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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 22, 198& the stars and stripes Page 5 Mondale Calls presidential race a disgrace Minneapolis a former vice president Waller Mondale says the presidential campaigns run by both candidates this year were a disgrace an turned out worse than i originally thought. To feel  Mondale said of the George Bush and Michael Dukakis campaigns in an interview published in sunday editions of the Star Tribune Mondale who was the democratic party s candidate for president in 1984, said part of the blame should go to  which revealed More about Campaign Media handlers than about the candidates themselves. There is no substance Monjac 60, said of he Campaign. The candidates arc hidden you Don t gel to ask questions. The negatives have taken Over edit s mud every Nihl Mondale said he was especially angered by a new conference at Boston Harbor where Bush declared himself an environmentalist labelled Dukakis a polluter and then put a halt to questions. Politicians Are permitted to throw mud from privileged sanctuaries and the negatives arc driving sub stance off the playing Field he said. They can Mountan attack and Hen not take questions about that at tack. First Bush then Dukakis. Vou could t get a Holdo Fany of them for questioning and for  Mondale called for More frequent and longer de Bates than the two sessions held this year in which he said Bush and Dukakis delivered scripted lines an ignored substantive questions. Mondale predicted the problems he identified would t be resolved until people get fed up wit show business presidential campaigns. Maybe it s Starling he said noting that this year voter turnout was Only about 50 percent. Meanwhile according to a report published in an other newspaper sunday Mondale is mounting a Polit ical comeback and will run for his old . Senate scat in 1990. The Chicago Sun times newspaper quoted associates of Mondale As saying i. Will run against Minne Sota Republican sen. Rudy Doi Choiu. Monde la quit the Washington office of a Chicago Law firm in 1 936 and resumed to his Minneapolis la practice. He recently turned Down an offer n become president of inc University of Minnesota. The Senate democratic Campaign committee reportedly views Mondale As the party s Best Hope for defeating the two term Boschwitz. Mondale s re entry into politics would Mirror the career of former vice president Hubert Humphrey who resumed to Minnesota after he was Defeated forthe presidency in 1 968 and won election to the Senate in970. The democratic Farmer labor party has not won senatorial election in Minnesota since Humphrey was re elected to his final term in 1976. Humphrey s so unsuccessfully tried to unseal gop sen. David Ouren Berger in the recently completed elected. Now that Mondale has Given Humphrey mischance he feels he has wailed his turn and is ready to " take on . A Mondale associate old the Sun Many cuban refugees face lifetime in custody Atlanta a a year after cubans from the Marie boat lift rioted us two prisons for a Chance at Freedom thousands arc out on parole but More arc dribbling Back Inlo wha i could be lifetime custody. Many of the thousands of cubans held by the Immi Gration and naturalization service will be released More quickly because of changes made in the review process As a result of inc agreement that ended the riots but others will have to await new Laws or the whim of the cuban government. Critics of the process acknowledge it has increased the number of cubans freed but say it has other problems. We re not saying some of the cuban prisoners in Here Aren t bad. Said Gary Mcshaw a Legal Aid Law yer who has represented the detainees. We re saying we re not sure the system is designed to sort Oul the people who do not belong  the detainees arc a minority among the i2j.oqocubans who arrived during inc five month Freedom flotilla from the cuban port of Maricl in 1980. Man of those who arrived were criminals or mental patients freed from cuban jails and hospitals. A  arrested on arrival for crimes committed in Cuba. Others were convicted of crimes in the United states and turned Over to the ins for deportation after finishing their sentences. But Cuba would t take them Back so Uliey remain in detention. Since the detainees never were officially admitted tothe United states they have existed in Legal limbo As excl Dable  courts ruled that he cubans did not have to be released and could be excluded without Legal protections. Rioting erupted at Federal prisons in Oakdale ln., an Atlanta after the state department s nov. 20, 1987, announcement that Cuba had agreed to take Back More than 2,500 of the 3,800 refugees locked up nationwide at the time. The rioters wielding crudely fashioned weapons took us hostages and burned several buildings. One in mate Wai killed in the 11-Day uprising in Atlanta. The uprisings ended dec 4 after the government agreed to a moratorium on deportations and a one time Only Justice department review of each ins decision. Ins spokesman Duke Austin said the agreement also called for speedy reviews of the cases which resulted in the parole of about 60 percent of the a Tai buil Duik of demolished building at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary continues one year after uprising by cuban to Luis nos. Aces. Since inc uprisings ins increased the number of review panels from four to 20. The reviews conducted by these panels go beyond anything that s required by Law or by court order Cary conc land a Deputy associate attorney general said they re designed to give the Detainee and his representative every Opportunity to Tell the panels anything they fee appropriate in reaching Theirdo Visioni -. So far about 2,500 cubans have been paroled. Parole has been denied to about 1,500 others who will continue to get annual ins reviews but could spend years even Theresa of their lives in ins custody even through they have finished prison sentences for their crimes. About 115 arc at a Federal facility in Talladega. Ala.,awaiting word on whether they will be sent Back to Cuba. The Justice department announced plans last week to Deport 13 detainees. Leshaw sued to Block that claiming the cases arc entitled to add Ilion Al review. An additional 3,000 cubans arc serving jail sentence Sand eventually will enter ins detention either to be paroled or held until Cuba agrees to take them Back. J unless another agric Man is reached with Cuba Man will not face deportation but Wilt remain in jail indefinitely until an ins panel decides they arc fit for parole. After 40 years Indiana Man no longer giving bikes to kids Marion. Ind. A Roy Deta More never had a bicycle when he Gre up in a family of 14 children so he spent 40 years making sure other kids did but he s decided to Stop giving out bikes be cause neighbourhood children kept steal. In them i know if 1 keep the bikes la hurl someone said Ditamore 78. So i just giving them away his wife Marie says her husband lost his desire to collect and repair bicycles when ones he intended to give to needy children began disappearing at night. Bicycles filled All but a Small path in the Deia Morts backyard and lined both sides of their driveway until he gave about goo bikes to the City which Hopes to continue Ditamore s charitable mis Sion. A his Bike collecting began when his sons wan led one -. V i could t afford new ones so i go some old ones and fixed them up he said. It was t Long before every kid inthe neighbourhood was pushing his Bike up the Alley for me to  he d take Aid bikes find the parts an repair them. He asked Only for payment for the parts. But if a child did t Havethe Money that was Fine too. It was just something for me to do said Ditamore who is retired. Now he plans Only to repair Bike with the spare parts that fill his garage. "1 can t Stop  a said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov 22, 1948 Berlin s fire department became that City s sixth municipal department to be split into separate East and West branches following the soviet arrest of two fire department officials in the Eastern sector. 30 years ago today. Nov. 22,1958 the soviet ambassador to West Germany told reporters at reception in Bonn that the soviets were going to give Berlin Back to the germans by Christmas-.-. 20 years ago today. Nov. 22, 1968 thousands of people gathered at Arlington National cemetery to pay tribute to the late president Kennedy on the fifth anniversary of his assassination. ". 1q years ago today. Nov. 22, 1978 . Troops flew to Guyana to transport the bodies of the  400 american cultists who committed suicide in fanatic loyally to their Leader the Rev. Jim Jones  
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