European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 5 Bush gains on Dukakis in latest to candidates launch new attacks on each other by the associated press just six Days before the Republican National convention opens in new or leans the latest Gallup poll taken aug.5-7, gave Michael Dukakis 49 percent to 42 percent for vice president George Bush. A Gallup Survey taken two weeks ago gave Dukakis a 54-37 Lead. Both sur Veys had a 3 percentage Point margin of error. Things Are moving. We re beginning to get them in focus. Watch and you la see these surveys turn around bus said in Pennsylvania where he was talk ing about crime and drugs. Meanwhile Dukakis was in Cincinnati discussing housing and attending the National governors association meeting. Both candidates launched new attacks against the other. Bush claimed Dukakis is trying to hide his record As governor of Massachusetts. He s trying to run away from a re Cord in Massachusetts on the very very far Liberal fringe of the political spectrum and i have to pin him Down Bush said in Pittsburgh. He thinks he can pre empt the  there he goes again Dukakis responded at a news conference in Ohio paraphrasing Ronald Reagan s retort to Jimmy Carter in their 1980 presidential debate. Dukakis called the stealth Candi Date on monday by Bush struck Back tuesday. I Don t think Bush s positions Are Clear on much of anything Dukakis told reporters As he flew to Cincinnati. On foreign policy where Bush has called Dukakis inexperienced the Massachusetts governor said it is the Vic president who has Little to say. Dukakis said Bush s positions Are Clear Only in his support for Contra Aid which Dukakis called this endless fiasco in Central  do you know where he stands Dukakis asked reporters. I Don t think any body knows where he is on these  Dukakis met with democratic Gover nors at the end of their summer meeting taking part in a joking presentation Tonew Jersey gov. Tom Kean picked to deliver the keynote speech of the Republican convention. Dukakis and Arkansas gov. Bill Clin ton whose lengthy democratic key note speech Drew derisive comments gave Kean a Large hourglass. In new Orleans where the gop con George Bush makes a Point As he eats a Brown bag lunch with construction workers in new Orleans super dome. A mention opens monday preparation moved along As carpenters banged away on the podium in the super dome and the gop platform committee trudged through the drafting of each policy Plank for Bush and his still unnamed running mate. Nearly 30,000 words of working papers for the platform released tuesday echoed the sentiments of the 1984 plat form from a no tax increase pledge to support for an anti abortion constitutional amendment. Bush proposals on such matters As child care and education were added to the 1984 stances. In Pennsylvania for his last major Campaign trip before the convention Bush focused on building an image As a hard liner on Law enforcement. Let s not take away the guns of inno cent citizens Bush told the state Chap Ter of the fraternal order of police in Erie. Let s get tougher on the Crimi  liberals in Congress Drew his fire on the fight against drugs. Congress is full of rhetorical heroes on the Issue of drugs but when it comes to Law enforcement a lot of the Liberal there go awol Bush said. Republicans Are trying to orchestrate their attacks on Dukakis from Day to Day with the tuesday theme being de sense and foreign policy. We believe the positions taken by gov. Dukakis threaten the peace threaten world stability and threaten the Protection of american interests globally said former Texas sen. John Tower at news conference held by the leaders of the gop platform subcommittees on de sense and foreign policy. Tom Loeffler a former Texas con Gressman said the gop platform would show Dukakis basically has a tall pole and a White Flag to pursue his foreign policy  in a change of Pace Dukakis had some Nice things to say about the Reagan administration saying the nation s foreign policies Are moving toward Dukakis stands on  relations the per Sian Gulf and conflict in Southern Afri Ca. It s an administration that s growing. Frankly they re coming a lot closer to where i am Dukakis said. Here s an administration that five years ago was talking evil Empire and now the presi Dent is walking Arm in Arm with Gorba Chev in red Square. The interesting thing is the president and i Are closer together on  relations than he is with  former Sailor provides soviets with sensitive satellite material by the Baltimore Sun Washington a former Navy enlisted Man who defected to the soviet Union last month has Given the Kab the secrets of a sensitive Navy satellite surveillance facility in Norfolk va., according to the Moscow newspaper Izvestia. In addition to disclosing massive amounts of technical information Glenn Michael Souther has briefed the Sovi ets on specific monitoring tasks of . Satellites including their performance during the 1986 Accident at the chernobyl nuclear Power station the newspaper said. Souther disappeared in 1986, soon after the Fri Field office in Norfolk began investigating suspicions the 30-year-old major in russian at Norfolk s old do minion University had been spying for the soviets. He surfaced in Moscow last month thanking the soviet Union for political Asylum and the Kab for taking measures to guarantee my personal  Fri and the naval intelligence service investigators refused to comment tuesday on their ongoing espionage investigation of Souther who worked for naval intelligence from 1975 until 1982 and later was a reservist with the Norfolk based Atlantic Fleet. Navy sources said he is not suspected of any connections with the Walker family of spies who operated out of Norfolk for 18 years. In its prominent Back Page article about Souther Izvestia did not say when the virginian began spying. But it not Only described his work As an analytical expert atthe naval intelligence Center in Norfolk but also his claimed previous service on the Carrier Nimitz the sub Marine Albany and the destroyer tender puget sound. Do ing those years the photographer s mate dealt with such tasks As surveillance of possible targets in Libya and monitoring the scope of the chernobyl disaster. According to Izvestia naval intelligence quickly sized up the True scope of the Accident and the news paper quotes Souther As describing his and his col leagues amazement at some of the sensationalist Media reports about chernobyl. It was unclear How Souther would have had Access to 1986 information on chernobyl if he left the Navy in 1982. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 11, 1948 the assistant Secretary of the army said in Frankfurt that germans would Needmore and better food if the european recovery pro Gram was to succeed. 30 years ago today. Aug. 11, 1958 House military investigators re ported that they failed to dig up any evidence that White House aide Sherman Adams tried to Sway the decision of a Pentagon Board in a controversial army textile contract Case. 20 years ago today. Aug. 11, 1968 sen. George Mcgovern of South Dakota declared his candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination committing himself to the goals for which Robert Kennedy gave his  10 years ago today. Aug. 11, 1978 the cardinals of the Roma Catholic Church made preparations for their secret conclave to elect Pope Paul i s successor