Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:28:29 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;ELECTIONS '92;ELECTION NOTEBOOK ALSO-RANS Americans cast a smattering of votes for fringe candidates whose platforms called for everything from solving the nation's woes by meditation to repealing the federal income tax. They even gave 25,063 votes to imprisoned political extremist Lyndon LaRouche in his fifth bid for the White House, the Associated Press reported. But with independent Ross Perot getting 19 percent of the national vote, fringe candidates got far less than the 0.94 percent of the national vote they got in 1988. With 99 percent of the national vote counted, the 20 fringe candidates accounted for 587,854, or half of 1 percent, of the 100.3 million votes counted. The Libertarian Party's Andre Marrou, who would repeal the income tax, led these candidates. He polled 234,413 votes. Second, with 95,640 votes, was Bo Gritz, former Vietnam War hero and POW-MIA activist running on the Populist Party platform. Lenora Fulani of the New Alliance Party was third, with 70,810 votes. John Hagelin, the Natural Law Party's candidate, called for problem solving by mapping political candidates' brains and using transcendental meditation. He got 31,408 votes. OXFORD DELIGHT In Britain yesterday, Oxford University celebrated "old boy" Bill Clinton's victory with praise and pleasure. University College, where Mr. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar from 1968 to 1970, sent the president-elect a message expressing "delight at the election of a Univ. man to the presidency of the United States." Toby Lewis, the treasurer of the prestigious Oxford Union debating society, said he hoped Mr. Clinton would accept the union's invitation to address it during his first two years in office. Oxford University is the oldest in the English-speaking world. University College - one of the oldest of the university's 35 colleges - was founded in the 13th century. Mr. Clinton, who studied philosophy and politics there, is the first Oxonian to win the White House. NONTRADITIONAL Choosing simple clothes and words, Seattle's Patty Murray, 42, tailored her pitch for a Senate seat from Washington to the working middle class. "Thousands of people are sending a message that they want change, not a senator from the past, politics as usual," she said in a victory statement Tuesday night after defeating Republican Rod Chandler. Mrs. Murray, who says "politics reached out and grabbed me," spoke of joining other women in the Senate: "You are going to see a coalition of women that will get to work from day one and get this country back on track. All eyes will be on these women." MINORITY CAUCUSES The Congressional Black Caucus had 26 members in the 102nd Congress. In the 103rd Congress, it will have 40 members, plus its first senator since 1979. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus had 13 members in the 102nd Congress. It will have 19 members in the 103rd Congress. SELF-DESTRUCTION There will be no more Jacksonville, Pa. The voters of the tiny former coal town have spoken. Squeezed by a population decline - now about 80 persons - the town, which is 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, couldn't keep up with operating expenses, reported the Associated Press. So Jacksonville residents voted 33 to 17 Tuesday to merge with neighboring Black Lick Township, whose voters approved the merger 355 to 127. Jacksonville, a 140-year-old town, had an annual budget of $8,000 to $10,000. The community has been burdened by the expense of street-light maintenance and couldn't afford to install a state-ordered sewage system. Town officials were often left without a quorum at council meetings. The town has no property, no municipal building and no equipment of its own. Ron Kimmell, who owns the only grocery store in Jacksonville, said most folks agree the merger is the most practical solution. "The median age in this town is probably about 70 years," he said. JACKIE ONASSIS 'VOTES' NEW YORK - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis gave Democratic Senate candidate Robert Abrams a vote - or at least a vote of confidence - Tuesday when they met at their Manhattan polling place. "You're going to win," the former first lady, smiling broadly, whispered to Mr. Abrams while they shook hands. Mrs. Onassis greeted Mr. Abrams, his wife, Diane, and their daughters, Rachel, 16, and Becky, 6, as she left Robert F. Kennedy School on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But the Republican incumbent, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, won re-election to the Senate by 2 percentage points over Mr. Abrams. DUELERS OK IN IOWA DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa elected officials can't take anything worth having from lobbyists. They can't become lobbyists for two years after leaving office. But there is one thing they can do: They can fight a duel and still hold office. Iowans voted Tuesday to remove language from the Iowa Constitution that said anyone who participated in a duel "shall forever be disqualified from holding any office." With 94 percent of the precincts in, the vote was 497,780, or 57 percent, in favor to 371,790, or 43 percent, opposed. State Rep. Clay Spear, known to House colleagues as the resident grammarian, introduced a resolution to delete the dueling ban and got it passed in two consecutive sessions. That brought it to the voters. ELECTION JUDGE TRAGEDY MILLSAP, Texas - An election judge removing polling-place signs was struck and killed by a car. Graves Wester, 73, was hit Tuesday evening outside the Millsap Community Center, about 40 miles west of Fort Worth. "It was right after the polls closed," said volunteer firefighter Jeff Edwards. "He had gone out to take the election signs out that tell people where to vote, and he just walked out in front of a car." The street was dark except for one street light, Mr. Edwards said. The driver was driving at about 30 mph and was not issued a citation, a Department of Public Safety spokeswoman said. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM