IN PREPARATION FOR YOUR BRIEFING WITH DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DUKAKIS, I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT TO REVIEW PUBLIC STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE ABOUT THE AGENCY.

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January 29, 1988, Friday, PM cycle
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LENGTH: 614 words
HEADLINE: Gephardt says he favors change, not establishment
BYLINE: By MATTHEW C. QUINN, UPI Political Writer
DATELINE: DES MOINES, Iowa
KEYWORD: Politics
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Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri says as president he would support changes
in domestic and foreign policy and he wishes voters would not see him as part of
the establishment.
Gephardt, who dispatched some 40 fellow House members Thursday to campaign
for him in Iowa, went on the offensive against suggestions that his criticism of
the government and corporate establishment is disingenuous.
''A lot of people have said to me in the last few days: 'You say that you
want to take on the established wisdom. You want to change the vested interests
and you want to move this country in a new direction. How can you say that when
you're part of the establishment as a leader in Congress?''' Gephardt said at a
rally on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol.
''My answer is very clear,'' said Gephardt, who has made criticism of big
corporations and trade policies cornerstones of his campaign. "In tax reform,
in trade, in Social Security, in health care, on Nicaragua policy, I have always
stood for new directions in change.''
Gephardt serves as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and is a senior
member of the House Democratic leadership.
''Don't look at where I sit,'' he said. ''Look at where I stand and what I've
done and what I'm going to do.''
The Gephardt campaign, in an impressve show of support for Gephardt from his
colleagues, enlisted 43 House members to campaign across Iowa in sub-freezing
temperatures this week. Iowa's Feb. 8 precinct caucuses will be the first major
showdown in the seven-man race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Gephardt departed Des Moines to campaign Thursday across southeastern Iowa,
where he attracted enthusiastic crowds.
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Michael(Dukakis, also campaigning Thursday in
Des Moines, said the next president show conveft the CIA from an organization
that "assassinates people'' into an organization that advises presidents.
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''We have to decide in this country what the CIA is going to be - an
information agency or an assassination agency. It was not created to
assassinate people ... or to overthrow governments. It was established to
provide the president with information,'' Dukakis told about 250 peace
activists.
Dukakis also said he hopes next week's congressional votes on President
Reagan's proposal to provide an additional $36 million in aid to the Nicaraguan
Contra rebels will mark the end of U.S. attempts to ''sabotage'' Costa Rican
President Oscar Arias's Central American peace plan.
In Houston, Texas, Democrat Jesse Jackson swapped barbs with syndicated
columnist George Will over a column published Thursday.
Will, a close friend of President and Nancy Reagan, accused Jackson of
complaining that media portrayals of minorities '' poison the minds of the common
people'' while exploiting his own minority status to get special treatment.
The remarks Will cited were made earlier by Jackson in a speech before an
all-black audience in Sacramento, Calif.
Thursday, Jackson said, ''I would rather direct my comments to those who have
the courage and tenacity to get into the race'' for president. ''I'm not going
to be part of anything in which a news writer becomes a newsmaker.''
Will, in his column, said, ''Jackson kissed Yasser Arafat (leader of the
Palestine Liberation Organization) and hailed (Cuban leader) Fidel Castro, so I
am content to be excluded from the ambit of his affections.''
The columnist said Jackson '' is contributing to negative stereotypes by his
implicit demand for exemption from standards to which white candidates are held.
. Because he is black, his white rivals sit silently beside him, leaving his
foolishness unremarked.''
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February 2, 1988, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section A; Page 14, Column 5; National Desk
LENGTH: 918 words
HEADLINE: POLITICS;
Shifting Style, Dukakis Turns to Emotional Heat
BYLINE: By ROBIN TONER, Special to the New York Times
DATELINE: DES MOINES, Jan. 30
BODY:
The audience fell absolutely silent as Michael S. Dukakis read from the
memoirs of a journalist imprisoned during the rule of Argentina's military
Government.
''Listen to those words and understand that nothing justifies the theft of
human dignity,'' the Massachusetts Governor said. ''Nothing.''
The setting was a forum on aid to the Nicaraguan contras, and Mr. Dukakis
held the rapt and occasionally moist-eyed attention of his audience at Drake
University here with an impassioned appeal for a new American emphasis on human
rights and democracy throughout the hemisphere.
