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Tuesday, September 6, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9 Presidential rivals Bush, Dukakis campaign themes at rallies is ' he W ■Hsactionj t that ck ek that 1 lssue asi f .. could bet: 11 fiscal y,’ k' money ton ' taxpave ri f d toward [get def ICl , iscal yea r e M ban kbo,, "‘‘ton i n; t; 10 ? /n Tet 11 Minne^ and onee, t and Tf. From Associated Press Presidential rivals George Bush and Michael Dukakis campaigned on opposite sides of the country on Labor Day, with Bush linking his Democratic opponent to Jane Fonda and “the liberal left,” and Dukakis asking, “Can we afford four more years” of Republican economic poli cies. Vice presidential nominees Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle also were on the road Monday for the sym bolic kickoff of the fall campaign, us ing the opportunity to find fault with the heads of the opposition tick ets. With little more than two months remaining before Election Day, the rival candidates tested campaign themes at rallies in key states. Republican nominee Bush was in California where he said the cam paign is “foremost about jobs and peace. It’s about protecting the gains we’ve made in jobs and peace and it’s about how to make new break throughs in both areas.” Dukakis told a holiday rally in De troit “the time has come to bring prosperity home to every home in every neighborhood in America. The time has come to stop ignoring foreign competition and start beat ing it.” The Massachusetts governor cited Census Bureau statistics he said showed that “the rich have become richer, the poor have gotten poorer” during the Reagan presidency. “My friends, I ask you, can we af ford four more years of that?” he said. “High paying jobs being replaced by low paying jobs, average weekly wages down over the past eight years, benefits down over the past eight years,” he went on. “My friends, I ask you, can we afford four more years of that?” Campaigning in California, Bush said Dukakis opposes the MX and Midgetman missiles, the Star Wars missile defense program and two new' aircraft carrier task forces. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he thinks that a naval exercise is some thing you find in Jane Fonda’s work out book,” said the vice president, in a reference to the actress who was a leading activist against the Vietnam war. “High paying jobs being replaced by low paying jobs, average weekly wages down over the past eight years, benefits down over the past eight years. My friends, I ask you, can we afford four more years of that?” —Michael Dukakis In his speech on the San Diego waterfront before a backdrop of two aircraft carriers anchored in the har bor, Bush said his opponent follows “the standard litany of the liberal left.” Quayle, the Indiana senator who is the GOP vice presidential nomi nee, stood at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and said he and Bush “proudly and un- apologetically embrace the values Tong tl lid DPS J ■re idenj Butler, ;|| T8, anaJj School. Ann Bell if > in Shrrl plane aiifl ," Payne sj ions bet.-T oilers in;] »ut the sj enl if Jr ad give; lescendfr] feet sk-l as lost." f he NaiioJ .fety md dep.|, inty Sherd investi ■d the sinn to go do jj irday inaj north of Hi Paso, i werejusl sy; BertiJ ' Austin; al id Peters] on, 30, bn esman Da; Reagan puts campaign plea to election-minded congress SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — President Reagan is plan ning dual fall campaigns: an overt political one on behalf of George Bush and the other an ef fort to wring a wish list of items from an election-minded Con gress. “I’m sure the president’s phi losophy right now is very much — ‘So little time and so much to do,’” said Kenneth Duberstein, Rea gan’s chief of staff. But Reagan’s mix of lambast ing Democrats on the political stump and then seeking cooper ation from them on Capitol Hill is not one that necessarily has pro duced legislative successes in the past. “If lame duck means he’s in his last year in office, then he’s a lame duck, but if it means he can’t get anything done, it doesn’t fit,” contended White House spokes man B. Jay Coop£F, in Santa Bar bara with the Reagan entourage. Cooper said that among other things, Reagan intends to push for Senate passage of the U.S.- Canadian Free Trade Agreement and designation of a Cabinet- level Department of Veterans Af fairs. With some fanfare, the presi dent also will sign the new hous ing bill —seen as an election-year boost for both parties. “If lame duck means he’s (the President) in his last year in office, then he’s a lame duck, but if it means he can’t get anything done, it doesn’t fit” B. Jay Cooper, White House spokesman The president also will look for the near-certain approval of his two Cabinet nominees, Nicholas Brady as Treasury Secretary and Lauro Cavazos to head the De partment of Education. Included on the more conten tious side of the ledger are the re newal of aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, welfare reform and pas sage of the remaining 1 1 appro priations bills. When he signed an appropria tion bill in mid-August, Reagan told Capitol Hill not to repeat its past haoit of sending him “a sin gle mega-bill ... that wraps up the various appropriations Dills in a single bill that spends $600 billion of the taxpayers’ money.” And in his radio address on Saturday, Reagan gave notice he’ll veto any welfare legislation Congress sends him if it does not contain a work requirement. On his way back from a vaca tion at his ranch in California, Reagan planned two stops Tues day — the dedication of the Gray Communications Center at Ne braska’s Hastings College and an address to the American Legion in Louisville, Ky. The Hastings stop is viewed as a favor to a long-time acquaint ance —Washington public rela tions executive Bob Gray — who attended the small, Midwestern campus and worked as the direc tor of communications for Rea gan’s 1980 election victory. Reagan also is scheduled to ap pear briefly at a fund-raiser for Sen. David Karnes, R-Neb., the appointed senator in a tight race against the popular former Ne braska governor, Bob Kerry. In Louisville, Reagan is ex pected to extol his administra tion’s record on defense and for eign policy, and repeat his message that the