News Digest
By the
Associated Press
Edited by Bob Nelson
Dukakis wins convincing victory in New York
NEW YORK — Michael Dukakis
scored a convincing victory over
Jesse Jackson in the New York pri
mary Tuesday night as he bid for
control over the Democratic presi
dential race.
“I love New York.” Dukakis said
in a victory statement prepared for a
hotel rally in midtown Manhattan.
“Friends, if we can make it here we
can make anywhere.”
Sen. Albert Gore Jr. was running a
weak third and seemed likely to quit
the race later in the week. He planned
an announcement for Thursday.
With 76 percent of the precincts
reporting, the Democratic vote
looked this way:
Dukakis had 671,494 or 53 per
cent.
Jackson had 411,230 or 33 per
cent.
Gore had 135,454 or 11 percent.
“I think we have a nominee,” said
Lynn Cutler, deputy chair of the
Democratic national Committee. She
said Dukakis now “has to be very
careful not to look as though it’s a
done deal... There is a tendency in
the Democratic Party to slap the hand
of the front-runner.”
Gore scrubbed the traditional net
work primary night interviews. Ten
nessee Gov. Ned McWhorter, a key
supporter, said he had advised the
senator to “gracefully get out” of the
race.
Vice President George Bush won
on the Republican ballot. With no
serious opposition in New York or
elsewhere. He told reporters he
thought Dukakis was a “good bet” to
go on and capture the Democratic
nomination and said he was eager to
join the battle with whatever oppo
nent the Democrats gave him.
New York offered 96 delegates for
the vice president, steadily closing in
on the 1,139 needed to secure his
nomination at the Republican Na
tional Convention in August.
New York was the biggest single
state primary of this year, offering
255 delegates. Victory brought
Dukakis’ national total to half the
2,082 needed to clinch nomination
and his aides expressed confidence
that they could rally the hundreds of
uncommitted parly officials who will
attend the convention to his side.
Dukakis led for 154 New York
delegates and brought his national
delegate total to 1,034. Jackson led
for 84 to bring his total to 829.
Jackson had hoped for an upset to
propel his candidacy through the final
six weeks of primaries, but the net
‘In New Hampshire
we won the gold.
Tonight we won the
Oscar.’
—Dukakis
works said his black support — in
excess of 90 percent — was not
enough to offset Dukakis’ strength
among other voters.
saia 1 jukukis was winning the
white vote 69 percent to 17 percen t for
Jackson. The Massachusetts gover
nor was carrying 77 percent of the
Jewish vote, the network said.
Jackson’s national campaign
chairman, California Assembly
Speaker Willie Brown, said an over
whelming Dukakis victory “would
make our job far more difficult” when
the campaign reached California at
the end of the primary season, June 7.
In Vermont, Jackson led in early
caucus returns even though Dukakis
triumphed in a non-binding primary
vote March 1. Bush was winning
another easy victory.
“In Iowa we won the bron/c,”
Dukakis said in his victory statement.
“In New Hampshire we won the gold.
Tonight we won the Oscar.”
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Mines spotted in Gulf; Iran attacks merchant ships
MANAMA, Bahrain — A French warship
spotted three mines and Iranian speedboats
raided two tankers Tuesday, the day after
battles in the southern Persian Gulf in which
Iran fired missiles from shore at U.S. navy
'vessels.
A marine executive said the gulf appeared
“ghostly” from lack of shipping. He and others
said commercial vessels were avoiding the
waterway, where Iran and Iraq have been at war
since September 1980 and the U.S. Navy sank
or damaged six Iranian vessels Monday.
They also said the United States had sus
pended escorts of Ku wai ti oi 1 tankers temporar
ily, but Defense Department spokesman Dan
Howard denied it. The United States gave
American flags and registration to 11 Kuwaiti
tankers last year and the Navy escorts them
through the gulf.
President Reagan said things were quieter in
the gulf Tuesday and “we hope it continues that
way.”
Iran claimed its speedboats in the southern
gulf sank an “American naval logistical ship,
killing its crew, an hour after Navy ships de
stroyed two Iranian oil platforms Monday.
The official Islamic Republic News Agency
headlined the dispatch “Yankees Go Down To
Watery Grave As Revolutionary Guards Sink
U.S. Ship,” but it contained no details.
At the Defense Department in Washington,
Howard said of the claim: “No report has
reached us from our forces in the Gulf of any
hostile acts (against them) today.”
After the confrontation Monday, the Penta
gon said there were no confirmed U.S. casual
ties but a search was being conducted for a
missing AH-1 helicopter with two crewmen
aboard. Iran claimed to have shot it down.
