2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 5, 1996 NATION/WORLD Last-minute rallying closes campaign .. +i N AT I ON)r"k, SJ/4 n Associated Press cam' a, -President Clinton appealed for a sec- ond term yesterday by taking credit for arevived economy and promising that if given four more years, "we'll be bet- ,W-off still." Battling the odds on elec- 10ti eve, Bob Dole warned of mounting Clinton ethical questions and declared: "America deserves better." :"Control of Congress was at stake, too, as Americans prepared to cast bal- lots in the last presidential election of t 1900s. Clinton had the upper hand ,mthe race against Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot, while epublicans were favored to keep their dtouse and Senate majorities. "I'm not optimistic on a national ;btsis at all on the presidential race;' WId Florida Republican Chair Tom Slade. "It truly would be a political mir- Ile if Dole can pull this out." ^N ouse Speaker Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, voiced confidence he -would not have to hand his gavel over to Democrats come January. "I'm currently planning on what we'll do next year in the majority," Gingrich said as he campaigned back hpme in Georgia. Clinton has campaigned for Democratic candidates throughout the year but rarely made a direct appeal for a Democratic Congress. But in a fiery election-eve speech in Iowa, he urged the state to support its Democratic con- gressional candidates and said Republicans had abandoned talk of their "Contract on America" because of voter revolt against GOP attempts to curb Medicare and education spending. "They are praying for amnesia on your part,' Clinton said of the Republican congressional strategy. Strategists in both parties said dozens of races were too close to predict on the final yesterday of a campaign that was, oddly, both a referendum on the incum- bent Democratic president and the Republican Congress sent to Washington midway through Clinton's term. "There are going to be a lot of close races and that's just a fact," said Republican National Committee Chair Haley Barbour. Given that, the candidates were up early, or, in Dole's case, didn't bother sleeping at all. Clinton began in New Hampshire, once firm Republican territory but now part of the president's solid Northeast base. "We're one day away from victo- ry," Elaine Krasker told him inside a Manchester restaurant. Man kills himself in U.S. reps office SAN MATEO, Calif. - A veteran who had argued with Rep. Tom Lantos' staff over disability benefits went into the representative's offices yesterday and shot himself to death. Lantos was not in the office. The 40-year-old gunman, whose name was not immediately released, shot him- self once in the chest and died at a hospital. Police spokesperson Terry Reidy said the man entered the offices around mid- day and talked briefly with a woman working in the lobby. "The gal said he had a handgun and said, 'Don't fire that.' Then he fired one round into his chest," Reidy said. "He was known to the office. He had some kind of disagreement with the staff there over disability." Lantos, a native of Hungary, has represented a Northern California district since 1981 and is co-chair of the congressional Human Rights Caucus. In the early 1990s, the Democrat led an investigation of mismanagement at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. AP PHOTO President Clinton embraces Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) as Hillary Clinton applauds In a rally last night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "It's hard to believe, isn't it?" Clinton replied, at age 50 setting out confident- ly for the final day of what is likely to be his final campaign. Later, in Cleveland, Clinton said the economy had created nearly 11 million jobs and the deficit had been cut by 60 percent since he took office. "We're better off than we were four years ago," Before you vote for the office of Mayor of Ann Arbor, take a minute for this important research assignment: 1. Select someone who has followed the Ann Arbor political process for at least four years and whose opinion you respect. 2. Ask that person to contrast the functioning of the Ann Arbor city government before and after Ingrid Sheldon was elected mayor in 1993. 3. Make an informed decision and y for the best person to serve as Mayor of Ann Arbor. Paid for by the Ingrid Sheldon for Mayor Committee Doug F. Ziesemer, Treasurer, 122 S. Main, Ann Arbor 48104 Clinton said before leaving Ohio for Kentucky, Iowa, South Dakota and an Election Day homecoming in Arkansas. He noted Dole's Senate opposition to the family leave law and said his Republican opponent wanted to abolish the Education Department and enact a "risky scheme" to cut taxes that Clinton said would imperil Medicare. RACE Continued from Page 2. who's going to become the next con- gressperson, the next mayor," said Voice Your Vote co-chair Mona Hanna. "If we get all 6,500 students we reg- istered and more, that will really push Lynn over the top" said Jae Jae Spoon, chair