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Demos want to 'take on Bush*
a
arc airing
George Bush,
In addition to the rhetoric, a
And
3 soldiers die
Party chairman Ronald H. Brown
in accident
at Fort Sill
Lawton
school children in terms of prenatal
federal
Mr. Jefferson’s
most seriously wounded soldiers soldiers.
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was used.
The injured were taken by
ing charges last October. In April,
the judge in the case separated
Marcos from the other defendants,
,” Bush told the governors
Wednesday.
about whether the federal govern-
ment should spend more on educa-
Moreover, Republicans and
Democrats alike said the federal
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad,
chairman of the National Govcr-
at the Atlanta convention in 1988.
Brown was the principal negotia-
Rcmaining intact was the dcci-
of the local economy for many years. Sunday’s issue of the
Brand will include a story about Holly Sugar’s upcoming
25th anniversary.
the Association of State Democratic
Chairs.
Fort Sill Is Army's
Field Artillery Center
to stand up as Democrats I
and articulate (our) !
differences. --DNC
Chairman Ron Brown |
Marcos, 72,
dies in Hawaii
s
and heart ailments, pneumonia and and display it in Hawaii until she
bacterial infections.
At 1:17 a.m., Marcos’ only son,
Ferdinand Jr., emerged from his
father’s hospital room and announ-
about one-half mile and hit 10 to 15
feet behind the soldiers, authorities
said. What went wrong was under Field Artillery Cumv., L
investigation, said Dobbs. He said sizes of howitzers, but it
two possible explanations were that know what kind was involved.
We have to analyze the craters
t on I
the next governors’ meeting in
February.
Today’s final sessions included a
scries of workshops as well as
plenary meetings for all of the and former secretary of education in
governors. Bush was to be the the Reagan administration, spoke of
Bennett, the leader of a discus-
sion group with governors, told
choice.”
As part of its attempt to become
more aggressive, the DNC began
ton
their congressional majority to step Cable News Network that attacked
to cut taxes on
Shl Farmers get the beet
This field on land farmed by Fred Fangman northwest of
Hereford is one of the earliest to be included in the 1989
sugar beet harvest. Sugar beets have been an important part
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Hustlin' Hereford, home of Ann Washington
89th Year, No. 62, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
“I’ll lake my destiny, whatever
that may be, but I’m going to f';L‘
for my dignity and honor,” he said.
Marcos was elected president of
Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt,
a Democrat, said, “I’m with Gov.
Cuomo - it is a resource issue. But
that he buried on Philippine soil,
turned down a request from Presi-
dent Salvador Laurel today to
reconsider.
“In the interest of the safely of
those who will take the death of Mr.
Marcos in widely and passionately
conflicting ways, and for the
tranquility of the state and the order
of society, the remains of Ferdinand
E. Marcos will not be allowed to be
brought to our country until such
time as the government, be it under
this administration or the succeed-
ing one, shall otherwise decide,”
Mrs. Aquino said in a statement.
Mrs. Marcos said in April she
WASHINGTON (AP) - Demo- “give the American people
cralic Party officials, voicing a
on
cam-
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
(AP) - President Bush and the
nation’s governors arc searching for
an agenda to improve America’s
troubled schools as they wind up a
an administration
official says was marred by unin-
formed discussions and partisan
“pap”
In meetings behind closed doors
'It's time to stop
debating over
commissions and
studies and set some
priorities and it's
time to get with it.”
--President Bush
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and life-support equipment was not facing dual uprisings of communist
turned off until after he died, and Moslem-secessionist guerrillas.
Peyuan said. The pivotal event in Marcos’
Doctors would not comment on downfall was the assassination of
the howitzer was aimed incorrectly “r; ;
or the wrong amount of gunpowder and interview all the units
range,” said Long.
. . He said the accident site was
helicopter and ambulance to Roy- about four miles from the populated priorities and it’s time to get on
nolds Army Hospital. Three of the area of the post, which has 21,000 with it," F —u -,J •*- ;-------
said Republican Gov. featured speaker at a convocation disputes in the private sessions.
Garrey Carruthers of New Mexico. *—~r - J-
Bush and the governors hoped to
conclude their two-day meeting
today with an accord to draft the
first national performance goals for
schools and students and standards
the by which to judge them.
