European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Riots erupt in South Korea see Page 9 the st1m authorized uhf Fichtl up us Tom pc baht . Co forces Good Mon thug vat. 47, no. �02 sunday november 6.1938 i pm suck d 8693 a Dukakis Calls gop overconfident Bush defends Campaign by the associated press Democrat Michael Dukakis buoyed by surveys indicating a tightening presi denial race declare saturday Hinl the republicans began celebrating a Little George hush shrugged off the numbers and said Vou know me i Don t believe those Sec Leluti j Stork s and Pho tos on Page 3. The candidates launched their final weekend or campaigning amid a blizzard of polls. Aides hastily reconstructed Campaign schedules on the basis of those numbers. Thus Dukakis spent the Day in Illinois. Michigan and Texas while Bush focused on new Jersey Pennsylvania Illinois and Colorado. In Rock Island 111, Dukakis told warehouse rally i think the Republican party began celebrating a Little Early Don t you they were taking you Tor he also continued his populist Appeal we re on the Side of people who live off a family budget not a family he said. He s on their Side we re on your the Republican nominee old workers in his Clark n.j., Headquarters thai the democrats set the negative tone of the Campaign. Let me Tell you. What i be had to do because i think everybody Here and every body across the country knows thai Evhen the National democratic camping came on and that convention they thought the were going to kick my brains out and gel away with it. They Ean dish it out but the can t ukr it he said. Both presidential candidates were showing no signs of letting up in the final three Days of inc Campaign As a poll re leased Friday showed that Bush s Lead shrank from 12 percentage Points to 7 Points in three Days. The lbs news pol said hush was leading 51 percent to 44 percent among probable voters but also indicated i much As 24 percent of Vot ers May nol have made a decision. Sis other National polls were expected Over the weekend As Well As a flurry of state by slate surveys. A poll of Minnesota voters for exam ple showed Bush leading 48 percent to 45 per sent inc first Tini the Republican has led Dukakis in that stale. The Nonh Star poll was conducted by the St. Paul Pioneer press dispatch Waco to and Waco radio the four Point margin of error made the Lead statistically mean ingless. Dukakis who has entered the final stages of his Campaign by invoking traditional democratic themes and names further aligned himself with that past by marching in Chicago s democratic torchlight Parade. Although Dukakis had been growing increasingly hoarse in this final week his voice was working at nearly full throttle when he told a Post Parade rally in 1960, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson went into that last weekend Down eight paints in the polls. We redoing belter than that. You can feel thai surge and you can feel that he was joined by his wife Kitty who was recovering from a viral infection. See top on Back Page Ernie frauds or Bluffton Ohio is offer Litt Aptt is a Sweet Deal. So fur Consumers if his Dukakis dessert Lead 54 percent to 46 percent for Bush backers. Soviets say rebel Aid nearly an treaty Moscow a the soviet Union s ambassador in Afghanistan said saturday that the Geneva agreement leading to the withdrawal of soviet sol doers from lie War Lorn country was near ruin and called for a new worldwide debate on in. The statement by Yuli Vorontsov to afghan legislators followed first Deputy foreign minister Al expander Bessmertny Atli s statement Friday that the soviet Union had stopped withdrawing soldiers be cause of unrelenting re Sci pressure. It appeared to be another part of a soviet Effort to step up the pressure on anti marxist afghan guerrillas who have stepped up their attacks since the soviets began withdrawing May 15 and on their backers the United states and Pakistan Vorontsov told the legislators that the Supply of Modem weaponry to the guerrillas by the United slates and Pakistan is a very serious blow to the Geneva accords which practically torpedoes them.". The time has come Tor a. New International de Bate of All aspects of the situation in Afghanistan and around it because foreign Powers Pakistan and the United states Are involved Here thai push the opposition toward continuing the blood-telling.". Vorontsov said the United nations which helped negotiate the april 14 agreement could help straighten out inc situation. Vorontsov a lop soviet foreign ministry official withdrawal pact. A Tuo Vukaj Nolti a Tan Al unix it 5 at Xvi it Kim Mem a. Sufar Nwart f pral few Anttn a it tug by pm Unstad aim and my a sent my Gutfung mrima�wta4aiiacvrin�iturymjba. Tow Alff i Purle. An Mota w to t who was involved in working Bui the soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan was named ambassador in Kabul last month. His comic nos to members of the foreign relations commissions of both houses of the afghan parliament were carried by the official soviet news Agency Tass. -. Eynykh said the soviet Union still is committed to withdrawing the remaining half of in original 100,000 soldiers from Afghanistan by feb. Is. But he added that soviet compliance with the see soviets on Back Page Sham a pledges new settlements in occupied and Jerusalem us l prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said saturday if he is Able to form a coalition government Israel will resume building jewish settlements in the occupied territories despite american opposition. A Shamir also predicted that the Success of the religious parties in last tuesday s elections would Lead Lothe passage of a controversial jaw defining who is a jew o measure that would affect thousands of jews in the United states and the West. Shamir Leader of the right Wing liked party i widely viewed As the most Likely candidate to form a new coalition government following a Ritorti Clary elections tuesday. The liked won roughly the same number of seats in. The Knesset Israel s parliament at did the labor part led by foreign minister Shimon Peres. To break the deadlock tie liked must convince other smaller Par lies to join it in forming a coalition that will put the labor party out of Power. Shamir pledged in an interview with Israel radio saturday that he would resume construction of new settlements in inc occupied West Bank and Gaza strip after he formed the next coalition government. Shamir favors retaining israeli sovereignly Over the territories White granting palestinian residents some form of limited autonomy
