Children, Teenagers Assigned Roles in Clinton Inaugural Drama

By Mark Walsh

WASHINGTON--As this city nears its quadrennial peak of pomp and circumstance for the inauguration of President-elect Bill Clinton next week, thousands of young people are preparing for their parts in the inaugural drama.

Children and teenagers will be evident everywhere during the five-day festivities, inaugural organizers say, from the select group of students who will accompany the President-elect on a bus trip from Monticello to Washington to the last high school musical group that will march up Pennsylvania Avenue in the Inaugural Parade.

"It is important to us to reach out to children and young people,'' Hillary Clinton said in a statement released last week by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. "We must afford them every opportunity to participate in the making...