European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 tested behind president Reagan at he delivers hit stale of the Union address i january file oboe Bosh s Imperial Campaign by Bernard Weinraub new York times discrimination says sen. Bob Dole. Preferential  complains rep. Jack. Kemp. Equal Opportunity demands Alexander m. Haig or. Tho object of their ire George Busty what angers dote and the other Republican presidential hopefuls is what they arc describing As Bush s "imperial1 use of the of ice of the vice presidency in his Campaign for the presidency coupled with the fact that numerous state Republican organizations Are controlled by Bush supporters As a result they say Bush is accorded realm enl As the most favored candidate and his rivals Are left fuming Bush controls the state parly in new Hampshire and Lov a and Michigan and Florida and Many other Stales and he s going to get preferred realm enl Dole said1 in an interview. I Don t think it s right i think in says something about disc in Marion. We All run around and say we should t discriminate Tut we re doing in ourselves " dots who narrowed Bush s Lead in most polls i recent weeks says he is disturbed at the Way the vice president s Campaign has played Hai Joyall especially against him. In pcs Moines. For example at a regional Republican gathering. Bush arrived in an air Force it was heralded by a school band playing Rulles and flourishes then proceeded to give a prime time saturday luncheon speech. Olner contenders were Given inconvenient 15-Mjnule slots. With does making his remarks on sunday morning at a Lime when everybody ought to be in Church he said. Actually 1 got on right after lha Jimmy Swaggart program Dole said with a laugh we were allowed inside the City limits As Long As we did t Louch  Dole s comments were coldly and angrily dismissed by the Bush Campaign there s no evidence of the vice president gelling any preferential treatment simply because he has  said Lee Atwater. The vice president s Campaign manager. Those charges irom senator Dole Are very unfortunate because i think he s done a Good Job of hiding his mean Streak so far in this Campaign. However i always Felt it would emerge sooner or later. What you have Here is the first Bilter Lasle of sour grapes in the 1988 presidential Campaign " after making the comment Alwater said he hoped the Campaign would now proceed with All the Republican contenders adhering to their parly s so colled Mth Comman Manl speak no ill of Republican candidates " by others were just As critical As Dole one of fhe most vocal former gov. Pierre s Dupont to of Delaware criticized Bush s travels aboard air Force 2 surrounded by secret service agents and aides and his Lack of debate against any Republican rivals he s lived in that cocoon for almost eight  Dupont said. I was Oul hid of her Day in Allison and Hampton and Mason any Iowa he said. I was in Coffee shops and county curl houses listening to people talk about the problems of their Community. I said How does George Bush gel information lion the Wisdom of people in towns like that inside the cocoon he Carmol get that kind of information. I Don t care whether he Speaks at luncheons or what Lime he Speaks. I just want him to talk Laid about real issues and participate in the debate talk Ghoul where he country ought to be going. He s jus not doing  John Buckley a spokesman for Kemp said the new York slate legislator loll strongly about tha preferential ire Alment Given to Bush from the party at the leadership conferences they be had around the  "11 made a certain amount of sense a year  Buckley said. Bui now thai Bush s presidential Campaign has raised several millions of dollars and he has organizers in Many states there can no longer be the pretence of him going to party events Only in the Guise of vice president and not in the Guise of a presidential candidate sooner or later an equalization of the candidate s status has o occur or there la a an exhibition of parly favouritism which would be unfair and Dan Mariaschin a spokesman for Haig said Haig says there ought to be a level playing Field. He says if we re All in this together there ought to be equal Opportunity for All nol a half hour for one and 15 minutes for the others in Des Mornes Haig grumbled Inal Bush received lop Billing at the cattle show and the other candidates were obliged to come ou1 of the cattle Chu Lefor 15 minutes  similar complaints were voiced in March in Nashua n.h., at the first of six gatherings featuring the Republican presidential contenders Bush secured a Bilsing apart from the of hers by serving As a Heytota luncheon speaker o party activists. The others were Given two to five minutes to speak by the governor John h. Sununu a leading Bush supporter. A True censor alive will lean to the two minutes Sununu said at the time. Those a Idle More Liberal will go to three or three and a  Dole was not amused. Bush did f wan to share the platform with us he said. " Don l let anybody else in. This is my show. I m the vice president. I m the front runner " what plainly bothers his rivals is the vice president s natural advantage of using his important role to Advance his career to president. The trappings of the vice presidency the Boeing 707, the elaborate secret service Protection Iho limousines helicopters and Advance staff evoke an image of Power especially compared to the humdrum ways in which most candidates traipse around new Hampshire and Iowa. Bush expects to have raised $7 million to 16 million by the end of june while dose s aides project that his Campaign will have gathered $3 million by then. Dole has an additional $2 million left Over ram Nis fasl Senate Campaign thai can be App Tarl to his presidential drive. Fred i. Greenstein a presidential scholar Al Princeton University said there was hardly anything unusual about the vice president using his office to seek the presidency. What s unusual is that fhe races Are More open so Hal there Are More people to make the complaints he said. The two most recent vice presidents to Campaign Tor the presidency while in office were Richard m. Nixon and Hubert h. Humphrey. What Nixon did or four years in the second Eisenhower term was 1he same kind of thing Bush has done greens Lem said. He used the office to build up an enormous stale and local indebtedness by speaking at fund raisers and being available to the party stalwarts around the country. Nobody really challenged him in the primaries although there were some rumblings by Nelson Rockefeller and some interest by Barry Goldwater Nixon won the nomination but lost he 1960  of John f. Kennedy eight years later Humphrey also used the Power of the vice presidency to gain the democratic nomination despite Wido opposition at a time when the parly and the nation were divided by Vietnam. The tact that Humphrey was Able to use the office and build up grassroots support really gave him the inside  Green Stem said Humphrey lost the 1968 election to Nixon. Despite the harsh comments Aboul Bush by the prospective Republican candidates perhaps the underlying question is whal would happen if the situation vere reversed and ode was vice president and seeking the presidency. Would i do it if i had the chance1" said Dole. I m undecided " he laughed and made it Plain that Fie probably would to Iho same thing As Bush. Page 14 the stars and stripes Friday Jui