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Dukakis takes Pledge issue away from Bush
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
Vice President George Bush may
have waved the flag at presidential
rival Michael Dukakis once too often.
Before a national audience Sunday
night. Bush raised the pledge of alle
giance issue and Dukakis took it away
from him.
“I hope that people don ’ t think that
I am questioning his patriotism,” said
the Republican presidential nominee
after bringing up Dukakis’ member
ship in the American Civil Liberties
Union and his veto of legislation that
would have required teachers to lead
Massachusetts public school students
in the recitation of die pledge of alle
giance.
“Of course, the vice president is
questioning my patriotism,” said the
Democratic nominee. “1 don’t think
there’s any question about that and I
resent it, I resent it.
“My parents came to this country
as immigrants. They taught me this
was the greatest country in the world.
I’m in public service because I love
this country. I believe in it and
nobody’s going to question my patri
otism as the vice president has now
repeatedly.”
It was a particularly passionate
statement from a politician who was
asked just moments earlier about his
perceived lack of passion, his ;mage
as “the smartest clerk in the world.”
The pledge of allegiance issue has
become a central theme of Bush’s
attacks on Dukakis. The Massachu
setts governor, while affirming his
support of the pledge of allegiance,
said he vetoed the bul because a state
Supreme Court advisory opinion said
it was unconstitutional.
Late in the debate, Bush delivered
one of his strongest statements as he
responded to a question about his
selection of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indi
ana to be his vice president.
“I’m putting my confidence in a
whole generation of people who are in
their 30s and in their 40s,” responded
Bush.
“Judge the man on his record, not
on a lot of rumors and innuendo and
trying to fool around with his name,”
Bush continued.
Dukakis usually refers to Quayle
scornfully as “J. Danforth Quayle.”
“Do you know who J. Danforth
was?" asked Bush, looking at
Dukakis. “He was a man who gave his
life in World War II. So, ridiculing a
person s name is a litue Dcneaui uns
process.”
From the start of their 90-minute
debate - an event widely regarded as
pivotal in a presidential campaign
with no clear front runner and an
electorate with no strong feelings
about either candidate - Dukakis was
on the attack.
The first question was about drugs
and the Democratic nominee swiftly
tossed out one of his most familiar
lines, his accusation that the Reagan
administration has been “dealing
with a drug-running Panamanian dic
tator.”
Bush was ready.
“Seven administrations were deal
ing with Mr. Noriega.” he said. “It
was the Reagan-Busn administration
that brought this man to justice.”
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on a question about the federal budget
deficit.
Dukakis said he couldn’t under
stand how Bush could balance die
budget and also increase defense
spending, cut capital gains taxes, and
refuse to consider any other tax in
creases.
“If he keeps this up he’s going to be
the Joe Isuzu of American politics,”
said Dukakis, in a reference to Isuzu
commercials in which the salesman
makes wildly implausible claims for
the car.
“That answer was about as clear as
Boston Harbor,” retorted Bush, who
has scored points in this campaign
with an attack on pollution in
Dukakis’ front yard.
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Candidates differ on debate debate
NORTH PLATTE — Sen. David
Karnes, R-Neb., attacked Demo
cratic challenger Bob Kerrey for the
“gamesmanship” that kept the two
from debating Sunday, but Kerrey
said he’s tiring of the “nonsense”
surrounding the debate debate.
Karnes, in campaign stops over the
weekend, also painted Kerrey as an
enemy of veterans programs andcriti
cized the former governor for his
support of a freeze on nuclear weap
ons and opposition to U.S. military
involvement in Central America.
The two candidates were to have
debated each other in North Platte on
Sunday, but Karnes announced last
week he would participate in no more
debates because of Kerrey’s refusal to
enter any forums including New Alli
ance Party candidate Ernie Cham
bers.
Karnes accused Kerrey of break
ing his word in bowing out of a debate
that included Chambers last week.
Kerrey countered that Chambers,
a state senator from Omaha, is repre
senting a radical party that has no
legitimate role in the debates.
Kerrey, the former governor, said
he is anxious to move on to other
issues.
“Now that they’re gone,” Kerrey
said of the debates, “1 don’t think the
people want to sit around debating
debates. I know I don’t.”
Kerrey said the reaction to his re
fusal to debate Chambers has been
“mixed,” but most agree with him that
“now that you’ve gotten that non
sense out of the way,” it’s time to
focus on issues.
Reached by telephone, Kerrey
said Karnes’ statements concerning
veterans came from Karnes’ lack of
experience with setting a budget
Billy Carter dies of Cancer
PLAINS, Ga. — Billy Carter,
the former “first brother” and beer
thinking good ol’ boy whose can
dor and business ventures amused
and sometimes embarrassed the
Carter administration, died Sun
day of cancer. He was 51.
The brother of former President
Jimmy Carter suffered for a year
with pancreatic cancer — the dis
ease that killed his father and a
sister — and lived longer than his
doctors expected.
Carter “died quietly and peace
fully in his sleep... with his family
at his bedside,” according to a
statement issued by the Carter
Presidential Center on behalf of the
former president and his family.
Billy Carter, who once defined
himself as a beer-drinking good oV
boy, was forced into the spotlight
when his older brother rocketed
from their tiny hometown into the
White House.
He put his name on a brand of
beer that flopped, got into hot
water with remarks denounced as
racist or anti-Semitic, accepted
money from Libya and was forced
to sell some properties to pay a debt
to the Internal Revenue Service.
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