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Bush talks jobs; Dukakis talks tncks
George Bush pocketed a labor
endorsement Thursday and said his
drive for the White House was “all
about creating jobs and opportunity.”
Underdog Michael Dukakis retorted
that Bush’s plan to slash the capital
gains tax was a treat for the rich “and
a trick for the rest of us.”
The pollsters’ daily tidings were
good once again for Bush, leader in all
the nationwide surveys. Fresh polls
showed a tight race in New York, one
of the country’s most Democratic
bastions.
Dukakis made his way toward
Harry Truman’s home town of Inde
pendence, Mo., and likened himself
to the “feisty little guy” who won the
White House four decades ago in a
storied upset. “Harry Truman was a
fighter and so am I,” he said. “My
friends, this election is up for grabs.
The Republican vice president
continued his week-long emphasis on
economic issues as he made his way
down the Pacific Coast from Wash
ington to California. Along the way
he accused Dukakis of trying to “fan
the flames of protectionism” in com
ments on trade and of “trying to scare
the American people by putting Japa
nese flags on these American com
mercials of his.”
GOP vice presidential candidate
Quayle was in Asheville, N.C., pour
ing it on. He renewed his description
of Dukakis as a liberal, and said,
“Liberalism is a philosophy of the
past. It is a philosophy that failed.”
Democratic vice presidential can
didate Lloyd Bentscn told an audi
ence in Los Angeles that u.S. allies in
Europe and Japan should pay a
greater share of defending their own
borders. He also said Dukakis was
firmly committed to maintaining
America’s defense, and said Republi
cans had “twisted the truth” to suggest
otherwise.
Dukakis campaigned in Illinois and
Missouri, and he ridiculed the idea
that Bush’s proposed capital gains tax
cut was a jobs program.
He said Bush wanted to “give the
people at the top the money and hope
the crumbs fall off the table for the
rest of us....
“Who’s he kidding?” the Demo
crat said. “What are they going to do
with the extra money? Hire a second
butler? A lifeguard for the pool?”
Its time to fall hack UNL
WASHS^UTUW ~ Americans
face two alarming reminders thiife
weekend: “Change your Clock,
Change Your Battery.”
That’s the motto set by Con
guess and the nation ’s fire chiefs in
hopes that people will take a few
momenta from the extra hour
they 11 gain, with the annual return
to standard time, to replace the
batteries Ip their smoke detectors.
Fall and winter are seasons
when household fires are most
common, and safety officials say
many of the 5,000 fire deaths each
year could be avoided if smoke
detector were properly main
tained. Smoke .alarms often fail to
Kerrey campaign: Karnes broke rules
Sen. David Karnes dodged politi
cal shots from both sides Thursday as
Bob Kerrey’s Democratic campaign
accused him of violating federal elec
tion laws and the state’s Republican
attorney general condemned his
negative advertising.
Despite a big lead in the polls,
Kerrey’s camp went on the offensive
by announcing it has filed a complaint
against Karnes with the Federal Elec
tion Committee. The complaint ac
cuses the Republican incumbent of
exceeding campaign spending limits
by utilizing the expenditures of a “so
called” independent committee.
Earlier Thursday, Attorney Gen
eral Robert Spire said negative cam
paign advertisements Kepuoncans
are using in the U.S. Senate race in
Nebraska have “gone far beyond any
sense of decency and fair play.”
Spire, appointed by Kerrey, said
he was speaking as a private citizen.
He said he has contributed $400 to
Kerrey’s campaign, but that no one
encouraged him to call the news
conference.
Spire objected to a television ad
run by the Karnes campaign that he
said portrays Kerrey as soft on drugs.
“Ads of this nature undermine and
demean the political process,” he
said.
At a separate news conference
Thursday, Kerrey Campaign Chair
man Dill noppner saiu ivanics is vio
lating federal election laws by exced
ing campaign spending limits
through Concerned Citizens for Re
sponsible Government
Hoppner said the committee is
linked to Kames-and should be lim
ited to a $1,000 expenditure on his
behalf.
Karnes spokesman Brent Bahler
said the charge is “nothing more than
a smoke screen, a desperate attempt to
divert the voters’ attention away from
the candidates.”
“That organization is not and has
never been affiliated with the Karnes
campaign,” he said.
