12 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Call girl credits herself for Dick Morris scandal NATION/WORLD I ° > The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Sherry Rowlands, the suddenly famous Virginia call girl, is taking all the credit for the downfall of presidential adviser Dick Morris. She says the Republicans had nothing to do with it. "The only person in the world I knew politically was Dick Morris," she told the syndicated tabloid show "Hard Copy" in her first television interview. "Who do you call? I mean ... you don't go in the phone book and look up Bob Dole." "Hard Copy" is scheduled to air the two-part interview today and tomor- row. As for Morris's downfall, Rowlands said: "Someone as intelligent as he is should have kept his lip buttoned when he unzipped his pants. I mean, how can you maneuver worlds, and he can't even control what he's doing in his own room with a paid lady." Morris's resignation was announced hours before President Clinton deliv- ered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last Thursday night. His departure came after the Star, a supermarket tabloid, published allegations by the $200-an- hour prostitute that she had a long-run- ning relationship with Morris. The Star,' which says it paid Rowlands less than $50,000 for the story, made her avail- able to "Hard Copy." A spokesman for the program, which often pays for inter- views, declined to say whether Rowlands was paid. In an interview with Time magazine published yesterday, Morris again declined to address the allegations, "even if this episode destroys me." He said he would not be advising Clinton informally: "I've sent myself out of the game. I'm not going to run the cam- paign from the locker room." His wife, attorney Eileen McGann, posed with her husband for a Time pho- tographer. She told Time she was "very upset" about the Star report but that "I thought it would be destructive to ask about the details and try to find out what was true. I'm an adult. I accepted Dick's apology" Time's piece was its second straight cover story on Morris, the first person to be accorded such prominence since O.J. Simpson. Newsweek also gave cover billing to Morris's downfall. In the "Hard Copy" interview, taped last weekend with co-anchor Barry Nolan, Rowlands said she went public because "it has to-be told, whether I'm a call girl who'll blabber or whatever they want to call it, fine. But wake up, America. I mean if he told me, who else did he tell?" Asked about Morris's wife, Rowlands said: "I'm sure this is hurting her, and was not meant to hurt her. He's the one who hurt her, not me" A thriller in Europe Pop star Michael Jackson waves to a crowd of fans who greeted him at Prague's Intercontinental Hotel upon his arrival yesterday. Jackson is slated to open his world "History" tour with a concert in the Czech capital Saturday. Catholic voters not drawn by Chnstian Coalition reCruiters Group's attempts at outreach go ignored Parties to focus on four big regions Newsday After months of training, stage-set- ting, state primaries, caucuses and the nominating conventions, President Clinton and Republican challenger Bob Dole have their tactics in place and their basic messages set. Now they face the final jockeying and the final dash to Election Day. The strategies will unfold in the next few weeks as candidates' target the states they must win, states they can win and states they're writing off. Here is a region-by-region roundup of the presidential campaign: The West The race for the West is really two races - the Far West and the rest - and whichever candidate wins the three states of California, Oregon and. Washington, wins the region. If the election were held today, that candidate would be Clinton. California, with its 54 electoral votes, is the big prize, with the region's other 73 votes split among 13 states. Clinton has visited the state repeatedly since winning there in 1992, and strate- gists say he must carry it to win re-elec- tion. The economy, the environment and immigration are key issues there. Dole, too, is working the state hard,@ spending the week of the Democratic convention in California. Dole state strategist Ken Khachigian remains optimistic that the party will put the tens of millions of dollars into the state that will be necessary to remain com- petitive there. The Midwest Both presidential candidates under- stand the stakes in the Midwest. Republican pollster Ed Goeas esti- 0 mates that 20 percent of the nation's voters are undecided and Clinton cam- paign aides say that 70 percent of those swing voters live within a 750-mile radius of Chicago. Dole has high hopes for the Midwest. He has broad support in the Plains states and Indiana, and he will focus his advertising and campaign effort in the critical states of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri. Clinton is counting on the economy and union support and his full court press campaigning. In South Dakota, Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle sees potential for the president. Farmers are having their best year in 25 years, except for livestock. The South For Clinton and Dole, the South could be a gold mine or a land mine. The region has 160 electoral votes,* more than half the 270 needed to win the presidency. The former Kansas senator's south- ern strategy calls for him to carry at least nine of the 13 states. But though the region has become more Republican during the past 20 years, polls