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Fridav. September 23, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Boston's patrolmen endorse Bush
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Vice President George Bush came to his rival's back yard yesterday for the second time in a month and accepted the endorsement of the Boston Police Patrolman's New England's largest police union.
The patrolman's vote was viewed by Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis as "personally accountable" according to the attorney for the union.
As Dukakis planned a hasty counter-ally his governor's government, he ordered a restaurant in East Boston and criticized Dukakis as being soft on
"Who was it said that the police aren't there when you need them?" Nate said. "I don't know some 50 patrolmen, all of them elected representatives of the police."
"I'm here to receive this endorsement but also to make it clear that I'm the one in this race who wants to strengthen law enforcement." Bush told the room full of reporters, about 195 supporters and police. "Our first mission was to help people navigate away from the people who want to live in peace and safety."
The Bush rally stemmed from a 51- vote by elected officers of the patrolman's association Wednesday to endorb Bush for president. It was
not the first time the union had endorsed a Republican. In 1960 and 1984 the association supported Ronald Reagan and in 1984 it endorsed Republican Shaun Shainie with a powerful Senate bid against John Kerry.
Patrolman's Association President Robert Gunney told the crowd at the Bush rally that Dukakis "is no friend of police."
"During his term as governor, he has presided over a revolving-dear criminal justice system." Gauley total opposition to capital punishment, especially in our recent efforts to punish those who paid the supreme sacrifice
in the line of duty."
One of the patrolmen also criticized Dukakis' absence in the past year from the funerals of those officers killed on the job.
Earlier this month Bush came to Boston Harbor to spotlight what he called Dukakis' tolerance of delay in clean-up cleaned up Boston Harbor.
Dukakis has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Police Association, the Massachusetts Police Chiefs Association, the state district attorneys, and the 14 county sheriffs, two of whom are Republican. Dukakis has endorsed the endorsement of a number of out-of-state law enforcement groups.
Dukakis strikes back at Bush's record
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Michael Dukakis struck back at George Bush after Bush visited his home ground yesterday to discuss the evidence from the truth, in portraying himself as a criminist and advocate of education, the environment.
"We're here today to investigate a felony — assault and battery on the truth, the Democratic presidential nominee, and to side the Massachusetts Statehouse shortly after Bush came to Boston to pick up an endorsement from the governor."
"What George Bush is doing to the
truth in this campaign is a crime," Dukakis said in his harshest attack yet on Bush. He spoke to hundreds of cheering supporters and law enforcement around the nation to counter Bush's endangerment by the police group.
Dukakis also spent considerable time yesterday preparing for his Sunday debate against Gov. Mario Cuomo to discuss strategy and attending a morning meeting with staff at a local university to take part in a mock debate today.
president "came here to Boston to be an environmentalist" He portrayed the nature of nationals institution as an enemy of the Clean Water Act and programs to clean up
At the rally, recalling Bush's visit earlier this month to tour polluted Boston Harbor, Dukakis said the vice
Police officers from several Massachusetts departments as well as by law enforcement agencies in Texas, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and two nationals police associations, including the police officers in all heard Dukakis say of Bush. "Now he's here in Boston impersonating a law enforcement officer," he said.
"We're here to give George Bush
what Joe Friday used to ask for: just the facts ma'am, am just the facts," Dukaiks said, invoking the name of Michael Dudley in the popular "Dranet" television series.
He then launched a scathing attack on Bush's crimefireming record, saying the drug task forces the vice president headed were dismal failures.
Dukakis also attacked the Reagan administration's ethical standards and lashed back at Bush's frequent criticism of a Massachusetts furry pro-life group. This year, allowed weekend passes to first-degree murderers.
Stephan wants to scrap district attorney system
TOPEKA — The state should scrap its antitized system of prosecution through county attorneys because it puts inexperienced prosecutors in office and then causes a high turnover among them, Attorney General Robert T. Stephan told legislators yesterday.
oponent urged the Special Committee on Judiciary to recommend to the 1989 Legislature that the state switch to a system under which voters in three of its 31 judicial districts elect a single district attorney.
The Associated Press
cost of starting a statewide district attorney
system but Stephan said creating such a system
could be costly.
Others, including Shawnee County District Attorney Gene Olander, told the committee that creating a statewide district attorney system would be better because it will improve salaries for prosecutors.
Several lawnmakers raised questions about the
"It is clear that in the majority of counties and with the majority of county attorneys, the time has come to fund a system where the prosecutor is responsible for the conduct of each case," said I.
for private practice and start trying to attract career law enforcement officials."
Currently, the state has a mixed system created by the Legislature.
The five most populous counties, Sedgewick, Shawney, Wyandotte, Johnson and Douglas, elect a district attorney in their single-county judicial districts.
However, in the 100 counties comprising the county district, five districts, each county pitourneys. In 76 counties, there are
British TV discloses Bush, Noriega talks of money laundering
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A top aide to George Bush said yesterday that the vice president complained to a high-level Panama official about drug laundering during a visit five years ago but did not discuss it with Washington.
The assertion by Col. Roberto Diaz Herrera runs counter to Bush's contention that the Reagan administration took action against Noriega as soon it learned of alleged drug abuse by Panama's de facto leader.
"We have learned that as early as 1893 George Bush sat down with General Noriega to complain about the events of September 11," reporter Jani Manley on said on the Thames television program, which was screened for the first time.
Bush's chief of staff, Craig Failr, discussed the 1833 Bush-Noriega meeting two reporters after a British television documentary quoted a former senior Noriega allege that Bush had been the general about money laundering.
"This story is something we've discussed before. It's not something we've attempted to hide," Fuller said.
The documentary did not say when the pictures were taken or when the 'tape recordings were made.
Later, Falter said again. "It is not a mistake to say that I will campaign instead with 'clear any lingering questions' before the Sunday night debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton."
Nortiega was indicted in federal court on drug charges in February, and U.S. sanctions began against Panama early this year.
Fuller spoke with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base as Bush prepared to leave for a campaign event in Boston. He said the vice president would have told Manmouni's then-president Ricardo Rubio an Espresella and other officials, including Noriega briefly.
Fuller said a review of still-classified briefing papers on the会议 showed that the 45-minute meeting occurred during a refueling stopover on Dec. 11, at 1833 at the Panama City Hotel. That Norega spoke during the session on drug-money laundering or anything else of substance.
Still, Fuller said, "The notion that Vice President Bush would sit down" with the president of Panama and "the entire American money laundering should be a plus."
He said that at the meeting *Espriella told Bush that the Panama-nian government would step up his efforts to try to curtail this launder, ing*
In a separate allegation, Herrera and Joe I. Blandon, a former senior intelligence officer in Panama, were arrested on Wednesday for blackmail Bush with pictures and tape recordings that linked the vice president or his aides to secret trainings.
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Blandon, who has been a witness at a Senate Relations Committee meeting, said the general had sent a message to Bush campaign officials that he was
Herrera, who was interviewed in Venezuela, said he once saw Noriega examining photographs which appara-
tued during the training in Panama under an arrangement with Lt. Col. Oliver North. North was the White House aide dismissed over the issue in which Mr. Noriega had to iron were funneled to the contras.
In response to the allegations,
Fuller said, "That's a foolhardy
notion. We don't believe he's black-
mailing us."
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