| Show The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday January 10 1988 A5 Bush Dole Inject More Venom in Speeches As Iowa Campaign Gets Down and Dirty By Robert S Boyd Newspapers DES MOINES Iowa — It's showdown time for George Bush and Bob Dole and the Repubt can party’s two most powerful and v- Knight-Ridde- r “I !i 4 er's character ambitious politi-cians are stepping y up the pressure on each other With only four weeks to go until their first real test of strength in the Iowa caucuses the vice president and the Senate Republican leader are attacking each oth- integrity and leadership abilities in surprisingly harsh and personal terms On Saturday for example Dole referred to Bush as “the ghost of Spiro Agnew" Richard Nixon's vice president who resigned in disgrace 15 years ago Dole said Bush's complaints about press criticism of his a role in the scandal reminded him of Agnew's attacks on the press during the 1972 campaign a But Dole also fanned the flames by calling on Bush to release all his notes related to the arms deal except those he sent to President Reagan An hour later Bush retaliated by renewing his challenge to Dole to re Iran-Contr- Iran-Contr- —Associated Press loserphoto Vice President Bush was called “ghost of Spiro Agnew” by GOP rival Bob Dole Bush campaign called it “cheap shot” lease his federal income tax returns The Bush camp believes the returns will undercut Dole's claim to have more in common with ordinary Americans than the vice president does One of Bush's top Iowa allies Rep Jim Leach called Dole's Agnew remark "a cheap shot" And Bush s Iowa campaign manager George Wittgraf said Dole is showing a that is indicative of the real Bob Dole" All this sniping reflects both the tension of the contest for the Republican nomination and the lack of deep policy differences between the two leading contenders Bush and Dole are professional politicians who come out of the moderate center of the party Their disagreements while real are relatively minor compared to the great ideological battles that tore the party apart in the past such as between Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller in 1964 or Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford in 1976 In their appeals to closely divided Iowa Republicans therefore Bush and Dole are reduced to wrangling about their personal backgrounds and experiences and their capacity “mean-spiritedne- for leadership They are by and large ignoring the other four Republican candidates — former Gov Pierre S “Pete" du Pont of Delaware former Secretary of State Alexander Haig Rep Jack Kemp of New York and former television evangelist Marion “Pat" Robertson Of the four only Robertson poses a real but undefined threat to s the two A particularly sensitive point is Dole's effort to portray himself as a poor small-towboy who made it to the top by hard work He contrasts this with Bush's privileged upper-clas- s New England background and says he hopes Iowans will vote for him because he is “one of us" To counter this impression Bush has begun challenging Dole — along w ith all the other presidential candidates — to release their tax returns The vice president's press secretary Peter Teeley said the returns would show that Dole and his wife Elizabeth had an income in 1986 of between $500000 and $600000 "He's certainly not a poor boy" Teeley said “I don’t think there are too many fanners in this state making the kind of money that Bob and Elizabeth Dole are making" Teeley acknowledged that Bush reported an income of $530000 in 1986 — $400000 of it from capital gains Bush incidentally has proposed a cut in the capital gains tax from 28 percent to 15 percent If that rate had been in effect in 1986 it would have saved him $52000 in taxes front-runner- n Oil Spill Swallows Wheeling’s Water WHEELING WVa (AP) — Shops about a water shortage Saturday as the city stopped pumping water from the Ohio River because of a million-gallodiesel oil spill that has traveled 100 miles in a week Water stockpiled in city storage tanks dwindled to critical levels by 8 a m when all businesses served by the city’s system were urged to close an assistant to City Manager Mike Nau said A plan to transfer clean water by barge from an Ohio River tributary to the city's main water plant appeared to be working Saturday night but a conservation order would remain in effect through the night officials said "We're telling people do not use water unless you absolutely have to" said assistant city manager Nancy Vapner "Showers and baths are out Those are the kinds of things that people have to stop We are in an emergency situation and people have to get serious about conserving" Fire trucks from several communities were summoned to a fire in the Oglebay Estates residential area in Wheeling but Vapner said the fire was brought under control without firefighters having to tap hydrants It could be weeks until the 1 million gallons of diesel fuel that spilled into the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh then flowed into the Ohio through three states is skimmed off or becomes diluted environmental officials say The fuel is part of 35 million gallons that spilled Jan 2 after a Ashland Oil Co tank crumpled as it was being filled The company has offered to pay all cleanup costs On Saturday Ashland Oil President Charles Luellen apologized to the people of Wheeling Very briefly but very importantly we’re sorry" Luellen told reporters at the city's emergency operations center Nau ordered Wheeling s two Ohio Itiver water intakes closed at 5 30 P m Friday after tests indicated that diysel fuel had reached untreatable levels At the same time officials put into n Kmart Manager Delivers Customer's Baby HOLLYWOOD Fla (UPI) — The first few words after the loudspeaker clicked on were familiar Attention Kmart shoppers" But then it said "Is there a doctor or a nurse in the store?" Assistant manager August Perez iwas hi trouble He was trying to deliver Tanya Caplinger s baby Friday lut it wasn't working out right The baby's bead wasn't coming out first like it was supposed to so he had a clerk pul out the call for help 'A nurse responded and together 7 ounce they delivered a girl Neither Perez nor the Hollywood rescue paramedics who ar-- i ived in time to lake Caplmger and her baby to Memorial Hospital got the nurse's name Perez 33 said he had hesitated last month when his wife asked him lowatch while she gave birth to their son Now he is thankful he agreed because the experience came in handy When Caplmger a customer went into labor Perez came running It was pretty scary" he said "But had watched the doctor do it with mv baby I sort of tried to remember wiiat be did day Israeli-occupie- d territories James Zogby a member of the District of Columbia King Holiday Commission repeated his request Friday that Mrs King stay away from the Jan 12 salute because of "flagrant violations of the human rights of Palestinians" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip Zogby who also is executive din rector of the Institute in Washington and seven of the 39 members of the city holiday commission sent a letter Thursday to Mrs King and members of the federal holiday commission asking that they disassociate themselves from the event "Dr King fought against restrictive covenants" Zogby said "We Arab-America- I te —United Press International Photo Residents of Steubenville Ohio fill bot- lies of water in anticipation of supplies i being shut off because of a massive oil slick menacing Ohio River communities encourage Mrs King to speak out at this time" The events of “King Week 1988" organized by the Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change culminate on Monday Jan 18 the national King holiday with an ecumenical service at Ebenezer Baptist Church and a parade and march through downtown Sen Lowell Weicker is scheduled to participate in the service along with Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young — a former King lieutenant — and Gov Joe Frank Harris Had he lived King would have been 59 on Friday He was assassinated April 4 1968 in Memphis Tenn "This holiday can move America and the world a step closer toward making Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality" his widow Cor-ett- a Scott King said last week The theme for the week's activities is “Ending the Violence of Poverty Hunger Apartheid and War through Creative Nonviolent Action" Mrs King said “is more relevant and desperately needed than ever to challenge the social injustices we face today" "Non-violence- " The observances begin Sunday with the 12th annual interfaith service at Atlanta’s Central Presbyterian Church Tuesday brings a “Rededication to Peace and Justice" service featuring the Rev n William Sloane Coffin a peace activist After Wednesday evening's cultural program at the King Center Thursday brings a seminar and workshop on South Africa and a workshop on “Kingian with Rabbi Marc Tanen-baudirector of international relations for the American Jewish Committee and former U S Attorney General Ramsey Clark The King Center will present community service awards Thursday evening Friday King's birthday brings Bennett to town to teach about King's principles at an Atlanta elementary school Latpr that morning the education secretary will deliver an address at the King Cenwell-know- ter Friday through next Sunday a national conference of college students will gather in Atlanta arriving on a “Student Freedom Train" from Albany NY The students will hear from Bernice King talk King's youngest daughter Martin Luther King Jr Nation Remembers Leader show host Oprah Winfrey and US Rep Joseph Kennedy II son of the late Sen Robert F Kennedy Runners from Selma Ala in a fund-raisin- g run to help the hungry where King led civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s will arrive at King's tomb Friday Checks May Pave Way for OK of ’70s Treaties WASHINGTON (AP) — A US team is on its way to a nuelear test site in Soviet Central Asia for an unusual inspection that may open the door to Senate ratification of two 1970s treaties and possible negotiations to ban all nuclear tests The team headed by arms control negotiator Robert Barker was due to arrive Sunday in Semipalatinsk 2000 miles from Moscow in Kazakhstan in the first American visit there according to a State Department announcement A Soviet team headed by Igor M Palenykh was scheduled to visit the U S test site in Nevada on Jan 26-2the first Soviet visit there since 1971 said Energy Department spokesman Chris West in Las Vegas Barker and Palenykh head U S and Soviet teams in Geneva which have been discussing whether new measuring techniques can improve Bush" he snapped Dole's campaign chairman William Brock called Bush's demand a “diversionary tactic" to distract attention from the Iran-Cont- affair Dole has seized on the Iran-Contr- a affair as a chance to embarrass the vice president “I think that honesty integrity and credibility ought to be an issue — what you did and what you said" Dole told a group of Des Moines businessmen Saturday “Maybe one way for the vice president to get out of this thing that's going on every day in the papers is just to release all those notes (of meetings) with everyone but the president that took place get them out in the open let the press take a look and that will be behind us" Dole said Bush retorted later that he has already sent all his notes that are not classified to the Senate investigating committee where Dole has access to them “The status quo of the child is maintained" court spokeswoman Suzanne Ward said adding that it was not known if when or what ac- - N-Si- challenging Dole shrugged off Bush's gambit "I don’t have to comply with George der" King Activities Under Way as Holiday Approaches By Robert Byrd Associated Press Writer ATLANTA — Martin Luther King Jr will be remembered in his hometown over the next eight days with a holiday awards speeches a by Education parade a “teach-in- " Secretary William Bennett and the 20th annual ecumenical service since the civil rights leader's death But a Washington group has asked C'oretta Scott King to boycott an Israeli embassy event honoring her slain husband to protest violence in the keep WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court refused Saturday to order the deportation of the abused son of a Zimbabwean diplomat and allowed custody of the child to temporarily remain with the State Department In a decision released at noon EST the high court said “the deportation order of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals is stayed pending further or- effect an emergency plan designed to furnish the city's 42000 residents with about 70 percent of the 9 million gallons they use bn an average Four barges each with a million-gallo- n capacity were part of the plan to keep the city’s spigots flowing The barges are drawing water from Big Wheeling Creek and carrying it four miles upstream to be pumped through the city's filtration plant Vapner said the tank which supplies half the city had been drained to 3 feet — from its normal level of 22 feet — by 3 pm Saturday “And that’s at a critical stage" Nau said “People must conserve" Joe Habowski'an operator at the treatment plant in Steubenville Ohio said the city used bentonite clay and activated carbon to filter the foul odor and taste out of the water A similar treatment was used by the town of East Liverpool Wheeling officials said their water system’s intakes were too direct to allow this type of treatment "Those of us at this level have to go the extra mile for full disclosure " the vice president added "You have I chalto demonstrate integrity lenge everyone to do it I'm going to on them " Court Refuses To Deport Abused Child 'Showers and Baths Are Out’ closed and firefighters worried In a talk to citizens of Adel a small town near Des Moines Bush said release of tax returns is “the best way to resolve conflicts of interest verification of the two treaties The two sides hope that the visits this month will lead to what are called Joint Verification Experiments tentatively scheduled for April to test Soviet seismological devices similar to those used to measure earthquakes and a new American system called CORRTEX "The aim in the long run is to have negotiations for ending all nuclear tests" said Aleksei Manzhozov an arms control expert at the Soviet mission to the United Nations The Reagan administration refused to join the Soviet nuclear test moratorium which ended on Feb 5 1987 Administration officials said they needed to continue nuclear tests to assure that US weapons remained in working order although critics say the tests are designed to perfect new weapons rather than to test old ones Administration officials further argued lor a phased elimination of nuclear tests rather than an abrupt end And they have accused the Soviets of “likely" violations of the treaty The Kremlin agreed last November that the first step in resolving the issue could be an agreement tightening verification of the two treaties which were signed in 1974 and 1976 never ratified by the US Senate but observed by both sides nonetheless The superpowers agreed in 1963 to ban above-grounnuclear tests The Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapons Tests treaty sigued in 1974 banned underground tests to 150 kilotons equivalent to 150000 tons of TNT or 10 times the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 The pact Underground Nuclear d for Peaceful Purposes barring the su perpowers from using nuclear explosions greater than 150 kilotons for engineering purposes While in Semipalatinsk the US team will inspect the test site and determine where and how to install the CORRTEX monitoring device for an experiment CORRTEX stands for Continous Reflectometry for Radius versus Time Experiment and measures electrical signals from a cable sunk 30 feet from a test hole The Soviet team will conduct similar surveys at the test site near Las Vegas said West the Energy Department spokesman The Reagan administration has been pushing the Soviets to accept CORRTEX a system which experts say can help measure tests of 75 kilo tons or more Explosions was signed in 1976 tion the Supreme Court would take The boy Terrence Karamba 9 son of a diplomat to the Zimbabwean Mission to the United Nations is living with foster parents on Long Island US District Judge Peter Leisure ruled Thursday that the State Department could take custody of the child The State Department and the Reagan administration have said they would like to see the child returned to his homeland only if the child's safety could be assured “The important thing is the safety of the child" a State Department spokesman said Saturday “But we have maintained the same basic position The courts do not have jurisdiction over this case" The spokesman said Justice Harry Blackmun ordered all parties to submit briefs on the case no later than 5 pm EST Tuesday adding that the Supreme Court would make no decision on the boy's fate until the briefs were considered The father Floyd Karamba could not be arrested on child-abus- e charges because of diplomatic immunity He was recalled to Zimbabwe by his government Dec 28 after the allegations of child abuse arose Terrence was placed in a foster home Dec 11 when teachers noticed scars and injuries on his body A petition filed in New York family court said the boy s arms and legs had been tied he was hung from a pipe in the basement and beaten with an electrical extension cord — sometimes while his mother watched The boy was reported to have attempted to escape a moving car out a window to elude those he believed would send him back to Zimbabwe The State Department has said in court it would work to ensure the safety of the child Clifford Chanin a spokesman for New York Mayor Edward Koch said the city also wants the child returned to Zimbabwean authorities Bomb Hoax Forces Evacuation Of JFK Terminal NEW YORK (UPI) — A cardboard box rigged to resemble a bomb prompted the evacuation of several hundred people from the Eastern Airlines terminal at Kennedy International Airport Saturday authorities said The small box containing a clock wires a battery and what appeared at first to be an explosive was found at 11:20 am after an anonymous caller telephoned Port Authority po lice to tell them where the package was located At 12:09 pm officials said the caller phoned again to warn that the device was going to explode in minutes said John Hughes a Port Authority spokesman The city police bomb squad sent a robot device into the building to "disarm" the package subHughes said a white clay-likstance initially thought to be the explosive in the box was later determined to be bathroom caulking Police said there are no suspects and they have no idea who left the device 1 e i i 1 |
