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Subject: Undaunted Brown exhorts college students to get out the vote
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Date: 8 Apr 92 23:48:23 GMT
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	RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) -- Former California Gov. Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown
Jr., upbeat despite defeats in Democratic primaries the day before,
urged Virginia college students Wednesday to reclaim the political
system and ``take some power back.''
	``Take action, don't just be just a passive observer of politics,
like a couch potato saying 'abuse me,''' Brown told hundreds of students
at an afternoon rally at Virginia Commonwealth University. ``No, you
have to be the moral agent of change.''
	Brown exhorted students to mobilize at state Democratic caucuses on
Saturday and Monday and vote for him as the party's presidential
nominee.
	Since Gov. L. Douglas Wilder abandoned the race for the nomination,
the Democratic presidential candidates largely have ignored Virginia.
Though Democrats have had a lock on statewide politics in the past
decade, voters have not voted for a Democratic president since 1964.
	Brown said he wants to change that by energizing an army of young
people who are disaffected by the present system.
	``We the people, that's what it's about,'' Brown said. ``You've got a
chance here to take some power back. There's a caucus coming up on
Saturday and your voice can be heard in a way that rarely happens.''
	Brown, capitalizing on his theme of ``Take Back America,'' generated
the most applause when he called for national health care, a cleaner
environment, abortion rights and privacy.
	``I'd like to re-focus our foreign policy on our most urgent need,
which is ending world hunger, that's what killing most people in the
world ... pushing for human rights, there's still a lot of people being
tortured ... we have to curb the arm sales -- we're making the world an
arsenal -- and we have to stop turning the planet into a stinking
junkyard,'' Brown said.
	``And if we can turn this country around and start restoring vitality
to our democracy, to our economy, to our environment, we can create the
kind of good will and opportunity that does reduce the crime rate,'' he
said.
	Despite a big loss to Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton in Tuesday's crucial
New York primary, Brown told the students he's in the race for the long
haul and would not run as an independent if he cannot claim the
Democratic nomination.
	``He's saying what I would say if I had the chance,'' said Shelby
Barrette, who was doing a brisk business in Brown T-shirts.
	Barrette, a history major from Bedford, said Brown has ``got the
youth of America waking up to the political system in America.''
	``I think this was a very empowering speech,'' said Megan Downing of
Richmond. ``He's finally willing to say we need a restructuring.''
	``There's just so many things we can do if we just recognize it's
time for a renaissance, time for a rebirth, America can do it,'' Brown
said. ``We have the power what we need is the will.''
	Clinton was to campaign in Virginia on Friday but has been ordered by
his doctors to return to Little Rock and rest his voice for several
days.
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