The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 24, 1992- Page 7
Detroiters blame
city for restricted
voting accessibility
DETROIT (AP) - Would-be
voters and frustrated election work-
ers told a congressional hearing yes-
terday that mismanagement and an
outdated registration system pre-
vented people from voting on
Election Day.
But James Bradley, the city's
clerk and chair of its Election
Commission, said the blame belongs
to Mayor Coleman Young and the
City Council. Bradley said the city
has refused him adequate money to
computerize registration records as
he sees fit.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-
Detroit) and chair of the U.S. House
Committee on Government
Operations, called for federal and
state investigations of Bradley's of-
fice. Numerous registered voters
said they were unable to vote be-
cause of organizational snafus.
"It doesn't matter whether one
person or 1 million people can't
vote, because every vote is important
regardless of whose it is," Conyers
said.
Detroit's Election Day problems
included:
-Names of registered voters
disappearing from the rolls.
-Voters being sent to the wrong
polling places, and
-Poll workers missing their list
of precincts.
The Election Commission said it
received 1,120 calls to confirm
registered voters and 1,160 calls to
confirm polling places. Numerous
elections workers and citizens com-
plained it was virtually impossible to
reach the commission on Election
Day. That prevented them from solv-
ing problems in time for people to
vote.
Bradley blamed the problems on
clerical errors caused by the city's
archaic manual registration system.
"The manual handling of votet
registration records during normal
processing is cumbersome, at best.
In a redistricting year it is monumen-
tal," Bradley said in a statement pre-
pared for the hearing.
Detroit has almost 600,000 regis-
tered voters, about 346,000 of whom
voted Nov. 3.
Bradley's statement and mayoral
spokesperson Bob Berg placed the
blame with each other.
Behind the cue ball
LSA junior Shantanu Naik spends his lunch hour playing pool in the Michigan Union pool room.
Clinton campaigns for Georgia senator
MACON, Ga. (AP) - President-
elect Clinton put his political capital
on the line yesterday against a caval-
cade of Republican heavyweights in
Georgia's Senate runoff, saying he
needs Democrat Wyche Fowler "to
break this gridlock in Washington."
"You know what they're saying
about this race?" Clinton said. "If
you beat Wyche Fowler it will be
easier for us to block everything
President-elect Clinton wants to do."
A victory by Fowler would likely
give the Democrats a net gain of one
seat in the next Senate, for a 58-42
advantage.
GOP challenger Paul Coverdell, a
former director of the Peace Corps,
brought in big-name Republicans on
his side, including Senate Minority
Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, Texas
Sen. Phil Gramm, Education
Secretary Lamar Alexander, Labor
Secretary Lynn Martin and others.
More than 2,000 people turned
out for Fowler and Clinton at a city
hall rally in Macon.
In his speech, Clinton resurrected
his familiar campaign pledges for
health insurance, campaign reform,
and an end to "trickle-down eco-
nomics."
"There are better things for him
to be doing today," Fowler said. He
pledged that if he wins a second
term, "I will be at his side whenever
he needs me."
On election eve, both sides said
the race was about dead even.
Clinton's strategists acknowledged
the risk of putting his prestige on the
line for a candidate who might lose.
Clinton press secretary Dee Dee
Myers said, "He risked a lot
throughout the campaign and he
didn't stop on Election Day. He's
going to continue to take chances to
promote his agenda. Change requires
risk."
Arriving in Albany for a second
rally, Clinton told reporters at the
airport, "I think he (Fowler) is going
to win but ... I will go on regardless.
But if he wins, it'll be easier and
better for us to bring about the kinds
of changes I was elected to make."
Asked if it wouldn't be a setback
for him if Fowler lost, Clinton said,
"No, and I won't deserve the credit
if he wins, either. I'm just one more
person trying to help bring this thing
about." Clinton told the rally audi-
ence, "I know Wyche Fowler will
vote to break the stranglehold of
special interests."
Myers said Clinton would meet
Ronald Reagan in the former presi-
dent's Los Angeles office on Friday.
"He's moving into the White
House and he thinks it would be a
benefit to talk to someone who's
been there," Myers said. Clinton re-
quested the meeting, she said.
Clinton portrayed Fowler as an
essential ally in winning congres-
sional approval of an economic-
stimulus program, health insurance
changes and campaign-finance re-
form. "I want to end trickle-down
economics. I want to make sure we
don't go back to tax and spend eco-
nomics," Clinton said.
