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fer without a nationally televised debate forum.
‘‘Eighty million watch that debate. They
know very pragmatically that if they can
keep me out of the debate, then that dimin
ishes my chances for success,” Perot said on
Fox News Sunday.
Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the
University of Virginia, said the commission’s
decision will give Clinton a “free ride” because
“Perot will air most of his fire between now
and the election on Dole to undermine him.”
And come Election Day, independent
swing voters might cast their ballots against
Republicans, he added. “Dole is the guy who
kept Perot out and that makes Dole the bad
buy for Perot people.”
The Dole campaign, which is thought to
have more to lose from a strong Perot showing
in the election, objected to Perot’s participation.
The debate cortimission, made up of five Re
publicans and five Democrats, agreed, saying
the Texas billionaire should be left out because
he doesn’t have a realistic chance of winning
the election.
The Clinton campaign was willing to have
Perot participate, as he did in the 1992 presi
dential debates with Clinton and President
Bush, but acceded to Republican demands
that Clinton and Dole go one-on-one.
Representatives of the two campaigns
agreed to debate Sunday Oct. 6 in Hartford,
Conn., and Wednesday Oct. 16 in San Diego.
Both debates will be 90 minutes. Each debate
will have one moderator, but the San Diego
showdown will be a town-hall format. There is
also a vice presidential debate scheduled for
Oct. 9 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Dole campaign spokesman Nelson Warfield,
trying to lower expectations for the former Sen
ate majority leader in advance of the debates,
told reporters Sunday that
Clinton “comes in with sub
stantial advantages.”
“He’s glib, he’s agile, and
he’s willing to stake out po
sitions unrestrained by the
truth,” Warfield said. “But
we remain confident Sena
tor Dole can hold his own.”
Perot insisted that it was
independents — Perot voters
in 1992 — who gave Republi
cans the support needed to take control of Con
gress in 1994, and that Dole was squandering
those votes by excluding him from the debates.
“It’s going to be very very vety difficult to get
any independent voter excited about Republi
cans because of what Sen. Bob Dole did.”
Perot said Dole had “poisoned the attitudes
of millions of independent voters who put the
Republicans in power.”
“Here’s a guy that’s supposed to be a war
hero, you’d think he’d be willing to stand up
and talk to another person.”
“If Bob Dole is afraid of something I’m
pretty darn sure it’s not Ross Perot,” respond
ed House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-
Texas, on NBC.
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RA targets financial situation
WASHINGTON (AP) — In signs
ntinuing financial trouble,
National Rifle Association has
off 30 workers and suspend-
roduction of its weekly cable
ision program, according to
officials.
Wo NRA board members said
gun lobby has furloughed al-
jst 10 percent of its roughly
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Washington’s beltway,” the re
lease quoted Wayne LaPierre, the
NRA’s executive vice president.
That same day, LaPierre sent a
letter to NRA board members no
tifying them of the group’s “ongo
ing efforts to streamline head
quarters operations.”
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where our members live,
“We’re exploring
our options right
now, and we’ll have
to wait and see what
happens.”
Chip Waller
NRA spokesman
the association’s restructuring into
seven divisions, with the popular
Hunter Services division slated for
elimination. And in an accompa
nying document, he said the
changes mean “less of a demand
for staff at NRA headquarters.”
“Just as other major organiza
tions and companies seek to im
prove efficiency, so too should the
NRA,” LaPierre wrote.
Cancellation of the television
show, which cost the NRA at least
$310,000 in 1995, is another sign
of financial problems at the lob
bying group, which has depleted,
most of its cash reserves and run
deficits during much of the 1990s.
“Our contract was up in July,
and right now they’re showing re
runs,” said NRA spokesman Chip
Walker. “We’re exploring our op
tions right now, and we’ll have to
wait and see what happens.”
