrich said as he campaigned back home in Georgia. Still, strategists in both parties said dozens of races were too close to predict on the final Monday of a campaign that was both a referen dum on the incumbent Democratic president and the Republican Con gress. “There are going to be a lot of close races and that’s just a fact,” said Republican National Commit tee Chairman Haley Barbour. Given that, the candidates were up early, or, in Dole’s case, didn’t bother sleeping at all. Clinton began in New Hamp shire, once firm Republican terri tory but now part of the president’s solid Northeast base. “We’re one day away from victory,” Elaine Krasker told him inside a Manches ter restaurant. “It’s hard to believe, isn’t it?” Clinton replied, at age 50 setting out confidently for the final day of what is likely to be his final political cam paign. Later, in Cleveland, Clinton said the economy had created nearly 11 million jobs and the deficit had been cut by 60 percent since he took of fice. “We’re better off than we were four years ago,” Clinton said. He noted Dole’s Senate opposi tion to the family leave law and said his Republican opponent wanted to abolish the Education Department and enact a “risky scheme” to cut taxes that Clinton said would im peril Medicare. “Seize the day to keep your country moving in the right direc tion,” Clinton said in urging sup porters to get to the polls Tuesday. “I have done all I can do. It is in your comer now.” „ Dole, at 73, likely was asking for votes for the last time, too, win or lose, closing out a political career that included 35 years in Congress, and a record 12 years as the Senate Republican leader. “I need your votes,” Dole told a crowd in New Mexico as he raced through four time zones and six states in a final push that was end ing at noon today back home in Russell, Kan. “There’s still time,” he said. Even many of Dole’s most loyal campaign aides weren’t sure of that. A dozen states were considered tossups in the presidential race. But even if he won all of them, Dole would need to upset Clinton in Cali fornia or in several Midwest states to win. The race tightened somewhat in the final days as Dole raised ques tions about Clinton’s role in ques tionable Democratic Party fimd raising from foreign interests. So he hammered that theme to the end. “I will not compromise ethics or violate the public trust,” Dole said, keeping his remarks to a few min utes at each step because of a fail ing voice. “You can’t say that about the current administration.... If you want a full-time president who won’t be going to hearings or trials or anything else, Bob Dole is your choice.” North Carolina GOP Sen. Jesse Helms, in a tight race for a fifth term, accused Democratic rival Harvey Gantt of misleading voters about the inpact of Republican bud get proposals on Medicare spend ing. “The intent, of course, is to scare senior citizens, many of them in nursing homes, many of them in hospitals and various other institu tions that Mr. Gantt has visited over and over again,” Helms said. “He couldn’t raise a crowd anywhere else.” Former President Jimmy Carter was on hand to help Gantt drum up turnout—the goal of candidates ev erywhere at the end. “I’ve been in more churches in 1996 than the pope,” New Jersey Democratic Senate candidate Rob ert Torricelli said of his final cam paign weekend. Exon endorses Nelson NELSON from page 1 site — that the Republicans were trying to buy a Senate seat that would vote their way. Exon was disgusted by the Hagel campaign’s smear tactics against Nelson for two reasons: be cause they are untrue and because Hagel wouldn’t take responsibility for them, he said. Mailings sent to thousands of Nebraskans last week stated Nelson ^ivas responsible for property tax increases. Exon denounced the claim us ing his gruff, flamboyant voice that has earned him attention in the Sen ate. “Ben Nelson has not raised property taxes for anyone in Ne braska by one penny,” Exon said. Nelson said Hagel has stood on the sideline and let third parties blast Nelson, such as Victory ’96 and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Such attacks will back fire on Hagel on Election Day, Nelson said. “Most people of Nebraska will not be fooled by those efforts,” Nelson said. An Omaha World-Herald poll late last week showed the race was a dead heat. But Nelson said the poll is inac curate because it doesn’t account for Libertarian John DeCamp and Natural Law candidate Bill Dunn. “The only poll that matters is the poll that closes at 8 o’clock (Tues day) night.” Hagel says dead heat race wiH be his election victory HAGEL from page 1 “Don’t make me wrong.” Hagel said that when the votes were counted in Lincoln, people were going to be surprised. “We’re going to do very, very well in Lancaster County,” he said amid cheers. With the race coming to a close, organization has become critical, Hagel said. “Everything we have built over the last year-and-a-half all comes down to tomorrow,” he said. “Like everything in life, you work right up to the end, and we’ll be working right up to the end.” With his wife Lilibet and his' mother Betty Breeding at his side, Hagel said the two women have helped prop him up for years. This race has been no different, he said. “If that’s the only way I get to the Senate,” he joked, “I’ll use it.” After the rally, Hagel’s mother said she was nervous for today. “I will be happy when it is over with,” she said. “But I have such a good feeling that we’ll come out winners, it isn’t bothering me. “I have a feeling we’re going to be a happy family (tonight).” UNL illnesses attributed tx> food poisoning SICK from page 1 service for eight years,” Pushcar said. “This is the very first time we’ve had a pioblem.” Pushcar said he was happy to have the health department investigate where problems could have originated. “Our effort is to take care of those people that are our customers and cli ents,” he said. Rick Provaznik, president of Tri angle fraternity, agreed that CMI has been a good caterer. “It’s a good company,” Provaznik said. “I’ve worked with other catering services and gotten terrible food.” Provaznik said the men in his house were not upset with the caterer. “I feel like he’ll make it up and make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Provaznik said. The health department will deter mine if the problem originated in preparation of the food, or if the food bought was already contaminated in some way. Alpha Delta Pi had saved some food, so the health department did have some samples to test, Beal said. Beal said the investigation was in the early stages on Monday. Pushcar said he suspected the cul prit could have been a contaminated, case of veal, which holds 40 servings. But picking out the one thing that was contaminated is hard, he said. “It’s like taking a shotgun and shooting it up in the air and hopingyou smack a bird, because they’ve eaten so many things, there isn’t a consistent pattern anywhere,” Pushcar said. The other problem, Pushcar said, is that the flu is going around, and it may be hard to tell who was sick from food and who was sick from the flu. Sigma Nu had about 12 members who were sick Friday, and Alpha Delta Pi would not comment on the situation. You’ve got a lot to grin about when you use AT&T or an AT&T Universal MasterCard®. Like an AT&T True Rewards® Member Benefit Card. Just flash it and: • Sam Goody/Musicland gives you a 15% discount on CDs and cassettes. • “TCBY”® Treats gives you a freebie after you buy two. • BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO® makes your third movie free, when you rent two.* • Amtrak lets your companion travel for 25% off. 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