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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 2-15-1988 Maine Campus February 15 1988 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus February 15 1988" (1988). Maine Campus Archives. 2067. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/2067 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2, 1988 Mena hope. esident. It>aigni Spitler The man . Daily dared NE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE NEWSPAn SINCE 1675 Ileeiey. February 15. 111$11 rel. 102 ae. 22 Bellotti confident Barbara Bush campaigns Dukakis can win in Bangor for husband *about forward 'o• wasuusr •show featured pictures of s,arf woe,- herself and her husband partak- • The former Massachusetts attorney general has seen ing in traditional vice- - Jerson presidential hopeful Gov. Michael Dukakis play many roles. In the midst of an ailing presidential roles. including close friend and in 1976, chief competitor sying for presidential campaign, George In particular. her -husband's ;cience theattorney general's position. Bush's wife, Barbara came to familiarity with foreign leaders Now Frank Bellow, who has worked with Dukakis .since the Bangor Holiday Inn this especially qualifies him to be 1972. says he expects to see the state's highest elected offiCial weekend to show family slides president, Mrs. Bush said. as the next president of the United States. -land discuss her husband's Apart from foreign ac- -flukaltn, a two-time state governor, wilt bring tOltit.COun- --gush fi nom. quaintences. the half hOSU• Slide try the prosperity and success that he has brought to the Bay_ Prior to last Slonday Iowa prescntaton showed the couple sets. no state, Beam' said on Thursday, as he visited tht University caucus Vice President Burih_was dancing at state dinners and v shoukt . of Maine with Maine Attorney (eneral_ James Tierney_____ ranked first in the pitioruil vacationing with their family in that' "What Dukakis has is the ability to manage and a history polls. Bar Harbor, Maine. of balancing budgets," said Belton', now an attorney for But things have taken a turn The small crowd of less than for the worse lately as, in addi- two hundred seemed nsted the Boston based firm of Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett. "(Sen. Barbera Bomb pleased re Paul) Simon and titcp. Richard) Gephardt are legislators, there tion to has-ing placed third with the presentation, and hnoloes is -a difference " behind Robert Dole and Pat at the Holiday Inn, McKernan many interpreted the show as a Bellow. a former past president of the National Associa- Robertson, the Bush candidacy said vice president Bush was the review of Mrs. Bush's ability to tion of Attorney Generals, said the "atmosphere" of the state was struck another blow last ideal candidate for Maine sup- become a good first lady was difficult when Dukains.was elected in 1982. week when former national port because of his partial The crowd responded well to The year before he was elected, Heron' said. there were security advisor Alexander residence here. Mrs. Bush's light humor but 80,000 unemployed in the state, the second largest number in Haig dropped out of the race "He knows the difference ;hey were particularly enlightn- • the country. and endorsed Dole's candidacy. between Presque" Bangor ed to hear about the family "Now we hese the lowest unemployment of any of the Mrs. Bush began her visit at and .Portland," McKernan dog, Millie, and her brush with states," he said the Bangor Mall where she and said. stardom. Main- Liovernor John McKer- But the main body of cam- excited • Belton* said the state has experienced an increase in 300,000 "Millie was very jobs, 54,000 new businesses in the last few years, and a balanced nan w 're treated by several in- paigning took the form of slide when Benjie came to call on . _ budget for the Ian nine years teresud well voshers. entertainment, presented by her," Speaking before Mrs. Bush Mrs. Bush. Predominantly, her bee BUSH page rice. I we DUILAILIS page 2) St u- Candidates Jackson no stranger to Maine do or die in ey Stile OWN .New Hampshire CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As would-be leaden of the free world With the possible exception of the ciiii-cross MIS state, they would be wise to keep in mind the maxim, Res Jesse Jackson, : democratic "lose the presidential candidates vying for New Hampshire primary and you lose political status can expect an equal the White House." That saying - distribution of votes in the upcoming true for the last nine presidential elections - is as much et- national cons ent ion. political science professor Ken Hayes said Friday ched in the