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Not new or wrong each candidate is an issue By WALTER R. MEARS AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) In the ruins of Gary Hart's long, lost, presidential campaign there is a message for the rivals to whom he surrendered the field: like it or not, each of them is an issue. "I am what am," Hart said in his campaign farewell. "1 don't want to be the issue." But there was no option. No one can be a candidate for president without facing, and withstanding, the glare of unrelenting scrutiny.

That isn't new and it isn't wrong, Hart's angry farewell notwithstanding. The voters are not choosing among position papers or abstractions. They are selecting a leader, a person with habits, traits, attitudes and, inevitably, failings. In judging the people who want to be president, personal attributes are at least as sig nificant as the position the candidate lakes on taxes, jobs, inflation, war and peace the kind of topics Hart said the voters really want discussed. Politicians can and have reversed themselves on specific issues, sometimes on the central issues of a campaign.

President Lyndon B. Johnson campaigned in opposition to the use of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, suggesting that Republican nominee Barry Goldwater would send troops there. Johnson sent them, and wound up a political victim of the war he escalated Even though positions change, personality traits usually do not. And reputations are altered slowly if at all, which may have been Hart's undoing.

Rumors of his involvements with women persisted for his 15 years in national politics. They Intruded on his first presidential campaign, and he had hotly disputed them at the beginning of his second, a scant month before it ended on Friday. Ironically, on the Sunday The Miami Herald published its report that he had spent part of the weekend with a 29-year-old sometime actress while Mrs. Hart was in Denver, a piece in The New York Times Magazine quoted him as challenging reporters to check the rumors. "If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead," he said.

"They 'd be very bored." Without that background, a candidate of Hart's standing might well have withstood an indiscretion with a confession of error. With it, the campaign was over. One episode had become the symbol of nagging questions and rumors about Hart's private life and personal judgment. "Gary Hart doesn't claim to be a saint, and the contest for the presidency is not a competition for sainthood," said former George McGovern, defending his onetime campaign manager. "It's more im portant that we have a thoughtful person with some sense of history and judgment about the great problems of this country." Judgment is at the intersection of personal and political issues.

Not that the most faithful husbands necessarily make the best presidents. Ann Lewis, chairman of Americans for Democratic Ac- He had some trouble with human frailty, unwisely deciding to discuss the matter in a Playboy interview during that campaign. "I'm human and I'm tempted," Carter said. "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times." Carter won despite the Playboy diversion.

He won in part because the personal image of his opponent, President Gerald R. Ford, also had become an issue. Ford was among the most athletic of presidents, but he had been cast as a man who stumbled down steps and bumped his head on helicopters. The image was set and it added to the political burden of the appointed successor who pardoned Nixon, Polls showed him closing in on Carter until Ford insisted during a debate there was no Soviet domination of eastern Europe. He was wrong but he stuck to it, and cemented the image.

AP Hews AinaEysIs tion, said she was certain Richard Nixon was a better husband than Franklin D. Roosevelt, but she preferred FDR for the White House. With few exceptions, politicians resist the idea that their personal lives are proper issues. Jimmy Carter didn't mind; he purposely made himself an issue in the trust-me campaign of 1976. f-MsMg Page Qtm 1 The Indiana Gazette Monday, May 1 1, 1987 Page 4 Acquino vies for victory as millions cast their vote Black box from jetliner examined Continued from Page 1 the state radio, one of the engines of the Soviet-built Ilyushin 62M apparently caught fire about 25 minutes into the flight and the pilot radioed he was returning to Warsaw.

The pilot also radioed that his altitude control mechanisms were failing, according to a semiofficial source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The plane plunged into a wooded area three miles short of the runway at Okecie Airport, exploded in a ball of fire and broke into hundreds of pieces. American relatives of those aboard the charter flight began arriving in Warsaw over the weekend to recover the remains of the victims. U.S. officials said there were 17 U.S.

passport holders on the flight and at least five people with dual Polish and American citizenship. Stanley Baldyga of Seven Hills, Ohio, was among the first U.S. relatives of the victims to arrive in Warsaw. His father, Wladyslaw, 63, was planning to fly to the United States for their first meeting in 20 years. "I called my father two weeks ago and he was so happy that he was coming to see me after such a long time," Baldyga said, shaking with emotion and fighting back tears.

