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Demos hit GOP economics as Bush supports Quayle

By the Associated Press George Bush says he’s standing firm behind running mate Dan Quayle despite “insidious rumormongers” raising questions about the Indiana senator’s character, as Democrat Michael Dukakis aimed some of the harshest criticism yet at his Republican opponent. Vice President Bush complained during a Western campaign swing that the flood of questions about his choice of a vice presidential running mate was drowning out the issues. THE REPUBLICAN presidential candidate declared that his campaign would get back on track “whenever you stop asking me these questions.” But Bush also told a crowd of supporters gathered in front of the California State Capitol in Sacramento: “I’m not going to let some insidious rumormongers drive me to change my mind. I’m standing behind Dan Quayle.” Quayle also lamented Tuesday that “the voters don’t know Dan Quayle because you haven’t given me a chance to present myself to America.” MAKING HIS FIRST solo flight as the GOP vice presidential nominee, Quayle travels today to Cincinnati and to Lexington, Ky., before making an address tonight before a national conference of enlisted National Guardsmen in St. Louis. Quayle is facing questions about his National Guard duty at the height of the Vietnam War, admission into law school and claims by former lobbyist Paula Parkinson that he propositioned her eight

New trade bill will help U.S. measure up to metric rules

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) Give ’em an inch and they’ll take a kilometer. Crusaders for wider use of the metric system are happy about an obscure section of the trade bill signed Tuesday by President Reagan, a section they say will help America measure up in a metric world. THE BIL DESIGNATES the metric system as the preferred method of measure for trade and commerce and requires government agencies to start buying metric whenever practical. For the U.S. Metric Association, which since 1916 has been prodding America to join most of the world in using metric measure, the bill is a milestone, or perhaps a kilometer post. “I think the government’s decision to adopt this law is pulling the country in the right direction,” said Lorelle Young, association president. “We interpret it to be saying that the metric system is highly important to the United States to educate our youngsters in this scientific world, to put us in sync with the rest of the world and to give us the advantage of the best measurement system ever devised,” Young said. THE OMNIBUS TRADE and Competitiveness Act of 1988 gives U.S. negotiators more leeway to bargain at international trade talks, strengthens the government’s ability to fight restrictive trade policies of other countries, and provides for retraining of Americans who lose their jobs because of foreign competition. It also says that by 1993, agencies should “use the metric system of measurement in procurement, grants and other business-related

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years ago during a golf vacation in Florida with two other congressmen. Ms. Parkinson told Playboy magazine she rebuffed Quayle’s advances during the vacation because she was there with then-U.S. Rep. Tom Evans, a Delaware Republican. “WE FLIRTED A lot and danced extremely close and suggestively,” Ms. Parkinson told the magazine about Quayle, according to excerpts of the forthcoming article released Tuesday. “He said he wanted to make love.” Washington attorney Glenn Lewis, who represented Ms. Parkinson when she was questioned by the FBI in 1981, said Playboy’s account agreed with what she told the FBI. But Quayle said he had “nothing to do with her,” adding, “This is just getting a little bit outrageous and I’m getting a little bit indignant about just one bum rap after another.” Ms. Parkinson, Evans, Quayle, then a representative, and a third congressman shared a cottage, and the FBI looked into the outing in an investigation into whether sexual favors were traded for votes against legislation. Officials dropped the case seven years ago without filing charges. “I HAD NOTHING to do with her down there Quayle said Tuesday. “I’ve got a wife and three small children, and I hope there’s some respect and dignity for things I did not do before we go rushing off with all these so-called rumors.” Dukakis was traveling today to

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activities, except to the extent that such use is impractical or is likely to cause significant inefficiency or loss of markets to U.S. firms.” ANALYSTS AT THE National Association of Manufacturers don’t expect much impact from the section because of the language giving agencies an economic out, said Howard Lewis, a vice president of the Washington, D.C., lobbying group. But for the 3,500-member Metric

