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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Schwarzenegger praises Bush’s strength By DAVID ESPO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Republican National Convention co-stars Laura Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger commended President Bush to the country Tuesday night for four more years, hailing him as a man of strength and compassion. “You can count on him, especially in a crisis,” the first lady said. “He’s a man of perseverance. He’s a man of inner strength. He is a leader who doesn’t flinch, doesn’t waver, does not back down,” the Austrian-born California governor added in remarks that blended high praise for the president with assurances to immigrants that the party welcomes them. “We Republicans admire your ambition. We encourage your dreams. We believe in your future,” said the governor, one of a series of speakers on an evening scripted to show the softer side of a party known for its conservatism. Schwarzenegger and the first lady were taking their turns at the Madison Square Garden podium as 2,508 delegates formally bestowed their nomination on the president for a second term in office. “Four I more years,” they chanted in unison. The sound system blared the song “Knock on Wood.” Republicans met inside their heavily fortified convention hall as police made more than 300 arrests in the surrounding streets on a day heavy with protests. By evening, authorities wrapped an entire m l a r o w n Manhattan block in orange netting as they worked to contain demonstrators who vowed to march on the Garden itself. Bush, locked in a tight re election race, campaignea across tnree Damegrouna states during the day and worked to extinguish a convention-week controversy of his own making. “In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table. But make no mistake about it, we a?e winning, and we will win” the war on terror, he told an American Legion convention in Tennessee, one day after saying he didn’t think victory would be possible. “I probably needed to be more -1 articulate” in earlier comments, he conceded in a radio interview with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Bush’s democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, spent the day at home in Nantucket, Mass., as his campaign settled on a plan to place $45 million in television advertising in 20 Dattiegrounu states through Election Day. The commercials will run on broadcast stations and cable, and include appeals to minority voters whom Democrats need . to turn out in large numDers on inov. a, u tney are to deny Bush a second term. A poll by The Washington Post showed the race to be a dead heat, 48 percent apiece, but found that the president is moving ahead of his rival on national security issues and pulling into a virtual tie on handling of the economy. Bush arrives in New York on Wednesday, a day ahead of his nomination acceptance speech that is expected to sketch out a second term agenda. Vice President Dick Cheney addresses the convention Wednesday night. Republican convention planners scripted an evening that reintroduced the theme of compassionate conservatism that Bush ran on successfully four years ago. A parade of speakers walked onto a podium that bore the words “People of Compassion” as a backdrop. They praised the president’s efforts to battle AIDS, combat breast cancer, promote adoption and enact far-reaching educational reforms. “I am proof that the blessings ot liberty are within reach of every American,” said Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, an African-American. Both the first lady and Schwarzenegger hailed Bush’s leadership in terms that bordered on extravagant in speeches that did double political duty. For the first lady, that meant what aides called a glimpse at the personal side of the commander in chief; for the governor, an attempt to appeal to new and unregistered voters who are not part of the president’s conservative base. “No American president wants to go to war,” said Mrs. Bush, neither Lincoln nor Roosevelt nor her own husband. But in a description of a commander in chief that most Americans never see, she said, “I remember some very quiet nights at the dinner table” after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “George was weighing grim scenarios and ominous intelligence and potentially even more devastating attacks.” r~-~-~ “We Republicans admire your ambition. We encourage your dreams. We believe in your future.” ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR New Patterns & New Designs! WM, (e) 46CC& 2754 Devine St. 254-0772 Portion of sales go to Scholorship Fund of Sorority Council Try All The Winning Varieties! © HOT POCKETS* ^Available at1? 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