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Subject: Bush, Clinton clash on education programs
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 14:22:34 PDT
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	President Bush proposed Thursday a $25,000 line of credit for
Americans to send their children to college and Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton immediately accused him of stealing a key prosposal because the
polls showed education to be a hot issue.
	Bush and Clinton, as well as Clinton's Democratic opponent for the
Democratic presidential nomination, former California Gov. Edmund 
``Jerry'' Brown, were campaigning within miles of each other in
Pennsylvania, the site of the next primary April 28.
	Bush, who would like to be remembered as the education president,
traveled to Allentown to pump election-year life into his campaign
called ``America 2000'' to upgrade the nation's schools.
	``If we want to compete in the 21st century, we've got to become a
nation of students,'' Bush said in announcing his proposed Lifetime
Training and Education Account.
	``Our future depends on education reform and on our ability to
literally reinvent schools,'' he declared.
	A White House fact sheet said that Bush's proposal would authorize a
new line of credit through the Student Loan Marketing Association, known
as Sallie Mae, for new students who want the option to repay loans on an
income-contingent basis. Borrowers could have repayments tied to fixed
percentages of their income.
	In addition to the $25,000 line of credit, Bush also recommended
eligibility for existing federal aid programs be expanded to include all
students. It is now restricted to those who are considered part-time
students.
	Clinton, speaking 50 miles to the south at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said he has proposed that
all along and Bush was a late-comer to the idea.
	Clinton said ``the only time President Bush changes is when the polls
change or the presures mount.'' He said Bush had reacted to threats from
David Duke and Pat Buchanan, and now to him.
	Clinton said:
	``Today, to top it off, after 11 years of an administration that has
led an all-out assault on a college program to help middle-class
students, after he tried for 11 years to make it impossible for middle
class folk to get any help to go to college, -- one year after he propsed
a budget which cut off Pell Grants to every family making more than $10,
000 a year -- but just 12 days before the Pennsylvania primary, the
president comes here to Pennsylania to promise universal access to
college loans, to top it off, a program that has been at the fore of my
presidential campaign since the day I announced.
	``Now, they say I'm slick.''
	Clinton got the support of Albert Shanker, president of the 800,000-
member American Federation of Teachers, who derided Bush's education
record and called Clinton ``the most thoughtful option out there.''
	With a delegate lead that many think is unsurmountable by anyone else
seeking the Democratic nomination, Clinton has said he plans to aim his
campaign more toward facing Bush in the fall than meeting Brown in the
remaining primaries.
	His speech at Wharton, one of the nation's leading business schools,
was along this line. Billed as his first major economic statement,
Clinton criticized Bush for a lack of economic strategy and called for
converting defense spending to domestic growth and for universal,
continuing education.
	Clinton, his voice still hoarse from a bout of laryngitis, said with
all the changes in the world, America had to change. It had to develop
an economic strategy, he said, to match Japan and Germany and other
countries that have had such strategies for years.
	``In the new American economy, everyone will have to change, and
everyone will get something in return,'' Clinton said.
	``Workers will gain new prosperity and independence, including health
care and training, but unions will have to give up non-productive work
rules and rigid job classification and be open to change. Managers will
reap more profits but will have to manage for the long run, and not
treat themselves better than their workers are treated.''
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