Since December 1994, the NRA
has aired the hour-long public af
fairs show on the populist, con
servative-oriented National Em
powerment Television cable
network, which reaches 12 mil
lion homes nationwide. Reruns
have been running since July 30,
when the old contract expired.
The key reason the contract
was not renewed, NRA officials
said, is that NET requested a sig
nificant rate increase.
‘‘What they want to do, We
would have real trouble paying
for,” one NRA official said.
While production of new
shows has been suspended, NET
general manager Bob Swanner
said both groups “are exploring
future options” in hopes of a
new deal.
Swanner acknowledged the
program’s cost was one item un
der negotiation but said many
others were as well, including the
program’s content and its broad
cast schedule.
The NRA’s financial woes
stem from a multimillion-dollar
campaign aimed at boosting
membership.
The plan, which cut into cash
reserves, backfired amid negative
publicity. Last year, as member
ship reached 3.5 million, former
President Bush quit the NRA after
a fund-raising letter referred to
federal agents as “jack-booted
government thugs.”
Since then, membership has
dropped to about 2.8 million.
At the end of 1995, according
to NRA financial records, the
group’s liabilities exceeded its as
sets by $44 million.
It reported it had about $49
million in cash and investments
on hand at the end of 1995. But
the bank holding the mortgage on
its new headquarters in Fairfax,
Va., requires the NRA to keep $36
million in cash, an arrangement
that means the NRA can spend
none of that reserve for day-to-
day operations.
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edure is too risky to rush and
aps could be canceled.
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Id take place at the end of
ember. However, Dr. Rinat
lurin said it may not be per-
ed until mid- to late Novem-
[depending on results of heart
to be done this week,
jsked whether the surgery
it be canceled, Akchurin told
Russian NTV network’s Itogi
r. “It’s possible, but we would
to create (lifestyle changes)
he patient which he himself
Id not tolerate.”
he intrigue surrounding
in’s condition was ratcheted
laturday by Pavel Voshchanov,
a journalist and former Yeltsin top
aide who told Associated Press
Television that the 65-year-old
president has problems with his
back, and with the hearing and
blood vessels in his brain.
Dr. Sergei Mironov, the Krem
lin’s chief physician, denied last
week that Yeltsin has major liver
or kidney problems, but acknowl
edged other problems he said
may complicate surgery. He did
not identify them.
Yeltsin has been hospitalized
since Sept. 13 for what aides said
then would be a couple of days of
pre-surgery tests. Akchurin said
doctors are trying to improve
Yeltsin’s general heart condition.
But Akchurin told ABC News
on Friday that Yeltsin had a heart
attack this summer. Akchurin
said Sunday that it actually was
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an attack of stenocardia that did
not damage the heart.
The attack occurred, Akchurin
said, while Yeltsin was campaign
ing in the Ural Mountains in June,
but did not slow Yeltsin down.
Heart experts have said
Yeltsin’s surgery likely would be a
triple bypass, but there has been
no official word on its nature.
A team of doctors, including
American cardiologist Michael
DeBakey, is expected to make fi
nal decisions about the surgery
after a Wednesday meeting and
examination of Yeltsin.
Akchurin said Yeltsin will un
dergo echocardiography, an ultra
sound test of the heart that deter
mines how well it is functioning,
and a radioisotopic myocardium
exam, which shows whether
damaged areas of the heart, are
still alive and, therefore, whether
they can be surgically restored.
DeBakey left Houston on Sun
day for Russia. He told reporters
he knew little about Yeltsin’s
condition.
‘T have formally been ap
proached and invited to be a con
sultant,” he said. “What that in
volves, I have to wait until I get
there and see.”
For Yeltsin, reported to have
been a heavy drinker, doctors also
may be dealing with liver disease,
which thins the blood and com
plicates surgery, said Dr. Samin
Sharma, director of intervention
al cardiology at The Mount Sinai
Medical Center in New York.
There is a danger that, even after
the surgery, a patient could die
from blood leaking out of cuts
made by the doctor, he said.
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