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He hopes to help the Democratic ticket bring home the Lone Star state’s 29 electo ral votes, now within the reach of ei ther party. A poll published Monday in the Dallas Morning News showed the Republican ticket leading 47 percent to 44 percent, within a 3 percentage point margin of error. Bentsen told reporters traveling with him that he expected to take Texas and win the national election, but he acknowledged that the Demo crats were revising their tactics. “I think you’ll see a more aggressive campaign,” he said. “You can’t keep taking the kind of attacks that we saw,” such as Bush’s claim that Dukakis was unpatriotic because he vetoed a bill mandating the recitation of the Pledge of Alle giance in the public schools of Mas sachusetts, he said. On that issue, Bentsen added, Republicans would suffer a voter backlash. The Texas senator, returning to the trail after a brief vacation in Wyoming, said he had spoken by telephone with John Sasso, the Du kakis campaign’s new vice chairman who was returning a year after re signing for what some considered an unfair attack on Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., a Dukakis rival at the time. Bentsen began his Labor Day at a small business center in Waco, an area struggling economically. He met with local people trying to launch new businesses and, af terward, told about 250 supporters that Bush, who also claims Texas as his home, had done little for the state. “They’ve sort of turned their backs on us, this administration has,” Bentsen said, standing in high shirtsleeves outside the former school building. The Republicans “have an oil man who’s running for president,” he said, “but, frankly, I can’t remember anything he’s done for the energy industry in the past eight years.” At the Beaumont rally, attended by some 2,000 people, Bentsen said that Quayle was on the wrong side of every energy issue important to Texas — and still George Bush chose him as his running mate. Bentsen said that Quayle exempli fied the Republican attitude with his record opposing health care for pre gnant women, immunizations for children and the bill requiring 60 days advance notice for workers fac ing plant layoffs. “When it comes to basic issues im portant to working men and women, the Republicans say, ‘No,’” he said. Bentsen said the Republicans were trying to make ideology and patriotism the issues of the cam paign, but, selling Dukakis to Tex ans, he said the real issues were jobs and opportunity. “The Republicans like to wrap themselves in the flag, and dema- dire or of th gogue on phony issues,’ jDATA PRO standing before a huge flag flanked by the Texas “The Republicans like STUDENT > about left and right,” he sa R.y” has t this election is not about rcni•£».»■ CYCL or right. It is about standing interested ric George Bush or moving El NlflHT with Mike Dukakis.” CORPUS Cl Bentsen ridiculed HILLEL JE^ statement that the bash from 5: would create 30 million ^LE noting there are only about{«| c SCON people officially categonze Ubraryoffic£ employed. SlPHAPHI “1 understand George Bt £L SALVAC at Disneyland today,” BenistfiMnester at “I think he’s out there talki ECONOMIC economist.” Bp Texas state Sen. Carl hosted the Beaumont rallyBl 6 ^® 3 !?j; understood Bush’s plan. Mygjgp. ^ publicans, he said, warn pXI,j|j on . nave “such sorry jobs, we’rt. TRlATHLOf have to work two of’em.’’ AGGIELANI Bentsen’s two-day tripw, ; Hons are av tinue the job-c reation - MS*. Tuesday with visits to a trair.r^ RAM UR Poll says Bush leads in Texas HOUSTON (AP) — The presi dential race in Texas — a crucial state for both candidates — remains tight with Republican George Bush gaining only a slight advantage over Democrat Michael Dukakis, a poll indicates. Bush and his running mate, In diana Sen. Dan Quayle, have the support of 47 percent of Texas vot ers, while Dukakis and Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen have 44 percent, according to a poll by the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News. The remainder were mostly undecided. But the poll’s statistical margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, which could put the race in a virtual dead heat. The poll pub lished Monday surveyed 1,001 likely voters between Aug. 26 and Friday. Bush had been the heavy favorite in Texas, which he calls home, but Dukakis’ selection of Bentsen as his running mate drastically narrowed that gap, according to a July poll. The latest poll shows the race re mains close at the traditional Labor Day campaign kickoff, with Bentsen still providing a big boost to the Democratic ticket. But Bush appears to be scoring well with his charges that Dukakis, the governor of Massachusetts, is a liberal — a tag that doomed three of the last four Democratic presidential nominees in Texas. “Texas figures are to remain highly competitive, among the top four or five most competitive states,” said Richard Murray, the University of Houston political scientist who di rected the survey. Eight percent of the Texas voters surveyed were undecided and less than 0.5 percent expressed support for Libertarian Party presidential nominee Ron Paul of Lake Jackson. Texas, with 29 electoral votes, is considered critical by both cam paigns in a race that appears very close nationally. Bentsen’s help for Dukakis in Texas is substantial: 43 percent of the respondents say they are more likely to vote for the Democratic ticket because of Bentsen. In contrast, only 13 percent said they were more likely vote for Re publican because Qualye was on the ticket. In addition, 82 percent said Bentsen is qualified to serve as presi dent, and only 32 percent said Quayle is. When asked to rate the candidates