European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Actress Sally Fields gestures during Dukakis rally at Denver s Stapleton Airport. Midget Man the Republican acknowledges his administration could nol Allord Bolh and would have to choose either below on them or a scaled Down combination. Bolh favor the stealth bomber. Foreign policy Bush says he would continue the Reagan foreign policy of peace through strength and press Forward on Sara logic arms reduction talks with the soviets. He would favor total International ban on chemical weapons and . Soviet chinese Effort to Stop the spread of ballistic missiles. Bush supports military Aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Dukakis supports the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty with the soviets and proposed strategic arms cuts. He favors wider use of International organizations such As the United nations to resolve disputes. He says America s allies must Bear a bigger share of the costs of defending Freedom around the world. Dukakis opposes military Aid to the contras. Environment Bush has campaigned As an environmentalist while Dukakis has campaigned against the environmental record of the Reagan Bush administration. Bush supports recently passed Law Banning Ocean dumping of wastes by the end of 1991 would set a goal of no net loss of wetlands delay Oldshore Oil drilling in sensitive areas support new unspecified limits on emissions causing acid rain support nuclear Power. Dukakis vows to beet up the environmental Protection Agency and make the polluters  he says he will press for stricter standards for air and water Quality ban offshore drilling in sensitive areas Hall below Cost Limber sales in National forests oppose building nuclear Power plants until a Sater generation of reactors is designed and Safe ways Are found to dispose of waste. Drugs crime Bush favors the death penalty for cop killers and drug related killers As Well As treason and espionage Dukakis opposes capital punishment regardless of the crime. Dukakis favors tighter controls on guns including mandatory nationwide waiting periods for gun purchases Bush opposes tighter gun controls. Dukakis advocates cutoff of Aid to countries that fail to cooperate in fight against drugs use of . Armed forces under appropriate circumstances to help foreign countries destroy drug crops and labs hiring 600 More drug enforcement administration agents Bush says he will make the War on drugs a top priority and says it must be attacked nol Only by slopping the Supply but also by stopping the  education both favor More spending on head Start the pre school program for disadvantaged youngsters. Dukakis has proposed a College loan program that would allow students to repay Loans through payroll deductions during their working years. Dukakis has proposed a �250 million National teaching excellence fund including scholarships and loan forgiveness Lor prospective teachers favors a $45-million Effort to bring retired scientists and engineers into classrooms As teachers or aides opposes organized prayer in Public schools. Congress has just voted to allow families to earn interest lax free on , savings Bonds for College tuition. Bush proposed such a move last year. He wants to award unfettered Grants of up to $100.000 to Merit schools that succeed in spurring achievement of disadvantaged students would seek $50 million in Matching Grants Tor Magnet schools would quadruple to $50 million a new Federal fund to Spur school innovations supports organized but voluntary prayer in Public schools. Housing Dukakis would allow people to use up to $10.000 from iras or other pension funds towards the Down payment on a House favors smaller Down payments for Fra mortgages and new efforts to build Low and moderate income rental housing. Bush says decent affordable housing for All families will be a lop goal attainable he says by maintaining the policies that have brought us Low inflation Low interest rates and Strong Job  he promises to keep providing housing assistance Lolow income families and supports experiments with turning. Ownership and control of Public housing Over to tenants a multitude of ballot contests Over state issues by Lee m1tgang associated press rom gun control in Maryland. Id a smoking ban in Oregon and lax cuts in South Dakota Utah and Colorado. 234 ballot issues will be decided by voters in 41 Stales on election Day. California Birthplace a decade ago of a voter driven lax revolt that quickly spread to Many other slates has two of lha nation s most closely watched contests. Californians Wilt choose among five separate ballot measures reducing automobile insurance premiums. Insurers fearing a nationwide insurance revolt Are spending More than $40 million in an attempt to defeat the proposals. The fear is that some of the worst parts of the initiatives would eventually Lind their Way into the thinking of insurance regulators across the country even in states which Don t allow voter initiatives said Herbert Goodfriend an insurance Industry analyst for Prudential Bache securities also controversial is California proposition 102, which would eliminate the statewide Anonymous aids testing program allow insurers and employers to screen prospective clients and workers and require health officials to do everything reasonably necessary to halt the epidemic including tracing the contacts of anyone exposed to the aids virus. The chief sponsor is Paul Gann the lax crusader who helped spearhead property tax slashing proposition 13 a decade ago and who is now suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome because of a tainted blood transfusion among other ballot contests Maryland voters will decide whether to keep a Law passed this Spring designed to ban cheap handguns known As saturday nigh specials. The National Rifle association has pumped s3 million into the repeal Effort. Oregonians will vote on whether to toughen the Oregon indoor clean air act which was passed in 1981 and bans smoking in most Public buildings. The new proposal would wipe out designated smoking areas and impose an outright ban on smoking in virtually All indoor work areas and enclosed Public places. Californians meanwhile will consider a proposal to raise cigarette taxes by 25 cents a pack using proceeds to promote health. In new York nov. Mario Cuomo is pushing a $3-Blllion transportation Bond Issue. The biggest borrowing in stale history to fix roads and Bridges. Opponents Challenge the Wisdom of such a huge borrowing for thai purpose. South Dakota. Utah and Colorado voters Wilt decide measures that would reduce various axes. Dakota proposition ii would Roll Back properly taxes on agricultural property to 1 percent of 1984 values and 2.5 percent on non agricultural property in stages by 1991, it would limit increases in property valuations to 2 percent a year. Local governments could impose special faxes if two thirds of the voters approve. Colorado s so called taxpayers Bill of rights amendment would require voters to decide All Lulu re tax increases except in emergencies Cut the income lax by about 10 percent and limit residential properly taxes to 1 percent of Market value. Utah voters lace three lax initiatives that together would reduce state and local revenues by $329 million. One would limit properly taxes a second would Roll Back 19b7 lax increases on income sales gasoline and cigarettes and a third would give lax credits Lor private education in Michigan pro and anti abortion forces Are waging Multi million Dollar campaigns Over a ballot measure that would outlaw stale funded abortions for the poor. Arkansas voters will decide whether to enshrine its existing no abortion spending policy in the state Constitution while coloradans will gel the Chance to repeal a similar constitutional provision. Idaho Indiana Kentucky and Minnesota have lottery questions on the nov 8 ballot and polls indicate support for those issues. South Dakotas will decide whether to Clear the Way for legalized gambling in the Black Hills town of Deadwood where wild Bill Hickok was gunned Down while playing poker 112 years ago. Town officials want to bring Back gambling to help them raise Money to preserve historic buildings. Under a rallying cry of personal Freedom Montana voters will consider whether to repeal its year old seat Belt Law. Massachusetts and Nebraska voters have previously done so utilities Are waging a $5 million Campaign in Massachusetts to defeat a measure that could Lead to the nation s first voter mandated closure of a nuclear Power Plant. Among local ballot contests Boston residents will decide whether to permit predominantly Black neighbourhoods to become a separate new City named Mandela after the South african Black nationalist Nelson Mandela. Sunday october 30, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17