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riru THE PANTAGRAPH Sunday, August 13, 2000 www.pantagraph.com Buchanan: Party won't die i 'C 3 -V, Urn I-' 3. 0 -If' I a 1 AP "Ladies and gentlemen, it's hard to believe this, but we have a chance of winning the White House in November," Goldhaber told delegates, drawing a standing ovation. "I accept with humility and with pride the mantle of H. Ross Perot," Hagelin, a nuclear physicist, said Friday to roaring delegates loyal to the party founder. His nomination came minutes after a tally of primary votes showed Buchanan had beaten him nearly 2-1.

Both conventions rejected the national mail-in and Internet vote, claiming election fraud. At stake: $12.5 million in federal campaign funds for the nominee. Buchanan said in the interview Saturday that he was already drawing up a budget for the money: a mix of commercials and travel. In a state like California, where both are very expensive, the $12.5 million would be spent "like that," he acknowledged, snapping his fingers. He said he was confident he would receive the money.

"But let me admit it, if the establishment is able to deny us the little amount of money we get, and we get a media blackout so that I'm not covered, and then they keep us out of the debate, yes, they can make it impossible to win," he said. Across the street at the breakaway convention, skirmishes erupted Saturday over leadership of state delegations. The nominations culminated months of battles between Buchanan, who defected from the Republican Party, and old-line Reform activists who disdain his conservative views and who say he hijacked the party with dirty tricks. Reform members dispute true presidential nominee LONG BEACH, Calif. AP) Pat Buchanan on Saturday dismissed the idea that the shouting matches and fierce nomination dispute between his supporters and a Reform Party faction loyal to founder Ross Perot would tear apart the young third party.

"Look, people forget these things in a week," he said in an interview. He mentioned the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and said, "Compared to that, this is high tea at Buckingham Palace." There's even an upside, he said: The controversy at the Reform convention in the past week as drawn news coverage and public attention to the young party. Buchanan and John Hagelin each claimed the Reform Party nomination, throwing resolution of a bitter political split to federal elections officials and probably eventually to the courts. Buchanan named retired teacher Ezola Foster as his running mate the first black woman on a "major party" ticket, he said just before he was chosen the party nominee by a convention he controls. The separate convention that nominated Hagelin followed his suggestion Saturday and selected Nat Goldhaber, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, as his running mate.

Reform Party presidential nominee Pat Buchanan gestured to reporters on Friday as his pick for vice-president, Ezola Foster, stood off to the side prior to boarding a cruise in Long Beach, Calif. Foster accepted her nomination from the party following roll call Saturday morning. Nooksack tribe fights takeover from within 2000 STYLE back to school SAVE 25 This season, the little details are reinventing the classics, for a look that's fresh yet familiar. And Genuine Girl by OshKosh" for Girls' 7-14 has it down pat. All of the latest embroidered knit tops, fleece, denim, vests, skirts and more are here to make her back to school better than ever! Reg.

sale (d.55) 17 gations. Federal prosecutors allege Ra-bang family members including former Tribal Councilman Robert Rabang Sr. took advantage of loose immigration rules for Indians and their family ties with the Squ'ay Indians in Canada to run bundles of cash north and duffel bags full of pot south. Some 20 people have been indicted, mostly members of the extended Rabang clan. Several pleaded guilty earlier this year to reduced charges, and others are awaiting trial.

In addition to the drug case, two tribal leaders pleaded guilty this year to misusing federal funds. Another investigation is underway into possible embezzlement of more than $300,000 in federal Housing and Urban Development funds. And published reports have said the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle is considering organized-crime charges against Nooksack leaders an unprecedented move against a tribal government. Such charges could result in a federal judge taking over day-to-day Nooksack DEMING, Wash.

(AP) The tiny Nooksack Tribe, after fighting the government for more than a century to reclaim land taken away in the 1860s, is under siege again at least, according to some members. And this time, some tribal elders want the government to step in. -'Former Tribal Council member Rozalda Roberts contends the Nooksacks have lost control to a clan of outsiders, the Rabangs, a 200-member family of mixed Filipino and American Indian descent. Roberts, 66, and other elders claim the Rabangs used lax membership rules in the 1980s to infiltrate the tribe, based by the Canadian border 90 miles north of Seattle. Since then, they say, Rabangs and their supporters have climbed the ranks of tribal government, and corruption and drugs have put a stranglehold on the tribe.

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