
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 28, 1993                   TAG: 9304280386
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PEOPLE

Jim Guy Tucker, who succeeded Bill Clinton as governor of Arkansas, has vetoed a state bill that would have encouraged educators to post historic documents, such as the Congressional Record, in public schools.

The authors of the bill thought this might be instructional for students. The governor thinks it would be scandalous, says the Washington newspaper Roll Call.

According to Tucker, the Record contains "bizarre polemics on religious and political positions, as well as excerpts from other documents, that Arkansas parents would be startled and appalled to have foisted upon their children - particularly in the lower grades."

Congressional Record transcriber John Burrell disagrees. "They can't use foul language," he said of those whose remarks are quoted in the Record.

Roll Call recalled two instances of hot stuff in the Record, both courtesy of conservatives: a 1989 description of gay sex practices, inserted by Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Calif., a 1986 transcript of a dial-a-porn conversation, inserted by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.

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