''It is a dream our nation can help come true,'' he said. ''Not by cozying up
to Latin American dictators as we have so often over the past century, but by
demonstating every day and every week the powerful force of our ideals.''
It was a telling snapshot as Mr. Dukakis began the final stretch of his Iowa
campaign, with his speeches and his television commercials increasingly focused
on such emotional issues as Central America and the needs of the homeless.
Mr. Dukakis says he has not changed his appeal since his campaign began last
spring. "I haven't changed what I've been saying in 10 months,'' he said with
an edge of annoyance this week. But it is clear that stylistically Mr. Dukakis
has turned up the heat - just one aspect of the bullish mood of the Dukakis
campaign in Iowa these days.
The shift is perhaps least debatable in the campaign's television
commercials. Last fall, for example, the Dukakis campaign was running a cerebral
advertisement on the Massachusetts economic revival, revolving around the image
of a Revere bowl being polished by a pair of anonymous hands. Now, with the Feb.
8 Iowa precinct caucuses fast approaching, the campaign's commercials show
shivering homeless people lying on grates in the nation's capital and mourning
victims of civil strife in Central America.
The candidate's oratory has intensified as well. As he campaigned in Iowa
over the last few days, Mr. Dukakis delivered a series of speeches on United
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States policy in Central America.
''I hope the Congress will stand with the vast majority of the American
people and say 'no, not one more dollar for contra aid,' " he said in Des
Moines. ''Not one more Nicaraguan child killed because we didn't have the
courage and the wisdom and the respect for law and life to let the people of
Central America determine the future of Central America.''
" It reminds you of Vietnam,the more you see of it, " he said at another
point. ''Year after year of a failed policy.'' F.B.I. and C.I.A. Criticized In
town after town, he assailed the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its
surveillance of American groups opposed to the Reagan Administration's policy in
Central America. He said it ''struck a nerve' for him and others who came of
age in the era of McCarthyism.
And when a peace activist here asked how he would administer the Central
Intelli ence Agency, he said, ''We have to decide in this country whether the
C.I.A. is going to be an intelligence agency or an assassination agency. "
The Reagan Administration's support for the contras, the rebels fighting
Nicaragua's ruling Sandinistas, is not an area of disagreement among the
Democratic candidates for President; all of them oppose it. Mr. Dukakis said he
was emphasizing it on the campaign trail because of the upcoming vote in
Congress on contra aid, saying he believed it was an important time to speak
out.
Aides for some of his rivals say they think he is using the issue because it
could appeal to the upscale, urban liberals in Iowa whose support Mr. Dukakis is
competing for with former Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona and Senator Paul Simon
of Illinois.
The Dukakis campaign presents a carefully calibrated optimism in these final
days before the Iowa caucuses. Dukakis aides are devoted practitioners of the
art of managing expectations: ''We need to do well in Iowa'' is the offical
line, vague enough to encompass a number of scenarios - and give the campaign
substantial room to wiggle - on caucus night.
But they say the campaign's internal polls show Mr. Dukakis gaining in Iowa,
although Representative Richard A. Gephardt is maintaining his lead. And some
aides say Governor Dukakis is connecting with the state's voters, both on the
stump and in his new television commercials, in a way that he was not a few
months ago.
A Formidable Organization
In addition, as they look beyond Iowa to the New Hampshire primary on Feb.
16, Dukakis aides contend that Mr. Gephardt's hard-hitting message about job
losses to foreign imports - so successful in Iowa in recent weeks - will not
play as well in a state where the unemployment rate is low.
At the same time, the campaign has built a formidable organization in Iowa,
which nightly confers with supporters from one end of the state to the other.
Many of its 111 paid staff members in Iowa recently took a pay cut to help the
campaign stay within the Federal spending limit for the state.
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A steady stream of volunteers has made the Boston accent a fairly common
sound in some parts of Iowa. Indeed, a contest in the campaign's Boston
headquarters offers a trip to the Caribbean for the staffer who rounds up the
most ''Iowa Ambassadors.''
''A lot of what politics is, at least the way I do it,,, Mr. Dukakis said one
afternoon this week as his van covered the now familiar route from Muscatine to
Davenport, ''is steady organizing, getting to know people.''
