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: Mon, 9 Nov 92 14:59:57 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;INSIDE THE BELTWAY \BY John McCaslin \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES BON APPETIT, Y'ALL! Over at Dominique's, they're dishing up "Clinton Cuisine." You've got a choice of "Ozark fresh" fried catfish or chicken-fried steak that promises to be "just like Mama's." But if the French restaurant entices you with fresh Arkansas spinach, politely decline. Seems a mouse scurried his or her way into a 15-ounce can of spinach that was produced and packed in Siloam Springs, Ark., recently. A customer at a Giant Eagle grocery store last week found parts of the mouse in the vegetable, triggering a recall of the Arkansas spinach in three states in the East. The Pittsburgh-based grocery store chain said it will no longer buy any products from the Arkansas packing company. PULPIT POWER If evangelical Christians had "gone fishing" on Election Day, Bill Clinton would have received 52 percent of the popular vote, according to an exit poll conducted by the Market Research Institute for the Christian Coalition. Instead, Mr. Clinton received a 43 percent "mandate." If evangelicals had avoided the voting booth, Mr. Bush would have won only 32 percent of the popular vote instead of the 38 percent he did receive. The experts say this voting group, which often responds to "family values" issues, makes up as much as 25 percent of the voting public. JOB DESCRIPTION Bill Clinton's former minister said the president-elect is everything except "Slick Willie" and added that Mr. Clinton might make a good pastor if he ever tires of politics. Mr. Clinton "has principle and conviction a mile deep," says Wayne Ward, now a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Mr. Ward, 71, twice served as interim pastor at the Little Rock church where the Clintons worship. BLESSING IN DISGUISE Now that the president-elect knows the pope is watching and listening, he might want to clean up his language a little bit. When Mr. Clinton caught sight of photographers while preparing to tee off in a golf outing Saturday in Little Rock, he shouted, "Goddamn it!" Directing his anger toward the manager of the Chenal Valley Country Club, Mr. Clinton said, "I thought we had an agreement that they weren't going to be up here." FOREIGN RELATIONS As you can see in the photograph, this is how Iraqi President Saddam Hussein celebrated news of President Bush's defeat last week. Luckily for the crowd, Mr. Hussein was in a good mood and aimed his bullets skyward. Pope John Paul II, at the same time, didn't fire a pistol into the air, but the Holy Father yesterday did send a warning shot to Bill Clinton. A front-page commentary in Sunday's L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, warned Mr. Clinton not to let the United States slip into immorality, referring to the president-elect's support for abortion rights. While the Holy See began the article by offering best wishes to Mr. Clinton, it quickly added that those wishes were "deeply rooted in moral concern." Freedom should never become a "license to strike at the most weak, from unborn babies to outcast elderly people," said the court of the pope. Clinton officials told us yesterday that they would have no comment on the Vatican statement. BUM RAP You might remember the name Eliot Ness. The real Eliot Ness was a federal agent who brought Chicago criminal Al Capone to justice for tax evasion. The fictitious Eliot Ness was a federal agent who appeared in "The Untouchables," the popular television drama that originally aired about 35 years ago. Now the Washington-based Commission for Social Justice, Order Sons of Italy in America, is seeking to block the proposed return of "The Untouchables" for fear that the series will unfairly stereotype Italian-Americans as gangsters. "Week after week, millions of television viewers witnessed the heroic adventures of Eliot Ness and his crusaders in their single-minded quest to rid the streets of heinous criminals, virtually all of whom were of Italian-American descent," said the CSJ's Philip Piccigallo. Three out of every four adults who participated in a recent national survey believed that Italian-Americans are into organized crime. But according to the Justice Department, fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of the 23 million Americans of Italian heritage are involved in the mob. FINAL CUT Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner was not amused upon reading in this column Friday that members of his staff paraded a replica of George Bush's head on a serving platter before an audience of young conservatives. Mr. Feulner immediately sent a letter of apology to President Bush, which read in part: "I want to offer my sincere apologies - and those of my colleagues at The Heritage Foundation - for the ugly and disrespectful episode which reportedly took place in our auditorium Wednesday night. . . . "As you know, we have had many sharp policy disagreements with the White House over the past two years, but we have never allowed our criticisms to become personal or vindictive. "The kind of behavior reported in this morning's Washington Times crosses the bounds of good taste and we will not tolerate it." Two members of the Heritage staff - Betsy Hart and Edward Hudgins - were fired over the incident. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. 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