House GOP say Perot can help
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Texas billionaire Ross Perot
can play an important role
rallying public support for the
kind of sweeping congres
sional reforms advocated by
Republican freshmen in the House. Kep. Jennifer
Dunn said Wednesday.
'He represents a very important group of people
who can help us with these reforms.” said Dunn.
R-Wash.. who was among the freshmen who met
with Perot Wednesday at the Capitol.
Dunn, former chairwoman of the Washington
state COP. said Perot attracts attention wherever,
he goes.
"I find him a very charismatic leader." she said.
"He describes himself us a white giraffe at the zoo.
People come to see what he looks like."
Dunn is among Republican freshmen pushing a
host of reforms, ranging from a presidential line
item veto and balanced budget amendment to
requiring that all congressional committee meet
ings be open to the public.
She has been especially visible in past weeks
protesting the closed meetings of the tax-writing
Ways and Moans Committee.
Perot told reporters after the meeting that the
Republican fre,shmen advocate "real reforms not
"sham reforms." which is how he described Clin
ton’s tax proposal.
"The ordinary person understands that the tax
bill is tax and spend, not balanced budget." Perot
said. "It's tax and spend. That's not what the
American people want."
He said he has a lot in common with the Repub
lican reformer*.
“They are people who want to put their t oun
try ahead of their political career They are more
interested in solving problems of the country than
getting re-elected . They are dead interested in
real reform." he said.
Perot said he especially likes the proposal to
prohibit closet! congressional committee meetings
"The Republicans are dead set to re-establish ft
policy of open meetings in government. This is
like the world turned upside down." he said.
Perot also said freshmen members should not !*•
relegated to second-class status.
"I didn't understand freshmen have no voice
They are told they are supposed to stand In the
comer and wait two or three years." ho said. "Peo
ple expect their olei ted officials to have n voice
as soon as they arrive"
What advice would Perot give Clinton today?
"Step one. get organized Fill the slots so your
government can function." Perot said "Number
Iwo. focus. Do a few things well Number three
don't foil into the old Washington trap of watering
down everything, like the campaign reform bill
•‘We want real government reform We want real
campaign reform" he said
Dunn said she was among seven freshmen
Republican who had breakfast with Perot lie fore
the hour-long meeting at the Capitol. The others
were Reps. Peter Hoekslra of Michigan. Howard
McKoon of California. Tillie Fowler of Florida.
Peter Torkildsen of Massachusetts. V Tim
Hutchinson of Arkansas and Fd Kovce of Califor
nia.
Presidential helicopter crashes
NANJEMOY, Md. (AP) — A
military helicopter used in the
presidential fleet crashed
Wednesday, killing all four
crewmen aboard.
The bodies of the crewmen
were found inside the heli
copter. said l.t Patrick Murphy,
spokesman for the Charles
County Sheriffs i)ept
"They were all in the main
fuselage, which was bent out of
shape and mangled," said Mur
phv. Debris was strewn around
the crash scene.
The cause of the crush wasn't
immediately known.
TheVH-tiON Black Hawk heli
copter was on an inspection
flight after undergoing mainte
nance when it crashed in a heav
ily wooded area across the
Potomac River from the Marine
Iwse in Quuntico. Vo., said Cap!
Steve Manuel, spokesman at
Marine Corps headquarters in
Washington
“Thu entire area reeks of air
craft fuel," Murphy said "It is
over your shoe tops
The holicopter is used to ferry
the president and other digni
taries throughout the Washing
ton area, hut all those aboard
were Marines. Manuel said
I he names of the dead were
withheld (rending notification of
relatives An investigation of the
crash was under wav.
Gulls to be
sacrificed
for planes
NEW YORK IAP) Marks
nun will shoot stia gulls that
stray across runways at John
F Kennedy International Air
port. despite protests from ani
mal rights activists.
The airport says *t has tried
everything to scare away
laughing gulls, which live at
a nearby wildlife sanctuary
The birds sometimes get
sucked into jet engines, threat
ening takeoffs and landings
"We don't want to kill any
living spo< ins," Port Authori
ty spokesman Tom Middle
nnss said Wednesday "Hut
people are more important
than birds "
The U S Department of
Agriculture did not say when
marksmen would start shoot
ing It is the thin) straight sum
mer the gulls will tie killed
The department had sought
the emergency permit at the
urging of the Port Authority,
which runs the airport. The
jwrmit, issued Tuesday night,
allows shooting until Aug 31.
In response, the Fund for
Animals wrote a letter to the
stale attorney general s office
protesting what it called "the
wholesale slaughter of birds
"We re not saying that one
gull is worth an airplane full
of people." said Fund for Am
mats founder Cleveland
Amory “Hut we do mil
believe that the answer to bird
problems is always to shoot
them."
The New York City
Audubon Society also oppos
es the shootings.
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