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(AP) — Cranking up his re-election campaign in vote-rich Califor nia, President Clinton denounced Washington as a cynical, short-sighted town “where talk ing is more important than doing.” Labor Day, a holiday of picnics and politics, found Clinton eagerly sympathizing with Americans who are telling pollsters in record numbers that they are disenchanted with their government. “You couldn’t run a family, a business, a university, a church, a civic organization — you couldn’t run anything in this country the way people try to run politics in Washington,” he told 20,000 people at a college dedication. Without mentioning Gov. Pete Wilson by name, Clinton also staked a claim to two issues seized by the Republican presiden tial candidate: immigration and affirma tive action. The remarks came on a sunny, blue-sky day on the central coast, as Clinton dedicated a new California State University campus and attended a Labor Day picnic. The visit, his 19th to California as presi dent, marks a new stage of the 1996 Clinton- Gore campaign. This is the logical place to get the campaign in gear, with 54 electoral votes and huge sup ply of political cash at the ready. Most political observers believe Clinton must win California to remain in the White House. Putting off the day when everything he does is considered political, Clinton has kept his re-election machinations low key so far. But his efforts will become more and more ob vious — starting with this trip. In a long, wandering speech that touched on dozens of topics, Clinton said Washington is a town driven by news bites and conflict, ‘'where talking is more important than doing” and where “you have to exaggerate every dif ference and make it 10 times bigger than it is. And you have to be willing to sacrifice every good in the moment for the next election.” “No one could run anything that way,” he s#id. The president looked like a man on the stump Sunday night, climbing a steep hill upon his ar rival to greet hundreds of voters on the other side of a fence. Reaching between jags of barbed wire atop the fence, Clinton shook nificantly better. Wilson backers scoff at the president’s Ca, fomia push. “Despite frequent visits by the presidci and his army of Cabinet secretaries,H administration’s policy decisions have don California much more harm than goo the past three years,” spokesman Pat Kranhold said. Clinton touted administration immigratis initiatives, trying to temper Wilson’s inroai on the issue. "You couldn't run a family, a busi ness, a university, a church, a civic organization — you couldn't run any thing in this country the way people try to run politics in Washington." President Bill Clintoc dozens of hands and posed for picture. He is expected to announce key campaign advisers in the next few weeks and has a lengthy campaign trip scheduled for late Sep tember. Several fund-raisers are on tap for the next few months. Clinton won California by a wide 46 per cent to 33 percent margin in 1992, but his prospects are doubtful 14 months away from the election. Though the state unemployment rate is down from 9.4 percent in 1993, the figure rose from 7.6 percent to 7.9 percent this summer — against a national average of 6.7 percent. In comes here failed to keep pace with inflation last year, while Americans elsewhere did sig- In a veiled jab at the California governor he said, “We’ve done what we can to closetk borders .... but — you know what? — thisisi nation of immigrants.” A cornerstone of Wilson’s campaign is hi push to eliminate affirmative action programs "I’m against quotas. I’m against reversi discrimination,” Clinton said. “But I am fa making a conscience effort at brining American people together.” The president and other administration of ficials have wooed the state with $3.2 billioi in assorted aid. 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Can we talk a while? © Provided by the Student Counseling Service, Texas A&M University. ® Call the at 845-2700 @.u S INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sen ate Majority Leader Bob Dole launched his fall presidential campaign today by accusing the federal government and “embar- rassed-to-be-American” political elites of undermining American values through its schools and cultural institutions. Dole attacked bilingual educa tion and called for recognizing English “as America’s official lan guage,” and derided new, govern ment-funded national history standards as an attempt “to dis parage America.” He delivered the cultural criti cisms in a Labor Day speech pre pared for delivery to an American Legion convention here. The Kansas Republican told the veterans’ organization that the na tion’s language, history and values “are under attack from our govern ment and from intellectual elites who seem embar