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‘ Thursday, November 3,1988
Campaign pace quickens as Nov. 8 approaches
George Bush said Wednesday that
voters should pick a president who
reflects their hopes and dreams for
America and proudly proclaimed, “1
am that man.” Michael Dukakis
urged supporters to “keep pouring it
on” in a drive for an Election Day
upset.
Republican Bush and Democrat
Dukakis made their rounds six days
before the voting while all around
them the pace of campaigning quick
ened.
Senate Republican Leader Bob
Dole was going to three slates during
the day in a bid to help endangered
GOP candidates for Congress. Sen.
Edward Kennedy countered for the
Democrats by campaigning in Min
nesota, where Hubert H. Humphrey
III is a Senate race underdog.
Officials in both parties agree
Democrats are likely to retain control
of both houses of Congress after next
week’s balloting, although Republi
cans harbor hopes of winning enough
close Senate seats to reduce the cur
rent 54-46 Democratic advantage.
President Reagan campaigned in
Ohio, where he tried to turn Dukakis’
“On Your Side” rallying cry against
the Democrats. They’re “on your side
when they want to gel their hands on
your wallets,” he said.
John Howard in Owensboro, Ky.,
set up a sort of drive-through poll at
his Crickets Classy Car Wash, and
said the results were about even.
Customers could drive into a bay
named for the presidential candidate
of their choosing. “It’s very scien
tific,” he said. “The margin of error is
100 percent.”
As usual, Dukakis’ aides said their
private polls were encouraging. As
usual, the public polls seemed to be
pointing to a Republican victory next
Tuesday. ABC said its latest Illinois
survey was a dead heat, but Bush led
in other surveys from Ohio, Arkansas
and Connecticut.
Bush campaigned through Illinois
and Michigan, two key Midwestern
battlegrounds.
At his first stop, at Adlai Stevenson
High School outside Chicago, he in
structed an audience made up largely
of students how to make an Election
Day choice.
“You’re not going to make your
decision on some television (adver
tisement) or some sound bite, and
what I want you to do is look beyond
the charges, gel past the shouting and
choose as president the person who
represents your values, your dreams,
your hopes for the United States, and
I am that man.”
He returned to the theme later in
Grand Rapids, Mich. “I represent the
mainstream, the mainstream views
and the mainstream values. If I win, it
will be a mainstream mandate. That’s
what this election is all about,” he
said.
Bush also said Dukakis was con
ducting a “media blitz,” appearing
“on every television show except
‘Wheel of Fortune.’ He was afraid
that Vanna might turn over the L
word.”
Dukakis began his day in Minne
sota by visiting his wife Kitty, who is
hospitalized for an upper respiratory
infection.
At a downtown rally, the Massa
chusetts governor urged supporters to
“keep pouring it on and pouring it on”
as he summoned up memories of
Harry Truman’s upset victory of
1948, John Kennedy’s closely won
contest of 1960 and Hubert
Humphrey’s narrow defeat in 1968.
“There arc millions and millions of
voters out there who haven’t made up
their mind,” he said.
Dukakis also aired new television
commercials nationally that origi
nally were tailored for California.
One says the Democrat wants an
“America that exports its products,
not its jobs.” In another, he says he
wants “clean air and clean water and
clean coasts and a clean government
in Washington, D.C.”
Democratic vice presidential can
didate Lloyd Bentscn was in Carbon
dale, III., criticizing Bush for picking
Indiana Sen. Dan Quaylc to be his
running mate. “Bush showed a real
disdain, disregard for our country”
with his selection, Bentscn said.
‘War of words’ heats up in Kames-Kerrey race
The war of words continued
Wednesday between the campaign
camps of Bob Kerrey and David
Karnes, with each bringing in heavy
artillery to counter the other’s claims.
Kerrey began his day by firing off
an angiy volley aimed at a group
calling itself “Conscientious Objec
tors and Deserters for Dukakis-Ker
rey,” which held a mock rally to
“support” the Democrats on Tuesday.
Kerrey said the “right-wing band
of hoodlums” were trying to discredit
his campaign on behalf of Karnes and
that the Republican senator owed all
veterans an apology.
