DATE=7/19/96
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-200417
TITLE=DOLE / POWELL (S ONLY)
BYLINE=JIM MALONE
DATELINE=CLEVELAND
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BOB DOLE HAS CONFIRMED 
THAT RETIRED JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN GENERAL COLIN POWELL WILL BE  
SPEAKING AT NEXT MONTH'S REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN SAN DIEGO.  MR.
DOLE WAS CAMPAIGNING IN OHIO FRIDAY, AND V-O-A POLITICAL 
CORRESPONDENT JIM MALONE IS WITH THE DOLE CAMPAIGN.

TEXT:  MR. DOLE CONTINUED HIS FOCUS ON EDUCATION REFORM WITH A 
STOP AT A CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN CLEVELAND.  BUT HE OPENED HIS SPEECH
BY CONFIRMING THAT GENERAL COLIN POWELL WILL BE A FEATURED 
SPEAKER ON THE OPENING NIGHT OF NEXT MONTH'S REPUBLICAN 
CONVENTION IN SAN DIEGO.

                         // DOLE ACT. //

         GENERAL POWELL WILL BE SPEAKING ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF 
         OUR CONVENTION.  (APPLAUSE) I AM VERY PROUD THAT HE IS A
         REPUBLICAN AND GLAD THAT HE WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE
         FESTIVITIES AND IN THE VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS THAT WILL
         TAKE PLACE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

                          // END ACT. //

GENERAL POWELL WAS ONE OF MR. DOLE'S TOP CHOICES TO BE HIS 
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATE BUT HE HAS REPEATEDLY MADE IT 
CLEAR THAT HE WILL  NOT  BE ACTIVE AS A POLITICAL CANDIDATE THIS 
YEAR.

MR. DOLE WOUND UP A THREE DAY MIDWEST SWING WHICH EMPHASIZED HIS 
PLANS FOR EDUCATION REFORM INCLUDING MAKING IT EASIER FOR PARENTS
TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO THE SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE, BE THEY 
PUBLIC, PRIVATE OR RELIGOUS.  (SIGNED)

NEB/JM/CF

19-Jul-96 11:50 AM EDT (1550 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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