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President Clinton used a New Orleans speech to launch his own verbal offensive against America's putative decline in family values. Just a day after former Veep Dan Quayle attacked a "poverty of values" in a speech in San Francisco, Clinton told the National Baptist Convention that citizens had a "personal moral responsibility" to improve life in their communities. The thematic difference between the President's speech and that of his would-be '96 rival: Clinton focused on moral guidance for troubled teens, while Quayle blamed the country's entertainment industry and political and religious institutions for the mess. Afterward...
Aides anticipate that this week Clinton will go some way toward resolving this dilemma, which is why they have scheduled a speech at the National Baptist Convention in New Orleans two days after he returns from vacation. That address will be followed by a series of other events that, as one aide put it, will "allow him to explain what he cares about." In the cooler quiet of summer's end, it is a message that has a chance to be heard...
What can the White House expect from the new Whitewater independent counsel? As a Baptist minister's son growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Kenneth Starr admired Richard Nixon. "I really identified with Nixon because of his rather humble roots," Starr has said. Today, as a 48-year-old lawyer and veteran of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, he speaks wishfully of Dan Quayle's political future. "If President Quayle asked me to become the solicitor general again, I'd do it," he told TIME in a recent interview. His appointment has Republicans cheering and Democrats worried. Republican Congressman...
...limited. They control the poorly funded town government, but whites outnumber them 6 to 3 on the parish Police Jury (comparable to a county board of supervisors), which controls the bulk of local government spending. Blacks have not capitalized on their political opportunities, says the Rev. C.H. Murray, a Baptist minister, because "there's still a lot of slave mentality here, people thinking they should wait on the Lord to solve our problems." According to local leaders, easily intimidated black voters sometimes sell their votes...
Pledges from 100,000 teens to abstain from sex until marriage went on display today at the annual Southern Baptist Convention, signaling what organizers hope will be a national abstinence trend. TIME Religion writer Richard Ostling explains that the chastity campaign was begun by Southern Baptists but has now grown to incorporate many Catholic and Protestant young people as well. At a July rally in Washington, now in the works, organizers hope to display the signatures of over half a million teens...