Karnes’ spokesman Brent Bahler
on Tuesday denied any link between
the demonstrators and the Karnes
campaign. He said the Republican
senator repudiated the group’s ac
tions.
Karnes was on the road in west
central Nebraska on Wednesday, and
did not immediately return telephone
calls seeking comment on campaign
developments.
Both camps used national political
figures in a media blitz to counter
charges made by the opposition.
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
called Nebraska reporters in a confer
ence call arranged by the Kerrey
campaign to say Karnes was wrong to
say the Democratic Party punished
the late Ed Zorinsky for being an
independent by not giving him the
chairmanship of the Senate Agricul
ture Committee.
Leahy was given the committee
chairmanship in 1986 after the Demo
crats regained control of the Senate.
“It’s not right for Dave Karnes to
even perpetuate such a claim," he said
from his farm near Middlesex, Vt.
“Chairmanships are based on senior
ity.”
Leahy also disputed Karnes cam
paign ads that say the Nebraskan was
instrumental in pushing through farm
credit legislation.
“Dave’s involvement was mini
mal at best," Leahy said.
The Karnes camp returned fire by
having U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwilz, R
Minn., make a conference call to
reporters to respond to Leahy’s com
ments.
Boschwitz said he had a different
recollection of Karnes’ role in the
farm credit legislation, calling Kar
nes a major player.
“He took a very active role, more
active than the chairman of the com
mittee,’’ Boschwitz said. “His activ
ity was often rewarded and under
lined by the fact that he was on the
conference committee.”
Meanwhile, the Alliance for the
Mentally 111 in Nebraska asked Kar
nes to apologize and withdraw a tele
vision commercial that criticizes
Kerrey for vetoing a legislative bill
dealing with criminal insanity pleas.
“It was awful,” said group presi
dent Jack Woodall. “The way we see
it, he’s (Karnes’) equating mental ill
ness with criminality.”
The commercial begins with pic
tures of President Reagan and John
Hinckley, who used an insanity plea
after the assassination attempt.
Karnes says in the commercial that
he was angry at the Hinckley insanity
plea, noting the change in the Ne
braska law. The state Legislature i
overrode Kerrey’s veto of the bill, '
which shifted the burden of proof in
insanity plea cases from the prosecu- j
tion to the defense.
Woodall said it was unfair for
Karnes to pass judgement on the
Hinckley incident.
“It’s like he’s saying that we
should have hanged the guy without a
trial,” Woodall said.
In a prepared statement, Karnes
said conclusions drawn by the group
are “unwarranted and unfair.”
“Absolutely no statement of in
sinuation is made in the commercial
about the mentally ill citizens of this
country being criminals,” Karnes said
in the statement.
Another high-powered Republi
can, U.S. Transportation Secretary
Jim Burnley said in Omaha Tuesday
that a Karnes victory is essential to
restoring GOP control of the Senate.
“Dave Karnes could well be the
make or break of restoring control to
the Republican Party,” Burnley said
luring remarks at a reception at
ended by Gov. Kay Orr.
Both candidates spent Tuesday
ind Wednesday out and about the
state, Karnes on a bus tour with U.S.
Rep. Virginia Smith and U.S. Rep.
Doug Bereuter and Kerrey making
stops in Alliance, Ogallala and Val
entine.
In North Platte, Karnes said again
that the major difference between
himself and Kerrey was that Demo
crat thinks Michael Dukakis is the
best man to lead the country.
“I don’t think that’s what Nebras
kans want,” Karnes said.
Kerrey visited a retirement center
in Alliance, talked with downtown <
shoppers and spoke at an Ogallala
rally Tuesday.
“I believe America needs more
hope,” he said. ‘‘We can’t just meas
ure our worth in gross national prod
uct. We will not solve this deficit if we
continue to take the easy road. We
must choose the difficult road.”
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US. sex addicts may number in millions
LOS ANGELES — As many as
6 percent of Americans may be so
obsessed with sex it interferes with
their lives, but experts can’t agree
how to treat these “sex addicts’- or
even if they’re addicts.
