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ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1984 A Multimedia Newspaper time to -solve ecoimoinniDC Sen. Fryoir -f i i by his opponent that the Democratic incumbent has opposed President Ronald Reagan's conservative policies more than any other member of the U.S. Senate. "What he's talking about is 85 votes out of 3,000," said Pryor. "I think all these percentages are not talking about the real issues of the state.

The real issue is David Pryor and Ed Bethune, and who can best represent the state until the year 1991." Bethune's attack was based on a study by Congressional Quarterly, which claimed: "Senator David Pryor voted against the president's policies more than any other member of the Senate. He voted 71 percent of the time against the president, compared to the average of 51 percent for all Democratic senators and 49 percent for all Southern Democrats." The same study indicated that Pryor broke with the Conservative Coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats 34 percent of the time, and Bethune broke with the alliance 20 percent of the time. However, Pryor rejects the liberal label Bethune has tried to place on him. "I don't like labels. Bethune labels me as a liberal because he By KEN HARVEY Bulletin Editor U.S.

Senator David Pryor says he is concerned with the U.S. economy and is ready to back his concern with action Congressman Ed Bethune, Pryor's opponent in the Senate race, is unwilling to support. Pryor, in a whirlwind campaign tour through Baxter County Monday, said after Labor Day he will co-sponsor a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget. Pryor said in 1982 he was a sponsor of a similar amendment, which passed the U.S. Senate with 69 out of 100 possible votes, but which was killed by the majority in the House of Representatives, including Rep.

Bethune. Bethune has said the proposal was a bogus measure easily circumvented by Congress. "Hopefully we can make it pass the Senate and the House this time," said Pryor. "Every hour we are going $20 million further into debt. What we are doing is mortgaging the future of our children and grandchildren.

I want to talk about the deficit; my opponent is afraid to talk about it." In an exclusive Bulletin interview, Pryor responded to charges thinks that's popular," said Pryor. The senator said it is time for the Republicans and Democrats to stop criticizing each other and to start solving the country's economic problems. "It's all of us who have caused the national debt," he said. "We can't go back and criticize each other. It's both political parties.

Ihe last president that left office with a balanced budget, I believe, was Lyndon Johnson in 1968." Freeze, cuts needed The entire budget that year was $98 billion, Pryor said. Now the interest on the national debt is double the entire 1968 budget. Pryor calls for an immediate budget freeze while the balanced budget amendment is being passed. "We right then would save $65 billion. That would be an important first step," said Pryor.

In balancing the budget, Pryor said an across-the-board cut of five percent could be made, and there would be "no one truly harmed." Pryor said he would exempt Social Security and other entitlement programs from the cut, but he told The Bulletin that the recent Social (Continued on page .3) Monday. Sen. Pry or was in Baxter County as part of a campaign swing through this area of the state. BulletinHarvey Dr. William Lindsay, at left, director of the Norfork National Fish Hatchery, speaks with U.S.

Sen. David Pry or and the senator's wife Barbara during their visit to the hatchery Walter Mondale pledges sensible defense spending Democratic Convention. Most of the state's 42 delegates supported Mondale. He last was in Arkansas in January when he was campaigning for the nomination. ters of three also-rans in the race for the nomination Colorado Sen.

Gary Hart, the Rev. Jesse Jackson oT Chicago and Sen.Johnv Glenn of Ohio. Mondale praised Gov. Bill Clinton, a fellow Democrat, and two Democratic senators, David Governor's brother pleads innocent to drug charges LITTLE ROCK (AP) Democratic presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale said Tuesday he is committed "to a steady, real growth in our defense budget" but that the money must be more sensibly managed.

He said the defense issue between himself and the prospective Republican presidential nominee, incumbent Ronald Reagan, would be "are we getting defense that makes us more secure, are we getting the preparedness we are paying for? "The answer is no," Mondale told about 300 people in a legislative chamber of the Old State House. "The reason is the leadership of the president we now have." About 200 people stood outside the columned, white ante-bellum building in 90-degree heat because it was too small to hold everyone. Mondale and his wife, Joan, came to Little Rock to begin a three-state swing through the South that takes them on to Tennessee and Kentucky. Mondale also met with Arkansas suppor Military problems Mondale said Reagan's defense budget is tilted too far toward nuclear weapons and away from conventional military supplies. He said a Pentagon study showed that U.S.

conventional military supplies would be exhausted by one short, small, overseas war and then the United States would have to resort to atomic weapons. Mondale said a second problem is that Reagan has not selected a clear military strategy and U.S. military forces have plans that do not mesh. He said the Army plan for war in Europe is calculated to confront a Russian blitzkreig, possibly resorting to nuclear weapons within a week. The Air Force plan calls for it to arrive in the middle of that atomic confrontation.

And the Navy's plan, he said, calls for a resupply mission long after supp- (Continued on page 3) Pryor and Dale Bumpers. Clinton introduced Mondale at the Old State House. Pryor and Clinton lunched privately with the nominee later, then participated in the meeting with backers of Hart, Jackson and Glenn. The response of those who attended the meeting was favorable to Mondale. The Rev.

James De-mus, a Jackson supporter, said he was impressed that Mondale had chosen Ernest Green, formerly of Little Rock, to be a Mondale deputy campaign director. Green, one of the nine children who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, was a Jackson supporter. It was Mondale 's first visit to Arkansas since he won the nomination in June at San Francisco a news conference and said, "This is a time of great pain and sadness for me and my family. My brother has apparently become involved with drugs The governor had been aware of the state police investigation of his brother since May, according to Col. Tommy Goodwin, director of the Arkansas State Police.