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April 15, 1988, Friday, AM cycle
LENGTH: 959 words
HEADLINE: Dukakis, Bush Quibble on Noriega Backing
BYLINE: By EVANS WITT, AP Political Writer
KEYWORD: Political Roundup
BODY:
Michael Dukakis slammed the Reagan administration Friday for putting
"drug-peddling" Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega on the U.S. payroll,
but Vice President George Bush retorted that it is Libya that has been propping
up Noriega with millions of dollars.
Jesse Jackson made fun of efforts by fellow Democrats Dukakis and Sen. Albert
Gore Jr. to claim leadership in the fight against drugs, saying they are
captains and lieutenants while "I'm the general in this war."
As the presidential campaign moved into the final weekend before the pivotal
New York primary on Tuesday, the rhetoric was tamed.
For Republicans, it was a day for unity.
Democrats aimed their fire mostly at the Reagan administration, drug pushers
and the owners of Eastern Airlines - not at each other.
Democratic front-runner Dukakis talked to Brooklyn junior high school
students about drug abuse, using wife Kitty's 26-year dependence on diet pills
as an example. The Massachusetts governor used the low-key approach of a
talk-show host in discussing drug abuse, such as crack, the potent cocaine
derivative.
"Crack can kill you, right? Who was killed by crack Lenny Bias, right?"
Dukakis said of the former University of Maryland basketball star. "In about
four minutes, that young man's life was snuffed out."
Dukakis tossed aside a prepared speech on drugs, in which he criticized the
Reagan administration for paying Noriega money through the Central
Intelligence Agency before he was indicted for drug-running.
"Why do we have the money for Star Wars but not for the war against drugs?
And why did you pay $200,000 a year to a dope-peddling, gun-running Panamanian
dictator?" Dukakis' speech said.
Dukakis flew to Albany to meet with New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who fell back
on an old phrase to describe Dukakis as a "singularly important Democratic
leader." Cuomo, who is not endorsing anyone before Tuesday, had used almost
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the same words to describe Jackson after a meeting Wednesday.
For his part, Jackson continued his attack on drugs at the South Jamaica
housing project in Queens, where he compared drug dealers to members of the Ku
Klux Klan, who harassed and killed blacks while wearing white hoods.
"Ropes, sheets and hoods represent death," Jackson told a cheering crowd. "We
never lost as many lives to Southern rope" as to drugs.
"The dope pusher does not wear sheets and hoods, the dope pusher is the hood
who lives in the neighborhood," said Jackson.
Bush, in a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, said
Democratic charges that the administration had propped up Noriega are '"demagogic
statements."
"It is this administration that has brought Noreiga to justice, or at least
taken the first step," Bush said. "Noriega should go and Noriega will go."
Bush added that Noriega has resisted the U.S. economic pressure because of
outside help.
"Several reliable sources indicate that he is receiving millions of dollars
in support from Libya," Bush said. He did not elaborate on his sources.
Otherwise, the Republican nominee-to-be talked of pulling the party together
for the fall general election.
Bush had lunch with vanquished rival Sen. Bob Dole in his Capitol office,
standing together for the cameras as Dole proclaimed, "We're ready to go to work
for George Bush."
Bush's remaining rival for the nomination former television evangelist Pat
Robertson _ admitted the GOP race is over and ^said he would campaign for the
nominee.
"It is obvious from the delegate count... that George Bush is going to be the
nominee of the Republican party absent any unexpected eventuality," Robertson
told the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
But he vowed to continue his minimalist campaign, saying he hoped to
"energize the people who support me" to play a role in the GOP convention in
August.
Bush also planned a private meeting with former President Richard Nixon.
Gore, running a dismal third in the polls, temporarily dropped his constant
attacks on Dukakis and Jackson and took on Eastern Airlines.
Early Friday, he spoke to about two dozen members of employee unions at the
airlines, currently embroiled in a bitter labor dispute and under close
government scrutiny.
The "mismanagement of Eastern and Continental stands as a symbol of the kind
of approach Ronald Reagan and George Bush encourage with their policies of
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hands-off, 'Let 'em have whatever kind of labor relations they want,' promote
greed as the principal guiding value for corporate America," Gore said.
ABC News-Washington Post tracking poll released Friday evening had Dukakis
with 44 percent, Jackson at 37 percent and Gore at 10 percent. The poll was
conducted Wednesday and Thursday among 268 likely Democratic voters in New York,
with a margin of error of 7 percentage points.
