Government.

Deputy Premier the Hon. Ann Cartwright DeCouto pledged penalties which would bite.

These would include: Confiscation of drivers' licences; Seizure of assets; and Being placed on an Airport "stop list'' to prevent travelling.

Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto announced the measures during a United Bermuda Party rally at Dellwood School, Pembroke, last night.

Up to 150 members of the party faithful turned up to hear her speak, and see a parade of UBP candidates from the Central Parishes of Pembroke.

Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto won a standing ovation as she vowed a "get tough'' approach.

She also promised a harsh crackdown on husbands who beat their wives.

Much stiffer sentences would be meted out, and the phrase "domestic violence'' wiped out.

"That is a phrase we must erase from our lexicon. It is violence. It is grievous bodily harm,'' she declared. "There is nothing domestic about it.'' Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto said while men who battered each other received three years from a Supreme Court judge, a wife-beater would get a $300 fine from a magistrate.

She stressed the future of Bermuda's children hinged on protecting women.

Some 52 percent of the population were women -- and a third of households were run by single parents.

Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto said many single moms were living in "glass boxes'', desperately trying to make ends meet.

"Where are the fathers of these households?'' she asked.

What example was being shown to children who rarely saw their fathers? What effect did it have on a child who never saw his father going the extra mile his mom was going? "We are not going to tolerate this any longer,'' said Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto, who later stressed the proposed "stop list'' would not involve enlisting help from the United States.

Earlier, Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto's running mate in Pembroke West Central Sen.

Jerome Dill also vowed to get tough -- but this time on drug dealers.

Society had to unite to seek out and punish dope pushers, many of whom looked respectable and were snappily dressed.

"I am sick and tired of seeing people I went to school with die from AIDS because of their drug habit,'' he said.

"I am sick and tired of seeing people whose minds have been blown by drugs.'' Sen. Dill also warned how easily the Country could end up with a Progressive Labour Party Government.

That could happen by not voting UBP, or putting crosses against the National Liberal Party or an Independent, he said.

Government whip and Pembroke West candidate Dr. David Dyer provoked hoots of laughter as he ridiculed an alleged hidden PLP agenda.

"It's like putting lipstick on a battle-scarred pit bull terrier. What is underneath is still pretty ugly and vicious.'' Dr. Dyer also likened the Opposition to a man rowing a boat.

"They face one way, while rowing the other,'' he said to loud applause.

At the outset Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan was given a rapturous reception as he outlined a "brighter tomorrow'' under the UBP.

He pledged to fight for the demolition of all racial barriers.

And he called on Bermudians to give their backing to the UBP revolution to power the Country into the 21st Century.

OCTOBER 1993 ELECTION