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Dftilg press A6 Friday, Oct. 16, 1992 CAMPAIGN '92 Gore: Iraq coverup by Bush worse than Watergate "Bill Clinton has told the truth; George Bush refuses to tell the truth and more questions are raised every day about George Bush's official conduct, the decisions he made, his refusal to be candid witji the American people." The speech before the journalists came two days after Gore, during the vice presidential debate, allowed Quayle's attacks on Cliri-ton's credibility to go largely unanswered. The Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. Democrat Al Gore said Thursday that President Bush "is presiding over a coverup significant, ly larger" than Watergate in his treatment of questions about Iraq and the Iran-Contra affair. In contrast, Gore said, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton "has told the truth" on such issues as his draft record and antiwar activities of two decades ago.

Defending Clinton strongly, as the Republicans have insisted he was unwilling to do, Gore said the Bush campaign was trying to destroy Clinton's reputation "through a process of manipulation that is not just politics as usual but highly amoral and deeply sinister." Gore urged the president to release documents related to his dealings with Iraq prior to that nation's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and for the White House to make public transcripts of Bush's testimony to the Iran-Contra independent counsel and to a special commission that investigated the affair. "There is not a single excuse for classifying as sensitive any of these documents," Gore told the National Conference of Editorial Writers. "The only reason he refuses to release them is because he knows they will be politically damaging to him." "What we are seeing now is President Bush presiding over a coverup significantly larger than the Watergate coverup," he said. "That's nonsense," responded Vice President Dan Quayle after being told of the coverup accusation while campaigning in Owens-boro, Ky. Added senior Bush campaign adviser Charles Black: "That kind of talk is simple hyperbole that is not credible with anyone." Rnoh has said rerjeatedlv in pub lic that he was aware of the sale of U.S.

arms to Iran but not that they were to be in exchange for hostages. He has said American contacts with Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War were in an effort to get him "to join the family of nations." "The Bush technique is the big lie approach, keep saying something over and over again and have repetition pose as fact," Gore said. Agency says file requests on Clinton mishandled 11 P.M. OPEN SATURDAY J) A.M....SHOP TILL The Associated Press WARWICK CENTER 8AM 8PM A SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1992 if DEPARTMENT STORES Ss C- STTlSM, PRICED LOW FOR ONE rlSOFFl 6EfeF SPECTACULAR DAY! II Refg-gg-g- I sate $9-186 JL1 ggSSSgS5 I'A Ar yrm" i Jf 1 1 A I- i tt 1 ii i I i- fA'; 1 4" I it KWA It oVv, WASHINGTON The State Department said Thursday that "low-level people" mistakenly suggested that expeditious treatment be given to media requests for information on Bill Clinton's passport and citizenship files. The disclosure came as part of the administration's effort to rebut allegations that it tried to use the files to buttress President Bush's claims that his Democratic opponent had engaged in unpatriotic acts.

Spokesman Richard Boucher said speedy handling of Freedom of Information requests should apply only to cases in which a citizen faces the possibility of injury or death if a delay meant a violation of one's constitutional rights. "Those circumstances clearly did not apply in these cases," Boucher said. He added that notations on the requests were made "by low-level people working on the cases, trying to reflect the urgency which the requesters in the media had placed on their requests." Media requests under the Freedom of Information Act were made last month by The Associated Press, Hearst newspapers and ABC. Of the three, only ABC made an unambiguous request for expedited handling. At issue is material the government may have in its files on Clinton during his years as a Rhodes scholar, a period in which he was active in demonstrations against the Vietnam War and spent a week in the Soviet Union.

There has been speculation among Democrats and in the media that the administration's handling of the issue may have been designed to embarrass Clinton. Boucher said some memos circulated within the Freedom of Information Office had notations saying the memos were "time-sensitive" and recommending that they be dealt with before the election. When department lawyers spotted the notations, Boucher said, they notified the office and said it was wrong to expedite the requests because "the grounds weren't met." Boucher also said that Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Elizabeth Tamposi, a former Republican Party fund-raiser, did not attempt to expedite the process. State Department officials briefed several congressional aides on the case Thursday at the request of Sen. John F.

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