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Show A Wednesday, November 4, 1992 IThe Daily Herald ush's demise due to lost credibility UE3 JO LA. police arrest Perot supporter - "After a while," said Earl Black, a political science professor at the University of South Caroli- By CHARLES GREEN and ELLEN WARREN Newspapers Weeks beWASHINGTON fore Election Day, aides to President Bush noticed something odd when they tested campaign themes on small groups of ordinary AmerKnight-Ridd- er - i LOS ANGELES (AP) A woman with a Ross Perot campaign poster in her car window led authorities on a chase across the city before police icans. rammed the car and arrested her. When no names were attached The woman shouted, "Vote for Ross Perot," as police dragged her to the economic plans of Bush and ffom the car Tuesday, said police Bill Clinton, the participants fa- L t-vored Bush's program. But once V Sgt. Roger Jackson. Abha Sharma Tyagi, 44, of they found out whose it was, they liked Clinton's. Torrance, was booked for investi"Put the president's name on it gation of felony evasion, said Offiand there's ... a lot of people with cer Mark Warschaw. whom he has lost credibility on the was There no indication the t woman intended any kind of politieconomy," said Charles Black, a cal protest, and police didn't know "Bush campaign adviser, in "That's what we're vtfhy she failed to heed officers who to back." fighting to get ttiecj stop her, Warschaw said. 4 Bush was never able to regain his lost credibility or convince the public he was not out of sync with the needs of the times. of V V On Election Day, ' voters said in exit polls that they ' PITTSBURGH (AP) A ) disapproved of Bush's handling of did not girl who received five or- the economy. gans in a transplant opera- believe Bush's version of his role tion nodded when doctors asked in the affair. her if she wanted to hear a tape of Many of the issues that Bush Billy Ray Cyrus, her favorite emphasized the most taxes, forfcountry music singer. eign policy and family values "If anybody can make her move turned out to matter the least. it's him," said the girl's grandGiven the sluggish economy mother, Odessa Fourstar. during his tenure, Bush's defeat Charlie Fourstar, a Sioux from may have been a foregone concluMontana's Fort Peck Indian Reser- sion. But it is also possible that vation, was in critical but stable Bush would have weathered the condition and breathing with the economic downturn if he had been help of a respirator this morning at more in touch during his first term. ' If so, 1991 will be remembered Presbyterian University Hospital. ... I She received a liver, stomach, as the year Bush fumbled away his ; chance for two terms. pancreas and small and large intestine in the operation that ended In 1991, the dynamics that AP Photo the election anxiety early Tuesday. shaped ; President and Barbara Bush acknowledge supporters Tuesday "She's doing fine," said one of about the economy, disenchantnight after conceding the election to Bill Clinton in Houston. her doctors, Satoru Todo. with ment government gridlock were and an appetite for change Having sent so many mixed sig- - convince voters that his new poli- already apparent. By the time Bush rials about his assessment of the ties, and expressions of compas- responded in 1992 to the altered nation and the need for change, sion sprang from conviction rather Bush this year found it difficult to than political necessity. political climate, it was too late. te ... mid-Octob- Music requested after operation i two-thir- ds , - s. Two-thir- rir ds 16-ho- ur Iran-Cont- ra 9 - na, "many of the voters just stopped listening to him." " t Exercise, calcium 'strengthen bones - A little CHICAGO (AP) more calcium and exercise can help women build strong bones until age 30 and perhaps stave off osteoporosis in later years, a new study suggests. Birth control pills also seem to jhelp strengthen the bones of wom-!e- n in their 20s, researchers reported in today's issue of The Journal "of the American Medical Associa- By LAURIE ASSEO Associated Press Writer It was 1991 when: Consumer confidence in the United States started plummeting as a recession psychology took hold, but Bush offered no new plans to combat the economic downturn. The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but Bush failed to recognize how quickly the attention of Americans would turn inward to the nation's festering problems. Bush engineered the victory in the Persian Gulf War, but failed to popularcapitalize on his post-wity other than to spur Middle East peace talks. The tone for the year was set by former White House chief of staff John Sununu at the end of 1990 after Congress had passed the Clean Air Act, a child care bill, disabilities rights legislation and a few other bills that Bush had promised in his 1988 campaign to promote. "Let me suggest the following," Sununu told a conservative group in November 1990. "There's not another single piece . : Group seeks court ruling on sacrifices WASHINGTON tution's religious freedoms include the right to sacrifice animals in church rituals. Members of the group say officials in Hialeah, Fla., unfairly targeted their beliefs by banning animal sacrifices while allowing other animal killings, such as hunting. After hearing arguments today, the court was expected to decide the case by July. Its ruling could provide new guidelines for religious freedom that also could affect mainstream denominations. Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, enacted ordinances in 1987 to ban animal sacrifices after the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye leased an abandoned car lot and announced plans to open a Santeria church. Santeria is an ancient African religion carried to Cuba by slaves in past centuries and then to the United States starting in the late 1950s. An integral part of Santeria is the sacrifice of animals chickens, pigeons, ducks, for birth, goats and sheep marriage and death rites and the initiation of new priests. As many as 60,000 people in south Florida practice pass- ed in the next two years for this president. In fact, if Congress wants to come together, adjourn and leave, it's all right with us. We don't need them." In other words, Bush had fulfilled his campaign pledges and could now coast to The 1990 budget deal contributed to the sense of complacency. While there were grumblings that Bush had broken his pledge in striking the deal with Congress, there was also satisfaction in the White House that Bush had essentially put the government on the right course. Presidential race summary VfOW,.y "I jiWSjVT""" Asof9:47iun.EST VnSjL N3D' ontt hould group is asking the Supreme Court to decide if the Consti- ar of legislation that needs to be -S- the law view animal sacrifices as it does hunting? And are such sacrifices protected religious expression? A religious Vt. - tion. i "Some studies have suggested ?that a woman's bone mass stops increasing when she stops growing in her late teens. J Strong bones are important to prevent osteoporosis, a thinning of tbones that occurs with aging and contributes to 50,000 deaths an- -' dually. Women suffer from it more frftejithan men. (fir ? 1 i ( - ' in can of refuse. iria single ''This is an incredible accom- - pfishment," said County Execu- live Timothy M. Grippen, who family presented the with a certificate honoring their recycling efforts. Chris Burger explained that his family avoids waste by shopping only for durable necessities, recycling and taking things apart, such as removing plastic from metal. four-memb- er Prosecutors allege motive for murder - Prosecu.ATLANTA (AP) tors say a millionaire arranged to hive his wife murdered so he wouldn't have to pay her thousands of dollars in alimony as he promised in a marriage contract. But James Vincent Sullivan's lawyers say he gave his socialite wife extravagant gifts before their marriage soured. "He had no motive to murder her, having spent lavishly on her," his attorney, Ed Garland said Tuesday in opening statements. Lita Sullivan, 35, was shot at her Atlanta home in January 1987 door by a gunman who came to the with a bouquet of roses hours before a divorce hearing at which she ilH rnnp;t more than the $2,- in alimony dictated I a agreement. by -- 10-ye- ar 500-a-mon- th post-nupti- al IfofoSSi Okla. 1 I Mi788 S' r f V 1 j - V i : -- AP Photo Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot holds up a "Perot in '96" bumper sticker as he addresses supporters in Addison, Texas, Tuesday night. TjV j i 32 jiC f ,ssj Alaska J Texas CD H y Hawaii V ""C "rVsVV '$er ... lis media event Nanticoke Sanitary Landfill, where they dumped two years' all contained worth of garbage j 8 Family's garbage SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -Taking out the garbage is a rare event for the Burger family. That's why television camera crews and reporters joined them Monday at the Broome County ,mUV Ariz. Electoral voes AK8ynNH L Popular votes Bill Clinton 370 43,402,280 George Bush Ross Perot 168 37,864,830 0 19,097,214 Nurrt&t n.Caa 4 Mass. 12 , DR.I. - N.J. Vj 15 , De)t Md. 3 ' 10 U;j.c. 3. in $tat$s tndicat$ electoral votes. mmmmhh APKaitTal f&RO I "" AMERICA: (Continued from Page Al) veys exit poll, a joint project of the seeing him at a weekend rally in that Perot's voters would have split virtually evenly for Clinton and Bush if Perot weren't in the race. Perot's support climbed to 20 percent after the presidential debates last month, even as he called for more national sacrifice than either