European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 21, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Dukakis says gop twists his record Bush Calls rival s foreign policy View unrealistic by the associated press Democrat Michael Dukakis complained bitterly wednesday that his re Cord has been distorted by the republicans and said int seems to be what the Bush Campaign is All  George Bush accused his rival of a rather unrealistic View of America s role in for eign affairs. The democratic presidential nominee travelled by bus through Small farm communities of Illinois and Missouri aiming for the Rural vote and charging Bush with favouring corporate operators Over family Farmers. Bush flush with a new Batch of favor Able polls called for bipartisan congressional agreement on foreign policy con Cerns. He promised to Convene an Early Summit of nato allies if elected. Dukakis flashed anger when shown Republican brochure attacking him As soft on crime the brochure said a convicted Illinois mass murderer John Wayne Gacy would be eligible for weekend passes in Massachusetts under Dukakis prison furlough program. It asserted that Mur Ders and rapists and drug pushers and child Ino Kislers in Massachusetts Vole for Michael  friends this it garbage Dukakis said holding aloft the item mailed by the top. This is political  with democrats urging him to step up his responses to busts j charges Dukakis said my positions Are being distorted on a number of these issues. That seems to be what the Bush Campaign is All  on the one year anniversary of the 1987 Stock Market crash a Rumor about the presidential race was blamed in part for a sudden afternoon drop in the Stock Market. The Rumor making the rounds of Wall Street was that the Washington Post would publish a Story potentially damaging to Bush. There is no such Story said Robert Kaiser assistant managing editor for National news at the Post. Bush spoke Al the University of Michi Gan where he sought to portray Dukakis As inexperienced in foreign affairs. He has a Raiher unrealistic View of America s role and the Way in which we air Eslin 200 180 160 140 120 100 to 60 194 not Chic Lerica s electorate rated voting age population in millions a. To of a a t 7"-. J?ivv.4 " a l. 8 50 52 54 56 5e 60 62 64 66 6870 72 74 79 78 80 82 by by a the voting age was lowered to in from 21 in 1971 projection arj9 Tribune Chan source . Bureau of the census Lead Bush said. The Liberal Massachusetts governor seems to think that All wended to do is offer Moscow economic inducements and a less aggressive less threatening soviet Union will be the re sult. He s  Bush got a helping hand from presi Dent Reagan in the Industrial Battle ground of Ohio. Reagan used the work Liberal More than so times in three speeches denouncing Dukakis and sen. Howard Metzenbaum a Ohio. Reagan said the presidential race is a Battle Between the liberals and the rest of  where they want to take America America does t want logo the presi Dent said. Their policies Are Liberal Liberal  Bush had been trying to conceal his elation Over two new polls which showed him widening his Lead Over Dukakis. A poll released late wednesday by Abc news however showed the Lead return ing to what Bush had before last week s presidential debate. The Abc news Washington Post poll done oct. 12 through tuesday put the race at 52-45, Little difference from its 51-45 result oel. 5-11. The Survey of1,195 Likely voters had a margin of error of about three percentage Points. A Harris poll published wednesday gave Bush a nine poll National Lead 53 percent to 44 percent among 1,356 Likely voters surveyed last weekend. The poll gave Bush a smaller Lead than the 17 Points reported by an Abc news Wall Street journal Survey published ear Lier in the week but it was considerably larger than the two Point Edge Given Bush by a Harris poll taken a week ear Lier. The Harris Survey had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage Points. A new Field poll in California where the race has been considered tight showed Bush pulling ahead of Dukakis in a must win slate for the democrats. The Survey by pollster Marvin Field had Bush leading 50 percent to 41 per cent. The poll was taken Over the week end after the final presidential debate and sampled the preferences of 444 registered California voters. The margin of error was 4.7 percent. At Dukakis Headquarters in Boston Campaign officials were trying to buy a Kennedy defends Quayle s Effort says Media trivializing Campaign half hour of television time on each of the major networks inc night before the nov. 8 election. Dukakis slopped Al the pig farm of Jim and Mabel Reed in tiny Hull 111., where he met with local Farmers. The session was beamed by satellite to television viewers in 20 farm Stales he said Bush s philosophy was the fewer farms the belter and thai the re publicans like corporate operators Over family Farmers. One Fanner asked if Dukakis would get mean in the final Days of the Campaign. Am i going 10 gel mean replied Dukakis. I m going to get Lough. You Don want a mean president. You want a Tough president. A local congressman rep. Richard Durbin d-lll., said Dukakis has been Hurt badly by Bush television commercials depicting the democratic nominee As soft on crime. Dukakis asked if his message was being obliterated by those negative commercials replied that the Inith will win  we re going to gel the truth out to the american people Dukakis said my positions Are being distorted. 