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Bush scored on a sharp question aimed at Dukakis' being considered "passionless, technocratic, the smartest clerk in the world." The Governor cited issues on which he said he cared deeply, including children who can't afford to go to college, people without medical insurance, civil rights and affirmative action. He conceded that "I may be a little calmer than some" about such matters because "I seek consensus." Bush adroitly declared that "I salute him for his passion," but insisted that it was misdirected at causes favored by "far-out liberals...
While Dukakis has never attended a City Council meeting as governor before, according to City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton, city officials are hopeful that he will consider attending before the November election...
...feeling squeezed. Michael Archer, 42, drives a scrap truck for a rendering plant, while his wife Janie works as a waitress in a coffee shop. Their three children, two boys and a girl in their 20s, are all married with children and all working at dead-end jobs: grocery clerk, bartender, waitress. "You can't raise a family on what they make," says Archer, "but those are the only kinds of jobs the kids can get around here." Archer pronounces Dukakis' name "Distakis" and admits that he knows little about the Massachusetts Governor except that "he reminds...
...political," says Mercer. "If anything, we are spiritual." It must be a restless spirit just now, and a little bit anxious as well. Percussionist Dave Weckerman, 38, also free-lances in a Feelies spur group called Yung Wu and holds down a part-time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this spring, and Bass Player Brenda Sauter, 29, does free-lance...
...news infused local residents with Texas-size optimism. "It would bring extra money to the community budget," said the suburb's Communist deputy mayor, Gilbert Ridouh. To Odile Deana, a jewelry-store sales clerk, the strike promised "work, a lot of people visiting the drilling sites and more business for us." Elf-Aquitaine cautioned that more tests are needed to determine the well's potential profitability...