Subject: Presidential Campaign Progress Report
Date: Published: 6/19/92 (46 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Washington Wire:
    A Special Weekly Report From
    The Wall Street Journal's
    Capital Bureau
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    By Ronald G. Shafer

    BUSH'S CAMPAIGN still sputters, despite a boost from
 Russian arms cuts.

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    Many Clinton aides concede that planning for a smooth
 convention is "far behind."  Platform fights loom on economic
 planks; some regular Democrats see too much emphasis on
 "entrepreneurial" plans.  AIDS activists plan a rally.  Even
 the New York site, with a potential strike and security
 concerns, plays into GOP efforts to portray Democrats as the
 party of urban chaos.
    Clinton stubbornly resists urgings by top aides to trim
 his multi-point plans and focus on a simple message.
    CLINTON PLANS to issue an updated economic plan, perhaps
 as soon as next week, while putting off a multi-issue agenda
 with Democratic leaders in Congress.  But a mutual agenda
 "isn't dead," says a top Democratic aide.  If Clinton can't
 set joint action with Congress on key issues, his campaign
 would be severely jeopardized.
    QUAYLE CONTINUES to lead administration attacks on Clinton
 and Perot, despite a bad spell of potato embarrassments.  He
 will deliver a speech today at the American Association of
 Talk Show Hosts and another on family values early next month
 in Clinton's home state of Arkansas.
    PEROT GAVE $100,000 to the American Jewish Committee last
 month, a few weeks after revealing that he had belonged to a
 country club that excluded Jews.  The committee's Jamie
 Kelstein says the first-ever Perot donation to the group was
 a "surprise."

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