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Tuesday, March 8, 1988AThe Battalion/Page 5 yet ush sweeps 17 GOP primaries, emocrats scour South for votes fo als searched Monday For a way to ip George Bush from a clean ;eep on Super Tuesday, while mocrats scoured the South for the lies that could propel one of them t of the tightly bunched pack on biggest primary day in U.S. his- toi v. ■ Vice President Bush said a sweep p{ the 17 GOP primaries was “too much for anyone to expect.” But he was leading polls in virtually every ■per Tuesday state except Mis souri, where Sen. Bob Dole of Kan sas had a narrow edge. Even Dole conceded in Oklahoma ty “it’s fair to say George Bush has ood margin,” but said the race is ht in Oklahoma, Missouri and rth Carolina. Earlier, the Kansas senator said in ^•mingham, Ala., “My philosophy the South ought to sell like not- Ikes, but so far it isn’t happening. Bush is getting a lot of ruboff from Ronald Reagan.” e|jt®D°le claimed polls show “that I at all the Democrats. (Bush) pole tfloesn’t beat any of them . . . We ought to nominate a winner instead of a loser.” Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massa chusetts, hoping to emerge from the Super Tuesday contests in his home state and 20 others with a delegate lead, campaigned at a retirees’ con dominium development in North Miami Beach and picked up the backing of Annie Ackerman, 74, a onetime Chicago ward organizer now known for her prowess in turn ing retirees out to vote. She called him “a person of integrity who gets things clone” and “a mensch,” using the Yiddish word for good man. Asked if Super Tuesday was a flop in bringing moderate and con servative Democrats back to the par ty’s fold, the governor replied, “It’s not been a flop for Mike Dukakis.” Four of his rivals —Jesse Jackson, Richard Gephardt, Albert Gore Jr. and Gary Hart — were in Texas Monday. Jackson, hoping the allegiance of black voters throughout the South will give him his finest hour in two runs for the presidency, visited an AIDS clinic in Dallas and journeyed to Brownsville, Texas, where he rofr Indians practice (traditional religion in federal prison EL PASO (AP) — Indians at La Tuna Federal Penitentiary heated rocks for the sweat lodge md said prayers in preparation For the medicine man’s visit. They built a 12-foot-diameter sweat lodge outdoors, between the prison camp and the main building, then purified them selves inside the hut by sweating. A sweat lodge is a dome shaped hut made of natural materials that Indians use as a chapel. It’s made of twigs and branches that are woven onto a wooden frame and covered with canvas. The rocks create intense heat, with temperatures reaching as high as 130 degrees. “The hotter the rocks, the bet ter the prayers,” Leroy Yocash, one of the Indians, said. Yocash said healing sometimes takes place as a result of the pray ers and purification ceremonies in the sweat lodge. “This is not a sauna,” he said. This is something very sacred. Although we are very limited on time, each of us spends up to half an hour in the sweat lodge.” Ben Yazzie, the medicine man, is a 45-year-old Navajo from Crownpoint, N.M. He ministers once a month to 42 Indian in mates at the Anthony peniten tiary. “When I come, we share about the Indian ways and bring news about our people,” Yazzie, a part- time medicine man who paints houses for a living, said. Most of the other inmates seek out the prison chaplains for spiri tual guidance, but Indian inmates prefer the Indian ways, and would rather wait for Yazzie to help them with their spiritual lives. The Rev. Sol Codillo, head prison chaplain, said it’s his job to ensure that all inmates get to practice their religion. That’s why he hired Yazzie. Congress passed a law in 1978 that mandates freedom of reli gion for Indians in federal de partments, agencies and prisons. The intent of the law is to pre serve Indian traditions and reli gions, and to permit Indians to express those beliefs. The law also guarantees access to Indian sites, the use and pos session of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through cer emonial and traditional rites. La Tuna pays Yazzie $120 once a month for a session that lasts six to seven hours. Yazzie ministers to inmates who come from a dozen different tribes, including Yakimas, Cherokees and Navajos. Yocash, a 47-year-old Yakima from Washington, is one of the inmates who looks forward to Yazzie’s visits. “Mr. Yazzie’s visit delights the native brothers immensely,” he said. “His prayers lift us and help to alleviate the stress and anxiety of being in prison. He is our only contact with the outside world.” Yocash, who is in prison for vi olating anti-poaching laws, assists Yazzie with some of the ceremo nies. The highlight of Yazzie’s visit is the sweat lodge ceremony. Inside the sweat lodge, Yazzie said, “We confess, fast and pray. We talk to the wind, to the four directions of the world. We talk about what it means to be In dian.” Yazzie said some Indian in mates want to practice “advanced ceremonies.” But his is not possi ble in most cases because the cere monies involve visiting sacred In dian sites outside the prison. pledged to fight efforts to make En glish the official language of the United States. Gephardt, the Missouri congress man who has staked his campaign on a tough stance against countries with unfair trade