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Advertiser, Lafayette, Feb. 8, 1994 A-3 Fox McKeithen announces for governor By Mike Hasten G.I. Joe still fighting at 30 He said he will support whoever gets the partys endorsement. Asked whether that includes David Duke, he said I dont think theres much chance of it being David Duke. Lastrapes describes McKeithen as a formidable candidate who has shown he can win in a statewide race and who can appeal to a large percentage of the people.

If he is elected, McKeithen would become the first son of a former governor of Louisiana to hold the office. His father, John McKeithen, served two terms, 1964-72. We need a real constitutional convention made up of real people. McKeithen this August in New York. Hasbro also is issuing commemorative editions of the doll still decked out in fatigues and boots, the scar on his right cheek as fresh as ever priced up to $34.

In addition, producer Larry Kasanoff said he is planning a film based on the character for the summer of 1995, although no financier or studio has been signed. G.I. Joe in my mind is nothing less than a popular cultural icon, said Kasanoff, who said he used to stage battles with the toy along with his brothers and neighbors in their childhood backyards near Boston. The combat figures good vs. evil battle has changed over the years.

G.I. Joe has donned new uniforms, joining Eco-War-riors, a Drug Elimination Force and the Star Brigade space army. One of the reasons weve taken G.I. Joe into other adventures is, thank God, were not in any wars, Bozigian said. NEW YORK (AP) As he faced down his 30th birthday Monday, G.I.

Joe wasnt just coming over the hill he was taking on outer space, drug dealers, ecological mayhem. The fit-and-trim plastic doll doesnt have to worry about the battle of the bulge. Hasbro Inc. kicked off a $15 million-plus marketing blitz to celebrate the prototype action doll first introduced in February 1964. Since then, the Pawtucket, R.I.-based toy maker has sold $2.6 billion in G.I.

Joe products, including more than 300 million G.I. Joe figures and 200 million vehicles. The trade thought it was a joke. What boy was ever going to play with a doll? Well, weve been laughing ever since, said Kirk Bozigian, vice president of boys marketing for Hasbro Toys Division. Plans for the yearlong salute include a appearances by a skydiving team at air shows in 10 cities and the first G.I.

Joe collectors convention, to be held Happy 12 th Birthday DANEAKUS NICHOLAS Today You Are One Year Closer To Being Love Mom, Dad Tierra YOU'VE PROMISED HER THE MOON AND STARS State Editor BATON ROUGE Secretary of State Fox McKeithen has become the first to throw his hat into the ring challenging the re-election bid of Gov. Edwin Edwards. McKeithen, a Republican, officially announced his entry into the 1995 governors race at a press conference Monday. Republican Party Chairman Dud Lastrapes says several party members have contacted him to discuss their chances of getting the partys endorsement but so far none but McKeithen has committed to running. Other Republicans mentioned are former Gov.

Buddy Roemer, former Gov. Dave Treen, Rep. Quentin Dastugue of Metairie, Congressman Richard Baker and East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Doug Moreau. McKeithen said he has spent the past several months listening to voters while other politicians were trying to grab headlines and while legislators and the governor have been blaming one and other for our problems. What hes heard, McKeithen said, is that taxpayers are tired of being abused and used by government and are weary of having their pockets picked and their backs patted.

State government needs to be reshaped from the ground up, he said, in a constitutional convention. But unlike the 1973 constitutional convention and the Legislatures ill-fated attempt in 1992, McKeithen says elected officials and special interests should be prohibited from participating in the process. We need a real constitutional convention made up of real people, he said. That way, it can develop a government that serves its people, not enslaves it. McKeithen said he hopes to make the convention a campaign issue for legislators and that voters will look down upon lawmakers who dont want to be excluded from participating in rewriting the constitution.

Louisianas crime problem needs to be addressed, he said, but not by infringing on the rights of honest, law-abiding citizens. One of the most controversial of McKeithens proposals is reforming the states welfare system by offering rewards to welfare recipients whose children graduate from high school. He says if welfare recipients become more educated, they will break the chain of poverty. There are no incentives to do the right things, he said. The only incentives are to do the wrong things.

