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After surrendering the initiative, Dukakis changed his tactics and began to strike back last week. He took advantage of the publication of a new book, Men of Zeal, by Maine's Senators, Democrat George Mitchell and Republican William Cohen, who were on the Iran-contra committee. It charges that Bush clearly supported the arms-for-hostages swap, which the Vice President has denied. With Mitchell at his side, Dukakis attacked Bush for his complicity in the scandal. Later he ridiculed Bush's proclaimed goal of becoming the "education President." Dukakis demanded to know "Where was George?" when the Administration...
...protester who rushed toward former Contra leader Adolfo Calero, ending his speech at the Law School last fall, pled guilty in Cambridge District Court last Thursday to charges of disturbing a school and being a disorderly person...
...declared last week. "If the Vice President is saying that he would sign an unconstitutional bill, then in my judgment he is not fit to hold office." Escalating the hyperbole, Dukakis likened Bush's stance on the pledge to the wanton disregard for law revealed in the Iran-contra affair: "We've had a series of incidents in this Administration where laws were broken or ignored, and I don't know if this is part of a pattern." Dukakis' subtext: "I'm more responsible than the other...
...reasons I'm running for the presidency is that I want to help to shape American foreign policy . . . I'm looking forward to debating foreign policy with the Vice President because I think he's extremely vulnerable in many ways: U.S.-Soviet relations, his response to issues like Iran-contra, Third World issues and the whole question of national security. Everybody knows that the defense budget in real terms isn't going to grow, no matter who the next President is. There's no way that we can build all these weapons systems and at the same time maintain...
...rightly said policy should be made in other offices; he was to be the President's confidant, not his competitor. But he did cultivate good relations with right- wing groups, which considered him suspect for his opposition to Reagan in the 1980 primaries. Thus when Bush spoke to the contra contributors cultivated by Carl ("Spitz") Channell, Channell planned to tap the same people for donations to Bush's future campaign needs. This was just one of many ties Bush's office had with right-wingers concerned about Nicaragua's "freedom fighters...