Police-sealed off the area around the crash site, where about 1,000 rescue workers were carefully documenting the remains, fragments of the plane and personal effects. Caot. Andrzei Pieniazck. a police ture in the Philippines for the first time since March 1986, when Mrs. Aquino abolished the single-chamber assembly dominated by Marcos followers.

Since then, she has governed by decree. Election chief Ramon Felipe estimated about 80 percent of the 26 million voters cast ballots. Official returns are not expected for at least a week, although the pri-' vate National Movement for Free Elections expected unofficial trends' late tonight. Two supporters of an independent congressional candidate In Luzon's Tarlac province were shot to death by a rival's followers, police said. Others slain in separate, election-related incidents included a village chief on Panay island and a politician's bodyguard in Mindanao's Pa-gadian City.

A poll worker and her daughter were reported injured when a booby-trapped package exploded at a Davao City precinct. The government news agency said gunmen fired at a private radio station before dawn in Baguio City, 120 miles north of Manila, but it was unclear if the incident was election-related. There also were scattered reports of armed men stealing ballot boxes in Mountain province of northern Luzon and in Quezon province on the eastern edge of the country's largest island. A private Manila television sta- MANILA, Philippines (AP) Millions of Filipinos cast ballots today for a new US-style Congress, with President Corazon Aquino's personal popularity expected to give her centrist coalition a strong majority. "More than anything I hope we have a clean and honest election," Mrs.

Aquino said after voting in Tar-lac province 70 miles north of Manila. "And 1 hope my candidates will win," she added. Polls closed at 4 p.m. after nine hours. Eighty-four candidates ran for the 24-seat Senate and 1,899 for the 200-seat House of Representatives.

Reliable, independent surveys were unavailable, but most commentators expected Mrs. Aquino's Lakas ng Bayan, or People Power, coalition to win majorities in both chambers. Four people were killed in election-related violence. There were scattered reports of vote fraud and intimidation, but they did not compare with the bloodshed and corruption that marred the 1986 presidential contest between Mrs. Aquino and deposed President Ferdinand E.

Marcos. Polls opened at 7 a.m. except in one district in the Sulu island chain, where balloting was suspended after Moslem rebels called a boycott. Some 8 ,000 troops were rushed to the area, but no violence was reported. The election establishes a legisla tion said three Mindanao communities were evacuated because of the Moslem threat.

The new Congress will share in decisions on such crucial issues as the communist and Moslem insurgencies, land reform and the future of U.S. bases after their lease expires in 1991. Legislators will serve until Mrs. Aquino's term expires on June 30, 1992. In a broadcast message from Hawaii, where he has lived since being ousted in a February 1966 military-civilian uprising, Marcos told his supporters to be on guard against fraud and denied plotting to sabotage the election.

Waste bill vote set this week HARRISBURG (AP) Legislation that would mandate a comprehensive plan to regulate handling and disposal of infectious hospital wastes is scheduled for a vote this week in the Senate. The measure is one of the few bills up for a vote this week in the General Assembly as lawmakers prepare to break for the May 19 primary election and the Memorial Day holiday. Under the bill, the Citizens Advisory Council would have to develop a plan for regulating disposal of such hospital wastes as used needles and bandages, and for locating incinerators to burn the material. Wastes from hospitals are generally considered infectious if they come from a patient with a contagious disease. Some hospitals also consider waste from operating rooms to he potentially infectious.

The handling of infectious wastes STONY SLUMBER A winged sculpture overlooks Corey Wagfield, 13, of Philadelphia, who found the sculpture, which sets in the center of a downtown Philadelphia fountain, to be a good place la take a break from playing in the water. (AP Laserphoto) Dough boy content giving away fortune BOSTON AP) George Pills-bury has come to terms with his wealth by giving much of it away to progressive causes, and has become a consultant to people who inherit huge sums of money, as he did with his family's flour fortune. "There can be a lot of guilt associated with having money that you didn't earn." he said. "It's a big difference if you've earned the money. But if you just get it, it's like winning a lottery." It caused him to identify with the 1930s television show, "The Millionaire," where every week a $1 million check was dropped into the hands of a person ill-prepared to deal with it.