state's granite as the sec- tion of the New Hampshne-Consinu- Jackson has ahead) made three ap- non that recognizes the right of the pearances in the Slate of Maine in an ef- citizenrs to revolt.' fort to get his campaign off to a good Critics say gampshire start. In his last appearance, he striie New — a tiny. geographically with before a packed house at Maine Ceuta ° remote state for the Arts Feb II. no large city or substantial minim!) — does not deserve the extraordinary Hayes, also_ rode in a .car with A make-or Jackson from Bangor to VIMaine, said -break campaign clout it wields_by,tiolana Tuesday's first-in- -__heit one of mazy -L-nisersity-of Maine-- • 1 Maine -Political Seamy Professor-lea Hayes will nay- meow IOW Jat130111" the-nation primary -faculty members likely . to _support in . the Niuvesiber The taate's - Jackson, ,, population, apouS4-lir:4-- million, is the eighth smallest and less 'He's really niiking white Antrim York Governor Mario-Cuomo to break U.S. relations-are-cruciabit-thasAime, than I percent non-white. New think." he.said. - -a deadlock of this kind. - Hayes said. Hampshire has a smattering of large Hayes said Jackson's recent campaign . "For-La black man to win in white '"JacksonstfOesiet have Some kind of unions and relatively little crime. Its efforts and recent success at the Iowa America is hidden agenda with almost an impossible the third world," unemployment rate has been the caucus will bring new support dream," it hap- he said, "That's a and he said. "I doubt will little different from lowest in the nation for two years, could easily result in 1,000 pen this time, I don't doubt it will hap- what (third world leaders) see in of the 2,000 Bush, while its per capita incornc and - delegates needed or pett-somettnie," _ Dole, Kvrip the democratic-- " - aptitude-test scores for'college entry- -t nomination. Apart from the racial issue, -a/ 74.1 es—, Hayes said --tbetr;s. --twouto-._ _ among the highest7- •-- "Jackson—doesn't need can- said- a Jackson nomination could be look to the future to compete successful- many All of which bears, little didateS in Maine -threatened by ly with many foreign countries and that to look good. His a lack of experience in demographic similarity to the nation strength is nationwide. If he economics and public no candidates are free from dealing with starts to do administration. the candidates want to lead.„ Well it will snowball," But Hayes also the country's Hayes said. made it clear he was present problems. But But it would be difficult to find a But the possibility that dissatisfied with the Jackson's ability to apply Pus a deadlocked' economic and under- place that its grass-loots campaign- convention could foreign policy performance minority background - to thwart the nomination .of ,other privileged, ing more seriously or has more should not be ignored, administrations. foreign politics would help us in in- Hayes added. "It ,itizens engaged in government will be interesting "I look at. the (performance} of numerable ways, he said to see what the the New Hampshire's 400-member democrats will do " Nixon and Reagan "Jackson is not administrations, and credentialed in the House of ,Representatives. makes it . same way as Jackson would not easily jet the I don't want that kind of experience,"- other candidates."he the third largest_ governing body in vote,. Hayessaid. and he "To-rise m puht In ihet.S, as expects the Fnglish speaking world' — lUte democratic leaders '--- Polities which are genuinely a black man requires a lot orexper- •• would bring irt - (see PRIMARY par by former U.S. Senator Bill Bradly or New beneficial to world deselopment and -Ase." 7-1 • IS. lase 2 The Doily Mne iimpto kionda%, Februars The Doily .Maine( ,•Pukakis trotibtinsted frees page Bas] BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed The formeratt'vent.) general also said 11, LA. Pomille-Sei WOOL- IW *07 4N 014114170 ••ho was elected k NAN POT OM 'Dukakis. in-1974 btu pee The CJIMAIS lost it 19711. as %cry committed to cis-it I VON 4 MCA rights and peopk A special exhibit • Of 01.17,4 11114,49LI -What is more inigxvrtant in a an Ilark. Quill and ks Oltratr is not ws much the individual' Abbe Issues_ What enstutes and lasts_ is the beginning this.*cell commitment to people. to then digni- Maine's Hudson !S ty and to their happiness." ,Bellotti The exhibit. on said bor's Ablie ‘,1 useu One of the prominent measures the parcurime quillwor Dukakis administration has established Penobscot and Past is a three part program that helped unw buch hark basket ed mothers , who make up 90 percent containers date to of all welfare reciptents:•--reduce their century and early dependence on that program.