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A black Republican candi date for Senate, angered be cause he was not invited to par ticipate in the rally, stood at the front of the crowd waving signs and repeatedly interrupting Bush with cries of “Not fair, George.” “If some would listen instead of talking, maybe they’d learn a little something here,” Bush fi nally said in response to the shouts. A group in the crowd came to the vice president’s support, trading shouts of “George is fair” with those of the heckler. Bush tried to quiet the crowd after about 30 seconds of shout ing. “Hey, listen, I paid for this mike (microphone),” he said. At a brief news conference, Bush said the Reagan campaign also must overcome the defeats of Republican governors in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. But Bush said he was confident Reagan could regain the lost ground through an emphasis on his economic policies and traditional American values. Bush criticized the three Democratic presidential candi dates — whom he labeled “the trembling trio” — for emphasiz ing bad news and quarreling among themselves. “They’re so addicted to bad news they just can’t live without it,” he saief. “I think the Ameri can people are tired of hearing all the gloomy predictions of these three men. “We don’t think the Ameri can people will be caught upin this air of negativism,” Bush said. Lawma kers try to avoid water crisis in the south United Press International DALLAS — Feuding western and southern stales must re-es tablish “diplomatic relations” to avert a water crisis and to block unwelcome federal interven tion, lawmakers from water- rich states said Wednesday. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis souri and other “water-rich” states have staunchly resisted efforts to transfer large quanti ties of their water to arid re gions of the High Plains. “Each state must meet its own water needs first, before ship ping it elsewhere,” said Steve Clark, Arkansas attorney gen eral. “Of course, water has a price. It will run straight uphill for enough dollars. “I can’t get excited by a na tional water policy dictated by Congress. Texas has 27 con gressmen and Arkansas has four. Custer had better odds. “Arkansas may be happy to trade a barrel of water for three barrels of oil.” Officials participating in a re gional water-crisis forum agreed that agriculture will be the big loser in the coming bat tle for water. “Water will move in the di rection of the greatest money, and that’s probably away from agriculture,” said New Mexico state Rep. George Fettinger. 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Lorenzo said the carrier’s re turn to profitability is pinned to its lower labor costs, which re suited from the company void ing union contracts when it filed for Chapter 11 reorganiza tion in September. Employees are working for about naif ol the wages they were paid under the contract. Unions have challenged the company’s action on the con tracts and the case is now being heard in federal bankruptcy court. A decision is expected later this year. 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