On Thursday, the ABC-Post poll had Dukakis at 49 percent, Jackson 34
percentand Gore 8 percent. That poll consisted of the Wednesday interviews, of
176 likely Democratic voters, and had a margin of error of 9 percentage points.
Gore, speaking in Buffalo, N.Y., dismissed the poll results, saying, The
polls have consistently been wrong," and said the undecided vote was beginning
to go decidedly In his favor.
Gore's campaign is now $1.6 million in debt after $100,000 in new loans to
finance New York ads.
Dukakis, clearly tired of Gore's criticism in recent days, did not resist a
swipe at the Tennessee senator.
"I've got a competitor who is desperate to get in this race," he told
reporters.
Dukakis holds a widening leader in the fight for national convention
delegates, according to the AP count. The Massachusetts governor has 842.15
votes to 730.1 for Jackson. Gore has 416.55, while uncommitted delegates have
617.75 delegate voters.
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May 26, 1988, Thursday, AM cycle
LENGTH: 479 words
HEADLINE: Dukakis Presses Demand for Bush to Tell All on Noriega
BYLINE: By DAVID ESPO, AP Political Writer
DATELINE: PALO ALTO, Calif.
KEYWORD: Dukakis
BODY:
Democratic presidential front-runner Michael Dukakis pressed his demand
Thursday for "a full explanation" of CIA links with Panama's Manuel Noriega
and ridiculed Vice President George Bush's comments on the subject.
Dukakis, campaigning in advance of California's June 7 primary, also gave the
back of his hand to several of the vice president's recent drug proposals.
"The question is, 'Why haven't these been done the past seven years?' Isn't
the vice president in charge of this effort?" he asked.
The Massachusetts governor also said it was "proper and appropriate" that
House Speaker Jim Wright pledged his cooperation with any ethics committee probe
into allegations of financial irregularities.
Beyond that, Dukakis offered no defense of the Democratic speaker, but he
said Bush should not try to exploit any difficulties Wright might face.
"This administration has very serious problems," he said. "We've got a
Justice Department that's a laughing stock and we've got this Noriega mess on
our hands."
At a news conference, Dukakis also said, "I'm going to continue to insist on
a full explanation from the administration about what's going on" concerning
Noriega.
"The vice president was asked a few weeks ago whether we are paying Noriega.
He said, 'I can't confirm that or deny that.' He's not running for press
spokesman of the CIA. He's supposed to be running for president of the United
States," Dukakis said.
"Are there links with the CIA? Who were the people that were involved in
drug-running and profit-skimming? And who was it in this administration who
thought that that made sense?"
Dukakis made his comments as fresh poll results showed him leading Jesse
Jackson in advance of California's Democratic primary and running ahead of
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The California Poll said Dukakis has the support of 53 percent of the state's
voters compared to 40 percent for the vice president among those making a
choice.
The comment about Bush and Noriega came at a news conference during a day
designed to depict the governor as a future-oriented leader.
He visited a company-sponsored day care center, and aides later distributed a
prepared statement calling for improved day care around the country.
In a speech to Syntex Co. employees, Dukakis also said the United States
needs to redirect some research and development money away from the military and
into civilian use.
Responding to a question at the news conference, Dukakis repeated his stance
that he's unable to guarantee he won't raise taxes if he reaches the White
House, although he said that would be his last resort.
He also declined to say whether he would sign a cigarette tax increase moving
through the Massachusetts Legislature.
'They'll be working this out, and when the budget gets to conference we'll
sit down and decide if we need additional revenue," he said.
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SECTION: Regional News
DISTRIBUTION: Texas
LENGTH: 488 words
HEADLINE: Dukakis uses Texas rally to score Republicans over drug war
BYLINE: By BOB LOWRY
DATELINE: AUSTIN, Texas
KEYWORD: Dukakis-Texas
BODY:
Democratic presidential frontrunner Michael Dukakis accused the
administration Friday of conducting a ''Phony'' war on drugs and said Americans
deserve a full explanation of the government's dealings with Panamian strongman
Manuel Noriega.
''I believe it's about time that somebody in this administration - the
president, the vice president or somebody -- explain to us who was doing
business with Noriega, why they were doing business with Noriega and why we were
paying Noriega $200,000 a year, which is what we're paying the president of the
United States," he said.