“It’s lime to stop debating over
commissions and studies and set
The House is debating the tax candidates in presidential primaries and Atlanta,
some Democrats arc
ing it will be restored for the 1992 convention. Most cited the requirc-
convcntion. ment that the party have unlimited
“It can be done any time,” said access to the convention hall for
James Ruvolo. the Ohio Democratic three months prior to the conven-
tion.
and other assistance.
a yard across and a foot deep was Fort Sill investigators were to be “If they would give us a 5-ycar-
visible. joined today by a team from the old that is healthy and alert, the
At least one round from a Army Safety Center in Fort Rucker, system would be much more
howitzer overshot the target area by Ala. A preliminary report may not productive,” t
luncheon.
The summit was staged at the
University of Virginia in the lush,
green foothills of the Blue Ridge feisty exchanges about education
Mountains, and defense spending.”
The university was founded by Bennett said, "Tlicrc was pap -
Thomas Jefferson, America’s first standard Democratic pap. There
“education president,” and is still was standard Republican pap...”
referred to as “Mr. Jefferson’s “Much of the discussion took
school.” place in total absence of any knowl-
Aftcr the first day’s sessions, the edge of what works or what’s
speaking on condition of anonymity Jr., who was gunned down in 1983
said it the culmination of a “slow as he returned to the Philippines
and steady” deterioration. Doctors from self-imposed exile in the
had implanted a pacemaker on United States. The slaying, which
Wednesday. Filipinos blamed on Marcos and his
Mrs. Aquino, who in May had supporters, galvanized the opposi-
rejectcd appeals from Mrs. Marcos tion to the longtime president.
ush wants education action
school,” Bennett added. “Some
people were saying things that other
people had written for them, and
they were reading them out of
books and reading them off cards."
Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo
of New York argued for more
federal aid by comparing military
and education spending.
“You spent over S300 billion on
missiles that you’ll never fire,” he
said in remarks addressed to Repub-
licans. “Now the American people
are saying, ‘OK, a few less missiles
because we don’t need them as
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Bush and his wife, Barbara, for an much anymore. A little more money
2— elegant dinner in a banquet tent at on education.’ I think the people
nors' Association, said a set of Jefferson’s famous home, Monti- will understand that.”
targets may be ready by the time of cello, atop a nearby mountain.
Bush called the first day’s
sessions “very constructive.”
However, William Bennett, the ultimately I’m under no illusion that
president’s drug policy coordinator it’s purely a federal resource
issue.”
There was no dispute over the
dimension of the problems in
schools.
r , “We consistently rank near the
reporters there were “a couple of bottom in every international lest of
math and science ability and in
other subjects critical to our fu-
ture,” Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton
said at an opening ceremony with
Bush.
Clinton said America has drug
abuse rales, teen pregnancy rales
t .. and dropout rates “far higher than
governors and their spouses joined effective in the actual experience of that of any of our competitors.’
when the soldiers were in a forma-
tion and were in close proximity.” ,
After Wednesday afternoon’s available. The names of those killed
accident, remnants of uniforms and and hometowns of the soldiers were ments with too much red tape,
helmets littered the ground on the not released.
rifle range in the shadow of the The soldiers were assigned to A
Wichita Mountains in southwest Battery, 2nd Battalion, 80th Field government should do more for pre-
nearly 400 members of the saying, “George Bush wants to raid
National Committee the Treasury by reducing capital
was to roll back part of a party rules gains taxes for the super-rich. And
compromise reached at Atlanta in he wants you to pay for it.”
1988. The DNC members also were —
set to vote themselves a voice when plan and some Democrats arc and caucuses must receive at least The Democrats met in Atlanta in
any such deals arc cut in the future, supporting the president. 15 percent of the vote to be awarded 1988, while the Republican convcn-
Thc DNC members were poised delegates. tion was in New Orleans.
told slate party leaders Wednesday to restore their status as automatic The so-called 15 percent thresh- Several major cities, including
that everywhere he travels Demo- unpledged delegates to national < ‘ ‘ . • ■ - _..
crats ask him, “When arc you going conventions, a role they lost in the Jackson. But party officials at the and Chicago, told the Democrats
to take off the gloves, when arc you compromise reached between
going to start taking on George Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson
Bush?” ■ ■ -
“We ought to be willing to stand
up as Democrats and articulate tor for Jackson at that convention,
those differences,” said Brown, to
FORT SILL, Okla. (AP) -
Artillery fire strayed nearly a half-
mile off target, killing three soldiers
and wounding 23 others as they
lined up in formation to leave their
training site, the Army said.
