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aPresident vows not to ‘trap myself again’ in talk-śhow debut

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*P»rl.‘ his moming talk slit>\y dc but. PrtSl-<Jcm Bush said Wedncsday Kc would ' SO* not 'Trap mysclf again*'with anoihcr ni ' no-now-tax‘plcdgc. • *

Hc also urgcd tbc Supremę Coun _#

• "l -Jto go. all ihc way and rcvokc its •t^rlandmarkdccislon cstubjishing abor-

** tion as a fundamenta) right.*

P.>i#n Bush speni IK lioun. on a livc tc!cvision show. “CBS JWsJ^on.^ m^fićlding^politc qucVtion* in the . "jt»i Roso Garden frum tui audicncc of

• •topi 125 pcopk about ilie cfcficit. the hi -cconomy. Social Security, educa-

‘ wtW' tion. criroc. the cnvironmeni-and hi* -'O*'* political rivaU. Hc btarncU Coogrc**

B •'{ for Mailing his prognftns.

*^l I* lt was a fricndly-tticountcr. The *' •>. audicncc — soleeted a dny carltcr .• from Whitc Housc tour lines — b>PMgavc Bush a stunding ovation at tlić b.-lo end-of the program. Likc any cam-^- >•!*•.: paigner. Bush wadcd into the group to shukc hond* and then took n troop

• ym /of childrcn on a tour of the Wbite •«nt| Home.

./**!/ Democrat Bill Clinton and indc-

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Panel clears BusliT of fibstage meeting charge

WASHINGTON lAP) — A Iłowe panel clcarcd President Bush Wednesday of al legat ion* that lic took part in a Furt* meeting in I9KU where a ‘dcal wav madę with Iran to dclay the reku*: of American hostage*.

Dul ilte łask forcc uimouneed it would continue-so-prubc whcihcr the campaign of fonner President Róh3d'Rcaga«T.vńHpircd’wilh‘lrnp 10’dclay the re— leasc 2»nd'prcvent tlić rc-clcctioct of Jimmy Carter.

"Ali crcdibk cvidcncc leads to the coocIumoo that President Bush* was in the United States** bctwccn 'Oct 18 and 22 qf 1980. the’datef* when lic was al-Icgcd to havc Bown to ton* for mcctings with Irani: an rcpccseniativcs. said Rep. Lec Hamilton. D-Ind.

I lamilton.uimouneed tlić interim fmdings of a łask forcc formed in lx*hru.iry to btvc*tigacc the Mi-calfcd Octohcr Surpris^. in which the Reagan campaign i* alkgcd to have cni a dcal with Iran to pccvcnt Caner

fronv bringing homo the 52“Amcrićun hmlagcsTrap-tured in 1979 at the US. embassy in Telir;m. Freeing the bostage* in Octohcr l98<)j>robably wouh) luvc cosi Reagan the clcction.

The łask forcc has bccn under prcwire friwn the Whitc Housc and from Kcpuhlican* tut tlie 13-mcm-ber panel to elear Pftsidcnt Birdi.

■~Pie-presidcni.hinueif lus madc acvcraLcxa*|>crat-cd public pica* in rcccnt months urging die panel ió drop ulkgatioft* hc madę a liurried trip to Paris.

The interim report said the staff invcst»gator\ haft rcccived complcic Ings from ilu: Secret Scwicc rccording the wlicrcahouis of Bush. then u vicc peesi-dcntial coihJhIjCc. and his wifc during the ib)Vwlicn the Pris mcctings allcgcdly took piuce.

The Maff has also intcrviewed most meinlicrs of the Sccrct Sers icc dctail itui pmtccied the couple 2*1 hours a day. the repon said.

„>;ild^l.et me ask jhK nucsiiun to Democrats* attcm|iis ln_ raise la*cs ^ymrrltstcyiers - -Why is^tihtrr it s tfw '"myd*i*ihmnvuih cofTcspondents tiul liavc iIk coiurn* agaicot H.*

vcr>y ahoul Iraij nr tlie p«ilf\ or w hal l*rcsscil agam t»» u*ww hi*''plnlge.-I want to say about Ross Fenu. wheti* Tiiish rrplicil. ‘ \\*hn« I sani that. a₍

Im of pcopk* 'oni. Weil. he*s not, poing to hc aHr t»* «ł*t .msway.| And Ihcy pintol lielit * ... l1l he daiiied if I uwi lii fd into soiik* uilter lofinula <n \*m san eonie tutek-aml reituiHl nu- ot a hiokcn pkilgc.' ..lK^.^2,' helping him with tanu rmóm going lo tloilut." _t .

ćredits. ..... - — - -Twodayu aiter ll»c_Supfeme CtHirt

KespcMKling to a wnman frmn icallirnicii the constitminitjl righl of

the American penpk want to u hat I ant doing about'tlie pruhlems. Ihiw to answer their proldcnisT**"

He said ihc United States dni not know Saddam w.is_#irying to Imild a nu elear arsenał u hen the odrninistra

pendent Ross Perot arc frcijucui guests on tclcvi«ion talk shows. but Bush had Iwcn rcluctani to join in. Iłowevcr. willi his slump in the polisami his rivals getting a hit of cxpo<

surc. Bush jumped inio the tclcvi-sum fray.

