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DEMOCRATIC JZsjLa COHlVEEIlTIOni Thursday, July 16, 1992 The Arizona Republic A9 State's delegates split vote 3 ways EHEWS BRIEFS pimtrtl feateniife lasafcw ly gSW ytt I IVi I It leased his delegates before the convention began; and 12 for Brown, a former governor of California. Asked why the Tsongas backers stuck with their man even though he had dropped out of the race, delegate Paula Price replied, "We feel we were elected to do that. It keeps his message alive." The Brown supporters were equally stubborn. Their biggest thrill came when their candidate addressed the convention. Wednesday and vowed to fighT for the party but not to abandon his reformist principles.

Arizona used a multilingual approach when delegation leader Janet Napolitano was called to announce the delegation's vote on the floor at about 10:10 p.m. (7:10 Arizona time). "Arizona, a state with a proud Native American heritage Napolitano began. Then, Clinton delegate Percy Deal repeated the phrase in Navajo. Napolitano continued, "Arizona, a state with a proud Hispanic heritage and its first Hispanic congressman Brown delegate Henry Olea Jr.

echoed the sentence in Spanish. Napolitano finished by saying, "and a state with a proud Democratic Party that has given this country leaders like Morris Udall, casts its vote as follows She then read the vote. Udall, who retired from Congress in May 1991, has Parkinson's disease and has been hospitalized since a fall at his home. He will be honored today for his 30 years in office. Asked about the showy vote reading, Napolitano, an unpledged delegate, smiled and said, "The only thing we left out was the Grand Canyon." Despite the delegation split, several members said it is time for Democrats to come together.

"We know who has won. Today would be a good start for the healing process, if there needs to be one," said U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor, Arizona's first Hispanic congressman. Pastor went to the convention officially unpledged, but says he is backing Clinton.

Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson, a Tsongas delegate, agreed with Pastor. "This is a process where the spoils go to the victor. Bill Clinton has won this race," Johnson said. 3 K. t' 1.

fry' ROLL CALL OF VOTES Here is how members of the the Arizona delegation cast their ballots: FOR CLINTON: Martin Bacal, David Bartlett, Chuck Blanchard, Helen Jeanne Butler, Percy Deal, Dennis DeConcini, Joe A. Delia Rocca, Fred P. DuVal, Catherine R. Eden, Eileen Fellner, Lorraine Weiss Frank, Ira H. Friedman, Terry Goddard, Gloria Hale-Showalter, Lisa Michele Huggins, Mark Kerr, Janet K.

Lesher, Rose Marie Lopez, Bill Minette, Janet Napolitano, Stephen A. Owens, Ed Pastor, Yvonne Ragland FOR BROWN: Antonio Russell Espinoza, Jesse Taylor George, Michelle B. Graye, Nell Lawrence, Shirley McKean, Edna Moglewer, Sidney Moglewer, Michael Ernest Morrell, Henry M. Olea Andrea J. Ouse, Joshua Sol Polonsky, Brent Young FOR TSONGAS: Janice Chilton, Catie Cozzens, Annette DiZinno, Michael A.

Evans, Paul Johnson, Paula Kaser-Price, Linda-Marie Kratzenberg, Heather Lamear, Denise Bautista Lefkowitz, Danica Oparnica, Don Slutes, Betty J. Thompson, Paul Mitchel Weich, Edward C. Westerman Jr. The Associated Press HE'S BACK Box-office smash Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Chelsea Clinton, daughter of presidential candidate Bill Clinton, at Planet Hollywood, a trendy nightclub in New York. Schwarzenegger is a co-owner of the club.

On Wednesday, Clinton, the Democratic Party's nominee, expressed confidence that he would win in November. Clinton, Gore to hop a bus for 6-day tour of Midwest NEW YORK Bill Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Sen. Al Gore, his running mate, will leave Friday on a six-day bus tour that will take them from New York to St. Louis across much of the industrial Midwest, a key battleground in the general-election campaign. Although candidates often have marked time after the convention, this year "there is going to be no interruption in the campaign," Democratic Party Chairman Ronald Brown said.