At the United Nation in New York, Iran
lodged a formal complaint Tuesday about at
tacks by the “war-monger” United States.
Washington responded that its action had been
“necessary and proportionate.”
IRN A also said an American attack Monday
on the patrol boat Joshan killed 15 crew mem
oers ana injurea zv.
In Monday’s operations, U.S. Navy forces
destroyed two offshore Iranian oil platforms in
the southern Gulf, then sank the Joshan, dis
abled two frigates and sank or damaged three
attack boats.
Iran attacked neutral commercial ships after
the raid on the platform, which were in retali
ation for a mine that damaged the frigate USS
Samuel B. Roberts last week and wounded 10
crewmen.
Tehran radio said T uesday the Swiss ambas
sador, who represents American interests in
Iran, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry
and “given a written warning in regard to
America’s aggressive attacks.” It said the note
“emphasized that Iran will retaliate.”
Shipping executives, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity, said the French warship
spotted three mines in an area of the central gulf
previously believed mine-free. No details were
available.
After midmoming distress signals from two
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the southern gateway to the gulf, owners and
agents advised their vessels to anchor just
outside the gulf, off Khor Fakkan, the execu
tives said.
They identified the two ships attacked as the
Meltcm, flying the Bahamas flag, and the
12,215 ton Fal-5 from the United Arab Emir
ates. No details about the Meltem were avail
able, but they said the Fal-5 was set ablaze and
Omani coastguard boats rescued the crew.
Associated Press reporter Richard Pyle, in a
report from shipboard, said a five Iranian mis
siles were fired from shore Monday at a three
ship “surface action group.” They were the first
such attacks reported on U.S. warships.
The three Navy ships took evasive action
and fired chaff into the air, which confused the
missiles’ guidance systems and caused them to
miss.
One missile crossed behind the ships and hit
a distant oil platform, which was not identified.
Some see Daub as GOP 'pit bull’
Rep. Hal Daub’s attacks on Sen. David
Karnes have some Republicans painting the
Omaha congressman as a “pit bull of Nebraska
politics,” former Mayor Roland Luedtke said
Tuesday.
“I’m not calling him a pit bull,” Luedtke
said. But he said Karnes supporters, whom he
did not identify, made the comment after ob
serving Daub’s aggressive campaign style.
Daub’s administrative assistant, Dave
Heineman, rejected the charge.
“I think you have to look at the source,” he
said, referring to the unnamed Karnes support
ers.
Luedtke made his comments at a news
conference where he and city council members
Gates Minnick and Joe Hampton endorsed
Karnes.
Daub, R-2nd District, has made a point of
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sharply contrasting his experience of four terms
in Congress with that of Karnes, whom Gov.
Kay Gfirr appointed to the Senate last year
following the death of Sen. Edward Zorinsky,
D-Neb.
In one televised debate, for example, Daub
said “Dave, you don’t know your own record,
but perhaps you haven’t been there long
enough.”
Karnes has struck back to some degree. For
example, after Daub suggested Karnes favored
increasing taxes, Karnes accused the congress
man of distorting his record.
At the news conference. Luedtke warned
Republicans against weakening themselves by
intraparty feuding before the fall election
against the Democrats. “I guess I’m warning all
of us, let’s not get so frustrated that we start
calling names,” Luedtke said.
Bush in Lincoln May 6
Vice President George Bush plans to bring his
campaign for the GOP presidential nomination to
Lincoln on May 6, former Gov. Charles Thonc said
Tuesday.
Thone chairs the Bush campaign effort in Nebraska.
“The vice president plans to come to Lincoln for a
dinner on May 6,” Thone said in an interview. “It’s not
going to be a fund-raiser type of thing at all. The vice
president plans to be here for a dinner, say hello to
Nebraska, talk a little bit about his message, his phi
losophy.”
u is also possible that the vice president will make
an airplane stop in the 3rd District.” Thone said. ‘‘That
hasn’t been firmed up quite as yet.”
Thone said “it is always possible that the May 6 date
could change, but the plan to come to Lincoln and have
a function is definite... and right now my understand
ing is that it’s on for May 6.”
Thone said he was confident that Bush would be the
Republican nominee and said his campaign should do
well in Nebraska.
Art Knox of Lincoln is the political director of the
Bush effort m Nebraska and “things can really be seen
to be coming together for George Bush in these parts ”
Thone said.
Thone said many of the people who were key
players in the Nebraska organizations of U.S. Sen. Bob
Dole, R-Kan., and Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., “are
coming on board with Mr. Bush... I think you will see
that we will have peace and harmony in the Republican
ranks.”
“I think the nomination of George Bush is a fore
gone conclusion,” Thone said.
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