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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spots require multiple viewings before a viewer can sort out the hostile charges. Seen for the first time, these ads can inspire strong but disturbingly vague emotional impressions: Dukakis is a terrible Governor; Bush wants to tear up Social Security; Dukakis believes anyone can check out of prison; the Bush campaign is run by overweight manipulators who put Machiavelli to shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Plays In Toledo | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...Bush demonstrator wore a striped prison suit and a sign proclaiming, "Willie Horton"--a reference to a convict who committed a murder while on a Massachusetts furlough plan under the Dukakis administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bay State Dems Stage Rally for Duke Ticket | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

Vice President George Bush suggested yesterday that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis apologize to a couple that was brutally attacked by an escapee from a Massachusetts prison furlough program, while Democrats tried to squeeze every last ounce of political gain from Wednesday night's vice president debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...part, the vice president used great detail to describe the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who went on a crime spree in Maryland last year several months after being released from a Massachusetts prison on a weekend furlough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...want to set up a messianic kingdom, with them as masters and the rest of us as slaves." Jean Gump, a quiet Roman Catholic grandmother, protests the presence of an Army missile site in Missouri and pays for her convictions by becoming No. 03789-045 in a West Virginia prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Dream, and Where It All Started | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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