2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, October 19, 1988
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From Associated Press reports
Democrat Michael Dukakis lashed
front-running George Bush as a man
with "no convictions, no ideas, no
plans" Tuesday and blamed Repub
lican policies for last year's, stock
market plunge. Bush tried to contain
supporters' enthusiasm over polls
showing him building a large lead.
"We're not going to lighten up,"
the Republican presidential nominee
said while campaigning in Missouri
"No votes can be taken for granted
Bakkelr calls lawsuit
From Associated Press reports
COLUMBIA, S.C. Jim Bakker
said Tuesday that the $52 million
lawsuit filed against him by the PTL
ministry he left in disgrace is now a
fight for his life and that someone
may be trying to sabotage his case.
"It may be business as usual for
everyone else, but this is my life I'm
talking about," Bakker said during a
lunch break in the hearing in U.S.
Bankruptcy Court.
In its suit against Bakker, his wife
Tammy and former aide David
Taggart, PTL accused Bakker of
Soviets sopervise UoSo mnissDue destruction
From Associated Press reports
TUCSON, Ariz. Eleven Soviet
inspectors watched Tuesday as U.S.
military personnel using power saws
began the historic destruction of Air
Force cruise missiles under the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty.
. Led by Army Maj. Gen. Vladimir
'Medvedev, the Soviets arrived at
'Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to
'watch 41 ground-launched cruise
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and I'm not taking any votes for
granted. I will continue to campaign
as underdog."
There was no question who was
the real underdog Dukakis. But
he drew enthusiastic crowds as he
campaigned through Michigan with
aides battling the growing perception
that Bush had taken an insurmount
able lead with just three weeks until
the election.
Dukakis' running mate Lloyd
Bentsen delivered a strongly worded
mismanaging the ministry. PTL
presented, testimony and evidence in
the first week of the trial in September
that the Bakkers received about $9.5
million in bonuses, salaries and other
compensation from 1983 to 1984.
An Internal Revenue Service agent
also testified he found cash advances
to Bakker and Taggart that appar
ently served no legitimate business
purpose.
The ministry entered bankruptcy
protection three months after Bakker
left in March 1987 upon admitting
to a sexual encounter with former
missiles, 41 protective canisters for
the mobile weapons and seven trans
porter erector launchers be cut in half
.over the next few days.
The Soviets, who flew from Travis
Air, Force Base near San Francisco
aboard an Air Force C-141 Starlifter,
were met by a U.S. delegation headed
by Brig. Gen. Roland Lajoie, director
of the Defense Department's On-Site
Inspection Agency (OSIA).
Also slated for destruction was a
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response to the Republicans, accusing
Bush of running "one of the most
outrageous displays of negative
campaigning ever seen in the history
of national politics."
The Massachusetts governor shar
pened his language as he focused on
economic issues and protrayed Bush
as the candidate of the wealthy.
"George Bush cares about the
people on Easy Street," Dukakis said.
"I care about the people on Main
Street. He's on their side. I'm on
'a trial for
church secretary Jessica Hahn.
The trial resumed Monday. Bakker
was to testify Tuesday, but his
testimony was postponed a day to
allow him time to review canceled
checks and reimbursement vouchers
that were supplied to his attorneys
Monday.
Bakker said he was "a touch angry"
that he was only now receiving
information he needs to defend
himself and hinted at intentional
sabotage. "I think somebody calcu
lated they would hold all the materials
until the middle of the trial," he said,
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Nuclear warheads, fuel and
guidance-related equipment have
been removed from each weapon, and
the warheads have been returned to
the Department of Energy, which
stores American nuclear weapons,
said Capt. Kendell Pease, an OSIA
spokesman.
A total of 443 intermediate-range
cruise missiles deployed in Great
Britain and Europe are scheduled for
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"Duke, Duke, Duke," chanted the
crowd.
The Bush campaign began airing
tough new television commercials
that ridicule Dukakis and say he has
"opposed virutally every defense
system we developed."
Meanwhile, public polls ranged
from bad to worse for Dukakis,
though his aides pointed to what they
said was a new Harris poll putting
the gap. at 9 points.
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though he did not say who.
And he predicted his research
would satisfy at least 90 percent of
the IRS's concerns.
Bakker attorney Jim Toms said
Bakker's comments "really reflect a
frustration" in trying to prove his case
based on records scattered among
PTL offices, a federal grand jury
probe and U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
A federal grand jury in Charlotte has
been investigating for more than a
year whether the ministry raised
money for one purpose and used it
for another.
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years of the treaty.
Signed earlier this year by Presi
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the treaty also
calls for ekmination of 169 shorter
range Pershing I-A and 234 Pershing
II intermediate-range missiles that the
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Georgia report lists reasons
for contaminated water leak
From Associated Press reports
AIKEN, S.C. Poorly trained
personnel and inadequate safety
procedures were blamed for a leak
of 375,000 gallons of water con
taminated by radiation at the
Savannah River Plant, a pub
lished report said Tuesday.
Officials with the Du Pont Co.,
which operates the nuclear wea
pons facility for the Department
of Energy, also said an oversight
caused underreporting of the
amount of radioactive contami
nant in the water released into a
creek on July 8, The Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle and the Augusta Herald
reported Tuesday.
The amount of radiation spilled
into the water was too small to
pose a health or safety threat,
officials said.
'Rust Belt' experiences growth
WASHINGTON Income
growth in the "Rust Belt" manu
facturing states is staging a come
back after lagging behind the
national average for most of the
1980s, the government said
Tuesday.
The trend represents an easing
Extravaganza
WTVD television, which will do a
prime-time piece on the festival
during the Erwin Hester Show on
Sunday night.
The stores lining Franklin Street
also participated in the festival. Many
of the businesses, such as Sutton's
Drug Store and Taco Bell, had UNC
homecoming window paintings.
Some stores stayed open later for
the festival, but Record Bar planned
on closing at its regular time.
"The festival really hasn't had
much of an effect on us," said Keith
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of, but not an end to, a pheno-,:
menon Reagan administration '
critics have labeled the "bicoastaK
economy." "
The administration has pointed
with pride to the six-year eco-'
nomic recovery, the longest during
peacetime since the Civil War."
However, critics say the nation's
heartland has not shared in the,.,
expansion.
Economist wins Nobel prize ; '
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Maurice Allais, a prolific theorist
whose ideas on balancing supply
and demand helped rebuild the
French economy after World War
II, won the Nobel Prize for,
economics Tuesday. -
Allais, a Paris shopkeeper's son,
became mentor to a generation of
economists. He developed formu-,
las to enable large enterprises,
particulary public ones, to keep an
economy in balance by regulating (
prices and allocating their
resources. ' .
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Weston, an employee at Record Bar.
The store didn't hold any special sales
to mark the festival, he said.
Regardless of the commercial
interest in the extravaganza, most
students said they enjoyed the games
and performances. O
A few students Said UNC should
have more such festivals.
One student who had just com
peted in the pizza-eating contest said j
"I'm having a pretty good time. I'm
getting a free dinner!"
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