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ole questions Bush’s Texas ties
as candidates shift toward South
I Associated Press
The presidential campaigns
Wednesday shifted their sights to
1b South, with Republican Sen. Bob
Dole saying adopted Texan George
Bush seems to call lots of places
home.
Blush, who once represented
Texas in Congress, maintains his
voting residence at the Houstonian
Hocel. He was born in Massachu-
■ts, grew up in Connecticut, owns a
[home in Maine and told New Hamp-
jHre voters “I’m one of you” in cam-
Bgning for the primary he won
ifliesday.
■“The vice president is doing well
in Texas, another one of his home
Hites,” Dole cracked Wednesday
: during an interview.
■Dole defeated Bush in Iowa and
fm ^hed second to the vice president
I New Hampshire. The Kansan’s
iexas campaign chairman, Richard
Collins, predicted the race would last
until the Republican National Con
vention in New Orleans this sum
mer.
“It’s going to be competitive,” Col
lins said. “It’s going to be exciting
and it’s going to go ... all the way to
the convention.”
Kevin Moomaw, Bush’s state po
litical director, said the vice presi
dent will do well in the Southern
March 8 “Super Tuesday” primary.
“We move South, and we move to
the vice president’s strength,” Moo
maw said.
Texas, which will send 111 dele
gates to the Republican National
Convention and 197 to the Demo
cratic convention, is the largest state
taking part in Super Tuesday.
Bush has been leading all Repub
licans in opinion polls in Texas. Gov.
Bill Clements, whose wife co-chairs
the Bush campaign, said he would
work for the vice president and pre
dicted a Bush victory in Texas.
“He’s got a great organization
here in Texas,” Clements said. “And
I think he will carry Texas handily
and I’m going to help him.”
Former TV evangelist Pat Rob
ertson was campaigning in South
Carolina and Florida, where he pre
dicted a good showing.
“We go into the South and they’re
going to be playing in my back
yard,” said Robertson, claiming he
would win convincingly in South
Carolina, which holds its GOP pri
mary March 5, three days before Su
per Tuesday.
On the Democratic side, Tennes
see Sen. Albert Gore Jr. spent Tues
day night and Wednesday in Hous
ton, having shunned the Iowa
caucuses and New Hampshire pri
mary.
Gore, who won endorsments from
several top Texas Democrats includ
ing Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and House
Speaker Gib Lewis, said Super Tues
day has changed presidential cam
paigning but other candidates don’t
realize it.
“We made a decision not to spend
$ 1 million on two or three delegates
(from Iowa and New Hampshire),”
Gore said. “We’re saving that for the
1,400 delegates here in the Super
Tuesday primary.”
Another candidate hoping to do
well in the South is the Rev. Jesse
Jackson, a South Carolina native and
long-time civil rights leader.
“I’m a son of the South,” Jackson
said. “I know its ways. I’ve worked
harder and longer to make the new
South new than anyone in this cam
paign.”
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| by the new front and southern jet. widespread precipitation will spread from Texas
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overrunning, and warm air advection. A southward shift of the polar jet suggests a
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Monday, February 22, 1988, the employers listed will be on
campus participating in the Co-op Career Fair. These employers
will primarily be interested in hiring co-op students, but if you are
interested in either summer or full-time employment, please feel
free to come by. The Co-op Career Fair will be held between 8:30
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11:45 to 12:30. A seminar on “How to Interview for Co-op Jobs”
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FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The
attorney for one of 14 men linked to
white supremacist groups said
Wednesday that freedom of speech
is the issue at the men’s trial.
During his opening statement, Ev
erett D. Hofmeister of Coeur d’A
lene, Idaho, attorney for Richard G.
Butler, quoted former U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes as saying freedom of speech
includes freedom for the thought we
hate.
Butler, 69, of Hayden Lake, is one
of the 10 men on trial for seditious
conspiracy, which is conspiring to
overthrow the government by force.
Louis Ray Beam Jr., 41, of Hous
ton, also among the men, said dur
ing his 90-minute opening statement
that if the government will admit
that the Constitution is dead and
there is no freedom of speech, “I’m
guilty. But if our Constitution still
exists, I’m not guilty.”
He said the trial is political.
“I’ve been a very vocal opponent
of a tyrannical government that tries
to destroy tfie rights of free men,” he
said.
The government contended in its
opening statement that leaders of
right-wing white supremacist groups
talked about poisoning the water
supplies of New York and Washing
ton, D.C.
James Ellison, who is in prison,
discussed a poisoning scheme in
1983 at an Aryan Nations convoca
tion in Hayden Lake with Butler and
Robert Miles, assistant U.S. Attorney
Steve Snyder told the jury.
Ellison, whose name is on the gov
ernment’s list of witnesses, is the for
mer leader of an Arkansas-based
militaristic supremacist group called
‘The Covenant, the Sword and the
Arm of the Lord’ which maintained
a heavily guarded compound in
north Arkansas.
Federal and state officials raided
it in April 1985 and seized large
amounts of weapons and a 39-gallon
drum of sodium cyanide.
At the time of the 1983 talk, Elli
son had more than 200 pounds of
sodium cyanide in his possession,
Snyder said.
At that same conclave, several su
premacist leaders discussed the idea
of abolishing the U.S. government
and setting up an Aryan state,
Snyder said.
Louis Ray Beam Jr., 41, of Hous
ton, a former Texas Klan leader and
another of the defendants, told the
1983 conference that the time had
come for war, Snyder said.
Snyder said Beam told his audi
ence that “the anti-God slithering
homosexual” dwelt in Washington,
D.C., and warned, “If you don’t help
me kill them . . . you’re going to have
to beg for your child’s life, and the
answer will be ‘no.’ ”
Miles made a speech urging the
use of robberies to finance suprema
cist activities, Snyder said, and six
holdups during the next 18 months
netted supremacists more than $4
million.
Ellison “sent a paper around to be
signed,” and when it came back
signed by the leaders, Ellision said,
“All of us today entered into a con
spiracy against the government of
the United States,” Snyder said.
The prosecutor said no one dis
agreed with Ellison’s statement and
“the meeting ended with the Nazi
stiff-arm hail victory salute.”
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