European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday july 24,1988 Bush says hell win South despite demos drive -._,. J i a j Memphis Tenn. A George Bush declared saturday that he would win both the Sputh and the Southwest despite concentrated efforts in the Region by the new democratic team and a shortage of Campaign funds that he called troublesome. Standing on the Bank of the drought depressed Mississippi River the Republican vice president pro claimed if we Are successful in getting the truth out there they democrats will be unsuccessful m draw ing the traditional Southern democrats and Southwest democrats Back into the  both regions went solidly for the Reagan Bush ticket in both 1980 and 1984. The truth the prospective gop presidential Nom Inee said he wants to spread would be his major philosophical differences with Michael Dukakis whom he called a traditional  Bush is on a two Day Campaign swing through the South and Southwest to try to seek to regain Momen Tum lost to the democrats during their convention. Democrats Are expected to make a major Effort to Wingback the Region beginning with heavy campaigning by Dukakis and , the Bush Campaign has All but used up the entire $27 million it is permitted in pre convention spending. Bush has Only been Able to travel in recent Days by coupling Campaign events with gop fund raising events such As a luncheon he attended Here and another dinner scheduled for Tampa. The funds Are being raised for the National party for the fall election with some of the Money channelled Back to pay for Bush s current travel. However this limits his ability to take Long trips and most of his recent Campaign appearances have been con fined to Day trips with returns to Washington most evenings. This has had an inhibiting effect on Campaign travel particularly to Distant states Bush conceded in a conversation with reporters travelling with him on air Force two. It is troublesome Bush said. Once republicans hold their convention in August Swaggart gets ovation at Indianapolis crusade Indianapolis a evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was Given a standing ovation from about 2,500 followers Friday at his first crusade outside his Home state of Louisiana since he was defrocked by the assemblies of god. The three Days of revival meetings were not supported by the National or local offices of the assemblies of god Swaggart s former denomination. But crowds lined up at the door and sales of Swaggart s albums and tapes were brisk. Hundreds of pilgrims demonstrate in Mecca Liddah saudi Arabia a hundreds of pilgrims demonstrated in Mecca Friday against the deaths last year of 402 people and police attacked some of the protesters according to Iran s government controlled Tehran radio. The report by Tehran radio did not mention any injures. Saudi Arabia said More than 1 million Pil grims from around the world gathered Friday in 111-degree temperatures for Sabbath prayers atthe grand mosque in Mecca which houses is Lam s holiest shrine. Adair s Crew puts out two More Oil Rig fires Aberdeen Scotland a workers be div Texas trouble shooter red Adair put out two or the remaining fires on a North sea platform ravaged by the world s worst Oil Rig disaster the platform s operator and main owner said Friday. A huge explosion followed by a fierce fire wrecked the Piper Alpha Oij platform 120 Miles off Scotland on july 6, lulling 167 men. His Campaign will be infused with More than $43 Mil lion in Public  their second Day of campaigning together Duka Kis and Bentson moved on to Minot . After a visit to Modesto , while campaigning in Modesto was asked to comment on president Reagan s characterization during his weekly radio address of the democratic convention message As Midnight in America Bee Story Page 4. The democratic candidate said he had no response but said we want to stress a positive message. That s the idea. They know we re going to have a Chance. This was a trip i wanted very much to make right after Atlanta. To come out Here to the heartland of the  he said to a cheering crowd of 5,000 spectators. To be in a Valley which is America because you Are America All of  his Memphis visit Bush was briefed on the condition of the Mississippi River 20 feet lower than its usual height at this time of year although Bush was told that the River is expected to Rise by about six feet in the next week or  River tells its own Story. The River is now Ris ing and for the moment at least that s Good Marvin Jacobs director of River studies at Memphis state University told the vice president. Bush said he joined with the . Corps of Engi neers in opposing a plan to divert More great lakes water into the River claiming it would not help that much and could cause environmental problems. Claiming he wanted to announce his vice presidential Choice at the gop convention Bush said i will not leak my decision to anybody. But if i talk in my sleep and my wife finds out about it i m in for serious  Bush brushed aside a profile of Dukakis in the soviet communist party newspaper pravda which appeared to suggest that the democratic nominee was More intelligent than Bush. I m going to Send soviet Leader Gorbachev a photostat copy of my Phi Beta Kappa key quipped the 1948 Yale graduate. Still photo a Man takes a photo of a traffic Jam on the Salz Burg Munich autobahn saturday. Thousands of motorists in Bavaria tangled with traffic jams along As 19 Miles heat that reached 91 degrees and their own patience during the West German migration of summer vacationers to Italy Austria Yugoslavia and elsewhere. It s like a Sauna for motorists waiting in their cars said a police spokesman in Munich. Surge in fax payments gave . Surplus of $9.5 billion in june Washington a a Rise in quarterly income tax payments by businesses and individuals gave the Federal government a rare $9.5 billion surplus in june pushing the cumulative red Ink for the first nine months of the fiscal year to below last year s Levels the government said Friday. The Treasury department said Federal spending last month totalled $89.9 billion a 7.7 percent increase Over june 1987. However revenues surged 19.8 per cent above last year s level to $99.3 billion. It was Only the third surplus posted since the fiscal year began in october. There was a surplus in january because social Security checks for the ninth were mailed at the end of december and another in april As individual income tax payments poured in. For the first nine months Revenue totalled $681.1 billion up 6.9 percent from last year while spending was $799.1 billion up a weaker 5.5 percent. The deficit of $118 billion is running 2 percent be Hind the $120.4 billion in red Ink for the comparable 1987 period raising Hopes that the government will manage to push the deficit a Little bit below last year s $150.4 billion. The administration 4s forecasting a deficit of $146.7 billion just slightly above the $144 billion target in the Gramm Rudman budget balancing Law. Next years target is $136 billion. In june the largest spending category was interest on the National debt followed by the military social Security and other programs in the department of health and human services. Military spending totalled $24.6 billion last month and $213.3 billion for the fiscal year so far up 3.9 percent from the same period a year ago. Spending for social Security totalled $21.3 billion last month and $160.8 billion for the past nine months up 5.6 percent from the same period in the 1987 fiscal year. Navy Secretary takes Gulf trip Manama Bahrain a the Secretary of the Navy William Ball Iii met saturday with local de sense officials As he wrapped up a two Day visit to the persian Gulf that was conducted under extraordinarily tight Security. An aide to Ball said his visit was a general overseas tour to see the  it was Ball s first trip to the area since becoming Navy Secretary this year and twas not announced in Advance by the Pentagon. During the visit Ball boarded three of the approximately 16 american warships now in the Gulf. The Security included a bulletproof car. All americans in the Region have been cautioned about possible terrorist acts in the aftermath of the july 3 Downing of an iranian jetliner by the .guided missile Cruiser Vincennes. All 290 aboard the plane were lulled. Navy officials said they were still trying to track Down a letter bearing 10,000 signatures and express ing support for the Vincennes Captain and Crew that was supposed to have been delivered to the warship two Days ago. The signature Campaign was organized last weekend in san Diego the Vincennes Home port by rep. Bill Lowrey a Calif. The letter which reportedly weighs about 50 pounds and is four feet longer than the 566-foot warship apparently vanished after it was sent to the Gulf through an express delivery service. The Vincennes sailed out of the Gulf three Days ago and is in the arabian sea according to a spokesman at . Central come Headquarters in Tampa Fla. Ball accompanied by . Ambassador Sam Zak hem and rear adm. Anthony less commander of the joint task Force Middle East met with Bahrain s de sense minister Sheik Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa