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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-
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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.”
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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
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■re said different options.”
No union spokesmen could be
reached for comment late Sunday.
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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
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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.
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