Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 114, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 January 1992 — Page 3

Bush blasts ‘carping little liberal Democrats’

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush is appealing for bipartisan support for solving the nation’s economic crisis but attacking “carping little liberal Democrats” for using him as “a punching bag.” The president said his Jan. 28 address to a joint session of Congress would offer his prescription to “turn a sick economy into a well economy.” IN HIS FIRST campaign trip to New Hampshire, Bush gave his most pessimistic assessment of the economy yet and said, “I’ve known the economy is in free fall. I hope I’ve known it Maybe I haven’t conveyed it as well as I should.” “American people deserve that politics be put aside right after that State of the Union message,” Bush told a Rotary Club dinner last night as he wrapped up a full day of campaigning in southern New Hampshire. It seems politics will be anywhere but put aside.

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THE PRESIDENT’S first campaign trip to New Hampshire triggered a new round of criticism from Democratic candidates and his main Republican challenger, Patrick Buchanan. And the Democratic candidates began to take hits themselves, from a conservation group that assessed their stands on the environment and the Arkansas AFL-CIO, which said Gov. Bill Clinton was not deserving of strong labor support Clinton himself airs a new campaign ad today in which he subtly raps his main rivals, Sens. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Tom Harkin of lowa, for supporting a Senate pay raise. BUSH PLEDGED to promote a domestic effort to end the recession similar to the international effort that a year ago ended the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. But then he came out swinging, attacking Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, with

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whom he’ll have to work on a budget agreement, in remarks to workers at a computer software company in New Hampshire. If Mitchell’s approval to send U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf had been required, ‘Saddam Hussein would fce in Saudi Arabia and gasoline would cost S2O a gallon,” Bush said. HE THEN complained about what he called “carping little liberal Democrats jumping all over my you know what.” Then, in his Rotary Club speech, Bush told his audience: “I’m sick and tired of being a punching bag for a lot of lightweights yelling at me day in and day out. “I’m sick of it They want a fight, they’re going to have one.” Bush told his audience, however, that it’s an election year and “all kinds of weird dances are going on out there.” ELSEWHERE in the campaign: • A national survey showed 41 percent believe Democrats will do

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I Don’t Want To Be Little Again I recently got around to watching “Big”, the Tom Hanks movie in which a 13-year-old boy is granted a wish by an amusement park vending machine mystic to become “grown up” just like that. I had not expected to be impressed with the movie because fantasy has to work a lot harder. I was not only entertained, however, but struck with the message the show has for us “old boys”: whatever your age, it’s your best yet. Though the hero of “Big” manages to make his still childish mind win him success in a toy company and the affections of a young lady who is fed up with the already jaded yuppy males, he still misses the family routine and playing with his chum and, in the climax, looks up the same vending machine and asks to be a kid again. In a well done scene where his girl friend is lamenting losing him to his unspent youth, he says that maybe she could wish and go back with him. Her reply is “No, I don’t want to go through that again; it was hard enough the first time.” He is obviously unaware of the more difficult things to go through that a girl faces which, I think, the script writer had in mind. However, female or male, there is a dubious joy in reverting to a previous age in the mindset and emotional set that you have at your present age. I wouldn’t want to be a kid again. I enjoy memories of my kidhood as my readers well know and sometimes I think we had better times than kids do today worth recalling and cherishing and laughing about. But, there are a couple of reasons why it is much nicer to reminisce than to be there. First, you can’t change your maturity and your learning. From the perspective of old age, activities that were fascinating in kidhood could seem surprisingly dull. Second,

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a better job of handling the economy while 32 percent favor Republicans. Three out of four said Bush should be doing more to turn the economy around. The poll of 1,220 adults by the Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. • The Arkansas AFL-CIO distributed a report to labor federations in key primary states criticizing Clinton’s labor record, saying he touted the state’s right-to-work law, ignored workers compensation issues and helped a “union-busting” company in one case. Clinton responded that he has a record of saving jobs, even if it meant giving tax breaks to companies. • The League of Conservation Voters said Clinton and Kerrey have shortcomings in their environmental records. The league praised former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas and Harkin and said former California Gov. Jerry

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if you went back, you would experience the unpleasant factors that you put in the back mental storeroom long ago. I have no wish to re-experience the shame I felt when another boy grabbed my arm on the playground and remarked how thin my wrist was and how puny by biceps. Nor the nervousness I suffered for several summers to make certain no other kids ever saw me with shirt off or sleeves rolled up.V \ J I have no wish to return to a school that ’ required me to take gym three days a week. I don’t want to go back to the room where I anxiously watched the clock tick off the hour, hoping there wouldn’t be time for the alphabet observing teacher to call Smith for an oral theme. I don’t want to go back to worrying in journalism classes, during my senior year, how anyone ever got a job on a newspaper when every visiting editor said you couldn’t learn the work in school and weren’t worth a darn to him without experience. I don’t want to go back to the twenties, thirties or forties either. I don’t want to know the terror of losing income when I had just taken on mortgage payments I couldn’t really afford. Or worrying whether the school system was being fair to my daughters. Or competing for a position and fearful not to knock myself out on the presentation although a favorite of the chief executive is likely to get the job and does. I don’t want to have to register for the draft, save again for my social security, pay more for ragged jeans with holes in them because they’re fashionable, or have my opinions on public issues discounted. Whatever age you are, it’s the best yet because you have been through more and you are more free to be yourself. That makes a ripe old age pretty tasty if you have the health to enjoy it. And the memories taste better, too, without the seasoning of the bitter moments.

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Brown was “ahead of his time.” • Clinton debuts a new television ad today in which he subtly raps Kerrey and Harkin for supporting the Senate pay raise. • Tsongas said Bush owed New Hampshire thanks for giving him his first major victory in 1988, but “now we see the kind of thanks that New Hampshire has gotten,” he said. • While Bush visited successful plants, Buchanan visited a busy unemployment office and challenged the president to meet the “economic casualties of Bushanomics.” Bush met with community leaders in an airfield hangar, spoke at a town hall meeting in Exeter and visited three local businesses, having a lunch of pizza and chili with workers at one of the plants. “LISTEN, HERE’S the final word. Vote for me ... don’t vote for them,” he told employees at the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in Dover.

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