Speaking at an afternoon rally near the state Capitol, Dukakis told a crowd
of about 3,000, lured by free barbecue that, ''we deserve an explanation and
we're finally going to get it.
''Our government doing business with drug-running Panamanian dictators, our
government funneling aid to the Contras through convicted drug dealers who are
doing time in federal penitentiaries, our government and the CIA in league
with drug traffickers and drug profiteers,'' he said. "That's not the kind of
country we believe in. Those are not the American values we believe in. "
Continuing his anti-drug theme, Dukakis took the Reagan administration to
task over its ''phony'' war on drugs.
''You don't have to be from Miami to want a president who will wage a real
war on drugs and not a phony war on drugs," he said.
The Massachusetts governor said the greatest threat to the United States'
national security is the illegal drugs. He noted Americans consume 60 percent of
the illegal drugs worldwide while making up only 6 percent of the population.
''I'm not running the presidency to overthrow governments in Central
America, 11 he said. "I want to create jobs for people in middle America --
that's what this country is all about.
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''The greatest threat to our national security in this hemisphere is not the
Sandinistas -- it's this avalanche of drugs pouring into this country poisoning
our kids. That's the fight we've got to win.''
Dukakis said it is difficult to tell children to say no to drugs ' 'when we
have an administration in Washington that cannot say no to drugs and drug
peddlers. ''
''We're going to be tough on enforcement overseas and here at home,'' he
said. ''But if we don't do something about the demand for drugs, we're going to
lose this fight, and any drug enforcement officer will tell you that.''
An Austin blues band band played '' The Yellow Rose of Texas '' and the "Eyes
of Texas Are Upon You'' as Dukakis was introduced at the rally attended by most
of the state's top elected Democratic officials.
Earlier, Dukakis met briefly at the Capitol with former Gov. Mark White, Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby, House Speaker Gib Lewis, Land Commissioner Garry Mauro and
Railroad Commissioner John Sharp.
Hobby, who had earlier endorsed Dukakis' former Democratic rivals Gary Hart
and Albert Gore, quipped, ''the third time's a charm."
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HEADLINE: Dukakis Says Administration ''Can't Say No to Noriega' '
BYLINE: By DAVID ESPO, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
KEYWORD: Dukakis
BODY:
Democratic presidential front-runner Michael Dukakis said Friday the Reagan
administration "can't say no to Noriega," and he said the CIA once was "paying
off" Panama's military leader to the tune of $200,000 a year.
"We've been paying that guy what we pay the president of the United States,"
Dukakis said.
"You can't be serious about waging a real war against drugs when we have an
administration that can't say no to Noriega," he said, referring to Gen. Manuel
Noriega, who is under U.S. indictment on drug charges.
The Massachusetts governor hammered away at the issue of drugs and U.S.
foreign policy as he campaigned across the Southwest on a trip designed to close
out the Democratic primary season on a winning note and begin painting the party
toward the fall campaign.
New Mexico holds its primary on June 7 and Dukakis is expected to win enough
Democratic National Convention delegates here and in primaries the same day in
California, Montana and New Jersey to clinch the party's nomination over Jesse
Jackson.
Jackson, too, was campaigning in New Mexico on Friday, and the two Democrats
met briefly at the Albuquerque airport. They emerged smiling from a private
session that lasted about five minutes. Aides would not discuss what they had
said.
From New Mexico, where he addressed a meeting of Democratic women and then
spoke before a sun-drenched outdoor rally, Dukakis headed for Texas, where he
attended a barbeque with the state Democratic hierarchy in a continuation of the
attempt to pull the party together at the end of the long nominating campaign.
Dukakis won the Texas primary, but with less than 50 percent of the vote in a
multiple-candidate race and without broad backing from party leaders.
On Friday in New Mexico, the Massachusetts governor noted that polls show him
leading Vice President George Bush, the all-but-certain Republican nominee,
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and said Democrats have the best chance to win the presidency in years.
"I've never seen our party so united," he said. "I've never seen our party so
together."
Even so, the ever-cautious Dukakis cautioned one audience to guard against
overconfidence, noting that he once was defeated for re-election in
Massachusetts after holding a 50-point lead in the polls.
His comments about Noriega represented a continuation of Dukakis' attack
against the Reagan administration's handling of negotiations with the Panamanian
leader.