The bus tour promises to be rich in photo opportunities for the two candidates Middle America campaign settings straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, the kind of "Morning in America" images Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign used so effectively in 1984. Accompanied by their wives, Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore, the nominees plan to visit factories, farms, schools and truck stops; hold town meetings, potluck dinners and ice-cream socials; and make stops for lemonade and cookies. But the tour also is intended to avoid the mistake made by Michael Dukakis, who did little campaigning from July to Labor Day and saw a 17-point lead over George Bush evaporate. "Clinton leaves this convention running or, rather, riding on a bus," Brown said. Mom explains why son didn't inhale I Cv I i VL 1 T- I r- Trilingual roll call touts all but Canyon By Jeff Barker The Arizona Republic NEW YORK Eager not to offend any of its members, a divided Arizona delegation split its presiden-.

tial vote at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday among Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown and even non-candidate Paul Tsongas. The state offered 23 votes for Clinton, the Democratic nominee; 14 votes for Tsongas, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts who re- Clinton expects tough race CLINTON, from page A 1 thank you. "I want to thank you all for being here and loving your country and to tell you that tomorrow night I will be the Comeback Kid." Earlier, Clinton had said he expects the Republicans to wage "a burning and blistering negative campaign." But by the time the roll-call vote that certified his nomination had begun, Clinton had deftly maneuvered the Democratic Party toward the political middle ground in a calculated effort to win back moderate Democrats and independents who had shunned the party in recent presidential elections. And he had won pledges of support for the party from all of his Democratic rivals, though former California Gov.

Jerry Brown, the last grudging holdout, offered only the barest expression of loyalty to the Democratic cause and avoided mentioning the nominee by name. In a nominating speech that combined glowing tributes to Clinton with scathing attacks on President Bush, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, whose relations with Clinton had been strained throughout the primaries, called him a "new captain with a new course" for a nation alarmed by economic stagnation and the rising pathology of urban poverty. Hammering home the themes Clinton hopes will carry him into the White House, Cuomo indicted Bush for placing middle-class workers "in terrible jeopardy" and driving the economy to the brink of disaster with a policy he called "free enterprise for the few." "Bill Clinton believes that the closest thing to a panacea that we have is described by a simple, four-letter word: 'work'! He has been living that truth all his life," Cuomo told cheering delegates. "So, Bill Clinton believes that what we most need now is jobs, jobs, jobs rejuvenating our private free-enterprise economy by investing in the rebuilding of our cities; shoring up our agricultural strength; laying the foundations for economic growth into the next century; pulling people off welfare, off unemployment; giving people back their dignity and their confidence." Rep.

Maxine Waters of California, who four years ago seconded the nomination of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, followed Cuomo in placing Clinton's name in nomination. Asked earlier Wednesday whether he thinks he can defeat Bush in November, Clinton said in a PBS-NBC interview, "I've always believed that I could win, and I've always felt that I would, but the polls will change a hundred times between now and then. "We live in a time where the fragile confidence of people in their political leaders can easily be frayed. And I expect to be the brunt of a burning and blistering negative campaign." Clinton spent most of the day working on his acceptance speech, which he described as an important opportunity to tell voters "who I am, what I believe in, what I would do as president and what I want them to do." The four-day convention concludes today after nominating Sen.

Al Gore of Tennessee as the vice-presidential running mate and listening to his and Clinton's acceptance speeches. In one of the most emotional speeches of the convention, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts Wednesday night invoked the names of his assassinated brothers, Ron EdmondsThe Associated Press Bill Clinton acknowledges a noisy crowd at Madison Square Garden after being nominated for president. In the background are Texas Gov.

Ann Richards and Democratic Chairman Ronald Brown. NEW YORK Bill Clinton's mom can explain why the Democratic presidential hopeful didn't inhale when he tried marijuana as a college student. "I used to love to work in the yard, sweep the leaves, burn the leaves. As soon as I'd set the leaves on fire, Bill would have to leave," Virginia Kelley, Clinton's mother, said Wednesday on-NBC-TV's Today show. "He is just allergic to smoke." Clinton generated a minor controversy and a mountain of material for stand-up comics in March when he acknowledged that he'd briefly experimented with marijuana some 20 years ago while attending Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar.

