Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-8-1992 The BG News September 8, 1992 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News September 8, 1992" (1992). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5404. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5404 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. G The BG News Tuesday, Septembers, 1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 75, Issue 10 Weather Labor Day: the buck starts here Truman idolized "Harry Truman never engaged in "Harry Truman did not wake up every double-speak. Harry Truman was a man ol morning worrying about how to lower by candidates decisiveness, not equivocation. He'd find taxes one more time on millionaires. Harry little in common with the Governor Clinton, Truman gave the special interests hen. by Jill Lawrence a man who hedges or ducks on almost George Bush is giving it to you, and if s The Associated Press every tough issue." time you took your future back." George Bush, presidential candidate Bill Clinton, presidential candidate Rainy days and Tuesdays: George Bush and Bill Clinton Today, showers and thun- opened their fall campaigns derstorms likely. High 75 to Monday promising prosperity like a beginning. "I think the membered as the working peo- aloft at the Waukesha fair- Truman has been the third man 80. Southwest winds 10 to IS and fighting to claim Harry American people feel this one's ple's president" and pledged to grounds. "Hey George," the in the race almost since Ross mph becoming west. Chance Truman's legacy of plain talk and been going on about 10 months match the opportunity, security sheet said. "This pink slip's for Perot abandoned that role in of rain 60 percent. Tonight, presidential leadership. too long," Bush told Republicans and dignity he said the Democrat you." July. Both candidates have in- clear. Low SO to SS. Wednes- Presenting voters in key Mid- at a picnic in Waukesha, Wis. had given workers. The president started his day voked Truman's name fre- day, sunny. High near 75. western states with what Demo- The president paid tribute to The candidates go into the final with a chilly dawn walk across quently, Bush so often that Mar- crat Clinton described as "the "all who punch the time clock, 50-odd days of the race with Clin- the Mackinac Bridge connecting garet Truman Daniel, the late clearest choice in a generation," pay the bills, sweat it out at tax ton leading in national polls, eco- Michigan's upper and lower pen- president's daughter, was moved Inside The News each man offered himself as the time." He said his top priority in nomic indicators sagging and insulas. to write a newspaper column in Strike up the band: best hope for the future and der- a second term would be to build voters overwhelmingly unhappy He headed for Detroit after the protest. Assistant photo editor ided the other's claims of com- economic security for them. about the direction of the coun- Wisconsin picnic. Competition for the reservoir Linda Lenc profiles the un- mon ground with Truman. Clinton, in Truman's hometown try. Clinton was speaking in Ohio of good feeling Truman appar- sung heroes of the gridiron The traditional Labor Day of Independence, Mo., said Tru- Bush's uphill task was under- and Connecticut after a rain- - the marching band. campaign launch hardly seemed man would "always be re- scored by a pink bed sheet held soaked rally in Independence. See Trumans, page live. □ See pages four and five Outside Campus 60 turn out to protest Wal-Mart Jews not Better than Jimmy Swag- gart: by Chris Hawley PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - local government reporter Cable television viewers executed hoping for spiritual gui- About 60 local construction dance got temptation in- workers demonstrated Friday in stead. front of the Wal-Mart discount in war, Instead of the scheduled store under construction on religious broadcast, a Dixie Highway. switching mistake Sunday The workers were protesting man says brought an X-rated show of Wal-Mart's use of out-of-state a woman being undressed companies and workers to build and caressed by a man, said the store, charging that the Ar- by Julie Tagllaferro Mark Matthews, general kansas-based chain is exploiting adminstration reporter manager of the local Warner the community by not providing Cable office. local construction jobs. Students walking by the The programs are fed by a "They want our dollars, not our Business Administration satellite into the office, Mat- workers," said Chuck, a Maumee thews said. A technician had Building Friday were carpenter who would not give his greeted by a man informing switched the receiver for full name. "Out here where Eternal World Television to them the Holocaust never everybody's unemployed, it existed. tape a different program doesn't make sense." and forgot to return it to the The man refused to iden- tify himself except to say proper position, he said. The Northwest Ohio District A viewer called after that he is a German- Council of Carpenters organized American whose people about 10 minutes and the the protest, which ran from 6:30 have been treated unfairly. technician switched to the am. to about 11am. "Fifty years of lies correct channel, Matthews William Booth, a business rep- against the Germans is too said. resentative for the NODCC, said "We certainly regret that the union organized the event long," the man said. "Every one of these lies that I see viewers who tuned in... got after repeatedly asking Wal- more than they bargained against Germans makes me Mart contractors to consider that much prouder that I for," Matthews told The local workers and companies for Desert Sun newspaper. am a German." the project. The man said he has been You got the right one, distributing literature from Booth said that on most con- the Institute for Historical baa-baa: struction projects, a contractor Review at universities and DESMOINES.Iowa-- assembles a construction crew other public places for 10 Lambs don't care much by contacting local unions, who years. about being part of the Pepsi then gather area workers for the The purpose of the insti- generation, and if Coke is job. Wal-Mart has hired out-of- tute is to "bring historical the real thing, it doesn't state companies who bring in record into accord with the matter to them. their own workers, he said. facts." According to the es- But if you mix it all tablishment, historians on together, they will drink. He indicated a sign on the con- World War II created pro- And, obviously with the non- struction site reading "Sweet paganda diet versions, they'll put on Home Alabama." The man said the institute valuable weight. And it's re- "That kind of tells it all," he and people like him are try- cycling. said. "Let the people from Ala- ing to take away the im- "Root beer, different bama shop here if they're going pression made by the media colas, strawberry pop, we to let Alabama people work that Germans in the war are just put 'em all in. After all here." "the bad guys" and the the carbonation is settled Ray Medlin, the NODCC's sec- Jews are the "good guys." out, you'd be surprised how retary-treasurer and business The man said there are similar they taste. Actually, manager, said about 400 unem- many lies about the war. it tasted pretty good," said ployed construction workers live For one, he said homicidal Arnold McClain, livestock in the Northwest Ohio area. gas chambers did not exist. supervisor at Iowa State Booth also charged that the The pamphlet he distrib- University's research farm out-of-state companies are doing uted, "The Holocaust Con- nearChariton. shoddy work and showed pho- troversy" by Bradley R. McClain discovered that a tographs of plumbing and con- Smith, stated that people in bottling company was dis- crete he said had been removed The BC NewtAThrU Hawley the camps died of epi- carding gallons and gallons because it was installed im- With a sign in front of the Wal-Mart store construction, local construction workers show their displea- demics and malnutrition, of colas daily because of properly. not in gas chambers as pho- packaging errors. He de- sure with Wal-Mart's use of out-of-state companies and worker! to build the store. About 60 local con- struction workers participated in a protested organized by the Northwest Ohio District Council of tographers, historians and cided to see if the animals See Protest, page three. Carpenters in front of the Wal-Mart construction on Dixie Highway Friday morning. other media have Implied. liked the stuff and, if so, Despite photographs and whether it would help them news clips, Smith said, grow. there is no documented They liked it. Mostly. And proof of "alleged exter- it did help them grow, al- Life returning to normal in Florida mination of the European though not as fast as he Jews." hoped. by David Faster peeled apart by Andrew's 165 The Associated Press "irs beginning to look more like the old neighborhood mph wind Aug. 24. "There was never a plan New federal and state aid on the part of Nazi leader- Lottery again." centers opened, handing out mil- ship to execute any civil- CLEVELAND - Here are HOMESTEAD, Fla.