vice president will continue along the path he started, if elected. Duberstein, interviewed Sun day on CBS-TV’s “Face the Na tion,” said it is “a priority of the president to make sure that George Bush is elected.” Eastern arranges layoff of 4,000, posts bond to cover union battle il damagf urticant :r went service a: zaro Ci o Mexico slides, lit ■vere ev MIAMI (AP) — Eastern Airlines [will lay off 4,000 workers Saturday now that the financially troubled carrier has posted a $4.7 million bond with a federal court in case unions battling the cuts win their case. The bond was posted late Satur day, airline spokesman Virginia San chez said Sunday. “The layoffs will be effective Sep tember 10 at the end of the employ ees’ normal shift,” Sanchez said. “We really don’t know what the exact at the« number of employees will be. Some j Virgi® may take early retirement, there are ■re said different options.” No union spokesmen could be reached for comment late Sunday. ’***« But spokesmen earlier had said A 1 tbe y eventual, y would win their case. “We strongly believe that the ear- > ■ lier ruling will be upheld,” Charles J pm) ; Bryan, president of the Miami local J I of the machinists’ union said. re than :heir hoi oer La) Mexico’s!' The airline in July announced plans for the layoffs and service cut backs in 14 cities. The unions, however, contend that Texas Air Corp., Eastern’s par ent company, is stripping the Miami- based carrier’s assets in favor of sis ter carrier Continental Airlines. Eastern has lost about $1 billion dur ing the past decade. The three main unions sued when the layoff plans, the largest in East ern’s 60-year history, were an nounced. Those affected include management, about 1,000 flight at tendants, 1,000 machinists and 500 pilots. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Ap peals dissolved an order by U.S. Dis trict Judge Barrington Parker in Washington, D.C., who ruled that Eastern could proceed with the serv ice cuts but could not lay off union members. The appeals court said the carrier would have to post the bond to cover a month of paychecks should the unions win. After the machinists’ union balked at pay and benefit cuts, East ern asked federal mediators to de clare contract talks at an impasse. If mediators, who have been involved off and on since January, make the declaration and no agreement is reached after a 30-day cooling off period, the unions could strike and Eastern could impose its terms on workers. Machinists-union members are to vote Sept. 15 on a company proposal for $161 million in annual wage con cessions. The company and its flight atten dants’ union Thursday reached a deal under which some workers would take leaves with workers keeping seniority if called back. embodied in the Pledge of Alle giance.” He cited Dukakis’ veto of legis lation to require Massachusetts tea chers to lead public school students in daily recitation of the pledge as an example of the “mindset that could well sterilize public education of its proper role as a transmitter of the values and standards on which we must rely — and which have been central throughout our history.” Democratic vice presidential nom inee Bentsen was in Waco, Texas, before flying to join Dukakis at a rally in St. Louis. The Texas senator referred to Bush as a former Texas oilman and then added, “But frankly, I can’t re member anything he’s done for the energy industry in the past eight years.” “The Republicans like to talk about leff and right,” Bentsen said. “But this election is not about mov ing left or right. It is about standing still with George Bush or moving forward with Mike Dukakis.” Dukakis lashed out at Bush’s pro posal to cut the capital gains tax, which he said could give a $30,000 tax break to those making more than $200,000 a year. “That’s more than the average teacher makes,” Dukakis said. “That’s enough to send your son or daughter to Michigan State for four years. The down payment young couples could use to buy their first home. Demonstrators turned up several events. Some 125 anti-abortion activists, by police estimates, turned up at a Dukakis appearance in Philadelphia, waving signs and chanting, “Life yes, abortion no. Duke of death must g°” MDA telethon sets record, $41,132,113 LAS VEGAS (AP) —Jerry Lewis, vowing to tug at the hearts of view ers, used a parade of celebrities and emotional appeals from victims Monday to raise a record $41,132,113 in his 23rd annual La bor Day telethon to fight muscular dystrophy. The 2Thour event also featured appearances by corporate sponsors who contributed $34,379,537 not in cluded in the telethon’s final tote. This year’s figure exceeded by about $2.1 million the previous re cord of $39,021,723 set last year. “The success of the show is a trib ute to the warmth and generosity of the American people, who go fur ther each year in supporting MDA’s fight against muscle diseases,” Lewis said following the show. Because of the longevity and the money raised up to this year — $443,182,370 — the annual Labor Day event has become known as “the” telethon. Lewis estimated that 120 million people in the United States and Can ada would view the opening and closing hours of the telethon. Lewis, who has long referred to young muscular dystrophy victims as “his kids,” told viewers the telethon was “for your kids, who I never want to be my kids.” The telethon featured news on progress the past year in the battle against the crippling diseases that touch 1 million American families. The Labor Day event, which Le wis started on a single New York City station in 1966, is now carried by more than 200 stations. Ed McMahon, the telethon’s long time anchorman, was back, along with co-hosts Sammy Davis Jr., Ca sey Kasem, Tony Orlando, Norm Crosby and Julius LaRosa. Cr- DN Howdy Party Tuesday September 6 7:00 at The Grove For more Info Baptist Student Union 846-7722 Air Conditioning Specialists VE«/. Auto Service 111 Royal Bryan across S. 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These programs can be almost anything that has to do with fun, with students either as participants or spectators. Meetings are Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in room 145 of the MSC, starting this Tuesday, Sept 6. So, if you've got any questions call Grant Neeley at 845-1515 or 696-6846. ,n.