| Show tair Kka A6 Ulm SI Ai Tritit 2 NA Thursd4 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEICTION — — oggroanitanmsousoj WOW Mania 7177 ( ustookratemen 1 to watch or as lebobricans oominate their candidate for president S What THE MUSIC HMI TODAY New Tort Gov ' "o Snow gave a coveraqt 9 Hatch's prn -- pin with rep-tart- y scheduled programs interrupted by speeches and interviews from the convenPBS: 6 pin-- 9 ' pit Gavel ' 'i t '''' 4 coverage I KVAlk AGM HALLIBURT011 Democrats accused the gush administration of offering opportunities to tig corporations and special interests at the expense of the middle class and they cited Vice President Dick Cheney as a leading example Referring to the vke president several times as "Mr Hall iburton" several speakers said Wednesday that the relationship bet ween the energy services company and the US government illustrates much of what is wrong with the administration's approach to big business Cheney a convention speaker on Wednesday night was head of Houstontased Hallburton before he became George W gush's running mate in 2000 More in polls now view Cheney unfavor- than favorably Kew Jersey Sen Frank Lautenberg New Jersey Rep Bob Menendez and Elliot !ipitzer attorney general in Nett Yort atAy joined Iowa Gov Torn Vilsact and Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe in Laing about the administration and its dose relatioinship with big cxporations La:tenterg said he has long served ifl corporate boartoorris and knOvi corporate opportunity when I see L The senator referring to the Repcans' on Wednesday of convention ter said lie:baton Las TA-te- n t billions of dollars from its triult Zon-clotcontract with tie tm- opp1uri'y no-ti- ar errrnent for wort in trag including providing food and other services to troops r alltrocapiirittami I denims roles Us comedies GEORGE PATAKI - 0 torn on Jane 24 745 in PettIAL I Graduated Yale in 1967 - aril from Columba taw Ittivol 7971 he offs 011 Vetted coverrior d Neer Tort in 1934 after n pars in the in 7998 ed lie an hl we litzbett liar thliten tove tour Haven 4111 1 int968 Lfter being tionorab!) disttiaret the Texas tut xational Guard in which te ervel as an F1 fitter tie earre SC-loo- 2 an VIA from Hariart SJI‘iriets t I tootit tie Texas t angers tasetall team with wveral partners in 799 ant ervet as mariag general partner until tiis elettitm as Texas governor in 1994 in199 by a larittsilde fir becoming tie governor in Texas to be to tonsecatrve teary et terms Lr-f- i was recrtittel ty L0P k:aders to run Itir predel in lour-ye- ar 2'40 ant He won tiecoming tdy t 1on of a former pretsidert to Will The office (item Idams ant Itin '0IiriCy arns wre tie ottlert) larnrr He ant tiis wee taxa ten two I -- - 7- -- 1 i : ' 1 - i 1 - t-- - t" :11 '''''' A A t1 4 comma isiiiirminvAiiimmitemi Boxing promoter Doe King signals "four more years" at the convention Kepubliam Nat iorril Committee and paicy where the longterm tithe party are set spc-ak-s vol LIMA to the prarty's difficulty attracting AM-aiMnerimn voters Republic4i- Is should stop tryDivil to the American ing public that they are welcoming to blacks said William Marshall Jr Demorzatic National Cotrunittee director of AM-ca- n Ameriam media 'Until they be-gto truly represent the intereqs and aspirdtions of Afriam Amerimils they will nem be 103111 as a pox44KateS litical that party r) diversity" aariging GOP stereotypes in the minds of black Viers has the consimaing prassirm of Wilkinson's CWIWit political work A former Salt sueLake County councilman and aessful 212 tvingrtnisional aindidate be is ptlAing national committee licelers to let him organize a cohesive message to blacks that Ile Bush's recent shift toward the middle emphasizes a more stiodmtle "con:lair skeiatte conseratism" Albeit risky be envisions a ries sage similar to entenainer Bill Cosby's recent mill for blacks to take bane °wiveAim That Wilkinson and a national committeewoman from the US Virgin Islands are the only blacks cm the a LlterS il ti tr w i rt Mayor and a handful of other Bings Utah GOP delegates ralg the opening bell Wednesday morr rg cl the New York Stock Exchange st