Eli Coleman, a pioneer in the
field, says there’s no question that
sex ual addiction ex ists, and that h is
patients include men who are
“masturbating 10 to 15 times a day
resulting in physical injury, hiring
prostitutes on a daily basis, (or
having) multiple anonymous sex
ual encounters without any regard
to risk of health or commitments to
family or relationships.”
The concept has become in
creasingly popular in recent years,
spurring the creation self-help
groups modeled after Alcoholics
Anonymous. Mary Ann Miller, a
psychologist who founded the
Chicago chapter of Sex Addicts
Anonymous, has estimated that up
to 6 percent of Americans arc
addicts.
However, sociologists Marlin
P. Levine and Richard Troidcn
wrote in the August issue of the
Journal of Sex Research that the
sex addict theory amounts to
“transforming sin into sickness.”
“There’s no such disease as
sexual addiction or sexual compul
sion. It doesn’t exist,” said Levine,
at Bloomfield College in New Jer
sey.
He and Troiden, of Miami Uni
versity in Oxford, Ohio, wrote that
“the invention of sexual addiction
and sexual compulsion as ‘dis
eases’ threatens the civil liberties
of sexually variant peoples” like
homosexuals.
“Menial health professionals
must remain cautious about en
dorsing concepts which may serve
as ‘billy clubs’ for driving the erot
ically unconventional into the tra
ditional sexual fold,” they cau
tioned.
While not addictive in the
chemical sense, “these behavior
patterns are pathological, self-de
feating,” said Coleman, a psy
chologist in the University of
Minnesota Medical School’s hu
man sexuality program. “These
-individuals display hypersexuality
in response to feelings of anxiety*
depression or loneliness.”
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Hoch withdraws libel suit against Prokop
OMAHA — University of
Nebraska Regent Nancy Hoch of
Nebraska City said an attorney made
a mistake when he filed a $1 million
libel lawsuit on her behalf against her
opponent in the regents race.
Martin Cannon, an Omaha lawyer,
filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Douglas
County District Court against Dr.
Robert Prokop of Wilber.
But Hoch said Cannon later with
drew the lawsuit on Tuesday at her
request. She said she did not intend to
lake the issue to court until after the
Nov. 8 election.
The lawsuit contends Prokop dis
tributed a four-page campaign mail
ing thatcontains libelous and defama
tory statements about her.
The literature, which she alleges
was mailed to 34,000 households,
questions the propriety of a contribu
tion to her 1984 U.S. Senate cam
paign from Wall Street investment
banker Ivan Boesky. In 1986 Boesky
acknowledged his involvement in
insider trading.
Hoch, who ran unsuccessfully for
the U.S. Senate in 1984 and for the
Republican nomination for governor
in 1986, said the lawsuit should not
have been filed at this lime.
‘‘My husband with my knowledge
requested Mr. Cannon to research a
libel action against Robert Prokop
and draft a petition fot our review. Mr.
Cannon misunderstood our request
and filed the petition without my
knowledge or authorization,” Hoch
said Tuesday.
“I’m asking Mr. Cannon to with
draw it for the time being. 1 had
decided not to file it until after the
election.”
Prokop, unsealed as a regent by
Hoch in 1982, said he hadn’t seen a
request from Hoch for a retraction.
She said she sent the request Oct. 24.
Asked whether he would now re
tract his statements, Prokop said:
“With a suit threat, I cannot comment
on any campaign matters.”
He said Hoch should have taken
the dispute to the Nebraska Ac
countability and Disclosure Commis
sion before considering a lawsuit.
Among the points in the campaign
literature, according to information
filed with the lawsuit, was an allega
tion that Hoch took a “payoff’ from
Bocsky during her 1982 regent cam
paign and 1984 Senate race. Prokop
writes that Hoch was accepting
money from a “convicted felon.”
Boesky’s involvement in insider
trading was revealed in November
1986 by the U.S. Securities and Ex
change Commission.
Hoch said in an interview that
Boesky and his wife contributed
$1,000 each to her Senate campaign
when “he was well-known and re
spected as an investment banker."
She said that her campaign raised
$600,000and that she was unaware at
the time of the Boesky contributions.