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MONTEREY, Calif. (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. On this trip, Clinton promoted
a $240 million federal investment in Califor
nia State University at Monterey Bay, built oj
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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
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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.
The NBC-USA, has about 8.2 million
members; The NBC-America has about 4.5
million; and the Progressive NBC has an
estimated 2.5 million.
The Southern Baptist Convention was cre
ated in 1845 in a split with the American
Baptist Convention over the question of
whether slave owners could be missionaries.
The church was silent or actively op
posed civil rights through the 1970s, and
many congregations excluded blacks. In
1989, the denomination first declared
racism asm.
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