European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday october 30,19b8 Dukakis promises to help Farmers Bush says opponent spreads discord by the associated press a resurgent Michael Dukakis carried his on your Side rallying cry la the farm Belt on saturday while Republican George Bush accused his democratic rival of trying to Divide americans by idling them every thing s going to hell in a  with 10 Days remaining until the election the nationwide Public polls continued to show a substantial advantage for Bush. But democrats insisted that their private soundings were showing signs of movement in Dukakis direct Ion. Bush sidestepped a question on can s news maker saturday about whether he was concerned Over tight ening polls. He forecast a close election and said everybody s predicted that from Day  the vice president s Campaign threw a fresh com Mercial into the Battle of the airwaves attacking Duka Kis As the author of the largest tax increase in the history of  Dukakis tailored his populist style rhetoric to his farm audience. They want to help the people who live High on the hog he said in Sioux Falls. . We want to help the people who raise the hogs a so slate Survey by the associated press mean while show that Bush May win As Many As 359 Electo ral votes but has not locked up the 270 that he needs for Victory. Dukakis May get 78 electoral votes. Nine states offering 101 Voles arc rated As tossup including Illinois Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The presidential race aside both parties have their eyes on the 33 Senate races on the ballot. The Odds favored continued democratic control although Bush and president Reagan have coordinated their appear ances to raise the chances of gop candidates in sever Al slates democrats arc heavily favored to retain their major Ity control of the House in the nov. 8 elections. Dukakis is pursuing his underdog strategy to the end lining up network television appearances and making the unprecedented decision to give his running mate a five minute Solo performance on a network commercial. Lloyd Bentsen was to say in the and scheduled for sunday night that the republicans have run a Campaign of trash the truth with their attacks on Dukakis. There were the usual Light moments blended into the serious business of running Tor president. Barbara Bush joked that if Bush docs end up in retirement after the election and wants to drive his own car she s not Riding with him. "1 am not getting in a car with a Man who has t driven in years she said in reference to he secret service driven limousine that the vice president rides everywhere. After months and months of candidates charges and commercials there were a few reminders int there is an election waiting at the end of the Campaign Trail. Reagan and the first lady cast their Absentee ballots in California. Bentsen and his wife b.a., did likewise in Texas. Dukakis was campaigning in South Dakota. His aides issued a statement criticizing the Reagan administration s rejection of complaints that Rice farm ers Are being treated unfairly by the japanese. The decision raises the question of whose Side they Are on the statement said of the republicans. Japan s determination to keep its Market closed hurts our Farmers and serves Only Japan it said. Bush campaigned by bus through Chicago s suburbs saturday criticizing Dukakis for trying to depict him As an elitist and accusing his rival of trying to Divide the nation along class lines. I m going to bring it together. I am not going to let that Liberal governor Divide this country he said. I d hate to be my opponent dragging myself around this country trying to convince americans that every thing s going to hell in a handbags act he also spoke of the whales that have been freed from ice off Alaska in his Campaign against Dukakis. I Only Hope for those whales that they Don t end up m Boston Harbor he said. Indiana sen. Dan Quayle. Back in Washington after campaigning in Pennsylvania s Republican heartland sounded a halloween theme during his travels Friday. If he dresses like a conservative nobody will believe it. And if he comes As he is he scares  Arsenal found in raids on terrorist suspects Frankfurt West Germany a nationwide raids on suspected palestinian terrorist hide outs in Wisl Germany have netted a huge Arsenal that includes an anti Lank Bazooka dozens of grenades and automatic weapons authorities said. Describing what was found in just one Frankfurt apartment Alexander Prechtel spokesman for the chief Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe listed one anti Lank Bazooka. 