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tin- Thursday, September 15, 1988AThe Battalion/Page 13 World and Nation on a ylord '>0 l^t :# s Ran A AmenM whiles, fjH Presidential campaign forges on andidates agree to debate dates, 11011 Bush said Wednesday that ,na jor im^i ican flags liave sold more bris- Sl0 «dy since Republicans began restor- (, f tg pride in the country in 1981. ^ le Dj^Rchael Dukakis stressed support 1 priitprsome weapons and muted earlier Arli apposition to others as he sought to 'hNiJuni attacks on his defense creden- lals. i|(> nia Bush also touted smaller than ex- I'cad iccicd trade-deficit figures and Du- () n l 1 akls accused the Republicans of op- iosilig “every single effort” to "asieform the Pentagon, while their lu ' nadagers fleshed out details on the thtr ampaign debates that are expected tastn obe pivotal in the close race for the to tlie Vhi|e House. Officials said that vice presidential Tai anqidates Dan Quayle and Lloyd tier lent sen would hold their only cle- bate of the fall on Oct. 5 in Omaha, Neb. Los Angeles was fixed as the site of the second and final Bush-Duka- kis debate on either Oct. 13 or 14. The two contenders for the White House square off a week from Sun day in Winston-Salem, N.C., in their first debate of the campaign. Bush said, “I’ve been looking for ward to it.” But Dukakis went to Annapolis, Md., which was to have hosted a de bate Wednesday night, and taunted the vice president for his refusal to make it a date. “If George Bush isn’t ready today after seven and a half years as vice president of this country, how can we expect him to be ready on Jan. 20, 1989?” the Democrat said. Dukakis aides said the Massachu setts governor would carve a day or two out of his travel schedule to pre pare for the first debate, a reflection of the importance of the event in the hardfought campaign. Public opinion polls in recent days have shown Bush holding a single digit lead, and Democratic aides said privately they didn’t look for much change in the 10 days before the de bates begin. The vice president said some polls were good and others weren’t. “They cancel out. I think we’re just about where we’ve been but I’m just (going to) keep plugging away.” And he did, wooing Hispanic and Asian voters in a tour of California, the biggest prize with 47 electoral votes. locations The vice president said jobles sness among Hispanics has fallen al most twice as fast under President Reagan as it did when the Democrats were in the White House during 1976 to 1980. “We’re on the optimistic side; we’re on the American side; we know we can do the job,” Bush told one audience. He said there was “new pride in America” demonstrated by the per formance of a flag-making company in New Jersey. “Back under the previous admin istration things were rough. They weren’t selling that well. “Well, since we began restoring pride in the United States of Amer ica, business has been booming,” he said, without naming the company. Wright begins ethics defense before House investigators “I’m just absolutely certain I have not violated any rules of this House ... or knowingly have done any thing that violates any ethical standard. ” — House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas BiS. Army -ready to aid Gilbert victims the defforH^ASHINGTON (AP) — The Penatgon has agreed to dispatch active duty military personnel ann equipment from at least one in Texas to assist with evac- '^i,uatluns along the Texas Coast as PlHui icane Gilbert moves closer ^'inland, Sen. Phil Gramm, R- Texas, said Wednesday. ' See related stories, page 1 id IL-Cf —— en. !®ramm said the Army was set- bui ting up a crisis action center in j - Washington to coordinate the ef- tou: fort and that personnel and E^Kpment would he called up i fron. Fort Hood in Killeen and possibly Fort Bliss in El Paso, t tot-Kmcks, helicopters and bull- ould doltrs and an undetermined orHr nuliber of military personnel will uchpi^Bent to the coast to assist the , Telas National Guard with the evacuations, Gramm said. ^■Thev’re willing to commit tvhltever is needed to get the job 1. Jonc,” Gramm said. ^■he National Oceanic and At mospheric Administration la- 3el|d Hurricane Gilbert the ” \VallfH n £> est hurricane ever in the Western Hemisphere. , ‘Tin pleased we’re getting or- Jaifued,” Gramm said. “If it ’.urns out to he the disaster it has Ijj ^wotential to he, an early coor- ——dination effort could be the dif- iereiue betwen saving lives and I tot. ^Hramm also announced ^^Vednesday