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...making $15,000 a year," Dole said at one stop during a four-state, three-day "education tour" through the Midwest, "your one hope and your one dream is that your children will have better opportunities because they will have a better education." But that won't happen without competition, Dole argues. Parents, he says, should be given vouchers for use at any school they want, including private and parochial institutions. That idea (which Roman Catholic voters love) is constitutionally dubious, but that's not why Clinton rejects...
DENVER: Clinton, on a three-day fundraising swing through the West on Monday, pledged several measures that would put "deadbeat dads" on the legal hot seat. For one, he said he would eliminate a loophole that allows fathers who fail to pay child support to escape punishment just because they live in another state. He also announced a cooperative effort between states and the U.S. Postal Service to display "wanted" posters of delinquent parents alongside those of murderers and bank robbers. "No one should be able to escape the responsibility of bringing a child into this world," Clinton said. Coupled...
MILWAUKEE: In a three-day Midwestern tour outlining his proposals for revamping education in the U.S., Bob Dole on Thursday proposed a "G.I. Bill" for school children. He would offer as many as 4 million lower- and middle-income Americans cash scholarships of $1,000 to $1,500 to send their children to the public, private or religious schools of their choice. The response drew quick and sharp condemnation from the Clinton Administration, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. "Bob Dole wants to tear down public education by pitting teachers against parents and dramatically reducing...
...rider but a tick-transmitted equine blood disease called piroplasmosis. Despite objections from Georgia officials, more than a dozen foreign horses that have tested positive for the disease will enter the U.S. for the Games. Americans to watch: husband and wife David and Karen O'Connor in the three-day event, Michael Matz in jumping and Michelle Gibson in dressage...
BEIJING: Russian President Boris Yeltsin wraps up a three-day summit in China by signing an historic agreement to reduce tensions along the border between the two countries. Yeltsin and China's President Jiang Zemin, along with the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, have promised that their troops along the 2,600-mile border will not attack or target military exercises at each other. "This is an historic agreement for both sides," Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz says. "China is trying to build a predictable and peaceful relationship along all of its borders. Beijing wants to assure a peaceful...