Soviets present budget favoring long-suffering consumers
MOSCOW — The government
presented its-first budget designed to
help tfieTong-suHering Soviet con
sumer, and declared Thursday that
state-run farms and companies will be
shut down if they do not make profits.
Inefficient central planning also is
to be curtailed, in keeping with Presi
dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s pro
gram of radical economic reform.
Officials painted a gloomy picture
of Soviet life in a burst of honesty
unique to the annual two-day budget
sessions of the Supreme Soviet
The national legislature’s 1,500
deputies usually hear hours of dull
speeches on the success of the current
Five-Year Plan, but this time they
were told of cramped housing, food
rotting en route to stores, jammed
trains during vacation periods and
new equipment unused on factory
floors.
Yuri Maslyukov, head of the state
planning committee, promised dra
matic improvements as the govern
ment shifts from its traditional em
phasis on heavy industry to improv
ing the living standard.
One cost of that departure is a
deficit of $58 billion in the 1989
budget of $804 billion.
Finance Minister Boris Gostev
blamed the deficit on past mistakes.
He described it as “a problem that
has not emerged just now, but is a
result of the unbalanced economy, of
the policy of extensive subsidizing
and huge losses, of aTl that was
brought about by extensive methods
of economic management, parasitic
attitudes and a passive financial pol
icy.”
Gostev said drastic changes are
necessary. Among those on his list
was the possibility of bankruptcy, a
device of capitalism that will be new
to Soviet society.
“A number of enterprises are on
the brink of being elilhinated,” be
cause they are incapable of operating
without massive losses, he said, and
some state-owned businesses may
even be turned over to private coop
eratives.
Maslyukov said farms will have
two years to straighten out their op
erations before facing “elimination.”
Central planning will be reduced
by limiting the powers of planning
ministries, he said.
This year, the state bought and
redistributed 86 percent of produc
tion. It plans to cut that to 25 percent
in the next budget year and every tiling
else must be sold on an open market
sutyect to consumer demand.
“The state will cease to be the sole
distributor of resources,” Maslyukov
said.
He listed several development
plans that were dropped because of
environmental concerns, including
two-thirds of 50 planned water proj
ects.
Gostev promised increases in pen
sions and payments to low-income
families and pledged that price re
form would not lower the standard of
living.
One seat on the leadership dais was
vacant as the deputies convened their
regular fall session. The empty chair
separated Yegor K. Ligacnev, be
lieved to be the major conservative
force in the ruling Politburo, from
Gorbachev and Premier Nikolai I.
Ryzhkov.
The seat arrangement might sym
bolize a diminished role for Li
gachev, who was removed as the
Communist Party’s chief of ideology
earlier this month and put in charge of
agriculture.
Problems may 'constitute public health emergency’
New demands for overhauls at nuclear weapons plant
WASHINGTON — Demands for
improved safety procedures at U.S.
nuclear weapons-making plants
mounted Thursday as 31 members of
the House Armed Services Commit
tee appealed directly to President
Reagan.
“This crisis has not arisen sud
denly but over a long period, and it
stems from inadequate attention to
maintenance, safety and operating
conditions,” the lawmakers said in a
companion letter to Energy Secretary
John S. Herrington.
The letters, drafted by Rep. John
Spratt, D-S.C., and signed by com
mittee chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis.,
urged Reagan to appoint quickly the
five-member Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board, which Congress or
dered created this fall to oversee the
trouoled weapons complex.
The lawmakers expressed particu
lar concern over the Savannah River
Plant at Aiken, S.C., where the En
ergy Department's last three opera
tional weapons production reactors
have been shut down for safety rea
sons. The first will not resume pro
ducing nuclear weapons material
until January, Energy Department
officials have said.
“We will expect the department
not to restart a reactor before assuring
our committee that the applicable
operating procedures assure an ade
quate margin of safety,’ they said in
the letter to Herrington.
Four of DOE’s 16 major plants
have been partially or wholly shut
down this year over safety concerns,
prompting hearings before House and
Senate panels. On Wednesday, a na
tionwide anti-nuclear group, Physi
cians for Social Responsibility, said
the problems “constitute a public
health emergency,” and urged medi
cal studies on cancer rates among
workers and neighbors of the plants.
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