of the campus chapter of College Democrats. However, College Republicans President Nicholas Kirk said numbers are so tight that it is "too close to call" whether the student vote will impact the Rivers-Fitzsimmons race. "Both Democrats and Republicans agree that it will be a very close race," Kirk said. Despite the attention the Fitzsimmons campaign has given the campus, Rivers' party affiliation and battle scars still give her an edge in the election, Kingdon said. "Rivers won in this district in a very Republican year for the first time, Kingdon said. "You'd think she'd have some kind of advantage in 1996 in a less Republican year." According to an exit poll conducted by The Michigan Daily in 1994, stu- dent voters choose Rivers over Republican opponent John Schall 73 percent to 26 percent. C See news?.C.ll . . .. . .. .. . .. . .... ... Tapes record racist remarks of Texaco executives WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Microcassette recordings caught Texaco executives vilifying black employees as "niggers" and "black jelly beans," mocking a Kwanzaa celebra- tion and discussing destroying docu- ments related to a $520 million race- discrimination suit, court papers allege. The suit is a class-action brought on behalf of 1,500 black employees of the oil company. The employees claim they were denied promotions and advancement opportuni- ties because of their race. Soon after a company consolidation cost Richard Lundwall his job as senior coordinator of personnel services in Texaco's finance department, he went to the plaintiffs' attorneys with his col- lection of microcassettes from finance department meetings discussing minor- ity hiring practices. The impact was immediate. In papers filed in federal court last week, the plaintiffs asked for a default judgment - a ruling against Texaco without ben- efit of a trial. A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 22. The tapes, as transcribed in court papers, show that in 1994, after Texaco had been asked to produce any doe ments relevant to the discriminatio case, executives spoke frankly about papers that should be hidden or destroyed. Lundwall identified the speakers on the tapes, according to court papers. Michael ackson soon to e a father. LOS ANGELES - It's a thriller, all right: Michael Jackson's longtime friend is pregnant with his child. And contrary to a tabloid report, there were no test tubes involved and she's not getting paid, the pop superstar said yesterday. "I am thrilled that I will soon be a father and am looking forward, with great anticipation, to having this child,, Jackson said in a statement. "This is i dream come true." The mother is Debbie Rowe, a 37- year-old divorced nurse who has been a friend for 15 years, according to the statement released by Christine Holevas, Jackson's spokesperson. Holevas denied a Sunday report in the London tabloid News of the World that the baby was a product of artificial insemination and that she was beniz paid $528,000 to have it. iA,-APOIIN,"-, 'THE WORLD, "'f;<: <; ' ____A PaUistan president disinusses Bhutto's govenmnent ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The president dismissed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government yesterday and called for new elections, bowing to longtime pressure from political rivals who accuse Bhutto of corruption Ond mismanagement. Four provincial legislatures have been dismissed, and the president has named a former stalwart of Bhutto's party, Miraj Khalid, as interim prime minister. Soldiers, rifles slung over their shoul- ders, stood guard outside Bhutto's resi- dence and spilled into the white marble Parliament building in Islamabad, the capital. Troops also sealed the country's air- ports and stood guard outside the Pakistan Television building several blocks from the legislature. There were initial reports that Bhutto's husband and investment min- ister, Asif Ali Zardari, had been arrest- ed in the provincial Punjab capital, Lahore, where the army was also deployed. Zardari has been at the center of the scandals. Israel plans to add Jewish settlers JERUSALEM -Already hobbled by violence and rancor, Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts suffered another blow yes- terday as Israeli officials detailed plans to nearly double the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Settlement czar Ariel Shair unveiled the plan during a weekend tour of the territory, and his spokesperson, Raanan Gissin, elaborated yesterday. The plan calls for building two new cities in the West Bank that will accom- modate 100,000 more Jewish settlers. The proposal is the most ambitious to date by Sharon, who led a large settle- ment construction drive in the early 1990s, has not been approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whojb principle backs settlement expansion.,W - Compiled from Daily wire reports. Ix - . The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus su scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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