practices, made a pitch in Dallas for an oil import fee and campaigned in San Antonio in front of a landmark. “We’re standing today in front of the Alamo, a place where there was a fight for independence,” Gephardt said. “This election in 1988 is a fight again for the independence of America, the fight for us to regain control of our economic destiny.” In Dallas, outside a plant that has cut its production of oil field equip ment nearly in half, Gephardt said, “Anyone like A1 Gore or Michael Dukakis who tells you that they’re for making America energy-inde pendent without being for an oil im port fee is simply trying to deceive you in a shameful way.” Gore got a boost from Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, who left word af ter he departed on a trip to the So viet Union that he had cast an absen tee ballot for the Tennessee senator. Pat Robertson raised again his claim that there are Soviet missiles in Cuba, telling a satellite radio audi ence in 18 states, “I don’t think the missiles ever got taken out in ’62. And I am somewhat convinced that more missiles have been intro duced.” A federal judge in Washington dismissed Robertson’s $35 million li bel suit against former Rep. Pete Mc- Closkey, who questioned his Korean war record. The judge said McClos- key was the prevailing party in the acrimonious lawsuit. Robertson agreed to pay court costs but not Mc- Closkey’s legal fees. Super Tuesday, the biggest pri mary day in history, saw GOP voters go the primary polls in 17 states and Democrats choose candidates in 20 states. There are 712 Republican and 1,307 Democratic delegates at stake. Dukakis was hoping for a strong harvest of delegates from Texas, Florida and Maryland, as well as Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington state. Tuesday’s results to reshape future of primary races By Walter R. Mears Associated Press The verdicts of Super Tuesday could shape the way presidential campaigns are waged long after all the votes of 1988 have been counted. That’s because politicians usually fight the last war, looking back every four years to see what worked last time. That makes Sen. Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee a particularly influen tial figure in writing the strategic- rule book for the next generation of Democratic presidential candidates . Should Gore make good on his claim to a major surge of strength in the southern and border states he will do it in defiance of conventional wisdom about the way to run for president. His strategy of waiting near home and betting the entire race on one big night will then become part of conventional wisdom for next time. Gore’s was a course born of neces sity. Fearing defeat in Iowa and New Hampshire, he advanced to the rear, saving his campaign money and bet ting it all on Super Tuesday. “We’re going to win a bunch of states,” he said Sunday, then hedged, “but we’re concentrating on the delegate count.” Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massa chusetts and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri came South on the stan dard route. Gephardt won in Iowa, Dukakis won in New Hampshire and they sparred to no clear decision elsewhere. But Dukakis is the financial front runner now, and strong Southern showings to go with his sure bets in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Tuesday would make him a formi dable leader. It also would confound the South ern and border state political leaders who invented Super Tuesday in an attempt to strengthen their position in choosing a Democratic candidate. Analysis From the outset, the prospect was that Jesse Jackson would gain a size able bloc of delegates because of his strength among black voters. Now it appears that Dukakis will benefit, too. Vice President George Bush ap pears headed for Republican victo ries that could make him virtually unstoppable for the GOP nomi nation, buoyed by his ties to Presi dent Reagan in a region that is sup posed to be conservative terrain. He showed his strength in South Carolina on Saturday, sweeping 37 delegates by gaining 48 percent of the vote, with Sen. Bob Dole second at 21 percent. That left Dole talking about Illi nois on March 15, and the rest of tie calendar as the real contest. “We’« not going to walk away from sdy state or leave early,” he said. Pat Robertson, who once said he’d trounce the other two in South Cjro- lina, began reminding people hat half the Republican delegates wil re main to be chosen after Super Tues day. That after saying earlier that the South was his home base and he had to win there. The former television evangelist could find comfort in South Caro lina only by claiming that it proved conservative strength because of the combined vote he and Rep. Jack Kemp received. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Robertson added that if he’d had all the Kemp votes “I woulc 1 have been up in the mid-30s” in per centage of the total. That’s wishful thinking square*, since Robertson got 19 percent ard Kemp 11 percent, which adds up :o 30 even. Editor’s note: Walter Mears, et- eran political writer for the Aso- ciateo Press, is now AP’s Execttive Editor. erformance 's our Business' We beieve in Performance: Inf our Car or Truck For any Fepair-Import or Domestic Bryan Drive Train call us 268-AUTO Looking For A Job? 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