DATE=11/5/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=GEORGE W. BUSH TEST (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-255855
BYLINE=GIL BUTLER
DATELINE=WASHINGTON
INTERNET=YES
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: Campaign advisers to leading Republican
presidential candidate, George W. Bush, are rejecting
suggestions that he may have harmed his campaign by
incorrectly answering questions about international
leaders. VOA's Gil Butler reports on the Bush quiz
conducted Thursday by a Boston television reporter.
TEXT: Quick. Name the president of Chechnya. In an
interview with Boston Television station WHDH, George
W. Bush was unable to do that. He also failed to name
two other leaders.
/// REPORTER/BUSH ACT ///
(Reporter) And the Prime minister of India?
(Bush) The new Prime Minister of India //pause
// uh, no.
/// END ACT ///
The Texas Governor also failed to name correctly the
general who recently took power in Pakistan, though he
said it was good news for stability on the
subcontinent.
Mr. Bush attempted to turn the tables on reporter Andy
Hiller by asking him the name of the foreign minister
of Mexico. The reporter acknowledged that he didn't
know, but added "I'm not running for President."
George W. Bush has been criticized in the past for
mistaking Slovakia and Slovenia and giving the wrong
designation for Kosovars, Greeks and East Timorese.
In the Boston interview, he correctly named the
president of Taiwan.
Mr. Bush is expected to make public a detailed foreign
policy in a few weeks.
For the record, the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India
and Pakistan are, in order: Aslan Maskhadov, Lee Tung
Hue, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and General Pervez
Musharraf. (Signed)
NEB/MGB/KL
05-Nov-1999 11:04 AM EDT (05-Nov-1999 1604 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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