Monday, October 17, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Boaters safe after plunge of 40 feet
The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two boaters flotation shot over a 6-foot dam into the rushing overflow below, where they were rescued by two fishermen.
"they should have been killed but were lucky," said Deputy Bill Chandler of the Hennemin County Sheriff's Office that had to do with two fisherman on the shore below the dam who went in with their boat and rescued the man.
Don Oestrenck, 57, of St. Louis Park walked away relatively unscathed Saturday; Bernice Johnson, 38, of Minneapolis suffered bumps and bruises and bumped four stitches on her forehead.
"Don was driving and I was walking," he said. "I wore a wind, and the colors were gorgeous." Johnson said. "And when we noticed the (warning) signs it was too early."
"I think the first thing I thought was, 'This is it.' My life might have felt like this. I have any time to think about it — there was too much noise and —
Oestreich's 16-foot aluminum fishing boat remained upright in the rushing waters of the Mississippi River near the Ford Lock and Damp.
"I'll tell you one thing, they're there they're alive and they都被 the police that could have been the end of it right there," said Steven Holtoe.
"It's so easy to capsize and drown there," said Deputy John Nagan of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department.
Bush promises to be ready for presidency
The Associated Press
DENVER — Vice President George Bush said yesterday that he was ready to "hit the ground running" as president and to designate a Cabinet swiftly, but that he won't be bullied into an election victory as inevitable.
"There was speculation that I was dead three months ago," the Republic's attorney says, trying to discount recent polls showing him with a widening lead among Republicans.
He vowed to wage a spirited battle against the Massachusetts governor in key states right up to Election Day on Nov. 8.
While spending the day in Denver visiting with his son, Neil, and his family, Bush attended a football game between the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons. He planned to spend most of this week campaigning for Obama as he traveled to Washington from Thursday's presidential debate in Los Angeles.
At his first news conference in more than two weeks, Bush scuffed at reports suggesting he had already met on most of his prospective Cabinet.
"I am not going to do something
"And yet, should I win, it would be a matter of urgent priority. I'd want to be ready to move early on the priorities that I've established."
that dumb and shift gears," he said.
He said "there is not one scintilla of overconfidence" that he has all but won the election.
Bush predicted that his election, which was down, claimed that the Iran-Contra war was behind him and took aim at a familiar target - Harvard University.
Campaigning Saturday in Modesto, Calif., Bush said, "I don't want somebody from Harvard telling me what I can do and what I can't do."
"There's an elite inside the elite there. And everyone knows who I'm talking about." Bush said.
Asked about that statement, Bush said he did not want to take on the institution itself, asking "How can I, or should I, ask?" About Harvard? Now on come.
I'm talking about a handful of people that have served in (recent) government. I came out of the same liberal philosophy. And they know who they are.
Dukakis is a Harvard graduate.
In his meeting with reporters, Bush once again declined to say where he would make spending cuts to bring down the federal deficit under his "flexible freeze" plan to balance the budget by 1992.
and Bush in the past has cuscd his rival of having a "Harvard Yard boutique" mentality.
Although he has spelled out areas where he would spend more money, including education, child care and cleaning up the environment, Bush has said he would list corresponding eating cuts only if elected president.
His proposal calls for overall federal spending to be limited to the rate of inflation, with specific cuts offsetting each new spending item.
Bush conceed that, for his scheme to work, interest rates would have to decline several percentage points from current levels.
"A lot of the interest rates are psychological," he said. "I believe they will come down."
He suggested that a Bush presidency would send a calming message to the world, which would largely because they would see that we need to reduction plan that would work well in the future.
Which party is better?
Regardless of which presidential candidate you intend to vote for next month, do you think the Democratic or Republican party will
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ease interest rates
Spokesman, Sheila Tate, when, asked why markets would respond to budget cuts on the bush budget plan than they had before the administration's past deficit-reduction plans replied, "Because he means it, he means what he says."
Bush said he did not want to be premature, but he had already named a team, headed by former Navy Undersecretary Chase Unter-
meyer, to study the transition to a possible Bush presidency.
"He has drawn up wiring diagrams, what we should do if we win." Bush said. "You have to hit the ground running.
"There are no names . . . or lists against these slots on the management wiring diagram. I just cannot divert into thinking about that."
Dukakis warns Bush, 'Don't celebrate too early'
"We're going to keep on with our original game plan, keep working hard, keep traveling to key states.
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Democrat Michael Dukakis warns Republicans yesterday not to pop their champagne corks too early because “we’re going to be the ones celebrating on election night.”
"1 enter the last three weeks of this campaign as an underdog," the Massachusetts governor said.
Most national pollsters show Republican George Bush with as much as a 10-point edge over Dukakis. In the state-by-state battle for the 720 presidential nomination, Bush is believed to hold an even larger lead.
paign "fighting for the values I believe in."
Dukakis said he would close out his cam
paign "fighting for the values I believe in," Drawing a contrast between himself and Bash, the Democratic nominee said, "I believe in the destiny of its destiny and takes charges of its tutelary."
He said the vice president "sat on the table and said that America needs to be placed in world markets, while they mortgaged our children's future to a mountain of debt, and a piece of America was being sold off every day. It is a great tragedy."
Dukai Saddak: "I believe America's leaders must strive to do the right thing; but we must admit it — and correct it — when we do the wrong thing . . . I’ve taken responsibility for
my mistakes. But Mr. Bush takes responsibility for nothing."
Dukakis heads out onlay to a company, swing through Ohio, Michigan and Illinois — three of the critical Midwestern industrial companies will must to pull off an Election Day upset.
His aides denied a Washington Post report that Dukakis had decided to concentrate on 17 states and the District of Columbia with a total of 23 candidates in the final three weeks of the campaign.
"It is not (accurate)." said campaign manager Susan Estrich. "It is absolutely not."
She said that Dukakis planned to campaign
Campaign communications director Leslie Dach described the Dakukis strategy as building on a base on the West Coast and in the Northeast.
"We are not writing off whole regions of the country," she said.
n Georgia and Louisiana this week, two of the states given low priority in the Post account.
But while insisting that "we're within striking distance," Estrich said that "our job now is
He said the Democratic nominee is leading in Washington, Oregon and California as well as in his home base of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York.
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