"I didn't inhale, and I didn't try it again," Clinton said at the time. Virginia Kelley Says her son. Bill Clinton, "is just allergic to smoke." COfHVEEUTIOEU SCHEDULE TODAY Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for president Schedule 2 p.m.: Call to order. Tribute to former U.S.

Rep. Morris K. Udall, elder statesman of Arizona politics and noted environmentalist, by Rep. Butler Derrick of South Carolina. Speakers include Florida state Rep.

Daryl Jones, American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker, National Education Association President Keith Geiger, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder, Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio, Sen. Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania and House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri. 5 p.m.: Nomination of vice-presidential candidate.

Roll call of states. 6 p.m.: Vice-presidential nomination acceptance speech by Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee. 7:15 p.m.: Presidential nomination acceptance speech by Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.

Closing ceremonies. President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in urging the election of Clinton.

"My brothers had every gift but length of years," declared Kennedy, who brought tears to the eyes and cheers from the throats of the more than 4,000 delegates and other partisans jammed into the Garden. "With Clinton, it is time to reject the politics of slash and burn the evil politics that makes the face of Willie Horton more important in a national campaign than the face of a hungry child." Clinton also heard ringing praise from two of his fiercest rivals in the primaries Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and former Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. In one more, sign of how the deteriorating economy and Bush's response to it have driven traditional Democrats back into the fold, the 1.41 million-member Teamsters union, which has backed the Republicans in the past three elections, said in a statement Wednesday that it is endorsing Clinton.

Clinton's visit to the convention was arranged a couple of days ago as a repetition of a convention-hall visit by Kennedy in 1960, a top aide said. As the role call progressed, Clinton, his wife and daughter waited at a reception in the original Macy's department store near the Garden. As his tally went over the top with votes from the Ohio delegation, a beaming Clinton briefly pumped his fist in the air, hugged Chelsea and kissed his wife on the forehead. Then the three, surrounded by a crowd of supporters waving signs and banners, marched across the street to the convention hall. An Arkansas delegate, Darlene Woodall, watched Clinton greet his mother and other delegates from his home state before taking the podium.

"He gets down in the crowd with the people," she said. "That's why I think he'll be president. He doesn't insulate himself." More than 'year of the women' for party New Hampshire delegate Chris Miller walked up to Bella Abzug Wednesday and -gushed, "I wanted to thank you. If it weren't for what you did 20 years ago, I wouldn't be a delegate today." Abzug, resplendent in her trademark straw hat and fire-engine red dress, thanked Miller, then continued talking to reporters, "This is not a year of the women. It is an era." The Democratic National Convention this year is giving extraordinary attention to female candidates.

Analysts give two reasons: the perception that an unprecedented number of women are running for office this year and the perception that Bill Clinton needs their "skirttails" to win. Polls 'bump' Clinton ahead of rivals Surging support for Bill Clinton during the first days of the Democratic National Convention has propelled him past President Bush and a faltering Ross Perot, a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates. Clinton was the choice of 42 percent of the 770 registered voters questioned, up 12 percentage points in a week, according to the survey. Bush was favored by 30 percent. Perot was the choice of 20 percent, down from 30 percent in less than seven days.

The poll's margin of error was 4 percentage points. The Washington Post is conducting a series of surveys before, during and after the convention. The results of the first poll, completed July 8, captured public opinion before the start of the Democratic convention. The latest survey, conducted Friday through Wednesday, found that support for Clinton had increased dramatically. A post-convention survey will measure the size of the "convention bump" for Clinton.

Another poll, conducted by a bipartisan polling organization, puts Clinton at 40 percent, Bush at 31 percent and Perot at 20 percent, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. More than 8 percent were undecided among the 500 people polled Tuesday night by the Tarrance Group, a Republican polling firm, and Greenberg-Lake, a Democratic firm. The poll had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. HISTORICAL TIDBIT Baltimore was once the permanent home of the Democratic convention. The first six Democratic conventions were held there from 1832 to 1852, but the Democrats have been back to Baltimore only twice since.

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