Governor Cancels Event With Clinton

Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening firmly distanced himself from President Clinton, canceling a fund-raiser with the president that once promised to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars for the governor’s tough reelection bid. With private polls and analysts telling him that Clinton’s appeal is sagging dramatically among some Maryland voters, Democrat Glendening offered his sharpest criticism yet of the president but declined to say whether Congress should censure him. Glendening sources said the White House was dismayed by the governor’s move and tried to persuade him to go forward with the fund-raiser.