Bush or Clinton proposed to ease the federal deficit and restore the economy to long-terhealth. But his tide subsided when he Kennedy-Johnso- n wave, and now to this one." Now Clinton and a new generation of his party's leaders must prove they have learned the lessons of 12 years of exile in presidential politics and are the "different kind of Democrats" they claim to be. Their task, said Fischer, will be suddenly aired unsubstantiated charges that he was forced from the race in July because Republican operatives planned to embarrass his daughter and wiretap his business. Still, Perot received more votes than independents John Anderson, who garnered 6.6 percent in 1980, and George C. Wallace, who received nearly 14 percent in 1968. "The main thing is don't lose your enthusiasm, don't lose your idealism, don't lose your great love for this country. And please don't feel you have no voice," Perot said. "As long as we're toenor-- . gether nationwide, you have ' ' in . voice our country mous "We will stay together and you will be a force for good for our country and our children. " complicated by an intimidating range of problems and a mammoth national debt. "My great question is: Will Clinton be able to ride that wave; be able to direct it, as FDR did or Jackson? "We have had some waves that failed, and Clinton has to cope with massive problems," said Fischer, whose book "Albion's Seed" served as an inspiration to Clinton's campaign strategists. "Jimmy Carter was a failed progressive. A failed reformer. It's a real question whether this wave will succeed." Pushing the wave of change, analysts said, was a demand for a recAmerican "perestroika" restructura of dose that ognition d ing was needed in the Tampa. Perot congratulated Presidentelect Bill Clinton and pledged to "work with the new administration to get these problems solved now." But he said that "does not mean that we will compromise our '' integrity and our principles. President also lauded Perot Bush, leading three cheers for Bush's years of service and noting they began in World War II. Perot, joined by running mate James Stockdale and their families, spent more than a half-howith the crowd. He led them in several songs, including the Patsy Cline standard "Crazy" that he declared his campaign theme earlier this week. "Spend about 10 minutes getting over being frustrated that your candidate didn't win," Perot said. "Then take all of this enormous creativity and talent that you displayed, and let's make our country work at the national, state, county, the city, local or neighborhood level and at every single school across the country, right? Absolutely." The Voter Research and Sur "hip-hip-hoora- ur four television networks, found m (Continued from Page Al) post-Col- War era so the country can compete economically with muscular foreign rivals. It was the future that Americans worried about. The younger voters who "Rocked the Vote" on Clinton's behalf Tuesday were concerned about their economic future. An older generation of baby boomers many of whom frustrated Bush's hopes for a rapid economic recovery by paying off their debts rather than engaging in a buying worried about the quality boom of their children's lives. "When asked about their kids, 57 percent said their children would have a worse life than their own, 16 percent said the same, and only 24 percent said better," Wirthlin said, of his sampling. The politicians knew what was at stake this year. GOP strategist Ed Rollins had predicted this would be "an election of hope" that Clinton was positioned to win. Bush tried to tap into America's capacity to reinvent itself, issuing an "agenda for American renewal." But in the end the voters relaissez-fair- e jected the Republican's Clinton's policies in favor of pre-electi- call to keep the country, as he put it on election eve, "forever young." Phillips, Burns and Fischer saw historical cycles at work. "If you look at the history of this country, it is one of a magnificent tension between growth and individual rights," said Burns. "We have been as much about exploiting and growing and getting rich, as of being brought up by the limitations of growth, and finding we must address issues like slavery or women's rights. "Now for us to mature as a country we have to be able to deal with both growth and civil rights in the same breath," said Burns. "And that takes new blood. " Clinton's optimistic message of renewal fit the national mood per-- , fectly. "The Cold War era has ended, and the American people are com- missioning Bill Clinton to take them into a new era," said University of Massachusetts professor Ralph Whitehead. "This landslide, coming at this particular moment of our history, Clinton the gives President-eleopportunity to define an era." ic ct |