Show rvivr wr r Vs Page 6— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday Match 30 2000 By Thomas Hargrove Scrlpps Howard News Service ' WASHINGTON — President Clinton said he was “outraged’’ and “appalled” upon discovering that his campaign committee stopped toying to weed out illegal donations duptad ing his 1996 The president on Wednesday also defended Vice President A1 Gore’s campaign activities of four vears ago assuring that none of foe funds Gore gath- ered “was Fund fiasco: President CintonV i ponders a question not lawfully raised”But Clinton conceded in a news conference that his campaign failed to block contributions from obviously illegal sources especially from citizens of foreign nations reported they will refund about $15 million according to die1 Scripps Howard study Clinton said he and Gore x support substantive campaign finance reform especially for “soft money” “I was outraged when I so-call-ed turns in which hundreds of ' millions of dollars given by found out that the system for checking the backgrounds of contributors and things like APphoto that had been dismantled out my knowledge Hastrup attaches a battery charger to his General Motors EV1 electric car whte Ns wife Vtoeke prepares to back out of their Granite Bay Calif home in her Honda EV Plus electric car The couple may be among a growing number of Californians who drive the pollution free electric vehicles The state may require that up to 10 percent of new cars marketed In CaMfomia be poliitJon-fre- e : Tim Driving debate in high gear California nation’s leader in cleaner cars faces big decision SACRAMENTO Calif (AP) — The future of electric can in the United States could welf be determined when Cali fomia decides whether to sue — or to back away — a requirement for pollution-fre- e vehicles The state's Air Resources Board is to rule this fall on Whether to keep modify or drop a rule requiring that 10 percent of new can and light trucks sold in the state have! zero emissions The rule would affect all automakers selling at least 3000 new can a year in the state and would take effect with 2003 models With California the nation's i leader in requiring cleaner cars environmentalists and health groups expect a major campaign by auto companies to overturn or weaken the requirement It has been scaled back twice already “It’s going to be an environmental litmus test an indica- tion how green administration is” ' this said Roland Hwang transportation program director for the Union of Concerned Scientists The Air Resources Board chairman Alan Lloyd is com- mitted to the zero-emissi- on requirement spokesman Jerry Martin said But others seem more willing to make changes “Until such time as the general public feels comfortable with the range of the vehicle our attempts to get more of them on the road are going to be hampered” said board member Joseph Calhoun' The rule would require that thousands of die cars or light trucks be battery-powere- d electric vehicles though manufacturers could meet up to 60 percent of the requirement with of Nissan's care Five low-emissi- on super-low-polluti- ng Sentras for example would count as one vehicle The federal Clean Air Act iyes states the choice of Allowing federal emission requirements or adopting California’s tougher standards “California is the mother then other states are obliged to also make those revisions or ' rejoin die federal program” The state has scaled back its zero-emissi- requirements on twice since they were adopted in 1990 Originally foe regulations required that ship” said Jason Grumet executive director of Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use management which represents air pollution control officials in eight Northeastern states ‘‘When California makes a major programmatic change if was as appalled as the next person when I found out that we had taken money that wasn’t legal We didn’t need it to win It was wrong” A study of federal campaign records by Scripps Howard News Service found that the current presidential candidates appear to be more carefully examining their contributions Gore has reported to die Federal Election Commission that he will rebate $419700 to 627 or a manufacturer’s fleet of new cars starting in 1998 5 cans and Democrats in the House and foe Senate have to spend the time they have to spend raising the funds for their campaigns and the wear and tear on them” Clinton1" aid ' The president said that ' “Congress would function bet-- ter’Vif members didn't have to spend so much time in fund raising He said he supports the At least some of these driven said they see a role for foe vehicles as a family’s second car used for commuting errands and other short trips le McCain-Feingo- Cam-paig- ld see the other great savings! 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' - Emcee: DrWill Kesling Everybody Wins Prizes! y ) April 8 7:06 PM at theEllen Eccles Theatre K " Tickets $6 $8 and $10 Students 6 for Tickets 10AM to 5PM&- Call 752-0- 02 Department 56 Sign up for the new Hallmark Oranients r (see the 2000 Dreambook) ' RFBESITFS 20 off all Vanmark "heroes” figurines See our new Saveco decorative water fountains Be the first to many of the 2000 introductions in ! n Finance Reform Act which would outlaw soft money contributions as well as Gore’s proposal to create a $7 billion national public endowment to pay for House returned donations came from contributors who did not list percent in 2001 " ' 325 20 off all Yankee Candles 20 off all Boyd's Bears Plush Additional 25 off All Pokemon 20 off all Sweet Surprises baby gi 50 off all Lllllput Lane 20 off all Hallmark scrapbookssupplles 30 off all Hallmark everyday glftwrap33 off all Coca-Col- a Beanie plush f or George W Bush reported he will return $441800 to 536 contributors non-pdlu-t- reat Savings Come in to - donors while Texas Gov zero-emissi- on Electric-vehic- large corporations have floofred the Democratic and Repub-lica- n parties in recent years “It bothers me that Republi- - with- approval” Clinton said “I : ! 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