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...THAT ROSS PEROT IS BACK IN THE RACE, SUBSCRIBERS TO the PRODIGY computer- network service want to know when he will go on-line. Since August, Prodigy has been running an electronic town meeting in which Bill Clinton and George Bush chat with its 1.75 million subscribers. Members have flooded the candidates with more than 150,000 questions. Clinton answered 50 queries, all in a folksy tone, signed "Sincerely, Bill Clinton." Bush, who signs his more formal electronic notes simply "President George Bush," has replied to only about 25 queries so far. Neither side, though, has been willing to answer...
...Arizona Daily Star has prepared a campaign game for newspapers to run. Political heavyweights are taking notice. Governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Ann Richards of Texas have offered to participate in the special, and both Clinton and Bush have endorsed the project. And what about Ross Perot? He entered the race too late to be included in the already printed ballot -- but there's ample space for a write...
This is one area where the people who are attracted to Ross Perot should note that they are in much closer agreement with the Bush Administration than with Governor Clinton's proposals, and that is on spending control. Perot recognizes that you have to do something about the mandatory program structure. It is two-thirds of the entire budget...
WHEN ROSS PEROT INTRODUCED HIS VICE-PRESIdential candidate last week, he called him a "hero's hero" and "a man of steel." James Stockdale, 68, a highly decorated former Navy fighter pilot and POW, fits those descriptions. But it remains to be seen whether the retired vice admiral is too prickly and independent to weather the give-and-take of a presidential campaign any more gracefully than Perot...
...solitary confinement. At one point he severely bruised and cut himself so his captors would not dare parade him in front of their propaganda cameras. Stockdale, who still limps from his wartime injuries, was awarded the Medal of Honor and 26 combat decorations. His wife Sybil first persuaded Perot to take up the POW/MIA cause, thus paving the way for his close friendship with her husband...