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TEXAS WILDLIFE EXPO ‘96 A Tribute to Hunting, Fishing & the Great Outdoors OUTDOOR action! Texas Parks and Wildlife Headquarters in Austin October 4-6, 1996 TAMU Dept, of Wildlife and Fisheries Science along with the Wildlife Biology Society will be there. Everyone welcome. Tell you:r tale 0 Use Tripod's Homepage Builder to create and store your own Homepage—FREE! The Battalion LITICS Thursday • October],'■ Perot shifts to traditional candidac DALLAS (AP) — His strategy of high-profile debates and a blitz of television advertising now in shambles, Ross Perot is preparing to shed his campaign cocoon and emerge as a more traditional candidate. “We can now go full bore. You’re going to see a lot more of Ross Perot,” his running mate Pat Choate said Tuesday after a judge rejected Perot’s bid to be included in this month’s presi dential debates. Perot and presidential candi date John Hagelin of the Natural Law Party were granted an expe dited appeal to try and resolve the issue before the first Sunday face-off between President Clin ton and Republican Bob Dole. Oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals were set for Thursday in Washington, but the Reform Party ticket wasn’t count ing on anything. Choate said the campaign will shift gears by scheduling political rallies and press conferences -— public appearances Perot has stu diously avoided since he accept ed his own new party’s nomina tion on Aug. 18. “Now, we’re going to try to meet the public through the me dia,” said Choate, an economist who hasn’t been shy about mak ing solo campaign appearances and giving interviews on televi sion and radio. “In anticipation, we have hus banded our resources very care fully and we have a vast prepon derance of all of our money in the bank,” he added, referring to $29.2 million in federal funds awarded to Perot’s campaign. So far in his second indepen dent White House bid, Perot has sought isolation, campaigning primarily from a television studio in Dallas. The Texas billionaire has had just one political rally — at St. Louis, Mo., the site of what was to have been the first debate — and has appeared publicly only about once each week, usu ally before business groups. In the remaining five weeks before Election Day, Perot cur rently has just two scheduled ap pearances — Monday in San Francisco and Oct. 22 in Los An geles — and two 30-minute ad vertisements set to air. “Now that we know what the plan is we’ll move forward,” said Perot’s spokeswoman Sharon Holman, hinting at changes to come. Perot, who debated Clinton and then-President Bush in 1992, had pinned his 1996 hopes on the nationally televised debates and on his infomercials, using them to directly ad- 19 percent of thevoteinli he’s been getting aroundi dress voters on issues. But he’s been stymied. Perot says he has been re fused “reason able access” to desirable air time for his 30- minute cam- Perot paign commer cials — something the networks deny. Perot has pleaded his case with the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing his claim and expects a ruling sometime this week. Perot’s attempt to face off against Clinton and Dole before a national audience were blocked by the Commission on Presiden tial Debates, which voted to ex clude him because he has no "re alistic” chance of winning the presidency. Although Perot won cent support in nationalpol recent weeks. Perot’s lawsuit, combine;! Hagelin’s, was rejected!® by U.S. District Judge I logan in Washington. Hesaii Federal Election Commis hears — and resolves- paign disputes of this nature '■ I he court recognizestlteii lij tration ... of all whocoasS ByiallO themselves legitimate thirdp piTTSBURO candidates,” HogansaitL id is provir The FEC is not required! managers solve Perot’s complaintkt as it for pi Nov. 5. FEC spokeswoman^ jhe Califo Snyder said the agency m®i .ante in tl low a complaint processtk baseball’s iddinj alistically, cannot be comp by Election Day. Choate and Perot, who# at the court hearing, say it elusion from the debates’n it more difficult" forthein dog campaign. “At the same time, it ,i (ci i itic issue and a greats pic oi how closed thepoli ason vaca system has become andl nee bonus( outsiders are truly exclude ing a four- |uld appro r, includi other inci (The Angels ase salar; lllion a see enticem home dur Choate said, testing then Ifheaccep paign’s new theme. becom mager in m ► Truth in sentencing Crime draws Republicans take tax issue to vote consensus (AP) — The following are answers of the major presidential