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DES MOINES, Iowa-Vice President George Bush backed off yesterday from charges his campaign has been leveling at chief GOP presidential rival Kansas Sen. Robert Dole as candidates of both parties began cooling their rhetoric on the eve of Iowa's crucial precinct caucuses.
It comes on the heels of a survey showing Dole with a double-digit lead over Bush in a poll published by the Des Moines Register, while indicating Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt led Illinois Sen. Paul Simon and Dukakis among the Democrats.
Not all church activity was focused onfundamentalists, however, as the minister of onelarge Des Moines Lutheran church urged moderatesto turn out and avoid being swamped by moreconservative Christians.
Bush's ripostes to Rather were the capstone to a month-old "get tough" campaign orchestrated by Media Adviser Ailes and other staffers. "If somebody hits him," says Lee Atwater, "Bush is going to try to hit back harder." In recent weeks, Bush has jabbed at Alexander Haig, tweaked Bob...
Des Moines, this week, is a city of anxiety-filled foxholes. For the eleven campaigns in both parties actively contesting next Monday's Iowa caucuses, the emotions shift with each rumor, each leaked tracking poll, each new television commercial. Campaign chiefs monitor news reports like CIA analysts poring over satellite...