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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 21. 1938 the stabs and stripes Page 5 Dole jabs at Bush Over arms Deal Simon talks taxes As campaigning Rolls on by lire associated press Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole declared tuesday there was no excuse tar the Reagan administration s secret Amis Salci to Iran while democratic contender Paul Simon trumpeted his opposition to the 1986 us overhaul legis lation in an indirect swipe Al rival Rich Ard Gephardt the contenders stumped in Iowa and elsewhere As a Republican family feud simmered anew in Michigan with officials saying there May be competing state conventions Bier this month to pick delegates to this summer s gop National convention. Dole in a speech in Iowa City addressed the Issue that has dogged the gop front runner. Vice president George Bush. There is just no excuse Cor the disastrous arms sales to the Aya Pollali Khomeini or 10 anyone else in Iran tie said. Those sales knocked into a cocked hat the credibility of the formal . Pol icy of no Concession o terrorists Bush in South Carolina said he thought the Public had had enough of hearing about the Iran Canara affair. "1 think inc voters see that this has been looked into. I think this country is smart. They warn 10 move on solve other problems thai exist he said. Dole also predicted the Reagan administration s arms control treaty will be confirmed in a bipartisan Vole in the Senate. It is a Good treaty which will be strengthened further in inc Senate and then should be approved he said. Meanwhile a new Gallup poll pointed to Strong support for Bush in the South. The poll or 1,201 voters in 13 super tuesday states indicated Bush had a belter than 2-1 Lead Over Dole. Gary Hart was at the front of the democratic pack but Jesse Jackson was close be Hind. Simon was in new Hampshire where the first presidential primary will be held Robert j. Pole birth Dale july 22,1923 Birthplace Russell Kan. Family wife Elizabeth daughter. Robin from first marriage b education attended University of Kansas 1941-43. Received Bachelor  Law degrees. 1952. Washbum University in Topeka Kan. Military in Perlene army 1943-4b. Dote was wounded twice and decorated twice Asen infantry platoon Leader in Italy during world War ii. His injuries Cost him a kidney and the use of his right Arm experience Senate minority Leader 1987-Presenl Senate majority Leader 19&5-bg candidate Lor Republican presidential nomination. 1980 Republican nominee Lor vice president. 1976 . Senate 1969-Presanl . House. 1961-69 Russell county Kan Allotey 1953-61 Kansas Housti. 1951-53 Chicago Tribune graphic sources almanac of american politics congressional quarterly a tooth Congress feb. 16. For those of you who Are filling out your Las forms i was one of the three senators who vol cd against that Bill he told a Bra Lettl audience in am Hyrsl. And any of you who started filling out the forms it is not simplification. And the nation is coming to understand it is not tax Reform  Gephardt was one of the lenders in Congress in the Effort to enact the tax overhaul Bill that lakes effect this  did nut mention him by name in his remarks but when he was asked whether he had the Missouri Congress Man in mind he replied it could Well be. It s a very fundamental difference Gephardt made no response instead raising Money in Florida and venturing a guess that the result of the democratic caucuses in Iowa could be a seven Way tic. But another democratic contender Bruce Babbit criticized Simon for advancing a deficit reduction plan that does t add up. Well you run the num Bers on his plan and the computer would go Klunk because there Ain t no num Bers he said it does t add up and it s not a serious attempt to Deal with the  the former Arizona governor said in an associated press interview in Washington. Babbitt said his own plan for a nation Al sales lax could be implemented in a Way that would prevent any Burden on lower income people. To Michigan where Bush triumphed in last week s county conventions Over a coalition of supporters backing Pat Robertson and rep. Jack Kemp mate re publican spokesman Rusty Hills said the livelihood has increased that there will be competing stale conventions later this month. The campaigns said All the delegates elected in inc county caucuses have been challenged by one Camp or another. However spokesmen for All three campaigns said talks were being held to try to work out a solution 10 the Delegate fight. Some 1,300 delegates were supposed to have been chosen to attend the Jan. 29-30 state convention where 77 delegates will be apportioned for inc sum Mer s Republican National convention. Bui with walkouts and challenges an estimated 2,700 would be delegates Are expected la show do at inc slate meeting officials said. In other developments Bush was in Knoxville tcnn., tout ing the arms control treaty that president Reagan signed last year with the soviets. He pledged to seek agreement on a pact reducing conventional forces As Well. Gephardt attended a fund a incr in Orlando fla., where he said a weekend Survey placing him at or near inc top of the pack in Iowa showed he was moving in a positive  still he said the polls Are misleading. The numbers Are not Loo far  tie said you could have seven candidates come out  the Survey among 400 Iowa democrats taken for Boston radio station Wiz gave Gephardt inc support of 19 percent 16 percent for Gary Hart and 15 percent for Simon. Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis had the support of 13 percent and Oiler contenders trailed with a margin of error of i percentage Points the poll results amounted to an effective tie among Gephardt Simon Hart and Dukakis. Jackson took a Day to raise Money in California Al several events arranged by Willie Brown speaker of the slate As Sembly in contrast to his usual pass Lac hat fund raising. He took in si00,000 in the biggest single fund raising Day of his Campaign a Hart repealed his Call for the other candidates to submit their budget and lax plans now and called for a tax on imported Oil and an income tax sur charge on High income americans. You d belter find out where they re going to Cut and where they re going to tax and where they re going to spend. Before they go into office he said in Foye Leville . The chairman of the Republican party in Kansas Fred Logan said that Robertson has filed a fun slate of delegates in a dozen Large counties. But Logan repeated earlier predictions that Dole would win All 34 delegates in his Home state. ., Japan agree to develop new weapons jointly Washington a defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci and Japan s new defense minister agreed tuesday that the United Stales and Japan should step up their cooperation in developing More sophisticated conventional weapons. Pentagon officials said. The officials who requested anonymity Slid car Lucci and minister Tsutomu Kawara also discussed the general situation in inc fenian Gulf and Japan s plans for military spending Over the next several years Dur ing meetings it the Pentagon. Kawara who assumed his Post two months ago very enthusiastically supported the concept of joint development work on conventional weapons something Japan had never really embraced before said one official who agreed to Brief a group of re porters on the meetings. While no specific new ventures were discussed this was really the first time that they the japanese have been extremely willing to endorse this kind of approach the official said. Kawara informed Carlucci that Japan hoped to avoid when dealing with defense matters the Type of Trade friction that no exists Between inc two coun tries in most commercial areas the source said. The japanese minister specifically cited his coun thai philosophy  the official Saia. Carlucci meantime expressed american appreciation for Japan s recent decision to increase the amount of Money it spends to defray the Cost of operating . Military bases in Japan the source said. The japanese government will increase such spend ing by 1100 million this year to a total j900 million and plans another increase of Al least si00 million next year. . Dentist ordered to pay $15,000 in aids Bias Case new York api a dentist has been ordered to pay  to a col league he evicted for treating aids sufferers in offices they shared the City human rights commission announced tuesday. The decision against Lawrence bar ton by administrative Law judge Wil Liam Kite Gaessner was the first is sued by the commission in an aids discrimination Case said spokesman Bob Sander. Between so percent and 85 percent of the 1,000 cases brought before the commission have been settled through negotiation he said. Sander said the Penally was meted out on dec. 21 to Barton who sublet office space to John Wolf in Manhal Wolf said Barton insisted that he discontinue treating people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome and that he withdraw his Dame from a referral list distributed by the Gay men s health crisis an aids support group. Barton persisted despite wolfs assurances that All precautions recommended by the National Federal Cen ters for disease control were being followed the commission said. Wolf complied for six months then Laid Barton he would resume treating aids Lute res. He said he Felt a loss of professionalism and of abandon ing a Good Deal of his friends and Community,1 the commission said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 21, 1945 John Foster Dulles.  Delegate to the United nations Lold a Senate committee the european recovery program was a step toward peace and inc United slates could not Long survive As a Mere Citadel of self indulging privilege surrounded by massed human  30 years ago today. Jan. Ii 19s� democratic Sens. John a Mcclellan of Arkansas and Hubert h. Humphrey of Minnesota proposed the creation of a Cabinet level department of science and technology to centralize and intensify America s Effort to meet the soviet space Challenge. 20 years ago today. Jan. 21, 1968 Turkey abandoned its nato partners stand to become the first member of he organization to formally recognize the greek Junta. 10 years ago today Jan. 21, 1978 thousands of Farmers seeking a Way Oul of a bust in the Market for grains and other crops took their ease directly to Federal lawmaker and rallied on Capitol Hill  
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