candidates to the question: “Do you favor ‘truth in sentenc ing’ for violent criminals so they serve full sentences ON THE ISSUES WM CAMPAIGN with no chance of parole?” Bill Clinton “The cur rent policy of ‘truth in sen tencing’ is a good policy because it is wrong for vio lent criminals to get out on parole before they complete their prison sentence. The sentence given to a rapist or murderer should be the sentence they serve. Serious criminals should know that they will be held responsible for the crimes they commit.” Bob Dole “Yes. The best prevention program for criminals I know is a prison cell. Some one sitting behind bars can’t terrorize a single law-abiding citizen. That’s why a 20-year sentence should not mean five years imprisonment. And why should we favor early parole for any murderer, when there can never be parole for a murder victim?” WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans roared into Congress nearly two years ago intent on cutting Americans’ taxes. But after many votes — and a veto by President Clinton — they’re leaving without achieving what they considered the “crown jewel” of their cherished "Contract With America.” A major tax cut for families and businesses, still at the top of their agenda, will have to wait until next year. Republicans did succeed in persuading Clinton to sign a laundry list of minor, tar geted tax cuts. Among them: incentives for long-term care insurance, tax-free life insur ance benefits for the terminal ly ill, tax-free medical savings accounts, expanded equip ment writeoffs for small busi nesses, an increased health in surance deduction for the self employed, Individual Retire ment Accounts for non-work ing spouses and a $5,000 cred it for adoptions. None has the pizazz at the polls of a $500 per-child credit or a 50 percent cut in the capi tal gains rate. And Republi cans were forced to accept an increase in the minimum wage .\ies Yi “It's not just what we signed into law. It’s the way we moved the en tire debate.” ayer Bill Archer Ways and Means chairman Ross Perot “Yes. When violent criminals are con victed and sentenced to prison, they should not be released early.” an anathe ma to free-market conservatives — as part of the deal. Republican leaders blame the failure of their tax-relief agenda on Clinton, who vetoed it along with the Medicare and other spending savings that would have balanced the budget in seven years. “If people want a balanced budget, they need a new president. If they want tax cuts, they need a new president. It’s that simple,” House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said in a brief interview. Others wonder if Republicans couldn’t have achieved more through conciliation, rather than confrontation, with Clinton. Instead of smaller tax and spending cuts, Republicans were left with voters’blam shutting down the government for am precedented 27 days. Andwhatther achieve in taxes, for the most part,] counter to their stated goal of simplifyini tax system. "They hold hearings on ’thesystemi complicated’ and then what dotheydoa very end of the Congress? They add a of things ... that are horrendously compltjiitl ed,” said New York attorney Leslie Clinton’s former assistant Treasury seat! for tax policy. Rep. Bill Archer, R-Texas, chairman tax-writing Ways and J Committee, said critics mi sea change that hasoccun how taxes are talked about, ton went from pushinga crease through the Democraii majority Congress in advocating a tax cut in Licit a smaller one than cans would like, “It’s not just what we got into law. It’s the waywemovs entire debate, whichnowte predicate for doing somethin! the next Congress,” he said. Archer said Congress, if Republicans!* the majority and Clinton wins re-elecii can block any tax increases andseala that would include a child credit, expi IRAs, reduced capital gains taxes ant haps some version of the president’shif education credit. "He’s going to want to go down in a very successful president and presidents' simply veto everything that Congresssti them are not making a place in bistort themselves,” he said. Unlike the president, most Democratsin gress flatly opposed cutting taxes, eithertl® the Republican plan or Clinton’s. Butthef read opinion poll results as well as elieve huifperstar rur ith will be e Smith, batte has never ason, can’t oftpinggame I; bung Sh afted two y le on the be as Dal aif Super Bow (, November The Cowboy i>ig chan in M % over tf s, Williams In edyk d lllisil mes Repull its and said they would work with Clinton. 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