The preskJent tumed testy vdKrn network hosts Paula Zahn and Many Smith pressed him abouj tri* Iow ap-

provul ratrngs and uskeiF tshoul U.S. suppoft for lraq wliilc Saddam llu>->cin was <fcvcJopiiłj! a.nuclcar-amts capahility. '

AiWressing siewers at home. Bush

Omaha. Bush saki his proposak \sihi Id shrink thohugc hud^tęt ik-tk il withoui curbing Soekil Securit) or icl|iiiring higlier ta.\cv * Kemmding Bush of his I‘IKS pledgc nut In raise la\Cs. Smith asked if lic would again make that priHiiisc — wlikh Ik? atundons-d in a 1990 delicit-rcduel»o% dcal with

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"You tliink l'm going to go m aiul trap niyscll again .utd go through all that?" Bush reptied.

Bush *said be luil m-istcd

ationion. Bush sani. "I ani iuil in fa-| vi»r of Koc w Walc." the Lindnurk. 1973 ttccision nil alkirtion

"J umilił likc to see inkcision go! the otlier ua) on it." tlie prcsnkiif' said. Buś1iV posilion i* rtr.u he op. poses aNmiun c.wcpt when the lifc, od tlie mather is ihreatcncd or in ais-es of rapc or incest.

ITe sani Tlić "u as ^ikoseu itui ilkv coun hail alloucd restrktiom on ahunion. Mich .is re«|iiiritig lecn-r agers to liavc tlie conscni of J parem i*r a judge.

Exploiting loophole, parties take donations

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tlie Re- The ponieś volum.»rily rekascU publicon and Dcmocrątic parties got their ligurcs front tlie carly I9KIK ai

• —«t kosi $46 8 million in large corpo-^Thc ARIa.rcquc.st._ .

ratę and union contributions in tlie Tlicrc was no‘ way to verity their _f carly 1980*. cxptoiiing a kopltole a atcuracy bceause tlie part if* *crcn*t . ^i§79Vml fcw ycars after post-Watergate re- recpiired to iNscłosc sufi immey fig* •^/,ot form* souglit to end such donations. ure* umil 1991.

**^wań” Associated "Press* 7ćvie\v hU\ Aiid' Minie“cainp.ilgiT~linancTrrT . found.

. _# The so-collcd soft cnoocY contn-^v,f.' butions an: usually traced by ihc parties to the 1988 clcction. when ^#'^7 bolh set up program* to colkct

***^,ł SI00.000-plusdonat»on*.“‘......

Bul the AP rcvicw found Out Rc-_% publicans raiscd at leau $24.68 mil-iion in Soft moncy bctwccn -I9H0 and 1987. Democrats stoncd a ycar Inter but took in $22.11 million by 1987.

. "RepuWican* figurcd it out a link bcforc the Dcmocrats on how to do it bot the Democrats found out indc-pcndcntly and we both did it.** said Carol Darr, chief counscl for the Dcmocrątic National Commiitee.

The disclosurc kft *omc to quc\-lion whćthcr post-Waicrgatc refonns .cvcr.todk root.

perts. likc Unhmily of Southern CahfomiA professor Herb Ale.san-der. said the parties’ figures for . 1980-87 scemcd Iow bascd on enrli-er cMimatcs from uisidc political cir-clcs.-Corporntiotts h«ve been barred--from donaling to fcdcr.il campaign* sińce 1907.

• In the carly 1970*. scscral busi-newmen were convkied cd makitig Mieli prohibiled contrihutions — to-laling htmdreds of thousaruls of doi-lars — to Riclurd Ni*oo’s 1972 campaign.

After Watergatc. Congress p-isx.il laws liiniting indivkluah* coniribu-Ikwis to $ I j(KKI per candidatc per clcction and reaffirmtng the han «»o corporatc and. union donations in fcdcral clcction*.

Kcpublicans MiggeM Ihcy didn't

i^Wsfo^phenomenon of IlarUrbail .ALibblc in soft nn»ne> wili! the Amcrjćan politic*.” safd Samuel Democrat*' Robert Farmer set up a Di*h_%who wat chief counscl for the |>rognM^for $11X1.000 plu* donor* Senate y/utcrs-Mc Commiitee. . m 1988/^

^--**Tbc-hi«ory -oMegiUative-reform - "Die—reoson we *Matted_ialing_^

— i* such that wheneser you spot a $100.000 contrihutio«i\ i* hecautc probkm and try to corrccty it^ Democrat* not ottly Maricd n but ihftsiigh ‘kgUtfUiWihw’^fr- 7h«w tK^yh^yg«;d ahnuf It afuljwc tell we ■ 5 who immcdiatcly *pot a way to jtet had Cu May in tbc gamc.^,*'śiiid Motvrt cz around ii." hc said; * -——— Mtnbochcrr Bu*kVcnmraien-ehair-

Fcdcral law allow* tlie parties to

£ raise unlimitcd amount* of "soft moncy" — eon tri but ion* from c6r-S poraiions. union* <md indiv»duj|* for B pany-building dctivitie*. such as ® votcr identifKation eflbrts and get-

oul^;thc-vote drivcsr —--^--

• *Sincc-l988. when public oiicntion focused on soft moncy. the panie* havc pullcd in morc thon $90 million in such contributions but exact ' figures for the period dating to 1980 * were not- previously known. cxccpi . to political iftsidcrs.

"You can make the case that non-fcdcral contributions to naiionol par-' tics haye been around for a dccadc -- but-ycHi-didn^^scc- cxpaiuion..of .iL_ and public- rccognition of it.uruil... 1988.'* said Gary Koops, a Rcpubli-can National Commiitee spokesman. •

ampaign-ehair ni.m and the crcatnf of the GOP’s $100.000 donor program.

Aciually. tlie record show* that in * 1979. under prcssurc from botli partie*. Congress cxcińp(ed from the limits (loilan raiscd and spent for -non-federal. p«rty4>o»ldii!g clfoct*.-1