He said the only requirements for getting welfare are that you refuse to go to work and refuse to get married. Welfare has enslaved an entire generation of Americans, he said. We must empower them to break down this system so they, too, can hope to achieve the American The sad thing is you can make more money on welfare than you can flipping hamburgers at McDonalds. Along with welfare reform, McKeithen urges a revamping of the states educational system, including offering parents the ability to choose which public schools their children attend. We must make educating our children our greatest priority, he said, and after we educate our children, we must present opportunity for The best economic development I know is to get government out of peoples lives.

The state needs to develop an economy that fully utilizes its natural resources and workforce, he said. For too long we have been looking for a goose that lays golden Our current goose is Those who offer gambling as the solution are gambling with our future. Lastrapes said the Republican Party is to gather this summer for a non-binding beauty contest of sorts to get a feel for who will be seeking the partys endorsement. However, official backing of the party is not a requirement for running in the open primary. The actual convention to select a candidate will be held next February.

McKeithen said if he doesnt get the partys endorsement, he will not run because it would damage the partys chances of winning the election. Clinton promotes health care plan BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) A retired Air Force veteran concerned about health care got President Clintons attention Monday night by shouting People are dying at the veterans hospital. Gerald Mathis was among 600 people gathered at Barksdale Air Force Base shortly before 6 p.m. to greet Clinton as he arrived in Shreveport to tout his health care plan to workers at the General Motors plant.

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My employer furnished copies of letters from my doctor giving me complete clearance and also results from a physical that I passed for life insurance, she wrote. However, they declined. After talking with Clinton, Windham said she was impressed. It was obvious that he had read my letter and was concerned, she told reporters. Im just glad that we have a president who is tackling this problem and who is willing to listen.

Sen. John Breaux, cosponsor of a rival plan that would not provide guaranteed coverage, was there pushing his bi-partisan package. Our plan would take care of the poor people who could not afford insurance by giving them a subsidy, he said. Our plan brings in the sick who, because of pre-existing illnesses, cannot get insurance and they cant be canceled. Breauxs plan has won the endorsement of the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate chief executives.

The plan would require employers to offer, but not pay for, health coverage. Clintons plan would require employers to pay about 80 percent of the premium cost. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce dropped its earlier conciliatory approach to Clintons plan and dismissed it even as a starting point for discussions dealing with medical care reform. Ordeal ends with shooting LeeJAichoek FINE JEWELRY AcadianaMall 981-8071 Baton Rouge Hammond Shreveport Mobile, AL When two friends waiting to drive her home tried to intervene, Clemons shot both as horrified bystanders looked on, Carlsbad police Lt.

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Mathis told Clinton that he had spent six hours at Shreveports veterans hospital on Friday waiting to see the only doctor on duty. I want to hear about it. I will check into it, Clinton told Mathis. Others in the crowd asked about Louisianas high crime rate. We think we have the toughest crime package we can pass, said Clinton, before ticking off features of the bill, which include putting another 100,000 policemen on the streets and juvenile boot camps.

Clinton also talked to Annette Davis, a 13-year-old from Shreveport. In a letter to the president, Davis said she was afraid to sit near a window in her house for fear of being shot. He told me he had a 13-year-old daughter and wouldnt want her to be afraid to be in her own home or have to look over her back everywhere she walked, Miss Davis told reporters afterward. Clinton met with other Louisiana residents who had written' letters to him, including a DeRidder woman who traveled 1,100 miles back and forth to a charity hospital before she found out that her breast tumor was not malignant. Patricia Mallory said she is in a vise: insurance companies will not give her coverage because of eye, neck and breast problems.

At the same time, she cannot get government assistance, even though she makes less than $600 a month. In her letter, Mallory told the president that she spent seven weeks traveling to a charity hospital before doctors said a new breast mass was not malignant. She is having to wait another three months before surgery can be scheduled. With my mother having lost both breasts, and my father having suffered from cancer several times before his death, you can imagine how frightening it is waiting six months to have surgery which should have been completed in one or two days, Mallory wrote. Janette Windham, a Shreveport woman also invited to meet with the president, said she recovered from a brain aneurysm in 1991.

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