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...industry to program three hours of educational shows a week for children. Surrounded by 50 TV executives, actors, children's advocates and producers, Clinton told American parents that they were not alone in the struggle to keep disturbing images away from their children. The FCC is not required to adopt the "three-hour rule," but if it does not, the agency will be blocking a move calculated to score family values points for the President as the November election approaches. Women voters, a key demographic group for the Democrats, are especially concerned about protecting children from images...
...which later became a national model. In the early 1970s, he caught the swells of an awakening environmental movement and kept the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came...
...election. When Bob Dole defends the tobacco industry while in tobacco country, but plays a different tune when addressing the rest of the country, the voters must take note of the disparity. When President Clinton makes campaign promises and compassionately talks about issues without making actual substantial efforts to adopt and implement his promises, we must take notice and call his bluff. If we entrust the executive branch to an individual simply because he belongs to our party and because we feel that he will be our friend, who knows how best to run the country, then, in these momentous...
...five months before the election, the embattled President and First Lady are hoping they'll have another child, and are allegedly considering adoption, perhaps of a youngster with special needs. There is only one way for the Clintons to dispel the notion that this blockbuster revelation is just political pandering of historic proportions. They should adopt a special-needs child before Election Day. MICHAEL D. PARANZINO Rockville, Maryland...
...Clinton: There are several pieces of legislation that I have supported. One of them began the process of eliminating the prohibition that many states had used against adopting across racial lines. I also support giving some tax relief to people who adopt...