It Vteg e In the city: ltfxr several antiwar demonstrators were arrested Tuesday afternoon near the front of the Utah A ii delegation's Lower Manhattan hotel police security was noticeatly beefed up if that's even possible in a metropolis al- 0 a fig ready teeming with officers 1 was born and raised here so Hew York is my hometown but to wa:k down a street to see a fully armor-cla- d pace officer carrying an M16 in full battle attire is very Ii ei unsettling to me: seld delegate Don Ruzida Our concept of America is very fit that: shaken when you have to witness Cl KYC cabbies are usually such great drivers The special leCeral Protective Servkes sport utility ve1:cle carrying Sen Orrin Hatch State Sirector Melanie Bowen Chief of Staff PeJicia Knight and d hard ty a a federal agent wr taxi Tuesday nigtd el the 'A natcw was !are Garden trying to get to Madiscri for Utah's deleglte vcif There were no serious injuries tut the rodent was ail too familiar for Hatch 'le t 3S suffered chronic tact pein for 31 yews die to rear-en- d whiplash sustained in s::: a Cl rear-ende- Cl Si Vi ci so The president el Utah: That was the in the headtine over a story "rates National Journal amen nainpaper current about former SIM toss ILLsactusetts Gov ICU ey spohe on Me national con e:nton stage rd Ii 0 a nid lhoul he governs a Itledanlay stale that is as literal as Utah is corrervative and he lives in a Vete capital that is 2403 mites aim from Sal Late City Potrzey is vaout question Iltah's favorite son for the po'k1 nerletter wrote after collecting Pont? accotehs g n o I EU from Utah Convention speakers don't hold back with direct attacks on Kerry P a detcates o n -- -- A k a' ':''' - 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tor's 0 lican National Convention will arrive at Madison Square Garden for the primetime program but dozens of TV cameras crowd around flamboyant boxing promoter Don King as he holds forth on why African Amerkans should support President Bush in November Alter a burst of highoctarie partisan rhetoric and Kings trademark wild gest kulating a CNN reporter asks if King voted for Bash in 2IM think I did" King answers "I don't wally know" Ak)ng with former Miss Amerka Erika Howard and Filtration Secretary Rod Paige-- King is the face of the GOrs new empowerment tour campaign to woo black Vers a segment of the population that has historically backed Democrats in the White House by overwhelming margins Winston Wilkinson of Utah the only African American national committeeman in the Republiam NaDora' Committee is not sure if it's working or if Its wise And lithe GOP doesn't Erie-units message to black communities Wilkinson fears the party may toxin 'push blacks aside" arid focus all its recruitment eflixts on Latinos -A lot of blacks perceive the black ambassadors frOill the party to be in the tack packets of SlJtile of the far right wirg and a kit of times they see the far right of the party as unfortunately being racist- says Ili:Isom who ads() is a delegate to this week's GOP nation2d ' I In td — Ittepub tors On July 6 es :: rt-71- dek-pte- s i 16 Wilkinson fears a backlash with it P's pitch to blacks N'EW YORK CITY — It's early in the morning hours before the Repub- I) hi orila Nato mon is planning to record the song on her next &bum and she sang a few bars to Hatch over his cell plone elite he stood outside the U Capitol during an emergency ET STINE TiftiMW4 Ewiat Luker Nam Stvrior PRESIDENT BUSH 1194 in Conn to sums Not Lair Thoinerfittplaie Wrinst on Wilkinson campaigns in Utah for Congress in 2001 Wilkinson one of only two blacks on the Republican National Committee is not sure the GOP's campaign to woo blacks is resonating with African Americans By CII RISTOPII ER SMITH Ile Suit heir 7 alma? b ' ata tent e tegVotute GaJ aten6e1 brf SeIVA -- fr orn ke YOU Lonely ing love ballad br: wrote Singer Carly 110-017a0PPirsit- Democrats are up to this meet ct song top female vocalit interpret the 1 4 ' news or luncheon Tuesday tr he ears delewith Utah gates and musk ir dustry big shots But it wasn't the first time Hatch had heard a - 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