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The Beacon Journal A3 Thursday, March 31, 1988 QUOTE OF THE DAY: CAMPAIGN TRAIL: APRIL '7 You have to be careful. You don't want to House passes humanitarian aid for Contras be perceived as anti-black. but I think experience is one of the things you should look at. Paul Simon on criticism of Jesse Jackson delivered past aid when hostilities were under way. The rebels would get another $1.5 million to buy communications gear, deemed essential to keeping Contra troops in touch with their commanders during the cease-fire period.

That pushes the total rebel aid to $17.7 million. An identical amount would go to create a new program of medical and humanitarian help for children who have been injured or suffered as a result of the civil war, which has claimed some 40,000 lives since 1981. In addition, the legislation provides $10 million to pay expenses of the verification commission and $2.5 million to pay administrative overhead for the State Department's Agency for International Development, which would handle distribution of the money. SATURDAY Virgin Islands caucus (D) MONDAY Colorado caucuses TUESDAY Wisconsin primary WEDNESDAY Arizona caucuses (D) APRIL 15 Minnesota GOP convention APRIL 16 Maine GOP convention Vermont caucuses (R) APRIL 19 New York primary Vermont caucuses (D) APRIL 20 Congress Democratic Caucus APRIL 23 Nevada GOP convention APRIL 24 Guam caucus (D) APRIL 25 Utah caucuses APRIL 26 Pennsylvania primary APRIL 28-30 Alaska GOP convention Delegates at stake Democrat GOP 3 45 0 81 47 36 24 22 0 102 255 14 253 20 23 0 178 78 19 Source: Associated Press tioning of his position on the is sues or his approach to the cam paign? It ridiculous. The two had met on Monday to talk and had agreed to meet again Wednesday when both were in Washington.

Jackson said after the cancellation that the two would meet again "at some future time. Vice President George Bush continued campaigning in Wisconsin, which will hold its presidential primaries Tuesday In an early preview of his fall campaign, Bush bashed Demo crats and the Democrat-controlled Congress, pledging to build on the economic and for eign policies and "achievements of the Reagan years. fcjo Associated Press Washington The House overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday a $48 million package of humanitarian aid for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua and for children injured in nearly seven years of civil war. The aid bill, passed on a 345-70 vote, was portrayed as a gesture of U.S. support for a temporary truce reached last week between the rebels and the.Sandinista government, and for continuing talks aimed at achieving a long-term end to hostilities.

Most members of the Ohio delegation voted for the bill, although Democrats Mary Rose Oakar of Cleveland, Tony Hall of Dayton, Douglas Applegate of Steubenville and James Traficant of Youngstown joined Republican Donald Lukens of Middletown in voting against it. "The hope is that this will lead to political instead of military processes now taking over" in Nicaragua, said House Majority Leader Thomas Foley, D-Wash. White House spokesman Mar-lin Fitzwater said after the House vote, "We are pleased and look forward to the vote tomorrow in the Senate." House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, noting the years of previous acrimony on the issue, said the bill should "provide encouragement to both sides in Central America." Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, promised speedy consideration on the other side of the Capitol. The legislation would renew aid to the rebels, whose last U.S. support ran out Feb.

29, and keep them together as a fighting force while they wait in cease-fire zones inside Nicaragua for a long-term truce to be worked out with the Sandinista government. Under the bill, $16.2 million in "humanitarian" aid defined as food, clothing, medical supplies and family support payments would be sent to the Contras at a rate of $2.7 million a month for the next six months. It would be delivered by a neutral organization instead of the CIA, which has Jackson to party for their By Doreen Carvajal and Ellen Warren Knight-Hidder Newspapers Washington The Rev. Jesse Jackson huddled Wednesday with two dozen Democratic Party elders and longtime supporters in an attempt to quash any stop-Jackson movement and to reach out to the Democratic Party's regular leadership. After the breakfast meeting, Rep.

Mickey Leland, D-Texas, warned that Democratic politicians he did not name were trying to block the black civil rights leader, who is running neck-and-neck with Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, from getting the Democratic presidential nomination. "There is a movement afoot," Leland said. "We can't put our hands on it. We don't know who the leader is.

But we do understand different players of the Democratic Party have been approached." Although he led in national polls for months, Jackson did not get the party's total attention until he began amassing significant numbers of convention delegates and then trounced Dukakis 2-1 in the Michigan primary Saturday. Despite Leland's allegations, other Democrats denied that a formal movement was under way to block Jackson from becoming the party's nominee. "It's too early for people to be talking about a 'stop Jack- appeals leaders support son' movement," said Rep. William Gray III, one of Congress' most influential black leaders and a supporter of Jackson. "But has Jesse shaken things up? Yes." The Pennsylvania congressman, who attended the breakfast meeting, said, "There is a herd hysteria out there." He added that he knew of no attempts to sabotage Jackson's candidacy.

Attorney John White, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the predominant theme in the meeting called by Jackson at the Jefferson Hotel here was "if Jackson wins it, he gets it." Many of the 27 guests attending the private Democratic breakfast were faithful advisers to Jackson's campaign, but also among them were establishment Democrats such as Edward Bennett Williams, a well-connected Washington lawyer, and Clark Clifford, a former Cabinet member. Jackson fielded questions for more than an hour. Queries centered on a variety of issues, including whether the candidate has solved the problem of his relationship with the Jewish community that has resulted from his links to controversial black Muslim leader Louis Far-rakhan. Also on Wednesday: A planned meeting between Jackson and Sen. Albert Gore Jr.

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