European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 3, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 5 hopefuls gear up for final primaries Dukakis Bush work to unify parties by the associated press Michael Dukakis publicly saluted Jesse Jackson on wednesday for great gifts and real strengths but said his democratic presidential rival is not entitled to special consideration when it comes time to pick running mate. Vice president George Bush reaffirmed his opposition to tax  also said in a private meeting with fund raisers thai he would consider geographical balance in deciding his vice presidential running male and would look for someone with a substantive Back ground that supplements my own according to one person who attended the  Massachusetts governor has come under pres sure from some democrats to select a running mate from the West or the South o provide geographical balance to the ticket. He frequently has been advise to pick someone with greater experience in foreign policy and defense matters than he has accumulated in10 Yean in the Boston Stachouse. Jackson tearing the end of his remarkable but los ing primary Campaign walked along a garbage strewn Beach in new Jersey and called on corporations an the Federal government to take a More Active role in lighting  is expected to Clinch the nomination next week when the final primary elections of the demo cratic Campaign Are held in California new Jersey Montana and new  Dukakis and Bush worked wednesday at unifying their parties for what both sides predict will be a tense Light fall election. Dukakis enlisted the support of nearly 30 democratic National convention delegates Many of whom earlier supported dropout Candi Date Albert Gore or. Dukakis also met Over break fast with fund raisers forgone and rep. Richard Gephardt As part of his Campaign s Effort to help raise $50 million for use by the National and stale panics in the fait Cam Bush pain. Bush s Campaign which sewed up the Republican nomination several weeks ago showed off Little Unity of its own when sen. Charles Grassley and gov. Terry Branstad formally announced their Deci Sion to head the gop Effort in Iowa. We know it won t be easy to carry the slate said Branstad. But it can be  Bush finished third in the stale s caucuses in february with Grassley backing the Winner sen. Bob Dole and Branstad professing neutrality. Bush was at his Oceanside Home in  Maine where he has been meeting with economists and other outside advisers for the past several Days. Bush has been considering Campaign strategy for the upcoming general election Battle. The vice president looked on As Republican  fran a of Minnesota a supporter who is also a member of a bipartisan deficit reduction commission expressed scepticism Over Bush s Campaign pledge to reject any lax raising proposal the group might come up with that s what i think an election is about bus said. The commission can Lake an objective look an come up with whatever it wants. I d be much More persuaded by what the american people  Jackson spent much of his Day in new Jersey before flying to California for the final few Days of his Pri Mary candidacy. He stepped Over broken Glass plastic bottles fast food containers and other debris As he walked along a once popular resort Beach to dramatize his Call for environmental  they were killing fish. D we would negotiate Tough he said. Jackson said earlier that he had earned consideration for the vice presidential nomination and Duka Kis said emphatically on wednesday that he agreed. But asked if Jackson deserves special consideration to be on the ticket Dukakis said no if the russians were poisoning our air dumping sludge in the water if they were Killin we would Calt that chemical warfare an budget cuts blamed for drug War failure Washington a the Reagan administration has been unable to Stem the flood of drugs into this country be cause of budget cuts and delays in Mak ing crucial detection equipment operational two Federal agencies said wednesday. Coast guard commandant Paul  and William Rosenblatt the Cus Toms service enforcement chief told Ahouse government operations subcommittee they increasingly were frustrated by their inability to throw More re sources into the anti drug  gave the panel a Long list of prob lems they encountered patrol boats an planes sitting Idle due to a Money Short age surveillance air planes with cracks i their wings construction delays at new intelligence centers and delayed installation of radar balloons along the nation s Border with Mexico. Yost whose new fast patrol boats and air planes arc operating Al Only 55 percent of Las year s Levels said in was ironic lha Congress is ready to spend huge sum for an escalation of the military s Rol Eili the drug War but can t find 160 Mil lion to gel his ves Sels in the water and planes in the air full Lime. Turn me Loose and Don t give my Mission away he told the government operations subcommittee on information Justice and agriculture. Rep. Glenn English d-oku., chair English Man of the panel was sharply