1 think in the last analysts the american people will respond to the  Bush Campaign manager Lee Atwater said the vice president s push had shifted into a final phase calling for one major address a Day and visits to the Pivotal big Vole Stales of California. Ohio Illi Nois Michigan and new Jersey. He said Bush also would make a major Effort in new York a slate where Duka Kis has held a Small Edge. Democratic vice presidential nominee Lloyd Belsen campaigning in califor Nia blasted Bush for his environmental record and his Campaign style. Belsen said the republicans were reducing the Caliper of a National Campaign to the level of a mud wrestling fes  they have viciously slandered thereal Rioliso and record of Michael Duka is and then turned around and whistled sweetness and Light when they Are called 10 account bends in said. Republican Dan Quayle met privately with jewish backers in Chicago and later said republicans Haven t done As Good a Job As we should have in communicating views on Israel and the jewish Community Boston a sen. Edward m. Kennedy in a surprising gesture toward the opposition party told a convention of newspaper editors wednesday that Republican vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle has been unfairly portrayed in the news Media. It has not been a fair characterization of him said Kennedy during a speech before the group of National newspaper editors. Most of his colleagues would say he does a lot belter in give and take in the Senate. I be worked with him and he does a better Job on the Senate  Kennedy s remarks came during an address to the associated press Man aging editors convention in which he said the news Media had helped make the current presidential Campaign an exercise in style aver substance. Kennedy said he was impressed with Quayle when they co sponsored the jobs training partnership act. He called Quayle a forceful vigorous defender of the conservative issues he espouses. Kennedy began on a Light note telling the editors that it s not often i gel to address a group whose standing in the polls is lower than  he decried the 1988 presidential Campaign saying the press and politics have become dangerously intertwined. Substance has been overwhelmed by image he said both sides Are guilty of reducing important events to spin con  Kennedy said Republican presidential nominee George Bush s trip to Boston Harbor to demonstrate his interest in the environment and democratic presiden tial nominee Michael Dukakis ride in an army tank were typical of the flashy but trivial methods the candidates have used to show their stand on the issues. Campaigning has become a meat Market said Kennedy. What coverage there is comes in the form of labels. Negative campaigning is drowning out Posi Tive  Kennedy urged editors to Stem the widening Gap Between issues and candidates by focusing More on real events and avoiding horse race style journal ism. Elsewhere Al the convention a panel of three journalists urged editors to make More of a commitment to the hiring of minority reporters and editors who they said comprise Only 7 percent of working , journalists. Norma Sosa of the Corpus Christi caller times in Texas called the Outlook for minority journalists  William Hawkins editor of the Dur Ham . Morning Herald and the Durham Sun urged editors to improve their treatment of minority journalists once they Are hired since Many tend to leave journalism after Only a few Yean. Editors also witnessed a debate be tween the principal involved in a supreme court decision this year backing school administrators in censoring Stu Dent publications. Robert Reynolds principal of Hazel Wood East High school in St. Louis told editors that he censored articles in the school paper As a Way to prevent inaccuracies guard privacy and maintain control of students. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 21, 1948 about 77,500 get mans demonstrated in Heidelberg and Mannheim to protest the High Cost of living in the . Zone of Germany. 30 years ago today. Oct. 21, 1958 the . State department said an agreement had been reached in principle with the communist government of Poland Catling for the re opening of , and polish consulates. 20 years ago foe a. Oct. 21. 1968 John Carlos one of the two members of the . Olympic team banished for racial gestures said he planned to sue the . Olympic com Mittee for defamation of character. 10 years ago foe a. Oct. 21, 1978 the Firestone tire rubber co announced it would voluntarily recall about 10 million trouble plagued Fircslone-500 steel belted radial tires the largest such recall in history