VOL. XXV. NO. 47 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Clinton wins by landslide Bush years Clinton handed presidency drew curtain MM by wide electoral margin on Cold War Bill Clinton was elected the ■ Clinton campaign / page 4 nation’s 42nd president on ■ Election section / page 9 Tuesday in a Democratic ■ Campus turnout / page 9 WASHINGTON (AP) — The landslide that swept George most enduring accomplishment Bush from office and ended 12 for our country to face the of George Bush’s presidency years of divided government in challenges of the end of the may have been his role in Washington. The Arkansas Cold War and the beginning of helping end the Cold War, the governor vowed to confront the next century,” Clinton said. ideological battle that shaped problems “too long ignored,” “To restore growth to our U.S. foreign policy for 45 years from the economy to AIDS and country and opportunity to our and kept the world at the brink the environment. people, to empower our own of nuclear war. Bush wished Clinton well and people so they can take more But voters on Tuesday re­ promised a smooth transition of responsibility for their own jected Bush’s plea for a second power. “It’s over,” he whispered lives.” term to try to try to help both to his wife Barbara. The 46-year-old governor will America and the world fully ad­ Voters were renewing become the nation’s third- just to the “new world order.” Democratic control of Congress youngest president when he Of the Bush presidency’s fail­ and said pocketbook concerns takes office Jan. 20. ings, one of the most remark­ had mattered most as they With 76 percent of the able was his inability to get chose a new generation of precincts reporting, it was Congress to pass his proposals leadership. Clinton with 43 percent of the for restoring vigor to the econ­ Clinton, who campaigned as a vote, Bush with 38 percent and omy. He blames Congress for “different kind of Democrat” independent Ross Perot with 18 the inaction; his critics say he and vowed an end to percent. didn’t assert leadership. Republican “trickle-down” The Associated Press tally Possibly the most well-re­ economics, built his majority in showed Clinton had won 349 membered Bush misstep may, all regions of the country. He electoral votes and led for 29 in the long run, be his decision settled matters in Oregon, more — far more than the 270 in June 1990 to accept a Demo­ Washington and California, needed to win the election. crat-led tax increase after where he was the first Bush had 115 electoral votes, a pledging in his 1988 speech ac­ Democrat to prevail since 1964. far cry from the 426 he cepting the GOP presidential He won customary compiled in 1988. nomination: “ Read my lips: No Democratic strongholds, Perot ran the strongest third- new taxes.” captured key battlegrounds in candidate race in more than a Bush, himself, says his strong Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey generation, and the Clinton- suit is foreign affairs. and put Vermont and Kentucky Gore team will take office after In the final weeks of his re- in the Democratic column for having won far less than 50 election campaign, Bush never the first time in many years. percent of the vote. missed a chance to remind Savoring his triumph, he The race among Bush, his people of the enduring impor­ appeared with Vice President­ young Democratic challenger tance of ending the Cold War, elect Albert Gore and their and a maverick businessman during which the United States families before a crowd of that absorbed a nation and the Soviet Union built tens thousands at an outdoor rally in emerging still from a dreary of thousands of nuclear Little Rock, gathered to cheer recession. weapons — enough to blow up the first Democrats to win a The voter surveys showed the w orld many times over. The Observer/John Bingham national election since Jimmy Clinton winning key voting Bill Clinton addressed over 2,100 students, faculty, and staff in Stepan “I take great pride in the fact Carter in 1976. blocks. He was matching Bush’s Center on Sept. 11 at Notre Dame. Last night Clinton was elected as “This election is a clarion call see BUSH / page 4 the new president of the United States. see ELECTION / page 4 Perot hails Clinton win, P residential race sum m ary not final as of 2 am EST promises to stay active DALLAS (AP) — A jubilant but pledging to keep his volunteer losing Ross Perot appeared organization together. before a large crowd of cheer­ With 40 percent of precincts ing supporters late Tuesday, reporting