Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 124, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 January 1992 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 28,1992

Fidelity not an issue for most voters, poll shows

WASHINGTON (AP) Most Americans don’t believe Democratic presidential contender Bill Clinton’s marital fidelity should be an issue in the campaign and want the media to drop the matter, according to an ABC News poll. Eighty percent of 790 adults in the nationwide random survey released late Monday believed that Clinton should remain in the race whether or not he had an extramarital affair. FEWER THAN 10 percent said they were significantly less likely to vote for Clinton as a result of the allegation, the poll showed. The television network released its poll after Clinton and Flowers earlier in the day accused each other of lying about the matter. Clinton denies having had a relationship with Gennifer Flowers, a singer and Arkansas state employee who made the accusations in a paid interview with the Star tabloid and in a news conference on Monday. ABC’s poll, conducted Monday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. THE ABC POLL did suggest that claims of marital infidelity, if proven, could be damaging to Clinton. Twenty-six percent of the respondents said they could not vote for a candidate who had an extramarital affair. On the other hand, 73 percent agreed with Clinton that his faithfulness to his wife is an issue between the two of them. Separately, a poll conducted for a New Hampshire television station shows Clinton widening his lead over other Democratic candidates among voters in that state, which hold the nation’s first presidential preference primary on Feb. 18. A UNIVERSITY of New

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GOV. BILL CLINTON Gaining in New Hampshire

Hampshire telephone poll done for WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., and taken Monday had Clinton at 30 percent, up from 24 percent in a poll of the same likely Democratic voters taken 2 1/2 weeks ago. In New Hampshire, 365 people were contacted Monday. The earlier survey used 425 likely voters, but the remaining 60 could not be reached Monday. Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas was second at 25 percent, up from 18 percent in the earlier poll. Tied at third were Sens. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Tom Harkin of lowa, with 8 percent each. The New Hampshire poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 5.1 percentage points.

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Bush puts final touches on ‘Operation Domestic Storm’

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush will use tonight’s State of the Union address for an elec-tion-year appeal to Congress to wage the economic equivalent of the Persian Gulf War. Bush is expected to challenge the House and the Senate to approve by early March his program to fight the recession, congressional and administration sources said. THE 9 P.M. EST speech, dubbed “Operation Domestic Storm” by some advisers, comes with Bush’s approval ratings at the lowest point of his presidency. “It will have a great deal of meat in it,” presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. One Bush campaign memo calls the speech the “defining event” of his presidency. But Democrats and GOP challenger Pat Buchanan already are attacking the president’s expected “growth package” for not going far enough. BUSH IS proposing a blend of tax breaks and spending programs to prod the economy and help the economically disadvantaged. The proposals range from tax credits for new home buyers and larger exemptions for families to more money for health and food programs for poor children. More about White House plans for rescuing the economy will come with the release of the president’s proposed $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal 1993. The budget was scheduled for release Wednesday, but the Office of Management and Budget said Monday it would be delayed because of “printing problems.” The Washington Post and The New York Times reported in today’s editions that Budget Director Richard Darman was rewriting portions of the national health care section of the budget to address concerns of congressional Republicans. THE TIMES SAID Rep. Bill Gradison, R-Ohio, and other

Riverboat gambling floats in House

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President Bush: Meet reasonable expectations

Republicans on Capitol Hill were concerned about a proposal to impose a new tax on health insurance benefits that affluent people receive from their employers. And they also were concerned about a proposal to increase Medicare premiums for people with high incomes, the Tunes said. The Post said the congressional Republicans had been led to believe the health care provisions would not be announced until midFebruary, after significant consultation with them. Bush’s chief of staff, Samuel Skinner, told Darman to delete the details, the Post said. Bush has said he’ll exert the same leadership in overseeing the economic rescue plan that he used in forging the coalition that a year ago drove Iraq from Kuwait THE PRESIDENT was expected to reflect on the Gulf War victory as well as on the breakup of the Soviet Bloc and the easing of East-West tensions. Officials said the speech will present a dual assessment of the state of the union. While Bush will seek to be