"This is an administration that can't say no to drugs and drug peddlers,
funneling aid to the Contras and convicted drug dealers that are doing time in
federal penitentiaries, the CIA links with drug trafficking and drug
profiteering in the United States of America," Dukakis said.
He said either President Reagan, Bush or "somebody in this administration"
should provide an explanation of alleged CIA ties to the Panamanian.
"It's been paying off Noriega $200,000 a year. We've been paying that guy
what we pay the president of the United States."
He said the administration should explain publicly "who was doing business
with Noriega and why we were doing business with Noriega."
Dukakis said the $200,000 figure emerged from congressional hearings into
Noriega's alleged links with the CIA.
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HEADLINE: Dukakis: U.S. needs organized war on drugs
BYLINE: By RALPH WAKLEY
DATELINE: SALT LAKE CITY
KEYWORD: Mayors
BODY:
The United States is waging a chaotic war on drugs because of a lack of
federal coordination and a misguided foreign policy, Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis said Sunday.
''The greatest threat to national security we face in this hemisphere Isn't
the Sandinistas, it's the avalanche of drugs pouring into the United States of
America,'' Dukakis told the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual convention.
Because the Reagan administration is taking funding away from the Coast Guard
and from federal aid to help support state and local drug enforcement programs,
he told the mayors, ''what we have today is chaos.''
''We've got to put someone in charge of the war against drugs. There are 11
cabinet departments and almost three dozen federal agencies involved in the drug
war, but no one person is responsible. We need a federal drug czar,'' he said.
Stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the United States must be moved ' ' to
the top of our foreign policy agenda,'' the expected Democratic presidential
nominee said, and that includes the ' 'use of the military where appropriate.''
The United States must work with Latin American nations on substituting cash
crops for drug farms, gathering and sharing drug intelligence information,
carrying out joint enforcement operations, he said, and ''protecting officials
and judges and lawyers who have the guts to join us in this war."
Dukakis said more than a 150 police and soldiers have been killed fighting
drugs in Mexico in the past five years, and, in Colombia, drug traffickers have
killed a minister of justice, a member of their supreme court, an attorney
general and the chief of narcotics police.
He also said a U.S. administration and the CIA must "never again bankroll
a drug peddler who's poisoning our society and killing our children. Why were we
paying thousands of dollars a year to a dope-peddling, gun-running Panamanian
dictator, as much as we pay the president of the United States?"
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With five weeks left before the Democratic National Convention, Dukakis told
reporters he still is considering a wide slate of vice presidential
runningmates.
"I want to make the very best choice I can, to bring strength to the ticket
and to the administration. A lot of people are going to be considered," he
said.
The third-term governor said he is annoyed at being labeled by Republicans as
a New England liberal.
"I am a person who cares deeply about America, about our economic future,''
he said. " I'm concerned about the 40 million poor, about quality education in
our schools. That's what I'd like to be labeled.''
As president, he said his administration would form a partnership with
officials from the national organizations of mayors, of governors and of state
legislatures to provide a coordinated approach to local and state issues.
A handful of delegates from each of those three organizations ''should meet
regularly with the president, his cabinet and selected members of Congress, "
Dukakis said, ''to collaborate on solving our problems.''
He also told the mayors he supports federal incentives to encourage expansion
of businesses into areas of high unemployment and advocates a fiscal policy to
reduce interest rates and stimulate economic development.
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June 12, 1988, Sunday, AM cycle
LENGTH: 581 words
HEADLINE: DUKAKIS CALLS FOR U.S. ANTI- DRUG CZAR
BYLINE: By Laurence McQuillan
DATELINE: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 12
KEYWORD: CAMPAIGN-MAYORS
BODY:
Democratic presidential contender Michael Dukakis, saying the war on drugs
should top U.S. foreign policy, called on Sunday for the creation of an
anti-drug czar to coordinate U.S. and foreign efforts.
Dukakis, in a swipe at his Republican rival, Vice President George Bush, also
said he would ban any CIA money from reaching those involved in drug
trafficking.
Bush, in his former role as CIA director, allowed agency funds to go to
Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega -- who has since been indicted by two
U.S. grand juries on drug charges.
"We need a president who will tell the CIA and our other intelligence
agencies: 'We want to catch drug dealers ... not finance them,"' Dukakis said.
The Massachusetts governor said members of the U.S. spy network must be told:
"Never again, never again are you going to bankroll a drug peddler who's
poisioning our society and killing our children."