that the Army Corps 4 ■Engineers had opened an H ^Brgency office in Galveston to lam lie flood cont rol and emer- itcrs (enty construction along the 81 tit »asi. “This (nits a lot of resources at ,, ( nircommand,” he said. rez jj Gramm said he had also been U („(Kflking with officials from the 21-6, lousing and Urban Devel- l0 be,IpAent Department, the Small f 22-^H' ness Administration, the run )n farlners Home Administration, ksoif hefceneral Services Administra- ion and the Federal Emergency Management Administration A1 Bi 11 emergency shelter and I ^ ommunications needs, mav |'S WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Jim Wright, testifying un der oath, gave a lengthy defense Wednesday of his business dealings in a closed-door session before the House ethics committee and said he hoped the probe would be over be fore Congress adjourns next month. Wright, D-Texas, also said the in vestigation that has hung over him since it was begun formally last June is a reminder that members of Con gress do live in glass houses “We should be prepared to con duct our affairs with such rectitude that people can’t find anything wrong,” Wright said. Speaking to reporters after a two- hour morning session before the panel, formally known as the Com mittee on Standards of Official Con duct, Wright reiterated his belief that he would be exonerated on the six counts against him. Wright later returned for a 3.5 hour afternoon session with the committee. Committee Chairman Julian Dixon, D-Calif., said Wright’s testi mony was completed, and that the panel would meet again Thursday. “I’m just absolutely certain I have not violated any rules of this House . . . or knowingly have done anything that violates any ethical standard,” the speaker said. Ot the panel’s inquiry, Wright said, in a sense it’s a fine thing, it’s a wholesome thing that even the speaker himself is amenable to the rules that call for a probe anytime a complaint is lodged against a House member. But he said he fully expected that the investigation will be completed by the time the House adjourns in early October. “I do not want it left dangling. I want it resolved,” he said. Wright said he made that view clear to the committee. “I said, ‘Let’s come to a resolution of it.’ After all, the facts are clear,” he said. “If they discover that I have done something wrong inadver tently, they should say that.” But Wright said he did not anticipate such a result. He pronounced himself very, very happy to finally be called to testify. He said he had looked forward to this for more than three months. The ethics committee has subpoe naed numerous witnesses in connec tion with the complaints filed against Wright by his chief accuser, Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and has al ready interviewed many of them. Wednesday’s session was Wright’s first appearance before the panel. Wright said he answered ques tions from the panel on all six counts that are in the committee’s formal resolution of inquiry. “I sat there and just discussed it all with them,” he said. Police, gunmen have shootout 20 minutes before Pope arrives MASELRU, Lesotho (AP) — Pope John Paul II ar rived in this tiny kingdom Wednesday just 20 minutes before a bloody shootout between police and gunmen holding a busload of nuns and children on a papal pil grimage. Four people reportedly died. John Paul was to fly from Botswana to Lesotho today but bad weather forced his chartered jet to make an un scheduled landing in South Africa, the target of his crit icism during his southern Africa tour. The pope arrived in Lesotho eight hours behind schedule and just 20 minutes before the tense hostage drama was played out. Police said gunmen hijacked the bus carrying about 70 people Tuesday, drove it to the British Fiigh Com mission (embassy) compovtnd and demanded to meet the pope. Authorities said the hijackers began firing af ter they tried to drive the vehicle through the closed gates of the embassy compound. Three hijackers and a hostage, a young woman, were killed in a gun battle with police, authorities said. Eleven other passengers were wounded, the rest of the hostages were rescued, and one hijacker was arrested, police said. The hijackers held police at bay through Tuesday night while demanding to meet John Paul and Leso tho’s king, Moshoeshoe II, a government official said. John Paul, meanwhile, had intended to bypass South Africa on his tour of five neighboring, black-ruled na tions. 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