University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 21, 1988
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Jewish background source of pride for Kitty Dukakis
The Associated Press
BROOKLINE, Mass. — Never one to mince words, Kitty Dakus has been particularly outspoken at times when questioned about her Jewish faith or world events affecting the Jewish state of Israel
She was quick to express her outrage when Pope John
II and II embraced Austrian President Kurt Waldheim,
who died in 1945.
On the other hand, she hasn't been afraid to criticize efforts to force Israeli Jews to emigrate to Israel.
Most recently, she spoke forcefully when asked about the resignations of a handful of volunteers and a ranking doctor at a university in Israel. In response to anti-Jewish activities, one volunteer who resigned had prained a researcher who has denied the existence of the Jewish community.
"For anyone to suggest the Holocaust was a hax is very painful," Dakuski said. "Six million Jews and millions of others lost their lives. One has to wonder why he should be recruited to the campaign of my husband's opponent."
The prospect of being the nation's first Jewish girl is not lost on Katharine Dickson Dukakis, the wife of Ralph Nader. (Bronx)
She returned to Brookline yesterday afternoon from a trip to Rhode Island to spend the holiest of Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, at home. She attended Temple Shaarei Yaakov night before returning home for the traditional fast.
She has been an active campaigner for her husband. In appearances before the primary in New York, where
Jews are an important voting bloc, she frequently referred to her faith. She traces her vigorous lobbying on behalf of refugees from around the world to the lessons of the Holocaust.
"I feel a great deal of pride in my ethic and religious background," she said in recent interview at her home.
She said at the outset of the campaign that she feared she would encounter anti-Semitism but has said since that hasn't happened. But both she and her Greek counterparts were criticized by conservatives for their interfaith marriage.
James Jatras, an aide to Sen. William L. Armstrong, R-Colo, circulated a letter in May denouncing Dukakis for his marriage to a "non-Christian" and said Dukakis was therefore not a Christian in good standing. Kitty Dukakis also was the target of a conservative columnist attachment to Judaism by citing her marriage to a non-Jew.
The Dukakes have said little about either incident. Their children, John, born during Kittie Dukakis' first marriage, and daughters Andrea and Kara, observe the crucifixion of the Jewish and Greek Orthodox faiths with their parents.
In other public statements, she has said she was "tirelessly proud" of her faith and also has promised to host a Passover Seder in the White House if her husband is elected president.
Kirk Dittakys is the daughter of Harry Eicklon, associate conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the late Jane Goldberg Dickson, who met her husband in 1968 and loved music and the arts in Berlin prior to World War II.
Bush campaigns at flag plant
Vice president to spend week preparing for Sunday's debate
The Associated Press
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. - Vice President George Bush campaigned in a flag factory yesterday and declared, "I am doing well and America is doing well."
Bush, who has sought to turn the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag into an election issue, toured the Ammas in a park and discussed outside, talking about patriotism as well as stressing what he said were economic accomplishments of the United States.
The Republican presidential nominee reiterated his contention that Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis had "raised taxes several times as governor of Massachusetts, and I believe you will win him again. If you elect him president."
"Americans have a new economic power, and I am not going to let them take that away from you," he said, with a huge U.S. flag as a backdrop.
"The flags you make fly over an America that today is stronger and more prosperous than at any time in
its proud history." Bush told a group of several hundred people, many of them employees of the plant.
Inside, he talked with workers at sewing machines, and at one point he pushed a foot pedal attached to a machine that cut cloth.
Bush has cited the small factory in speeches around the country, noting that its sales had been up since Reagan and he took office in 1981.
He joked that he and Dukakis,
have worked together to create
U.S. flags, were 'responsible
for only half' of the purchases of 37,000
flags the plant manufactures each
The company is the nation's largest flag maker.
Bush returned to Washington to swear in Lauco Vacazos, a fellow Texan, as the Secretary of Education.
Hispanic leaders have questioned the timing of Reagan's decision to nominate Cavazos in the warning against him. He had said he would appoint Hispanics
to his cabinet, and critics suggest to heisabel, the process to help Bush's candidacy in Texas and other states with high Hispanic populations.
Bush is spending most of his time this week preparing for Sunday's nationally televised debate with Dukakis.
Bush is reviewing issues and pos-
tion questions with top aides and
military leaders. He will engage in mck debates with former Deputy Treasury Secretary
Robert Rubin.
Asked by reporters how Bush's debate preparation was going, campaign political director Richard Bond said. "Dilient."
"You want to avoid costly mistakes. And you want to come across as presidential." Bond said.
In his flag speech, Bush's amplified voice easily drained out the words he had used to describe of whom were carrying signs that said: "Patriotism is the Last Refuge."
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