Bush has said there were suspicions about Noriega during his tenure at the
CIA, but no firm evidence.
"We've got to move the war against narcotics from the bottom to the top of
our foreign policy agenda," Dukakis told a U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting.
"In today's world, drug profits often seem to speak more directly to the
basic human needs of Bolivian and Colombian villages than the stale slogans of
Marxism or the long-delayed promises of democracy and human rights," he said.
"That's why we've got to do more than lecture our neighbors in Latin America.
We've got to work with them," he said.
Dukakis told the group, "We need a federal drug czar, responsible to the
president, working full time with the power and the authority to get the job
done."
Concern about drug abuse has become a major issue in the presidential
election, with most public opinion polls listing it as a major concern.
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Later on Sunday, Dukakis on Sunday called President Reagan's recent rejection
of a trade bill one of the worst vetoes in U.S. history.
The Senate last week failed to override the veto of the bill, which would
have forced U.S. retaliation against countries believed to have unfair barriers
against U.S. goods.
"My first thought is that the president should have signed the trade bill,"
Dukakis said.
"To veto it because it gave American workers and their families 60 days
notice before throwing them out in the street, in my judgment is one of the
worst vetoes we've ever had."
Reagan's chief objection was to a provision that had no bearing on trade
policy. It would have required 60 days notice before large U.S. firms could
close or lay off a large number of workers.
In a development affecting Republicans, Treasury Secretary James Baker denied
speculation he intends to resign soon in order to direct Bush's bid for the
White House.
"I have no plans to leave, for now ... My plans are to stay right here," he
said in an interview broadcast on Sunday on the ABC show "Business World."
Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson, the Democratic runner-up, suggested he would make a
strong vice presidential candidate because of his access to developing
countries.
"I believe I have earned serious consideration" as a vice presidential
candidate, Jackson said on the NBC program "Meet the Press."
Citing historical reasons for picking running mates, Jackson said some were
picked because "they have some views, some experiences that can help."
"Certainly my access to Third World (countries) ... represents the wave of
the future for our foreign policy development," Jackson said.
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June 13, 1988, Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: FIRST SECTION; PAGE A6
LENGTH: 622 words
HEADLINE: Dukakis Ridicules GOP For 'Chaos' in Drug War
BYLINE: T.R. Reid, Washington Post Staff Writer
DATELINE: SALT LAKE CITY, June 12, 1988
BODY:
For Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, it's no more Mr. Ice Guy.
Dukakis, whose campaign style has often been described as aloof,
dispassionate, or even icy, turned up the heat noticeably in his quest for the
presidency today with a hard-hitting, angry attack on the Reagan
administration's efforts to fight illegal drugs.
Dukakis blasted the Republicans for trying to stop drug use with "a six-month
PR campaign Cand] an occasional film strip." Instead of a "unified national
strategy" that drug prohibition demands, Dukakis said, the administration has
produced "chaos."
The tough, spirited attack from the often low-key candidate drew rave reviews
from fellow Democrats here at a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The
Democratic mayors gave their candidate a rousing round of whoops and cheers
after he gave them an optimistic pep talk about the fall campaign.
"A bunch of us were saying how much improved his delivery is since last
year," said Mayor Arthur Holland of Trenton, N.J. "There's nothing boring about
the guy we heard today."
Dukakis was downright fiery here when he savaged the Reagan administration
for its reported dealings with Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who
has been indicted on federal narcotics charges. Noting that Noriega was on the
payroll of the CIA, Dukakis said the administration has chosen to "bankroll a
drug peddler who's poisoning our society and killing our children.
"Why did we pay $ 200,000 a year to a dope-peddling, gun-running Panamanian
dictator -- as much as we pay the president of the United States?" he asked.
Dukakis did not mention Vice President Bush by name. But Democratic
strategists think the Noriega connection might turn into a powerful case against
Bush, the apparent GOP presidential nominee, in the fall campaign. Bush has said
he was unaware until a few months ago of Noriega's alleged drug smuggling, but
some Democrats say the vice president either must have or should have known what
Noriega was up to.
Dukakis and his advisers believe that they can use the Noriega case to put
Bush on the defensive on the drug question. Drug use has emerged in some surveys
as the chief domestic concern among likely voters. "I don't know what might be
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number two," Trenton Mayor Holland told Dukakis today. "But I know that the drug
business is the No. 1 problem for people in our cities."