The governor asked the state police to carry on as with any case, Goodwin said. Goodwin said the investigation of the younger Clinton was started on information from an informant, and that both the FBI and the Hot Springs police aided in the case. the 10-minute appearance, Harris freed Clinton on a $5,000 bond, but no trial date was set. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 15 years in prison or a $15,000 fine on each count, according to the office of U.S. Attorney W.

Asa Hutchinson. Clinton was unemployed when the indictments were handed down, Joan Roberts, the governor's press secretary, said at that time. The indictment covered a period from May 24 to July 1, authorities said, and stemmed from sales of cocaine to undercover agents in Hot Springs. At that time, the governor called EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) -Roger Cassidy Clinton, younger brother of Gov.

Bill Clinton, pleaded innocent Tuesday to drug charges before Judge Oren Harris in U.S. District Court in El Dorado. Clinton, 26, of Hot Springs was indicted by a federal grand jury at Fayetteville this month on five counts of distributing cocaine and one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He was accompanied at the arraignment by his attorney.Ste-phen Engstrom of Little Rock. Clinton waived an explanation of the charges.

At the conclusion of Officer hailed as hero charged with planting bomb Gassville girl wins state Little Miss title u- 1 s- L1- i Shasta Sommer Hodges of Gassville has been named the 1984 Little Miss of Arkansas. She was selected from a group of 68 semi-finalists who participated in the state pageant Aug. 10-11 at the Camelot Inn at Little Rock. Shasta is the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Dennis Hodges. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Don Hodges of Midway, Margy Brown of Mountain Home and Earl Polhamus of Sacramento, Calif. As the state winner, Shasta will represent Arkansas in the National Little Miss Pageant.

All of the state contestants will meet at Lehigh Acres, in October to determine the national winner. The national pageant, like the state pageants, will include judging based on poise, personality and appearance. The contestants are also interviewed by the judges. High scorer in all four categories security record for the Summer Olympics, where teams deemed susceptible to terrorist attack, such as the Turkish delegation, were protected with extraordinary measures. One of the biggest worries was Armenian terrorists, who want Turkey to acknowledge slaughtering 1.5 million Armenians during World War I.

Turkey does not acknowledge any such massacre. Pearson originally was credited with discovering the bomb aboard the bus, disarming it just as the timing device went off, and then running with it for 60 yards before placing it on the tarmac. Gates called Pearson "a real hero" on Monday afternoon. But Gates said Tuesday that investigators began to suspect Pearson after deciding that no one but he could have approached the guarded bus in the first place to plant a bomb. They also discovered the nine-year veteran of the force had experience with explosives.

Gates said Pearson concealed the bomb in a briefcase before planting it in the bus wheel well at the airport. Gates said Pearson made the device four days ago but had no chance to plant it until Monday. Pearson took two polygraph tests and confessed shortly before taking the second one early Tuesday, Gates said. "He (Pearson) says he did not rig it to explode but it was an explosive device." LOS ANGELES (AP) A police officer hailed as a hero for disarming a bomb on a bus carrying the luggage of Turkish Olympic athletes was arrested Tuesday after confessing he planted the device to attract the attention of his superiors. Officer James Pearson was booked for investigation of possessing a destructive device and held in lieu of $60,000 bail following the discovery of the pipe bomb Monday at Los Angeles International Airport, said Police Chief Daryl Gates.

"He indicated he was having problems with his supervisors Gates said at a news conference. "He wanted to do something to cause them to take notice. We have all noticed him at this point." "This is particularly sad. He had a remarkable record," Gates said of Pearson. "He had numerous commendations.

We are very sad that he has chosen to do this." The announcement of the arrest came just hours after a telephone caller to the Paris bureau of The Associated Press claimed the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia was responsible for planting the bomb. No one was injured by the bomb, which touched off a spate of telephoned bomb threats and forced the evacuation of about 6,000 people from three terminals of the airport. Discovery of the bomb had appeared to mar an almost-perfect determines the winner. Her state title included a tiara, trophy and banner. In addition, she received $300 in cash, a round-trip flight to Florida and gifts and accessories from Tinkerbell.

She also had an official National Little Miss portrait taken at the pageant. Shasta was among three Baxter County contestants in the pageant. Her friend Tara Anne Hancock, also of Gassville, was selected as a semi-finalist fror.i the many applications sent in from across the state. Tara, 6, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Hancock. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. William Dean Buss of Oakland and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Hancock also of Oakland. As a semi-finalist, Tara received a tiara and a trophy. For selling advertisements for the pageant book, she also received a National Little Miss watch, radio, tote bag and other accessories. Angie Kristine Hodges of Elizabeth also received a tiara and trophy as a semi-finalist. Angie, 5, is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Rick Hodges. Shasta and Tara will be featured Friday on the Mountain Home Today program on TV-43. Brenda Nelson will interview the young girls and their mothers about their experiences in the pageant. Mountain Home Today is aired at 11: 30 a.m.

and 5: 30 p.m. on UHF channel 43 or Home Cable channel M-VN A i i fcj.jiuj.iz i jjLii-MMiMsMImm' imr iii a Aurtr'ir vm 9M -r'- -r Shasta Sommer Hodges, 4, at left, is the new Arkansas Little Miss. She was selected from among 68 semi-finalists to represent Arkansas in the National Little Miss Pageant at Lehigh Acres. in October. Shasta was accompanied by her friend and fellow semi-finalist Tara Ann Hancock, 6, right, to the state pageant at Little Rock Aug.

10-11. Angie Kristine Hodges, 5. of Elizabeth, was also named as a semi-finalist. BulletinLeicht.