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Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Lloyd Bentsen and the Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday accused Republican nominee George Bush's campaign of injecting racism into the presidential campaign by pounding Democrat Michael Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough issue...
...Quayle, in his debate with Lloyd Bentsen, was heedless enough to bring up Kennedy's name. Bentsen, who has good reflexes, saw the opening: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Michael Dukakis has been more dignified, but more relentless, about comparing himself with Kennedy, or at any rate comparing 1960 with 1988. Again and again, from the Democratic Convention on, he has told audiences, "Twenty-eight years ago, another son of Massachusetts and another son of Texas were our nominees . . ." Dukakis wants to borrow a small radiance of analogy. Ted Sorensen, the author of so many of Kennedy's speeches...
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Dukakis' runningmate, said he was giving himself the job ofanswering GOP charges. "Every time they issue afalsehood, I'm going to take them on andstraighten that one out," he told workers at thehuge General Electric appliance plant inLouisville...
Dukakis' running mate Lloyd Bentsen delivered a strongly worded 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...
...presidential race looks -- on television -- from an important battleground. -- Nervous and overprogrammed, Dan Quayle was overmastered by Lloyd Bentsen. -- The electoral- vote map favors Bush. -- Two striking stories from suburban Chicago show racism' s lingering brutality in America. -- Why the U. S. is losing the trade war and what can be done about it -- a campaign essay...