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Gore went one step further, say ing “it’s only the Republican can didates for president” who dis agree because they are “so scared of the extreme right wing.” Both men said the father of Elian Gonzalez, a 6-year-old Cuban boy at the center of an international dispute, should come to the Unit ed States to press his claim for cus tody. A number of racially sensitive issues came up in the hour-long televised debate on the federal hol iday honoring the late Martin Luther King, Jr., a “Black-Brown Forum” that both men hoped to use to appeal to voters in other states with a larger minority popu lation than Iowa. MSNBC carried the event live. The issues ranged from racially insensitive comments made by At lanta Braves baseball player John Rocker, to the controversial New York minister, Al Sharpton. Gore is the national front-runner by far in the public opinion polls, and also is hoping for a clear tri umph over Bradley in Iowa next week. BradleyJeads in most polls in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary eight days after Iowa’s caucuses. Perched on stools on a debate stage in Iowa’s capital city, both men said firmly they oppose racial profiling, the practice by which some police offers target racial mi norities for traffic stops. “We all know what driving while black is,” said Bradley, who has made race relations a corner stone of his career in public life. “It is breathing while black. ’ ’ When Gore said he would issue an executive order banning the practice, Bradley served him a challenge. “We have a president now,” he said. “You serve with him. I want you to walk into his office and say, ‘Sign this executive order today.”’ His remarks were greeted with applause, but Gore had a ready re ply. “I don’t think President Bill Clinton needs a lecture from Bill Bradley about how to fight for African Americans” and Latinos, he said. “It’s one thing to talk the talk. It’s another thing to walk the walk,” Gore said, to scattered boos from the audience. Gore also added that the mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, “asked for help on the poli cy of racial profiling when you were in the Senate” representing New Jersey. “He’s here today, and he’s sup porting me because President Clin ton and I have helped him with racial profiling,” Gore added. Gore sidestepped a question of whether he would appoint a His panic to the Supreme Court, and to list some possible contenders for the seat. He jokingly asked his questioner whether he possessed a law degree, then said he would make appointments that reflect “the diversity of the country. ” Bradley said, “I could never ap point someone who would turn the clock back on civil rights. ” The proceedings were disrupt ed briefly by a young woman who stood at her seat in the audience to pose a question about global warming. As security guards moved to silence her, the modera tor, Tavis Smiley of Black Enter tainment Television, quipped, “I get my 15 minutes (of fame) and this is what happens to me.” The Confederate flag has sur faced as an issue among Republi can presidential contenders, who are competing in a South Carolina primary on Feb. 19. The leading GOP hopefuls, Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, have refused to take a stand on the issue, saying it is up to the residents of South Carolina to decide whether the flag should fly atop their statehouse. While both Gore and Bradley said they believe the flag should come down, the vice president also noted that some people view the flag favorably. “We have to try to bring them into a shared under standing of why, as a symbol, it is so hurtful,” he said. Gore also told his questioner he would not agree to participate in an NAACP boy cott of South Carolina, because “I don’t think a president of the Unit ed States should ever boycott an individual state,” Bradley said the flag “offends our common humanity and it is not the future of our country. ’ ’ “It’s only the Republican candi dates for president who are so scared of the extreme right wing, that they will be tolerant of intol erance, less they offend the offen sive. It ought to come down,” Gore added. Blacks account for a small mi nority of the vote in Iowa, but giv en the date and fact that a black state lawmaker organized the event, a “Black-Brown” forum, the two Democrats pledged support for continued efforts to support civil rights and combat racism. Both men condemned the racist remarks made recently by Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker. Bradley used a question on the issue to recount that as a profes sional basketball player three decades ago, part of his job on the New York Knicks was to take aside any white player “who didn’t un derstand” the need to treat blacks respectfully. President calls for a volunteer day By Rebecca Sinderbrand The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Clinton marked the birthday ob servance of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., to day by helping volunteers refur bish a computer lab at a local Boys and Girls Club. The president has encouraged Americans to use the federal holi day to help their neighbors who need it most, rather than as just another day of rest, saying it should be “a day on, not a day off.” “Every time you give a little, you always get more back,” Clin ton said. “Let’s remember that as Dr. King’s enduring legacy.” Under the auspices of Greater DC Cares, volunteers were pitch ing in at 25 sites around the city today. Clinton joined a half-dozen students at the youth center who were painting walls and staining bookshelves to spruce up their computer lab. King, recipient of the 1964 No bel Peace Prize for his work for racial equality, was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. “We are in this together. 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