show Dole leading in only five states - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and nar- rowly in Virginia. Clinton leads in Arkansas Tennessee, West Virginia and narrowly in Georgia. States that are up for grabs are important ones: Texas, with 32 electoral votes; Florida, 25; North Carolina, 14; and Kentucky, eight. The Northeast While most of the Northeast is in the Clinton column at the moment, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are two battle- ground states where both presidential candidates will devote considerable time and energy in the next nine weeks. "Dole's base is the South, the West and the Plains States. Clinton's strength is the Northeast and Northwest,' said Charles Black, senior adviser to the Dole campaign. "The real campaign will be in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, right across to the Great Lakes states and California" a skills. They believe that work and play can go together., And they have the natural, American style that defines Abercrombie &Fitch. Fit this descrip- ioThen we need you at Abercrombie.' 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The Coalition's creation of an affili- ate called the Catholic Alliance 10 months ago has prompted an outcry from some in the Catholic church hier- archy who warn the Coalition's political agjenda contradicts Catholic teaching that charity and compassion for the poor and dispossessed is the highest ideal. Colorado's three bishops last January sent a letter to the faithful in their state warning them that "THE CATHOLIC ALLIANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN COALITION DOES NOT REPRE- SENT THE; CATHOLIC CHURCH." Other bishops have banned distribution of Christian Coalition voter guides in their parishes. Though a few bishops have defended the new group, many Catholics have the iml-ression that the undertaking did not have their church's blessing. Now the : Catholic Alliance is attempting to: mend fences with the Catlholic hierarchy, and multiply its so- far modest numbers with a mailing to hal' a million Catholics. Its success or faihire will help determine whether contervative Catholics and evangelical Prottestants can overcome generations of mnutual mistrust to forge a long-term political alliance - one that could have a mutich broader focus than the antiabor- tion cause they already share. "Ten years ago, this would have been considered utterly quixotic because of the level of suspicion and hostility between these communities," said the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic priest who has sought theological com- mon ground between conservative Protestants and Catholics. "It's a big job they've cut out for themselves. This kind of thing has never been done before." The Catholic vote, once a bloc that went solidly Democratic, is now one of the most contested prizes in U.S. poli- tics. The nation's 58 million Catholics make up about a quarter of the popula- tion. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, no candidate has won the White House without a majority of the Catholic vote. Religious broad-- caster Pat Robertson had the It's crucial Catholic vote in mind even before he founded the Christian tnemse Coalition in 1989, a year after his bid for -Re president, accord- ing to the upcoming book "With God on Our Side" by Rice University sociol- ogist William Martin. Ralph Reed, now executive director of the Christian Coalition, recalls that part of what convinced him to accept the job of running an organization with no staff and no budget was Robertson's conviction that, if Catholics and evangelicals could unite, "they would be the most effec- tive political force that the country had ever seen." In the ensuing seven years, the Coalition has galvanized religious con- servatives into a potent political force by winning majorities in state Republican Party caucuses, running for local school board seats, and distribut- ing 34 million voter guides. Among the Christian Coalition's r d) e4 claimed membership of 1.7 million, only about 250,000 are Catholic, according to the Coalition. The Coalition's goal is to, expand its Catholic membership to at least 25 or 30 percent, according to Reed, who in interviews regularly mentions Pope John Paul l's teaching in "Ut Unum Sint (That They May Be One)" that Christians of all denominations should seek "every possible form of practical cooperation at all levels; pastoral, cultural and social." The alliance hopes to attract Catholics by using Catholic vernacular and citing the papal teaching to justify its posi- t i o n s . imammmmmmmmmmesi A b o u t ibig jobhave joined cut out for since last October, Ives " said the Catholic v. Richard Neuhas Alliance's Catholic priest Executive Director M a u r e en Roselli. "The Christian Coalition was per- ceived as a Protestant-based organiza- tion, and I think that when the Catholic Alliance was announced it was really a welcoming to Catholics," said Roselli, who worked previously for National Right to Life and as political director for Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.). "We hoped to educate Catholics that if they support this particular pro-life, pro-family agenda, they could feel comfortable here with like- minded people." Many evangelical and conservative Catholic activists already had worked side-by-side in the antiabortion move- ment -- which 20 years- ago was almost exclusively Catholic. 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