Clinton readies voters for attacks PHILADELPHIA (API — Bill (Hinton urged voters on Monday to reject a "flag of fear" that he said would hr raised against him In attacks at the Republican National Convention "They're going to tell you every reason in the wide world why you ought to be afraid of Bill Clinton and A1 Core," the Democratic nominee told a thousands-strong rally at Independence Hall. He said the Republicans were planning their convention, beginning next Monday In Houston, to "tell you how bad we are We're against family values, we’re against work, we're going to tax and spend to death." Voters should look more critically at the Re publicans instead, Clinton suggested He poked fun at President Bush for not saying yet how he stood on a plun. proposed bv Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and other conservative Re publicans, calling for what Clinton contended would be SHO billion a year In new tax cuts for the wealthy. "Even in their own party, they can't hold things together," Clinton said, referring to the conserva tives' memo. "Let's ask tho president, before he spends all of the next two weeks jumping on Al Gore and Bill Clinton, where do you stand on your own leader ship? ... What are you going to do for America if M you win1*" Earlier Monday, Clinton addressed one issue on which he has been criticized by Republican* lack of foreign policy experience. He said that as governor of Arkansas he "didn't have any prob lem" authorizing force i>v the national guard and ha«l also dealt often with international econom ics. Asked what credentials he would bring to am decision to send Americans into combat silua lions. Clinton rosjronded that he bad made tough military calls in deploying his stale's troops He said he had sent the national guard In train in Central Amnrii a. had authorized force to quel! a riot of Culxin refugees in 1UB0, and had used the guard to remove extremists (rom armed camps in Arkansas "I didn't have any problem doing that." he said And when called upon to make military do c isuins as president, he said. "I'll make^ the I rest judgment I can based on the export advice I get from military leaders and based on what needs to he the right thing to do for the American people at the time." Clinton commented during a Iwo-hour appear ance with Core on "CBS This Morning ' Later, in Philadelphia, he urged voters to ignore whal they hear out of Houston for the next two weeks. "When they raise their old flag of fear, you tell them. 'No thanks, this time, wo re going lo vote on our hopes.”' Clinton said Class helps with drawl withdrawal GREENVILLE, SC. (A!*) — Stories told in David Ponce's class are often tragedies on a small stage. If they sound com ic, you must not be from around here?. The class is called "Mow to Control Your Southern Ac cent.” There was the story of the Southern auto racer, trying to buy clothing in California, who couldn't make the vendor un derstand that "rice wire" trans lated to "race wear." There was the pair of travel ers, far from their homo in the Piedmont, who ordered "ahss lay.” The waitress bogged their pardon "Ahss tay. pla/.o," they repeated, meaning the cool drink made from steeped tea leaves The waitress tapped her pencil on the order pad. "Finally they said, 'Can we have a soda?” explained Pence, a speech pathologist by day who has taught the evening course at Greenville Technical College for 3 years. He smiled in telling the iced tea suga but said accents are not a laughing matter. A student in his first class hurst Into tears "All those handkerchiefs came out." he recalled, us the woman sobbed, "I’ve been ha rassed about my accent so much ... You don't know how upsetting it is." The Encyclopedia of South ern Culture says Southerners are "often schizophrenic about their speech" — proud of its color and expressiveness, but "insecure" about being heard outside their region. Some par ents, it adds, try to expunge Southern features from their children's speech. The goal of Pence's six-week, S65 class is straightforward but hardly simple: to give his stu dents a choice In how they communicate, especially with non-Southernors. "If people start listening to how you're saying something, instead of what you're saying, thon you're losing effective ness,” he said. Attorney general declines probe of pre-war Iraq ties WASHINGTON (Al“) — Attorney General William P. Ban on Monday denied a congressional request for an indepen dent counsel's probe of alleged Bush administration miscon duct in its policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war. Barr said there is not enough hard, specific evidence to wanant an independent Investigation and said the Justice De partment Is qualified to handle the matter. Democrats immediately accused Barr of a cover-up aimed at helping a politically ailing President Bush Barr said a month-old request by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee "contains no specific information or al legation concerning any person It also doe* not specify any conduct that Is alleged to constitute a crime." He said the committee's "vague and general allegations" art; not enough to trigger the independent counsel law. en acted in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal 20 years ago "livery prosecutor reviewing this matter at ovury level of the (Justice) department is of the view that the criteria for in voking the statute are not present here.” said Burr Kep. Charles li Schumer. D-N.Y., chairman of a House Ju diciary subcommittee, accused Barr of "altumpling to sweep the whole issue under the mg. It is hard to imagine him mak ing such a decision were this not an election year and were the president not 20 points behind in the polls." House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Con/alez called Barry's decision "a desperate effort" to protect the ad ministration. "The attorney general is the giant boulder hold ing the administration's stonewall together," Gonzalez said. "It is stonewalling, pure and simple." said Kep. Jack Brooks. 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