rassed by America.” “English must be rec ognized as America’s of ficial language. Western tradition and American greatness must be taught in our schools. And the federal govern ment must end its war on traditional American values,” he said. He charged that edu cators were waging "a shocking campaign ... to dis parage America and disown the ideas and traditions of the West.” He said the National History Standards, commissioned by the Bush administration and funded by $2 million in grants from the Department of Educa tion and National Endowment for the Humanities, slighted George Washington and other heroes while harping “on some of our worst moments: the scourge of McCarthyism and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.” Their purpose seems to be “to denigrate America’s story while sanitizing and glorify ing other cultures,” said Dole. “This is wrong and it threatens us as surely as any for eign power ever has.” Dole also saw the hand of “liberal, academic elites” at work in the Smithsonian Institution’s plan for an exhibit on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to end World War II. It was scrapped amid an outcry from veterans. Dole charged the museum would have depicted the Enola Gay as “an act of American vio lence against Japanese culture,” Dole charged. “Today, even Japan has fi nally apologized for its atroci ties and aggression, so maybe it’s time the embarrassed- about-America crowd gets the message, too: we’re proud of our country,” he said. “And we won’t put up with our tax dollars being used to drag it down or sow doubt about the no bility of America in the minds of our children,” he added. Dole also assailed affirma tive action, saying, “Instead of making things better, it has made things worse.” In an address Tuesday to the Chicago Economic Club, Dole plans to speak out for simplify ing the country’s tax code and making it harder for Congress to raise taxes. le th Pi he fei pr m< Aggie Kickoff Special r i—i Master Eye Associates Racial rift causes problems for Baptists □ The Southern Baptist Convention apologized for condoning racism in the past. Contacts ’50“ OFF ■1 |l I II Colored P.B.H. Natural Touch Opaque Lenses With Eye Exam Expires: 9/30/95 DALIxAS (AP) The president of a pre dominantly black Baptist convention ex pressed skepticism Monday at the Southern Baptist Convention's recent apology for con doning racism throughout most of its history. ‘There's been a whole lot of time since slavery for good, Christian people to apolo gise” before this year. Dr. E. Edward Jones, of Shreveport, La., said in advance of the opening of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.’s meeting in Dallas. The national meeting, which is expected to attract 6,000 to 8,600 delegates, opens. Tuesday and runs through Friday. Janes referred to an apology in June b; the overwhelming white Sot Convention, which was bom . tween North and South over slavery. During the group’s annual convention in Atlanta, leaders apologized to blacks for condoning racism in the past. The resolution “denounces racism, repu diates historic acts of evil such as slavery” The vote in favor of the resolution re ceived a standing ovation from the 20,000 . delegates of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Jones questioned the “sincerity” and “va lidity” of the apology, which he said was given only because of the burgeoning num ber of black churches and the growth of the black middle class. “The civil rights struggle still goes on,” Jones said. The Southern Baptist Convention com mitted the 15.6 million-member church to eradicating vestiges of racism and notes that the denomination failed to support the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. Gary L. Frost, the only black in the Southern Baptist leadership, accepted the apology *on behalf of black Southern Bap tists in June. Reached Monday night at hie home in Youngstown, Ohio, Frost said he under stood Jones’ position, but hoped he would give Southern Baptists time to show they were sincere about the apology. “We hope that over a period of time, we are able to express the genuineness of the apology beyond words into deeds,” Frost said. ‘T would pray they would allow time for the sincerity of the apology to be mani fested. We just pray we’re given the oppor tunity to demonstrate our sincerity.” The NBC-America and NBC-USA Inc. are the two main, primarily black conventions. The NBC-USA’s annual session is this week in Birmingham, Ala. The conventions split in 1915 over a dis pute over ownership of the convention’s publishing house. In 1961, another conflict produced the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., whose leaders included the Rev. Mar tin Luther King Jr. and other pastors who were committed to social change. 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