ELECTION *92 Clinton criticizes Perot as lead declines STERLING HEIGHTS. Mich (Al*) Hill ('.Union, wary of Ross Perot's rt-snr roctlon in thu final days of (ho campaign, gingerly began in criticize the Indepen dent challenger on Sunday as weekend polls showed Perot ( titling into Clinton's support and his lend over President Bush. "A lot of people < an claim, well, they are outsiders." Clinton said Sunday, linking Hush and Perot together In Ins rhetom ()l all those running for prose dent, "only one of them has never boon part of the inside Washington scene." he said, referring to himself Later, referring to an interview with Perot on CHS' till MIimIc*, he lumped Perot and Hush together in another unfa vorable light "Tonight. Mr Perot is going to say that Mr flush is investigating his children Mr Bush has already said that Mr Perot Investigated his i hildron." Clinton said "They're worried about Investigating on ti other's children I'll tell you what, I want to investigate your children their future, their problems, their promise," he told a i hoering crowd that had been warmed up with an introduction by Now York (iov Mario < ammo More than 10.000 pttnplfl braved a cold wind to hoar and cheer him on the foot ball field at Sterling Heights, in Mai omb County Keagnn Democrat territory Borrowing some of Perot's populist rhetoric, Clinton said in a speech at Sagi naw. Mich , that, if elected, voters would know the While House was "your house" and said he would bo "nothing more than a temporary tenant, your thief hired hand." "Our main oppononl is Ceorge Bush." said Ceorge Slephanopoulos. Clinton's communications director Clinton, he said, wanted to make sure people' know that "any vote that doesn't go to Bill Clinton is a vole for Ceorge Bush Polls easily explain why Clinton t hose Michigan to step up his attack. A Detroit Pree Press poll taken before the presidential delsites showed Clinton with u tushy SO percent to 111 percent lead over the president A poll token last week showed 41 percent for Clinton. 31 for Bush and 10 for Perot Clinton landed in Michigan on Satur day night, anti also landed his first shot at Perot's choice of Atlm James Slock dale as Ins running mate "Of all your choices for president.' lie said. "only onn has over balanced a gov ernment budget. Only onn has never been part of the Washington political scene, lobbying for special interest breaks," an obvious reference to Perot’s efforts over the years to win government contracts and other favors "Only one has ever passed a program through a legislature," he said, ignoring Bush's eight years as vice president and four as president "And," he added, "only onn made a real good choice for vice president " Though subtle in some ways, the new rhetoric was a change for Clinton, who. until recently at least, appears to have benefited from Perot's candidacy and his attacks on the Bush record. With the rar e tightening, there is talk in the Clinton campaign of campaigning around tin? dock for the final those days leading up to the Nov. 3 election "I'd like to." Clinton told reporters, but he said his doctor has cautioned that hi' may lose his voice again — as In' did just prior to the presidential debates "We've been at this for more than a year Surely, we ran go for another wirek," Clinton said Sunday. Perot pushes character FLEMINCTON. N | (AIM Koss Perot changed I lie torn; of his message In fits first In-ponton appearance of I tie tall i ampaign, urging vol ets to consider t harucler as well as the issues and asking, "Which one of the three can didates . would you want your daughter to marry?” Emerging from the relative set ltisioii of television stu dios where tie has spent min li of llie last three weeks taping common tats. I’erot made the first lace to laie ap pearance of Ids revived cam paign before an enthusiasm crowd of tens of thousands at a slot k car inn k Me spoke in Pittsburgh later The Texas billionaire, who had insisted during the presi dentinl debates that issues were more important than personality, cast himself as more responsible (ban his op ponents. "If you are going into com bat and you could take anv of the three of us, who would you want on your side?" Perot asked the cheering crowd at Flemington Speed way. "II you win- taken hostage in olled on Oct H-12 About one in five voters changed allegiances (Minton fell -1 points to 44 percent. Bush slipped 1 (mint to 44 percent Perot shot up 11 (mints to IB percent A breakdown shows that Perot's Itt percent is made up of (i portcnl who stuck with the Texan from the previous poll, t> pen I'til who defected from the Democratic nomi nee. 4 percent who switched from Bush and 3 peri cut won over from "undecided The percentage who ruled Perot tin' least reliable candi date fell from .if) to 17, while those rating Clinton least re liable rose from 21 pert cut to :12 perc ent Clinton also lost ground and 1‘erot gained on measures of honesty. Clinton also remained out front in trar king polls, which average in fresh results from small samples each night to gain early warning of any trends Alii'. New* reported that its poll of 1,130 likely voters interviewed Thursday through Saturday showed Clinton with -t-t percent to Bush's 34 percent and Perot's 17 per cont The poll had a margin of error of 3 5 percentage points Bush begins last drive in campaign SIOUX FALLS. S.D. (AP) — Pres idont Bush on Sunday plunged Into a nine-day, nonstop drive to Election Day. saying Democrat Bill Clinton has misled Americans Into thinking "everything was wrong with this country." Amid signs that the race Is tight ening. Bush renewed his charges that Clinton lacks tho character and trustworthiness to sit in tho Oval Office. Bush was joined by chief of staff James A. Baker III. who was brought to the White House to fix tho president's troubled campaign. Baker has been plotting strategy from Washington. Bush seized on a report in the Sunday Tnlo^ntph of London that Clinton’s campaign had hatched a secret deal with the head of the Eu ropean Commission to delay a world trade agreement until aftur the election. "If this report is true, and if the Clinton campaign is going over to Europe, interfering with an agree ment that would benefit all Ameri can agricultural, it is a sorry, pa thetic thing to be doing a few days before an election,” Bush told a campaign rally in Sioux Falls, S.D. Asked about the report while campaigning in Michigan, Clinton said, "No. Nothing to that.” Several thousand people stood In a hot exposition hall at the Sioux Empire Fairgounds to cheer Bush Outside, u handful of Clinton sup porters passed out copies of an edi torial in the Argus Leader newspa per endorsing the Democrat. Bush told the audience that if you listened to Clinton and his running mate, Al Core, "you'd think everything was wrong with this country. The only way that Clinton and Core can win is to make everybody convinced every thing is horrible. "We forget 93 percent of the peo ple arc working in this country. We forget that interest rates are at re cord lows We forget that inflation is bettor. 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