Monday for House Bill 1188, which would allow the gambling if voters in at least one county adjacent to the river approved of gambling in a referendum. AFTER THE VOTE, Rep. William C. Cochran, a New Albany Democrat and supporter of the bill, conceded the odds of the measure winning final legislative approval are “still long.” But he said Monday’s vote is important because under legislative rules, any bill approved by one house of the General Assembly is eligible for consideration by a House-Senate conference committee report at the end of a session. “This is just another step in the process,” said Cochran. “We take them one step at a time.” KEY SENATORS indicated the riverboat gambling bill isn’t a top priority in the Republican-control-led Senate. Senate President Pro Tem Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, said he hasn’t determined to which Senate committee the bill would be assigned. He indicated, though, that because the bill has a tax provision it would probably have to be

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solemn and realistic on the economy, he will be upbeat on the nation’s international standing, the officials said. “It’ll be forthright and candid about the economic challenges ahead of us and it’ll lay out a blueprint that people can understand and will go to the point,” Fitzwater said Monday. “IF EXPECTATIONS tomorrow are reasonable, the president will meet them,” Fitzwater added. Bush’s proposals include in-come-tax relief for the middle class in the form of an increase of at least SSOO in the personal exemption for families with children; a one-year, $5,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers; and a reduction in capital gains taxes. The budget will propose spending more for Head Start, environmental cleanups, parks and space exploration. Bush will propose a cut in the defense budget of $lO billion in budget authority for 1993 and SSO billion over five years.

reviewed by the Finance Committee. That committee’s chairman, Sen. Lawrence M. Borst, R-In-dianapolis, said he doesn’t plan to hold a committee hearing on riverboat gambling. Without a committee’s endorsement, a bill can’t advance to the full Senate. But the bill could still re-emerge in a conference committee report. EVEN IF THE measure somehow survived, it could face another hurdle when it reached Democratic Gov. Evan Bayh’s office. Bayh has said he is “somewhat skeptical” of riverboat gambling. In a 35-minute House debate Monday, supporters said riverboat gambling could bring an unique opportunity to promote tourism and economic development along the river. “The people of southern Indiana aren’t asking for state aid,” said Rep. Larry E. Lutz, an Evansville Democrat and author of H.B. 1188. “They’re asking for the option of determining their own fate in economic development.” LUTZ ESTIMATED that each gambling boat would generate $lO million in private investment and employ from 500 to 1,000 workers. The bill would require each boat to be a replica of a 19th century paddlewheeler, at least 150 feet long and able to accommodate at least 500 passengers. Cochran said more than S3OO million in investment has been drawn to the Quad Cities region on the Mississippi River since lowa legalized riverboat gambling.

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BORIS YELTSIN Talking with naval leaders

Yeltsin surfaces with navy MOSCOW (AP) Boris Yeltsin met with commanders of the disputed Black Sea fleet today, appearing in the Russian port of Novorossiysk a day after inexplicably cancelling two days of appointments in Moscow, his office said. Yeltsin’s spokesman, Pavel Voshchanov, said the Russian president was aboard the cruiser Moskva with commonwealth military commander Yevgeny Shaposhnikov gathering information about the security of nuclear weapons. VOSHCHANOV said the visit was part of Yeltsin’s preparations for an overseas trip later this week that is to include meetings with President Bush, British Prime Minister John Major and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada, the Tass news agency reported. Tass earlier quoted the mayor of Novorossiysk, Georgy Khobotov, as saying the visit to the Black Sea port was unrelated to the tug-of-war between Russia and Ukraine over control of the fleet Yeltsin, 60, abruptly canceled his appointments in the capital on Monday and today, including one with Japan’s foreign minister. The cancellations fueled persistent rumors about his health and an alleged drinking problem. TASS SAID Yeltsin arrived Monday night in Novorossiysk. Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said the overseas trip was still on. He told delegates to Middle East peace talks that opened in Moscow today that “in the coming days, the world will hear a series of initiatives (from Yeltsin) that will prove that everyone will benefit from the new situation” in the former Soviet Union. Voshchanov said Yeltsin offered to reschedule his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Mitio Watanabe for Wednesday, when he is also set to meet with Secretary of State James A. Baker 111. YELTSIN IS THE most popular and powerful politician in Russia, and reports of his ill health increase political instability in the newly independent country. Since the August coup, he has dropped from public sight several times, including three days in September when aides said he was suffering from a minor heart ailment and a 17-day stretch in October after weeks of relentless work. On Jan. 18, after some strenuous travels inside Russia, Yeltsin was ordered by his doctor to rest at home for a day and cancel his meetings. U.S. News and World Report earlier this month quoted unidentified sources as expressing new concern about rumors that Yeltsin was drinking heavily.

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