critical of the customs service blaming the Agency for delays in installing five radar bal loons along the porous Southwest Border to detect airborne drug smugglers. Only one of the five balloons called Aerostat is in operation. This is a terrible failure he Tol Rosenblatt you Are costing us dearly. There s no sense of urgency about  s the  Rosenblatt described a series of delays inside selection environmental problems competitive bidding and even Roadblock from other government agencies. We had to work around interference with the military and other agencies Rosenblatt said. In Alpine Texas he said there was a problem of interference with a Privalo Observatory. In another instance Rosenblatt said the National science foun Dation a government Agency initially declined to allow an Aerostat on a site. That Agency has changed its mind Rosenblatt said two years later English interjected. When Rosenblatt said he spent four months seeking competitive bids for the radar balloons in an Effort to save Money English said. In effect you Cost us a Heck of a lot of Money because air Force Azacs surveillance planes have had to patrol the Southwest Border 10pick up the Slack. English said that an Azacs costs $7,500 an hour to operate. Without a detection system interceptors and bust arrest teams Are nearly worthless English said. You hired pilots purchased aircraft and hired bust teams who have to sit on the ground Forup to two years before they will be Able to do their Mission. Mccarthy reveals presidential bid Philadelphia a former sen. Eugene Mccarthy whose presiden tial bid 2d years ago was a rallying Point for Vietnam War opponents wednesday announced his fourth try for the presi Dency. There is no real Choice betwee democrats and republicans he declared. If any new direction is to come i must come through an Independent party the consumer party and i have willingly offered myself to Lead it the Silver haired Mccarthy 72, told report Era and nearly 100 tourists who gathered near Independence Hall. I Don t expect to lose Mccarthy said. The former senator s Ami War 1968campaign helped bring Down president Lyndon a Johnson though fellow minnesotan Hubert Humphrey then vice president won the democratic Nomi nation. Republican Richard Ninon won the election. Mccarthy also tried for the democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and ran As an Independent in 1976. I the should lose he was asked who would he choose Between vice presi Dent George Bush and Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis. He said Nei ther. There arc two kinds of people who Don t make Good presidents he said vice presidents and  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago  3 1948 seven is doctors including the physician to Adolf Hitler were hanged Al Munich s  As the army for the first Lime car ried out death sentences from an Ameri can military tribunal at Nelm Borg. 30 years ago today. June 3, 1958 the House unanimously voted for a retroactive 10 percent pay raise for Federal employees at an Esti mated annual Cost of j542  i a i l. Image l t j54. Of inventory records cited As problem 20yearsagotoday. Washington a the accuracy of air Force inventory records continues to be a problem despite improvements in inventory control according to a new congressional report. The general accounting office report also said the air Force continues to have difficulties in adequately determining the causes of inventory inaccuracies and that physical Security of supplies needs to be improved. Sen. John Glenn a Ohio who released the report said while Many of these parts arc essential to keeping our planes in Theair poor inventory control has resulted in excessive Supply purchases costing billions of tax dollars. The air Force needs to straighten up and Fly right when in comes to inventory management the Gao study was based on audits of the air Force logistics come at Wrighi Patterson fab near Dayton Ohio and air logistics centers in san Antonio Texas Sacramento calif., and Ogden  Gao the investigative Arm of Congress said it was concerned that Theair Force s method of sampling leads to results that overstate its inventory accuracy. And it said the air Force s adjust ment policy allows inventory record Sand on hand supplies to remain out of balance by As much As 10  Force item managers continue to adjust inventory records without per forming adequate research to identify the primary cause for discrepancies the Gao said. The risk in this policy is that the records May be erroneously adjusted possibly resulting in apparent shortages of needed items which Are actually on hand or excess  june 3, 1968 despite government efforts to contain them Viet Cong guerrillas had pushed 11 blocks from Cholo toward the heart of Saigon and were fighting less than three Miles West of the presidential Palace. To years ago foday. June 3,1978 suspected Armenia terrorists killed the wife brother in Law and Driver of turkish ambassador to Spain Zocki Kun Ralp by riddling their official car with bullets at a downtown Madrid intersection