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Wednesday, February 3. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Contra aid policy separates candidates
The Associated Press
DES MOINES - No issue more clearly separates the two parties' presidential candidates than contra aid, with the Democrats generally opposed and GOP contenders strongly in favor, even though voters in this crucial state would rather see the money going to hard-hit farmers.
Iowa Republicans who oppose contra aid — and politicians in this state think there are many of them
- simply don't have a presidential candidate who reflects that view.
To George Bush, Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, Pete du Pont, Pat Robertson and Alexander Haig, the Nicaraguan rebels are "freedom fighters" striving to restore democracy to that Central American country.
The Democratic contenders are nearly as united in their opposition to contra aid. When they differ on the issue, it is to question the fervency of one rival or another's commitment to ending contra aid.
The only Democratic candidate who has voiced any support for
Former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt attacked Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri for missing votes on aid to the rebels.
contra aid is Sen. Albert Gore Jr.
of Tennessee.
"The last time he missed one, five weeks ago, the funding for those contras passed by a single vote," Babbitt said. "If 'he'd put his ballot where his speeches have been, the contrast would have飞
Iowa Democrats who make their choices Monday at the precinct
Republicans, who go to their caucuses the same night, will have to look at other issues to differentiate one candidate from another.
caucuses might find importance in the subtle differences among Democratic candidates' statements on Central American policy.
But the unity at the top of the GOP ticket disappears among politicians whose constituencies are solely in Iowa's borders.
"A peaceenik state" was how former Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada described Iowa. Laxalt was chair
man of all of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns and briefly entered the 1988 GOP race.
Even the positions of the Republicans who represent the state in Congress would bear out Laxalt's assessment.
Rep. Fred Grandy, the only Iowa House member to declare his support of aid to the rebels, conceded that it was not a popular decision in his district.
"If you read the polls, you vote the other way," he said.
Du Pont wants to defeat Kemp
The Associated Press
AMES, Iowa — GOP presidential hopeful Pete du Pont had outlined his provocative proposals on farm subsidies, Social Security and other issues, when a man in the audience said, "So many of your ideas make so much sense..."
"..That I'll never get elected president," du Pont said cheerfully, completing the man's thought. "I want, that's what a lot of people say."
The man, Tom Randall, local real
I'm having an impact and there's a lot of surprise in the hearts of Iowa and New Hampshire voters.'
— Pete du Pont presidential candidate
estate agent, nodded his head in agreement.
Pete du Pont
Du Pout utters the litary of long shots everywhere as he nears the end of a grueling Iowa caucus campaign: "I'm having a good time. I'm making sure everyone sees me there's a lot of surprise in the hearts of Iowa and New Hampshire voters."
Du Pont's aim is not to win the Iowa caucuses next Monday but to finish ahead of Rep. Jack Kemp and emerge in New Hampshire's Feb. 16 primary and later contests as the active challenger to the front-runners.
"This is a race of the next generation of Republican leadership to take on George Bush and Bob Dole," he told a late-night interviewer for a Boston station in comments beamed live into New Hampshire's living rooms half a continent away.
Du Pont scorns all his rivals as patrons of the status quo.
"If you're for the status quo, you're sitting in the wrong room," he said.
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
A closer look
Bret Dillingham, Lawrence resident, studies the art work of M.C. Escher at the Kansas Union. Escher's work is part of the Laser Photo Art Show, promoted by Student Union Activites, that will be selling prints at the Union until Saturday.
Kansas caucuses continue
TOPEKA - Bob Dole's home state Republicans gave him a big boost toward claiming all of Kansas' 34 delegates to the GOP national convention when weeklong county caucuses began Monday.
The Associated Press
The Senate majority leader and state party's favorite son candidate for the Republican presidential nomination rolled to a big advantage as the first of 108 county caucuses were held. They continue through Sunday, when voters will district and state conventions where national delegates will be elected.
In the 29 counties holding caucuses Monday night, Dole garnered 203 out of a possible 212 delegates, or 95.8 percent.
Television evangelist Pat Robertson, whose supporters have filled full or partial slates of delegate candidates in 61 counties, claimed only three delegates, each from Logan County, in far western Kansas. Six delegates from Boulder County, five in Doniphan County and one in Ness County,
Another 29 counties had their caucuces last night.
Two of the biggest counties holding caucuses Monday night, Reno and Finney, counted ballots well into the night.
Reno County, where a state record 1.120 Republicans turned out, delivered all 35 of its delegates to Dole, and Finney County contributed its 14. The vote in Reno was 882 for Dole and 238 for Robertson.
Of the other bigger counties meeting Monday, Md. Pferson gave Dale 18 points in his game.
In counties where Robertson had filed complete or partial lists of delegate candidates to challenge Dole's slates, the Kansas senator won handily. In 15 contested counties, Dole won 135 delegates and Dole three, with five official uncontested but possibly favoring Robertson.
State GOP Chairman Fred Logan Jr. said that despite Dole's strong showing on the first night, the battle was far from finished.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of a House committee said yesterday that there could be possible fraud and other criminal violations in the awarding of a $26 million nobid government contract to a minority businessman who was a former aide to Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.
Former Dole aide implicated in contract award violations
The Associated Press
Rep. John J. LaFaize, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Small Business Committee, asked the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the inspector general of the Small Business Administration to investigate the case.
Although former and current Dole aides helped to obtain the contract, LaFalce said in
a statement that a preliminary review by the committee staff "found nothing that suggested Bob Dole was personally involved in any questionable event or occurrence."
However, LaFalce raised questions about the relationship between John Palmer, a black Kansas businessman, and David Owen, who resigned last month as national finance
director of Dole's presidential campaign.
Palmer is president of EDP Enterprises Inc., which in 1986 won the $26 million contract for food service at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
The contract was obtained through the SBA's minority set-aside program. Under the
set-asea program, government contracts are awarded to minority-owned business on a no-bid, negotiated basis. LaFalse said a pattern of common associations and financial interests between Owen and EDP suggested that a 'front company' affiliation might have been involved in the whole affair from the very beginning.
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