If the artillery fired from a
practice range had hit 10 to 15
minutes later, the rifle range would underwent surgery Wednesday
have been empty, said Col. John night, said Jon Long, a post spokes- summit that
Dobbs. man.
“If you had to write a worst-case Staff Sgt. Scott Harris was in
scenario where soldiers arc injured critical condition, and Pvts. David
or killed by artillery rounds out of Saltsman and David Adams were
the impact area, this is it,” he said, listed as stable, said Staff Sgt. Wednesday, there were arguments
“The round landed at a time William Biel, a post spokesman.
The extent of injuries for the
other soldiers was not immediately tion, and complaints that Washing-
' ton ties up state and local govem-
convcntion.
“It can be done any time,” said
Parly chairman who is president ol
The so-called 15 percent thresh-
old was dropped at the insistence of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas
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DNC meeting were freely predict- they wouldn’t bid for the 1992
“I think you’ll find support (for
restoring the threshold) from a lot
of quarters,” said Ruvolo.
In another look ahead to 1992,
the Democrats were gelling an early
start on choosing lire site for their
next nominating convention. The
list already has been narrowed to
eight cities -New York, Houston,
Detroit, Cleveland-Brook Park,
sion to drop the requirement that Seattle, New Orleans, Miami Beach
and caucuses must receive at least
Oklahoma. The site was roped off Artillery and were a week away
and military police kept reporters from completing an cight-wcck care, nutrition programs, welfare aid
from talking with soldiers. A crater basic training course, Biel said.
“ —i - mm Fort <jj|| invcstigators were to be
joined today by a team from the
Army Safety Center in Fort Rucker, system
be ready for a day or two.
The post, which is the Army’s
r Center, has three
t was not
HONOLULU (AP) - Ferdinand
E. Marcos, former president of the
Philippines, died today, ending in
exile a life that took him to the
pinnacles of power and notoriety in
his impoverished land. He was 72.
Corazon Aquino, who came to
power in the 1986 uprising that
drove Marcos from office, today
refused to allow his burial in the
Philippines for the sake of “the
tranquility of the state and the order
of society.”
Marcos died at 12:40 a.m., said
Eugene Tiwanak, spokesman at St.
Francis Medical Center, where
Marcos had been hospitalized for
nearly 10 months with kidney, lung would embalm her husband’s body
could return and scatter his ashes to
“fertilize” the Philippines.
A federal grand jury in New
York indicted Marcos, his wife and
ced his father had been taken to “a eight others on criminal racketeer-
higher place.”
“Hopefully friends and detract-
ors alike will look beyond the man
to see what he stood for - his vision, saying he was too ill to stand trial,
his compassion and his total love of In an interview with The Assoc -
country,” the younger Marcos said, iated Press in November, Marcos
He said no funeral arrangements denied the allegations that he and
have been made. Imclda had drained the Philippines
“Father’s not here anymore, of billions of dollars, and said he
He’s gone,” Marcos’ wife, Imclda, did not expect to live through a
told supporters outside the hospital trial,
room, said family spokesman Roger
Peyuan.
The canny, combative, politician,
who governed at times as a demo-
crat, at limes as a dictator, was
driven from the presidency in 1986,
after which he settled into exile in his Asian homeland in 1966 and
Honolulu at a hillside estate ovcrlo- ruled longer than any other Philip-
oking the Pacific. pine president.
Marcos died without facing trial But in his second four-ycar term
on U.S. criminal charges he plun- he declared martial law, under
dcred the Philippine treasury during which thousands of opposition
his two decades in power. politicians, students and other critics
He had been hospitalized three were jailed.
times since December, lapsing in Finally, in 1986, he was toppled
and out of critical condition. The by a popular uprising and fled in
family had instructed doctors to disgrace. He left behind a nation of -
take every measure to save his life, 62 million people deep in debt and determination to ’start taking
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paign-stylc themes and encouraging airing a 30-sccond advertisement
_ up the challenge to the Republican Bush’s proposal
Marcos’death, but a hospital source political rival Sen. Benigno Aquino president. capital gains.
° . ---- Jn adcjition l0 thc rhctoric. a The ad featured House Majority
major order of business today for Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo.,
the i
Democratic National
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