European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday october 31,19b8 Dukakis Camp filled with Confidence pos show demo closing fast on Bush Bakersfield Calif. A democratic Nomi Nee Michael Dukakis brimming with Confidence in is surging candidacy said sunday he s got Republican rival George Bush on the run while the Senate minority Leader raised Ruc Lions about the vice presidents Promise not to raise off a Daylong train tour through California s Central Valley Dukakis sounded More like a front run nor than an underdog. He predicted he would overtake Bush before the nov. 8 election and after weeks of being hammered by republicans for being a Liberal he defiantly declared yes i m a Liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roose velt and Harry Truman and John recent Public opinion polls show Dukakis closing fast on Bush in several key states including California a must win state where Dukakis aides said an 11-Point Bush Lead a week ago has shrunk to a virtual tic. Nationwide a time Magazine poll taken last wee showed Bush maintaining a 10-Ppinl Lead. But Duka Kis aides said More recent tracking data showed the Gap has narrowed to As Little As six Points assessing the Campaign and its issues on Abc s meet the press sen. Robert Dole r-kan., suggested that Bush s hard and fast Promise not to raise ladies May be unrealistic. Dole a former gop presidential primary opponent of the vice president said he believes a Federal budget could be worked out next year thai would avoid in creases in individual income lax rates. But he note that Bush has made a sweeping vow not to raise Federal s going to be a hard thing to accomplish said Dole a former chairman of the tax writing Senate finance committee. Maybe he can do h. I Hope Pecan. I want to help him and i la be glad to support him and Lead the Effort. But i would t say there s a 100 percent Chance we can do also was asked whether Bush was continuing to news briefs Hirohito at lowest Point since beginning of illness Tokyo up emperor Hirohito s Condi Tion deteriorated sunday to its lowest Point since the 87-Ycar-old Monarch first fell seriously ill six weeks ago. An Imperial Palace spokesman second blood transfusion late sunday led to a slight improvement in the emperor s vital signs and lifted the tense atmosphere at the Palace. Early sunday court physicians battling a Large overnight loss of Wood gave Hiro frito nearly three pints of new blood close to half his body s total blood Supply. Despite the massive transfusion the Emper or s blood pressure fell to 84 Over 34, its lowest level yet by sunday night Palace spokesman Kanji Maeda said. Doctors gave the emperor a second transfusion of nearly a Pink of blood and his blood r improved to pressure i pro � to 120 Over 50. . Team in East Germany to inspect missile Sites be Berlin a a team of ight . Inspectors arrived in East Germany sunday to inspect missile Sites covered under a superpower treaty scrapping intermediate Range nuclear weapons the state run Media reported. Communist East Germany s adn news Agency said the men arrived in Leipzig and would inspect former soviet nuclear missile Sites in the next few Days soviet inspectors have conducted inspections at several . Missile Sites in West Germany since the treaty was signed in december. The soviet Union began removing its missiles from East Germany and Czechoslovakia in february before the . Senate ratified the treaty. Under terms of the treaty the soviet Union and the United states agreed to eliminate All land based intermediate Range nuclear missiles which have a Range of up to 3,100 Miles. The treaty allows for inspections by both sides to verify its terms. Dodge questions which Dole had asked during his primary Campaign about the Iran Centra Altair . Relations with Panama s indicted military Leader Manuel Noriega. Well i Don t know Dole said. I Don t know what he docs know. Only he knows and maybe hell Tell us Bush dented that the polls show him losing ground. I Don t think they Are and i m not going to say any thing More about it he told reporters during a visit to Philadelphia. Bush attended a private mass at the residence of Cardinal John Krol and later visited italian american supporters in suburban Norristown. His chief of staff Craig Fuller said he Bush Campaign will concentrate in its final week on states where the margin is close including Ohio California and Illinois unlike his Boss Fuller did not dispute that the race is narrowing but he said in is not a matter for concern i think it s to be expected As you gel to the final Days of the Campaign that you re going to see some tightening in this race Fuller said. But that s going to cause us to work harder. Well not allow ourselves to lose the Edge we be had As a Campaign at a boisterous Kickoff rally in Bakersfield traditionally a conservative stronghold Dukakis said there s Only one train headed Down the right track in America he referred to a similar whistle Slop tour in 1960 by sen. John f. Kennedy who narrowly beat vice presi Dent Richard Ninon for the presidency that year. This train like John Kennedy a is ticketed All the Way to the White House Dukakis said. Dukakis said his populist economic Appeal is catch ing fire. Or. Bush is coasting we re fighting Dukakis said. He s Reading the polls. We re taking our Case to the american asked to explain his recent surge in the polls Duka Kis said people Are being turned off by Bush s negative Campaign tactics and Are turning on to the democratic underdog s message. People Are beginning to respond and they feel we re the ticket. The democratic ticket is on their Side and cares very deeply about them their Hopes and their dreams and aspirations he said. We re going to be charging ahead All Over this country and we re going lol taking our message to people everywhere. About jobs and Good schools an drug free schools. About Good health care and housing and about a clean Dukakis held Bush responsible for Republican Campaign literature being circulated in Maryland that Pic lured Dukakis standing Ocul to Willie Horton jr., the convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman and slashed her Fiance after he did not return from a Massachusetts prison furlough. The fund raising letter asks is this your pro family learn for 1988?" Bush Campaign chairman James a. Baker Iii. Appearing on the lbs to s face the nation repudiated the flier and said it is totally out of Bounds and totally Baker said it was not Bush s fault you cannot control every party organization throughout the coun try he said. Bush plans to make several television appearances this week including taping an interview with Abc Tom Brokaw on monday and appearing live on the Abc today show thursday said spokeswoman Sheila tale. Baker said the Campaign also is considering invitations for Bush and his vice presidential running . Dan Quayle of Indiana to be interviewed by lbs Anchorman Dan rather. Radio show still a panic in 1988 Lisbon Portugal a a 50th-anniversary re creation of Orson Welles War of the worlds radio broadcast caused panic in a Region of Northern Portu Gal on sunday police and radio employees said. Re bled Story pigs residents flocked to an area outside the town of Braga where the local radio station reported alien from Mara were Landing officials said. Others began fleeing in cars while police and lire services were alerted by scores of Calls according to news reports from the area. Lines reportedly formed at some Gas stations. The 90-Minule broadcast was a re creation of Welles radio dramatization of the , Wells novel the War of the oct. 30, 1938, the actor director interrupted radio broadcasts in the United Stales with a report that martians had landed in new Jersey. The broadcast caused panic. In Portugal police were called to control Iso to 200 demonstrators who gathered outside the studios of radio Braga to protest the broadcast said Paulo Sousa a reporter at the station Sousa said the station received More than 100 Calls. Some called to complain some to inquire and Soweto offer congratulations he said in a Telephone inter View. Sousa said the broadcast was intended As a tribute to Welles and had been Well publicized previously in newspapers and on the radio station the Day before. He said the invasion program contained clues that it was fiction. Mrs. Marcos from Page 1 and hugged her husband who was brought out of the couple s Hillside estate in a wheelchair. Both were seen wiping away lean in a parting that was video recorded by Marcos aides. The Jet landed at Newark International Airport in nearby new Jersey whet reporters and about 40 sup porters remained behind a Gate out of sight from mrs. Marcos some people of philippine background wailed close to two hours on a raw Windy morning saying they were there to show their loyally to the Marcos is. Indicted with