Dukakis promised today that "as president . . . I'll sign an executive order
to prohibit the payment of CIA or other federal funds to any person engaged in
drug trafficking, unless it's part of an undercover operation aimed at
detecting" drug smugglers.
He lambasted Reagan for spending large amounts on nuclear defense when "we've
only just begun to fight" drug smugglers.
Before his speech to the mayors today, Dukakis picked up an endorsement from
Jesse Jackson.
Unfortunately for him, the endorser was not Jackson the Democratic
presidential candidate. It was, rather, a different Jesse Jackson, the vice
mayor of Chanute, Kan. -- one of 500 Democratic mayors who endorsed Dukakis here
today.
But Dukakis continued his efforts today to smooth relations with Democratic
officials still formally committed to Jackson's candidacy. He took time for a
separate meeting with black Democratic mayors and assured them that he would be
easy to reach if they ever needed to give him advice.
Mayor Marion Barry called the meeting "wonderful." He said it was "a good
first step," but added that "the black community does not know Gov. Dukakis
well." Barry said "we want him to treat Jesse (Jackson3 fairly."
But Dukakis reiterated that he is not about to respond favorably to Jackson's
proposal for a tax increase plank in the Democratic platform.
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SUBJECT: SMUGGLING; POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS; ALCOHOL ABUSE; NARCOTIC AND DRUG
VIOLATIONS; PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES; NARCOTIC AND DRUG VIOLATIONS; ISSUES
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DISTRIBUTION: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
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LENGTH: 501 words
HEADLINE: Dukakis renews attack on administration drug policies
BYLINE: By JERRY BERGER, UPI Statehouse Reporter
DATELINE: BOSTON
KEYWORD: Ma-Dukakis,
BODY:
Democrat Michael S. Dukakis Monday renewed his attack on Reagan
administration drug policies, charging ''nobody is accountable'' in coordinating
the federal fight against drug trafficking.
Dukakis, who has virtually sewn up the Democratic presidential nomination,
used an appearance before the National Broadcast Editorial Association to boost
stronger sanctions against South Africa and to defend House Speaker Jim Wright
against misconduct charges.
'This administration's trying to run the war on drugs with a committee.
There is nobody in charge. There's nobody accountable,'' Dukakis said. "There's
got to be somebody, with Cabinet status, responsible to the president who runs
the program ... and who attacks both supply and demand simultaneously."
The three-term Massachusetts governor repeated a familiar campaign theme in
contrasting Vice President George Bush's call to extend capital punishment with
cutbacks in Coast Guard drug patrols and efforts to cut a deal with Panamian
strongman Manuel Noriega, who is facing drug-trafficking indictments.
''We have the death penalty in many states. Does it do any good? Have we seen
any significant reduction in drug trafficking in those states that have capital
punishment? I don't see it,'' Dukakis said.
' 'And its kind of ridiculous on one hand to be proposing that and the other
hand to be plea bargaining with Noriega, isn't it? And funneling aid to the
(Nicaraguan) Contras through drug dealers, and apparently being supportive of
long-standing relationships between the CIA and the drug trafficking industry.
Who's kidding whom?''
Instead, Dukakis suggested the nation should adopt education and prevention
programs similar to those already in place in Massachusetts.
''If we don't attack demand, and I mean with drug education and prevention
beginning in first, second and third grade in every elementary school in the
United States of America, and we are a long way from that ... we're going to
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lose,'' he said.
Dukakis offered another olive branch to supporters of Democratic rival Jesse
Jackson, who has successfully pressed Democratic platform writers to declare
South Africa a terrorist state.
''Constructive engagement is a failure. I think it ought to be abandoned,''
he said of Reagan policies designed use persuasion rather than sanctions against
the apartheid government.
''South Africa is not only committing terrorism against its own people ... it
is engaging in naked military aggression against its neighbors and I think it's
time for the international community, led by the United States, to do something
about it.''
The Democratic candidate also contrasted Wright's attitude to a House Ethics
Commission probe into his activities with official responses to investigations,
of Meese.
''The Speaker of the House has said he welcomes an investigation ... I think
that's in rather sharp contrast to the kind of stonewalling we've been getting
from the administration in case after case after case, '' Dukakis said.
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