
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, September 30, 1995                   TAG: 9510180096
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

WILSON QUITS GOP PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Out of money and trailing badly - even in his home state - California Gov. Pete Wilson abandoned his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Friday, saying he could not in good conscience pile up a hugh debt.

"As much as your hearts and mine tell me to fight on, my conscience tells me that to do so would be unfair to all of us," Wilson said at a Sacramento rally. "To go on would simply be to run up an unacceptable debt."

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