nationwide, Perot had danced with his wife and pro­ 17 percent of the vote, to 44 jected that Bill Clinton had won percent for Democrat Bill the U.S. presidential election. Clinton and 39 percent for “The American people have President Bush. spoken. They have chosen “Are you more dedicated than Governor Clinton,” Perot said ever to putting this country just minutes before CNN, NBC back to work?” Perot asked, as ■ N .H * 4 and CBS projected Clinton the supporters shouted agreement. ■ Mass. 12 winner, based on partial re­ “We’ll keep on going as long turns and exit polls. as you want to keep on going,” ■"'L 1 To the tune of “When the he said. ■ Conn. 8 Saints Go Marching In” and Perot earlier in the day had 1 N.J 15 “Crazy,” Perot took his wife and declared that Inauguration Day Electoral Popuk then a daughter in his arms as would find his supporters cele­ m votes votes ■ Pel. 3 supporters applauded and brating in Washington. George Bush 129 38 % ■ Md. 10 chanted support for his losing Unorthodox to the last, Perot’s presidential campaign. campaign told only a few Bill Clinton 349 43% ■ d .C. 3 Perot said he would use the photographers he was going to Ross Perot guideline that “if it’s good for the polls — after saying the country,” he and his sup­ previously that he had voted by Results not In 60 porters would back a proposal. absentee ballot. Hawaii “As long as we’re together “I thought the vote was sup­ nationwide, you will have an posed to be private, but I guess enormous voice in this coun­ A P /««» see PEROT / page 4 try,” the Texas billionaire said. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, November 4, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST WEATHER REPORT Forecast to, noon, Monday, November 2 Lack of focus Cool today with 40 Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. 30s percent chance of rain. Highs in the cost Bush 40s lower 40s. Snow 60s i5Ps, 20s flurries tomorrow with re-election highs in upper 30s. TEMPERATURES 30s 40s City H L President Clinton. 40s Anchorage 31 21 The awkward phrase Atlanta 74 49 Bogota 73 45 fumbles off the lips like a Boston 48 41 word said too many Cairo 86 64 times. The words are Chicago 42 36 50s Cleveland 65 46 even more difficult for 70s, Dallas 66 52 the conservative voter to Detroit 54 40 say. Indianapolis 68 38 David Kinney 80s Jerusalem 79 59 And so it will remain London 54 45 News Editor until the fact sinks in that Los Angeles 66 62 Madrid 70 41 the United States is Minneapolis 34 32 under the leadership of a Moscow 34 32 80s Nashville 75 42 Democrat for the first time in 12 years. FRONTS: 80s New York 55 49 As delirious voters wake up today, gone is a Paris 54 41 campaign that has stretched over one and a half Philadelphia 67 56 Rome 66 57 arduous years, officially beginning last winter in COLD WARM STATIONARY 1992 Accu-Weather, Inc. Seattle 52 38 Iowa and New Hampshire. The final week saw Pressure S o u th Bend 50 38 an upbeat Clinton faltering in the polls but Tokyo 64 45 Washington. D C 73 55 promising better times, and a very un- HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY presidential George Bush firing attacks and swinging wildly at his opponents. In truth, the Republican campaign never got off the ground. Voters saw a campaign that appeared more like an meandering, babbling stream than a drive for re-election. Voters kept looking for a punchline that never came. TODAY AT A GLANCE Not only did it appear that the president have no campaign strategy, but no real plan for the NATIONAL INDIANA next four years either. Cheerleader's father guilty nf threats_______ Even after a somewhat bruising primary bout ■LEXINGTON, Ky.— A man who couldn’t afford to Policeman may have faked his death______ with conservative columnist Pat Buchanan, let his daughter be a high school cheerleader pleaded ■AUBURN, Ind. — An arrest warrant has been issued Bush assumed a passive presidential stance. He guilty to sending letters threatening to kill her if she for a former Indiana policeman who authorities believe refused to even mention his opponent’s name wasn’t taken off the squad. Bennie Lee Doan wrote the may have faked his drowning to avoid sentencing for child until August, a clear indication that he did not letters as if they had been written by a disgruntled parent molestation. Jerry Collins was convicted of three counts of take the governor’s run for the White House whose daughter did not make the cheerleading squad. felony child molestation and was to appear for sentencing seriously.