Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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__Nation & World__ Clintons campaigning side by side - this time for Hillary by Anne Gearan Associated Press Happauge, N.Y. — Bill and Hillary Clinton were on familiar yet foreign terrain during a fund-raising weekend in New York. They were comfortably campaigning side by side — but this time she, not he, was the candidate. For the first time, the Clintons jointly spoke to New Yorkers about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s exploratory bid for New York’s open Senate seat, and together they raised some $400,000 for her expected run. President Clinton, noting twice in one speech that “I’m not running for anything,” urged New Yorkers to vote for his wife as the pair campaigned with an ease bom of more than two decades’ practice. A.nd while still officially coy about whether she is really a candidate for the 2000 race, Mrs. Clinton drank in the enthusiasm of Democratic donors at four mostly big-dollar events over two days. “Mrs. Clinton is happy to have the president join with her this weekend,” Mrs. Clinton’s campaign spokesman, Howard Wblfson, said Sunday. Mrs. Clinton expects to bring in about $800,000 from a two-week string of events attached to the family’s vaca tion, Wolfson said. First came a pair of $l,000-a-plate events on the Massachusetts resort islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard last weekend. The vacation money hunt will end with two events Thursday in Skaneateles, N.Y. The Clintons also squeezed in a house-hunting visit in Westchester County, N.Y., where Mrs. Clinton has said she would like to settle after her family leaves the White House. If she decides to run for the New York seat, she must establish residency before Election Day. A president’s spouse has never run for independent office. Mrs. Clinton has never held public office, and she has never lived in New York. Her candida cy here is predicated on opportunity — Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is retiring, and the state has welcomed big-name outsiders before. Yet what began months ago as far fetched idea has apparently grown on both the president and Mrs. Clinton. Until now, Clinton has endorsed Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy only from afar. He has called her well qualified, and said he would support her choice whether she runs or not. On Saturday, he called her the most talented person he had ever met in pub lic life, and fondly described a commit ment to public service shared over their 28 years together. “You ought to send her to the Senate and give her a chance to serve,” Clinton told supporters who paid $1,000 apiece for a barbecue supper with the Clintons. Mrs. Clinton beamed as young Democrats chanted “Hill-a-ry, Hill-a ry,” at one party, and reminded support ers of her independent record of public service. Clinton smiled, too, and whispered excitedly with his wife. Clinton has 17 months left in his second term, and is already campaign ing to make Vice President A1 Gore his White House successor. He will also campaign some more for'Mrs. Clinton, although there is nothing specific scheduled, Wolfson said. “I’m not running for anything,” a rueful Clinton said Saturday night. “I* kind of hate it, actually, and I wish I still could, but I can’t.” As if to underscore that point, Clinton went golfing the next afternoon while his wife was the top draw at a $5,000-a-person fund-raising lunch for 75 at the Long Island home of fashion designer Vera \Vhng. The lunch menu included chilled melon soup and striped bass. Clinton popped into a market for a doughnut en route to the golf course. Proceeds from the lunch benefit Mrs. Clinton’s exploratory campaign and Democratic candidates generally, Wolfson said. She will need an estimated $20 mil lion if she runs. Mrs. Clinton, who formed her exploratory committee on July 6, does not have to report to the Federal Election Commission until later in the year. Her likely Republican opponent, New York City Mayor Rudolph - Giuliani, has reported raising $2.6 mil lion by June 30. Iraq reportedly will pump more oil to aid Turkey's quake victims BY LtUN DAKAHU Associated Press Baghdad, Iraq — Iraq will start pumping more oil to aid victims of Turkey’ earthquake, the official Iraqi News Agency said Saturday, although it was unclear whether the move had U.N. approval. INA said Iraq’s aid package would be $10 million more than United States” quake aid contribution. Iraq’s Red Crescent Society and its Turkish counterpart have agreed to hand out revenue from the extra oil exports to families of the victims, INA reported. Iraq has been barred from unauthorized oil exports since the U.N. Security Council imposed an embargo fol lowing Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. But the council launched a so-called oil-for-food pro gram in 1996 to try to care for Iraqis suffering under the sanctions. It was not clear whether Iraq had obtained U.N. approval to sell more oil to help Turkey. Iraq is only allowed limited exports of $5.2 billion each six months. U.N. officials could not immediately be reached for comment, and a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department in Washington said they were unaware of the development. EMA said the Iraqi cabinet, following a meeting chaired by President Saddam Hussein, ordered the Oil Ministry to go ahead with the exports, but it did not make clear whether the pumping has started. INA said Iraq was determined to sell enough oil to make a contribution to Turkey larger than the United States’. State-run newspapers also said preparations were under way to send an Iraqi medical team to attend those injured in the Aug. 17 earthquake, which killed tens of thousands of people. They called on Turkey to reconsider its anti-Baghdad policies by helping put an end to the flights by U.S. and British planes based in Turkey patrolling a no-fly zone in northern Iraq. Baghdad has long contended that it is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe because of sanctions. Last week, Iraq’s U.N. Ambassador Saeed Hasan called the United States “a bloodsucker of the people,” and com plained that Iraqi children are dying at an alarming rate because of the sanctions. He cited both a report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan which concluded that the U.N. relief program could not put an end to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq, and the first survey of child mortality in Iraq since 1991, released this month by UNICEF. Bush backing gun control by James Pilcher Associated Press Marietta, Ga.— Texas Goy. George W. Bush, cam paigning in an area beset by recent gun vio lence, voiced support Friday for modest new controls on firearms including a higher minimum age for possession. Bush told reporters he backed raising the legal age to 21 from 18 for handgun possession and outlawing imports of certain high-capacity ammunition clips — two of the mea sures in gun control legislation that the Senate passed but t&e House rejected earlier this year. “I support them all,” Bush said when asked about the proposals dur ing the wrap-up of a three-day south em campaign swing for the GOP presidential nomination. “These are all reasonable measures.” Bush has previously spoken in favor of the Senate bill but campaign aides said he had not been asked about its specific provisions.. Endorsing them helped Bush better articulate his openness at least to some new controls in the wake of mass killings that have fueled the debate over gun violence in America. But Democrats said Bush’s ges ture was empty. “You know the election cycle has begun when Bush triesio hide his real record with tempered rhetoric,” said Roy Romer, general chairman of theDemocratic National Committee. “In every key gun safety vote as governor of Texas, Bush has sided with the gun lobby.” Democrats have long attacked Bush as being soft on gun control, noting he has spoken against govern ment-mandated gun registration, signed legislation barring cities in Texas from suing gun makers for the costs of violence, and deemed mandatory child safety locks on firearms impractical to enforce. Bush also has been criticized for backing wider background checks for gun show sales only after letting a similar proposal die in his own state. The Republican front-runner stumped in South Carolina and North Carolina before coming to Geoigia, enjoying throughout the trip a respite from a battery of questions about whether he had ever used drugs. Bush last week denied taking drugs at least in the last 25 years. The governor put on a pair of Geoigia fund-raisers to cap a trip that drew enthusiastic crowds of Republicans in the three states. x Speaking to reporters, he stressed his core belief in gun rights. “I believe innocent people, law-abiding citi zens, ought to be allowed to own a gun,” he said. “I believe they ought Bush SEE RAGE 6 FORTUNE® MAGAZINE MAY HAVE PUBLISHED THE LIST, BUT OUR EMPLOYEES PUT US ON IT. As you search for a place to begin your career, consider this. There are millions of companies that strive to give their employees the very best, but according to FORTUNE®Magazine, only 100 who actually do. And Enterprise Rent-A-Car is one of them. Why? 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