European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 10, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bush Dukakis favor Aid to victims families Washington a the apparent Republican and democratic Nomi nees for president campaigned on each other s turf Friday with vice president George Bush vowing to never Ever under any circumstances pay Repa rations to the iranian government for the Downing of a civilian Airliner although he said payments to families of the Vic Tims Are being considered and gov. Michael Dukakis saying he favored humanitarian assistance in the Case. Bush campaigning in Atlanta where the democrats will gather next week for their National convention said that he feels terribly  for the families of those people killed in the attack and repeated his understanding that pay ments to the families Are under consideration by the Reagan administration but not reparations. Dukakis beginning a six state Campaign swing said he would Back Aid to the families of the 290 people who died when a . Cruiser shot Down an Irani an Airliner sunday. I think some form of humanitarian assistance ought to be seriously consid ered Dukakis said in answer to a ques Tion about reparations. In Texas where Bush votes Dukakis campaigned with a potential running mate sen. Lloyd Bentsen amid Indica firemen Battle big . Blaze Custer . A firefighters battling a 5 Day old 16,300-acre Blaze near mount Rushmore National memorial finally had the weather on their Side Friday As they worked to reinforce existing fire lines before digging new ones. Rain helped Cool the fire Friday afternoon but Den Nis Neill of the . Forest service said this rain is no Panacea. It s not going to put the fire out but it  Neill said the showers helped lower the temperature and raise the humidity but he said it also could bring stronger winds and the possibility of lightning. Lightning is believed to have started the tire Mon Day night in Custer state Park. It spread wednesday into the Black Hills National Forest site of the memo rial to four presidents. Friday afternoon flames jumped a Highway and 30 families were ordered to evacuate. In Alaska meanwhile there were 32 fires four of which had consumed More than 290,000 acres. Fires also burned on in drought parched Timber and grass land in Wyoming Utah and South Carolina. The South Dakota fire threatened mount Rushmore National memorial and the town of Keystone on wednesday night but it stopped Short of the tourist stops both of which had been evacuated. Mount Rush More and Keystone were reopened thursday but Cus Ter state Park remained off limits. In Alaska a Blaze that had come within 10 Miles of the Alaska pipeline was held in Check for a second Day. Northern Alaska s major fires Are a 126,000-acre Blaze 15 Miles North of Livengood a 40,000-acre fire near Ambler a 53,000-acre fire Northeast of fort Yukon and a 51,000-acre fire North of Central. In Wyoming three fires in the Bridger Teton National Forest totalling nearly 1,500 acres were spread ing firefighters thin in the rough terrain. Tons that the Massachusetts governor s search for a vice presidential Choice May be entering its final Days. I m pondering Dukakis said of the Senate finance committee chairman at a rally in Texarkana Texas. He could make a great contribution in this country in Many Many ways. He already  Dukakis also campaigned in Phoenix accompanied by former Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt a former nomination rival and gov. Rose mofford. With less than two weeks to go before the vice presidential Roll Call at the democratic convention there was a swirl of reports about the selection process. Scripps Howard news service reported that Bentsen and sen. Bob Graham of Florida had been dropped from the top of the list but Dukakis spokesman Day ton Duncan said any reports of who was rising or falling on the list could be Dis missed As  in Atlanta Bush shrugged off demo cratic charges that his Campaign was Ille Gally using tax dollars to keep going. In a letter to White House counsel . Culvahouse democratic National committee chairman Paul Kirk charged that Bush is conserving his limited remaining resources by not reimbursing the Federal government for the use of air Force two and other vice presidential benefits during two june political trips. A firefighter Breaks up a burning stump in South Dakota s Custer state Park near rapid City. A photo warrant says Paisley wife Given gifts from contractors Washington not the Fri suspects that three of the nation s largest military contractors gave Money and gifts to Melvyn r. Paisley and his wife Vicki during Paisley s six years As the Navy s top Pur chasing official according to a search warrant made Public Here Friday. The warrant outlined Fri suspicions that general dynamics corp. And Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Gave the Paisley checks gifts or other forms of remuneration during Paisley s tenure As assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1987. The warrant also sought evidence that employees of Pratt & Whitney a unit of the United technologies corp., made payments to Paisley. In a statement released by the Washington spokes Man of general dynamics Alvin a. Spivak the com Pany said general dynamics states unequivocally that it knows of no payment of bribes by this company or any of its people to Melvyn Paisley or his wife for any purpose at any  United technologies and Mcdonnell Douglas with held comment. Paisley s attorney Robert Plotkin said the Fri suspicions outlined in the warrant were the most speculative Type of allegations that a Law enforcement offi Cial can  these Are the kinds of documents you would look for if you were doing an investigation of any Federal employee he said. Plotkin added that the Paisley received no compensation from military contractors while he was a government employee. We deny it on his behalf he said. He did not receive any payment from any com Pany nor did his  we Don t believe that they found anything incriminating in or. Paisley s office or his Home Plotkin added. The Fri document also indicated that investigators were seeking details of Paisley s contacts with at least six High level Pentagon officials after he left the Navy and became a military equipment consultant in april 1987. According to the warrant one of those officials James Gaines a Deputy assistant Navy Secretary was said to have received a number of paintings and other gratuities from Paisley after Paisley became a Consul Tant for several military contractors. The search warrant had been kept under Seal since Paisley s Mclean va., Home was searched by the Fri on june 14 but was made Public Friday by the . District court in Alexandria a. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. July 10, 1948 an american c-47, flying to Berlin with a Load of food to help break the soviet blockade of that City crashed near Konigstein in the Taurus mountains of West Germany. 30 years ago today. July 10, 1958 a . Air Force Pilot and two other Crew members died As the Pilot of an rb-66 twin Jet bomber made a heroic and successful attempt to avoid crashing into the West German Village of Berlingen. 20 years ago today. July 10, 1968 daughter Lynda Bird s questions about Why her husband had to go to Vietnam provided the final clincher for president Johnson s decision to retire according to Washington columnist Drew Pear son. 10 years ago today. July 10, 1978 Spanish authorities cancelled Pamplona s traditional running of the bulls after Politi Cal rioting left one dead person and 135 injured