25 grenades 6.6 pounds of int several pounds of other explosives six machine guns and other weaponry and ammunition. Authorities also seized false papers including forged passports for several countries Prechtel said. Proc hell said Friday that four suspects detained in the raids remained in custody. He said 10 other suspects picked up during raids wednesday and thursday were released. Prechtel declined to say Why they were released and would not disclose if they May face possible charges later. Security sources said earlier the arrested group had planned to carry out a terrorist attack in a foreign Reagan signs six pack radon contamination Bills. Los Angeles a president Reagan on Friday signed Bills calling for a three year $44,5 million program to help slates Deal with radon contamination and to reduce the threat to Birds from plastic six pack rings. The radon Bill authorizes $10 million a year for Grants to state and local governments to develop radon programs and another 13 million annually for technical assistance. The balance for other activities includes $1.3 million for the environmental Protection Agency to study radon contamination in schools. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive Gas found in soil that has been blamed for As Many As 20,000 lung cancer deaths annually in the United states. The plastics Bill gives inc Epa two years to promulgate regulations that would require use of degradable materials in beverage six pack ring carriers. Sixteen states already have Laws requiring those materials. Wildlife experts have said the plastic rings can remain intact for decades and pose a growing threat to fish and waterfowl which can become entangled in them. Country but the sources declined to specify the target. Prechtel however said the possible targets of the arrested group remain unclear. We can conclude thai we Are dealing with an organization Prechtel said. We can conclude that they were planning the most serious crimes including Mur Der. But where when against whom and with what motives Are still totally unclear Prechtel told the associated press in a Telephone interview from his Karls Ruhe office. Security sources said the suspects had been under police surveillance for some time. Prechtel said the arrested men were suspected of setting up a terrorist cell of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command pulp go in West Germany and storing weapons in the country. The syrian controlled faction is opposed to pales Tine liberation organization Flo Leader Yasser Arafat and is headed by Ahmad Jibril a former syrian army Captain. The suspects were picked up in raids at is locations in Wisl Berlin Hamburg Frankfurt and Neh just outside Dusseldorf authorities said. Prechtel declined to identify any of he four arabs in custody. He said they were men aged Between 35 and 46. Two were bom m Syria and two in Jordan he said. He said one of the jordanian born men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel but had been released in a 1979 prisoner Swap. The Man had gone to Israel on a terrorist mis Sion in 1968 and was arrested after the explosives he was carrying exploded prematurely Prechtel said. The Man was injured in the explosion Prech Tel said. He said the Man arrived in West Germany from Damascus Syria. Prechtel said the chief Federal prosecutor Kurt Rebmann had taken Over the investigation. Reb Mann s duties include prosecution of major terrorist suspects. Show of Force by police patrols prevents protest rally in Prague Prague Czechoslovakia a riot police be Hind barriers combined with dozens of uniformed police patrols prevented an Independent rally in Central Prague on saturday. The action came a Day after water cannons and tear Gas were fired to disperse a crowd of 5.000 demanding More Freedom in this communist ruled nation. On. Saturday there were at least two dozen police buses trucks and water cannons parked near the two rallying Points for Friday s protest in Central Prague the heavy police presence stopped activists from holding the rally called by an Independent peace group and czech children a Small unofficial youth group. About 70 dissidents rounded up thursday in one of the biggest police crackdowns in years remained in detention saturday dissident Anna Sagalova said Augustin Navratil a roman Catholic activist who wrote a petition for religious Freedom this year also was taken from his Home in Central Czechoslovakia Friday night by two policemen and two doctors Saba Lova said. Navratil was taken to a nearby psychiatric clinic where he previously had been ordered to report she said. Authorities said 87 people were detained after Fri Day s demonstration but most of those were believed to have been treed. Helmeted riot police armed with Billy clubs and Shields fired water cannons and tear Gas into the crowd of people who had defied a ban on the rally called id Mark the 70th anniversary of Czechoslovakia s Independence. Witnesses said saturday that Friday s rally was not confined to win Ceslas Square in Prague. Several Hundred demonstrators forced off the Square by water cannons and police cordons marched to the old town Square about a half mile away wit Nesses said. There a document from the charter 77 human rights movement was read out to the crowd before club wielding police and special troops from the ministry of the Interior moved in with Waler cannons and armoured vehicles a witness said witnesses called Friday s show of Force the most brutal police action since 1969. In August 1969. Two people reportedly died As police broke up a crowd of Lens of thousands protesting on the first anniversary of the Warsaw pact invasion that crushed communist led Reform in 1968