"Their lives basically fell apart when they got that million dollars," Pillsbury recalls. "This is not that far from the truth in terms of the emotional problems that people (with inherited wealth) suddenly Pillsbury came of age in the late 1060s and early '70s, touched by the anti-war movement, the feminist struggle and other social causes. He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a degree in urban studies, and savs that today he would probably be teaching school but for one fact. When he was 21 he inherited two large trusts from his grandfather, tic quit Ihe job he had taken four months earlier with Block Today, at age 37, he no longer works for Haymarket, which last year doled out more than $300,000 in grants. Pillsbury is development director for a Haymarket beneficiary, Jobs with Peace, a Boston-based organization advocating diversion of military funds to housing, health, mass transit and public education.

He continues to donate his stock earnings to social movements through the Funding Exchange, a New York clearinghouse set up a few years ago for contributions to the 14 foundations that have sprung up across the country using the Haymarket model. Pillsbury, though apparently at ease in the life he has chosen, says he wrestles with those dilemmas, such as whether or not he deserves a salary. "just to have a job out of college and learn something about taxes," and helped start the Haymarket People's Fund in Cambridge. Pillsbury gave all his time and much of his money to the foundation, which supports advocacy groups throughout New England, such as Alliance Against Women's Oppression, Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights and the environmentalist Clamshell Alliance. He became known as the "Pillsbury dough boy" and "the flour child." He also became something of a consultant to the inherited wealthy with a social conscience a group he counts at 3,000 to 4,000 around the country.

"Haymarket for some people is their first political experience. They've just come up having too much money and not feeling good about it," he said. investigator on the scene, was asked in one Polish television interview whether anyone walking in the woods may have been killed by the plane. The weather Saturday was sunny and warm, with temperatures above 60 degrees. "Today we can't categorically exclude such a possibility," he said.

Workers keep eye on elderly Continued from Page 1 help kick off the national drive, along with Charles Recti, assistant secretary for the Washington Stale Aging and Adult Sen-ice Administration, and Janet Olwell. director of the Illinois Department on Aging. Jean Elder, assistant HHS secretary for human development services, said the federal government picked Pugcv Sound and the Washington Stale office for a national appeal because the program there has proved to be "pragmatic, workable and creative." Elder said the employee training program takes about -15 minutes and that, overall, il costs participating companies virtually nothing. AM of the officials emphasized that ihe idea is not for employees to attempt to assist the elderly person themselves except in a rare medical emergency but to report their observations to a government agency so a trained caseworker can HARRISBURG (API The winning number Saturday in the Pennsylvania Daily Number was 8-2-3. HARRISBURG (API The winning number Saturday in the Pennsylvania Big 4 Lottery was 7-0-8-6.

HARRISBURG (API In the Pennsylvania Saturday Spin game. Janet 'Pelker of Reading won the grand prize of $50,000, according to a Pennsylvania Lottery spokesman. Four finalists won prizes of S5.O0O each. They were: Betty Forney of Harrisburg: Richard Bucks or Lev-ittown; Loretta Bailey of Willow Street: and James E. Bathurst of Bellefonte.

Lottery players are entered in the Saturday Spin after getting a free ticket in the instant lottery game. is controlled under solid waste rules and a policy statement by the Department of Environmental Resources. Although DER officials agree the standards need to be tightened, they say the problem can be better handled through regulations that DER already is adopting. The Senate is also scheduled to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow for continuation of one year's state budget if a new one isn't approved by the July 1 deadline. Under the current setup, the state has no authority to spend money if the Legislature and governor don't agree on time to a budget compromise.

Supporters of the bill say it would allow for a continuation of services if the deadline isn't met. Some opponents of the legislation say a time constraint is needed to accomplish budget work. Lawmakers in (he House have a fairly light voting schedule this week. Bills up for votes include several minor, budget-related bills and a measure that would prohibit the state lottery from awarding prizes that aren't made in the United States. Fumes get to Bell employees PITTSBURGH (AP About 35 Bell of Pennsylvania employees, most of them telephone operators, were treated after being sickened by fumes that seeped into their offices through a ventilating system, the company said.

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