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Washington to pick up an endorsement from the 13-million-member AFL-CIO. On Tuesday, the Massachusetts governor borrowed Bush’s line about “voodoo economics” to criticize the vice president’s budget plan. “There is no Republican plan,” Dukakis said. “The vice president is talking about a flexible freeze. That’s like a melting ice cube. ... That’s the son of voodoo economics.” Bush criticized Ronald Reagan’s economic proposals as “voodoo economics” in 1980 when the two were competing for the GOP presidential nomination. DUKAKIS ALSO questioned Bush’s support for mandatory recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, saying the vice president was unfit to run for president if he would sign such legislation after being told by a court that it was unconstitutional. A new Gallup poll said Bush was leading Dukakis, 48 percent to 44 percent, among registered voters. However, the survey had a margin of error of 3 percentage points, meaning that either figure could be off by that much. Gallup contacted 1,000 likely voters last weekend immediately following the Republican National Convention. There also were signs of progress being made on a debate schedule between the two presidential contenders, with Dukakis campaign chairman Paul Brountas to meet with his counterpart in the Bush campaign, James A. Baker 111, early next week to discuss arrangements.

Association, which promotes the switch nationwide from its headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, the bill seems likely to hasten the inevitable conversion. Ms. Young recalled with relish that the bill’s example of an economic hardship big enough to win an exemption from the metric policy was a company faced with competition from a foreign producer of non-metric goods an unlikely situation. AUTOMAKERS AND other sectors of heavy industry are gradually getting on the metric bandwagon, Ms. Young said, though lumber and machine tool industries are notable for their adherence to tradition. “Our liquor industry hasn’t suffered,” she noted, “and they were one of the first to convert.” The metric system uses weights and measures, such as the liter and the gram, that are multiples of 10. Calculations in the traditional English system are more difficult because that system is based on varying multiples. Little has been done to promote use of the metric system nationwide since passage of the Metric Act of 1975, said Valerie Antoine, executive director of the association. “The act set up a U.S. metricboard that would monitor a changeover and educate the public, but it was not given any real clout,” she said. “They didn’t really get any place.”

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Ex-guardsman says he didn’t get help to serve with Quayle

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An unemployed truck driver who served in the Indiana National Guard with Dan Quayle says he needed no special connections to secure a spot with the Guard. Retired Sgt. Stephen W. Morell says he dropped out of college, walked into a recruitment office and was offered a clerk-typist’s position within 90 days. He served side-by-side with the Republican vice presidential candidate. “WE ENTERED THE Guard the same rank and left the Guard the same rank,” Morell told the Associated Press Tuesday night “And I was a nobody.” Sen. Quayle has been accused of using family connections to gain a position at the Guard’s Headquarters Detachment, where he eventually worked in a public information unit that published news releases and a quarterly magazine, The Indiana Guardsman. “If his family really had all this influence like everyone says, he would have been sent directly to officer’s candidate school and come out a lieutenant or captain,” Morell said. DAN WAN AN OK guy,” Morell said. .“He did his job and I did mine. We washed dishes and washed jeeps together.” Capt. Cathi Kiger, a spokeswoman for the National Guard, earlier confirmed the service was below its authorized strength when the then-22-year-old Quayle signed up in May 1969. “I can find no evidence that he was given special consideration and there was no need,” Kiger said. “Units that were not up to 100 percent strength could continue to recruit.” But Maj. Gen. Alfred Ahner said Tuesday he handled a call from an editor of the Indianapolis News, one of several newspapers published by Quayle’s maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, at that time. AHNER SAID HE contacted the Guard’s personnel office on behalf of the young Quayle. “They said they had a couple of spaces,” Ahner told the AP Tuesday. “I said hold one of them, there’s a good guy coming over.”

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Ahner also said in an interview with WTHR-TV, “I couldn’t have done a thing ... if there hadn’t been a vacancy.” Retired Col. Jerome Rafferty said Quayle was a prime candidate for the Guard based on his background and, at least in part, “the way the system works.” “The unit Senator Quayle served in was a specialized unit. He could have been recruited very simply for the fact that he got a college degree, was in law school and had a newspaper background,” said Rafferty, who was director of personnel for the adjutant general’s staff. RAFFERTY SAID Quayle was a solid Guard candidate, but acknowledged the recommendations of high-ranking officers carried some

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weight “If .... any of the generals called me and said they knew a man who would make a good Guardsman, I’d prick my ears,” said Rafferty, “because they only sent the highest quality young man. That’s the way the system worked.” A 1969 Guard report indicated the Indiana Guard was overextended in mid-1969, but a separate month-by-month breakdown made available to The Associated Press on Tuesday showed Quayle’s detachment had an authorized strength of 138 people in May 1969. Guard records show 134 men were in the unit at the end of April, 132 were serving in May when Quayle joined and 133 men were enlisted in June.

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