philosophically, 45 percent of the poll respondents called Dukakis lib eral. Bush was labeled conservative by 57 percent. Bush has a slight majority of the support of strict independents, but Dukakis has the support of 62 per cent of identified Democrats who voted for President Reagan in 1984, the poll shows. Tom Cosgrove, Dukakis’ Texas campaign coordinator, said the poll bodes ill for Bush. “If I were the Republicans, and I had just had my candidate for presi dent in the state four days straight during perhaps his best week ever campaigning and he was in a statisti cal dead heat, I’d be a little scared,” he said. baptist si ter in Lawrenceville Ga,(» p REMED/p , Atlanta, and a trip to Vir»K( 0 technic Institute in Blacksk ALCOHOLK the center at TAi/USCUl ;TAMU FLYII port clubhou GRAPEVINI Aeting and leads Senate ractps Kleberg. Eve Poll says Bentse: From Associated Press Democratic U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas holds a com manding lead in his re-election bid despite Republican criticism that his dual candidacy for vice president is unfair, a poll shows. Bentsen maintains a 30-point lead over Republican Beau Boulter, a two-term House mem ber from Amarillo, according to poll by the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News. The Texas senator also is Dem ocratic presidential nominee Mi chael Dukakis’ running mate. “Boulter remains still effecti vely an unknown," said Richard Murray, the University of Hous ton political scientist who con ducted the survey of 1,001 likely Texas voters from Aug. 26 to last Friday. Bentsen had the support of 58 percent and Boulter 28 percent, with the remainder undecided, according to the poll, conducted for the two newspapers through the university’s Public Affairs Re search Center. The statistical margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. CATHOLIC tianity at9 p. STUDY ABF 25: Bizzell V Boulter and the Repuh:i Senatorial Campaign Comma contend that Bentsen’s twoej paigns give him a financial add tage. Bentsen campaign aide] the money is used separateM the GOP says the Senate race autc the Democratic ticket. Bentsen has said his dropfj his re-election bid would eciJ the office going to Boulter,*i« he says is unqualified. If Bentsen is elected vicepit dent, a ternjxirarySenatereja ment will Ik* named by Repa can Gov. Bill Clements, then call a special election tsi the office for the six-year ten: Candidates of all parties v, run against one another, as j did in a special election ini after Texan Lyndon B. Job was elected vice president an: in group mail elected senator at the samel spending AGGIE DEM imaticallv at8:30p.m.i AMERICAN fre hmen alt p.m. and MSC VISUA 8§r artist Lym STUDENT c Hi have an e EUROPE CL TAMU SPOF TAMU PISTi ment of the N AGGIE PLA p.tn. in 144 E 7fl0 p.m. at I onciliation ar AGGIELANI I he Legislature had chi', the law in 1959 to allow Jobs to seek both offices at once k sen’s dual candidacy is author, bv that law. Figures show young familie missing ‘general prosperity CLASS OF ‘ CLASS OF' CLASS OF Dance sub-c STUDENTS AH students; AMERICAN p.m. in Block HUMAN FA( perested at pRCLE K IF p.m. in Rudd PLACEMEN and August c ( INTRAM UR/ V 167 Read. SPANISH Cl MSCGREA1 MEXICAN S 8:30 p.m. in f WASHINGTON (AP) — High poverty rates for young families are getting America’s youth off to “the worst possible start,” warns the head of a group pro moting the interests of children. “Our children and our young families are this na tion’s growing edge,” Marian Wright Edelman, presi dent of the Children’s Defense Fund, said. “We neglect them at our peril.” The comments came with the release of a study com missioned by the group, which found that the economic growth of the last few years hasn’t benefited young American families the way it has families that are estab lished. “America’s young families are afflicted by an eco nomic depression in the middle of our society’s more general prosperity,” Edelman said in a statement. In terms of constant dollars, the income of families with children headed by an adult under age 30 fell by about one-fourth between 1973 and 1986, the fund re ported. As a result the poverty rate for such families nearly doubled from 12 percent in 1973 to 22 percent in 1986, the fund said. Census Bureau figures for 1987 were released last week and, while not identical to the children’s fund fig ures, tend to support the group’s assertions. The Census Bureau found that the 1987 poverty rate Dalle Items for Wh no later than for children aged 18 and under was 20 perce: the name an from 14.2 percent in 1973. aBattalionsi Younger families tended to have higher p on a first-cor rates than older ones, the census figures showed hevequestio Poverty rates foi children, whether black. " | Hispanic, rose between 1973 and 1987, the! showed, and were higher than for other familieiS dividuals. “These are the children on whom we must rehl the workers, leaders, parents, taxpayers, soldieisp hope of the 21st century,” Edelman said. “Weaitl ting them off to the worst possible start.” DALLAS (/ In the short term, the Children’s Defenrys he realize called for a higher minimum wage and passagedatile situatii Act for Better Child Care, legislation pending it *sffas the hig gress to improve services for working parents. Dallas city at Gonzalez wi Long-term recommendations included e\ nt city man; Medicaid coverage to pregnant women and chifii Moreno, families with less than twice the poverty incoffilr a feder panded tax credits for low-income families; ex. ifed that he Head Start programs; setting up community ItWn the com| centers for children, and a series of educationaately before home-buyer assistance programs. /e years ago. 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