"We have got to break this grid-
lock in Washington," he said. "I
need someone I know believes in
positive government and tough solu-
tions."
President-elect Bill Clinton, center, holds up the hand of Democratic
senatorial candidate Wyche Fowler at a Fowler re-election rally.
U.N. to escort food envoys to Bosnian cities
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-
Herzegovina (AP) - U.N. officials
said yesterday they will send ar-
mored vehicles to escort food con-
voys to two of the most food-starved
cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Fighting at Sarajevo's airport
forced U.N. officials to suspend op-
erations yesterday afternoon and
cancel the day's last two relief
flights.
"Every week we are attacked,
shelled, turned back, diverted," said
Jose Maria Mendiluce, the U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees'
(UNHCR) special envoy to Bosnia.
"We have assumed a very important
responsibility. We will do it."
Western warships enforcing a
naval blockade of Serbia and
Montenegro stopped and searched
two ships in the Adriatic yesterday,
following a U.N. Security Council
vote last week to tighten the
sanctions.
Both vessels - one from
Ecuador, one from Syria - were al-
lowed to continue when no contra-
band was found.
The Security Council imposed
the embargo in May to punish Serbia
for fomenting the Bosnian war.
U.N. spokesperson Fred Eckhard
said in Geneva that Yugoslav
Premier Milan Panic will go to
Geneva tomorrow to meet with
Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, co-
chairs of the peace talks sponsored
jointly by the United Nations and the
European Community. Eckhard said
the talks were likely to be general.
U.N. officials said relief convoys
will leave tomorrow for Gorazde and
Srebrenica.
They said the convoys would test
new commitments by commanders
on all sides to let U.N. relief workers
go where needed and the control the
commanders exert over their forces.
Only two earlier convoys reached
the 100,000 people still in Gorazde,
and Srebrenica has not been reached
at all.
The 80,000 people in Srebrenica
"are at the very limit of their sur-
vival capacity," Mendiluce told re-
porters. Earlier this month, a relief
convoy headed for Srebrenica was
turned back by Serb militia
commanders.
Mendiluce said his agency was
intent on getting through this time
and would seek world denunciation
if Serb leaders reneged on a new
promise to allow access.
Ham radio operators in Croatia
said Hajrudin Avdic - chief of the
Srebrenica defense staff - radioed
an appeal to the Bosnian govern-
ment, army, the United Nations and
humanitarian agencies to evacuate
17,000 civilians from the town.
The convoy for Gorazde, 30
miles southeast of Sarajevo, includes
eight trucks carrying 80 tons of food.
French peacekeepers in seven ar-
mored vehicles will escort it.
The convoy for Srebenica, 45
miles northeast of Sarajevo, will in-
clude 17 trucks and 130 tons of food.
Ukrainian peacekeepers in eight ar-
mored vehicles will guard it.
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Group urges investigation of sexual
harassment
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Women's groups urged the Senate
yesterday to investigate allegations
by 10 women that they were targets
of unwelcome sexual advances from
Sen. Bob Packwood. Several ac-
tivists on women's issues said
Packwood should resign, but an aide
said he would noty
"There's no way he can regain
our trust," said Mary Nolan, an abor-
tion rights activist in Oregon who
called for his resignation.
Two Oregon members of
Congress, both Democrats, said the
Senate Ethics Committee should re-
view the allegations. So did leaders
of women's groups, several of whom
said the allegations caught them by
surprise given Packwood's reputa-
tion as an advocate of women's
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allegations, which first appeared in members and lobbyists, some
The Washington Post. them by name, in an article that s
"There are some partisan "since Packwood's earliest days
Democrats who-would love him to Capitol Hill, he has made uninvi
resign, but he is not considering sexual advances to women who h.
that," said Josie Martin, his top aide worked for him or with him."
on the Senate Finance Committee. Several of the women s
Indeed, Oregon Democrats were Packwood grabbed and forceft
speculating that Rep. Les AuCoin kissed them.
might have unseated Packwood had One of them, Mary Heffern
the story broken before the election. executive director of the Woma
Packwood outspent AuCoin $8 mil- Foundation of Oregon, s.
lion to $2 million and won 52 per- Packwood grabbed her arms
cent of the vote. kissed her during a visit to his ofi
Rep. Peter DeFazio and Rep.- while she as orkis o
elect Elizabeth Furse of Oregon said National Abortion Rights Act
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